Fallout from the Soleimani killing continues. Trumps bans certain forms of vape products. The Democratic Presidential field is shrinking. It is looking more and more like Jeffry Epstein didn’t kill himself. And Ricky Gervais might have saved the Golden Globes.

 

The Saga Continues

The war of words continues between Iran and the United States.

 

The President of Iran responded:

So there you have it. The saber-rattling has begun

Do you remember when leaders of countries used to yell at each over the media? Now, they just Tweet at each other.

There have been some attacks. There were a missile attacks today. One in Nigeria or Yemen, one of the two, that killed an American and one at the Baghdad airport. No one is really sure if Iran is involved but you can bet they are.

By the way, this is the kind of attacks you can expect from Iran. I don’t think we should expect a huge terrorist attack. But you better believe that if another American dies, Trump is going to do something about it.

The pro-Iranian parliment voted to kick out the 5000 American troops from Iraq. This is a non-binding resolution and does not mean much at this moment because their Prime Minister has resigned. Of course the media is making a big stink out of this, but it’s not.

Pelosi is trying to limit Trump’s power when dealing with Iran. She’s ticked Trump didn’t report to Congress even if he had no legal reason to do so. She said in a letter to the House and Senate:

“This week, the House will introduce and vote on a War Powers Resolution to limit the President’s military actions regarding Iran. It reasserts Congress’s long-established oversight responsibilities by mandating that if no further Congressional action is taken, the Administration’s military hostilities with regard to Iran cease within 30 days.”

Trump, being a smart ass sent a Tweet stating that he warned Iran and Congress with this post on Sunday:

This isn’t over by a long shot. I will place bets right now another article of impeachment is in the works.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/pelosi-moves-to-limit-trumps-actions-in-iran-with-war-powers-resolution-vote

 

Banning of Vape Products

Trump has decided to temporarily ban certain flavored juices for vape products. It is believed that the flavored oils are what is attracting our children to going out and vaping. Right now, only menthol and tobacco flavored oils are allowed.

This is in response to respiratory failure of around 100 children, leading to the deaths of almost twenty deaths.Vaping is illegal for anyone under the age of 21 and a lot of the illnesses have been linked, not to retail oils, but to black market counterfeit oils and THC products.

President Trump said last week:

This is a failure.

• Though illegal, kids are still using it. A lot getting it from the black market. This will only increase dependency on the black market. This does not solve the problem.
• Children who cannot get the oils will just start smoking cigarettes. The reality is that children are going to get what they want. They always have.
• Again, it takes away a less unhealthy alternative to smoking. I’ve been vaping on-and-off for years. I have never had a problem. Why should kids doing something illegal affect me?

 

I just think it’s a bad idea to take away the freedom of the many because a few, that are doing it illegally, get hurt. You’re punishing me because some snot-nosed 16-year-old is acting like a snot-nosed 16-year-old. And a couple of hundred getting sick is not justification for the millions that have no other issues.

Oh, yeah. Nothing is going to get fixed by this

https://apnews.com/d22aed5d39273150d640e02ef89823cd

 

Only 47 Left

Julian Castro has suspended his campaign sighting financial issues. He also bases the problem on the DNC’s rules for candidates including the ones that determine who is allowed on the stage during debates. He believes these rules prevent diversity within the Democratic field. You knew he would bring up the race card.

What Julian forgets is he has been riding 1% since he started. He never had a chance. I guess those trans women are going to have to wait until 2024 to have those abortions.

Marianne Williamson has just fired her entire campaign staff. That’s too bad. She’s so much fun.

The Democratic candidates have announced their fundraising totals for the fourth quarter of 2019. The big winner: Donald Trump. For the Democrats:

1. Bernie Sanders – $34.5 million
2. Pete Buttigieg – $24.7 million
3. Joe Biden – $22.7 million
4. Elizabeth Warren – $21.2 million
5. Andrew Yang – $16.5 million
6. Amy Klobuchar – $11.4 million
7. Cory Booker – $6.6 million
8. Tulsi Gabbard – $3.4 million
9. Donald Trump – $46 million

 

Many Democrats dismiss Trump’s massive haul stating that, when the Democrats totals are combined, it far exceeds Trumps totals.

This assumes that people voting Democrat will vote Democrat no matter who is the nominee. That’s just not the case.

This also assumes Trump has received donations from big donors as Sanders and Warren suggest. This is also not the case.

What we can assume is that Gabbard and Booker will be the next to go and will probably miss the debate stage again.

https://www.npr.org/2020/01/02/793134302/juli-n-castro-suspends-2020-campaign-as-others-announce-fundraising-numbers
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/bernie-sanders-tops-democratic-field-massive-345-million/story?id=68000913

 

This Just Keeps Getting Weirder

Photos were released of the Jeffry Epstein crime scene including autopsy photos of Epstein’s neck and pictures of two of the nooses made out of bed sheets.

Viewing the photos, it looks less likely Epstein killed himself and more likely he was strangled. But the whole circumstance is weird. I don’t talk about Epstein much so lets go over the facts.

Jeff Epstein is a pedophile and human trafficker. Hosted parties with huge figures such as Bill Clinton and Prince Andrew.

He was arrested and jailed. While in jail, he was housed with another inmate and on suicide watch. For some reason, his inmate was removed and he was taken off suicide watch. That night, he supposedly hung himself from his bed post with torn up sheets.

Here is what is weird:

• He was suppose to be checked on every 15 minutes. Both guards on duty fell asleep, didn’t check on him for two hours and falsified records. Both are pending trial.
• The ligature marks on his neck are inconsistent with hanging. He has broken bones around his adam’s apple which are inconsistent with hanging and consistent with strangulation.
• Epstein was facing life in jail and was willing to cooperate with police. That puts a lot of people in the cross hairs of the police.
• The cameras in the jail were not working. There were two of them. There was some video found though but it is unclear what that video shows.
• The video that was found was lost and then found again.
• The suicide note said to be found was not a suicide not.
• There were two separate nooses found. Though the ligature marks were violent, no blood was found on either noose.
• Dr. Michael Baden says that there are several irregularities including:
  • The ligature markings don’t match the noose and,
  • The body and evidence was collected incorrectly.

 

This case just keeps getting weirder. I am not a conspiracy guy but I think this guys was murdered and someone ain’t saying something. I hope this story doesn’t get lost because I bet there is a lot there.

The pictures that I did not show on the video cast are below. Viewer discretion is advised.

 

 

 

 

 

 

https://www.foxnews.com/media/michael-baden-jeffrey-epstein-autopsy-graphic-photos-cell

 

Right on the Head

Best Golden Globes in a long time.

Nuff said.

President ordered the killing of Qessem Soleimani. And everyone is going nuts. I guess they forgot that Soleimani was a mass murderer and stuff.

 

Ding Dong, the Witch is Dead!

The saga continues.

While the U.S. was monitoring the attack on the U.S. embassy in Iraq, they caught something interesting. They saw the Iranian Major General and terrorist Qassem Soleimani. This guy was involved in the deaths of hundreds if not thousands of Americans.

Why is an Iranian general who is known to work directly with Hezbollah while a sect of Hezbollah is attacking the U.S. embassy in Baghdad, Iraq? Hmm…

So the U.S. intelligence followed him and asked Trump what should happen. Trump authorized the killing of this animal. They sent a drone and…poof…Soleimani is in a thousand pieces.

Trump responded on Twitter:

But the best Tweet came this morning:

https://www.foxnews.com/media/mike-pompeo-qassem-soleimani-strike-iran-trump

 

Middle East Reaction

Iran had the expected response:

Who cares about if nations like Iran hate us. In a video a little later, you will see a video of a nation that doesn’t hate us: Iraq.

Also, we did do something: We killed one of Iran’s chief terrorists. But this wasn’t the only response:

So the threats are out there and Iran will retaliate. How much so is yet to be seen. I have a feeling that and attacks will be much of what Iran has been doing. Terrorist activities that involve Saudi Arabia, the Strait of Hormuz and more attacks on Israel. I doubt much will be seen against the United States directly since the United States has shown the we have met our tipping point.

The last thing the Mullahs of Iran want is to go too far and have the United States go after them. And, with the killing of such a high-impact target, they have to be weary of what the next move of the United States would be

Speaking of nations that hate us, there is one in the Middle East that is thrilled to see Soleimani dead. That is the people of Iraq. It wasn’t just the Americans that had to worry. The Iraqi people, most of whom hate Iran, were thrilled to hear about his death and spent the night celebrating. Thanks to Ruptly of YouTube for the footage:

For the United States, the celebration was cut short. Americans were warned to get out of Iraq or risk being targets of attacks.

The United States has made a stand and Americans abroad need to be aware.

Today, in his first press conference since the killing, Trump said:

 

https://www.foxnews.com/world/iran-promises-harsh-retaliation-after-us-airstrike-kills-iranian-gen-qassem-soleimani

 

Of Course, The Talking Heads Have Their Opinions

I don’t think much of the Left. There is no way that anyone could see that it was a bad think that this piece of human debris was dead. Well, hatred for the bad orange man and the United States does exceed the hatred of a mass murderer and terrorist organization.

The United Nations had the typical response when the United States does something on their own without asking their permission. U.N. reporter, Agnes Callamard Tweeted:

Um, no. This was a terrorist and, because of that, this does not violate any laws. And the fact that Soleimani was at the riots at the U.S. embassy and was involved with the terrorist attacks last week that killed an American defense contractor shows that this guy was not a real activist for human rights. I’m not even bringing up all the stuff he has done over the last ten years including the killing of hundreds of Iranian protesters over the last few months. This is a bad guy.

And when did the U.N. become the bastion of human rights unless it was an action the United States took?

• What about the sweat shops and illegal arrests in China and their oppression of Hong Kong?
• What about the dictatorship in Venezuela and their people who are starving?
• What about the human rights abuses in Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Afghanistan and Iran?

 

Fr Christ’s sake, the U.N. put Iran, notorious for human rights violations, on the human rights council. I don’t really care for the U.N. and I think the property they are taking up in New York would be great for a Starbucks and Dominos Pizza.

https://www.foxnews.com/world/qassem-soleimani-strike-violated-international-human-rights-law-un-official

Of course, comrades Schiff and Pelosi had comments about this. Like why wasn’t the House notified so they could give the thumb’s up for the operation. Schiff Tweeted:

Congress also didn’t authorize the killing of Bin Laden. You know why? Because the killing of a terrorist doesn’t require Congressional approval.

This was also an opportunity for the country. They knew where this guy was. He would have been gone. So what? We wait for him to kill more people so we could find him again?

Anyway, Trump didn’t inform Schiff because it would end up on the front page of the New York Times by morning.

Pelosi released a statement:

Let’s see: Iran killed an American contractor last week, they blew up a Saudi oil field, they are dropping bombs on Israel through their actions in “Palestine,” they shot down one of our drones, attacked our embassy in Iraq and have killed close to 2000 people in their own country.

They already are threatening our citizens. Even giving them a pallet of cash, as Obama did, doesn’t seem to be slowing them down. Maybe it is time for our foreign policy goes in a different direction.

Again, Congress does not need to be “consulted.” Just as Congress wasn’t “consulted” during the Bin Laden Killing. Hey, at leas, maybe, they have another reason to impeach Trump.

But this isn’t the only one. Ilhan Omar said:

Stop him for what? Maybe this Soleimani was another brother she was married to at one point.

Rashida Tlaib Tweeted:

If we killed a Jew, Tlaib wouldn’t say a word. Last I checked, killing a terrorist is not declaring war. God, she’s stupid.

But we still have the genius of the group and she was eerily quiet on Twitter. I guess she had to break out the thesaurus to find new words since her Tweets have been getting a little dry lately. Here’s AOC:

The over-dramatization is awesome. No wonder she took so long to release this Tweet.

• Soleimani was in Iraq committing a terrorist act against the U.S. embassy. So this is just killing a terrorist which isn’t an act of war.
• Iran doesn’t want a war and, if there was one, millions wouldn’t die. That conflict would be done in three weeks.
• Her last lines assume we are at war. That’s just stupid. Do you know what would have prevented war in 2003? The killing of Osama Bin Laden in 2002.

 

The comparison of the Iraq was in 2003 and this is a real stretch and just kind of dumb.

What About Our Presidential Candidates

Our Presidential candidates had a lot to say. They are all in front of cameras bitching about this but their Tweets are telling enough. Let’s go from the top down. Let’s start with Joe Biden.

This is why Biden can’t be President. He’s scared of these people and only think appeasement is the way to deal with them. Let’s not forget: He was Vice President when the Iran Nuclear Deal was signed. That didn’t stop Iran from doing anything.

Let’s look at Bernie:

Bernie was kicked out of a commune and was caught singing the Soviet national anthem, shirtless during his honeymoon. Pretty sure that’s going to come up if he wins the nomination.

But, one other thing: when did Bernie care about spending trillions?

Yeah, Mayor Pete is in third. I’m not going to use his last name because “butt” always seems to be a thing. Couple of issues with his statement:

• He admits that this guy was bad.
• He brings up that he was in the military…again.
• Finally, he assumes he can stablize something that has never been stable.

 

Hey, Pete? How? More well-sculpted rhetoric.

What does Chief Warren have to say:

Again, same thing. No ideas. Do you see the pattern here?

Let’s see what Mean Girl Klobachar has to say:

Yes, she’s still a candidate so I have to include her but do you notice something? No solutions.

The Clinton and Bush administrations tried to ignore them. Nothing happened. They continued to be terrorists and started trying to build a nuclear bomb.

We have spent the entire Obama administration placating to these people. We gave them over a billion dollars in cash on pallets. Yet Iran kept on with their BS.

Actually punching them in the mouth seems to be the only thing we haven’t tried.

Finally, let’s read what Maryianne Williamson had to say:

I know: she’s not important and I didn’t read this before I put this in so I decided to include it. It also shows how dumb she is.

First, this is not a declaration so she wrong like every other Democrat.

What’s funny is she actually defends Trump with her second sentence. She’s right! Trump does have the authority to fight terrorism. Good for you, Marianne! Maybe you should run as a Republican in 2014!

https://www.foxnews.com/world/adam-schiff-says-americans-dont-want-war-with-iran-after-airstrike-that-killed-iranian-general
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/2020-democrats-qassem-soleimani-trump-airstrike-congress-biden-warren-bernie-sanders
https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-ilhan-omar-attacks-trump-for-killing-top-iranian-terrorist-promotes-conspiracy-theory

 

But What Do Our Celebrates Think?

Anthony Hopkins, the guy who played Hannibel Lector in Silence of the Lambs, was asked why he never talked about politics. Hopkins, always a class act, said actors should stick with what they know and avoid politics because, “Actors are pretty stupid.”

Good thing for us they are so stupid, they don’t know how stupid they are or sound. That’s entertainment. It’s better than most of the movies they make.

First, John Cusak:

This is, by the way, why most actors don’t write. This whole post makes no sense. It also shows he has no idea what’s going on in the country or the world.

But that wasn’t the dumbass of the week. Enter Rose McGowen:

I don’t think 52% of Democrats feel bad for a country that exploits its people, oppresses women, executes gays, supports proxy wars throughout the Middle East to gain power, wants to destroy Israel and supports terror activities that has killed tens of thousands.

This idiotic Tweet started the #MoveToIran tag where she was lambasted. Even by the Left.

https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/rose-mcgowan-twitter-apology-iran-killing-suleimani-usa-held-hostage-terrorist-regime
https://www.dailywire.com/news/anthony-hopkins-avoids-talking-politics-actors-are-pretty-stupid

 

Final Thoughts

I think Lindsey Graham said it best during a Fox News interview:

“All the thing Soleimani had done in the past were real, but he’s not dead today because of what he did in the past. He’s dead today because he miscalculated what President Trump would do regarding future attacks.”

This hits it on the head and why the Left is missing this. That’s why their rhetoric keeps losing them elections.

They have the Stuart Smalley philosophy on foreign policy. You remember Stuart Smalley? The SNL character played by Al Franken? Here’s a clip that will jog your memory:

Here’s the problem the Left has.

• Conservatives already know we are good enough. We can tell the differences between evil and good. We can tell who wants to hurt us. Our actions are only about the good for us and the rest of the world.
• Conservatives already know we are smart enough. We created the Internet, the best economy in human history and the strongest defense.
• Conservatives don’t give a damn if anyone likes us. They just need to respect us an, in the case of countries like Iran, fear us.
• The Left has always thought our country was bad. We are all racist, sexist, bigoted homophobes. And anything we do should be questioned.
• The Left doesn’t think we are smart enough. The country wasn’t built on ingenuity but of the backs of slaves and oppression of the poor. We didn’t invent anything, the oppressed did. They do believe this.
• The Left are globalists. They need the rest of the world to like us. We need to be kind to everyone. And this attitude is a recipe for disaster.

 

Here’s the story:

• This guy was responsible for the deaths of tens of thousands of people on, at least, two continents. He needed to die. The only tragedy here is he didn’t suffer.
• Appeasement doesn’t work. Clinton and Bush ignored Iran and it didn’t slow them down. Obama appeased Iran and it didn’t slow them down. Trump just punched them in the mouth. Bet it works.
• Soleimani was in Iraq, watching the attack on the U.S. embassy. Why was he there? He had no fear of appraisal. Well, they will now.
• Everyone breath and mellow out. We aren’t going to war. We don’t want it. Iran definitely doesn’t want it. Relax.
• There will be attacks. Iran must save face. These attacks will probably be in Saudi Arabia, Europe, the Strait of Hormuz and Israel where they will face little American payback (though Israel may be an issue for them). My guess they will attack assets more than people.

By the way, I just got an alert from Fox News stating that the United States had another airstrike in Northern Baghdad, killing five more Iran-backed militia. Wow.