Special edition (of course): everything you need to know before you start reading all the Iran strikes propaganda. Wait till you get a gander at all these dots to connect.
— An alert math wizard reader pointed out "We will never have a nuclear weapon" is seven words, not six, so I shortened it to "We will never have nuclear weapons." It was easier than changing "ten days, six words" all over the place. My bad.
Jeff, Massie actually posted his comments a full hour BEFORE the attack happened. That should concern us all way more than his stated concerns. The leaking of classified military operations to Massie is outrageous - leaking to crazy members of Congress is a serious crime!
This is such a stupid take. He hates war and spending us into an oblivion, and you know killing innocent people. Also taking orders from another country. This isnt hard to understand.
right since the status quo of the last 47 years has been so successful- Iran terrorism will never be stopped with diplomacy - finally a president that wants to be measured by results not words - Massie & Fedserman should switch parties
🤔 "Hmmm ... the last 47 years have been so counter-productive ... hmmm ... what to do? What to do? ... ... Oh! I know! Let's start a major Middle Eastern war!"
We've been meddling in the middle east since the 1950's (The U.S. (CIA) and UK (MI6) orchestrated the 1953 Iranian coup). God knows whats real, whats not. The US certainly had a role in the turmoil of that region
“Taking orders from another country” is the only stupid take here. You’re reacting as if one of our past presidents is in charge and you’d be right when referring to them. But this is Trump. He doesn’t take orders from anyone 🤣 That’s why so many of our own government AND other governments tried so hard to prevent him getting into power. They can’t control him. I love that about him.
Trump holds Bibi's chair when Bibi sits down, Juju. Think about it.
Iran poses no threat to the USA while Bibi wants it broken into a million pieces. Think about it.
Trump ostensibly opposes the WEF while partnering with Fink, Thiel, Ellison, Altman, Gates, Zuck, Musk, Bezos, Bourla, Adelson et al. Think about it.
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I wrote this a year ago. Every day it looks less "crazy" and more just plain accurate:
Trump's WEF mandates are to smash Greenland, Canada and the USA into the Club of Rome's New World Order Region 1 - North American Union (NAU), instigate then manage the bankruptcy of US Inc. and its phoney-bologna US$ and facilitate the transition from the prosperous corporatocracy that we knew (and loved) to their new thousand-times-worse-than-Orwellian technocracy.
Trump brokering and providing Peter Thiel, Larry Ellison & Sam Altman with a half a TRILLION[!] dollars falls into that last mandate. Those 3 amigos are developing our Super-AI (the biblical Beast System) to, among other things, custom build, in 48 hours, an mRNA jab to "cure" you of cancer(s) that you don't even have!
Jeff understands that right stands up to scrutiny to be proven true else it just be dogma in an echo chamber. It's cool that, as long as research, logic, analysis, conclusions and commentary are posted with civil respect, the First Amendment is everything in the American constitutional republic.
Jeff allows dissenting opinions on C&C and, therefore, does the Founding Fathers proud.
What is hate more is seeing Iran end up with nuclear weapons. What do you think will happen then? They have chanted Death to America for decades. Do you actually think we'll be able to negotiate with them once they have that leverage against the world? They weren't willing to now.
It has nothing to do with hating or loving trump. Our president has made a terrible mistake this time. One that will cause a terrible collapse around the world.
🤣 the fear porn is thick in here today. He is brilliant. No mistakes made, and working within the written letter of the laws. There’s egg on all your faces as more info comes out.
Ayatollah is dead. 40 senior Iranian security & regime figures were killed. That was fast. That is NOT some irresponsible, fly by night, knee jerk decision.
Iran also had planned preemptive missile strikes against US military targets in the region, and against civilian targets as well. Failure to act would’ve resulted in mass US casualties.
Get yourself untangled from your brainwashed hate for this president.
Marco Rubio contacted all but one from the Gang Of Eight before the strikes. So it's no surprise that Massie blabbed. I'm sure his Democrat friends were happy to inform him. And Massie, true to his character, couldn't pass up a chance to get attention while trying to mess with Trump. He really is a 💩
Does seem like he prefers his own thinking rather than listening to the play that the ‘coach’ called and being a team player. He’s the kind of team mate that that makes a team lose a game. Arrogant. He lacks prudence.
Juju, Massie said AP was reporting it. Which means someone leaked to the AP and maybe Massie is covering his own butt. Either way both put our soldiers at risk. Deserves an investigation and maybe charges.
Massie jumped the gun. Had he waited until the start of the assault, he would have cover. But he knew blesting about the about to happen attack is a Yuge fail for a Congressman.
But then Massie is just that kind of Congressman. Is self interested to an extreme. "Libertarian " means his rules are the only ones that matter.
🇮🇷 Iran didn’t run up $38 trillion in national debt and destroy our standard of living.
🇮🇷 Iran didn’t pass the Patriot Act to spy on Americans.
🇮🇷 Iran didn’t pass the income tax.
🇮🇷 Iran didn’t establish the IRS.
🇮🇷 Iran didn’t hand over full control of US monetary policy to a private banking cartel with the Federal Reserve Act of 1913.
🇮🇷 Iran didn’t force the NIH to fund gain-of-function research in Wuhan China.
🇮🇷 Iran didn’t lock down American cities, businesses and schools.
🇮🇷 Iran didn’t pass experimental and deadly mRNA “vaccine” mandates.
🇮🇷 Iran didn’t print $7 trillion during the COVID Plandemic and destroy the American economy.
🇮🇷 Iran isn’t hosting drag queen story hour in our elementary schools and libraries.
🇮🇷 Iran isn’t promoting destructive life altering transgender surgeries and medications to children.
🇮🇷 Iran isn’t flooding American airwaves with pharmaceutical products.
🇮🇷 Iran isn’t trying to block out the sun or spraying harmful chemicals all over our skies.
🇮🇷 Iran isn’t spraying all our crops with cancer causing pesticides.
🇮🇷 Iran didn’t give glyphosate manufacturers immunity from poisoning Americans.
🇮🇷 Iran didn’t accuse a Supreme Court Justice nominee of being a gang rapist.
🇮🇷 Iran didn’t spend $8 trillion invading Iraq and Afghanistan, only to hand the latter back to The Taliban after the government collapsed in 3 days following 20 years of occupation.
🇮🇷 Iran didn’t steal the 2020 election.
🇮🇷 Iran didn’t open America’s borders and flood the country with 40 million illegal immigrants.
🇮🇷 Iran didn’t to start a race war by spreading hate-crime hoaxes all over our cable news and social media networks.
🇮🇷 Iran isn’t hiding the Epstein documents and failing to prosecute corrupt billionaires, politicians and royal family members.
🇮🇷 Iran isn’t forcing Americans to pass hate-speech laws and tear down the 1st amendment.
🇮🇷 Iran has never attacked us on American soil.
🇮🇷 Iran didn’t authorize Operation Fast & Furious to allow weapons to be illegally purchased and taken back to Mexico, only to be used to kill US border patrol agents.
🇮🇷 Iran didn’t overthrow Gaddafi and destroy the country of Libya where they now have modern day slave markets.
🇮🇷 Iran didn’t hide the contents of Anthony Weiner’s laptop with over 340,000 emails from Hillary Clinton, including a files labeled “Crimes Against Children”.
🇮🇷 Iran didn’t use America’s intelligence agencies, FISA court, media organizations or political class to frame Trump for treason.
🇮🇷 Iran didn’t draw up plans to assassinate Julian Assange for exposing US war crimes in the Middle East.
🇮🇷 Iran didn’t exile Edward Snowden for revealing the widespread illegal surveillance being conducted on American citizens.
🇮🇷 Iran didn’t assassinate JFK, RFK or Charlie Kirk.
The US government did all of those things on behalf of subversive domestic and foreign influence.
Yeah and we are trying to vote all of them out of office because of it. That’s an ENTIRELY different issue than what is at hand today.
But as long as our troops are deployed, your divisive commenting only serves to put them in danger - so you need to sit down and shut up until they are home safely, and then at that time you can use your voice to complain and vote to get people into Congress that will stop the madness.
But not being supportive of our nation and choosing to divide at a time like this rather than support the very troops that work every day to protect your sorry a**es right to spew your divisive nonsense, well you’re no better than the traitors that seek to destroy our nation from within. I’ll lump you with those fools.
If you have an ounce of decency, sit down and shut up, until our brave men and women are back home safely.
Okay Juju. According to you, everyone opposed to whatever it is you think someone should be saying should just shut up. And so, Juju is for self-censorship ... when it is expedient. And always for a 'good cause'.
🤣🤣 nice spin Dave. You missed an ocean of context but go ahead, whatever helps you cope.
I’m for supporting our military when they have been deployed in ANY way or circumstance, and I see divisive criticism of their mission WHILE they are in the midst of it as traitorous. Disagree and whine all you want before or after and I have no issue with that, but while they are deployed? Purposeful division is despicable. But you do you … 🤷🏼♀️💩
Edit: I also don’t tolerate outright lying either, and if I see THAT I will slap someone back deservedly. That doesn’t mean someone has to agree with me, that means i expect people to tell the truth and be a decent human being in their disagreements.
Just looked up at what you were replying to and damn, I was very clear on why I was telling people to shut up. It was clearly not because I can’t handle different opinions but YOU ignored that. I said, “so you need to sit down and shut up until they [our troops] are home safely, and then at that time you can use your voice to complain and vote to get people into Congress that will stop the madness.
But not being supportive of our nation and choosing to divide AT A TIME LIKE THIS rather than support the very troops that work every day to protect [you], well you’re no better than the traitors that seek to destroy our nation from within.”
I stand by that statement. It is righteous and factual.
But twist your blankie and cry over the fact that you guys can’t control our perspectives anymore, and falsely claim what I was actually saying, because when you guys lose to arguments all you have left is lying.
JuJu, that used to be de rigueur. Not now. Sad commentary. I do not support this action, but stand with our troops while they are in harms way. The people attacking you for your statement are just wrong.
Exactly right, and thanks for saying it. And I must say that I am sorely disappointed with the hot takes in today's reportage. And all of what you say was missing, and not a peep on constitutional limits.
All of what is going on is a by-product of a fallen republic and usurped constitutions. And truly, the United States is not what they say it is, not by either party doing the saying.
Israel has way too much influence on the US. BB has been a dictator of Israel for way too long. They offered Iran impossible terms as no weapons means can’t defend themselves. I think if Iran can’t have nuclear weapons neither can BB. That is fair and brings safety to the region. I know I voted for peace thru strength. Here we are a bully and doing unto others as we would not want done to us. No new wars instead you have BB visiting Trump seven times and every time BB visits something happens. Currency issues in Iran were caused by US currency manipulations. For the past weeks there have been gas explosions in Iran no explanation why. I don’t think we should be involved in more wars and I pray for our soldiers as I feel this is another WMD situation. BB is seen on video saying Iran is 10 days away from a nuclear bomb and yet he kept selling the same scare even arriving in congress with a cartoonish picture of a bomb showing a timeline. Idk think Israel needs a new leader.
Good analysis in this link. It’s not as simple as some are trying to paint it, and it’s not just about Israel. I don’t trust those trying to sell us that perspective.
Kaizen works really hard to be accurate with his information:
Another candidate for a padded room fitted with a box of towels to mop up the spittle and drool.
It’s not that some (some) of these issues aren’t concerning, it’s the suspicious timing of your desire to undermine our troops. You need a straight jacket too
Well, that's great and all. But I noticed you also didn't counter any of his points that you have no answer for. I mean, at this point, it should be pretty obvious that Epstein was definitely a mossad character, why doesn't that ring any alarms?
I didn’t need to! Jeff ALREADY DID 🙄🤦🏼♀️ I don’t have to repeat what he already said so eloquently. You want responses to his points? Read Jeff’s article today. It’s ALL there. Sheesh you people are unreal - SMH
I really hope the people of Iran are able to get their arms around this, but considering our own CIA is the one that created this mess 50 years ago, and that other nations like China (not so much worried about Russia honestly) are going to be sticking their weiners in the pot, this could end up worse than it started out.
Then what?
But as far as Jeff answering any questions on this, I searched the entire post and Israel was mentioned 8 times, aipac, zero. I did not see any explanation.
I honestly don't hate the Iranian people, or the people of Israel, well, hopefully less than the majority, but the zionists are true garbage, when I see the 'temu Amish' spitting on American tourists, I just see red. Where the fuck do they get off? If we weren't funding their entire nation (nevermind how), they would just be a small hole in the ground. A touch of gratitude might be nice. And don't get me started on Bibi's quotes about America, and bleeding us dry, that's just a more flowery version of 'death to America'...
He’s a Libertarian. The vast majority of the time he votes R because - at least in theory- Republicans are closer to small govt and pro-freedom than Democrats.
I have seen many interviews with Massie and he is anti war pro balancing budget and against wasteful spending. Massie didnt leave maga, maga left Massie. I think Massie wants the right things except MAGA is no longer MAGA it has changed.
Really he has the right idea the problem is spending continues and wars continues so he feels disenfranchised. A country in debt spending more than it takes in is not a good way to build the US future. Good for BBhe has been campaigning for regime change in Iran since the 1990s.
But then you don’t even consider the possibility that our spending wasn’t what put us into that debt after all, but rather all the fraud and corruption in our government
Violation of the Constitution isn’t? Only Congress has the Constitutional authority to declare war. Violation of the Constitution by previous Presidents should never be used to justify continued violation of the Constitution. It’s like saying a person has gotten away with committing robbery numerous times and has never been charged now makes it okay for that person to rob again. That is faulty logic, but lawyer/judges do it all too frequently by looking at previous faulty judgements known as precedents rather than deferring to the Constitution, the document they had to swear an oath to support. Our greatest President George Washington could look back in history and see how Europeans and Asians have fought amongst themselves for millennia. He wisely advised all future generations of Americans to avoid foreign entanglements and to treat all other nations with benevolence. We should be so wise. If history is our teacher we can expect this will not end well.
Past actions by previous presidents without being impeached does it not now make it correct. The laws passed by Congress whereby they extended the period of time the President is obligated to request a declaration of war from Congress were passed as we entered into the age of atomic/nuclear intercontinental missiles. The laws were intended to allow the President to make an immediate DEFENSIVE response if the United States was being attacked. The laws were never intended to allow the President to make an offensive attack against another nation without a declaration of war from Congress. If Trump’s position on Iran is as strong as his administration would have us to believe, then seeking a declaration from Congress, the peoples voice in the federal government, should be easy. Unless it isn’t and here we are.
Many laws enacted by Congress, signed by a President and upheld by the Supreme Court are unconstitutional. The Fed and the Affordable Care Act are two of a multitude of many such unconstitutional “laws.”
🤦🏼♀️ “I don’t like or agree with this law, therefore I will claim that Trump is a dictator and doing illegal things and violating our Constitution.” 🙄🙄
It’s the friggin law. Hes not violating anything. He’s using what he can to do what is right, not doing business as usual (nothing but fraud) so that they can continue to do what is wrong.
Besides, the more info that comes out the more egg is on the face of all of you who came here today to criticize Trump and claim he is violating the Constitution.
And … he hadn’t declared a war yet anyway. You jumped the gun. No boots on the ground. He will follow the laws as written should that become necessary.
They are not here for facts. Many haven’t even read one word Jeff wrote and just demand each of us to counter their narrative and points. Why? Jeff already did! 🤣😆 They are fools
I saw a credible post yesterday that stated that Massey received almost $2 million of his $2.4 political donations from Democrats. That should tell us all we need to know.
Yes I saw quite a few too with receipts. It should be noted that many of the noted organizations donate to both parties, but when you look closer at the organization you see it’s more of a uniparty machinery, and they are very much liberal globalists. I don’t think it is wise at this time to take donations from any organization that could cause speculation. The fact that he just accepted awards from an Iranian lobbyist funded by George Soros is disturbing.
No, sorry. Im Juju because I can’t decide if I should be called Judith or Judy. LOL. I think I was the first online user ID named Juju back in 1988-89 in some of the first interactive system forums, but can’t be absolutely certain. I never saw others with my nickname though. I’ve had a few others but that one has been most common.
I’m nobody important really, but certainly could use boatloads of prayer. However, it sounds like Jojo deserves them more right now ❤️. Young mother? Any other specifics you can safely give so I can join in the prayers?
I also want to thank you deeply and dearly for such a wonderful explanation of events today. I always love your perspectives. They ring true in ways that nothing else does. It’s like a warm security blanket in uncertain times. You don’t leave loose ends, and you give logical, reasoned arguments to the narratives pedaled by RINOs and the Left. Thank you for the time you invest to inform us all. ❤️❤️❤️
Yes, thank you for the details of Iran's infractions that I so clearly remember beginning in 1979. My dear Iranian friend, who came here along with his wife twelve years ago for his Ph.D. and has never returned, was sent here by his father to escape Iran and military service. His father told his 4 sons that the Iranian government was lying about the U.S. (he could remember how nice the Americans were before Islamic radicals took over the government). This precious "adopted" son and his wife are now Christians. I am praying that the Iranian people may have freedom once again!
"God Almighty, Ruler of Heaven and Earth, we humbly ask for Your protection over our armed forces and to ensure their success in the mission to liberate the oppressed people of Iran who yearn for freedom from the Islamist regime that is hostile to anyone or anything that opposes their grip on power and their intention to destroy Israel and the US. It is in the name of Your Son we pray, Amen."
Amen! We have a dear family member in harm’s way and are praying fervently for his protection! Our grand-son-in-law is a medical doctor and also a reservist who was called up for 3 months of service beginning in January…he was sent to Iraq. The base he is on had three thousand people and they’ve moved out all but five hundred. God keep them safe! 🙏
🤣 I agree, but back in the day for Christmas a vendor would send me a YUGE tray of Paklava… made from pistachios instead of walnuts?. Little tubes/rolls instead of sheets, and not as sweet. Oh my god, to die for. The vendors were Iranian I believe, living in LA. My employees would swarm and my husband would get pissed if I didn’t bring home the lions share! 🤣
“Whatever comes next— pray for the troops, pray for the Iranian people dancing in the streets, and remember: the impossible thing about solving a problem is that first you have to believe it can be”…
“Alright, now attack Iran during Purim, the Jewish holiday celebrating the massacre of 75,000 Persians. Start the attack on the 11th day of the 9th month on the Muslim calendar.”
“But sir, won’t that cause people to reconsider who was responsible for 9/11?”
“Do it. Make sure Purim coincides with a blood moon that peaks at 3:33 am on 3/3.”
“But sir-“
“I know 3 is a highly significant number in Jewish Kabbalah, symbolizing an 3rd party ending a unresolvable conflict between 1 & 2. Now do it.”
“But-”
“Have a Jewish journalist publish an article admitting how significant the symbolism is, and comparing Iran to Amalek
How are you so certain it wasn’t the other way around? Trump informing Netanyahu of what he intended to do and how he intended Israel to support and behave? See how easy it is to read into anything the facts we want to believe?
A rabbi is thrilled and excited, that’s your proof? 🤣 I just can’t with these flimsy arguments …
Trump is stronger than ALL of them and nobody plays him. He learns their game and uses them for his own ends. I trust Trump’s “ends” more than ANYONE else in our government or theirs. He’s the one in sole control and everyone knows it, but you apparently. 🙄
Hopefully Iranians will take over their country, and the whole Middle East stays peaceful.
Just one question: What about Christians that are not allowed to go to the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem, West Bank, widely recognized as the oldest Christian church in the region. Why isn't Trump demanding that they be allowed to go there? Maybe in this geographic area he isn't the one ruling anything.
How do you know he hasn’t asked? Do you have full intel of all his convos with Bibi that we don’t? 🤷🏼♀️
And no, he is not in full control of THEIR country. And he shouldn’t be! He is in full control of OURS, contrary to what the Israel haters would have you believe. They use this issue to divide us.
I still remember Obama era pic of PM Netanyahu coming out the WH door by the garbage cans…..47 needs to inform Preezys SS detail to keep “Kenya1” confined to his home until given word Preezy is no longer ‘a risk’(sp).
If it works well, we'll forgive the word count!! The excitement to have a president willing to do the right thing, a good thing for the "people" rather than glad handing and filling their pockets on the backside. We have had so many "drone" presidents, so many self serving politicians Trump is definitely a God Send!! I am very proud of Trump, his balls, and willingness to actually lead rather than pander to the "screamers". God Bless America and our President.
He was just listing responses from other countries and the vehicles they used. France/Macron, Canada/National Post(? I think), reliable social media/UAE etc.
"... the Royal line that long preceded the oppressive Islamist rebels....
Say what? Jeff, were you around 47 years ago?
Could you next please fill us in on what in the world led crazed Islamists to foment a revolution in the 1970s ... and succeed? I don't recall it being something in the water...
Good stuff, Jeff. I would now respectfully direct your attention to a fake news story now being spread by bought and paid for media claiming the National Council of Resistance of Iran (aka the MEK) has today claimed to be the main opposition to the now-defeated regime.This is false. Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi is that leader.
Worse, the MEK claims to have set up a "provisional government to transfer sovereignty to the Iranian people and establish a Democratic Republic." Again, false. They are usurpers seeking to hold Iran under islamic control.
The MEK is a jihadi organization, well funded and posing as well heeled moderates when they are in fact a splinter group of the mullah led regime presently being defeated and removed.
They have successfully lobbied (read: bought and paid for) a number of US politicians and public officials in exchange for public support and endorsement.
They are hated and have been emphatically rejected by the Iranian people.
The head of the islamist snake may have been cut off, but its vipers nest has had 47 years to produce venomous offspring, and the MEK is one. And it is poised to strike. But it must not be allowed to do so. Please help sound the warning.
Thanks for everything, Jeff. Much love, always stay optimistically sarcastic.
People sleep peaceably at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.
“It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself in a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat.”
My cousin, retired army paratrooper who saw many battles, once told me if I had any idea what lurked off of our shores, I would never sleep. I am forever grateful to the rough men (and women) who stand ready to do violence on our behalf 💔.
Courage and bravery beyond what civilians can understand, that’s for sure. Also like our first responders who run toward danger for the benefit of strangers. It’s a calling. Grateful for our heroes.❤️
It is interesting, as one of President Trumps first visits for his second term was an extended visit to the ME, working with what I now perceive to be a large or at least significant faction in the ME that wants prosperity, wants radical Islam (and the centuries of endless violence with it) to fail. This ME support, obvious in the Gaza negotiations, and obviously here, is crucial to meaningful change in the ME.
There still exists the mindset of the Gazans to kill every Jew. Perhaps with a Gaza cleanup and American oversight, that mindset can be erased. Thank God for the great influences of America.
It has always been divided, and what Trump is trying to do has zero to do with "Bought off by Empire" In fact Iran was the fastest growing nation in the ME as a result of suppressing the Islamists, until Carter.
Back in the late 70s, as newlyweds we were headed west to SD, western WY, etc. Somewhere just east of Rapid City, one of the stealth jets, not a bomber, appeared overhead. We never heard it approach and it was gone almost before it registered that it was actually there. My hub, who grew up near a US AFB, had a knack for IDing aircraft. He had no clue what we had seen and being in the middle of BFE on a quiet highway, it was more than creepy. Clearly, it was a prototype.
That’s hilarious, only capable of laughing at it knowing the targets are not the Iranian people but a wicked regime that terrorizes them and the rest of the world.
Incidentally, this was never posted by Trump on Truth Social the way it’s made to look, but imagining it IS funny. (I can’t ascertain if he posted it last summer though? I don’t think he did but I can’t verify due to not having enough hours in my day to scroll back that far on Truth Social. 🤣)
It’s going unnoticed because so much other news is happening, but the war drums are beating again in D.C. The warmongers worry this is their last chance to get the white whale they’ve been chasing for thirty years, an all-out regime change war against Iran.
A new Middle East war would be a catastrophic mistake. Our military stockpiles are depleted from three years of backing Ukraine. Our effort to reshore manufacturing has only just begun and will take years to bear fruit. War would worsen our already immense deficit and national debt. Iran is larger than Iraq, Syria, and Afghanistan combined. A war would not be easy and could easily become a calamity.
Thanks to President Trump’s restraint during his frist term, America has a golden opportunity to pull away from Middle East quagmires for good.
We shouldn’t throw that opportunity away so that some D.C. has-beens can feel tough by sending young Americans to die yet again.
The Regime murdered and tortured MINIMUM 30 thousand of their own Citizens the last two MONTHS because they protested against their so-called Government. Probably 80% of the non Muslim world approves.
"A true warrior fights, not because he hates the soldier in front of him, but because he loves those behind him." —Chesterton
Ryan, I don't know if you or anyone in our old cadre saw this, but the veil is lifting on the tech behind the assaults against me over the last two years: https://substack.com/home/post/p-189410958
TriTorch, I am so sorry you were the object of this attack and to actually have it be admitted must bring some solace. At times we think that the overhead electric wires have been weaponized and added to all else they have thrown at us it is hard to be on this planet. But someone else mentioned that we are fearfully and wonderfully made. I've mentioned about electric wires/EMF before however let's just continue to pray against this pervasive evil. I'm having trouble expressing all I'd like to say but "Watch, stand fast, be brave, be strong. Let all that you do be done with love." I Cor 16: 13-14. I treasure my C&C online friends who are willing to share, you and others have given me hope and the Lord has given me opportunities to pray for my friends. I think we win, with the Lord's help! Love to all
Yes, be ready to stand firm on your faith in Jesus Christ. The enemy is the father of lies. Always have Scripture in your mind and heart to repel the lies.
I recall a couple years ago a woman declaring she was being persecuted in some way by the government and, my recollection of her syndrome seems similar to what is being described. She was begging for someone to help her. Her cry out for help was pathetic one and I felt helpless to help her while at the same time thought her to be a mental case.
So, TriTorch, you are convinced something like this has been used against you?
Not convinced. It was used agaist me two years in a row. They mock and laugh at you while they do it. They also know no one will believe you and when you tell people, they think you are crazy which is as much a part of the purpose of the assault as any other aspect. They want you tortured and then discredited, and they get both in spades.
We still have March to go. Hopefully the communist regime in Cuba cedes power to America, Wall Street gets busted for manipulating capital and precious metal markets, election integrity is codified for the midterms, MAHA triumphs over Big Pharma and Food, Geoengineering is halted. Did I miss anything?
It’s an amazing time to be alive. Peace is within reach.
Pray for our troops, that God covers them in His goodness. Pray for their families that He provides them with peace during this time of worry.
As the wife of a disabled veteran who was deployed to the very first Gulf War (when Iraq invaded Kuwait), and the mom of an Army National Guard Soldier, I long for peace in a region that has destabilized the world for decades.
God bless our troops, those who work towards peace and President Trump.
Halfway through your comment I muted my TV and bowed my head in sincere prayer for protection over every innocent soul both American, Iranian, and Israeli military, Iranian civilians, and any other innocent or brave military member of another nation that joins in our fight, that God would shield them all from harm but also provide strength and endurance both physically AND mentally, to be victorious and shut this down as quickly as possible.
Abiding Dude…..What a disgusting and ignorant comment, truly, and clearly posted by a coward. Try seeing the much, much bigger picture to understand Israel is only a small piece of this entire equation in the pursuit of peace and an end to the terrorist regime of Iran.
Yes you missed something. There will never be peace in the Middle East until Jesus comes back and reigns for 1000 years until Satan is loosed again. Revelation Chapter 20.
We all saw this coming for a month or more. Trump's book "The Art of War In Lieu Of A Deal" will certainly be coming out soon. No furtive CIA-Arab Spring, no months of WMD arguments and U.N. coalition building to get 1500 Brits and 150 Canadians committed to the fight, the Dems and NATO should exult at a second front being opened up against Russia. Is this liberation of the people in Iran, or their enslavement by the Zionists and the Great Satan?--Media and podcasters will sort that out for us assuredly.
Since the days of the Old Testament, God has chosen many flawed men to advance His Will and Trump is one of those men. He didn't survive assassination attempts, felony suits, and chicanery of all kinds for nothing.
And anyone who knows anything about the Iranian people, studied their history and culture and talked to actual Iranians and not just heard the leaders and paid/coerced protestors talk on TV, also knows that what Trump said is absolutely correct. The majority of the Iranian people want to get rid of this oppressive regime. It might have happened some time ago but they didn’t have enough (or the right) support. I hope they now can finally get their country back!! 🙏🙏🙏
It reminds me of a former Iranian doctor and his wife that moved and practiced in the U.S. He was a prominent neurosurgeon. I did some landscaping for his wife almost 30 years ago, and I remember her telling me what a beautiful country Iran was. How green and full of flowers it once was. She expressed regret then at what it had become.
Let's face it, our Congress is as good at War Declarations as it is at everything else it is tasked to do Constitutionally. Immigration devolves into a patchwork of extra-legal Sanctuary states, cities, and Progressive legal firms and Catholic Charities setting up their own immigration policies. Tariffs just one more example of impotence, neglect and Congressional dereliction or delegation of duties.
Doing the "people's work" is at best a distant fourth among congressional priorities: somewhere behind personal enrichment, getting re-elected, and skimming over controversial topics.
Even of these, the War of Independence being the example the The Constitution emulated for our system...but all the rest were in some manner twisted and predetermined by powerful interests, Deepstate set-ups, and outright fakery or aggression. Trump cut out the middlemen. FDR & Co. made sure that the middlemen couldn't vote otherwise. Who blew up the Maine? Gulf of Tonkin "Resolution", War on Mexico, Jackson taking Spain without ANY Congressional OR Executive authority, there are really no examples of a wise, deliberative, elected Congressional body declaring war on behalf of the American People.
So what overall conclusion can one make from your listing of shortcomings?
-- There are few if any, countries over many millennia that have achieved more than the USA and it's obviously flawed political system; I would posit exactly zero others. . YET! we have succeeded where others have fallen FAR short. Consider the UK, China, Russia.
-- So, with all our flawed, sometimes impotent bureaucracy and foolish missteps, we the people and our awkward government have floundered into the space age and mastered it; have floundered into the AI age and step out beyond the pale to embrace it.
-- We alone, pimples and all, produced leaders like Ronald Reagan and Trumpie. These two men alone (mostly) have been responsible for turning the evil in the world around when those evils became really existential threats to ALL of humanity-- Nazi's, Commies, and Mullahs. NO other country has had the balls to STEP out and make a worldwide difference for GOOD.
That is history.
Instead of complaining without end. Be. . . wait for it. . .
The DeepState Neocons (Bolton and the whole bunch) wanted to go at Iran...even had them pinned by dual occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan 2003-2021. DeepState Dems had their own version of dealmaking-placating and Arab-Springing to leverage Iran. Commie China's uncontrolled sources of petroleum are being evaporated before their eyes. But, will the sales of Iranian Oil pay for the War and rebuilding?
I was just thinking that if this effort is successful it will improve chances for peace with Russia as one of her pawns? knights? bishops? will be lost.
No coincidence it came at the time of the Clinton Epstein deposition.
Truth is the first casualty of war. No mention of bombing two girls schools in Iran. Such bravery. These burned girls no longer threatening me with nukes.
Huh now that the story been debunked I am waiting for the apologies from those who repeated the Iranian government propaganda without skepticism. But I am guessing it’ll be a long wait. 😑
Well then, explain why Trump said "around ten days" as his time line. Besides, B.Clinton exonerated Trump yesterday. That connection makes no sense. So, yes, prove it if you can. If someone in the media said this, why would you believe it?
Yeah, except that’s an old video, from another country, and the one rocket that came down and hit anything other than intended was fired by Iran. So yeah, stay tuned for more truth.
Yup. Waiting for the apologies from everyone who immediately ran with the Iranian propaganda narrative, without waiting to see if it was really true, now that the story that it was an American strike has been discredited and debunked 😑
I reject the second front being Russia. Russians are Christians and Caucasians and appear as enemies of the west because “we” favored the Ukrainians (Nazi Azov armies) to continue their creep towards Russia who mainly wanted to take out the Ukraine bioweapons labs. So much corruption and so much debt to western nations because of Ukraine and war-lovers like Lindsey Graham, certain Generals, etc. I know the Russian haters abound in America, but there’s little reason for the N American west to be their enemy. Why are we worrying about the EU and NATO?
Yes, Team Trump is rapidly Remaking the "New" World Order by reversing the post-WWII, New Deal, DeepState World Odor. If people don't like it iand want to "Resist", I suppose they can throw in with Soros and Code Pink-No Kings!, confront ICE, move to a BlueState, or find short-term contract work employment with the DeepState like Routh and Crooks did. I hate mass destructions in Gaza, Tehran, Beirut, Kyiv, Fallujah, Damascus, (NYC) wherever they are perpetrated, as so many regular people are violently victimized. Decades of Status quo suppression is not an acceptable alternative either. As to Cuba, either one sides with Radical Marxist views and sees them as exemplary and heroic in Resisting Capitalist Oligarchical Oppression, or one sees Cuba as being yet another case of a tyrannical, dysfunctional, oppressive Commie regime that fed The Revolution by feeding off of the people for generations.
I bet there's also a dot around terrorists that came across our open borders, the 250th anniversary of the USA and all that we are seeing to clean up, defang and de-finance the China-Russia-South American Cartel-Middle East Terror collaborations, for a safer USA and a safer world. We are 2 months into our anniversary year and no strikes or issues of any kind. I doubt that has happened by its self.
No offense, but some of us aren't asking people to do violence on our behalf. Trump is making this country less stable, as he is taking orders from Is a real hell.
How many people slept peaceably when the twin towers were destroyed by our government?
However, running the most powerful and successful country in a world of turmoil is something you(and I) would not likely desire to do nor be capable of such. I have concluded that someone who inhabits the spirit and encompassed motivation, yet has good intentions, is doing this-- NOT as an agent of SATAN as you imply.
How you possibly have concluded Trump is taking orders from ANYONE is not rational in my view.
Consider that Trump is taking a chance to turn the entire Middle East into a peaceful region where NO other president or country has taken over a half century of terrorism. (not any Chinese emperor, Yeltsin, Kruschev, Putin, Thatcher, Starmer, Macron, Trudeau, and on and on)
You should thank your lucky stars this has finally happened rather than accuse him as being a tool of SATAN.
I always respect your opinion and rarely disagree. However, have you considered that the world just might be a safer place if China no longer has access to Iranian oil?
China's economy was already a ponzi scheme. What are they going to do now without that oil?
We will see. If the Iranian people aren't in the streets to take back their freedom then I will change my mind.
I never worry about Israel bc the Bible says they will be fine even until the end of days. Their asses are covered. They can and never will be destroyed bc God said so. I wish we could stay out of all wars in the ME.
It is still idiotic. Take your own advice. Please tell me a time in history when the GOP, Dems, and media were in lockstep on an issue and it turned out well for the average voter.
Maybe you should read what the media--and every Democrat I've seen quoted with the honorable exception of Senator Fetterman--are actually saying about it before you make such claims.
That is just politics. They will fund the war. The only unanimous standing ovation at SOTU was when Trump saber rattled against Iran. That is all you need to know.
Let me say this in simple words that even you can understand: The. Media. Are. Not. On. Board.
Which is exactly contrary to what you said. I quote: "Please tell me a time in history when the GOP, Dems, *and media* were in lockstep on an issue and it turned out well for the average voter."
This was in my devotional for today—“I still dare to hope when I remember this: The faithful love of the Lord never ends! His mercies never cease” Lamentations 3:21-22
And this a couple of weeks ago:
“Strengthen those who are discouraged. Energize those who feel defeated.”
Isaiah 35:3
(My personal Bible has this as “With this news, strengthen those who have tired hands, and encourage those who have weak knees.”)
Coffee and Covid, with Jeff’s perspective (as well as your and certain other commenters’ posts here) helps me “dare to hope” and strengthens me when I’m feeling discouraged!
Jeff was either ignorant or blatantly lying to you all - Iran has repeatedly said they do not seek a nuclear weapon - as recently as last week on public record.
Charlie Kirk, April 3, 2025 (on X)
It’s going unnoticed because so much other news is happening, but the war drums are beating again in D.C. The warmongers worry this is their last chance to get the white whale they’ve been chasing for thirty years, an all-out regime change war against Iran.
A new Middle East war would be a catastrophic mistake. Our military stockpiles are depleted from three years of backing Ukraine. Our effort to reshore manufacturing has only just begun and will take years to bear fruit. War would worsen our already immense deficit and national debt. Iran is larger than Iraq, Syria, and Afghanistan combined. A war would not be easy and could easily become a calamity.
Thanks to President Trump’s restraint during his frist term, America has a golden opportunity to pull away from Middle East quagmires for good.
We shouldn’t throw that opportunity away so that some D.C. has-beens can feel tough by sending young Americans to die yet again.
I hear you and I’m still in shock after President Trump said no more wars-or words to that effect. I wanted to believe he could turn his back on the ‘warmongers’….
Reza Pavlavi is a monarch-in-exile. These pro-Trump Iranians literally want to restore a king. Somewhere, progressive heads are exploding.
🤯 So much for No Kings. As much as I HATE WAR, this did make me giggle a little. I hope this ends quickly and well and that the Iranian people achieve freedom from the current regime 🙏.
I think the Iranians are looking to him to help transition from the mullahs to a stable democratic government. According to well-known Iranian activists in this country that are looking to him for that only. They are not saying he will be their permanent choice. He is a likely choice, but that day may be very far away.
Raza Pahlavi has enjoyed the USA freedoms over these past many years. Surely his lessons of liberty and the pursuit of happiness will go with him back to the Iranian people. But will it return to a monarchy or forward to a democracy? That is the big decision for Iranians.
Jeff: "the 1979 Islamic Revolution that started this whole 47-year mess. "
Um... no, Jeff. I was around in the 1970s. I find the idea of the Shah's kid possibly restoring that monarchy over a half-century later is a sick, cosmic joke, showing no understanding of *why* the Shah was able to be overthrown at that time by the likes of motivated religious zealots.
I saw nothing in Jeff's long essay addressing this, nor what came before the (repeatedly mentioned) "47 years". Is that by design? Surely with this vast detail he must know about the Shah's record. What is he up to here?
I would agree that the majority of Iranians have no personal memory of Royalty. However, I am also sure that they DO have knowledge of the heinous existence that they have lived for the past near half-century, especially if only 1/3rd of the population is Islamic.
What we do not yet know is how widespread their news has been of the 30,000+ protestors killed in the last few weeks.
When a group of people get together amazing things can happen. Sometimes it’s a business, sometimes it’s a congregation, sometimes like here, it can be a sub stack, or even a hockey team.
We all at times have opportunities to help others. Over the years my business has given me many of these opportunities. I get to teach people a trade and then watch them go off to make their living. Some times I help a young sub contractor grow, gain confidence, give them a trusting business relationship, it can be a very positive experience for both them and myself.
When you help others to win you are sowing a seed in them to someday help someone else. Trying to hold a person back will in the end only hold you back. If we try to be unselfish and help people get to our level, God will always make sure someone will be there to get us to the next level. I’ve learned that kindness is contagious.
Projects of all kinds get built with a team of people, and how you help those people will strengthen or weaken the team. There’s nothing more rewarding than to lay down at night knowing that you helped someone else become better. You not only fulfilled your purpose for that day, you worked hard, but you took time to invest in someone else.
This lifting of people is the most satisfying accomplishment one could ever have. There is no greater legacy than when you help someone else win. We should all learn to believe in people before they succeed. It’s easy to be someone’s friend after they’re successful. When they need us the most is before their success. Being successful doesn’t necessarily make you great, what makes you great is when you reach back and help to make someone else great. The best thing that could ever happen to me is after I’m gone someone says I would never be where I am without what he did for me.
This is a true story that reminded me very much of someone I knew that mentioned how people react to his daughter who has some disabilities.
There was a man that had a son who had some physical and mental challenges. He gave a speech in front of the school that his son attended. He thanked the staff and faculty and then cried out “Where is the perfection in my son Shaya? Everything God does is done with perfection. But my child cannot understand things as other children do. My child cannot remember facts and figures as other children do. Where is Gods perfection?” The audience was shocked by the question, pained by the father’s anguish, stilled by the piercing query. “I believe” the father answered, “that when God brings a child like this into the world the perfection that he seeks is in the way people react to this child.”
The father then went on to tell the following story of his son Shaya.
One afternoon Shaya and I walked past a park where some boys were playing baseball. Shaya asked “do you think they would let me play?” The father knew that his son was not at all athletic and that most boys would not want him on the team. But Shaya’s father also understood if his boy was chosen it may give him a comfortable sense of belonging. Shaya’s father approached one of the boys on the field and asked if Shaya could play. The boy looked around for guidance from his teammates. Getting none he took matters into his own hands and said it’s the eighth inning we are down by 6 runs I guess we can put him in the outfield and let him get up to bat. Shaya’s father was ecstatic as Shaya smiled broadly. Shaya was told to put on a glove and go play short center field.
In the bottom of the eighth inning Shaya’s team scored a few runs but were still down by 4. In the bottom of the ninth Shaya’s team scored again and now with 2 outs and the bases loaded, with the potential winning run at the plate, Shaya was due to bat. Would the team actually let Shaya bat at this juncture and give away their chance to win the game? Surprisingly Shaya was given the bat. Everyone knew that it was all but impossible because Shaya had never held a bat, but he stepped up to the plate. The first pitch was thrown and Shaya swung way late. The pitcher realized Shaya had a disability, he stepped off the mound closer to the plate and threw a softer pitch. Shaya swung again and missed. The pitcher stepped a little closer and lobbed the pitch, Shaya swung and amazingly hit the ball about 5 feet. The pitcher got the ball and saw Shaya running the best he could being cheered on by his father run Shaya run!! The pitcher easily could have thrown him out and end the game, but intentionally he threw the ball well over the first baseman’s head into right field. Shaya touched first base and with the help of the opposing team he went onto second and then third base. By this time the right fielder got the ball, he had figured out what the pitcher had done and threw the ball again over the third baseman’s head. Shaya ran in, touched home plate and scored the winning run. Both teams cheering his name picked him up and brought him off the field. Shaya for the rest of his life will remember this day.
“That day” said the father softly, with tears rolling down his face, “those 18 boys reached their level of Gods perfection.”
That day those boys deposited something in Shaya that he will never forget. Sometimes you have to give up winning so somebody else can win. Sometimes you have to make sacrifices to let someone else get ahead. What you make happen for others God will make happen for you. When you live unselfishly and you help somebody else get ahead God will make sure someday somebody will be there for you to get ahead. When you do for others what they cannot do for themselves you will always have Gods favor. Have pride, America is like no other nation on
It’s going unnoticed because so much other news is happening, but the war drums are beating again in D.C. The warmongers worry this is their last chance to get the white whale they’ve been chasing for thirty years, an all-out regime change war against Iran.
A new Middle East war would be a catastrophic mistake. Our military stockpiles are depleted from three years of backing Ukraine. Our effort to reshore manufacturing has only just begun and will take years to bear fruit. War would worsen our already immense deficit and national debt. Iran is larger than Iraq, Syria, and Afghanistan combined. A war would not be easy and could easily become a calamity.
Thanks to President Trump’s restraint during his frist term, America has a golden opportunity to pull away from Middle East quagmires for good.
We shouldn’t throw that opportunity away so that some D.C. has-beens can feel tough by sending young Americans to die yet again.
Yes it really is, nice summary by Jeff Childers though of where things stand.
All we can really do is pray for PDJT that he doesn't let this thing spin out of hand. It needs to end fast with the mullahs gone or his presidency will be destroyed. He took a huge gamble, I hope he knows what he's doing.
Darryl Cooper (Martyr Made) has the astute (IMO) explanation that Israel told Trump that if he didn't do it then they would take out the Iranian government using nuclear weapons. Israel could not do it with conventional weapons as it doesn't have the capability, only the US does.
This is the most likely explanation to me, that Israel forced Trump's hand with what is effectively blackmail. If Trump didn't want to preside over a nuclear attack by our "ally" then he needed to do it himself. This makes far more sense than any of the other explanations out there.
Ultimately, what we need is the truth. PDJT has been far more restrained than previous presidents, and for that we should be grateful. But with everything we've seen in the shadowy world of Epstein and how the world really works, comforting lies are no longer acceptable.
I disagree. I think it’s more likely that Trump has his own agenda to fix everything once and for all his own way, separate from any desires of Israel, and he is fully aware of how to utilize Israel in a way that maintains our support of them without pandering to their every whim and wish - and he put Israel on notice of what he was going to do and that they either help and do it the way Trump wants them to or he would pull our support from Israel and let the anti-Israel lunatics permanently take the mic. In that perspective Israel had no real choice but to follow Trump’s lead and do what HE wants, not the other way around.
Frankly, both your explanation and mine are equally possible but in each of our minds our own is more likely. 🤣
The intel data sharing between US and Israel is hand in glove, I would imagine, considering all the other interwoven diplomacy and politics. Add the Five Eyes pact from WWII and then Interpol and the West is pretty much covered. Of course, I can neither confirm nor deny such actions.
That's what they do for their great religion... Stand behind the women they have caged. There will always be more females at any age. I'm old enough to know who they really are. The Bible is real history.
Good question. What would he say? And to whom would he say it? I am a life long reader of the scriptures. A christian who daily meets with my maker. But this question. Would he speak to the regime who executed 30000 people? Tell them to not murder. And remind them that he is the savior. Would he speak to the 30000 who were killed? Would he speak to those left behind who continue to protest? Tell them to obey their government. To our government to not drop bombs and leave people alone. Turn the other cheek. To other .. love your enemies. … what would he say?
I was up early, and was not aware of this action in Iran, until I read one other breaking news in my inbox. I was hoping for a complete summary and enlightened breakdown from Jeff, and was not disappointed. (the chemtrailing just after sunrise this morning here was some of the worst I have ever seen, just to let you know)
Without a doubt, Jeff Childers provided the most comprehensive explanation and up-to-date analysis of the goings-on in Iran and the president’s raison d’être. Perfectly. I read the whole thing aloud to my spouse who listened with great interest and satisfaction! What a blogger is our JC!
Nodding approvingly as a soft and cuddly Shih Poo is warmly curled in my stomach and a new Cavachon puppy is curled behind my knees. It’s calming and peaceful
The false claims behind this new war with Iran are ones we have extensively documented. In Trump’s war announcement this morning, he claimed — as he did at Tuesday’s State of the Union address — that Iran refuses to promise that it will not obtain nuclear weapons. The exact opposite is true: Iran has stated this clearly, unequivocally and repeatedly, and did so as recently as this week. “Iran will under no circumstances ever develop a nuclear weapon,” proclaimed Iran’s foreign minister Seyed Abbas Araghchi.
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Send 2 zionists to negotiate and we get war. Shocker.
Not only did they say, over and over, that they will not get a nuclear weapon, the Ayatollah issued a fatwa against nuclear weapons.
Meanwhile, the US and Israel have been saying for 46 years that Iran is working on a nuclear weapon, and is very near to producing one.
But in 46 years, Iran has never gotten one. Are we going to look at reality? Or war propaganda?
The IAEA confirmed that Iran wasn't working on a nuclear weapon.
But somehow Americans prefer to believe 46 years of lying predictions, instead of reality.
You do you, but I prefer to look at history and reality.
And I noticed that Jeff left out of his timeline the fact that the Reagan team made a deal with the Ayatollah to keep the hostages until after the election, so that Reagan could win. They kept their word. They kept them until a minute after the inauguration.
In return Oliver North and team, which included Jeffrey Epstein, working out of the Reagan White House, supplied Iran with weapons for its war with Iraq. So the Reagan team kept their word, also.
I'm old enough to know that Iran has claimed it's not building nuclear weapons, but it's not allowed inspectors to come in and make sure that's not the case. That's been the case for decades.
It's not a matter of them saying some magic words.
It is hard to overstate what a massive fraud Donald Trump, his campaign and his political movement are. For more than a decade, Trump has ranted and raved against the evils of regime-change wars and neoconservative dogma, only to launch a new war that most perfectly encapsulates and aggressively advances both. He spent years falsely warning that former President Obama would start a war with Iran because of how weak and inept Obama supposedly was at negotiation and diplomacy, only to now do that himself (rather than start a new war with Iran, as Trump predicted, Obama entered a diplomatic agreement with them which major nuclear bodies attested was effective in monitoring Iran’s nuclear activities: a deal which Trump, at Israel’s insistence, tore up in 2018).
Throughout the 2016 campaign, Trump mercilessly mocked Marco Rubio for receiving millions in donations from Sheldon and Miriam Adelson, money that Trump said would “mold [Rubio] into [their] perfect little puppet,” only for himself to become not only the largest beneficiary of Adelson funding in history, but to become the ultimate puppet of the Adelsons’ agenda, one which Trump has clearly acknowledged — when speaking in Israel last year — is an agenda that puts the interests of Israel atop everything, including Americans’ interests:
“I get her in trouble with this, but I actually asked [Miriam] once… ‘What do you love more? The United States or Israel?’ She refused to answer. That might mean Israel,” Trump says, smiling, while looking at the dual Israeli-American national.
I am disappointed…Trump is such a disappointment. I voted no regime change wars. I fear the GOP will be obliterated in the midterms and the it’s just impeachment crap for the next 2 years.
Email and call Sen. Thune to end the silent filibuster, pass the SAVE Act, and we won’t have to worry about mass cheating in the midterms stealing the election.
Ah ye of little faith. You should know by now that Trump is a man of his word. Not sure where you get the idea this is "regime change." All Iran's mullahs had to do was to say "no nukes." They didn't do it. We will not be installing the next Iranian government and that is what typical regime change has looked like: we go in, take out a government, install one that is to our liking, and keep our forces there for the next 20 years hoping to make it work for us, and not the people of those nations (see Iraq and Afghanistan). Trump clearly said that what comes next will be up to the Iranian people and looks very much as though they want to return to monarchy! How deliciously ironic.
They certainly did say "no nukes" even as recently as last week. You are being lied to. Quit blindly trusting politicians - especially ones who take gobs of money from the zionists who want nothing more than for the US to fight a war for israel.
I wasn't clear enough. Initially, the Iranian regime could have remained in power simply by agreeing not to brutalize its citizens nor enrich uranium. So now it looks like the Iranian tyrants have decided to have themselves removed. It didn't have to be this way. There's another consideration: "regime change" under the neocons meant ONLY that we would take out a government we didn't like and replace it with one of our choosing, in order to accomplish American objectives which including trying to acculturate a nation like Iraq or Afghanistan to the neocon's version of American values. That always meant forever wars. This is not that. Iran is dangerous; we know that. It's not a lie like the one that took us into Iraq, for example. The Middle East is now committed to living in peace because of the Trump reset. Saudi Arabia and nearly every other ME nation and including Russia and China have either said they support this mission or they have been silent about it, which is a kind of support when it comes to international realpolitik. The US is not putting in ground troops and we're not planning on staying and the Iranian people will determine who will represent them. I don't think any of that fits what I remember as being regime change.
Donald Rumsfeld, the former U.S. Secretary of Defense, stated on February 7, 2003, that he doubted the Iraq War would last "six days, six weeks, I doubt six months."
And the same stripe of neocons are influencing Trump on this decision.
I agree that Trump keeps saying that Iran will not say the magic words, even though Iranians have repeatedly said they will not develop a nuclear weapon, and the Ayatollah issued a fatwa forbidding them.
And here is the minister of Oman, who mediated the talks between Iran and the US, talking with CBS.
"Omani Foreign Minister Badr Albusaidi, the mediator in talks between the U.S. and Iran, revealed that Iran had offered unprecedented restrictions of its nuclear program to prevent a war.
MINISTER ALBUSAIDI: Yes, is within our reach, if we just allow diplomacy the space it needs to get there. Because I don’t think any alternative to diplomacy is going to solve this problem.
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MINISTER ALBUSAIDI: The single most important achievement, I believe, is the agreement that Iran will never, ever have a nuclear material that will create a bomb. This is, I think, a big achievement. This is something that is not in the old deal that was negotiated during President Obama’s time. This is something completely new. It really makes the enrichment argument less relevant, because now we are talking about zero stockpiling. And that is very, very important, because if you cannot stockpile material that is enriched then there is no way you can actually create a bomb, whether you enrich or don’t enrich. And I think this is really something that has been missed a lot by the media, and I want to clarify that from the standpoint of a mediator."
"ALBUSAIDI: Yes, is within our reach, if we just allow diplomacy the space it needs to get there." Of course they would say that. It was a strategy and the strategy they used for decades to avoid making a commitment to peace. I find it odd that anyone would trust someone affiliated with a government that killed people who protested them, a government that funded terrorism (as we used to), Snd why would a nation want to enrich uranium that has all that oil under its control? I trust Rubio and Trump. I do not trust religious fanatics.
@Janine- which part of (paraphrasing) "...we have no intention of a forever war, no occupation, and we will free up the Iranian people to create their own government" didn't make sense to you?
I have heard and seen enough from actual Iranians about how much they hate the Islamic Republic and how they yearn for change to be quite certain that they will rise up. Heck they already have, on several occasions but haven’t had the necessary support and help to overcome their disadvantage compared to the despotic regime. Until now.
The whole middle east stands at risk of becoming even more destabilized. Iraq 2.0 but worse. Thanks Trump and all of his supporters who go along with whatever he wants, despite campaigning for literally a decade against crap like this.
I would bet that for years there have been plans just waiting in the wings on how this will work out once the mullahs are gone. Another thought: the north American English colonies figured it out as time went on. The first arrangement didn't work out so we made another one. True, it wasn't 93 million people, but it was also a time when communications were not instant and people were more loyal to their state governments than to this new "national government" idea. Come on, give the Iranians a break. They are a smart and educated population. They can do this.
Janine, please read Jeff's piece again only this time, slowly. It's a complete argument based on facts, not fairy wishes. And again, I ask, what would YOU have done?
But I guess you are okay with the world having constant violence in the Middle East for 47 years? How do you propose we end it? I find it incredibly hard to believe that previous presidents couldn't have stopped the Iranian regime.
This isn’t a regime change war,like what’s gonna happen when we take Cuba. This is killing a despotic theocracy that has forcefully taken over the Persian republic that we’re handing back to the Persian people. Get your facts right. Turn off the idiot box. This will be an end to a 47 year old war, that honestly could have been prevented 47 years ago, and every year since. Ask the Persians.
Donald Rumsfeld, the former U.S. Secretary of Defense, stated on February 7, 2003, that the the Iraq War would last "six days, six weeks, I doubt six months"
Same as it ever was. And people are still as dumb as gullible as ever.
I was rushing to get this out because the risk is a protracted war and Regime Change from the air has NEVER worked and counting on the people rising up is never a military strategy. This report is an eye-opener to say the least. I will post it ASAP....
This is an important report discussing the real implications of this War which has always been about Regime Change and was clearly in the works taking place 8.6 months from the last incursion. Yet Regine Change is always the object of the Neocons....
The danger here is that Trump has stated the objective – Regime Change. Just as the EU and NATO are not interested in pushing Russia out of Ukraine, they too want Regime Change. The problem here is when you are actually seeking to destroy a government, then there are no rules of war that are applicable. This is when bad things do happen. More importantly, Regime Change is not possible with simple air power. It requires boots on the ground as was the case in Iraq...
It’s getting hard to read the comments when so many don’t bother to read the actual post before jumping in to give their opinions. I don’t mind discussions when people have opposing views but it is a disservice to our host to only come for a battle of words before enjoying Jeff’s insights and then thoughtfully commenting.
Moron, I read salon strictly for Glen, because that was where he was published like 20 years ago. They actually published someone speaking out against the war on terror - imagine that - but I"m sure you love the war on terror, which has added trillions to our debt. Enjoy your war and all the blowback that comes with it.
Jesus. Glen? Hes that good? lol. Please. He’s done some good. And hes milquetoast at best when it comes to things like making decisions. What trump did, could have been solved 47 years ago.
Greenwald doesn't get it. He staked out a position and uses everything including garbage to throw at it in support of his idea. Classic confirmation bias.
When John Fetterman won his seat in the Senate, I wrongly assumed we had elected another insane social justice warrior, and at the time, he was still unable to articulate clearly because he was recovering from a stroke. What new mess were we in now? I was sure my state would have chosen Dr. Oz. I was wrong on so many counts. It turns out that Fetterman has been the voice of reason and clarity on almost every issue that matters to me: transgenderism, illegal immigration, and now Trump's decision to strike Iran. I'm so proud of Senator John Fetterman and will vote for him in 2028, irrespective of which party he runs for.
I'm sorry to hear that about McCormick b/c I really like him. In his defense, I will say that during the first year of Fetterman's time in the Senate, I emailed him several times about several issues and never heard back. It was maddening. Eventually when I did receive a reply in his second year, it was on an issue I had not emailed him about!
I heard rumors before the election that McCormick lived in Connecticut.
Just checked and it seems he lives in Squirrel Hill now.
Older constituents might either call or email requesting help.
But youngish people would probably use social media. So, if he doesn't have a staff member monitoring all his social media, something is wrong. He has a Facebook, X, Instagram, and YouTube account. No excuse for not staying on top of things.
I'm another PA resident who voted for Oz and feared Fetterman. I was wrong. I think the Dems plan to primary him. If they do, I'll go door to door for Fetterman in the primary.
It makes good political sense. Closer to his reelection bid for a second term, he will be primaried by a Dem. nut job who is a social justice, Trump-hating idiot. Democrat voters in PA (mostly in Philly and Pgh) will vote for him. Fetterman will signal his change to the Republican party when it behooves him to do so and it's too soon right now. I would imagine he will make a deal with PA Republican "king makers" to change parties and run in the Republican primary. He will win in the general.
Nor has Iran. You are relying on bad information sources. The phrase "Israel must be wiped off the map" was NEVER said. What was said was "The regime that occupies Jerusalem my be erased from the pages of history".
The Ayatollah Khomeini had a meeting with Iran's rabbis and literally said "I have nothing against the descendants of Moses. It's those Zionist bloodsuckers I can't stand". At the time there were 20-25 thousand Jews living in Iran and there are still 10-12 thousand today.
So much for your position. Upgrade your information sources.
You guys are completely insane and naive if you can’t realize what Iran would do with a nuclear weapon. 🤦🏼♀️ smh
And your arrogance that YOUR information sources are the trustworthy ones? History says otherwise. I’m not going to sit here and educate you on what your own education has deprived you of. You can find the truth yourselves if only you wanted to, but it destroys your narratives.
The Iranian people are celebrating today. I think I’ll trust their perspective over yours, given you have never lived in their circumstances. You are corrupt and spoiled by our peaceful freedoms with an agenda that is so deeply divisive you can only mean to destroy our nation from within.
I knew you shills would quickly be out of the woodwork here. Deaf to everything Jeff shares.
And yet you still don't answer the most basic question:
"Israel has nukes so why shouldn't Iran?".
And now Israel is moving the goal posts and demanding that Iran not only give up their non-existent nuclear weapons program but also they have to give up their missiles.
But yea Israel are always the good guys and get to engage in preemptive war but nobody else can have weapons to fight back with.
I answered. You didn’t like it. Iran is the world’s leading exporter of terrorism. That right there is enough reason! I suggest you sit down and have a nice cup of coffee with an actual Iranian to learn all the other good reasons.
I can give you 30,000 recent reasons from the dead Iranians that dared to protest their government.
God how evil can you be? And so openly? You’re worthy of a block
And for everyone else, watch out for these evil clowns. They are here to ONLY focus on and try to pull everyone here into an anti-Israel argument, making our stance on Iran ALL about Israel and Israel alone. Last I checked they are but a small section of the entire Middle East and we presently have the support of pretty much the remainder in the ME. That speaks volumes. This isn’t just Israel and the US, but Israel has the best military to support us in our mission. Don’t let them use this as something to rage on Israel over. Even someone like me that is on the fence over their influence in our government (and I do have concerns) can see the significance of this mission goes far beyond the subject of Israel. These clowns have small minds and are hyper-fixated on creating division on the Israeli issue alone, and will use any opportunity like this one to divide us.
I see them. I hope you do too. Evil rotten scoundrels.
30,000? ROTFLMAO. You fell for that one too? OMFG.
I don't like theocracy in general and the Iranian version in particular but the Israelis have nukes and not just blasting caps like India and Pakistan. Israel has hydrogen bomb.
Israel has instigated more wars than all their neighbors combined.
How do you explain Saudi Arabia's support for Operation Epic Fury? You have failed in a dot connection exercise: in just a little over a year, Trump has reset the entire Middle East with the exception of Iran and that started taking place today.
I do not believe there will be peace there ever until Jesus comes back and reigns for that 1000 years talked about in Revelation Chapter 20 and then Satan is loosed again. I also believe that Israel could never be destroyed unless God did it directly so He has their back. Therefore, I wish we were not involved but support our President.
They came with no intention to acknowledge Jeff’s salient words and arguments. They had pre-scripted smears and divisive points and posted those before even reading his article. They demand we explain ourselves, but why? Jeff already did it masterfully. 🤣 That right there shows their fraudulent intentions.
Although it does no good to take on the trolls, today it's hard to remaiin silent, isn't it? I support every word you have said about this! Go Juju!!!!
Yeah I always find this argument so ridiculous. If anyone wants nuclear weapons, let them! So now we have to worry about even MORE places with potentially unstable leaders who might destroy the world 🙄 Why don’t we just do an Oprah style giveaway, you get a nuke and you get a nuke and everybody gets a nuke!! Because we want nuclear equity 🙄🙄🙄 It’s bad enough that so many countries have them now. Let’s not add to the problem.
@TRM- which part of "We will destroy the Great Satan and the Little Satan" don't you get? If someone threatened me with surefire death, I'd strike, too.
That is referring to ZIONISM which owns the USA government regardless of who's in power. And yes I do firmly stand by the position that Zionism needs to go away just like all the other failed political philosophies like Bolshevism, Nazism and Maoism.
"Zionism. The Real Enemy of the Jews" - By Alan Hart. One rabbi told him "You have summed up the problem facing us in 7 words". You should give it a read along with "The Samson Option" by Sy Hersh.
You don't know about that? Similar to the Orthodox vs Catholic vs Protestant divide in Christianity. They've killed each other just as much or more than Sunni vs Shia.
ERRATA:
— "Pavlavi" corrected to "Pahlavi"
— Typo fixed, missing dash
— An alert math wizard reader pointed out "We will never have a nuclear weapon" is seven words, not six, so I shortened it to "We will never have nuclear weapons." It was easier than changing "ten days, six words" all over the place. My bad.
Jeff, Massie actually posted his comments a full hour BEFORE the attack happened. That should concern us all way more than his stated concerns. The leaking of classified military operations to Massie is outrageous - leaking to crazy members of Congress is a serious crime!
Yes. He may have screwed the pooch in his haste to appear to know the Constitution. And also assuming any gives a flying F what he says.
He hates Trump so much that he may be willing to jeopardize the safety of our military! If that proves the case, he must be held accountable!!!!
This is such a stupid take. He hates war and spending us into an oblivion, and you know killing innocent people. Also taking orders from another country. This isnt hard to understand.
right since the status quo of the last 47 years has been so successful- Iran terrorism will never be stopped with diplomacy - finally a president that wants to be measured by results not words - Massie & Fedserman should switch parties
Here is a list of the countries bombed and/or invaded by the United States from the end of WW II to present:
Afghanistan 1998, 2001-2021/Bosnia 1994, 1995/Cambodia 1969-70/China 1945-46/Colombia 2025/Congo 1964/Cuba 1959-1961/El Salvador 1980s/Germany(Nordstream) 2022/Grenada 1983/Guatemala 1954, 1960, 1967-69/Indonesia 1958/Iran 1987, 2025-26/Iraq 1991-2000s, 2015-/Korea 1950-53/Kuwait 1991/Laos 1964-73/Lebanon 1983, 1984/Libya 1986, 2011-/Nicaragua 1980s/Nigeria 2025/Pakistan 2003, 2006-/Palestine 2010, 2023-/Panama 1989-90/Peru 1965/Somalia 1993, 2007-08, 2010-/Sudan 1998/Syria 2014-/Trinidad & Tobago 2025/Venezuela 2026/Vietnam 1961-75/Yemen 2002, 2009-/Yugoslavia 1999
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🤔 "Hmmm ... the last 47 years have been so counter-productive ... hmmm ... what to do? What to do? ... ... Oh! I know! Let's start a major Middle Eastern war!"
"You can't fix stupid."
We've been meddling in the middle east since the 1950's (The U.S. (CIA) and UK (MI6) orchestrated the 1953 Iranian coup). God knows whats real, whats not. The US certainly had a role in the turmoil of that region
“Taking orders from another country” is the only stupid take here. You’re reacting as if one of our past presidents is in charge and you’d be right when referring to them. But this is Trump. He doesn’t take orders from anyone 🤣 That’s why so many of our own government AND other governments tried so hard to prevent him getting into power. They can’t control him. I love that about him.
Trump holds Bibi's chair when Bibi sits down, Juju. Think about it.
Iran poses no threat to the USA while Bibi wants it broken into a million pieces. Think about it.
Trump ostensibly opposes the WEF while partnering with Fink, Thiel, Ellison, Altman, Gates, Zuck, Musk, Bezos, Bourla, Adelson et al. Think about it.
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I wrote this a year ago. Every day it looks less "crazy" and more just plain accurate:
Trump's WEF mandates are to smash Greenland, Canada and the USA into the Club of Rome's New World Order Region 1 - North American Union (NAU), instigate then manage the bankruptcy of US Inc. and its phoney-bologna US$ and facilitate the transition from the prosperous corporatocracy that we knew (and loved) to their new thousand-times-worse-than-Orwellian technocracy.
Trump brokering and providing Peter Thiel, Larry Ellison & Sam Altman with a half a TRILLION[!] dollars falls into that last mandate. Those 3 amigos are developing our Super-AI (the biblical Beast System) to, among other things, custom build, in 48 hours, an mRNA jab to "cure" you of cancer(s) that you don't even have!
I shit you not.
There was a plan in place to start these wars 20+ years ago. You cant ignore the influence from our "allies"
https://youtu.be/WyuVuTDUb3w?t=80
Did you hear what speaker Johnson said today?
Bibi said that he is going to war , whether we support him or not.
We had to do it.
I think that he is afraid to let Bibi go alone, in case he tries to threaten nuclear weapons.
Good! One sane comment in this thread. Totally agree!
Don't worry, Dara, there's more than Chris who gets it.
https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/freedom-falafels-saturday-february/comment/221048755
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Jeff understands that right stands up to scrutiny to be proven true else it just be dogma in an echo chamber. It's cool that, as long as research, logic, analysis, conclusions and commentary are posted with civil respect, the First Amendment is everything in the American constitutional republic.
Jeff allows dissenting opinions on C&C and, therefore, does the Founding Fathers proud.
What is hate more is seeing Iran end up with nuclear weapons. What do you think will happen then? They have chanted Death to America for decades. Do you actually think we'll be able to negotiate with them once they have that leverage against the world? They weren't willing to now.
but doesn't love saving innocent people?
Who opposes saving innocent people? You?
It has nothing to do with hating or loving trump. Our president has made a terrible mistake this time. One that will cause a terrible collapse around the world.
🤣 the fear porn is thick in here today. He is brilliant. No mistakes made, and working within the written letter of the laws. There’s egg on all your faces as more info comes out.
Ayatollah is dead. 40 senior Iranian security & regime figures were killed. That was fast. That is NOT some irresponsible, fly by night, knee jerk decision.
Iran also had planned preemptive missile strikes against US military targets in the region, and against civilian targets as well. Failure to act would’ve resulted in mass US casualties.
Get yourself untangled from your brainwashed hate for this president.
And the son of the first installed puppet ready to fill the void. How convenient.
Do you have any idea how silly you sound. Have you lived in the Middle East? Do you have any idea of the real political situation in Iran?
A collapse of what?
Collapse of economies, food shortages, oil shortages, prices of everything will go up.
💯💯
Massie is truly nasty.
👍👍
Marco Rubio contacted all but one from the Gang Of Eight before the strikes. So it's no surprise that Massie blabbed. I'm sure his Democrat friends were happy to inform him. And Massie, true to his character, couldn't pass up a chance to get attention while trying to mess with Trump. He really is a 💩
Truth. Loves his click bait “governing”. Somebody primary him please. He’s close to stepping onto the traitorous side of a line in the sand IMO.
From Kentucky, I promise we’ll try to get rid of this buffoon.
Yes, he should run as a democrat! He’s a RINO!
Does seem like he prefers his own thinking rather than listening to the play that the ‘coach’ called and being a team player. He’s the kind of team mate that that makes a team lose a game. Arrogant. He lacks prudence.
Juju, Massie said AP was reporting it. Which means someone leaked to the AP and maybe Massie is covering his own butt. Either way both put our soldiers at risk. Deserves an investigation and maybe charges.
Massie jumped the gun. Had he waited until the start of the assault, he would have cover. But he knew blesting about the about to happen attack is a Yuge fail for a Congressman.
But then Massie is just that kind of Congressman. Is self interested to an extreme. "Libertarian " means his rules are the only ones that matter.
Wow, thanks for this info Juju.
STFU with Jewish lies and propaganda
The last time I checked:
🇮🇷 Iran hasn’t stolen any of my freedoms.
🇮🇷 Iran didn’t run up $38 trillion in national debt and destroy our standard of living.
🇮🇷 Iran didn’t pass the Patriot Act to spy on Americans.
🇮🇷 Iran didn’t pass the income tax.
🇮🇷 Iran didn’t establish the IRS.
🇮🇷 Iran didn’t hand over full control of US monetary policy to a private banking cartel with the Federal Reserve Act of 1913.
🇮🇷 Iran didn’t force the NIH to fund gain-of-function research in Wuhan China.
🇮🇷 Iran didn’t lock down American cities, businesses and schools.
🇮🇷 Iran didn’t pass experimental and deadly mRNA “vaccine” mandates.
🇮🇷 Iran didn’t print $7 trillion during the COVID Plandemic and destroy the American economy.
🇮🇷 Iran isn’t hosting drag queen story hour in our elementary schools and libraries.
🇮🇷 Iran isn’t promoting destructive life altering transgender surgeries and medications to children.
🇮🇷 Iran isn’t flooding American airwaves with pharmaceutical products.
🇮🇷 Iran isn’t trying to block out the sun or spraying harmful chemicals all over our skies.
🇮🇷 Iran isn’t spraying all our crops with cancer causing pesticides.
🇮🇷 Iran didn’t give glyphosate manufacturers immunity from poisoning Americans.
🇮🇷 Iran didn’t accuse a Supreme Court Justice nominee of being a gang rapist.
🇮🇷 Iran didn’t spend $8 trillion invading Iraq and Afghanistan, only to hand the latter back to The Taliban after the government collapsed in 3 days following 20 years of occupation.
🇮🇷 Iran didn’t steal the 2020 election.
🇮🇷 Iran didn’t open America’s borders and flood the country with 40 million illegal immigrants.
🇮🇷 Iran didn’t to start a race war by spreading hate-crime hoaxes all over our cable news and social media networks.
🇮🇷 Iran isn’t hiding the Epstein documents and failing to prosecute corrupt billionaires, politicians and royal family members.
🇮🇷 Iran isn’t forcing Americans to pass hate-speech laws and tear down the 1st amendment.
🇮🇷 Iran has never attacked us on American soil.
🇮🇷 Iran didn’t authorize Operation Fast & Furious to allow weapons to be illegally purchased and taken back to Mexico, only to be used to kill US border patrol agents.
🇮🇷 Iran didn’t overthrow Gaddafi and destroy the country of Libya where they now have modern day slave markets.
🇮🇷 Iran didn’t hide the contents of Anthony Weiner’s laptop with over 340,000 emails from Hillary Clinton, including a files labeled “Crimes Against Children”.
🇮🇷 Iran didn’t use America’s intelligence agencies, FISA court, media organizations or political class to frame Trump for treason.
🇮🇷 Iran didn’t draw up plans to assassinate Julian Assange for exposing US war crimes in the Middle East.
🇮🇷 Iran didn’t exile Edward Snowden for revealing the widespread illegal surveillance being conducted on American citizens.
🇮🇷 Iran didn’t assassinate JFK, RFK or Charlie Kirk.
The US government did all of those things on behalf of subversive domestic and foreign influence.
Yeah and we are trying to vote all of them out of office because of it. That’s an ENTIRELY different issue than what is at hand today.
But as long as our troops are deployed, your divisive commenting only serves to put them in danger - so you need to sit down and shut up until they are home safely, and then at that time you can use your voice to complain and vote to get people into Congress that will stop the madness.
But not being supportive of our nation and choosing to divide at a time like this rather than support the very troops that work every day to protect your sorry a**es right to spew your divisive nonsense, well you’re no better than the traitors that seek to destroy our nation from within. I’ll lump you with those fools.
If you have an ounce of decency, sit down and shut up, until our brave men and women are back home safely.
Shut up and goosestep, or people will diiiiie!!!!!
Say, how did that strategy work out in covid? I can't seem to recall....
Wow Erin, I think you’re short-circuiting with your conflation of apples and oranges. 🤣😂😆 Time to mute you. You really are a shameful troll.
Erin - what does that even MEAN?
Okay Juju. According to you, everyone opposed to whatever it is you think someone should be saying should just shut up. And so, Juju is for self-censorship ... when it is expedient. And always for a 'good cause'.
🤣🤣 nice spin Dave. You missed an ocean of context but go ahead, whatever helps you cope.
I’m for supporting our military when they have been deployed in ANY way or circumstance, and I see divisive criticism of their mission WHILE they are in the midst of it as traitorous. Disagree and whine all you want before or after and I have no issue with that, but while they are deployed? Purposeful division is despicable. But you do you … 🤷🏼♀️💩
Edit: I also don’t tolerate outright lying either, and if I see THAT I will slap someone back deservedly. That doesn’t mean someone has to agree with me, that means i expect people to tell the truth and be a decent human being in their disagreements.
Just looked up at what you were replying to and damn, I was very clear on why I was telling people to shut up. It was clearly not because I can’t handle different opinions but YOU ignored that. I said, “so you need to sit down and shut up until they [our troops] are home safely, and then at that time you can use your voice to complain and vote to get people into Congress that will stop the madness.
But not being supportive of our nation and choosing to divide AT A TIME LIKE THIS rather than support the very troops that work every day to protect [you], well you’re no better than the traitors that seek to destroy our nation from within.”
I stand by that statement. It is righteous and factual.
But twist your blankie and cry over the fact that you guys can’t control our perspectives anymore, and falsely claim what I was actually saying, because when you guys lose to arguments all you have left is lying.
JuJu, that used to be de rigueur. Not now. Sad commentary. I do not support this action, but stand with our troops while they are in harms way. The people attacking you for your statement are just wrong.
Yish. What a woke argument. Shut up and goosestep....
Erin is all sorts of cranky 🤣😆🤣😆
I think it’s hilarious that you guys can’t stand that we won’t tolerate your b.s. narrative anymore.
Read the article or sit down and shut up
Another wokester. "Shut up and goosestep!" Yikes...
An Iran bot or just a brainwashed Demonic Party member who hates America?
Exactly right, and thanks for saying it. And I must say that I am sorely disappointed with the hot takes in today's reportage. And all of what you say was missing, and not a peep on constitutional limits.
All of what is going on is a by-product of a fallen republic and usurped constitutions. And truly, the United States is not what they say it is, not by either party doing the saying.
@-I-TRUTH…Propaganda on demand. Israel Haters category.
Israel has way too much influence on the US. BB has been a dictator of Israel for way too long. They offered Iran impossible terms as no weapons means can’t defend themselves. I think if Iran can’t have nuclear weapons neither can BB. That is fair and brings safety to the region. I know I voted for peace thru strength. Here we are a bully and doing unto others as we would not want done to us. No new wars instead you have BB visiting Trump seven times and every time BB visits something happens. Currency issues in Iran were caused by US currency manipulations. For the past weeks there have been gas explosions in Iran no explanation why. I don’t think we should be involved in more wars and I pray for our soldiers as I feel this is another WMD situation. BB is seen on video saying Iran is 10 days away from a nuclear bomb and yet he kept selling the same scare even arriving in congress with a cartoonish picture of a bomb showing a timeline. Idk think Israel needs a new leader.
Good analysis in this link. It’s not as simple as some are trying to paint it, and it’s not just about Israel. I don’t trust those trying to sell us that perspective.
Kaizen works really hard to be accurate with his information:
https://thatskaizen.substack.com/p/why-trump-struck-iran
https://x.com/MaddyViews/status/2026292256781586725?s=20
Israel killed JFK to acquire nukes, not Iran.
Israel stole hundreds of pounds of highly enriched uranium from the U.S., not Iran.
Israel stole other U.S. nuclear secrets and components to build its bombs, not Iran.
Israel refuses to sign the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty; Iran signed it.
Israel rejects nuclear inspections; Iran submits to them.
Israel violated the Atmospheric Test-Ban Treaty, not Iran.
Israel threatens the world with Samson Option nuclear blackmail, not Iran.
Israel controls U.S. politicians via the Israel lobby and Epstein-style blackmail, not Iran.
Israel controls U.S. online speech through the ADL, SPLC, and Big Tech infiltration, not Iran.
“Israel Israel Israel”
Another candidate for a padded room fitted with a box of towels to mop up the spittle and drool.
It’s not that some (some) of these issues aren’t concerning, it’s the suspicious timing of your desire to undermine our troops. You need a straight jacket too
Well, that's great and all. But I noticed you also didn't counter any of his points that you have no answer for. I mean, at this point, it should be pretty obvious that Epstein was definitely a mossad character, why doesn't that ring any alarms?
I didn’t need to! Jeff ALREADY DID 🙄🤦🏼♀️ I don’t have to repeat what he already said so eloquently. You want responses to his points? Read Jeff’s article today. It’s ALL there. Sheesh you people are unreal - SMH
I really hope the people of Iran are able to get their arms around this, but considering our own CIA is the one that created this mess 50 years ago, and that other nations like China (not so much worried about Russia honestly) are going to be sticking their weiners in the pot, this could end up worse than it started out.
Then what?
But as far as Jeff answering any questions on this, I searched the entire post and Israel was mentioned 8 times, aipac, zero. I did not see any explanation.
I honestly don't hate the Iranian people, or the people of Israel, well, hopefully less than the majority, but the zionists are true garbage, when I see the 'temu Amish' spitting on American tourists, I just see red. Where the fuck do they get off? If we weren't funding their entire nation (nevermind how), they would just be a small hole in the ground. A touch of gratitude might be nice. And don't get me started on Bibi's quotes about America, and bleeding us dry, that's just a more flowery version of 'death to America'...
Is that you Mohammed?
A new name for the list.
Massie ran as a Republican, but he has NEVER been an ‘R’. He has always been. RAT.
He’s a Libertarian. The vast majority of the time he votes R because - at least in theory- Republicans are closer to small govt and pro-freedom than Democrats.
I have seen many interviews with Massie and he is anti war pro balancing budget and against wasteful spending. Massie didnt leave maga, maga left Massie. I think Massie wants the right things except MAGA is no longer MAGA it has changed.
I live in Kentucky and we cannot stand him.
Really he has the right idea the problem is spending continues and wars continues so he feels disenfranchised. A country in debt spending more than it takes in is not a good way to build the US future. Good for BBhe has been campaigning for regime change in Iran since the 1990s.
But then you don’t even consider the possibility that our spending wasn’t what put us into that debt after all, but rather all the fraud and corruption in our government
Exactly, find out who. Wouldn’t be that Sourface Griffin at the Pentagon, would it?
Violation of the Constitution isn’t? Only Congress has the Constitutional authority to declare war. Violation of the Constitution by previous Presidents should never be used to justify continued violation of the Constitution. It’s like saying a person has gotten away with committing robbery numerous times and has never been charged now makes it okay for that person to rob again. That is faulty logic, but lawyer/judges do it all too frequently by looking at previous faulty judgements known as precedents rather than deferring to the Constitution, the document they had to swear an oath to support. Our greatest President George Washington could look back in history and see how Europeans and Asians have fought amongst themselves for millennia. He wisely advised all future generations of Americans to avoid foreign entanglements and to treat all other nations with benevolence. We should be so wise. If history is our teacher we can expect this will not end well.
Jeff was pretty clear about what authority the Constitution and Congress grant the presidency for using our troops. Trump has violated nothing.
Past actions by previous presidents without being impeached does it not now make it correct. The laws passed by Congress whereby they extended the period of time the President is obligated to request a declaration of war from Congress were passed as we entered into the age of atomic/nuclear intercontinental missiles. The laws were intended to allow the President to make an immediate DEFENSIVE response if the United States was being attacked. The laws were never intended to allow the President to make an offensive attack against another nation without a declaration of war from Congress. If Trump’s position on Iran is as strong as his administration would have us to believe, then seeking a declaration from Congress, the peoples voice in the federal government, should be easy. Unless it isn’t and here we are.
Sheesh, I swear none of you trolls here today even read Jeff’s article. He spoke CLEARLY to this argument too. You have some reading to do. SMH
Also this from Jonathan Turley:
https://twitchy.com/dougp/2026/02/28/jonathan-turley-reality-checks-dems-claiming-trump-launched-illegal-unconstitutional-strikes-on-iran-n2425547
And it simultaneously debunks the claim that Democrats are in support of this.
Under the U.S. Constitution, the President serves as Commander in Chief of the armed forces (Article II,
Section 2), while Congress holds the power to declare war (Article l, Section 8). However, the specific
requirement for notifying Congress about military actions stems from the War Powers Resolution of 1973
(50 U.S.C. SS 1541—1548), a federal law enacted to balance these powers and ensure congressional
oversight.
Key provisions relevant to notifying Congress:
• The President must submit a written report to Congress within 48 hours of introducing U.S. armed
forces into hostilities or into situations where imminent involvement in hostilities is clearly indicated.
• This report must detail:
• The circumstances necessitating the action.
• The estimated scope and duration of the hostilities or involvement.
• The constitutional and legislative authority under which the action is taken.
• Without congressional authorization (such as a declaration of war or specific statutory approval), U.S.
forces must be withdrawn within 60 days, with a possible 30-day extension if the President certifies it
is necessary for safe removal.
This applies to the ongoing U.S. military strikes on Iran, which began on February 28, 2026. The President
is thus required to notify Congress by approximately 1:39 AM CST on March 1, 2026. As of the current time,
there is no public confirmation of such a notification, consistent with the recency of the operation.
Presidents have historically complied with this reporting requirement in similar situations, though the
resolution's constitutionality has been debated without being overturned.
Many laws enacted by Congress, signed by a President and upheld by the Supreme Court are unconstitutional. The Fed and the Affordable Care Act are two of a multitude of many such unconstitutional “laws.”
🤦🏼♀️ “I don’t like or agree with this law, therefore I will claim that Trump is a dictator and doing illegal things and violating our Constitution.” 🙄🙄
It’s the friggin law. Hes not violating anything. He’s using what he can to do what is right, not doing business as usual (nothing but fraud) so that they can continue to do what is wrong.
Besides, the more info that comes out the more egg is on the face of all of you who came here today to criticize Trump and claim he is violating the Constitution.
And … he hadn’t declared a war yet anyway. You jumped the gun. No boots on the ground. He will follow the laws as written should that become necessary.
Now crawl back into your shill hole
I’m sure all the ‘experts’ agree. Of course their record sucks thus far.
We should be wary of the designation "expert" 😆
I’ll just consider it as Congressional Notification…
As Jeff mentioned, this was not exactly a surprise attack
They are not here for facts. Many haven’t even read one word Jeff wrote and just demand each of us to counter their narrative and points. Why? Jeff already did! 🤣😆 They are fools
JuJu--Define 'crazy members of congress'.....? Is that anyone you (or Trump) disagrees with?
Terribly obvious way to expose yourself and your bias. Given the way you worded that any response is futile
We will never forget that Zionist and jew MURDERED Charlie Kirk for this war and he knew they were going to do it.
His spent his final days mentally anguished, texting the very people who would ultimately betray him.
Nonsense.
I saw a credible post yesterday that stated that Massey received almost $2 million of his $2.4 political donations from Democrats. That should tell us all we need to know.
https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1Ap5WC63WF/
Yes I saw quite a few too with receipts. It should be noted that many of the noted organizations donate to both parties, but when you look closer at the organization you see it’s more of a uniparty machinery, and they are very much liberal globalists. I don’t think it is wise at this time to take donations from any organization that could cause speculation. The fact that he just accepted awards from an Iranian lobbyist funded by George Soros is disturbing.
https://x.com/jacktronprime/status/2028210960775909527?s=46
Juju….question.
Are you a nurse?
We have been praying for a young mother Jojo for 2 years, and I was told her mother goes by ‘Juju’.
No, sorry. Im Juju because I can’t decide if I should be called Judith or Judy. LOL. I think I was the first online user ID named Juju back in 1988-89 in some of the first interactive system forums, but can’t be absolutely certain. I never saw others with my nickname though. I’ve had a few others but that one has been most common.
I’m nobody important really, but certainly could use boatloads of prayer. However, it sounds like Jojo deserves them more right now ❤️. Young mother? Any other specifics you can safely give so I can join in the prayers?
My Granddaughter and I have been called JuJu. So, we automatic buddies over Coffee and Covid.❤️❤️
I didn’t know this. 😡
I also want to thank you deeply and dearly for such a wonderful explanation of events today. I always love your perspectives. They ring true in ways that nothing else does. It’s like a warm security blanket in uncertain times. You don’t leave loose ends, and you give logical, reasoned arguments to the narratives pedaled by RINOs and the Left. Thank you for the time you invest to inform us all. ❤️❤️❤️
Yes, thank you for the details of Iran's infractions that I so clearly remember beginning in 1979. My dear Iranian friend, who came here along with his wife twelve years ago for his Ph.D. and has never returned, was sent here by his father to escape Iran and military service. His father told his 4 sons that the Iranian government was lying about the U.S. (he could remember how nice the Americans were before Islamic radicals took over the government). This precious "adopted" son and his wife are now Christians. I am praying that the Iranian people may have freedom once again!
I second what JuJu said!
Much gratitude for the clarity.
DITTO! 👍
DITTO! 👍🏻❤️
If I could write a couple thousand powerful words and only get one definite article wrong, I'd be a happy man!
UPDATE (since so many have "liked" this): don't get me wrong, I like the math/grammar nerds who catch such things!
"God Almighty, Ruler of Heaven and Earth, we humbly ask for Your protection over our armed forces and to ensure their success in the mission to liberate the oppressed people of Iran who yearn for freedom from the Islamist regime that is hostile to anyone or anything that opposes their grip on power and their intention to destroy Israel and the US. It is in the name of Your Son we pray, Amen."
🙏🏻 Amen
AMEN
Amen.
Amen!
Amen.
Amen! We have a dear family member in harm’s way and are praying fervently for his protection! Our grand-son-in-law is a medical doctor and also a reservist who was called up for 3 months of service beginning in January…he was sent to Iraq. The base he is on had three thousand people and they’ve moved out all but five hundred. God keep them safe! 🙏
thank you for the prayer
Amen.
Send your own sons to fight the war, Patrick. They can go die or be maimed for Israel.
Maybe he has.; and maybe he has served himself .. unlike you.
Your Jew2hate taints all your thinking.
How do you know what I've done, you retard?
"Jew hate." Shove your stupid slogans up your ass, fool.
Because Jewhate is not a slogan, as you amply demonstrate even as you rage.
I'll pray for you.
Have the courage own it. Anyone can see it.
Amen... and AMEN!
Amen!
Amen and amen 🙏
"My bad."
There's a little Portland in all of us.
Hehehehe
If there is ONE thing. . . that statement sends ME "to the moon"! Ha.
Somehow with Jeff saying it, I can live with it.
Nope. Not me.😬
Pahlavi? That's what I had with my hummus last night!
I see that as Pavlov and his doggies.
That makes me salivate...
How about the saliva inducing baklava?
Like me, too sweet.
🤣 I agree, but back in the day for Christmas a vendor would send me a YUGE tray of Paklava… made from pistachios instead of walnuts?. Little tubes/rolls instead of sheets, and not as sweet. Oh my god, to die for. The vendors were Iranian I believe, living in LA. My employees would swarm and my husband would get pissed if I didn’t bring home the lions share! 🤣
In small quantities with strong coffee it’s amazing 😋
Alpo is gluten free too!
Woof!
Or Pavlova? 😁 Yum 🤤
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pavlova
Oh yes, and gluten free!! I keep thinking I will make that!
Coffee and Covid comments are good for a multitude of things! 😁
That’s what I love the most about it!!
🤣
Today
Shabbat in Israel
First day of Purim
Best time to read The Book of Esther.
Draw your own conclusions but not human power can align six planets and a Blood moon eclipse. ONLY GOD CAN.
May peace be with your soul.
And may Israel be crushed.
I think you have never read the Bible or history….
5786 years and counting continuously of Israel story.
“Whatever comes next— pray for the troops, pray for the Iranian people dancing in the streets, and remember: the impossible thing about solving a problem is that first you have to believe it can be”…
Just to reiterate Jeff’s best comment…Pray!
Jews needs to be drafted to the frontlines
“Alright, now attack Iran during Purim, the Jewish holiday celebrating the massacre of 75,000 Persians. Start the attack on the 11th day of the 9th month on the Muslim calendar.”
“But sir, won’t that cause people to reconsider who was responsible for 9/11?”
“Do it. Make sure Purim coincides with a blood moon that peaks at 3:33 am on 3/3.”
“But sir-“
“I know 3 is a highly significant number in Jewish Kabbalah, symbolizing an 3rd party ending a unresolvable conflict between 1 & 2. Now do it.”
“But-”
“Have a Jewish journalist publish an article admitting how significant the symbolism is, and comparing Iran to Amalek
If you don’t understand that the nation of Israel is and always has been on the frontlines, you’re truly ignorant.
Ah yes... will Jeff comment on this?
And if he refutes any of it, will he be specific... or just bleat "TRump is my God"?
https://www.unz.com/article/israel-did-9-11/
Benjamin Netanjahu last met with Donald Trump on February 11, 2026, during a closed-door meeting at the White House.
This is the part that wasn't included in your explanation.
Why was Netanjahu pressuring us to give Iran this deadline?
Why are we giving him so much time?
How are you so certain it wasn’t the other way around? Trump informing Netanyahu of what he intended to do and how he intended Israel to support and behave? See how easy it is to read into anything the facts we want to believe?
https://x.com/infolibnews/status/2027067614455836731
This speaks for itself, they are happy and excited to do this
A rabbi is thrilled and excited, that’s your proof? 🤣 I just can’t with these flimsy arguments …
Trump is stronger than ALL of them and nobody plays him. He learns their game and uses them for his own ends. I trust Trump’s “ends” more than ANYONE else in our government or theirs. He’s the one in sole control and everyone knows it, but you apparently. 🙄
I can only pray that you are right!
Hopefully Iranians will take over their country, and the whole Middle East stays peaceful.
Just one question: What about Christians that are not allowed to go to the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem, West Bank, widely recognized as the oldest Christian church in the region. Why isn't Trump demanding that they be allowed to go there? Maybe in this geographic area he isn't the one ruling anything.
How do you know he hasn’t asked? Do you have full intel of all his convos with Bibi that we don’t? 🤷🏼♀️
And no, he is not in full control of THEIR country. And he shouldn’t be! He is in full control of OURS, contrary to what the Israel haters would have you believe. They use this issue to divide us.
Whenever Netanyahu visits the white house we end up taking military action somewhere shortly thereafter, for some reason.
Exactly!
I still remember Obama era pic of PM Netanyahu coming out the WH door by the garbage cans…..47 needs to inform Preezys SS detail to keep “Kenya1” confined to his home until given word Preezy is no longer ‘a risk’(sp).
👆🎯
Time to start creating a homeland for the Kurds.
Let the Kurds create their own homeland.
If it works well, we'll forgive the word count!! The excitement to have a president willing to do the right thing, a good thing for the "people" rather than glad handing and filling their pockets on the backside. We have had so many "drone" presidents, so many self serving politicians Trump is definitely a God Send!! I am very proud of Trump, his balls, and willingness to actually lead rather than pander to the "screamers". God Bless America and our President.
Picky picky picky
🤣😂😂
Hope you also corrected that Canada’s leader is Carney not Macron.
He was just listing responses from other countries and the vehicles they used. France/Macron, Canada/National Post(? I think), reliable social media/UAE etc.
Same thing
"... the Royal line that long preceded the oppressive Islamist rebels....
Say what? Jeff, were you around 47 years ago?
Could you next please fill us in on what in the world led crazed Islamists to foment a revolution in the 1970s ... and succeed? I don't recall it being something in the water...
Good stuff, Jeff. I would now respectfully direct your attention to a fake news story now being spread by bought and paid for media claiming the National Council of Resistance of Iran (aka the MEK) has today claimed to be the main opposition to the now-defeated regime.This is false. Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi is that leader.
Worse, the MEK claims to have set up a "provisional government to transfer sovereignty to the Iranian people and establish a Democratic Republic." Again, false. They are usurpers seeking to hold Iran under islamic control.
The MEK is a jihadi organization, well funded and posing as well heeled moderates when they are in fact a splinter group of the mullah led regime presently being defeated and removed.
They have successfully lobbied (read: bought and paid for) a number of US politicians and public officials in exchange for public support and endorsement.
They are hated and have been emphatically rejected by the Iranian people.
The head of the islamist snake may have been cut off, but its vipers nest has had 47 years to produce venomous offspring, and the MEK is one. And it is poised to strike. But it must not be allowed to do so. Please help sound the warning.
Thanks for everything, Jeff. Much love, always stay optimistically sarcastic.
People sleep peaceably at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.
“It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself in a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat.”
—Theodore Roosevelt
January- Maduro
February - El Mencho
March - Ali Khamenei
Nice first quarter!
My cousin, retired army paratrooper who saw many battles, once told me if I had any idea what lurked off of our shores, I would never sleep. I am forever grateful to the rough men (and women) who stand ready to do violence on our behalf 💔.
Courage and bravery beyond what civilians can understand, that’s for sure. Also like our first responders who run toward danger for the benefit of strangers. It’s a calling. Grateful for our heroes.❤️
It is interesting, as one of President Trumps first visits for his second term was an extended visit to the ME, working with what I now perceive to be a large or at least significant faction in the ME that wants prosperity, wants radical Islam (and the centuries of endless violence with it) to fail. This ME support, obvious in the Gaza negotiations, and obviously here, is crucial to meaningful change in the ME.
There still exists the mindset of the Gazans to kill every Jew. Perhaps with a Gaza cleanup and American oversight, that mindset can be erased. Thank God for the great influences of America.
Yes, it is indeed a battle.
All bought off by the Empire for 100 years.
ME?
Middle East, presumably?
Middle East
ME was divided after WWl.
It has always been divided, and what Trump is trying to do has zero to do with "Bought off by Empire" In fact Iran was the fastest growing nation in the ME as a result of suppressing the Islamists, until Carter.
https://x.com/i/status/2027697785764471254
This is funny
Oh my…‘it’s my favorite plane💗
Back in the late 70s, as newlyweds we were headed west to SD, western WY, etc. Somewhere just east of Rapid City, one of the stealth jets, not a bomber, appeared overhead. We never heard it approach and it was gone almost before it registered that it was actually there. My hub, who grew up near a US AFB, had a knack for IDing aircraft. He had no clue what we had seen and being in the middle of BFE on a quiet highway, it was more than creepy. Clearly, it was a prototype.
That’s hilarious, only capable of laughing at it knowing the targets are not the Iranian people but a wicked regime that terrorizes them and the rest of the world.
Incidentally, this was never posted by Trump on Truth Social the way it’s made to look, but imagining it IS funny. (I can’t ascertain if he posted it last summer though? I don’t think he did but I can’t verify due to not having enough hours in my day to scroll back that far on Truth Social. 🤣)
I only follow Trump on Truth and it would take me hours too!
“Tell the Ayatollahs gonna put you in a box” 😂😆
RL… It is reported that the Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and about 40 top leaders with him are dead.
I just saw that a little while ago too.
This ones good too:
https://x.com/i/status/2027773128659575295
Lolol.
Viewers discretion advised.
I've had this in my head all day!
Me too! Lol
This song actually got airplay on the radio in when it came out when I was in HS - we all used to sing along! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8hEtI9AI0U
Great video! Thanks!
Sorry, but there is a point that arrives quickly with war where I find humor misplaced.
Usually agree. Not a fan of war. Im as libertarian as it gets.
But I will say gallows humor got me through the scamdemic
Your post above suggests otherwise.
Charlie Kirk, April 3, 2025 (on X)
It’s going unnoticed because so much other news is happening, but the war drums are beating again in D.C. The warmongers worry this is their last chance to get the white whale they’ve been chasing for thirty years, an all-out regime change war against Iran.
A new Middle East war would be a catastrophic mistake. Our military stockpiles are depleted from three years of backing Ukraine. Our effort to reshore manufacturing has only just begun and will take years to bear fruit. War would worsen our already immense deficit and national debt. Iran is larger than Iraq, Syria, and Afghanistan combined. A war would not be easy and could easily become a calamity.
Thanks to President Trump’s restraint during his frist term, America has a golden opportunity to pull away from Middle East quagmires for good.
We shouldn’t throw that opportunity away so that some D.C. has-beens can feel tough by sending young Americans to die yet again.
https://substack.com/@warchick/note/c-220922307?r=b9gct&utm_medium=ios&utm_source=notes-share-action
Celebrating the end of brutal tyranny, that I support!
Love it!
Hysterical!
Ditto my brother.
(sister)
Unprovoked war to serve Israel is not anything to celebrate.
It is despicable and is a huge betrayal.
Around 20% of Americans supported making war on Iran.
The Regime murdered and tortured MINIMUM 30 thousand of their own Citizens the last two MONTHS because they protested against their so-called Government. Probably 80% of the non Muslim world approves.
Unprovoked? Better read up on that definition. 47 years of provocation apparently means unprovoked.
Yes, me too.
But,imagine if every one of those people said “NO”.. on both( all?) sides…wow…,I guess that’s just a John Lennon song..
UFOs?
"A true warrior fights, not because he hates the soldier in front of him, but because he loves those behind him." —Chesterton
Ryan, I don't know if you or anyone in our old cadre saw this, but the veil is lifting on the tech behind the assaults against me over the last two years: https://substack.com/home/post/p-189410958
Right on. And yes I saw it.
Excellent quote. Chesterton has some of the best of the 20th century!
TriTorch, I am so sorry you were the object of this attack and to actually have it be admitted must bring some solace. At times we think that the overhead electric wires have been weaponized and added to all else they have thrown at us it is hard to be on this planet. But someone else mentioned that we are fearfully and wonderfully made. I've mentioned about electric wires/EMF before however let's just continue to pray against this pervasive evil. I'm having trouble expressing all I'd like to say but "Watch, stand fast, be brave, be strong. Let all that you do be done with love." I Cor 16: 13-14. I treasure my C&C online friends who are willing to share, you and others have given me hope and the Lord has given me opportunities to pray for my friends. I think we win, with the Lord's help! Love to all
Yes, be ready to stand firm on your faith in Jesus Christ. The enemy is the father of lies. Always have Scripture in your mind and heart to repel the lies.
Amen
🙏
I recall a couple years ago a woman declaring she was being persecuted in some way by the government and, my recollection of her syndrome seems similar to what is being described. She was begging for someone to help her. Her cry out for help was pathetic one and I felt helpless to help her while at the same time thought her to be a mental case.
So, TriTorch, you are convinced something like this has been used against you?
Not convinced. It was used agaist me two years in a row. They mock and laugh at you while they do it. They also know no one will believe you and when you tell people, they think you are crazy which is as much a part of the purpose of the assault as any other aspect. They want you tortured and then discredited, and they get both in spades.
Met a similar woman in Sacramento at a protest in 2020... she was telling this exact story.
All tools of Empire and Bank of England.
Wow
Tri, you are too good a man to support this unprovoked war on Iran.
It is a murderous betrayal... all for the scum of zionist Israel.
Not supporting the war, AD, i wanted peace as promised in the inagural address.
We still have March to go. Hopefully the communist regime in Cuba cedes power to America, Wall Street gets busted for manipulating capital and precious metal markets, election integrity is codified for the midterms, MAHA triumphs over Big Pharma and Food, Geoengineering is halted. Did I miss anything?
As Jeff often says “let the man work”.
It’s an amazing time to be alive. Peace is within reach.
Pray for our troops, that God covers them in His goodness. Pray for their families that He provides them with peace during this time of worry.
As the wife of a disabled veteran who was deployed to the very first Gulf War (when Iraq invaded Kuwait), and the mom of an Army National Guard Soldier, I long for peace in a region that has destabilized the world for decades.
God bless our troops, those who work towards peace and President Trump.
Halfway through your comment I muted my TV and bowed my head in sincere prayer for protection over every innocent soul both American, Iranian, and Israeli military, Iranian civilians, and any other innocent or brave military member of another nation that joins in our fight, that God would shield them all from harm but also provide strength and endurance both physically AND mentally, to be victorious and shut this down as quickly as possible.
Praying with you!!
Please relay to your husband and son that we thank them for their service to our great nation.
And ask them if they want to die for Israel.
Abiding Dude…..What a disgusting and ignorant comment, truly, and clearly posted by a coward. Try seeing the much, much bigger picture to understand Israel is only a small piece of this entire equation in the pursuit of peace and an end to the terrorist regime of Iran.
Whose peace?
March - in like a Lion out like a Lamb 🙏🏻
Yes you missed something. There will never be peace in the Middle East until Jesus comes back and reigns for 1000 years until Satan is loosed again. Revelation Chapter 20.
True Lori but at least Trump is doing what other Presidents failed to do. Who knows but what this is a part of God’s plan. God still rules the world.
Bullcrap.
We can only look at the signs,but we have no idea of the real time. This could be another ebb in the flow to Revelation.
"He will come like a their in the night".
We are called to be prepared.
Well, if I'm not mistaken, I believe after a treaty is signed the first three and a half years of the Tribulation will be peaceful....
All Islamists either deported or killed.
You are truly disgusting, and reported.
Who did you report me to, Johnny? The authorities? Fuck. Now what will I ever do?
Great coverage and indeed wonderful challenges for dear President Trump.
This ☝️…
It's a full plate.
We all saw this coming for a month or more. Trump's book "The Art of War In Lieu Of A Deal" will certainly be coming out soon. No furtive CIA-Arab Spring, no months of WMD arguments and U.N. coalition building to get 1500 Brits and 150 Canadians committed to the fight, the Dems and NATO should exult at a second front being opened up against Russia. Is this liberation of the people in Iran, or their enslavement by the Zionists and the Great Satan?--Media and podcasters will sort that out for us assuredly.
Yes. Results. At the end of the day that's why I voted for Trump 3 times.
Bottom line is he runs the government like a business person. I'll take it...his personal flaws....and all.
Since the days of the Old Testament, God has chosen many flawed men to advance His Will and Trump is one of those men. He didn't survive assassination attempts, felony suits, and chicanery of all kinds for nothing.
Well said Mary Ann.
I will second that one!
MAKE WWF GREAT AGAIN
And anyone who knows anything about the Iranian people, studied their history and culture and talked to actual Iranians and not just heard the leaders and paid/coerced protestors talk on TV, also knows that what Trump said is absolutely correct. The majority of the Iranian people want to get rid of this oppressive regime. It might have happened some time ago but they didn’t have enough (or the right) support. I hope they now can finally get their country back!! 🙏🙏🙏
It reminds me of a former Iranian doctor and his wife that moved and practiced in the U.S. He was a prominent neurosurgeon. I did some landscaping for his wife almost 30 years ago, and I remember her telling me what a beautiful country Iran was. How green and full of flowers it once was. She expressed regret then at what it had become.
I’ve heard the same from numerous others.
Yes, they have been begging Pres Trump for help.
Anyone who doesn't know, or isn't informed, can go to look up what the Iranian people want (Iran is only about 33% Islamic)
https://www.youtube.com/live/1nokFe0M_Fw?si=kujCz9RsP-i-2cr9
Let's face it, our Congress is as good at War Declarations as it is at everything else it is tasked to do Constitutionally. Immigration devolves into a patchwork of extra-legal Sanctuary states, cities, and Progressive legal firms and Catholic Charities setting up their own immigration policies. Tariffs just one more example of impotence, neglect and Congressional dereliction or delegation of duties.
Doing the "people's work" is at best a distant fourth among congressional priorities: somewhere behind personal enrichment, getting re-elected, and skimming over controversial topics.
If I have this right, Congress has declared war only 5 times in our entire history.
Even of these, the War of Independence being the example the The Constitution emulated for our system...but all the rest were in some manner twisted and predetermined by powerful interests, Deepstate set-ups, and outright fakery or aggression. Trump cut out the middlemen. FDR & Co. made sure that the middlemen couldn't vote otherwise. Who blew up the Maine? Gulf of Tonkin "Resolution", War on Mexico, Jackson taking Spain without ANY Congressional OR Executive authority, there are really no examples of a wise, deliberative, elected Congressional body declaring war on behalf of the American People.
So what overall conclusion can one make from your listing of shortcomings?
-- There are few if any, countries over many millennia that have achieved more than the USA and it's obviously flawed political system; I would posit exactly zero others. . YET! we have succeeded where others have fallen FAR short. Consider the UK, China, Russia.
-- So, with all our flawed, sometimes impotent bureaucracy and foolish missteps, we the people and our awkward government have floundered into the space age and mastered it; have floundered into the AI age and step out beyond the pale to embrace it.
-- We alone, pimples and all, produced leaders like Ronald Reagan and Trumpie. These two men alone (mostly) have been responsible for turning the evil in the world around when those evils became really existential threats to ALL of humanity-- Nazi's, Commies, and Mullahs. NO other country has had the balls to STEP out and make a worldwide difference for GOOD.
That is history.
Instead of complaining without end. Be. . . wait for it. . .
GRATEFUL.
Or runs the business like a government.
I'll also say, this really is about China...not Iran's nuclear capability
The DeepState Neocons (Bolton and the whole bunch) wanted to go at Iran...even had them pinned by dual occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan 2003-2021. DeepState Dems had their own version of dealmaking-placating and Arab-Springing to leverage Iran. Commie China's uncontrolled sources of petroleum are being evaporated before their eyes. But, will the sales of Iranian Oil pay for the War and rebuilding?
Good point.
China is an omportant consideration. A nuclear Iran is an imminent threat. China is secondary.
I was just thinking that if this effort is successful it will improve chances for peace with Russia as one of her pawns? knights? bishops? will be lost.
Heh. I wonder what an Iranian chess set calls what we call a "bishop"? :-)
Or to paraphrase an old ad campaign, "In Iran, you do not take bishop. Bishop takes *you*!"
No coincidence it came at the time of the Clinton Epstein deposition.
Truth is the first casualty of war. No mention of bombing two girls schools in Iran. Such bravery. These burned girls no longer threatening me with nukes.
Prove this happened. I Do Not trust a word out of the lying medias mouth.
Probably got it from the official Iranian media 😑
Right! Who turned off the internet so the truth can’t escape.
Huh now that the story been debunked I am waiting for the apologies from those who repeated the Iranian government propaganda without skepticism. But I am guessing it’ll be a long wait. 😑
Please don’t hold your breath! 🤭
I am definitely not! 😆 I know better than that.
Well then, explain why Trump said "around ten days" as his time line. Besides, B.Clinton exonerated Trump yesterday. That connection makes no sense. So, yes, prove it if you can. If someone in the media said this, why would you believe it?
Yeah, except that’s an old video, from another country, and the one rocket that came down and hit anything other than intended was fired by Iran. So yeah, stay tuned for more truth.
Yup. Waiting for the apologies from everyone who immediately ran with the Iranian propaganda narrative, without waiting to see if it was really true, now that the story that it was an American strike has been discredited and debunked 😑
(Guessing I’ll be waiting for a long time 🙄)
Do you really believe that stupid shit? Honestly?
Either that or it’s the constant drumbeat intended to demoralize and sow doubt. Demoralized people don’t fight, they give up.
There will never be peace in the Middle East until Jesus comes back and reigns for 1000 years until Satan is loosed again. Revelation Chapter 20.
I don't know why leaders don't look to the Bible for answers.
I reject the second front being Russia. Russians are Christians and Caucasians and appear as enemies of the west because “we” favored the Ukrainians (Nazi Azov armies) to continue their creep towards Russia who mainly wanted to take out the Ukraine bioweapons labs. So much corruption and so much debt to western nations because of Ukraine and war-lovers like Lindsey Graham, certain Generals, etc. I know the Russian haters abound in America, but there’s little reason for the N American west to be their enemy. Why are we worrying about the EU and NATO?
Can someone send today’s excellent C&C to “gadfly” Thomas Massie? Asking for several friends…..
Maybe someone can post on his X.
Hear, hear. Now go after the scum here at home and there is plenty of scum.
AMEN!
April will be Cuba.
Yes, Team Trump is rapidly Remaking the "New" World Order by reversing the post-WWII, New Deal, DeepState World Odor. If people don't like it iand want to "Resist", I suppose they can throw in with Soros and Code Pink-No Kings!, confront ICE, move to a BlueState, or find short-term contract work employment with the DeepState like Routh and Crooks did. I hate mass destructions in Gaza, Tehran, Beirut, Kyiv, Fallujah, Damascus, (NYC) wherever they are perpetrated, as so many regular people are violently victimized. Decades of Status quo suppression is not an acceptable alternative either. As to Cuba, either one sides with Radical Marxist views and sees them as exemplary and heroic in Resisting Capitalist Oligarchical Oppression, or one sees Cuba as being yet another case of a tyrannical, dysfunctional, oppressive Commie regime that fed The Revolution by feeding off of the people for generations.
regular people everywhere are consistently victimized in more ways than the one you mentioned.
One of my favorites…I’ve read it to my teenage boys too many times to count!!! Hold your head up , NO shame in a face marred by dust ! 👊
I bet there's also a dot around terrorists that came across our open borders, the 250th anniversary of the USA and all that we are seeing to clean up, defang and de-finance the China-Russia-South American Cartel-Middle East Terror collaborations, for a safer USA and a safer world. We are 2 months into our anniversary year and no strikes or issues of any kind. I doubt that has happened by its self.
No offense, but some of us aren't asking people to do violence on our behalf. Trump is making this country less stable, as he is taking orders from Is a real hell.
How many people slept peaceably when the twin towers were destroyed by our government?
Roman, I am sure you mean well.
However, running the most powerful and successful country in a world of turmoil is something you(and I) would not likely desire to do nor be capable of such. I have concluded that someone who inhabits the spirit and encompassed motivation, yet has good intentions, is doing this-- NOT as an agent of SATAN as you imply.
How you possibly have concluded Trump is taking orders from ANYONE is not rational in my view.
Consider that Trump is taking a chance to turn the entire Middle East into a peaceful region where NO other president or country has taken over a half century of terrorism. (not any Chinese emperor, Yeltsin, Kruschev, Putin, Thatcher, Starmer, Macron, Trudeau, and on and on)
You should thank your lucky stars this has finally happened rather than accuse him as being a tool of SATAN.
Boom!
Peace through war. Straight out of 1984.
such a conflator you are!
Try RE-reading the book.
Big Brother sanctioned war without end flipping from one excuse to another.
Trumpies "wars" are one day skirmishes. . .
Peaceful Region?
How many of the 30,000 protesters killed are sleeping peacefully now? All of them.
I thought it was 6 million.
Fool! that "protest" was a CIA/Mossad Operation.
Scumbag Mike Pompeo admitted it clearly.
Aww dang, you guys are probably right - why should we have ever meddled with the noble Islamists and their noble aspirations for Caliphate?
Of course women should be treated like dogs (and dogs, like vermin).
At least we won't have to listen to them whine about abortion rights anymore.
I always respect your opinion and rarely disagree. However, have you considered that the world just might be a safer place if China no longer has access to Iranian oil?
China's economy was already a ponzi scheme. What are they going to do now without that oil?
We will see. If the Iranian people aren't in the streets to take back their freedom then I will change my mind.
More destabilization of the dollar.
I never worry about Israel bc the Bible says they will be fine even until the end of days. Their asses are covered. They can and never will be destroyed bc God said so. I wish we could stay out of all wars in the ME.
The quarter is not over yet Ryan. We could see more names put up on the scoreboard before April 1st.
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I have always loved that quote from uncle Teddy!
@Ryan- Ooo.....well done.
This is idiotic. AIPAC wins again.
You're all for the Russian support. How do you square your comment.
Step back. This is not about Iran's nuclear program...it's about China.
Time to broaden your aperture.
It is still idiotic. Take your own advice. Please tell me a time in history when the GOP, Dems, and media were in lockstep on an issue and it turned out well for the average voter.
I'll concede that. You're convinced Trump is in bed with hobgoblins.
Im not. That's the difference.
Cheers
Epstein who?
You guys are getting played in my opinion. Sorry Ryan. This is diametrically opposed to what he campaigned on. Answer my question above, if you can.
You still talking about Epstein?
Maybe you should read what the media--and every Democrat I've seen quoted with the honorable exception of Senator Fetterman--are actually saying about it before you make such claims.
That is just politics. They will fund the war. The only unanimous standing ovation at SOTU was when Trump saber rattled against Iran. That is all you need to know.
Let me say this in simple words that even you can understand: The. Media. Are. Not. On. Board.
Which is exactly contrary to what you said. I quote: "Please tell me a time in history when the GOP, Dems, *and media* were in lockstep on an issue and it turned out well for the average voter."
Your words. Not mine.
That is all.
How does China fit in? I’m not seeing it?
You aren’t very bright, are you?
A Hat Trick for Trump and America!!!
I’ll take it!!
One thing I really like about Trump is that when he gives a deadline, he means it.
More parents should learn how to follow through with their consequences and the world would be a better place.
I told my son, who has a baby boy. Never threaten unless you follow through.
Yup.
🎯🎯🎯
Too bad when he makes a promise, he doesn’t keep it. This is MIGA not MAGA. 🇮🇱
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It is well with the man who is gracious and lends;
He will maintain his cause in judgment.
For he will never be shaken;
The righteous will be remembered forever.
He will not fear evil tidings;
His heart is steadfast, trusting in the LORD.
His heart is upheld, he will not fear,
Until he looks with satisfaction on his adversaries.
— Psalm 112:5-8 NAS95
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This was in my devotional for today—“I still dare to hope when I remember this: The faithful love of the Lord never ends! His mercies never cease” Lamentations 3:21-22
And this a couple of weeks ago:
“Strengthen those who are discouraged. Energize those who feel defeated.”
Isaiah 35:3
(My personal Bible has this as “With this news, strengthen those who have tired hands, and encourage those who have weak knees.”)
Coffee and Covid, with Jeff’s perspective (as well as your and certain other commenters’ posts here) helps me “dare to hope” and strengthens me when I’m feeling discouraged!
Isaiah 35:3
Thank you for this verse ❤️
❤️🙏
amen
I will not fear news of disaster, my heart firmly and securely trusts in the Lord 🙌
Not sure "bible verse" and "bullshit" should be in the same sentence...
Insert the Mote/Beam story here...as well, of course, in most other places.
I KNEW IT. I knew that C & C would have a deeper, more discerning view ~ i.e., TRUER.
Thankful for Jeff every day!
Jeff was either ignorant or blatantly lying to you all - Iran has repeatedly said they do not seek a nuclear weapon - as recently as last week on public record.
Charlie Kirk, April 3, 2025 (on X)
It’s going unnoticed because so much other news is happening, but the war drums are beating again in D.C. The warmongers worry this is their last chance to get the white whale they’ve been chasing for thirty years, an all-out regime change war against Iran.
A new Middle East war would be a catastrophic mistake. Our military stockpiles are depleted from three years of backing Ukraine. Our effort to reshore manufacturing has only just begun and will take years to bear fruit. War would worsen our already immense deficit and national debt. Iran is larger than Iraq, Syria, and Afghanistan combined. A war would not be easy and could easily become a calamity.
Thanks to President Trump’s restraint during his frist term, America has a golden opportunity to pull away from Middle East quagmires for good.
We shouldn’t throw that opportunity away so that some D.C. has-beens can feel tough by sending young Americans to die yet again.
I hear you and I’m still in shock after President Trump said no more wars-or words to that effect. I wanted to believe he could turn his back on the ‘warmongers’….
Truth is the first casualty of war.
sometimes.
Sort of like the forever war in Venezuela?
Reza Pavlavi is a monarch-in-exile. These pro-Trump Iranians literally want to restore a king. Somewhere, progressive heads are exploding.
🤯 So much for No Kings. As much as I HATE WAR, this did make me giggle a little. I hope this ends quickly and well and that the Iranian people achieve freedom from the current regime 🙏.
I think the Iranians are looking to him to help transition from the mullahs to a stable democratic government. According to well-known Iranian activists in this country that are looking to him for that only. They are not saying he will be their permanent choice. He is a likely choice, but that day may be very far away.
That is my impression as well.
I'm no "progressive," but my head exploded too. I don't know that Iranians will be much better off under a Shah. https://explaininghistory.org/2025/09/03/savak-and-the-mechanisms-of-authoritarian-consolidation-in-pahlavi-iran-1957-1979/
Raza Pahlavi has enjoyed the USA freedoms over these past many years. Surely his lessons of liberty and the pursuit of happiness will go with him back to the Iranian people. But will it return to a monarchy or forward to a democracy? That is the big decision for Iranians.
This is an interesting take: https://substack.com/@thejefferymead/note/c-221035612?r=19oj26&utm_medium=ios&utm_source=notes-share-action
I thought the same thing. Somewhere progressive heads are exploding.
It doesn’t take much though 😆
Mars Attacks! Where are those Henry Mancini records when we need them.
That movie was so bizarre and campy that it was hilarious 😆
Like our current media, too.
Those who believe it are committing crimes of foolishness in the streets.
Just like progressives.
I don't think Pahlavi has a huge base of support. His father was genuinely unpopular, and most Iranians have no personal memory of royalty.
Jeff: "the 1979 Islamic Revolution that started this whole 47-year mess. "
Um... no, Jeff. I was around in the 1970s. I find the idea of the Shah's kid possibly restoring that monarchy over a half-century later is a sick, cosmic joke, showing no understanding of *why* the Shah was able to be overthrown at that time by the likes of motivated religious zealots.
I saw nothing in Jeff's long essay addressing this, nor what came before the (repeatedly mentioned) "47 years". Is that by design? Surely with this vast detail he must know about the Shah's record. What is he up to here?
I would agree that the majority of Iranians have no personal memory of Royalty. However, I am also sure that they DO have knowledge of the heinous existence that they have lived for the past near half-century, especially if only 1/3rd of the population is Islamic.
What we do not yet know is how widespread their news has been of the 30,000+ protestors killed in the last few weeks.
Gotta keep the Iranian opium flowing.
Gotta keep the world flowing until it is no more per God.
Read Biglino and wake up.
Just ONLY read your intro, Jeff.
We're all chomping at the bit.
Blessings to you for pursuing excellence. For me and so many others, you pull a rabbit out of a hat every day.
Now back to my reading
Happy Saturday Everyone
When a group of people get together amazing things can happen. Sometimes it’s a business, sometimes it’s a congregation, sometimes like here, it can be a sub stack, or even a hockey team.
We all at times have opportunities to help others. Over the years my business has given me many of these opportunities. I get to teach people a trade and then watch them go off to make their living. Some times I help a young sub contractor grow, gain confidence, give them a trusting business relationship, it can be a very positive experience for both them and myself.
When you help others to win you are sowing a seed in them to someday help someone else. Trying to hold a person back will in the end only hold you back. If we try to be unselfish and help people get to our level, God will always make sure someone will be there to get us to the next level. I’ve learned that kindness is contagious.
Projects of all kinds get built with a team of people, and how you help those people will strengthen or weaken the team. There’s nothing more rewarding than to lay down at night knowing that you helped someone else become better. You not only fulfilled your purpose for that day, you worked hard, but you took time to invest in someone else.
This lifting of people is the most satisfying accomplishment one could ever have. There is no greater legacy than when you help someone else win. We should all learn to believe in people before they succeed. It’s easy to be someone’s friend after they’re successful. When they need us the most is before their success. Being successful doesn’t necessarily make you great, what makes you great is when you reach back and help to make someone else great. The best thing that could ever happen to me is after I’m gone someone says I would never be where I am without what he did for me.
This is a true story that reminded me very much of someone I knew that mentioned how people react to his daughter who has some disabilities.
There was a man that had a son who had some physical and mental challenges. He gave a speech in front of the school that his son attended. He thanked the staff and faculty and then cried out “Where is the perfection in my son Shaya? Everything God does is done with perfection. But my child cannot understand things as other children do. My child cannot remember facts and figures as other children do. Where is Gods perfection?” The audience was shocked by the question, pained by the father’s anguish, stilled by the piercing query. “I believe” the father answered, “that when God brings a child like this into the world the perfection that he seeks is in the way people react to this child.”
The father then went on to tell the following story of his son Shaya.
One afternoon Shaya and I walked past a park where some boys were playing baseball. Shaya asked “do you think they would let me play?” The father knew that his son was not at all athletic and that most boys would not want him on the team. But Shaya’s father also understood if his boy was chosen it may give him a comfortable sense of belonging. Shaya’s father approached one of the boys on the field and asked if Shaya could play. The boy looked around for guidance from his teammates. Getting none he took matters into his own hands and said it’s the eighth inning we are down by 6 runs I guess we can put him in the outfield and let him get up to bat. Shaya’s father was ecstatic as Shaya smiled broadly. Shaya was told to put on a glove and go play short center field.
In the bottom of the eighth inning Shaya’s team scored a few runs but were still down by 4. In the bottom of the ninth Shaya’s team scored again and now with 2 outs and the bases loaded, with the potential winning run at the plate, Shaya was due to bat. Would the team actually let Shaya bat at this juncture and give away their chance to win the game? Surprisingly Shaya was given the bat. Everyone knew that it was all but impossible because Shaya had never held a bat, but he stepped up to the plate. The first pitch was thrown and Shaya swung way late. The pitcher realized Shaya had a disability, he stepped off the mound closer to the plate and threw a softer pitch. Shaya swung again and missed. The pitcher stepped a little closer and lobbed the pitch, Shaya swung and amazingly hit the ball about 5 feet. The pitcher got the ball and saw Shaya running the best he could being cheered on by his father run Shaya run!! The pitcher easily could have thrown him out and end the game, but intentionally he threw the ball well over the first baseman’s head into right field. Shaya touched first base and with the help of the opposing team he went onto second and then third base. By this time the right fielder got the ball, he had figured out what the pitcher had done and threw the ball again over the third baseman’s head. Shaya ran in, touched home plate and scored the winning run. Both teams cheering his name picked him up and brought him off the field. Shaya for the rest of his life will remember this day.
“That day” said the father softly, with tears rolling down his face, “those 18 boys reached their level of Gods perfection.”
That day those boys deposited something in Shaya that he will never forget. Sometimes you have to give up winning so somebody else can win. Sometimes you have to make sacrifices to let someone else get ahead. What you make happen for others God will make happen for you. When you live unselfishly and you help somebody else get ahead God will make sure someday somebody will be there for you to get ahead. When you do for others what they cannot do for themselves you will always have Gods favor. Have pride, America is like no other nation on
earth. J.Goodrich
Thank you for this absolute gem, James.
I've read that story before but the way you tied it into our present situation is beautiful. Thanks.
. . . tears to my eyes, James.
Great post!!! So true!! 🙏❤️
Tissue please… thank you for sharing
**the only other strong opponent of the strikes was Great Britain, **
Sadly GB is a newly formed Islamic state so them supporting Iran is not too much of a surprise.
So GB monarchy is only a figurehead for the middle east with a palor...now whiter shade...
A Whiter Shade of Pallor?
Pallor Mortis - it's not just for dead people anymore (TM)
I was actually surprised by France tbh.
I found this to be the biggest tell actually
I was similarly not surprised. God help the British people!
Starmer has now joined in. British warplanes launched in ME.
Aside from 47 years of Iran exporting terrorism, today’s attack was totally unprovoked 🤡
Godspeed to our military heroes and the people of Iran
Charlie Kirk, April 3, 2025 (on X)
It’s going unnoticed because so much other news is happening, but the war drums are beating again in D.C. The warmongers worry this is their last chance to get the white whale they’ve been chasing for thirty years, an all-out regime change war against Iran.
A new Middle East war would be a catastrophic mistake. Our military stockpiles are depleted from three years of backing Ukraine. Our effort to reshore manufacturing has only just begun and will take years to bear fruit. War would worsen our already immense deficit and national debt. Iran is larger than Iraq, Syria, and Afghanistan combined. A war would not be easy and could easily become a calamity.
Thanks to President Trump’s restraint during his frist term, America has a golden opportunity to pull away from Middle East quagmires for good.
We shouldn’t throw that opportunity away so that some D.C. has-beens can feel tough by sending young Americans to die yet again.
@Mark- unprovoked....ok.
I think that was sarcasm because of the 🤡emoji.
ha! uuuuh. yeah.
Bullshit.
America and israel are the biggest terrorist countries... BY FAR.
Sure Jan 🙄
It is rather disconcerting & mind boggling to read all the Iran/Middle East news this morning.
Yes it really is, nice summary by Jeff Childers though of where things stand.
All we can really do is pray for PDJT that he doesn't let this thing spin out of hand. It needs to end fast with the mullahs gone or his presidency will be destroyed. He took a huge gamble, I hope he knows what he's doing.
Darryl Cooper (Martyr Made) has the astute (IMO) explanation that Israel told Trump that if he didn't do it then they would take out the Iranian government using nuclear weapons. Israel could not do it with conventional weapons as it doesn't have the capability, only the US does.
This is the most likely explanation to me, that Israel forced Trump's hand with what is effectively blackmail. If Trump didn't want to preside over a nuclear attack by our "ally" then he needed to do it himself. This makes far more sense than any of the other explanations out there.
Ultimately, what we need is the truth. PDJT has been far more restrained than previous presidents, and for that we should be grateful. But with everything we've seen in the shadowy world of Epstein and how the world really works, comforting lies are no longer acceptable.
I disagree. I think it’s more likely that Trump has his own agenda to fix everything once and for all his own way, separate from any desires of Israel, and he is fully aware of how to utilize Israel in a way that maintains our support of them without pandering to their every whim and wish - and he put Israel on notice of what he was going to do and that they either help and do it the way Trump wants them to or he would pull our support from Israel and let the anti-Israel lunatics permanently take the mic. In that perspective Israel had no real choice but to follow Trump’s lead and do what HE wants, not the other way around.
Frankly, both your explanation and mine are equally possible but in each of our minds our own is more likely. 🤣
People always say Israel and the Mossad control us, but it seems entirely plausible to me that the CIA and our deep state control *them.*
The intel data sharing between US and Israel is hand in glove, I would imagine, considering all the other interwoven diplomacy and politics. Add the Five Eyes pact from WWII and then Interpol and the West is pretty much covered. Of course, I can neither confirm nor deny such actions.
Intel sharing yes but who calls the tune?
Follow the money.
Which would also help make sense of why their government pushed the Covid shots so hard.
I prefer your explanation of Trump vs Israel.
Try faith in your president. Look at what he’s been doing successfully so far. C’mon, man!
Right! One of the first things i read was a post about trump bombing a girls school in Iran.
That's what they do for their great religion... Stand behind the women they have caged. There will always be more females at any age. I'm old enough to know who they really are. The Bible is real history.
Who knows if it’s even true or just propaganda from the mullahs and co.
Yes it is
Also, may be failed launch by IRGC.
https://t.me/The_Library_II/170066
That sounds more likely. And then convenient to blame it on us 🙄
Just saw this. The comment about schools (the video is from about a week ago) is particularly interesting.
https://www.facebook.com/share/v/1CDneUwJ2f/?mibextid=wwXIfr
What would Jesus say?
Good question. What would he say? And to whom would he say it? I am a life long reader of the scriptures. A christian who daily meets with my maker. But this question. Would he speak to the regime who executed 30000 people? Tell them to not murder. And remind them that he is the savior. Would he speak to the 30000 who were killed? Would he speak to those left behind who continue to protest? Tell them to obey their government. To our government to not drop bombs and leave people alone. Turn the other cheek. To other .. love your enemies. … what would he say?
I know, it was weird. No real information.
Truth - the first casualty of war.
Good morning!
Morning! I’m eagerly cuddling down with my coffee to enjoy this edition.
I was up early, and was not aware of this action in Iran, until I read one other breaking news in my inbox. I was hoping for a complete summary and enlightened breakdown from Jeff, and was not disappointed. (the chemtrailing just after sunrise this morning here was some of the worst I have ever seen, just to let you know)
Without a doubt, Jeff Childers provided the most comprehensive explanation and up-to-date analysis of the goings-on in Iran and the president’s raison d’être. Perfectly. I read the whole thing aloud to my spouse who listened with great interest and satisfaction! What a blogger is our JC!
I experienced the same.
I saw a post on Facebook by a conservative European friend before I went out for my run, so found out then.
I'm trying to sip my especial coffee, but the cats keep jumping in my lap and insisting on attention. Infernal critters.
But when you’re sad or not feeling well, there’s nothing more soothing than a purring cat.
All pets are good for the soul.
Indeed. My brother lost his wife recently and I am so glad he has their two dogs to keep him company. God is so good!
Nodding approvingly as a soft and cuddly Shih Poo is warmly curled in my stomach and a new Cavachon puppy is curled behind my knees. It’s calming and peaceful
It's a dog's life?
I prefer horses but don’t have the land/space/money for one! 😆
One? You gotta get at least two, and a few donkeys!
Amen
Cat fur on the marshmallows darn it
A stray hair or two won't hurt.
It’s that or vacuum cats daily
They would love that.
Feel like I think more clearly after C&C. I enjoy & learn from many of the comments
Good morning! ☕️
"He demanded they say only six words: 'We will never have a nuclear weapon.' [But that’s SEVEN WORDS.]
It was that simple— six words in ten days. Even our beloved and very specially-abled Portland readers understood the threat."
After a slip-up like this, Jeff, you're going to have to stop dunking on Portlanders.
D'Oh! How about this: the article 'a' doesn't count?
Alternatively, it could be changed from “a nuclear weapon” to “nuclear weapons,” but if it is a direct quote, that won't work.
Inspectors were allowed in to verify no nukes.
All a charade. Nukes had nothing to do with it.
No, it pretty much had everything to do with exactly what he said. But you go ahead and hang on every word spewed from your tv. You mostly annoying.
Yeah Alan, you believe they are days away from having nukes - which they have been saying for literally decades, and you believe it. Think about that.
When did that occur? And who inspected? And from what countries? And what were the inspectors ranks?
Nukes don't exist. It's all fear porn.
😆
Abbreviate we will.
They did say it. Trump is lying to your faces:
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The false claims behind this new war with Iran are ones we have extensively documented. In Trump’s war announcement this morning, he claimed — as he did at Tuesday’s State of the Union address — that Iran refuses to promise that it will not obtain nuclear weapons. The exact opposite is true: Iran has stated this clearly, unequivocally and repeatedly, and did so as recently as this week. “Iran will under no circumstances ever develop a nuclear weapon,” proclaimed Iran’s foreign minister Seyed Abbas Araghchi.
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Send 2 zionists to negotiate and we get war. Shocker.
@Johnny- because Iran's word can be trusted. They've proven time and time again it can't be.
But Israeli intel can be trusted right? How many decades now has Iran been "days away" from obtaining a nuclear weapon? Pure lunacy.
I saw a montage video clip of Netanyahu saying Iran was close to having nuclear weapons. It covered a 30 year span.
How so?
Send 2 zionists to negotiate and we get war. Shocker.
Easiest bet EVER!
Maybe you should go back to your mommy’s basement and let the adults comment here. You are clearly low IQ and emotionally retarded.
He also has multiple personalities that post here in the comments.
Very unchristian.
Come out of you basement
He outs himself.... if he's not a bot. He's a disrupter and his purpose is to degrade the C&C forum.
Not only did they say, over and over, that they will not get a nuclear weapon, the Ayatollah issued a fatwa against nuclear weapons.
Meanwhile, the US and Israel have been saying for 46 years that Iran is working on a nuclear weapon, and is very near to producing one.
But in 46 years, Iran has never gotten one. Are we going to look at reality? Or war propaganda?
The IAEA confirmed that Iran wasn't working on a nuclear weapon.
But somehow Americans prefer to believe 46 years of lying predictions, instead of reality.
You do you, but I prefer to look at history and reality.
And I noticed that Jeff left out of his timeline the fact that the Reagan team made a deal with the Ayatollah to keep the hostages until after the election, so that Reagan could win. They kept their word. They kept them until a minute after the inauguration.
In return Oliver North and team, which included Jeffrey Epstein, working out of the Reagan White House, supplied Iran with weapons for its war with Iraq. So the Reagan team kept their word, also.
Facts are stupid things, right?
Mrs. RW
That is, Jeffrey Epstein worked on the Iran-Contra crimes, but he wasn't in the White House, Oliver North and George H. W. Bush were.
Epstein worked with Leese and Khashoggi.
Mrs. RW
I'm old enough to know that Iran has claimed it's not building nuclear weapons, but it's not allowed inspectors to come in and make sure that's not the case. That's been the case for decades.
It's not a matter of them saying some magic words.
Actually it makes me feel special. Keep on dumping Jeff
Who's counting?
Iran has always said they will never have a nuke.
Trump is a damned liar... trying desperately to avoid teh Epstein TRUTH about his pedo ass.
You are a moronic imbecile
Glenn Greenwald:
It is hard to overstate what a massive fraud Donald Trump, his campaign and his political movement are. For more than a decade, Trump has ranted and raved against the evils of regime-change wars and neoconservative dogma, only to launch a new war that most perfectly encapsulates and aggressively advances both. He spent years falsely warning that former President Obama would start a war with Iran because of how weak and inept Obama supposedly was at negotiation and diplomacy, only to now do that himself (rather than start a new war with Iran, as Trump predicted, Obama entered a diplomatic agreement with them which major nuclear bodies attested was effective in monitoring Iran’s nuclear activities: a deal which Trump, at Israel’s insistence, tore up in 2018).
Throughout the 2016 campaign, Trump mercilessly mocked Marco Rubio for receiving millions in donations from Sheldon and Miriam Adelson, money that Trump said would “mold [Rubio] into [their] perfect little puppet,” only for himself to become not only the largest beneficiary of Adelson funding in history, but to become the ultimate puppet of the Adelsons’ agenda, one which Trump has clearly acknowledged — when speaking in Israel last year — is an agenda that puts the interests of Israel atop everything, including Americans’ interests:
“I get her in trouble with this, but I actually asked [Miriam] once… ‘What do you love more? The United States or Israel?’ She refused to answer. That might mean Israel,” Trump says, smiling, while looking at the dual Israeli-American national.
I am disappointed…Trump is such a disappointment. I voted no regime change wars. I fear the GOP will be obliterated in the midterms and the it’s just impeachment crap for the next 2 years.
Email and call Sen. Thune to end the silent filibuster, pass the SAVE Act, and we won’t have to worry about mass cheating in the midterms stealing the election.
It may not even matter. If this goes full blown, Trump just wrecked his presidency.
Jovan Pulitzer explains election strategy:
https://rumble.com/v76auhy-mr.-president-desperate-times-call-for-desperate-emergency-measures-act-now.html?e9s=src_v1_cmd%2Csrc_v1_upp_a
Ah ye of little faith. You should know by now that Trump is a man of his word. Not sure where you get the idea this is "regime change." All Iran's mullahs had to do was to say "no nukes." They didn't do it. We will not be installing the next Iranian government and that is what typical regime change has looked like: we go in, take out a government, install one that is to our liking, and keep our forces there for the next 20 years hoping to make it work for us, and not the people of those nations (see Iraq and Afghanistan). Trump clearly said that what comes next will be up to the Iranian people and looks very much as though they want to return to monarchy! How deliciously ironic.
They certainly did say "no nukes" even as recently as last week. You are being lied to. Quit blindly trusting politicians - especially ones who take gobs of money from the zionists who want nothing more than for the US to fight a war for israel.
I read the tweet you posted, Mary Ann, saying that the strikes were aimed at a meeting of Iran's leaders, in a decapitation attempt.
You posted it twice.
Now you're saying that this isn't a regime change operation?
Mrs. RW
I wasn't clear enough. Initially, the Iranian regime could have remained in power simply by agreeing not to brutalize its citizens nor enrich uranium. So now it looks like the Iranian tyrants have decided to have themselves removed. It didn't have to be this way. There's another consideration: "regime change" under the neocons meant ONLY that we would take out a government we didn't like and replace it with one of our choosing, in order to accomplish American objectives which including trying to acculturate a nation like Iraq or Afghanistan to the neocon's version of American values. That always meant forever wars. This is not that. Iran is dangerous; we know that. It's not a lie like the one that took us into Iraq, for example. The Middle East is now committed to living in peace because of the Trump reset. Saudi Arabia and nearly every other ME nation and including Russia and China have either said they support this mission or they have been silent about it, which is a kind of support when it comes to international realpolitik. The US is not putting in ground troops and we're not planning on staying and the Iranian people will determine who will represent them. I don't think any of that fits what I remember as being regime change.
You know what else wasn't a forever war? Iraq:
Donald Rumsfeld, the former U.S. Secretary of Defense, stated on February 7, 2003, that he doubted the Iraq War would last "six days, six weeks, I doubt six months."
And the same stripe of neocons are influencing Trump on this decision.
I agree that Trump keeps saying that Iran will not say the magic words, even though Iranians have repeatedly said they will not develop a nuclear weapon, and the Ayatollah issued a fatwa forbidding them.
And here is the minister of Oman, who mediated the talks between Iran and the US, talking with CBS.
"Omani Foreign Minister Badr Albusaidi, the mediator in talks between the U.S. and Iran, revealed that Iran had offered unprecedented restrictions of its nuclear program to prevent a war.
MINISTER ALBUSAIDI: Yes, is within our reach, if we just allow diplomacy the space it needs to get there. Because I don’t think any alternative to diplomacy is going to solve this problem.
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MINISTER ALBUSAIDI: The single most important achievement, I believe, is the agreement that Iran will never, ever have a nuclear material that will create a bomb. This is, I think, a big achievement. This is something that is not in the old deal that was negotiated during President Obama’s time. This is something completely new. It really makes the enrichment argument less relevant, because now we are talking about zero stockpiling. And that is very, very important, because if you cannot stockpile material that is enriched then there is no way you can actually create a bomb, whether you enrich or don’t enrich. And I think this is really something that has been missed a lot by the media, and I want to clarify that from the standpoint of a mediator."
I believe them, not Trump or the media.
Mrs. RW
"ALBUSAIDI: Yes, is within our reach, if we just allow diplomacy the space it needs to get there." Of course they would say that. It was a strategy and the strategy they used for decades to avoid making a commitment to peace. I find it odd that anyone would trust someone affiliated with a government that killed people who protested them, a government that funded terrorism (as we used to), Snd why would a nation want to enrich uranium that has all that oil under its control? I trust Rubio and Trump. I do not trust religious fanatics.
@Janine- which part of (paraphrasing) "...we have no intention of a forever war, no occupation, and we will free up the Iranian people to create their own government" didn't make sense to you?
Are you really this obtuse? You think "the people" are going to rise up and start their own government, in a country of 93 million people? Good lord.
If they do rise up, will you shut up? I guess we will see.
Someone doesn't like free speech, but love sending sons and daughters in harms way for the zionists in Israel. So lovely of you.
@Johnny- you are clearly much younger than I am. I remember 1979. Yes, they will.
I have heard and seen enough from actual Iranians about how much they hate the Islamic Republic and how they yearn for change to be quite certain that they will rise up. Heck they already have, on several occasions but haven’t had the necessary support and help to overcome their disadvantage compared to the despotic regime. Until now.
The whole middle east stands at risk of becoming even more destabilized. Iraq 2.0 but worse. Thanks Trump and all of his supporters who go along with whatever he wants, despite campaigning for literally a decade against crap like this.
Yeah, what a stellar government that took hold. The next one could be even more radical. Why do people not understand this?
I would bet that for years there have been plans just waiting in the wings on how this will work out once the mullahs are gone. Another thought: the north American English colonies figured it out as time went on. The first arrangement didn't work out so we made another one. True, it wasn't 93 million people, but it was also a time when communications were not instant and people were more loyal to their state governments than to this new "national government" idea. Come on, give the Iranians a break. They are a smart and educated population. They can do this.
How about TRUMP RUNNING ON A TICKET OF NO NEW WARS AND NO REGIME CHANGE WARS. How has the ever worked in the past?
@Janine- you need to re-read Jeff's article, especially the 'peace through strength' part.
You mean what Orwell said? War is peace!
The Narrative is everything, and blinds one to everything not the Narrative.
Janine, please read Jeff's piece again only this time, slowly. It's a complete argument based on facts, not fairy wishes. And again, I ask, what would YOU have done?
Not ended the JCPOA agreement. Simple, and none of this would be happening.
I feel the same way. I fear this might be curtains for MAGA.
And that’s ok.
Party is finished.
Fill your gas tank yet?
But I guess you are okay with the world having constant violence in the Middle East for 47 years? How do you propose we end it? I find it incredibly hard to believe that previous presidents couldn't have stopped the Iranian regime.
Or the Chinese one.
Created by shadowy actors at our expense to manipulate world events.
This isn’t a regime change war,like what’s gonna happen when we take Cuba. This is killing a despotic theocracy that has forcefully taken over the Persian republic that we’re handing back to the Persian people. Get your facts right. Turn off the idiot box. This will be an end to a 47 year old war, that honestly could have been prevented 47 years ago, and every year since. Ask the Persians.
Just like Iraq, right?
Donald Rumsfeld, the former U.S. Secretary of Defense, stated on February 7, 2003, that the the Iraq War would last "six days, six weeks, I doubt six months"
Same as it ever was. And people are still as dumb as gullible as ever.
US Iran War – Here We Go Again
I was rushing to get this out because the risk is a protracted war and Regime Change from the air has NEVER worked and counting on the people rising up is never a military strategy. This report is an eye-opener to say the least. I will post it ASAP....
This is an important report discussing the real implications of this War which has always been about Regime Change and was clearly in the works taking place 8.6 months from the last incursion. Yet Regine Change is always the object of the Neocons....
The danger here is that Trump has stated the objective – Regime Change. Just as the EU and NATO are not interested in pushing Russia out of Ukraine, they too want Regime Change. The problem here is when you are actually seeking to destroy a government, then there are no rules of war that are applicable. This is when bad things do happen. More importantly, Regime Change is not possible with simple air power. It requires boots on the ground as was the case in Iraq...
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/world-news/war/us-iran-war-here-we-go-again/
Janine, did you even read Jeff’s post??? This isn’t about regime change. Please reread it with fresh eyes.
These people summoned here to bash Trump whenever they sense blood in the water can’t bear to actually read what Jeff writes.
It’s getting hard to read the comments when so many don’t bother to read the actual post before jumping in to give their opinions. I don’t mind discussions when people have opposing views but it is a disservice to our host to only come for a battle of words before enjoying Jeff’s insights and then thoughtfully commenting.
Your not old enough to say that
Well maybe, but look at all the good work done in two years.
That's how good blackmail is.
Who is next after Clinton?
You are making a great argument for repealing the 19th amendment.
There are certainly plenty of men arguing the very same point she is, so I’m not sure that is relevant.
@Johhny- Glenn's had a hard on for Trump for years.
Glenn hates war period. He's not a partisan hack. I've followed Glenn since he first began writing on Salon. I'm well aware of his proclivities.
I didn’t realize that there were so many seal clappers watching trump destroy hi presidency and war mongers in this crowd.
Just WOW!!!! 🥸
You read salon. Explains a lot. Fill your head with claptrap, become like the claptrap. And believe you are virtuous at the same time.
Moron, I read salon strictly for Glen, because that was where he was published like 20 years ago. They actually published someone speaking out against the war on terror - imagine that - but I"m sure you love the war on terror, which has added trillions to our debt. Enjoy your war and all the blowback that comes with it.
Jesus. Glen? Hes that good? lol. Please. He’s done some good. And hes milquetoast at best when it comes to things like making decisions. What trump did, could have been solved 47 years ago.
https://x.com/charliekirk11/status/1935058728253825410?s=61&t=gj_4P_svrJmO8sgRjVUQIA
Greenwald doesn't get it. He staked out a position and uses everything including garbage to throw at it in support of his idea. Classic confirmation bias.
When John Fetterman won his seat in the Senate, I wrongly assumed we had elected another insane social justice warrior, and at the time, he was still unable to articulate clearly because he was recovering from a stroke. What new mess were we in now? I was sure my state would have chosen Dr. Oz. I was wrong on so many counts. It turns out that Fetterman has been the voice of reason and clarity on almost every issue that matters to me: transgenderism, illegal immigration, and now Trump's decision to strike Iran. I'm so proud of Senator John Fetterman and will vote for him in 2028, irrespective of which party he runs for.
It was Fetterman's office that answered my concerns when the VA sent me a Rx made in communist China.
McCormick's office never answered my correspondence that I submitted on 20 April 2025.
Still waiting...
I'm sorry to hear that about McCormick b/c I really like him. In his defense, I will say that during the first year of Fetterman's time in the Senate, I emailed him several times about several issues and never heard back. It was maddening. Eventually when I did receive a reply in his second year, it was on an issue I had not emailed him about!
I even tagged and called out McCormick on X numerous times about his lack of response to a question concerning the VA.
Considering there are so many veterans in PA.
Odd. Especially since he's from Allegheny County, right? Not a good look.
I heard rumors before the election that McCormick lived in Connecticut.
Just checked and it seems he lives in Squirrel Hill now.
Older constituents might either call or email requesting help.
But youngish people would probably use social media. So, if he doesn't have a staff member monitoring all his social media, something is wrong. He has a Facebook, X, Instagram, and YouTube account. No excuse for not staying on top of things.
I agree. I think I'll send sn email and message him on X. I'll let you know what happens, if anything.
I'm another PA resident who voted for Oz and feared Fetterman. I was wrong. I think the Dems plan to primary him. If they do, I'll go door to door for Fetterman in the primary.
It was so reassuring to be wrong about him. And good for you! I will also go door to door for him.
I don't know why he insists on staying on the Dem side. That astounds me.
It makes good political sense. Closer to his reelection bid for a second term, he will be primaried by a Dem. nut job who is a social justice, Trump-hating idiot. Democrat voters in PA (mostly in Philly and Pgh) will vote for him. Fetterman will signal his change to the Republican party when it behooves him to do so and it's too soon right now. I would imagine he will make a deal with PA Republican "king makers" to change parties and run in the Republican primary. He will win in the general.
Israel has nukes so why shouldn't Iran have them?
Because Israel (and the US) hasn’t declared that other nations should be completely eliminated from the face of the earth. 🙄
Nor has Iran. You are relying on bad information sources. The phrase "Israel must be wiped off the map" was NEVER said. What was said was "The regime that occupies Jerusalem my be erased from the pages of history".
The Ayatollah Khomeini had a meeting with Iran's rabbis and literally said "I have nothing against the descendants of Moses. It's those Zionist bloodsuckers I can't stand". At the time there were 20-25 thousand Jews living in Iran and there are still 10-12 thousand today.
So much for your position. Upgrade your information sources.
You guys are completely insane and naive if you can’t realize what Iran would do with a nuclear weapon. 🤦🏼♀️ smh
And your arrogance that YOUR information sources are the trustworthy ones? History says otherwise. I’m not going to sit here and educate you on what your own education has deprived you of. You can find the truth yourselves if only you wanted to, but it destroys your narratives.
The Iranian people are celebrating today. I think I’ll trust their perspective over yours, given you have never lived in their circumstances. You are corrupt and spoiled by our peaceful freedoms with an agenda that is so deeply divisive you can only mean to destroy our nation from within.
I knew you shills would quickly be out of the woodwork here. Deaf to everything Jeff shares.
Don't feed the trolls
Sometimes it's hard to remain silent. Today is one of those days.
They’re in too much of ‘a blood in the water’ sensing frenzy to think reasonably. Once more, they believe they’ve got Trump this time!
They don’t realize the blood they smell is their own.
Good point. Sometimes we're at the zoo.
These people are complete morons. I have a hard time believing they follow C&C unless they are just retards trolling.
They troll here often they have been around a while, snakes waiting in the grass to strike.
My sentiments as well. No way they could possibly enjoy Jeff Childers’ posts.
They’re just here to seed discord.
And yet you still don't answer the most basic question:
"Israel has nukes so why shouldn't Iran?".
And now Israel is moving the goal posts and demanding that Iran not only give up their non-existent nuclear weapons program but also they have to give up their missiles.
But yea Israel are always the good guys and get to engage in preemptive war but nobody else can have weapons to fight back with.
I answered. You didn’t like it. Iran is the world’s leading exporter of terrorism. That right there is enough reason! I suggest you sit down and have a nice cup of coffee with an actual Iranian to learn all the other good reasons.
I can give you 30,000 recent reasons from the dead Iranians that dared to protest their government.
God how evil can you be? And so openly? You’re worthy of a block
And for everyone else, watch out for these evil clowns. They are here to ONLY focus on and try to pull everyone here into an anti-Israel argument, making our stance on Iran ALL about Israel and Israel alone. Last I checked they are but a small section of the entire Middle East and we presently have the support of pretty much the remainder in the ME. That speaks volumes. This isn’t just Israel and the US, but Israel has the best military to support us in our mission. Don’t let them use this as something to rage on Israel over. Even someone like me that is on the fence over their influence in our government (and I do have concerns) can see the significance of this mission goes far beyond the subject of Israel. These clowns have small minds and are hyper-fixated on creating division on the Israeli issue alone, and will use any opportunity like this one to divide us.
I see them. I hope you do too. Evil rotten scoundrels.
Stand your ground Juju - I love it.
30,000? ROTFLMAO. You fell for that one too? OMFG.
I don't like theocracy in general and the Iranian version in particular but the Israelis have nukes and not just blasting caps like India and Pakistan. Israel has hydrogen bomb.
Israel has instigated more wars than all their neighbors combined.
You are clearly retarded. She answered very directly. Now go back to your mommy’s basement.
Israel has never started a war. But yes it has successfully ended more than one.
How do you explain Saudi Arabia's support for Operation Epic Fury? You have failed in a dot connection exercise: in just a little over a year, Trump has reset the entire Middle East with the exception of Iran and that started taking place today.
I do not believe there will be peace there ever until Jesus comes back and reigns for that 1000 years talked about in Revelation Chapter 20 and then Satan is loosed again. I also believe that Israel could never be destroyed unless God did it directly so He has their back. Therefore, I wish we were not involved but support our President.
Didn't take them long, did it?
They came with no intention to acknowledge Jeff’s salient words and arguments. They had pre-scripted smears and divisive points and posted those before even reading his article. They demand we explain ourselves, but why? Jeff already did it masterfully. 🤣 That right there shows their fraudulent intentions.
Although it does no good to take on the trolls, today it's hard to remaiin silent, isn't it? I support every word you have said about this! Go Juju!!!!
Yeah I always find this argument so ridiculous. If anyone wants nuclear weapons, let them! So now we have to worry about even MORE places with potentially unstable leaders who might destroy the world 🙄 Why don’t we just do an Oprah style giveaway, you get a nuke and you get a nuke and everybody gets a nuke!! Because we want nuclear equity 🙄🙄🙄 It’s bad enough that so many countries have them now. Let’s not add to the problem.
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@TRM- which part of "We will destroy the Great Satan and the Little Satan" don't you get? If someone threatened me with surefire death, I'd strike, too.
That is referring to ZIONISM which owns the USA government regardless of who's in power. And yes I do firmly stand by the position that Zionism needs to go away just like all the other failed political philosophies like Bolshevism, Nazism and Maoism.
"Zionism. The Real Enemy of the Jews" - By Alan Hart. One rabbi told him "You have summed up the problem facing us in 7 words". You should give it a read along with "The Samson Option" by Sy Hersh.
Hey TRM: so much for your Zionism nonsense: https://x.com/shanaka86/status/2027741880444915787?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
I think "Death to America" is damping on this front.
Riddle us this, TRM: How do you explain Saudi Arabia's support for Operation Epic Fury?
Sunni vs Shia ...
You don't know about that? Similar to the Orthodox vs Catholic vs Protestant divide in Christianity. They've killed each other just as much or more than Sunni vs Shia.
Of course I do! I have some personal experience with it: my son-in-law is Sunni. However, Trump is resetting the entire ME. Take a look at this just published on X: https://x.com/shanaka86/status/2027741880444915787?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
So....... it's not just Israel. In the face of the facts, that dumb argument no longer holds water.
Thank you very much for this link. I am somewhat heartened by the response in the ME.
Your lack of intelligence is astounding.
Does stupid hurt?
So, what are YOUR information sources? Hmmmm?
“Death to America “
"Death to America, and Israel."
Of course it's just rhetoric and doesn't really mean anything.
Except for Operation Sampson…
Agreed…
Suck a dick, sandnigger.
Because Iranians regularly chant "death to America" and "death to Israel" right in their parliament.