Axis of Evil Reunion Tour Kicks Off in Tehran as Mullahs High-Five Putin and Xi!

In what can only be described as the world’s most awkward diplomatic threesome, Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Kazem Gharibabadi proudly announced he huddled up Saturday with the ambassadors from Russia and China right there in Tehran, where they hammered out their latest “strategic partnership” memo.

“Discussions and exchanges of views were held regarding the latest developments on that draft memorandum from Islamabad,” Gharibabadi declared, sounding like a guy who just closed on a timeshare in Mordor. He then doubled down: “The strategic partnership between Iran, China, and Russia, plus all our cozy little coordinations, will continue with full strength!”

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Translation for the folks at home: While the mullahs are supposedly inches away from signing some grand “peace deal” with the United States to end their favorite hobby of regional chaos, they’re simultaneously locking arms with Communist China and Putin’s Russia like it’s a supervillain family reunion. 

This heartwarming announcement dropped right after Pakistan’s Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif breathlessly told the world a U.S.-Iran peace agreement could be wrapped up in the next 24 hours. 

Sure, nothing boosts confidence in a deal like the Iranian regime bragging about its unbreakable bromance with America’s top two strategic rivals.

Sleep tight, folks. The adults who think “strategic patience” with terrorists is a winning strategy are definitely in charge. What could possibly go wrong?

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Putin calls the killing of mass murderer Khamenei a 'cynical violation' of morality and international law

In a bizarre contortionistic twist of rational thinking, Russian dictator President Vladimir Putin called the killing of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei a "cynical violation" of morality and international law, and evidently believes he should have been left to deal with the Iranian people by killing all who opposed his dictatorship. 

"Please accept my deep condolences in connection with the murder of the Supreme Leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Seyed Ali Khamenei, and members of his family, committed in cynical violation of all norms of human morality and international law," Putin said in a note to Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian, according to Reuters.

The Russian Foreign Ministry had previously released a statement condemning Operation Epic Fury. It warned that the U.S. and Israel "embarked on a perilous course that is swiftly pushing the region toward a humanitarian, economic, and potentially even radiological disaster."

Turns out Putin was blowing smoke and Trump's decisive military action may free the Iranian people from the clutches of the regime. Time will tell, but it's looking good for the Iranian people, but not so good for Khamenei who is partying in hell with Sinwar, Nasrallah and the "Gang of 40."

"The aggressors’ intentions are evident and have been stated openly: to dismantle the constitutional order and remove the leadership of a state they deem undesirable because it has refused to yield to the dictates of force and hegemonic pressure," the statement read.

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DNI Gabbard: CIA Director Brennan suppressed intel that Russia interfered with material on Hillary Clinton

Things of beauty are a joy forever, but not in this case

It looks as if the truth just drop-kicked the Russia hoax into next week. Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard unleashed a bombshell Wednesday, declassifying a House Intelligence Committee report that exposes then-CIA Director John Brennan as the ringleader of a scheme to bury explosive intel. What was he hiding? Oh, just that Vladimir Putin was sitting on a treasure trove of dirt on Hillary Clinton, stuff so juicy he planned to drop it after her expected 2016 coronation to torpedo her presidency. 

That’s right, Brennan didn’t just fumble the ball; he spiked it to protect the Clinton machine.

At a White House press briefing alongside press secretary Karoline Leavitt, Gabbard laid it all bare, quoting the September 2020 House Intelligence Committee oversight majority staff report she declassified that very day. The report reveals Putin wasn’t playing favorites in 2016, he wasn't Team Trump or Team Hillary. No, the Russian bear wanted to burn the whole system down by undermining faith in the election itself. As Gabbard put it, "In fact, this report shows Putin held back… from leaking compromising material on Hillary Clinton prior to the election, instead planning to release it after the election to weaken what Moscow viewed as an inevitable Clinton presidency."

Let that sink in. 

Putin thought Hillary was such a lock that he saved his best shots for after she won. And what did he have? According to Gabbard, the report details "possible criminal acts" by Clinton, plus high-level DNC emails exposing her "psycho emotional problems, uncontrolled fits of anger, aggression, and cheerfulness" and alleged daily reliance on heavy tranquilizers. Yes, you read that right; Hillary was supposedly popping pills like candy while her team was cutting shady deals. 

The report also alleges secret meetings with U.S. religious organizations, where State Department officials dangled cash for Clinton's campaign in exchange for their support. Oh, and let's not forget the State Department employees allegedly strong-armed into backing Hillary's White House bid. This is the kind of corruption that makes your skin crawl.

Gabbard didn’t hold back, pointing the finger squarely at Brennan for orchestrating a cover-up. She told reporters one of the report’s key findings: "In the January 2017 intelligence community assessment that President Obama ordered, John Brennan, who was CIA director at the time, and the intelligence community intentionally suppressed intelligence that showed Putin was saving the most damaging material that he had in his possession about Hillary Clinton until after her potential and likely victory." 

Brennan obviously didn’t just ignore the truth; he buried it deeper than Jimmy Hoffa.

But it gets worse. Gabbard revealed that Brennan and his intel cronies "mischaracterized intelligence and relied on dubious, substandard sources" to push the laughably fake narrative that Putin was all-in for Trump. They cooked up a story to undermine Trump’s legitimacy, and the media lapped it up like obedient lapdogs. 

This wasn’t incompetence, it was a deliberate hit job. 

Enter Charlie Kirk, the Turning Point USA firebrand, who nailed it Wednesday when he said, "If Russia was really all-in on supporting Trump and hurting Clinton, it would have leaked this information in October 2016 when her lead in the RCP average slipped to just +1.3." Exactly! If Putin was Team Trump, he’d have dumped the Clinton dirt when it could’ve swung the election. Instead, he sat on it, "completely debunking the core assumptions of the Russia hoax," Kirk added. “Rather than admit they were wrong, Brennan’s CIA buried the info and manufactured a completely alternative reality to undermine the legitimacy of President Trump.”

So, let’s recap: Brennan, the supposed guardian of truth, hid evidence that could’ve exposed Hillary’s corruption, all to prop up the Russia-Trump collusion fairy tale. This isn’t just a scandal; it’s a betrayal of the American people. The Deep State didn’t just play dirty, they rewrote the rulebook. 

Time to drain the swamp, folks, because this stench isn’t going away on its own.

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Latest info on Iran-Israel war

As of now, we know that Mossad has eliminated 14 nuclear scientists. Most of these were direct successors of the initial nuclear weapons program.

Putin told any Russians in Iran must leave now. Trump already made that announcement to Americans.

There is a massive flood in Tehran as a water infrastructure has been hit and power plants have also been hit. The city is flooding and the lights are going to be out, apparently.

Over the last few hours there have been mass evacuations in the capital as people whose goal at this time is not to die, flee the city. The IDF gave the citizens an early warning asking them to leave because Israel does its best not to kill non-combatants. 

Isfahan is being hit by ballistic missiles in Isfahan as this is being written.

The Justice Ministry has ironically been destroyed by the IDF so they aren't taking any phone calls anytime soon. This department had been responsible for putting many of Iran's citizens to death, for such things that American leftists do reflexively, or with how they identify. 

Intelligence Headquarters 

We have just learned the President Donald Trump does not want Israel to eliminated the Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, possibly because when all is said and done, the guy kind of looks Jewish . . . or is it a fake left?

This is not what Trump wants to see happen

Also gone but not forgotten is the IRGC Intelligence HQ. The head and deputy head of intel have been eliminated along with the building's snack bar.

The greater Tehran police headquarters, the main HQ for the country, has also been destroyed. [See the video below.] There have been reports that the Police Cheif of Tehran has also been given his 72 goats.

The people who have remained in Tehran have taken to the streets chanting "Death to Khamenei." So while President Trump doesn't want the old guy killed, Iranians who suffered under his rule have a different opinion.

Below is a somewhat current scorecard of the results of the IDF's efforts to end this terrorist Iranian regime.

The Foreign Ministry of Tehran has also been hit and destroyed by the IAF.

The HQ for the Iranian navy is also gone and soon forgotten.

The IRGC has just now launched another round of missile attacks, which means that Israel will return the favor in spades.

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Van Hollen's trip to El Salvador might be illegal: libs used it as pretext for Michael Flynn probe

Van Hollen schmoozes with MS-13 wife-beating gang mamber: allegedly

Senator Chris Van Hollen, (D-MD), decided to play cowboy diplomat, jetting off to El Salvador to spring a deportee named Kilmar Abrego Garcia. 

This isn’t just a bad look—it’s potentially illegal. 

Enter the Logan Act of 1799, a law that says, in no uncertain terms, you don’t get to freelance America’s foreign policy. The statute? Clear as day: any American who corresponds with foreign officials “with intent to influence the[ir] measures … in relation to any disputes or controversies with the United States, or to defeat the measures of the United States” faces fines or jail time.

Now, let’s rewind to the namesake of this act, George Logan, a Pennsylvania senator who thought he could charm French diplomat Charles de Talleyrand into ending the Quasi War after Paris gave President John Adams the cold shoulder. Logan even had a letter from Vice President Thomas Jefferson in his pocket, trying to sweet-talk the French. Sound familiar? It should, because conservatives are now asking if Van Hollen’s little Salvadoran adventure crosses the same line.

Roger Stone, never one to mince words, took to X and dropped a bombshell: “Why hasn’t this U.S. senator been arrested for violation of the Logan Act? It’s illegal to conduct your own foreign policy.” 

Boom. 

WMAL’s Vince Coglianese went further, reading the Logan Act on air and posing the million-dollar question to his listeners: “Is Chris Van Hollen violating the Logan Act?” He pointed out the hypocrisy, noting, “Because this is what they accused General [Michael] Flynn of doing … the incoming national security advisor … who was merely having conversations with foreign diplomats [after] people had chosen President Donald Trump.” 

The left clutched their pearls when Flynn chatted with Russian ambassador Sergei Kislyak before Trump’s first inauguration, screaming “Logan Act!” until it sparked an FBI probe that torpedoed Flynn’s career. Notes from FBI agent Peter Strzok literally read, “VP: Logan Act,” hinting Joe Biden himself pushed the idea, while Jim Comey shrugged that Flynn’s talks seemed “legit.” Double standards, anyone?

Fox News contributor Byron York, always a voice of reason, chimed in on X, admitting he’s long called the Logan Act a “dead letter.” But here’s the kicker: “But politically, it’s useful to know that Sen. Van Hollen traveled to a foreign country to bash the President of the United States.” Ouch. The American Accountability Foundation isn’t letting this slide either. They fired off a letter to Senate Ethics Committee Chairman James Lankford, (R-OK), demanding a probe. AAF’s Thomas Jones didn’t hold back, calling Garcia “essentially an enemy combatant in the ongoing invasion … by transnational gangs.” That’s not hyperbole; that’s the border crisis the left pretends doesn’t exist.

The Logan Act’s been weaponized before. Trump’s critics screeched about it when Bob Woodward’s book claimed the former president had calls with Vladimir Putin between White House stints. The Lincoln Project and Kamala Harris piled on, naturally. FBI notes from the Flynn saga even show agents debating whether to trick him into admitting a Logan Act violation: “What is our goal?” ex-FBI counterintelligence chief Bill Priestap wrote. “Truth/Admission or to get him to lie, so we can prosecute him or get him fired?” Charming.

This isn’t new. Ronald Reagan floated using the Logan Act against Jesse Jackson for his Cuba and Nicaragua jaunts in the ‘80s. Trump called out John Kerry and Christopher Murphy for their Iran contacts in 2019 and 2020. Murphy’s response? “It’s literally my job to meet with foreign leaders,” he said, hiding behind his Senate subcommittee role. 

Cute. Yet, here’s the rub: no one’s ever been convicted under the Logan Act. George Logan himself got a pass, grandfathered out. Rep. Guy Reschenthaler, (R-PA), tried to repeal this relic, but no dice.

So, what’s the deal? Van Hollen’s stunt reeks of hypocrisy, undermining U.S. policy while the left stays silent. The Logan Act may be a dusty law, but it exposes the left’s selective outrage. If Flynn was fair game, why not Van Hollen? The answer, folks, is politics. Pure, unadulterated politics.

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NATO warns Putin if they attack Poland, the response will be "devastating"

WARSAW — Mark Rutte, NATO’s Secretary-General, strode into the Polish capital on Wednesday and delivered a message that ought to resonate in the Kremlin’s dim corridors. The transatlantic alliance, he made plain, isn’t in the mood for half-measures. 

“When it comes to the defense of Poland and the general defense of NATO territory, if anyone were to miscalculate and think they can get away with an attack on Poland or any other ally, they will be met with the full force of this fierce alliance,” he declared at a press conference alongside Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk. No mincing words there. This wasn’t a plea for civility—it was a promise of mass destruction.

Rutte didn’t stop at vague assurances. “Our reaction will be devastating,” he said, hammering the point home with a clarity that’s been too rare in Western rhetoric of late. “This must be clear to Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin and anyone else who wants to attack us.” He’s right to name the beast. Russia, under its grim tsar, isn’t playing at diplomacy—it’s arming for war. 

Rutte underscored this, noting Poland’s exemplary commitment: 4.7 percent of its GDP poured into defense, the highest in NATO. That’s not just a statistic; it’s a gauntlet thrown down to the alliance’s laggards.

“Let’s not forget that Russia is and remains the most significant and dark threat to our alliance,” Rutte added. “Let’s not forget that Russia is moving to a wartime economy.” There’s no room for naivety here. Moscow isn’t posturing—it’s preparing. And yet, how many in the West still cling to the delusion that appeasement might buy peace?

Tusk, for his part, didn’t waste breath on platitudes. “It’s very important for us [to hear] the commitment that NATO will defend Poland in any critical situation,” he said, invoking Article 5—the spine of the alliance. Poland knows what’s at stake. This isn’t a country that can afford to indulge in the luxury of doubt.

But shadows loom. Across the Atlantic, U.S. President Donald Trump’s return to power has rattled nerves in NATO’s European wing. His disdain for the continent—and that of his inner circle—is no secret. Whispers of America’s wavering commitment grow louder, and with them, a creeping unease. 

Rutte, ever the optimist, brushed this aside. “The transatlantic relationship between the U.S. and Europe is the pillar of our alliance and that’s not changing,” he insisted. Brave words, but one wonders if he’s trying to convince himself as much as the rest of us.

Poland, sensibly, has tethered its security to the United States. Yet there’s a snag: the U.S.-led peace talks between Ukraine and Russia, a process Tusk admitted Poland can only “influence to a limited extent, to put it mildly.” That’s diplomatic code for being sidelined. 

The Poles—and the rest of us—might well ask: what kind of settlement will emerge from a negotiation where America’s unpredictability meets Russia’s ruthlessness?

This is the state of play in 2025. NATO’s resolve is loud, its unity less certain. Rutte’s warnings are sharp, but the alliance’s strength will be tested not by words, but by what happens when the first shot is fired.

And if Putin’s listening, he’d do well to heed the man in Warsaw. Miscalculate, and the “full force” won’t be a metaphor.

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UPDATE--Moscow death toll rises to 133 in jihad attack by ISIS: 11 suspects arrested

Friday's Islamic jihad attack at a concert near Moscow has risen to 133, as authorities say they have arrested 11 suspects, four of whom were directly involved in the bloodbath.

The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) claimed responsibility for the jihad attack in a statement on its affiliated social media channels. The U.S. has said it has intelligence confirming that, according to several outlets. Russia's Investigative Committee said it has opened a criminal probe into the attack.

The attack began when Muslim gunmen donning combat gear burst into Crocus City Hall in the city of Krasnogorsk, where concert-goers were gathering to hear the Russian band Picnic. Video [which will not be shown here] showed jihadis opening fire, shooting attendees at close range and setting off smoke bombs. They also threw explosives inside the hall, setting the building ablaze. Although people were being evacuated, a number of them were trapped inside the burning building, Russian media reported.

"Intelligence agencies have detained 11 people, including four terrorists, who were directly involved in an attack on the Crocus City Hall, Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) said in a statement, according to Russian state news agency Tass. The FSB is similar to our FBI, only less corrupt at the top.

"It has already been established that the terrorist attack was carefully planned. The weapons that the terrorists used had been placed in a cache in advance," the FSB noted.

Meanwhile, back in the United States, gun control extremists blame the entire incident on evil guns and call for stricter gun control here in order to avoid a similar incident from happening. However, after researching the gun control situation in Russia, using my somewhat trusty Chat GPT4, I found the following:

Gun control laws in Russia are generally quite strict. In Moscow, there are specific requirements and regulations for acquiring firearms, including background checks, permits, and registration. Only licensed individuals are allowed to purchase and possess firearms, and there are restrictions on the types of firearms that can be owned. It is important to abide by these laws to ensure public safety and comply with the regulations in place.

I also found that Russia's gun control laws are federal so they apply to all of Russia.

Initially, the FSB pinned the blame on Ukraine, with Russia's Investigative Committee saying that four suspects were stopped in the Bryansk region of western Russia, "not far from the border with Ukraine."

They planned to cross the border into Ukraine and "had contacts" there, state news agency Tass said, citing Russia’s FSB.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy denied any Ukrainian involvement before ISIS gleefully claimed responsibility.

"Ukraine certainly has nothing to do with the shooting/explosions in the Crocus City Hall (Moscow Region, Russia). It makes no sense whatsoever," Zelenskyy said on social media, adding, in part, "there is not the slightest doubt that the events in the Moscow suburbs will contribute to a sharp increase in military propaganda, accelerated militarization, expanded mobilization, and, ultimately, the scaling up of the war. And also to justify manifest genocidal strikes against the civilian population of Ukraine."

Putin has wished all those injured a speedy recovery and praised medical staff, Deputy Prime Minister Tatyana Golikova said, adding, "President Putin's atheist prayers go out to all who are affected by this horrible event, dah."

Russian special services are still conducting search operations. Moscow Mayor Sergey Sobyanin canceled all mass events in the capital in the next two days, and a number of other Russian regions followed suit.

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Putin threatens US: "We are ready"

Russian dictator Vladimir Putin has issued a direct warning to the United States. When asked in an interview Wednesday how he would respond to the USA sent ground troops to Ukraine he said that Moscow is prepared for a nuclear confrontation if there was a threat to Russia's sovereignty or security.

“I don’t think that everything is rushing so head on here [with nuclear confrontation], but we are ready for this.”

So far, President-esque Joe Biden has not responded, but he may have forgotten to, so we will await to see what happens next. 

Keep your fingers crossed and don't forget to stock up on canned food and water.

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Putin flips us off by arresting U.S.-Russian citizen for donating $50 to Ukrainian charity

The Russian government has arrested Ksenia Karelina, a 33-year-old U.S. citizen, on charges of treason for simply donating a few dollars to a Ukrainian charity. This appears to be Putin's way of flipping off the United States, simply because he can and not worry that our president, a man who practically qualifies having his likeness on US paper currency if he were not so incompetent, would do anything about it. 

The Federal Security Service (FSB) said in a statement that it arrested Ms. Karelina for donating $51.80 to Razom, a New York-based charity that sends assistance to Ukraine. The FSB is similar to our FBI in the US and they are obviously bias in their assessment of the situation.

“Since February 2022, she has been proactively collecting funds in the interests of one of the Ukrainian organizations, which were subsequently used to purchase tactical medicine items, equipment, weapons and ammunition by the Armed Forces of Ukraine,” the FSB said.

She was arrested in Yekaterinburg, a city in central Russia, after returning home to visit her family. If convicted, she faces up to 20 years in prison. She became a U.S. citizen in 2021 and should now be considered a hostage of the Putin government.

Her mother-in-law and ex-husband are begging the Biden administration to help get her freed so she can return to the U.S. Since she is not Israeli, it's more likely that Biden's handlers would do more to assuage the situation but don't count on it.

“We are all in shock,” Eleonora Srebroski, Karelina’s former mother-in-law, told the New York Post. “She is just a wonderful soul. She would never do anything evil to anyone. Knowing Ksenia, she would never do anything criminal. We are so worried because we are reading stories about [Alexei] Navalny’s supporters arrested for mourning him. Her mom and dad had recently divorced and she wanted to see the family.”

Former newspaper, The New York Times reported that she was charged with treason on February 7. It seems that 7 is no longer a lucky number for innocent people nowadays.

It was unclear how Russia knew that she allegedly donated money to the charity as it does not make records public in accordance with U.S. privacy laws.

“Razom is appalled by reports that a U.S.-Russian dual national has been arrested by Russian authorities for purportedly making a charitable donation to Razom for Ukraine in the immediate aftermath of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine,” Razom CEO Dora Chomiak said. 

“Russian President Vladimir Putin has repeatedly shown that he holds no sovereign border, foreign nationality, or international treaty above his own narrow interest. His regime attacks civil society activists who stand up for freedom and democracy. Razom calls on the U.S. government to continue to do everything in its power to demand that President Putin release all those unjustly detained by Russia and to hold Russia’s political and military leadership accountable for their unprovoked invasion of Ukraine,” she added.

Karelina worked in Los Angeles as an aesthetician [a person who deals with beauty and art] and spa manager [a person who often deals with fat people] at a Beverly Hills hotel.

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Hundreds detained in Russia for mourning Navalny as Tucker praises Russia above USA

Hundreds of brave Russian's mourned the mysterious death of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny. Unfortunately, the mourners all across the country were detained, according to a group that monitors political arrests.

Navalny had been Putin's opponent who, like Donald Trump, became the victim of lawfare. In Trump's case, he just keeps getting indicted for political purposes. In Navalny's case, he was thrown into prison.

On Friday, Russia's prison service announced Navalny's death at an Arctic prison colony. The claim was that the young man, who was 47, “felt unwell after a walk, almost immediately losing consciousness.”

“The facility’s medical workers immediately arrived at the scene and an emergency medical team was called in. All necessary resuscitation measures have been carried out, but they did not yield positive results. Emergency medics confirmed the death of the convict,” the statement added.

According to the Russian-based human rights organization known as OVD-Info, there have been 389 detentions across 39 Russian cities, with no less than 30 detainees ordered to stay incarcerated up to 15 days.

Until Mr. Navalny’s death, many observers believed that the Kremlin would limit repression until after presidential elections in mid-March, when President Vladimir V. Putin is all but assured a fifth term. But many now fear that the arrests portend a broader crackdown. [...]

Specifically, "if you go against Putin, there might be a shootin'." However, Putin prefers poison over bullets and this was likely the reason Navalny felt "unwell" and soon thereafter died.

In Surgut, a city in the Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Region in Western Siberia, one of the Navalny mourners, Bakyt Karypbaev, said he was beaten during a five-hour detention after laying flowers at an impromptu memorial for Mr. Navalny. He told The New York Times in a phone interview that officers hit him on his head with their palms, put a gun to his head and forced him to lie on the floor with his arms outstretched. [...]

But Tucker Carlson interviewed Putin and later toured Moscow [obviously told where to go]. He praised the cleanliness of the subway and compared it to the rat-infested subways in New York City, for example. He even went shopping at a market his guide pointed him to and saw that a week's supply of basic food only came to about $104.00 US. He acted as if that wasn't a lot of money for a Russian to spend because, hey, it's only a little over a hundred bucks--pocket change for an American with a decent job.

But $104 for an American is different than it is for a Russian, or anyone from a poor country. Doesn't Tucker understand economics?

Based on Russia's economy, the average family spends 2/3 of their income on food. As of 2020, the average Russian family income is estimated to be around $936 per month, which is equivalent to approximately $11,230 per year. There are 4 weeks in a month, so divide $936 by 4 and you get $234 per week. Spending $104 for food alone makes life difficult for a normal Russian family. Yet Tucker sees this as a pittance for Russian families. And he was in Moscow where salaries are higher than the little jerk-vodka towns outside of Moscow.

Anyway, it looks like Putin is going to maintain power, [and I do mean power] for many years to come, unless someone "Putins" him. 

Tucker Carlson needs to reassess his thinking and better understand exactly how dictatorships hide the real trash they're hiding.

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It's now clear Biden suffers from neurological flatulence

The alleged leader of the free world, holder of the nuclear 'football' and Commander in Chief of America's entire military, President Joe Biden dispelled all doubts that his brain is barely keeping him breathing. 

The President suffered a mild brain fart while attacking the GOP during his speech about the news of Alexei Navalny's mysterious death in Russia. He said that he was "both not surprised and outraged" by the news Navalny's death, and went on to mumble about the Russian opposition leader's bravery in standing up to "corruption, to violence, to all the bad things that the Putin government is doing." 

Biden mush-mouthed with no proof that Putin, "is responsible for Navalny's death." He probably is but sometimes saying things out loud is a mistake.

"Putin had him poisoned, he had him arrested, had him prosecuted for fabricated crimes, he sentenced him to prison," Biden continued of Navalny's persecution. "Even in prison, he was a powerful voice for the truth."

How does Biden actually know this? Well, it's Biden, so there's that.

The alleged President went on and on and then began to attack Republicans in Congress and of course, Donald Trump.

"This tragedy reminds us of the stakes of this moment, we have to provide the funding so Ukraine can keep defending itself," Biden mumbled almost incoherently. "I mean this in a literal sense: history is watching. History is watching the House of Representatives. The failure to support Ukraine at this critical moment will never be forgotten," Biden warned. "It's going to go down in the pages of history...the clock is ticking and this has to happen."

History cannot "literally" watch anything. History has no eyes, you moron. 

As our barely sentient president attacked House Republicans, he then asked rhetorically: "What are they thinking?" by being out of town for "two weeks!" he yelled, sounding like an angry old codger. "My god," he opined about the House schedule having lawmakers working in their districts in the coming days. "This is bizarre," as he continued before accusing them of "reinforcing all the concern...about the United States being a reliable ally."

Then, as he continued to attack the GOP, he experienced mega neurological flatulence: a nuclear brain fart. He froze in the middle of his speech and his voice sadly trailed off into the ether.

Years ago, Biden threatened "devastating" consequences if Navalny died behind bars, but when asked what punishments would follow now that such a fate has played out didn't have anything to say. Instead, the cowardly Biden suggested that Russia has already faced a "hell of a lot" of consequences since Biden issued the threat. 

Look ma, no testicles.

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NYC Councilwoman's dress outclasses the "Squad"

L to R: Classy, Assy

Her "Tax the Rich" dress made headlines in 2019 when Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (Socialist-NY) wore it at the exclusive "Met Gala" at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. It was her way of flipping off people with more money than she has made from the taxpayers. The tickets for the gala go for a mere $50,000 each. 

Another New York City elected lawmaker also wore a glamorous gown and had a rather different message.

New York Republican City Council Member Inna Vernikov wore a beautiful blue and white evening gown emblazoned with the Star of David, the Israeli flag emblem, at the annual Manhattan Republican Club gala on Saturday night December 9. Ticket ranged from $475 to $10,000 each and the event was held at the New York Road Runners Club, at 320 West 57th Street, NYC.

"So many Jewish New Yorkers & Jewish college students all over the country are afraid to display their Jewish identity, war a Kipa, a Star of David, or express support for the great state of Israel," Vernikov posted on social media platform X.

"We cannot be afraid! We cannot remain silent! Be Jewish. Be Loud. Be Proud. This is where we live and we will not be intimidated!"

Ms. Vernikov, a Ukrainian-born Jew, has long advocated for human rights and democracy particularly against Putin's illegal invasion of Ukraine and the continuing attacks, both verbal and physical, against American Jews.

Vernikov said that her dress was put together in just 24 hours by celebrity designer Irina Shabayeva.

Shabayeva  thanked Vernikov for her "bravery and leadership" in wearing the dress as a statement supporting the Jewish state, who Vernikov calls Israel "our only true ally in the Middle East."

The operant word is "true."

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Wagner leader Prigozhin was assassinated but not how we first believed: UPDATE

Wagner Group honcho Yevgeny Prigozhin, 62, died when his private jet came crashing to the earth and the sudden stop killed him. But it wasn't a missile that brought the Embraer Legacy 600 down, according to US officials who claim to be experts.

Initial information gathered by US government employees that his still being reviewed as this is being written, suggests that a bomb exploded about the jet in mid-flight, or it's possible that the aircraft was targeted for sabotage in another way, as reported the Wall Street Journal.

Some experts in the Biden regime say one thing, others say another thing about what caused the deadly plane crash. Two so called experts spoke to Reuters claiming the jet that Prigozhin flew in was likely shot down by a surface-to-air missile inside of mother Russia.

However, a third US official expert confirmed to Reuters that nobody knows what really happened but that Prigozhin is dead in any case and that he was likely the target of an assassination plot as payback for his attempt to overthrow the Putin regime. This expert does not believe the cause of the crash was a missile strike because that would have been more difficult to hide, if Putin wanted to hide it in the first place.

Russia’s federal investigative committee has launched a fake probe into the fiery crash in the Tver region Wednesday that likely killed Prigozhin, along with his wingman Dmitry Utkin and eight others — but the agency so far has not said what may have caused the disaster.

The purported death of the mercenary chief two months to the day after his short-lived rebellion against Russia’s top military brass sparked a flurry of speculation, with some supporters of the Wagner Group claiming that the jet was shot out of the sky by a Russian air defense missile.

Some sources say that a bomb was hidden inside a crate of pricey wine that had been gifted to Prigozhin and very carefully loaded onto the jet just before takeoff caused the crash.

After keeping quiet for 24 hours, Putin said on Thursday in a televised address that he wished to express sincere condolences to the families of those who died in the crash — and praised Prigozhin as a “talented businessman” whom he had known since the 1990s but that was vodka under the bridge.

Alleged President Biden on Wednesday said he was “not surprised” by reports that Prigozhin had died in a plane crash, adding that he wasn't sure who Pigozhin was, but he thinks he met him on Amtrak a while back when he was logging his million miles on the train.

Biden was then led away to his basement where he spent the remainder of the day watching "Matlock" reruns.

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Russia's Yevgeny Prigozhin likely dead after plane 'mysteriously' crashed outside Moscow

"You don't tug on Superman's cape. You don't spit into the wind. You don't pull the mask off that old Lone Ranger, and you don't mess around with Jim" --Jim Croce 

Yevgeny Prigozhin was a Russian dissident and a guy named Vladimir Putin didn't like him very much and labeled him a "traitor." One thing for sure, you don't want to get on the bad side of Putin if you value your ability to change oxygen into carbon dioxide, if you know what I mean.

Less than two months since leading a mutiny against "Bad Vlad's" military top brass, Prigozhin's private jet somehow crashed outside Moscow Wednesday night.

Prigozhin was the leader of the Wagner paramilitary group, a controversial band of marauders who initially fought against Ukraine. Unfortunately for him, he was on the passenger list of the Embraer jet that crashed [for some reason] near the sleepy village of Kuzhenkino, about 60 miles north of Moscow, according to TASS news agency.

“An investigation of the Embraer plane crash that happened in the Tver Region this evening was initiated. According to the passenger list, first and last name of Yevgeny Prigozhin was included in this list,” the agency stated.

While it isn't known whether Prigozhin actually was on the flight, footage of the wreckage shows the aircraft's last four registration numbers which are 2795, a match for his plane, which is RA-02795, the hardly dependable news outlet CNN reported. Even the engine color is similar to the Wagner leader's jet.

The chance that Putin didn't throw a hypothetical monkey wrench into the jet intake and that Prigozhin wasn't on the plane is smaller than Dylan Mulvaney's breasts in a Bud Light photoshoot.

Flight data shows that a jet registered to the Wagner Group that Prigozhin used previously took off from Moscow on Wednesday evening and stopped transmitting signals around 6:11 p.m. local time, while a second jet linked to the Wagner Group chief landed without incident in St. Petersburg at 18:19 local time. Flight data indicates Prigozhen has been reported dead in a fiery private jet crash.

There were ten communists on board the plane when it went down less than 30 minutes into its journey from Sheremetyevo Airport outside the Russian capital to St. Petersburg, officials told TASS.

Just like in the movies, the jet burst into flames upon impact, according to TASS, which, like CNN, has been accused of spreading propaganda.

Thus far, eight bodies are believed to have been recovered from the crash site.

Wagner commander Dmitry Utkin was also possibly on the doomed flight, the Wagner Group-affiliated Telegram channel Gray Zone said.

“Various sources” alleged that the jet was downed by Russian “air defense systems,” the channel added.

An unverified video of a jet matching the description of an Embraer Legacy 600 tumbling out of the sky was circulated online by the Russian outlet RIA Novosti.

It's difficult to know who to believe, but don't be surprised to later discover that there were myriad UFO sightings heading straight for the aircraft just before it began it's tumbling toward terra firma.

The investigation into the crash is under the “personal control” of the governor of the Tver region, Igor Rudenya, joked TASS.

There is also a criminal investigation underway headed by the Russian Investigative Committee, CNN said.

Prigozhin had led his military group in a mutiny against Russian President Vladimir Putin on June 24 of this year, marching toward Moscow before the mutiny was called off around 100 miles before he reached the capital and the troops agreed to turn around and head back to the front lines.

The crash comes just two days after Prigozhin, 62, shared his first video address since the aborted coup.

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Top Russian generals reportedly 'missing' following Wagner mutiny

Generals Garasimov and Surovikin are nowhere to be found after the Wagner Group's aborted mutiny whose goal was to target the Russian military leaders. Where could they be? Are there any 'open windows' they might have 'accidentally' fallen from? Defenestration can be a bitch.

Ever since Yevgeny Prigozhin called off the coup he planned and relocated to Belarus, one general was arrested. 

Prigozhin's "march for justice" on Moscow was perhaps the most significant challenge to the Putin regime in decades, and now Putin must reassert his power and authority if he wishes to remain sentient.

The Russian Armed Forces Chief of Staff, General Valery Gerasimov, has not appeared in public or on state TV since the aborted mutiny on Saturday, when Prigozhin demanded Gerasimov be handed over to him. Gerasimov also has not been mentioned in a defense ministry press release since June 9th, Reuters reports.

Gerasimov, 67, is [or was] the commander of Russia's invasion force in Ukraine and one of three Russian commanders who hold "nuclear briefcases," according to some Western military analysts. It's a good bet that he has since turned over his briefcase.

Gen. Sergei Surovikin [aka "General Armageddon"] is also nowhere to be found. The Moscow Times, in an unconfirmed report said that he was arrested on Sunday, and this had been previously reported by a military blogger, Vladimir Romanov.

News of his possible arrest came after former newspaper The New York Times reported that he had advanced knowledge of Prigozhin’s plans to rebel against Russia’s military leadership.

U.S. officials briefed on American intelligence told the Times they are trying to determine whether Surovikin helped Prigozhin.

The Kremlin on Wednesday played down the reports, saying there would be a lot of speculation and gossip, just as there was with former president of the United States, Donald Trump, so don't believe everything you read or hear.

Rybar, a Telegram channel run by a former Russian defense ministry press officer, said a purge was underway.

Rybar claimed Russia's top military brass were trying to clean out those personnel who showed "a lack of decisiveness" in crushing the rebellion amid reports that Wagner fighters met little resistance from Russia's armed forces in the first hours of the rebellion.

"The armed insurgency by the Wagner private military company has become a pretext for a massive purge in the ranks of the Russian Armed Forces," Rybar said, per Reuters.

Gerasimov was not present on Tuesday when Putin thanked the army for preventing a civil war, unlike Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu, a long-time Putin ally who Prigozhin had accused of corruption and incompetence in prosecuting the war in Ukraine.

Surovikin, Gerasimov's deputy, has not been seen in public since Saturday when he appeared in a video appealing to Prigozhin to stop the mutiny. Western analysts suggested Surovikin looked exhausted and may have been speaking under duress--the kind of duress one typically sees after an individual has undergone a series of torture sessions.

Meanwhile, as the Ukraine-Russia war rages on, Ukrainian President Zelenskyy is stifling the scheduled presidential election.

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Biden having serious issues with his health: cannot stop smelling his left pollux

Some people might think it's funny when someone cannot stop hiccupping or literally die laughing. It isn't funny and we must make all efforts to get them to become serious in the latter case, and to scare them out of their hiccups in the former case. 

But what about the head of a country, in this case Russia, when it comes to the leader's pollux? How can they get him to stop his phantosmia-like behavior; and if they cannot, how does it affect the day-to-day carrying out of the business of the country?

Perhaps Vladimir Putin's latest habit of smelling his left thumb is not hallucinatory behavior, but it really looks stupid and the world is watching. How can he even fight a war with Ukraine if he can't even get his left thumb away from his nares.

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As a side note, some say Putin is also suffering from "severe pain in head, blurred vision and numb tongue." And supposedly a "council of doctors" performed first aid and ordered him to take medication, which could possible be difficult due to his thumb issue. 

He is also being told to rest for a few days due to the serious health scare, but war allows for no rest.

Predictably, the Kremlin says Putin is in perfect health and chooses to sniff his thumb. On the other hand, the Kremlin points to the US President, Joe Biden, and claims his brain is on par with that of a ficus. 

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Biden's surprise trip to southern border--I mean Ukraine

Biden meets Zelensky thinking he's his grandson

Alleged President of the United States, Joe "C'mon Man" Biden, arrived in Ukraine in the wee hours of the morning east coast time. It was a secret trip, [even to Joe, I suspect] where he found himself visiting Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky and his lovely wife.

The meeting was very brief due to Biden's limited attention span, and by 7:00 am eastern, he was back on Air Force One and homeward bound after speeches were made, hands were shook and hair was sniffed. Biden mumbled something about the US's solidarity with Ukraine and promised our continued support of the war even if Americans were against it.

The visit to Kyiv, of course, was top secret--even CNN was not told of the visit this time--as Russian missiles were hitting all over the place. 

We were being tricked into believing that Biden's advisors tried to discourage him from making the trip, but it's a poorly kept secret that Biden's advisors are actually his handlers. He supposedly told them, 'C'mon, man. If our brave Ukrainian breedzarbothems can deal with Corn Pop and his gang of Black dudes, I can go and support them, G_d willing. I mean it."

Rumor has it that the White House quietly went through back channels and let the Kremlin know that Joe was coming to Ukraine, so as not to scare him or possibly even start World War Three and end up having Kamala Hahahaharris running the country. 

Meanwhile, neither Kamala nor Biden has actually visited the actual southern border where terrorists and others walk into the country unabated. And it seems that Biden's handlers are more interested in the optics with Ukraine than accomplishing anything valuable with the trip. Let's face it, other world leaders have visited Zelensky while Biden was at home trying to read Teleprompters without screwing up.

Of course the Democratic media tried to make Biden a brave dude, kind of like Prince Harry.

Videos showing Biden and Zelensky openly strolling through Kyiv as air raid sirens are going off in the background is going to drive Putin crazy!

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— Tim McMillan (@LtTimMcMillan) February 20, 2023

At least Biden is not yet willing to deplete our air power by sending fighter jets to Ukraine even as Zelensky keeps pushing him to do so. 

Putin appears unrelentless about staying in the fight with Ukraine. The eastern part of Ukraine has been a bloodbath over the week with heavy losses on both sides.

Something tells me that if our leaders had to actually be on the battlefields leading the fighting, there would be no wars. 

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Gov't denies veracity of bombshell report US blew up Nord Stream pipelines

A damning report on Wednesday claims that the US Navy, not Russia, destroyed the Nord Stream pipeline system. The US government, which never lies, denied the veracity of the report and Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) agrees.

"It makes perfect sense that Russia would destroy it's main money machine," Schiff told a group of Compromised News Network Democrats. "It gains global sympathy for them and animosity for the United States."

Asked whether he has any information confirming Schiff's analysis of the situation, President Biden responded with sounds that loudly emanated from his mouth and are currently being translated into actual words. Stay tuned.

The pipeline carried natural gas under the Baltic Sea from Russia to Germany. Putin stopped shipments through the pipeline one month into the Russian invasion of Ukraine as a retaliatory measure against Western Europe. Meanwhile, Germany blocked the adjacent Nord Stream 2 from initiating shipments just days before the invasion. Sweden and Denmark reported severe damage to the pipelines in September as natural gas spewed toward the surface of the Baltic Sea.

So was Russia cutting off it's nose to spite its face?

CNN went to gas expert Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA) and asked him the same question.

"I have inside information from my China source that said Putin is angry enough to destroy his own pipeline just so that nobody else can have it," Swalwell said. "It takes a madman to do such a thing, and I believe he got many of his strategies from the last administration."

CNN did not press either congressman any further.

But an article published on Wednesday by Pulitzer Prize winner, Seymour Hersh, claims that US Navy divers planted remotely triggered explosives on the Nord Stream pipelines while undergoing highly publicized "training exercises" that summer. The report was based on an anonymous source [which therefore must be true, according to CNN and other Democrats] stating that so called President Joe Biden viewed the pipelines as an avenue which Putin could weaponize Russia's natural gas supply for his own future conquests.

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When asked for comment, President Biden simply flashed his signature smile and said, "That calls for sconimoniclishmenism--I mean it, man."

Biden had previously threatened last year that “there will no longer be a Nord Stream 2” if Russia crossed the Ukrainian border. He told an alleged reporter that  “we will be able” to bring an “end” to the system.

The obviously confused commander-in-chief initially waived sanctions against the Russian-owned company behind Nord Stream 2, but when it seemed likely that his own self-interests in the matter would be exposed, he re-imposed sanctions shortly before the invasion started.

White House spokesperson Adrienne Watson said the notion that the United States destroyed the pipelines was “false and complete fiction,” while CIA spokesperson Tammy Thorp said the claim was “completely and utterly false” when asked for comment by Hersh, who mysteriously hasn't been seen nor heard from after Thorp left the room.

It makes perfect sense that Russia would destroy its own money-maker at a time when military funding was most critical. Right?

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Another Russian general is killed in Ukraine

Another Russian military leader, Major General Dmitry Ulyanov-- the very model of a modern major general--came out of retirement to assist Putin in the Ukraine invasion, and got himself killed in Kyiv by a sabotage team.

Ulyanov, 44, returned to service as a commander in Russia's invasion but things didn't work out so well for him as he was killed in a firefight in an attack by a Ukrainian sabotage group this week, a report said.

Ulyanov had been a paratrooper and commander of the 98th Guards Airborne Division [aka Fighting Borscht Battalion]. However, in Ukraine, he commanded a regiment of mobilized infantrymen from Tatarstan, the home of Islamic tartar sauce, which didn't work out so well for him.

Ulyanov is the first such high ranked commander to be killed for many months, but the way things appear to be going, it's highly probable that he will not be the last high ranking officer to be killed. Of course, the same is true for the Ukrainians, because that's what happens in war.

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So to date, Putin has already lost least ten such senior commanders, which is a high number of military brain power to be neutralized.

Reports last year named the following top brass killed in the war: Lt-Gen Yakov Rezantsev, 48, Maj-Gen Andrei Kolesnikov, 45, Maj-Gen Andrey Sukhovetsky, , Maj-Gen Vitaly Gerasimov, 44, Maj-Gen Vladimir Frolov, 54, Maj-Gen Andrei Simonov, 55, Maj-Gen Oleg Mityaev, 48, Maj-Gen Kanamat Botashev, 63, and Maj-Gen Roman Kutuzov, 53.

So maybe it's time for Putin to rethink his illegal invasion of Ukraine and come to some kind of peace terms with them because war is unhealthy to humans, animals and the planet.

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NY Times 'accidentally' publishes identities of Russian soldiers critical of Putin

Former newspaper of record, The New York Times, printed identifying information about Russian soldiers who criticized President Vladimir Putin, supposedly by accident. This will put the lives of these soldiers at great risk if anyone in Russian intelligence uses the Times to line their bird cage and bothers to read through the crap before tossing it in the garbage.

The accidental doxing revealed the phone numbers of soldiers and their families, and appeared in the metadata of a NY Times article in September detailing Russian troops criticizing Putin and the Ukraine war, as reported by Motherboard, Vice News' tech site. The Times kept the information available in the article and finally scrubbed it in January.

One soldier called Putin "a fool" and another said Putin was "gravely mistaken" to invade Ukraine. Others voiced concern about killing Ukrainian civilians, and so on.

Motherboard reported:

"This metadata error is a regrettable and entirely avoidable cockup on the part of the New York Times," Thomas Rid, professor of strategic studies at Johns Hopkins University/SAIS, told Motherboard in an online chat. "The Times says it spent almost two months on translating the recordings—well, it should have spent another 20 minutes on scrubbing the metadata." 

"Exposing the phone number of the families of Russian troops is exposing those family members to risks," Rid added.

It's no secret that The New York Times is friendlier to Russia than it is to Israel and conservatives in the US. And it has been that way for decades.

It would come as no surprise to me to discover the rag known as The New York Times intentionally left the damning information on their site.

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