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During his opening monologue on Friday’s broadcast of HBO’s “Real Time,” host Bill Maher said that if President Donald Trump “puts boots on the ground, yeah, then I’ll hate it. Now, I know too many happy Iranian Americans. Sorry. And you cannot name one horrible thing that has happened in the Middle East in the last 50 years and not connect it to this fascist theocracy.” While recounting what’s happened recently, Maher said, “Also, this week, war. Did you hear about that thing? We bombed Iran, and it’s going on. Now, if you expected me to say I hate it.…
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum is using her country’s non-intervention policy as a cover for the fact that Mexico, Brazil, and Colombia were not invited to President Donald Trump’s Shield of the Americas summit. This week, Sheinbaum claimed that her country believed in not interfering with other countries’ internal politics and in the peaceful resolution of conflicts. When asked this week if she would be attending the Shield of the Americas summit, Sheinbaum simply replied, “No.” As Breitbart Texas reported, the summit took place this week in Miami and included 12 presidents from Latin American countries who were in favor of…
Former President Joe Biden (D) compared his intellect with the intellects of mourners at Reverend Jesse Jackson’s memorial service on Friday in Chicago at the House of Hope arena. In attendance were former presidents Barack Obama (D), Bill Clinton (D), Clinton’s wife, Hillary, former Vice President Kamala Harris (D), and Reverend Al Sharpton, Fox News reported. Biden had been telling the mourners how as a child he stuttered and was mocked for it, noting that oftentimes people make fun of such things because they think it makes the person appear unintelligent. He continued his remarks by stating, “If I told…
They reportedly have had bad experiences acting as Washington’s proxy in past conflicts Iraq’s Kurds are against joining the US attacks on Iran, and have voiced concerns about being left facing Iranian retaliation with no ground or air defense support, Axios reported on Saturday.The CIA began working to arm Kurdish forces hostile to the Islamic Republic after the US and Israel launched strikes on Iran last Saturday, according to CNN. While US President Donald Trump initially voiced support for Kurds getting involved in the conflict, he backpedaled on the idea on Saturday.“The Kurds must not be the tip of the…
Travis County District Attorney Jose Garza has put an end to a recent controversy surrounding whether Austin Police officers who shot and killed Ndiaga Diagne, ending the downtown shooting, would face criminal charges. After concerns that Garza would present the case to a grand jury circulated on social media, Garza issued a statement that his office will not seek charges. In a recent statement, Garza commented on the actions of the officers, saying, “These officers are heroes, and it should go without saying that my office is not seeking any charges and would not seek charges. The accounts to the contrary…
Oil prices surged past $110 a barrel on Sunday evening, topping $100 for the first time in nearly four years, as the war in the Middle East entered its ninth day with no end in sight and the Strait of Hormuz remained effectively closed to tanker traffic. Brent crude, the international benchmark, briefly topped $110 soon after markets opened Sunday evening, while West Texas Intermediate rose to $109.05. Both benchmarks were trading around $60 a barrel in early January. President Trump on Sunday night sought to reassure Americans that oil prices would come down in short order. “Short term oil…
A man who objected to a vigil for Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in Manhattan was punched and kicked on the ground when he snatched a poster-size portrait of the cleric from a shrine set up to honor the dead “supreme leader.” The sparsely attended vigil in Washington Square Park on Thursday, which featured a table of photos and a man with a bullhorn pontificating about “brave martyrs” in the recent conflict, appeared outnumbered by a group supporters of the joint U.S.-Israeli military operation which has decimated the country’s theocracy. New York police were keeping the opposing groups separated by fencing. But…
The cartoon depicts devastating Iranian retaliation against the American and Israeli military after a deadly strike on the Minab girls’ school Iranian media have shared a Lego-style video touting Tehran’s purported retaliation against the US and Israel, depicting the American and Israeli leadership in a panic.The animation, dubbed ‘Narrative of Victory,’ was widely circulated online on Sunday. It opens with a cartoonish figure of US President Donald Trump – accompanied by the Devil – reading the Jeffrey Epstein files.The US president is then shown going haywire and ordering strikes on Iran, apparently implying that the attack was meant to distract…
Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) said President Donald Trump has changed the strategic objectives in Iran every day. Jeffries said, “Certainly, as it relates to the Ayatollah, he was a bad actor. And I’m not going to shed any tears as a result of his departure. I think the big question is, why did we get into this war? What are our strategic objectives? Because they shift every day. And what is the plan to get out of this conflict? The American people don’t want to see billions of dollars being spent to bomb…
On Friday’s edition of CBS’s “The Takeout,” Rep. Julie Johnson (D-TX) responded to a question on whether DHS Secretary Kristi Noem’s departure improves the likelihood of reaching a deal to end the DHS shutdown by saying that “we have to see a whole-scale revamping of what the mission and purpose of this agency is.” Host and CBS News Senior White House Correspondent Weijia Jiang asked, “The House has passed a DHS funding bill, but it is dead in the Senate. Do you think there’s a better chance for Congress to reach an agreement on DHS funding now that she is…