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!"
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.
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 💩
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.
🇮🇷 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.
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
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.
"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."
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. ❤️❤️❤️
🤣 I agree, but back in the day for Christmas a vendor would send me a YUGE tray of Paklava… made from pistachios instead of almonds. 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! 🤣
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.
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?
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.
“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
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. 🤣)
"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
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?
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
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.
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.
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. . .
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!! 🙏🙏🙏
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.
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?
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 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."
I've seen a lot of your replies over the years, Ryan. I never would have guessed you'd be spoonfed propaganda this easily. You clearly know nothing about history and the MIC. Useful idiots will be the fall of the Republic. Just another F-ing cheerleader. Maybe you can dance on the graves of our sons and daughters when they start coming home in body bags. Pathetic.
I'm a Desert Storm vet, who's seen these lies and pathetic excuses time after time. It's always the same.
However, I did come on too strong because I'm so upset, at the moment. I'm truly sorry for coming at you so negatively. Based on your comments on this and other stacks, I think you're probably a truly decent person. Seeing another repeat of all the catastrophic mistakes is so disheartening. This will benefit nobody, save those with stock in military contractors. Please accept my apology. Bless you and your son.
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!
Save me your bible verse BS. You obviously HATE Jesus and His teachings if you support this war of aggression. How do so many fake Christians totally miss what Jesus was about after years of reading the bible and going to church? Right now He's shaking his head in sadness at your support for this neocon fever dream, disastrous forever war.
i.e. Spin and propaganda. This is another neocon forever war for the SOLE purpose of making money for the MIC. You are SO gullible. Cheerleading for war hawks, you might as well dance on the graves of our servicemen and women when they start coming home in body bags. Pathetic.
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.
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
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?
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. 🤣
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)
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
@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.
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.
I’m old enough to remember Reagan’s inauguration and hostage release. Every Dem president since then has been satisfied with platitudes from Iran, smiled for photo ops while enabling their nuclear program, and funded further Islamic power (I’m looking at you Obama and Clinton) as the IRGC stabbed the US in the back and planted sleeper cells in the US through Biden’s open borders. So when is enough really enough?
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."
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.
Massie is truly nasty.
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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.
Wow, thanks for this info Juju.
Exactly, find out who. Wouldn’t be that Sourface Griffin at the Pentagon, would it?
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.
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.
An Iran bot or just a brainwashed Demonic Party member who hates America?
I’ll just consider it as Congressional Notification…
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
Is that you Mohammed?
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.
JuJu--Define 'crazy members of congress'.....? Is that anyone you (or Trump) disagrees with?
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.
Massie ran as a Republican, but he has NEVER been an ‘R’. He has always been. RAT.
I didn’t know this. 😡
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’.
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.
thank you for the prayer
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.
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. ❤️❤️❤️
I second what JuJu said!
Much gratitude for the clarity.
"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 almonds. 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
🤣
Time to start creating a homeland for the Kurds.
Let the Kurds create their own homeland.
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.
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?
Whenever Netanyahu visits the white house we end up taking military action somewhere shortly thereafter, for some reason.
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).
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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.
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
Oh yeah. I listen to him all the time. What a voice.
Very clever as usual!
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. 🤣)
“Tell the Ayatollahs gonna put you in a box” 😂😆
This ones good too:
https://x.com/i/status/2027773128659575295
Lolol.
Viewers discretion advised.
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
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!
Ditto my brother.
(sister)
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!
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?
Wow
All tools of Empire and Bank of England.
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
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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.
Please relay to your husband and son that we thank them for their service to our great nation.
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!!
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.
This ☝️…
All Islamists either deported or killed.
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
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.
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!! 🙏🙏🙏
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?
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*!"
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.
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.
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?
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.
Hear, hear. Now go after the scum here at home and there is plenty of scum.
AMEN!
Can someone send today’s excellent C&C to “gadfly” Thomas Massie? Asking for several friends…..
Maybe someone can post on his X.
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 ! 👊
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!
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?
How many of the 30,000 protesters killed are sleeping peacefully now? All of them.
I thought it was 6 million.
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!
Peaceful Region?
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.
@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?
Excellent quote!!! 😍
I've seen a lot of your replies over the years, Ryan. I never would have guessed you'd be spoonfed propaganda this easily. You clearly know nothing about history and the MIC. Useful idiots will be the fall of the Republic. Just another F-ing cheerleader. Maybe you can dance on the graves of our sons and daughters when they start coming home in body bags. Pathetic.
I have a 15 year old son.
I think this is the best way to prevent my son being in war.
We differ on opinion. Whatever happened to that being ok. You're acting no different than the Leftist.
As far as propaganda. Who the hell are you to tell me im naive.
Good luck trying to win a debate by being a prick.
I'm a Desert Storm vet, who's seen these lies and pathetic excuses time after time. It's always the same.
However, I did come on too strong because I'm so upset, at the moment. I'm truly sorry for coming at you so negatively. Based on your comments on this and other stacks, I think you're probably a truly decent person. Seeing another repeat of all the catastrophic mistakes is so disheartening. This will benefit nobody, save those with stock in military contractors. Please accept my apology. Bless you and your son.
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.
Yup.
I told my son, who has a baby boy. Never threaten unless you follow through.
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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 ❤️
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amen
I will not fear news of disaster, my heart firmly and securely trusts in the Lord 🙌
Save me your bible verse BS. You obviously HATE Jesus and His teachings if you support this war of aggression. How do so many fake Christians totally miss what Jesus was about after years of reading the bible and going to church? Right now He's shaking his head in sadness at your support for this neocon fever dream, disastrous forever war.
I KNEW IT. I knew that C & C would have a deeper, more discerning view ~ i.e., TRUER.
Thankful for Jeff every day!
Truth is the first casualty of war.
sometimes.
i.e. Spin and propaganda. This is another neocon forever war for the SOLE purpose of making money for the MIC. You are SO gullible. Cheerleading for war hawks, you might as well dance on the graves of our servicemen and women when they start coming home in body bags. Pathetic.
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 thought the same thing. Somewhere progressive heads are exploding.
It doesn’t take much though 😆
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/
Gotta keep the Iranian opium flowing.
Gotta keep the world flowing until it is no more per God.
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!! 🙏❤️
Aside from 47 years of Iran exporting terrorism, today’s attack was totally unprovoked 🤡
Godspeed to our military heroes and the people of Iran
@Mark- unprovoked....ok.
I think that was sarcasm because of the 🤡emoji.
ha! uuuuh. yeah.
It is rather disconcerting & mind boggling to read all the Iran/Middle East news this morning.
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
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.
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 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...
I found this to be the biggest tell actually
I was actually surprised by France tbh.
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)
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
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.
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.
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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.
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.
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
Actually it makes me feel special. Keep on dumping Jeff
Who's counting?
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.
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.
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 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.
Your lack of intelligence is astounding.
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.
Does stupid hurt?
So, what are YOUR information sources? Hmmmm?
Except for Operation Sampson…
Agreed…
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.
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.
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
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.
@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.
@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.
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.
I feel the same way. I fear this might be curtains for MAGA.
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.
Janine, did you even read Jeff’s post??? This isn’t about regime change. Please reread it with fresh eyes.
Your not old enough to say that
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.
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!!!! 🥸
https://x.com/charliekirk11/status/1935058728253825410?s=61&t=gj_4P_svrJmO8sgRjVUQIA
I know that Jeff, and most here, know this, but it's worth adding to Jeff's timeline:
The hostages were released on January 20, 1981, just minutes after Ronald Reagan was sworn in, essentially at the moment Carter’s term ended.
It matters who is President.
Yes, that was the deal that the Reagan team made with the Ayatollah.
In return, the Reagan White House, working with Jeffrey Epstein, supplied weapons to Iran, in the Iran-Contra deal.
Mrs. RW
I’m old enough to remember Reagan’s inauguration and hostage release. Every Dem president since then has been satisfied with platitudes from Iran, smiled for photo ops while enabling their nuclear program, and funded further Islamic power (I’m looking at you Obama and Clinton) as the IRGC stabbed the US in the back and planted sleeper cells in the US through Biden’s open borders. So when is enough really enough?