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Hashid Al Shaabi #PMF leader Abo Alaa Al Walae threatens to attack Embassies of #Saudi, #UAE, #Bahrain and others in #Baghdad.
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-Short Attention Span Theater-
Baghdad is Trump's Bengazhi
h/t Bongino Report
[Daily Caller] Liberal pundits slammed President Donald Trump's handling of protests at the U.S. embassy in Iraq and suggested it will consume his presidency in the same way the Benghazi scandal did the Obama administration.
Scandal? In the Obama administration?
MSNBC pundit Joy Reid and Democratic Sen. Chris Murphy of Connecticut were among a handful of people who suggested the protest is a result of the president's lack of leadership. A progressive military veteran group also taunted the president over the protests.

The coordinated terrorist attack on the facility in Benghazi, Libya in 2012 culminated in the deaths of Ambassador Christopher Stevens and U.S. government personnel Sean Smith, Tyrone Woods and Glen Doherty.
However -
Unlike Benghazi, no deaths have been reported so far in the Tuesday protests at the U.S. embassy in Baghdad, Iraq.
Posted by: Bobby || 01/01/2020 10:02 || Comments || Link || [16 views] Top|| File under:

#1  No deaths, the defenders at the embassy reinforced with more Marines, 82nd Airborne getting ready to deploy.

Yeah.... just like Bengazhi where they were abandoned and left to die.

Fuck off you demoncrat hacks.
Posted by: DarthVader || 01/01/2020 10:13 Comments || Top||

#2  Pretty much of a piece with "Obama's economy was much better..."
Posted by: M. Murcek || 01/01/2020 10:14 Comments || Top||

#3  The left was saying Bengazhi was a made up story so long they really don't know the details of what happened.

I suspect this will make a nice comparison to Bengazhi, one that Obama fans are unlikely to appreciate.
Posted by: ruprecht || 01/01/2020 12:05 Comments || Top||

#4  Does that mean we can arrest Pelosi, Naider, and Schiff for creating inflamitory videos?
Posted by: CrazyFool || 01/01/2020 12:07 Comments || Top||

#5  Codswallop.
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 01/01/2020 18:39 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Linda Ronstadt compares Trump to Hitler, says Mexicans 'are the new Jews'
[FOX] Music icon Linda Ronstadt blasted President Trump in a recent interview, comparing him to Adolf Hitler and claiming that under his presidency, "Mexicans are the new Jews."

In the CNN sitdown, Ronstadt revealed her supranuclear palsy diagnosis had become "a strain" on her family relations, particularly with Republican relatives in Tuscon, Arizona.

"Instead of talking about that, we'd sing together, we'd have a great time," Ronstadt said.

"Singing is what brought your family together," CNN anchor Anderson Cooper replied. "Yeah," she chuckled.

"So, now that you don't have singing..." Cooper followed.

"Now, I have to be careful because we've had so much taken away from us by this administration that I'm not willing to let them take my family relationships away," Ronstadt continued. "My family -- the parts that are Republican were fairly rational Republicans. We don't have that in our current White House."
Posted by: Besoeker || 01/01/2020 07:57 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:

#1  "New Jews"

Doesn't follow NY news, does she?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 01/01/2020 9:37 Comments || Top||

#2  Or any reality, grom.
Posted by: DarthVader || 01/01/2020 10:11 Comments || Top||

#3  Shut up, Linda. Just SHUT UP.

Stupid bubblehead...
Posted by: Dave D. || 01/01/2020 10:33 Comments || Top||

#4  ...she wasn’t diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease until 2013. She lives with a form of parkinsonism called progressive supranuclear palsy, a degenerative brain disorder that affects your balance, walking, coordination, speech and eye movement and doesn’t respond to Parkinson’s disease medications. She stopped performing in 2009. from The Mighty. She might have a few health problems that affect her outlook and opinions--just sayin.

The left parades our this Hitler canard to use on Pubs and conservatives whenever they disagree with policy. It was used liberally on George W. Mexicans have done well in this economy under Trump.
Posted by: JohnQC || 01/01/2020 11:26 Comments || Top||

#5  Rationality? From this maroon?

Ohhhhh... That'll be the day-ay-ayyy...
When ah die
Posted by: Lex || 01/01/2020 11:56 Comments || Top||

#6  Linda Ronstadt is still alive?

Also, why didn't she do a full body makeover after that extended date with gov moonbeam in Africa so many decades ago.... (makeover as that much steel wool would have hurt badly).
Posted by: 3dc || 01/01/2020 11:56 Comments || Top||

#7  Oh, and being interviewed by the flaming gay Vanderbilt is so career rebuilding.
Posted by: 3dc || 01/01/2020 11:58 Comments || Top||

#8  Bibi should send her an plane ticket to Dauchau or even the Holocaust museum. Her words diminish true crimes.
Posted by: ruprecht || 01/01/2020 12:04 Comments || Top||

#9  It hasn’t occurred to any of them that they can still sing together, even if Ms Ronstadt can’t anymore? That should be her legacy to them, which she can enjoy seeing while still fairly lucid. The Republicans should plot to distract her by asking her how to sing something when she becomes difficult, then they could work on it until she is satisfied and has forgotten whatever she was ranting about.
Posted by: trailing wife || 01/01/2020 12:49 Comments || Top||

#10  Remember that time the Jews desperately tried to get into Nazi Germany?
Posted by: charger || 01/01/2020 20:29 Comments || Top||

#11 
Posted by: Squinty Glomose4506 || 01/01/2020 20:31 Comments || Top||


Rep. Al Green: The 'genesis' of Trump's impeachment began when he was 'running for office'
[FOX] One of the most vocal pro-impeachment Democratic voices on Capitol Hill said the "genesis" of President Trump's impeachment began long before the Ukraine scandal.

Rep. Al Green, D-Texas, one of the first lawmakers to push for Trump's impeachment, appeared on MSNBC on Monday and was confronted about the president, and how his allies have weaponized Green's outspokenness against Democrats.

"Political expediency and insincerity -- those are two charges that have been leveled against Democrats during this entire affair, particularly since September when the formal impeachment inquiry started, and you play a starring role in those charges," MSNBC host Chris Hayes said to Green.

"The argument goes like this of House Republicans and Trump and his allies: the Democrats wanted to impeach Donald Trump from day one, they cast about looking for a set of facts that they could plausibly use to do it, and all of it was pretextual and reverse-engineered to get to this point, and Exhibit One: Congressman Al Green, who [has] been calling for the man's impeachment for two years now," Hayes said. "What's your response to that charge?"

Green didn't deny the charge being made against him.
Posted by: Besoeker || 01/01/2020 07:54 || Comments || Link || [15 views] Top|| File under:


Bernie Sanders seizes opportunity to pretend he's still Jewish
[American Thinker] Please forgive my cynicism, but Bernie Sanders’ "response" to the recent stabbing attack at a rabbi’s home in New York strikes me as political opportunism rather than sincere expression of a genuine emotion, considering his track record. According to the Washington Post (in 2016) Sanders was hoping to become "one of the few modern presidents to present himself as non-religious," which seems more believable than Sanders donning a kippah and using a blowtorch to light the final candle on a public menorah commemorating the final day of Hanukkah.

During his candle-lighting speech Bernie allegedly told the crowd, "If there is ever a time in American history to say no to religious bigotry, this is the time. If there was ever a time we say no to divisiveness, this is that moment." Now I’m not Jewish personally (well, about as much of a Jew as Bernie), but there is a Yiddish word that I believe describes this despicable behavior: chutzpah.

He’s appropriating a tragedy and heinous crime for his own personal political advantage. It is extremely difficult to believe Sanders suddenly cares about religious freedom, isn’t it? Or has everyone conveniently forgotten about Russell Vought’s extraordinarily contentious confirmation hearing in which Sanders seemed to be applying a religious litmus test to disqualify Vought as director of the Office of Management and Budget?

Bernie Sanders is right about one thing: it is horribly wrong for Jewish people to be targeted because of their religion. Not only is it wrong, it is evil. It’s a pity that Bernie also couldn’t join me in the condemnation of the shooting at the church in Fort Worth. In my cynicism I’m having trouble deciding whether Bernie’s silence is due to the fact the intended victims were Christians, or more likely because they had guns and were able to slay the gunman after one man in the congregation deliberately stood and moved to draw his concealed weapon in order to attract the gunman’s attention and fire, becoming the first victim in the process.
Posted by: Besoeker || 01/01/2020 04:08 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Bernie is a Marxist, thst is only religion.
Posted by: Spanky Whuter1088 || 01/01/2020 6:30 Comments || Top||

#2  His only emotion is hatred for anyone with more money than him.
Posted by: Raj || 01/01/2020 7:52 Comments || Top||

#3  That's not a lot, really.
Posted by: gorb || 01/01/2020 9:53 Comments || Top||

#4  Can I claim to be kinda-sorta a worshiper of Odin and the Norse Pantheon because my ancestors included Norse settlers come to Scotland?
Posted by: magpie || 01/01/2020 15:13 Comments || Top||

#5  /\ Maybe my great-great-(etc.)-grandfather was Odin in that case.... :Heh:
Posted by: magpie || 01/01/2020 15:16 Comments || Top||



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Two weeks of WOT
Wed 2020-01-01
  Hashid Al Shaabi #PMF leader Abo Alaa Al Walae threatens to attack Embassies of #Saudi, #UAE, #Bahrain and others in #Baghdad.
Tue 2019-12-31
  Crowd storms US Embassy compound in Baghdad
Mon 2019-12-30
  Qais al-Khazali was a close associate of Qassem Suleimani - killed by USAF.
Sun 2019-12-29
  Iraq launches new military operation against ISIS 4 provinces
Sat 2019-12-28
  US civilian contractor killed and several US and Iraqi personnel wounded in Kirkuk rocket attack
Fri 2019-12-27
  Libya's Tripoli-based govt makes formal request for Turkish military support, Turkey gets ready to rock
Thu 2019-12-26
  Jihadists suffer heavy losses in failed attempt to retake strategic southeast Idlib town
Wed 2019-12-25
  Boko Haram abducts 17 fishermen in Cameroon’s Far North region
Tue 2019-12-24
  Merry Christmas - Stille Nacht, Heilige Nacht, Peter Alexander
Mon 2019-12-23
  Islamic State just issued this statement that claims the Battle of revenge is on
Sun 2019-12-22
  France kills 33 militants in Mali raid: president
Sat 2019-12-21
  Berlin police Foiled ISIS Terror Attack at Christmas Market
Fri 2019-12-20
  Government of National Accord in Libya have officially requested that Turkey intervenes militarily in the civil war
Thu 2019-12-19
  ISIS captures new ground in eastern Syria after launching powerful attack against Syrian Army forces
Wed 2019-12-18
  Assailants attack several protest camps in north and south Lebanon


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