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Thousands of prisoners -- many of them political prisoners -- escape from Iranian prisons in a mass jailbreak. This signals a disintegrating regime.

Iranian propaganda explains why Iran keeps bombing Israel's apartment buildings -- you'll never guess.

Tucker Carlson decided he was a big enough man now to boss Trump around. Trump disagreed.

There's a small but vocal contingent of people who call themselves conservatives but are calling out President Donald Trump for his support of Israel in its strikes against Iran. Chief among them is Tucker Carlson, who posted this on X on Friday:

The real divide isn't between people who support Israel and people who support Iran or the Palestinians. The real divide is between those who casually encourage violence, and those who seek to prevent it -- between warmongers and peacemakers. Who are the warmongers? They would include anyone who's calling Donald Trump today to demand air strikes and other direct US military involvement in a war with Iran. On that list: Sean Hannity, Mark Levin, Rupert Murdoch, Ike Perlmutter and Miriam Adelson. At some point they will all have to answer for this, but you should know their names now.

As my PJ Media colleague Scott Pinsker put it, "Carlson's enemies are all 'warmongers,' and he, of course, is a 'peacemaker.' (So brave and noble.) He just so happens to be a 'peacemaker' who strongly objects to the dismantlement of Iran's nuclear WMD program."

Side note: plenty of genuine conservatives are blasting Carlson in the comments as a "fraud." Good on them.

Trump is firing back at those who say that supporting Israel doesn't necessarily serve American interests and is thus not "America First." He explained it all to The Atlantic's Michael Scherer, who asked the president a question about the views of people like Carlson.

"Well, considering that I'm the one that developed 'America First,' and considering that the term wasn't used until I came along, I think I'm the one that decides that," Trump told Scherer. "For those people who say they want peace -- you can't have peace if Iran has a nuclear weapon. So for all of those wonderful people who don't want to do anything about Iran having a nuclear weapon--that's not peace."

Tucker is a craven operator, and routinely ducks from attacking Trump directly, instead attacking Trump's advisors and Secretaries as a way to attack Trump without explicitly attacking Trump.

But sometimes he slips up and says something like "Trump isn't really in control of the US military, Benyamin Netanyahu is." From Tucker Carlson's newsletter:

This Could Be the Final Newsletter Before All-Out War

Israel launched its long-awaited attack on Iran last night, bombarding the Islamic Republic with dozens of missiles and striking its top nuclear facility and at least five military bases.

The assault reportedly killed Iranian Revolutionary Guard commander Hossein Salami and other top military leaders, and Israel believes other officials and nuclear scientists also perished. The episode came just days after White House envoy Steve Witkoff warned that Iran could unleash a "mass casualty response" if the Israelis bombed its nuclear facilities.

Earlier this week, unnamed Washington sources expressed concern over Israel's ability to fend off Iran's retaliation, which would inevitably lead to Benjamin Netanyahu ordering the American military to step in and fight on his country's behalf. Tehran launched its first counterstrike last night, firing over 100 rockets at its attacker within hours of the initial assault.

Ultragay California senator Scott Weiner, who has a thousand ideas for legislation and, for some reason, the top 999 all involve reducing criminal penalties for pedophiles, has another brilliant idea. It involves upending the Constitution and allowing gay pincushions like him to exercise authority over federal agents and troops.

Senator Scott Wiener @Scott_Wiener

We're announcing new legislation -- the No Secret Police Act (SB 627) -- to ban local/state/federal law enforcement, w/ some exceptions, from covering their faces when interacting w/ the public & require them to wear identifying info

Secret police behavior tanks trust & must end

A man brandished a rifle at a Utah "No Kings" pre-riot. A "peacekeeper" armed with a gun attempted to shoot and kill him, but shot and killed an innocent bystander instead.

At least three shots rang out, causing some people in the immediate area to flee, according to videos near the incident obtained by KSL. Several other videos were also uploaded to social media.

On scene, officers found Folasa Ah Loo and attempted life-saving efforts.

Redd said preliminary investigations show that Folasa Ah Loo was not the intended target but an "innocent bystander participating in the demonstration."

With witnesses-provided information, officers pursued Gamboa to the area of 200 East 100 South, where he was apprehended, taken to the hospital and later booked into the Salt Lake County Metro Jail for investigation of murder, police said.

Gamboa had a minor gunshot wound and was "hiding in a group of people," Redd said. Officers also recovered a backpack Redd said was removed from Gamboa by bystanders that contained an "AR-15 style rifle," black clothing and gas mask.

Two other armed individuals wearing high-visibility vests who were "possibly part of the event's peacekeeping team" were also detained initially, Redd said.

According to a police booking affidavit, the peacekeepers called out to Gamboa to drop his weapon after drawing their own.

"Arturo Gamboa was acting under circumstances evidencing a depraved indifference to human life and knowingly engages in conduct that creates a grave risk of death to another individual and thereby causes the death of the other individual," according to the affidavit.

Redd added that the two peacekeepers are not in custody and the one who fired the rounds is cooperating with police.

Oh, so someone packing a gun at a riot and shooting someone dead is a "peacekeeper," huh, Marxist Regime Media?

Weird, when Kyle Rittenhouse shot and killed a criminal who was illegally carrying a gun and pulled it on him to shoot him at pointblank range, you didn't call Rittenhouse a "peacekeeper."

You called him a white supremacist murderer.

In fact, you claimed that Guage Grosskruetz, the criminal carrying the pistol he was not allowed to possess because of his record, was the peacekeeper, and Rittenhouse should have allowed himself to be executed on the street by this "peacekeeper."

Instead of disarming him, which is what My Boy did.

The media isn't condemning these twitch-fingered shooters -- who literally killed someone dead due to incompetence and most likely an eagerness to "Kill a MAGA terrorist." They're excusing them as "peacekeepers" who made a teeny-tiny little mistake in murdering an innocent man.

Because they're on the far left, and therefore are protected members of the left's street militias.

Speaking of: I have been calling the left's antifa and BLM allies their "paramilitaries" and "street militias" for years.

Glad to see Tom Cotton thinks similarly:

I don't really care, Margaret. Joe Concha calls Margaret Brennan "arguably the most terribly biased interviewer on CBS News (if you want to call CBS News 'news' these days)."

She's also incompetent, dumb, and as unprepared as Latrine John-Pissoir. She is constantly getting embarrassed by the Republicans she's attempting to frame.

Margaret Brennan also claimed that "five million" people marched with No Kings, citing NO EVIDENCE apart from the left-wing propaganda group's own say-so.

Speaking of "extremist rhetoric" -- treasonous senator Tammy Duckworth demands the right stop using extreme rhetoric, right after she calls Trump -- a man literally shot in the head by a left-wing assassin animated by her party's constant claims that Trump is an existential threat to Muh Democracy -- a "tin-pot dictator."

MSNBC was shocked and chagrined to see that the parade for the Army's 250th anniversary was so positive and actually peaceful.

MSNBC's reaction to the U.S. Army's 250th anniversary says everything you need to know about the left's view of American patriotism. Instead of celebrating a historic milestone honoring the brave men and women who've defended America's freedoms, MSNBC appeared to be bewildered that the event, which doubled as a 79th birthday celebration for President Donald Trump, wasn't "tense" or filled with "dark, malevolent energy."

During a segment that aired on Saturday, MSNBC hosts were nearly at a loss for words about the event's huge success, people's good time, and fun and light-heartedness. One of the panelists claimed that Trump rallies are often "tense" and was shocked to see that the 250th Army parade had the opposite energy.

"I'm just surprised at the number of the people at the front of the parade who were watching, cheering and then would come and ask to take a selfie," MSNBC's Ali Velshi said. "This is a very different mood here. People seem to be going out of their way to say that they're here to celebrate the Army's 250th birthday."

Meanwhile, here was the other side of the split screen: the left's own version of a conquering (foreign) army.

That's a shame:

Another driver drove through the criminals attempting to falsely imprison him in Riverside, CA, and lefties are demanding the driver be prosecuted for exercising his inalienable right to defend himself from criminal assault.

The Media Research Center reports that the Marxist Regime Media claimed that these highly-combustible riots were "peaceful" at least 211 times.

posted by Ace at 06:19 PM

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