The Morning Report - 1/1/20

Good morning kids. Happy New Year and Decade. As we ring out the old and ring in the new, the new is an Iran-backed attack by Iraqis on our embassy in Baghdad. Reports are that they crashed through the gates and got within about 200 yards of the main building but did not enter it or other buildings in the embassy compound. American soldiers responded with tear gas, stun grenades and warning shots that reportedly injured over 60 of the attackers. As of this writing there are no reports of any injuries among our forces.

...The militants' assault on the U.S. embassy compound is the latest in a series of escalating confrontations drawing Iraq further into the regional conflict between the United States and the Iranian regime. It follows the rocket attack conducted by Iranian proxies, to which the United States responded with an airstrike in Iraq and Syria that killed at least 24 Hezbollah-affiliated militants and wounded dozens of others.

U.S. officials are concerned that the Iraqi government is not doing enough to fulfill its obligation to protect embassy personnel because of undue influence exerted by Iran. Iraqi security forces were reportedly slow to counter the militants, who carried out their attack after attending a funeral for the militants killed as a result of the U.S. airstrikes. The Iraqi National Security Council focused squarely on blaming the United States for having conducted its airstrikes in "violation of Iraq' sovereignty." The statement added, "This is a serious violation of the rules of engagement of the Coalition forces, including the US forces, in carrying out operations without the approval of the Iraqi Government..."

Really? Do these sand fleas think we are stupid enough to swallow that line knowing their country, if you can call rubble and pre-medieval squalor a country, is not significantly if not totally under Iranian control and/or influence? That said, it does raise the legitimate question of what is our purpose if remaining in Iraq and if it is to act as a bulwark or check on Iran as opposed to G-d-forbid nation-building in Iraq, how do we best accomplish that? In any case, all of this leading up to and including this attack is a desperate attempt by the Farsis to create a Tet Offensive moment that will be used by their allies in the Democrat-Media Complex to help sink Trump in this year's election and thereby ease the internal pressure that no doubt could lead to the downfall of the regime.

The reaction from those quarters has been to try and tar Trump with this as his "Benghazi," meaning a major foreign policy failure. I find that particularly stupid on their part since that infamous attack on the anniversary of 9/11 in 2012 which they claimed was a reaction to a spontaneous protest against a video directed by a nobody that nobody saw which naturally had nothing to do with an Obama/Clinton failure. Way to stay on message folks. As an aside, what we have since found out is Obama and Clinton left four Americans to die in Benghazi in order to cover up an arms running scheme to Muslim terrorists putatively on our side in Syria. You want to talk about foreign policy disasters within disasters? Where to unpack that?! As bad as Moammar Qaddafi was, at least he was able to keep a lid on his own country and was scared into dismantling his nuke program thanks to Dubya. It was Obama's embracing of the Muslim Brotherhood early on in his reign of error that destabilized the entire region from Tunisia all the way east to Syria, south to Yemen and of course Iraq where his precipitous withdrawal led to whatever fragile scintilla of a society attempting to rebuild itself was strangled in the cradle like a Coonman Northam newborn.

Circling back, the President has stated in no uncertain terms that this is not going to be anything like Benghazi. Instead of going off to Vegas to smoke a blunt with Jay Z while leaving Christopher Stephens, Sean Smith, Tyrone Woods and Glen Doherty to be slaughtered, inventing a bizarre tale about some offensive videotape as the culprit and having the media dutifully spin that tale in order to prevent losing a presidential election just weeks away, this President acted presidential by immediately calling in reinforcements and promising measured retaliation. Upwards of 4,000 Marines and GIs are ready to be deployed should the situation warrant.

And now gentle reader, I bring you perhaps the most galling item related to this; the statement from former Obama stooge Ben Rhodes. This insect, who once boasted that he created an echo chamber of young, mal-educated stooges with press credentials to push the Obama party line in the national media, and whose only qualification in the realm of foreign policy was that he was once a screenwriter Tweeted out:

Trump sanctions on Iran have done nothing to change Iranian behavior except make it worse. This is what happens when your foreign policy is based on Obama envy, domestic politics, Saudi interests, and magical right wing thinking.

This was followed by:

"It's hard to overstate what a total failure Trump's Iran policy has been. Nuclear program resumed. Regional provocations escalated. US isolated."

GOP Rep Lee Zeldin then "pounced" with a 100-megaton truth nuke:

"...Pallets of cash. Ransom payments. Tens of Billions freed for terrorism. Kidnapping & shaming US Navy Sailors. Test firing ICBMs. Financing Assad in Syria & Hezbollah in Lebanon. Helping the Houthis overthrow the govt in Yemen...That was Iran on your watch Subject Matter Expert"

Bingo. But wait! There's more! The cherry on top of it all is that the Iranian militia leader Hadi al Amiri (pictured above) who led the attack on the embassy was actually a guest of Obama at the White House. Hey Ben, have I got a script idea for you!

Along with reinforcements and hopefully a few well-placed missiles into some sort of Iranian supply depot, the President is reportedly ramping up additional sanctions against Iran. I don't know how much more tightly you can squeeze them. But clearly, this action by the Iranian-backed stooges and Iranians themselves shows they are desperate to try and aid the Democrats in ousting the President. Spoiler alert: It will not work.

IRAQ EMBASSY ATTACK

• US Forces Arrive at Embassy in Baghdad to Stop Attack; Trump Drops Big Statement
  
• Marines Deploy to Help U.S. Embassy, Up to 4,000 US Troops Could Deploy
  
• "The Anti-Benghazi": Trump Tweets That US Embassy In Baghdad Is Safe, Says Iran Will Pay
  
• Failed Screenwriter Ben "Ghazi" Rhodes Blames Trump for Embassy Attack: Foreign Policy "Based on Obama Envy"...
  
• ...Lee Zeldin Absolutely Vaporizes Rhodes
  
• Iranian Militia Leader Leading Iraq US Embassy Raid Listed as Obama White House Guest
  
• Spencer: The Baghdad Embassy Siege - Do the Iranian Mullahs Think Donald Trump Will React Like Jimmy Carter?
  
• Attack on US Embassy in Baghdad Exposes the Farce of Our Support for the Baghdad Government

  OFFICIAL DEMOCRAT PARTY-ENDORSED ANTI-SEMITISM
  Back to the other Obama-inspired madness, Roseanne Barr has it right, Rabbi Fischer rips the Democrat-Leftists for ginning up the pogroms, the judge who freed the animal who went on the Monsey Hanukkah stabbing spree silent on why he let the beast go, and the slap-happy slag targeting Jews in Brooklyn gets pinched a third time for violating the conditions of her release, or something. Let's see if she stays locked up. Considering it's the land of unfettered De Bolshevik, the situation is very much in doubt.

• Roseanne Barr: Trump is Protecting American Jews
  
• Rabbi Fischer: Left Democrats and Their In-House Jew-Haters Are Leveraging Anti-Semitic Attacks for Cynical Political Gain
  
• Judge Won't Say Why He Freed Monsey Mass-Stabbing Suspect Last Year
  
• Hate Crime Suspect Tiffany Harris Arrested for Third Time in One Week (how soon will she be released again? - jjs)

  SHAM-PEACHMENT FOLLIES
  What can you say? Susan Collins. That is all. Also, Matt Gaetz says Dems were threatened to vote for impeachment, a phony "Republican" group is phony, bipedal sack of stupid Al Green again admits that this whole thing was preplanned ages ago, and we look back at the top 12 Wile E. Coyote Democrat rake-stepping moments of last year.

• Defection? Susan "Maine Pain" Collins Says She"s "Open" to Witnesses at Impeachment Trial, Criticizes McConnell
  
• "Active Threats on the House Floor": Matt Gaetz Says Democrats Were Forced to Get in Line on Impeachment
  
• Republicans and the Rule of Law (spoiler alert: a Soros/Singer Joint - jjs)
  
• Al "Cpl.-Agarn-of-Color" Green Admits "Genesis of Impeachment" Began Before Trump Became POTUS
  
• Top 12 Get-Trump Bloopers of 2019

  AMNESTY, IMMIGRATION, BORDER CRISIS, BORDER SECURITY
  Advice for Mexico: keep your collective taco hole shut. Besides, we're returning your best and brightest so show some appreciation.

• Mexicans Protest Trump Administration's Latest Deportation Plan

  POLITICS
  Tulsi Coffecake taking on the persona of Democrat voice of reason, as if that will fool anyone, Toothy McBigTits might get gerrymandered back to the bar, Trump rips Nancy Polident, Tank Abrams attempt to keep phony voters on the Georgia rolls gets killed by judge, and Teh Ted schools Mayor Buttplug on real history.

• Tulsi Coffeecake Warns of Bad News to Democrats, Blames Partisan Impeachment
  
• Toothy McBigTits AOC to Lose Her Congressional District After 2020 Census?
  
• Trump Rips Nancy Poligrip as "Most Overrated Person I Know!"
  
• Tank Stacey Abrams Fails to Browbeat Judge Into Reinstating 100,000 Voter Registrations to Voter Rolls
  
• Teh Ted Demolishes Mayor Buttplug's Malicious Lie About the Founders and Slavery

  FIRST AMENDMENT, CENSORSHIP, FAKE NEWS, BIG BROTHER BIG TECH
  California to freelance propagandists: learn to code, CBS Evening News thinks all black Democrat Congresscrooks look alike, we are all Richard Jewell and another good dismantling of the dangerous, fraudulent Slimes "1619 Projet."

• California's New Law Will Limit How Much Some Freelance Journalists Can Write (learn to coalmine - jjs)
  
• CBS Evening News Airs Picture of Elijah Cummings During Segment About Rep. John Lewis' Battle With Cancer
  
• We Are All Richard Jewell
  
• History Without Truth: The 1619 Project Has Been Thoroughly Discredited, But Many Professional Historians Remain Reluctant to Criticize It

  SECOND AMENDMENT
  In praise of Texas and its gun laws that saved lives, and the relationship of pro-guns and pro-life.
  

• Bitter Clingers in Texas Shoot Back
  
• Why Supporting Gun Rights Is Pro-Life

  ABORTION
  More revelations about this Indiana baby killer.

• Indiana AG Dropped a Report on Prolific Abortionist Ulrich Klopfer on New Year's Eve. Here's What's New

  FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL
  Aside from Baghdad, Hong Kongers pay tribute to fallen comrades and vow to continue protesting the Chi-Coms, Denmark melts the Greenland ice for US consulate, this dopey Pope is a real charmer, and look ahead in the struggle with globalism.

• "We Have To Resist Every Day": Hong Kong Protesters Continue Demonstrations Into the New Year
  
• Hong Kong Ends 2019 with Memorial for Dead and Injured Protesters
  
• Denmark Gives Green Light to New US Consulate in Greenland
  
• Francis the Talking Pope Slaps Away the Hand of Overzealous Woman at Nativity Display
  
• 5 Predictions For the Next Five Years of Global Power Struggles

  WE-ALL-SLAM-FOR-I-SLAM
  Unindicted terrorism co-conspirators CAIR trying to free fellow terrorists and a warning about sharia-creep.

• CAIR Leader Shills for Convicted Hamas Financiers "Holy Land 5"
  
• On the Moral Status of Islam in the United States

  THE ECONOMY, STUPID
  Tick-tock-tick-tock, Trump's economic aces in the hole, and peak oil predictors peter out. Heh.

• Decade of Debt: Federal Debt Up More Than $10 Trillion in 2010s
  
• Four Aces of Trump's New Deal for Americans
  
• Big Oil's Monster Decade Reveals Why Energy Experts Are Not Very Good at Making Predictions

  CRIME & PUNISHMENT, NON-DOSTOYEVSKY
  Even in Texas, shit like this can happen.

• Texas Shooter Had Massive Rap Sheet... With Almost No Prison Time

  EDUCATION, INDOCTRINATION
  Well, it's not a failure of our educational system since that is how it has operated for 40 years' it's our failure for not seeing it and doing something about it back then. And now, if it's not too late.

• Mayor Buttplug's Comments on Slavery Show the Failure of Our Educational System

  HEALTHCARE
  Yikes, and praise the Lord.

• Doctors Reportedly Say "Brain-Dead" Woman in 7-Month Coma Should Have Plug Pulled... Then She Wakes Up

  RED-GREENS, CLIMATE CHANGE HOAX, LYSENKOISM
  Joey Brainbleed needs some original material, and Scoldilocks as a Leftist archetype.

• Joe Bribem Proposes Putting Fossil Fuel Execs "In Jail" Over the Climate (jeez, you sound like Amy Schumer ripping off Bernie - jjs)
  
• Greta "Scoldiocks" Thunberg: A Living Explanation of the Left

  ACTUAL SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY
  Our intrepid science reporter looks back on the year that was in world rocket tech. Go Estes!

• The State of the Global Rocket Industry in 2019

  FEMINAZISM, TRANSGENDER PSYCHOSIS, HOMOSEXUALIZATION, WAR ON MASCULINITY/NORMALCY
  Another institution invaded by pod people, psychotic tranny sees the light and Gay Mafia has the sadz, and keep your gender fluids to yourself.

• Medical Societies Provide Cover for Transgender Industry's Propaganda
  
• First Trans Person to Obtain Legal "Non-Binary" Sex Status Changes Back to Birth Sex in Blow to LGBT Movement
  
• How Gender Fluidity Wrecks Both Feminism and Transgenderism

  CULTURE WARS, HITHER & YON
  Christian Toto reads the culture war tea leaves for the year ahead, good analysis of Marxism's machinations, RIP Gertrude Himmelfarb and a look back at Kerouac.

• Toto: 11 Conservative Pop Culture Predictions for 2020
  
• Economic vs. Cultural Marxism: The Most Important Distinction
  
• R.I.P Gertrude Himmelfarb - One of America's Greatest Minds
  
• Remembering Jack Kerouac: Novelist, Beat, Conservative, Catholic

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