Iraq Presidential Palace Breached but US Denies Embassy Evacuation

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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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US Citizen In China prison to be executed after losing appeal

Shadeed Abdulmateen, an American citizen, faces execution in China after losing an appeal of a murder conviction. The defendant was accused of murdering his former girlfriend and the death sentence was announced in April.

Abdulmateen had taught English at Ningbo University of Technology, the South China Morning Post reported.

According to Reuters, after the trial by the High People's Court of Eastern China's Zhejiang Province Abdulmateen's appeal was rejected.

“The High People’s Court of Zhejiang Province … found that the facts found by the Ningbo Intermediate People’s Court were clear, the evidence was true and sufficient, the conviction was accurate, the sentence was appropriate and the trial procedure was lawful, so it made the above ruling,” CCTV reported.

Shadeed Abdul Mateen, an African-American who taught at Ningbo University of Technology in E.China’s Zhejiang, was sentenced to death for intentional homicide. He murdered a 21-year-old woman by cutting and stabbing her face and neck in 2021. https://t.co/XZA4BteLAe

— Global Times (@globaltimesnews)

The Supreme People’s Court will review the decision, which is largely a joke.

A U.S. Embassy spokesman said diplomats were “aware of a court decision related to a U.S. citizen.”

“We take seriously our responsibility to assist U.S. citizens abroad and are monitoring the situation,” the spokesman said. “Due to privacy considerations, we have no further comment.”

Abdulmateen had told the young woman, whose name was only given as Chen, [a very uncommon Chinese name] that he was divorced which was a lie.

The couple met in 2019 and soon became involved in a relationship. But China's Global Times explained that the situation between the two "spiraled out of control" after Chen wanted to end the affair.

“Starting in May 2021, Chen said several times that she wanted a break-up, but she was always refused and verbally threatened by the man,” the Global Times reported.

The court said that Abdulmateen met Chen at a bus stop in Ningbo, Zhejiang Province in June of last year. He then stabbed her in the face and neck with a "folding knife," the court ruled. He figured if he couldn't have her, no one else would.

Abdulmateen’s “premeditated revenge killing, stabbing and cutting Chen’s face and neck several times, resulting in Chen’s death, was motivated by vile motives, resolute intent and cruel means, and the circumstances of the crime were particularly bad and the consequences particularly serious, and should be punished according to law,” CCTV reported.

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This is a rare case, it appears, where China is doing the right and proper thing and the U.S. should allow justice to be meted out, in my opinion.

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Bills release Matt Araiza after gang-rape accusations

The Buffalo Bills released punter Matt Araiza when a lawsuit was filed Thursday accusing him of gang-raping a minor.

Araiza, 22, is a rookie in the league and faces a civil lawsuit that was filed Thursday claiming that he and two of his San Diego State football teammates raped a 17-year-old girl. She claims to have been intoxicated to the point where she was slipping in and out of consciousness.

The incident reportedly took place last year at an off-campus party. 

The lawsuit also claimed the punter gave the victim a drink at a party that “not only contained alcohol, but other intoxicated substances.”

The Bills said the team knew of the allegations about the punter last month and had been looking into the matter.  According to the Athletic, the Bills “did not know” about the case when they picked Araiza in the sixth round of the 2022 NFL Draft.

The "Punt God" as he is known as, said on Friday before being released the incident is not “what they are portrayed in the lawsuit or in the press,” [whatever that means].

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If it turns out that Araiza is convicted of the crime, the only kicking he will do will be to himself in the ass because for screwing up a lucrative career.

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Alexandria Occasionally-Comatose is losing it in the primaries

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (Socialist-NY) is losing the luster she once had before people realized that she isn't merely a Marxist, but she's an airhead Marxist with virtually no understanding of economics , the Constitution, or how government works. 

AOC spends more time on Instagram than she spends in the district she is supposed to represent, and when Amazon planned to move a headquarters to her district in Queens, she was clearly opposed and the deal never went through. She facilitated the loss of thousands of high-paying jobs because of her Marxist ideology.

She and her so-called "Squad" of leftist allies will be nothing more than seat-fillers when they return to Congress next year. Their lusters have become a patina and their clout has been rendered impotent, according to a source telling the New York Post.

“The policies that The Squad stood for were never popular and the candidates who tried to mirror those policies are finding themselves out of Congress,” a senior Democratic Capitol Hill insider said. The source added that they believe the Squad will become a like "gadflies" in a Republican-controlled House in November.

These Squadettes cheered the defunding of the police after the George Floyd riots and as crime rose faster than Jeffrey Toobin's desk during a Zoom call, they suffered major blows.

Rep. Mondaire Jones who was an AOC fav, was the biggest loser for the left as he was redistricted from his home base in Westchester County to avoid infighting with Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney, the boss of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee. 

Jones decided to run a carpetbagger campaign in Manhattan and Brooklyn's Park Slope. He lost to Dan Goldman, a Levi Strauss heir who prosecuted President Trump during his first impeachment trial.

And in this race, Jones took away votes from state Assemblywoman Yuh-Line Niou--another Marxist hopeful whose campaign went down the bowl as she came up 1,300 votes short of winning.

Progressive Sen. Alessandra Biaggi, daughter of Mario Biaggi, was also knocked out by Maloney in their upstate district. She had been endorsed by AOC and it's becoming obvious that her endorsement has become the kiss of death.

Henry Cuellar (D-TX) — the only pro-life Democrat in the house — defeated Jessica Cisneros, another AOC-backed leftist.

Former Rep. Donna Edwards also went down to a landslide defeat against Glenn Ivey in Maryland. Ivey had been the preferred choice of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee — a progressive bête noire — which spent millions on the race.

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In Staten Island, former Congressman Max Rose, a centrist,  put to bed any hopes that socialist stripper Brittany Ramos DeBarros had in the Democratic primary. Rose will face a much tougher fight reclaiming his old seat from Republican incumbent Rep. Nicole Malliotakis, who ousted him in 2020. 

Now on to the midterms in November.

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DHS Disbands BS Free Speech Deciders Board

Okay, it's actually called the Free Speech Governance Board but like with all things leftist, whenever they label something, you can bet the opposite is the case--like the Inflation Reduction Act. 

Anyway, the Department of Homeland Security--an agency that refuses to go away since the original 911 attacks in 2001--has decided that the public is too wise to be fooled with anything the Left calls 'free speech,' especially when it's the Left who was slated to decide what speech was free and what needed to be censored.

The extraordinarily incompetent DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas announced that he's formerly terminating the Marxist-style department in a statement on Wednesday.

Mayorkas, who obviously pees sitting down, cited advice from the Homeland Security Advisory Commission in his decision to bring the board to an end.

“The Department welcomes the recommendations of the Homeland Security Advisory Council, which has concluded that countering disinformation that threatens the homeland, and providing the public with accurate information in response, is critical to fulfilling the Department’s missions.”

The only thing that currently threatens the homeland is the open border free-for-all this garbage administration is perpetuating. But if you think the DHS is concerned about closing the southern border, you're mistaken.

“We thank the Subcommittee for its work, which required extensive fact gathering and analysis over a short period of time,” the statement said.

Yes, it took an entire committee of progressive 'geniuses' to figure out that people are not going to stand for the censorship of their speech, although we haven't done much to assuage the situation on social media so far.

“In accordance with the HSAC’s prior recommendation, Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro N. Mayorkas has terminated the Disinformation Governance Board and rescinded its charter effective today, Aug. 24, 2022.”

The Homeland Security Advisory Council released a report on Wednesday explaining why it decided to recommend the Disinformation Governance Board’s termination.

“The Department of Homeland Security does not have a broad remit to address all inaccurate information or disinformation, nor does it have the authority to silence or sanction anyone’s speech,” the council said.

It's nice to know that the DHS has finally removed their craniums from their nether regions.

However, these geniuses are recommending that relevant government agencies respond when they are targeted by alleged "disinformation." 

But they don't say who decides what's disinformation and what is truth. 

For example, if one says that there are only 2 sexes: male and female, and that chopping off one's body parts and using a person's skin tissue to look somewhat like genitals of the opposite sex does not change this fact, the woke police will call this disinformation, even though a child in kindergarten knows the answer to the questions: what is a woman and what is a man?

So this agency is gone but it's Marxism lingers on.

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When testifying before Congress, Mayorkas struggled to justify its existence.

I struggle to understand why Mayorkas is the head of any government agency.

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Ford Electric Mustang's Price Increases More Than Biden's Tax Credit: is anyone surprised?

Biden wants us to all give up our gas-driven cars and purchase EV cars instead. He is bribing the public up to $7,500 in a tax credit to anyone who buys an EV.

But his drunken sailor-in-a-whorehouse spending isn't matching the inflated costs of vehicle manufacturing, so the money he's handing out in tax credit is a joke. 

The price of the Ford Mustang Mach-E will increase up to 8,475 starting September due to the "significant material cost increases" and "evolving market conditions," the company said. Of course, the increases of materials is due to the Biden inflation, but Biden hopes you won't notice. [H/T Daily Wire]

The new price tag on the Mustang EV for the 2023 model will increase on Tuesday of next week, in response to the Democrats' Inflation Reduction Act, a massive climate spending bill that handed out tax credits to Americans willing to purchase certain EVs and will only increase, not decrease, inflation, as we are already seeing in this example.

“Ford is adjusting the MSRP on the Mustang Mach-E due to significant material cost increases, continued strain on key supply chains, and rapidly evolving market conditions, and will continue to monitor pricing across the model year,” the Michigan-based motor company explained.

The Mustang Mach-E 2022 models were priced between 44,000 and $62,000, but the 2023 makes of the EV will cost as high as $70,000 with the cheapest option being $47,000. Earlier this month, Ford also increased prices on its electric pickup truck, the F-150 Lightning, according to CNBC. Tesla, Rivian, Lucid, and GM have also raised prices on EVs this year, all for the same reasons.

Got inflation?

Prices of EVs have been increasing prices as electric battery costs shot up during the pandemic. Battery materials such as lithium, nickel and cobalt have become difficult to acquire, and China basically has a monopoly on cobalt and lithium production. Biden's supply chain issues have caused the cost of raw materials for EV production to double from March 2020 to May 2022.

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According to the Department of Energy, the 2022 Ford Mach-E qualifies for Biden’s tax credit. The 2023 model, however, did not appear on the department’s list of EVs that qualified.

And if the goal of electric vehicles is to reduce carbon emissions and pollution, they are an abject failure. It takes fossil fuels to generate most electricity in the USA and the disposal of EV batteries causes significantly more ground pollution than a village of Democrats with private jets on their way to a climate summit.

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DOJ Releases Heavily Redacted Affidavit for FBI Raid on Trump's Mar-A-Lago: FBI is "out of control"

The DOJ [aka Democrat's Office of Justice] released a heavily redacted copy of an affidavit that was the catalyst for an FBI search warrant executed on former U.S. President Donald Trump, in early August. This was the first time in U.S. history that a former President of the United States was served with a subpoena for any reason and in this case, for documents over which he has authority.

U.S. Magistrate Judge and Democrat Bruce Reinhart ordered the DOJ to submit a redacted version of the affidavit to the court earlier this week for release to the public. The copy was submitted Thursday and Reinhart reviewed it and ordered its release to the public by noon Friday.

Meanwhile, more whistleblowers are coming forward and revealing an "out of control" FBI that includes fake affidavits and fake cases, not to even mention what they did with the Hunter Biden laptop case.

It seems like the Bureau's management is "out of control" in offices across the country as more whistleblowers are coming forth and complaining about a culture of "corruption, cover-ups and retaliation" against agents who are exposing it in offices in Salt Lake City, Miami, Buffalo and Newark.

There are allegations that supervisors force agents to sign false affidavits, for example. Imagine how that is going to look when the Republicans take over the House [G_d willing] in terms of the Mar-A-Lago raid.

Agents have allegedly been forced to make up terrorism cases to inflate their performance statistics as well. But even worse than that, there are even allegations of sexual harassment and engagement in other sexual acts with a subordinate. One female agent even went with a sexual harassment complaint to the Director, Chris Wray, and she alleges that her complaint was ignored. The agency acts with a "mob-like mentality," she said.

“The FBI is completely out of control and its culture and structure needs to change. Not only is the political bias completely out of control and disgustingly obvious, the FBI knows they will not be held accountable for their illegal behavior and misconduct,” she said in a letter to Rep. Louie Gohmert, a Texas Republican on the Judiciary Committee.

Another whistleblower in the Buffalo office said FBI leadership is focused on case volume and some supervisors inflate numbers for terrorism, for example, to enhance their performance reviews.

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So we know the FBI raid on Mar-A-Lago was politically motivated by the Biden administration. Biden lied that he didn't know about the raid until afterward, but he gave approval for it. Maybe he forgot; that's very possible in his mental state.

We also know the FBI lies on affidavits and their activities and that Judge Bruce Reinhart does not like Trump. 

Finally, we know the affidavit only tells one side of the story and it is not Trump's side.

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White House still won't say who's going to pay the $500 billion student loan handout

Alleged President Joe Braindead

The Biden/Klain/Obama/Rice/AOC administration refuses to say how it plans to pay for the student loan debt that cancels $10,000 to $20,000 in loans students promised to pay back, but now they don't have to because somebody else will pay it for them. 

And just how that $500,000,000,000 [that's five-hundred-billion dollars, for all you Peruvian Pottery majors] will be paid is still a Democrat mystery. Will it be through higher taxes? Music festivals? 

Although the unconstitutional policy was announced this week, the administration refuses to discuss how the proposal will be paid for over time. Since the Democrats' plan calls for the future highest earners to be absolved of their responsibility and abide by the promise they made, it's a no-brainer that the taxpayer is going to carry the burden. They are probably going to be on the hook for most of the principal and interest on top of an already existing $31,000,000,000,000 U.S. debt.

When Fox News asked the White House how it plans to pay the student debt, they were mum, just as they were over the idea of future tax increases to help assuage the cost. And while administration officials refused to explain how added spending will be offset, they brag about the plunging deficit under our brain addled President.

"We actually achieved $350 billion in deficit reduction, and this year it's projected, by the end of the fiscal year, to be a $1.7 trillion deficit reduction," said the incompetent White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre at the White House briefing. 

And if you believe that an actual deficit reduction has been achieved, you probably also believe the ladies on "The View" are geniuses.

These officials also claim that the cost of the Biden handout cannot be totally accessed since we don't know how many loan borrowers will have the taxpayer foot the bill for them. It's also unclear as to how many would have paid back the full amount of their loans anyway, since their word on repayment is as good as the Democrats' word when they start a sentence with "All we ask for . . ." It is never all they want.

"All of this as when it comes to costs will also depend on how many of the loans canceled were actually expected to be repaid," said Jean-Pierre.

The National Taxpayers Union Foundation doesn't agree, however. In an analysis released this week, it estimated that if the student loan handout adds almost $330,000,000,000 to the deficit over the next ten years, as a budget model by former President Trump's former University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School of Business asserts, the average cost for each taxpayer will be at least $2,085. This low-ball figure is a low estimate as the Committee for a Responsible Budget puts the cost of the handouts at between $440 billion and $600 billion. 

No such thing as "canceling" debt; it's reassigning debt to those who didn't 
agree to pay back the loan

And just like the estimate you got on the remodeling of your kitchen, the higher figure is more likely the closer one to reality.

Tax hikes is the most likely scenario for the future in order to make up for this loan forgiveness ploy to gain more Democrat votes and thus more power. The higher income brackets are definitely going to pay a lot more, but the middle class is also going to take a big financial hit.

Those of us who paid off our student loans are suckers. Those of us who never went to college and worked at a skilled labor job are suckers. Those of you who voted for these idiots in Washington are the biggest suckers.

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The only people who will benefit from student loan "forgiveness" are the wealthiest earners in the population who could best be able to pay off the loan they applied for and agreed to pay.

The administration is using COVID-19 as the excuse for this ploy, so then why isn't the government helping small businesses and others that suffered most during forced COVID lockdowns, and have the students learn that their word is their bond? 

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