Last night Iranian state media celebrated the shocking attack on Rushdie, calling him a 'depraved heretic-writer' and 'apostate author'. An apostate is the term for someone who renounces a religious belief, which in Islamic theology is punishable by death.

https://mol.im/a/11108071

Who needs a good belly laugh today 😂

Yea okay

Victor Davis Hanson On Trump Raid: 'The FBI is Beyond Redemption' (VIDEO)

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/08/victor-davis-hanson-trump-raid-fbi-beyond-redemption-video/

Los Angeles: Transient sucker punches elderly customer eating lunch alone at a cafe in Hollywood, steals his wallet and phone. Hero steps up and takes the thief down.

@police_frequency

Man drove into US capital barricade and then shot himself

Crossing the Rubicon:

Rep. Louie Gohmert warns that most republics only last 200 years and compares what’s happening right now in America to the fall of Rome. He says the only way to fix it is to hold the criminals accountable.

“We are too close to the end of this nation as a constitutional republic, unless we can hold to account the people that have brought us so close to the edge of losing our republic.”

#Precipice

Two people are dead and at least 17 were injured in Pennsylvania after police say a man fatally plowed his car into a fundraiser event for the families of 10 people who died in a recent house fire, and then fled the scene and murdered a woman with a hammer.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11109779/13-injured-car-plows-fundraiser-10-killed-house-fire.html

Beijing Biden

President Trump declassified thousands of documents and we’ve only seen 50% of them!

Speaking with SiriusXM host Dean Obeidallah, Mary Trump was asked if she had any idea who the suspect might be.

While she acknowledged that it was 'tough to choose' she ultimately suggested that Ivanka Trump's husband, Jared Kushner, who served as senior White House advisers in the Trump administration, might be to blame.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11109931/Donald-Trumps-niece-Mary-suggests-former-presidents-son-law-snitch-tipped-FBI.html

Former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger warned on Friday that the United States could be 'on the edge of war' with Russia and China, as the Biden administration grapples with its historically low relations with the two autocratic regimes.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11110441/Henry-Kissinger-america-war-Russia-China.html

Cold Open

Scott Perry

Obama and Hillary were running guns from Libyan jihadists to Syrian jihadists and when they got caught they let an ambassador and an entire CIA site get wiped out rather than admit it