Last night CNN held a debate on the GOP’s proposed tax cuts. Ted Cruz represented the Republican side and the democrats put up independent Senator Bernie Sanders. It was bad enough the democrats couldn’t get one of their own to debate this issue, but even worse because Sanders got destroyed. He promised a bunch of “free stuff” to be paid for by higher taxes, told the middle class they don’t deserve tax relief, and then got completely owned when Ted Cruz set him straight on the true meaning of the Robin Hood story.

“Bernie fundamentally misunderstood that story” @tedcruz re: @BernieSanders and Robin Hood #CNNDebateNight ?? https://t.co/zkjrtkdvC6

— CNN Tonight (@CNNTonight) October 19, 2017

After promising huge tax hikes to pay for “free” college, healthcare, and whatever else liberals think everyone is entitled to, Cruz offered this correction:

“In his opening, Bernie invoked Robin Hood. And I gotta say I think Bernie fundamentally misunderstood that story. Robin Hood was robbing the tax collectors, who were collecting too much taxes from the working men and women and taking it for the rich,” said Cruz.

Now wait for it…

“It is the democrats who are King John and the Sheriff of Nottingham,” Cruz said.

Boom. Nailed it. At that point, Sanders actually looked like he was hanging his head in shame. I say it looked like that because we all know liberals have no shame when it comes to taking people’s hard-earned money.

“And Robin Hood is saying ‘tax collectors, stop hammering people who are struggling, who are laboring in the fields, who are working. Stop taking it to the castle to give out to your buddies,’” Cruz continued.

While this line was being delivered, Sanders actually started laughing because he apparently thinks it’s funny that he and his fellow liberals politicians take so much from us.

Cruz wasn’t quite done.

“Bernie’s going to tell you about all this free stuff he’s going to give, and the democrats love corporate welfare. They love to rail on the insurance companies but what they won’t tell you is under ObamaCare the profits for the insurance companies doubled,” said Cruz.

And finally…

“When you have Washington giving out goodies, the big guys do great. It’s the little people who hurt,” finished Cruz.

So yeah, liberals definitely don’t get the Robin Hood story or maybe they do and just don’t care. They are the ones robbing from the middle and working class and giving it to the rich, while pretending they are helping the poor. If anything they are the anti-Robin Hood because they are doing the exact opposite of what he did in the story.

The democrats are pushing their economic message that they feel will resonate with voters, but they just put Bernie Sanders on TV to represent them in a tax cut debate. He proceeded to say that they want to raise taxes and are opposed to any tax relief for the middle class. Not only don’t they understand the Robin Hood story, they have no idea was the word “resonate” means if they think people will flock to vote for smaller paychecks.

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The crackpots are coming out of the woodwork as the one-year anniversary of President Donald Trump’s upset victory against heavily favored Hillary Clinton is rapidly approaching.

It is like the entire country has gone mad over Trump’s election and the subsequent disruption in the force that resulted from Mrs. Clinton’s late implosion. Trump Derangement Syndrome is now at epidemic stages and unfortunately, it is a progressive disease from which there is no known cure as of this writing.

One victim of TDS would be the transgender freak Cassils – aka Heather Cassils – a Canadian bodybuilder and performance artist who has determined that it would be wonderful to put together one of the sickest pieces of “art” of recent years.

This demented leftist has spent months collecting 200 gallons of his/her own piss to feature in a New York art gallery as a performance art protest against Trump’s allegedly anti-LGBT policies.

Trans Artist Turns 200 Gallons of Urine Into an Art Exhibit Against Trump https://t.co/lBMNhLxxG1

— MRCTV.org (@mrctv) October 19, 2017

Via conservative watchdog MRC News Busters “Trans Artist Turns 200 Gallons of Urine Into an Art Exhibit Against Trump”:

A trans artist has turned 200 gallons of her urine into an art exhibit to protest against President Trump.

A Vice News video shows artist Cassils, who goes by the pronoun “they,” preparing for “their” “Monumental” art exhibit that allegedly takes aim at President Trump rescinding former President Obama’s rule on trans bathrooms. The Obama administration rule had mandated schools allow trans students to choose the bathroom they prefer to use instead of using one based on their anatomy. Under the Trump administration’s new guidance, the states can choose their own bathroom policies.

According to Cassils’ website, the “PISSED” sculpture of the “Monumental” exhibit involves all of the urine Cassils has passed since the Trump administration rescinded the Obama-era policy. Audio from the Gavin Grimm case is also played in the background.

Time Out New York states on the opening night of Cassils’ exhibit, “they” was given a catheter and “linked to the urine-filled cube by way of medical tubing.”

It was so impressive that the ultra-liberal VICE News featured this whacko in an 8-minute video that can be watched HERE (warning: GRAPHIC content)

Vice describes the video as follows:

Donald Trump rescinded the rules of trans students that gave them the choice to choose the bathroom they chose based on the gender with which they identified. Cassils, a performance artist (who happens to be trans), went decided to make a statement with a durational act: as if to hold their piss, they collected their own urine for 200 days in order to finally place it all in one glass cube at the Ronald Feldman Gallery in NYC.

The process, which was at times awkward, was also precarious. After a couple of days the urine becomes a biohazard, so Cassils had to develop a plan to store the urine across multiple locations in Los Angeles in hopes that they could preserve it safely and ship it across country to New York.

THIS is what has become of the American left? How low can you go?

If a white male Republican said this, it would be an extinction-level event in terms of the liberal outrage. Luckily, it came from a black female democrat so it’s all good. A US Rep. from Texas has blamed the sexual assault victims of Harvey Weinstein for dressing too provocatively and being too flirtatious with the accused rapist. I know liberals have different rules and all, but I didn’t think even they were allowed to make statements like this.

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Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson was interviewed on the subject of the Harvey Weinstein sexual abuse scandal. She started out saying she was angry at ole Harv, but quickly put it all on his victims.

“I grew up in a time when it was as much the woman’s responsibility as it was a man’s — how you were dressed, what your behavior was. I’m from the old school that you can have behaviors that appear to be inviting. It can be interpreted as such. That’s the responsibility, I think, of the female. I think that males have a responsibility to be professional themselves,” said Johnson.

How does she know what the dozens of actresses who were harassed and assaulted by Weinstein were wearing? And for that matter, how does she know the way these victims were behaving? She doesn’t say, but did continue to blame the victims for what happened to them.

“I think we also need to start talking about the power that women have to control the situation. There’s law enforcement, you can refuse to cooperate with that kind of behavior. I think that many times, men get away with this because they are allowed to get away with it by the women,” Johnson said.

Wow. Like I said, if this came from a Republican man the liberal shit would hit the fan like a nuclear weapon.

I’m not a liberal or a feminist, but I believe that men who sexually assault women are 100% responsible for their disgusting actions. I’m not talking about rape hoaxes, but actual sexual abuse. I don’t care if it is rich men using their power to coerce women, drunken date rape, or straight up assault; the victim is never to blame and anyone who thinks so is an asshole.

Because Johnson is a democrat, she actually manages some double-hypocrisy here. Not only is she getting away with saying something that would get a Republican crucified, she is willfully ignoring her own party’s bullshit. She’s defending Harvey Weinstein because he has been a very generous donor to democratic candidates. If a Republican megadonor was accused of even one tenth of what Weinstein is, Johnson and all of the liberals would freak out like it was the end of the world.

It’s probably not a shock that during this news segment, the camera captures a picture of Johnson hanging out with Bill Clinton on the wall. As established by the Democratic Party when Bill was accused of raping and groping numerous women, the victim is always to blame if the sexual predator is a liberal.

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The Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) in Iraq announced it had signed a deal with the Russian state-owned oil corporation Rosneft that would allow the company to begin developing oil blocks worth a potential $400 million to the Kurds.

The announcement follows a turbulent week for the KRG, as the Iran-backed government in Baghdad launched an invasion into its territory and wrested Kirkuk, an oil-rich province, out of the Kurds’ hands. Iraqi officials claim the invasion was necessary following the KRG’s decision to hold a non-binding referendum asking its citizens whether they would support a path to independence from Iraq.

While many experts cite the Kurdish Peshmerga as the most effective ally of the United States against the Islamic State on the ground in Iraq, the Trump administration has refused to support the Kurds against the Iran-backed Shiite militias that have stormed Kirkuk, with President Donald Trump himself stating, “We’re not taking sides.”

Bloomberg reports that the Rosneft deal will allow the Russian oil company to develop five oil blocks in Kurdistan. The contract would give “Rosneft 80 percent of the projects, the company said in a statement on Wednesday. Rosneft may pay a fee of as much as $400 million, half of which could be repaid in oil pumped from the deposits.”

“The new agreements will allow us to talk about full-fledged entry of the company in one of the most promising regions,” Bloomberg quotes a statement from Rosneft as stating. The oil company statement estimated that the blocks in question would be complete by 2021, suggesting that the company expects to remain a long-term presence in the region despite the current stability, and expects the KRG to remain in control of the locations of those blocks throughout the process and not lose them to the Iraqi government.

The Russian government has long enjoyed positive relations with the KRG, though it has also maintained close relations to its most vocal opponents in the region: Iran and Turkey. While those governments, and that of Baghdad, have demanded the KRG discard the results of the referendum, Israeli newspaper Haaretz notes that Russia has remained “the only major power that has not called on Iraq’s Kurds to cancel [the] referendum.” The U.S. State Department has publicly opposed the referendum.

The outlet adds that Russia has also “become the top funder of Kurdish oil and gas deals.”

Russia and Iran cooperate militarily in Syria to protect dictator Bashar al-Assad and have typically supported each other in international forums like the United Nations. Russia’s financial support of the KRG, however, is at odds with Iran’s support of Shiite militias responsible for the invasion of disputed KRG territory. The Popular Mobilization Units (PMU), or Hashd al-Shaabi, have taken on a major role in the conquest of Kirkuk and have reportedly antagonized Kurdish Peshmerga throughout the region.

The Shiite Iraqi government has also admitted that Qasem Soleimani, the head of Iran’s notorious Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps Quds Force, has aided their foray into Kurdish territory.

While the Trump administration has remained largely silent on the Iranian incursion into Iraq, U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley condemned Soleimani’s presence in Kirkuk in particular. The U.N., she noted, “bans travel outside of Iran for senior Iranian officials, including Maj. General Sulemani, and yet the Secretary General’s report lists multiple press photos of the general traveling to Syria and Iraq. You can even find photos on social media of him visiting Russia. This is an open and direct violation of [resolution] 2231, and yet where is the outrage of this council?”

“Nearly every threat to peace and security in the Middle East is connected to Iran’s outlaw behavior,” Haley asserted on Wednesday.

Fox News notes that Haley appears to be contradicting Pentagon spokesman Army Col. Ryan Dillon, who told reporters this week that there was “no evidence Iran played a role in pushing Kurdish fighters out of Kirkuk on Monday.”

The Peshmerga have repeatedly accused Iran of supporting the attacks on their territory.

“Iranians were leading the battle on Kirkuk, and our forces had to withdraw to protect the lives of Peshmerga,” Sheikh Jaafar Mustafa, the commander of Kirkuk-based Peshmerga forces, said on Monday.

The [Kirkuk] attack, which came from the Iraqi government, the Popular Mobilization Forces, and IRGC’s Quds forces, is in retaliation to the calls for freedom by the people of Kurdistan,” the Peshmerga later said in a statement.

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