Says President Trump in a two word post just after the following:
We know exactly where the so-called “Supreme Leader” is hiding. He is an easy target, but is safe there – We are not going to take him out (kill!), at least not for now. But we don’t want missiles shot at civilians, or American soldiers. Our patience is wearing thin.
The earlier Iran war post was getting long in the tooth enough that I thought it high time to start a brand new, fresh one on the topic.
BREAKING: Trump Departs G7 Early. Is Something Big About to Go Down?
On Monday evening, President Donald Trump issued an ominous warning to Iran.“Iran should have signed the ‘deal’ I told them to sign,” he said in a post on Truth Social. “What a shame, and waste of human life. Simply stated, IRAN CAN NOT HAVE A NUCLEAR WEAPON. I said it over and over again! Everyone should immediately evacuate Tehran!”
Moments ago, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt indicated that he’s leaving the G7 Summit in Canada:
He is reportedly leaving the summit early to go back to Washington, D.C.
Unconfirmed reports on X suggest that strikes on Tehran began right after Trump’s post on Truth Social.
Trump followed up his original post with another saying, “AMERICA FIRST means many GREAT things, including the fact that, IRAN CAN NOT HAVE A NUCLEAR WEAPON. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!!!”
President Trump clearly isn’t playing games. According to Fox News, he’s ordered the National Security Council to be ready in the White House Situation Room—an unmistakable sign that something big is going on. Military, intelligence, and diplomatic channels are all on high alert. Missiles are being prepped on both sides.
Yikes! As stated earlier, not a whole lot we can do now but just wait and see. Meanwhile, the psychos in charge of Iran are ramping up the Doomsday rhetoric higher and hotter than ever before.
Meanwhile, the Iranian regime just turned up the heat. In a chilling escalation, Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has publicly warned that a strike on Israel is imminent, and they’re not mincing words. “All cities, facilities, and centers will be considered legitimate military targets,” the IRGC declared, urging evacuations across the so-called “occupied territories.”
Aerospace forces are reportedly preparing to launch within hours, as Tehran moves from vague threats to explicit ultimatums. This isn’t posturing—it’s a direct challenge, framed to strike both military and psychological blows.
There’s never been any reason to assume the wild-eyed fanatics in Tehran lack the will, the desire, to make good on their ever-more-hair-raising threats of revenge, destruction, and death against Satans both Great and Lesser. Quite the opposite, in fact. The only question is, do the Mad Mullahs have the means which would enable them to make good on their fiery bluster? The materiél, the reach, the faith and trust of the lower-ranking military personnel who will be the ones charged with actually carrying out the “Go!” order once it’s been issued?
A related question which looms ever larger: after years of Western governments deliberately importing hordes of unassimilable, unvetted Moslem savages into the US and Europe, scattering them willy-nilly across their soft, inattentive nations as “refugees,” nearly all of them military-service-age males—a resettlement program which, incredibly, didn’t even bother to track these men or keep records on where they wound up—how confident can we really be that they aren’t even now quietly watching and waiting for a “Go!” order of their own?
Update! Well. WellwellwellwellwellwellwellwellwellWELL.
New: Iran Folds Like a Wash-and-Wear Suit, Starts Begging for a Ceasefire
Things aren’t going well for Iran. While the Islamist nation has managed to kill some civilians by indiscriminately lobbing ballistic missiles at Israel, when it comes to the actual business of winning the war, the scoreboard isn’t even close. The latest evidence of that? Iran is now begging for a ceasefire.According to The Wall Street Journal, the Mullahs are looking for an off-ramp, burning up the backchannels to try to get the United States to bail them out.
Iran has been urgently signaling that it seeks an end to hostilities and resumption of talks over its nuclear programs, sending messages to Israel and the U.S. via Arab intermediaries, Middle Eastern and European officials said.
In the midst of a ferocious Israeli air campaign, Tehran has told Arab officials it would be open to returning to the negotiating table as long as the U.S. doesn’t join the attack, the officials said. Iran also passed messages to Israel saying it is in the interest of both sides to keep the violence contained.
I’m not sure if what’s left of the Iranian leadership doesn’t understand how negotiations work, but they probably should have taken them seriously before Israel began its military operation to destroy their nuclear program. It took only three days for the IDF to establish air superiority over Tehran, and they are now bombing regime targets with impunity. That includes the launchers being used to shoot missiles at Israel. Once that threat is minimized, the Mullahs will have nothing left to respond with.
In other words, Iran is on the ropes, and that’s why they are desperately hoping President Donald Trump’s instinct to negotiate gives them a face-saving off-ramp that preserves the regime. Will that happen? I don’t know, but I know what I think should happen.
He lays out what he thinks in the very next ‘graph, an opinion with which I must say I concur without reservation. That stipulated, I probably should also note that the timestamp indicates that this piece went live shortly after the lunch hour this afternoon, so may well have been overtaken by events since then.
Updated update! A later post, this one from a little after 7 PM this evening, portrays Trump as playing hardball, talking tough, and showing no interest whatsoever in backing off or “moderating” his stance one single bit. None of which should come as any big surprise to anybody, being perfectly typical of the man.
Breaking: Trump Declares Iran Cannot Have a Nuclear Weapon, Warns People to Evacuate Tehran ‘Immediately’
President Donald Trump made waves at the G7 on Monday by refusing to sign a joint statement calling for “restraint” between Israel and Iran. The statement would have also affirmed the latter’s ability to have a nuclear program under the guise of “supervision.”In other words, Trump has no interest in preserving the status quo that led us to this point in the first place.
Joe Biden would have rushed to sign that statement, but the days of America taking a backseat to the clowns at the G7, including France, Canada, the UK, and Germany, are over. This is not the time for “restraint.” It’s the time to let Israel finish the job, considering how much of the hard work has already been done. Iran’s air defenses have been neutralized, and the IDF has total air superiority. The Mullahs have no leverage and nothing to offer at this point. Giving them an off-ramp to save their nuclear program would be moronic. So, of course, that’s what the Canadians and Europeans are calling for. They are nothing if not perpetually weak and useless.
And if we know anything at all about our sitting President by now, it’s that he don’t play none of that “weak and useless” shit. “Weak and useless” is not who he is, not what he does, and is for sure and certain no part of what got him elected by a landslide. Thank goodness.
Update to the updated update! The peerless Robert Spencer lays down some of the backstory for us.
As far back as Nov. 2012, a huge billboard on Tehran’s Niayesh highway depicted a missile with the legend, “Destination Tel Aviv.” It attracted little attention from the Iranians who drove by it. Over the previous three decades of living in the Islamic Republic, they had become accustomed to a steady barrage of bellicose anti-Israel rhetoric. From the moment the Iranian mullahs took power, they had been outspoken about their hostility to Israel. The Ayatollah Khomeini dubbed Israel “the Little Satan” and once declared, “this regime occupying Jerusalem must vanish from the page of time.”
The Islamic Republic has been determined from its inception to make sure that happened. It set out to make good on its aggressive rhetoric in the early 1980s by creating Hizballah as a permanent force set against the Jewish state. During the 2006 Israeli-Hizballah conflict, Iranian forces directly aided Hizballah, and two members of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps were killed fighting alongside Hizballah in Lebanon. Hundreds of Iranian soldiers aided Hizballah in firing missiles into Israel.
Iran’s proxy war against Israel didn’t begin after Oct. 7. As far back as March 2009, Iran was shipping weapons to Gaza through Sudan—until Israeli forces carried out airstrikes against the shipments. Two years later, Israeli commandos boarded a cargo ship flying the Liberian flag. On it they found, in containers that were labeled as carrying cotton and lentils, mortar shells and Chinese-made anti-ship missiles bound for Hamas. Instruction manuals were written in Farsi. The cargo had been loaded in the Syrian port of Latakia; then the ship had made its way to Turkey before attempting to pass by Israeli defenses and get its cargo to Hamas.
On July 18, 2012, a caller to Bulgaria’s tourist office warned that a group of Israeli tourists who were just arriving would be “welcomed by two bombs.” When the tourists duly arrived at Bulgaria’s Burgas International Airport, they boarded a bus to their hotel—and seven people were killed and over thirty more wounded when a bomb tore through that bus.
Benjamin Netanyahu immediately pointed to the mullahs and accused them of carrying out terror attacks against Israelis all over the globe: “All signs point towards Iran. Over the last few months we have seen Iran’s attempts to attack Israelis in Thailand, India, Georgia, Kenya, Cyprus and other countries. Exactly 18 years to the day after the horrendous attack on the Jewish Community Center in Argentina, deadly Iranian terrorism continues to strike at innocent people. This is a global Iranian terror onslaught and Israel will react firmly to it.”
Nearly thirteen years later, that Iranian terror onslaught continues, and Israel is finally taking decisive action to end it once and for all. The Jewish state deserves the gratitude of the free world.
Indeed it does, good sir. The tunnel-visioned ((((!!!JooJooJooJOOOOO!!!))))-H8RRR single-issue obsessives and their Cyclopean doctrine which insists on dumping our parasitic false friends of the “Zionist entity” as our go-to partner in the ME—diplomatically, militarily, economically, philosophically, to name but a few of the bonds which connect us—in preference for embracing “our natural allies” the Muzzrats are looking mighty doggone silly right about now whether they realize it or not, even moreso in light of the above (only partial, remember) damning indictment of the Iranian regime.
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Dodger Great Clayton Kershaw Makes Quiet Statement About Pride Night, Leftist Heads Explode
Friday the 13th was Pride Night at Dodger Stadium; unfortunately, like other major league baseball teams, the Dodgers have so far neglected to announce when Anger Night, Lust Night, and Envy Night will be. On Pride Night, however, everyone — players as well as fans — is expected to join in the gay (in the old sense as well as the new) celebrations of sexual deviance, perversion, and obsession, trans madness, and all that comes with all those things. This being one of the foremost feast days on the calendar of the leftist religion, dissidents, of course, will not be tolerated, as Dodger great Clayton Kershaw is finding out.Kershaw didn’t pitch in Friday’s game, but he drew a considerable notice anyway. The Dodgers were requiring their players to wear special caps on which the team’s “LA” logo was rendered in rainbow colors, and Kershaw obliged. He did, however, mount a quiet protest of his own, wearing a rainbow-LA cap on which was written “GEN 9:12-16.”
That, of course, is the verse in which God makes his pledge to not just Mankind but all the world, promising that never again would He send His flood waters over the Earth, thereby exterminating every living thing on it. The rainbow is the symbiol of said covenant, to wit:
And God said, “This is the sign of the covenant I am making between me and you and every living creature with you, a covenant for all generations to come: I have set my rainbow in the clouds, and it will be the sign of the covenant between me and the earth. Whenever I bring clouds over the earth and the rainbow appears in the clouds, I will remember my covenant between me and you and all living creatures of every kind. Never again will the waters become a flood to destroy all life. Whenever the rainbow appears in the clouds, I will see it and remember the everlasting covenant between God and all living creatures of every kind on the earth.”
Naturally, once they’d been informed of what the rainbow logo on Kershaw’s cap signified, the Left reacted exactly as coolly, tolerantly, and rationally as one would expect of them.
In context, this was God pledging to be merciful, and to spare sinful humanity rather than destroying it again, as He did with Noah’s flood. But even a reminder of God’s mercy is enough to set the haters of God into a frenzy, and this time, Kershaw was the target. One X user wrote succinctly: “Clayton Kershaw is a f**king LOSER.”
Without a trace of irony, another X user wrote: “Clayton Kershaw will always be a Dodger great, but it’s things like this that make him a lot less likable. Just wear the hat. Be a tolerant Christian and accept that there are others who believe differently than you.”
Um. Would someone kindly point out to me just where exactly Kershaw uttered Word One stating—nay, even so much as hinting—that he felt otherwise? ‘Cause I’m having trouble locating that bit here. Then again, my search-engine Web Fu ain’t what it used to be, I do confess it.
In the left’s universe, tolerance is a virtue that Christians are required to demonstrate whenever the left wants to force its agenda upon the unconverted and unwilling. It is never, ever a virtue that leftists must display toward Christians.
Imagine, by way of example, a vastly different American culture, in which the Dodgers celebrated “Christian night,” and all the players were required to wear caps featuring little crosses above the LA logo. And imagine if a Muslim player on the team wrote “AN-NISA 157” on his cap, referring to the Qur’an verse that says that Jesus was not crucified or even killed. There is no doubt whatsoever that this dissenting player would immediately become a hero on the left, with Jake Tapper and Don Lemon and the girls at The View lining up to sing his praises.
But there’s dissent and there’s dissent. Clayton Kershaw doesn’t belong to the left’s favorite traditional religion; he adheres to the one they hate the most. As such, his dissent is absolutely unacceptable. Will the Dodgers discipline him, or at least apologize for his little display? Don’t be surprised.
Nope. The real surprise would be if the Dodgers’ high corporate muckety-mucks didn’t tear him a new asshole for this clear and obvious Hate Crime, and instead decided to back Kershaw’s right to freedom of expression and relligious belief to the hilt. I won’t be holding my breath waiting for it, and neither should you.
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Can’t say how accurate the central premise here really is, but the thinly-veiled insult couched therein makes it an entertaining read anyway.
Where’s Barack? A Legacy Lurking in the Back Row
We’ve seen the pattern before. A crisis brews. The stakes rise. The Democratic bench starts looking thinner than Kamala Harris’s approval rating. Panic spreads like a brushfire through a dry Iowa field. Cameras swivel. Eyebrows arch. And then, like clockwork, someone utters the question that hovers between desperation and delusion:Where’s Barack Obama?
It’s not rhetorical.
And no, he’s not coming.
Not when it matters. Not when it’s hard. Not when the heavy lifting begins and everybody’s looking for someone with strength, clout, and credibility to pick up the load.
Obama is quick to weigh in with eloquent hindsight.
He’ll tweet.
He’ll podcast.
He’ll deliver a university lecture with the tempo of a symphony.
This, after all, is the man who once told the world he was the one we’d been waiting for, that the rise of the oceans would begin to slow and our planet would begin to heal.
But when the moment demands more than language, when political muscle, risk, and sweat are required, he evaporates. Like fog off a tepid lake. All promise, no presence.
Like vapor off a wet sidewalk in August, his presence fades just as the temperature rises.
Oh, I dunno about all THAT, now; seems like even for a guy supposedly restricting himself entirely to lurking in the shadows, he’s managed to do a hell of a lot of quantifiable real-world damage just the same.
Well, one of ‘em, at any rate. These days, one of a great, great many, seems like.
Trump Fires Back at Tucker Carlson Over Israel-Iran Strikes
Trump is firing back at those who say that supporting Israel doesn’t necessarily serve American interests and is thus not “America First.” He explained it all to The Atlantic’s Michael Scherer, who asked the president a question about the views of people like (TuckerCarlson.“Well, considering that I’m the one that developed ‘America First,’ and considering that the term wasn’t used until I came along, I think I’m the one that decides that,” Trump told Scherer. “For those people who say they want peace — you can’t have peace if Iran has a nuclear weapon. So for all of those wonderful people who don’t want to do anything about Iran having a nuclear weapon—that’s not peace.”
Bold mine, just to highlight exactly what I’m talking about here. Far as I can determine, these are the horns of our geat contemporary dilemna: assuming we DO have any sort of obligation to end the threat presented to Western democracies by terror-sponsorong rogue states of which Iran is the undisputed ring-leader—insofar as it really lies within our power to do so—then how far do we let the West’s kinda-sorta Reverse Prime Directive requiring that we mind our own friggin’ beeswax go to hold us back?
Just spitballing here, folks, that’s all. Seems to me it’s a pretty interesting thought experiment; not saying I buy into any of it, on either side.
Update! What if…?
If the Iranian Regime Falls, What Will Follow?
A sudden collapse of the Iranian regime looks like a real possibility.As far as I know, the Israelis have no plans to take out Iran’s spiritual leader, Ayatollah Khamenei, but they are systematically dismantling the pillars of state power underneath him. The Ayatollahs are on the run, and the generation that put them into power doesn’t have a ton of support from average Iranians.
Persia in the 1960s and 1970s was a rapidly developing and Westernizing country. It was the regional power, balancing the less Western-friendly Arab states. The women were treated with dignity and enjoyed the same freedoms as Western women–videos of Iranians living their daily life were not very dissimilar to those from a European Mediterranean city.
But the regime was toppled by Islamists who were very unhappy with the trend toward Westernization. An unholy alliance between communists and Islamists systematically undermined the regime, and when Jimmy Carter withdrew US support for the Shah due to his repression of the opposition, the regime fell.
The Shah was right and Carter was wrong. We have been in a low-medium level conflict with Iran for over four decades, and millions died in the Iran-Iraq war because of Carter’s foolishness. The Middle East was destabilized, and progress was set back decades.
From what we should damned well have learned about it by now, nation-building in places inhabited by hyper-aggressive 13th-century primordials whose pseudo-religion has inculcated in them an obsessive drive for world conquest is a mug’s game. At this point, all the optimism in the world isn’t going to suffice to make Iran an exception to the rule. Despite having been moving steadily and rapidly along for years and years in a much more felicitous direction, those halcyon days under the Shah are long gone now. The Mad Mullahs having beavered away in quite the opposite direction throughout their tenure, it ain’t likely they can ever be brought back.
As I have long maintained, Jimmeh Peanuthead has more to answer for than just about any other US President I can think of right offhand. By sitting back and more or less passively allowing the Shah to be deposed, he hung a burden around the neck of Western Civ that has weighed it down mightily ever since. Thus is it demonstrated yet again just where exactly the road paved with good intentions leads.
Updated update! Aesop helpfully points out a few interesting bits of operational arcana and backstage legerdemain I hadn’t thought of.
Iran has been the bleeding ass sore of the Middle East since 1979.
We should have been flying Arc Light rounders to their cities from Diego Garcia hourly for the last 50 years, but we’ve been too chickenshit to man up and do what’s both deserved, and long past necessary.
Israel lacked the ability to do what they did yesterday as anything but one-way suicide missions, until they were sold US KC-135 tanker aircraft during Obozo’s administration.
Israel can’t wait until after there’s a mushroom cloud overhead to act. It’s an existential luxury, and asinine to expect it of them. So Wikileaks should either STFU, or quit the charade by just putting on a pointed white hood, and get their true feelings out in the open.
They could be that stupid once, but to stay this stupid perpetually is the calculated and deliberate act of someone maliciously hoping they could see all of Israel smoked under a rain of nuclear destruction, partly as wishcasting, and secondarily as a shout out of affirmation to their fellow mouth-breathers worldwide.
Like the internet was short of that at any point since it started existing.
20-Dimensional chess move: while Trump’s hands are clean in Israel’s strike, one consequence of it now has Iran cutting off drone sales to Russia, because they need them to attack Israel. So in one move Israel has cut the Houthi terror pipeline, yet again severely crimped Iran’s nuclear ambitions (as if exploding nuclear scientists and Stuxnet viruses weren’t enough), and taken some heat off Ukraine – supposedly by accident.
That’s what diplomats and the E-ring at the Pentagon call a hat trick.
I repeat: interesting, veddy interesting, wouldn’t you say?
Update to the updated update! Okay, via Stephen, this is beginning to look seriouser and seriouser. In a manner of speaking.
President Donald Trump continues to state that the American military will not be joining the conflict, despite Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu’s requests to do so.
That said, Teddy Roosevelt famously advised “Speak softly and carry a big stick,” and, right now, Uncle Sam seems to be crafting a mighty big stick within striking distance of Iran:
- Item: There are now three aircraft carriers (two American, one British) taking positions within striking distance of Iran…
- Item: “A major military airlift appears to now be underway, as an unprecedented number of U.S. Air Force KC-135 and KC-46 Aerial-Refueling Tankers have departed from airbases across the United States and appear to be preparing to cross the Atlantic towards Europe.”
- Item: Multiple B-2s are already believe to be stationed at Diego Garcia, well within strike distance of Iran for the B-2 (though it might need refueling on the return trip).
Maybe all that movement is indeed just to give President Trump “options” should the Iranians try something crazy. But if I had to guess, it seems like the groundwork for some sort of planned operation is being laid.
It may be that President Trump thinks that the mullah’s current prostrate and distracted status may be the perfect time to settle the Houthi’s hash. Having already attacked American navy ships (absolute casus belli under international law), the time may be ripe to finally dismantle the Houthi threat.
Having for many years advocated loud and long for a once-and-for-all settling of jihadi hash, then turning on a dime to cheer Trump’s “no more endless foreign wars” campaign plank, I can’t honestly say I’m entirely comfortable objecting to these moves now. I’d make a piss-poor pacifist, I suppose.
Updates, forsooth! Francis’s take on the matter.
Israel is doing what it must, and here are the reasons.
A nation that possesses weapons of mass destruction and delivery systems that can wield them at long range acquires responsibilities along with those things. One of those responsibilities pertains to its rhetoric. Its rulers’ statements must be taken with full seriousness, especially their threats. Nation X must regard a threat from nation Y as equivalent to an actual attack. This was a component of American strategic doctrine for many decades.
The theocrats who rule Iran have said many times that, were Iran to acquire a nuclear weapon and an appropriate delivery system, it would thereby acquire an obligation to use it against Israel as soon as possible. Israel’s government must assume that that statement is sincere. Though the phrase existential threat is used too loosely these days, it applies here.
Israel’s intelligence service is one of the best in the world. If Aman’s and Mossad’s analysts are convinced that Iran is on the brink of acquiring a nuclear weapon, the odds are overwhelming that it is so. In that case, Israel is compelled to act, as indeed it has.
Note that the actual identity of the threat-making nation is of little consequence. If any other nuclear power were to make such a threat, the gravity of it would be the same, though Israel’s response would surely vary according to the threat-maker’s location and capabilities. Threats to use weapons of mass destruction must always be treated as sincere.
As for the possible involvement of the United States, the matter is similar though not existential. Iran has threatened to strike American military assets in “retaliation” for Israel’s strikes against Iran. Ignore the lunacy of it. If it happens, America will be compelled to act, but until then, staying out of the conflict is the expected posture, and probably the best.
For all else, we must wait and see.
That’s about the size of it, yeah. Seems to me we’re pretty fortunate to have, in Binyamin Netanyahu’s government, an Israeli leadership intelligent enough, competent enough, awake enough to the threat Iran is to Western Civ entire that we can confidently back Bibi’s play here without suffering a lot of undue angst and/or agita over it.
Anybody old enough to remember this moldie oldie, from back in the bad old Hostage Crisis days?
Yeah, yeah, I know, not one of my all-time great embeds. But still.
When Jimmeh Peanut sat supinely back and allowed a bunch of Moslem weird-beard revolutionaries to overthrow the Shah and help themselves to Iran’s treasury, natural resources, and military assets and justi basically did nothing to stop or at lest disrupt it beyond barricading himself in the White House to watch America be stripped of its power, position, and international prestige on The TeeWee, he made one of the most damaging, unneccessary, preventable, and boneheaded mistakes any head of any governnent ever has, or likely ever will. When “President” Weakass Moron surrendered to an implacably aggressive, megalomaniacal, and quite frankly batshit insane leadership cabal ever known, well, it pretty much told any astute American patriot everything he would really need to know about the direction the American future was being dragged towards by its rotten to the core career politician case.
For years afterward, Israel’s own feckless ProPol class has expelled gale force levels of hot gas in massive quantities, blustering mightily about the Iran’s tterror-sponsoring leaders won’t be allowed to do this, will face terrible, awful, bad, no good consequences should they foolishly keep ton doing that, and just better damn well stop doing the other. It was all just a great big old pantload of hooey, natch; contra all the empty threats, bluster, and total bullshit issued by Israel, the FUSA, and all the other limp-wristed bunco artists the West can scrape up, Iran has been allowed to get away with doing pretty much anything it wants scot free.
Until now at any rate, thanks to Netanyahu and his big brass ones. While I’m pleased to see Israel’s vigorous response to Tehran’s despotic goobermint, I can’t say that it’s my own belief that we should jump right into the fray with both boots to directly join in ourselves. Not that we don’t owe the Mad Mullahs a serious ass-whupping for decades of verbal abuse, monetary, materiel, and secret sabotage in support of terrorist groups all over the world, I hasten to add. But this ain’t the time; Americans no longer have the strong stomachs and the will to win required to see such a campaign through to total victory; plus, our own military muscle has been sapped by Leftard libertines so badly the reason to just assume an American victory over pretty much anybody, anywhere, remains a foregone conclusion.
So far, for Israel, it’s going well: they have destroyed the Republican Guard headquarters and killed its commander, General Salami. In other targeted assassinations, the head of the Iranian army is dead, as are more than ten nuclear scientists, and various other bigshots, including at least one potential successor to Ayatollah Khamenei, who for the moment appears to be alive. It’s the biggest military action on the soil of the Islamic Republic since the Iran/Iraq War forty years ago.
~To get the obvious out of the way, what should America do?
🚨 A direct strike on Iran right now would disastrously split the Trump coalition. Trump smartly ran against starting new wars, this is what the swing states voted for – the midterms are not far and Congress’ majority is already razor-thin. America First!
— Jack Poso 🇺🇸 (@JackPosobiec)
That’s probably correct as far as the politics of it is concerned. But the other reason for not getting America involved is, of course, that the Pentagon is totally crap at war. So, if the US is on your side, you’ll lose. See, most recently, Afghanistan and Ukraine – the former an international humiliation, and the latter having been micro-managed from Washington until January 20th with equally disastrous results, at least for the dwindling number of Ukrainians living in Ukraine. US military effectiveness is fading from living memory: for three-quarters of a century now, Washington has been utterly unable to use war to achieve any strategic national objective – despite accounting for forty per cent of the entire planet’s military expenditures. There is nothing to suggest Iran is likely to be an exception to the rule.
Nope, not really. They could be made one, possibly, but without a widespread adjustment of Western shitllib attitudes powerful enough to persuade them of their desperate need to reconsider…heck, pretty much everydamnedthing, I just don’t see any such thing happening.
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What the Hell Was That Tulsi Gabbard Video About?
Let’s talk about nuclear war, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, and Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard’s weird video about nuclear war.
AWWWW! Do we HAVE to, Uncle Steve? JEEZ….
Gabbard got raked over the coals by right-leaning critics, some conflating her remarks with an historically illiterate apology for Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Noah Rothman was one of several who accused her of “all but endors[ing] Barack Obama’s revisionist and ahistorical account of the end of the Second World War,” although I didn’t hear anything like that.
But that’s not to say that Gabbard’s video wasn’t at the very least odd.
At one point, Gabbard claimed that our “political elite and warmongers” are fomenting global thermonuclear war “because they are confident that they will have access to nuclear shelters for themselves and for their families that regular people won’t have access to.”
They still have to come out sometime. Real life isn’t an episode of “Fallout.”
Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.) — no RINO squish — quipped, “She obviously needs to change her meds,” and I’m inclined to agree.
I’m not the biggest fan of Gabbard on policy — she was strangely buddy-buddy on several occasions with Syria’s Bashar al-Assad and sometimes comes across as a Putin apologist. But I understand Trump’s desire, the nation’s need, and Gabbard’s ability to shake up the D.C. intel community.
But none of that explains the general weirdness on display here.
Curiously, when Trump met this weekend at Camp David to discuss Iran and Gaza strategy with his “top team,” including “Vice President Vance, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, chief of staff Susie Wiles, special envoy Steve Witkoff, CIA director John Ratcliffe and other senior officials,” Gabbard was not in attendance.
There’s also the question of why the president’s DNI would make a campaign-style video.
Is she on her way out — of her own accord or not? I won’t pretend to even have a guess.
Nor will I. Tulsi Gabbard has long walked a very different path than most any other American ProPol you could name, for which habit I’ve always liked more than disliked her. As a confirmed off-the-beaten-track weirdo myself for my whole life, how could it be otherwise? Long as your personal “freak flag” doesn’t involve pedophilia, necrophilia, or bestiality; promoting mental dysfunction by insisting everyone endorse your delusional notion that, in your own head, you are not in fact the biological sex you so clearly are; suppression of others’ right to freedom of expression by means of intimidation and/or violence; shitting in the streets; and any and every other traducement of a free man’s God-given rights as enumerated in the US Constitution, you just go right ahead and let that freak flag of your’n fly, ain’t gonna catch no grief from this ol’ boy about it.
Who the hell even knows what’s going on in the lady’s pretty head this time, but looking at the bigger overall picture we’ve seen of Gabbard, her instincts, and her inclinations, I’m willing to overlook a little weirdness now and then. Certainly, she’s utterly loyal to the Bossman who put her where she is now—more loyal than she’ll ever be to any collectivist ideology; the criminal organization masquerading as a political party pimping it; or the nefarious, sub-rosa skullduggery by which Team Stalin hopes to ram their agenda down Real American throats, whether they will or they nil.
On the other hand, one thing we’ve all learned on the PDQ about President Donald John Trump v2.0 this time out: he sure knows how to keep ‘em guessing, don’t he? The man’s got a real gift for putting absolutely everybody—be they friend, foe, or disinterested passerby—on the back foot and seeing to it that they stay that way for as long as he needs ’em to be, as my dear old Grampa used to say. Going all the way back to the 2016 campaign, every time you heard yet another pinhead press “corpseman” griping about OMB’s roundabout, meandering way of speaking, how nobody could ever seem to pin The Donald down and force a straightforward, direct answer from him regarding any topic at all—ZOMG what is WRONG with you people can’t you fucking see he is just so stupid stupid stupid he can’t even utter coherent sentences in correct English, he’s soooooo stupid!!!—it was always my belief that what we were really looking at was Trump maneuvering the pasty, officious dweeb into his patented Figure Four Leg Lock (Rhetorical), only the poor victim wasn’t bright enough to realize he’d just been made a fool of by the better, smarter, more wily man.
AGAIN, I mean.
32Bet none of y’all had “kicks off for reals in formerly mellow, laid-back El Lay, duuuude, sparked by illegal-alien cuddling shitlibs violently turning on certain FederalGovCo departments and/or agencies for simply doing their jobs and nothing more” on your Civil War v2.0 bingo card, now didja?
Many Americans express bewilderment to me as to why even the soi-disant Euro-pussies would surrender their homelands to barbarians without a shot being fired. Fair point – except that the pilot programme for this unprecedented civilisational suicide was an American jurisdiction, and once one of the most glittering in the Union. Among forty-nine other states, it was the Golden State; it fired the imaginations not just of Americans but of much of the planet: California, here I come! Won’t you get hip to this timely tip? I left my heart in San Francisco…
Really? If you did, it’ll be sitting in a pile of fecal matter. Even as it happened, the loss of California was not much analysed: The Democrats preferred to take their victory sotto voce, while Republicans were still bleating about “Ronald Reagan’s California”, as if it had not joined the Lost City of Atlantis on the bottom of the seabed. Orange County, said Mr Reagan, is where “all good Republicans go to die”.
Almost right. It’s where the Republican Party went to die. In 1990 the OC was still two-thirds white; now it’s a third, or the same as the Hispanic population. And yet the GOP remains mystified why one of the most Republican strongholds in the country is now just another Democrat county. California has more electoral votes than any other state. Across the country, in another vote-rich state, New York City is now forty per cent immigrant.
In the end, it’s all demography. Yesterday, I quoted from an old column of mine from the immediate aftermath of the 2012 election. But I thought the whole thing could use a replay – because demography killed California, and demographic transformation is not a natural phenomenon.
Did someone mention NYC just now? Why yes, I believe someone did at that.
NYPD vehicles torched in suspected arson attack as cops find undetonated explosive devices nearby
Arsonists torched at least 11 NYPD vehicles in a targeted attack in a Brooklyn parking lot early Thursday — with undetonated explosive devices also found after two masked suspects were seen running away, police and sources said.Police and FDNY responded to a report of multiple vehicles ablaze at a lot in Bushwick at the intersection of Central and DeKalb avenues — just a block from the 83rd Precinct station house — around 1:30 a.m. Thursday.
Mayor Eric Adams said at an unrelated press conference that 11 vehicles were damaged and 14 were impacted. No injuries were reported.
The NYPD did not immediately give a suspected motive for the attack, however a flyer taped to a wall directly across from the police station accuses officers of the 83rd precinct of breaking up Puerto Rican Day festivities on Sunday night, injuring revelers.
The fliers called for resistance against the police, and tied in the anti-ICE and protests have spread from Los Angeles to New York City and global anti-Israel protests.
“Now is the time for unified, disciplined action — from Palestine to Puerto Rico to Los Angeles, the struggle for freedom continues,” the flier read.
The above-cited reports of outbreaks of organized, coordinated shitlib violence from sea to shining sea are purely coincidental and entirely unrelated, I’m sure.
This land is THEIR land update! So what’s really going on here, you might well ask? Oh, lots. Lots, and lots, and lots, and LOTS.
President of the Mexican Senate (TODAY):
“We’ll build the wall and pay for it. But we’ll do it according to the 1830 map of Mexico… Mexicans were settled in these territories before the U.S. The Mexicans living there are in what has always been their homeland.” pic.twitter.com/dvN6efNiSr
— COMBATE |🇵🇷 (@upholdreality)
1830, is it, muchacho? Having to reach kinda far back to make your point, seems to me. Which usually indicates that the point you’re trying to make is not a very good one. To wit:
How US got California, other states from Mexico for $15 million in 1848
The flag of Mexico has become ubiquitous on the streets of America as a protest symbol against Donald Trump and his government’s immigration policies. Which makes sense given that many people in Texas and California have Mexican ancestry. Let’s take a look at when the US purchased California and half of Mexico’s territory in 1848 got California, other states from Mexico for $15 million in 1848The protests in Los Angeles, a response to the immigration policies of the Trump administration, continue to rage.
Though US President Donald Trump has sent thousands of National Guard troops as well as hundreds of marines, the demonstrators seem to be undeterred.
But how did it all come about? Let us take a closer look.
It all kicked off way back in the 1840s.
Tensions between the two countries had been growing for years.
On the one side you had the US evangelists of the concept of “manifest destiny” – which preached the superiority and the seemingly divine right of Americans to colonise whatever lands they saw fit on the continent – and on the other you had a wary Mexico.
In the meantime hostilities had nearly broken out between the two countries after the US Navy in 1942 – wrongly believing that war had broken out – seized Monterey in California.
While Monterey was immediately returned, it was a harbinger of things to come.
In 1845, outgoing President John Tyler annexed Texas as his final act in the US’ highest office.
By then, Mexico had severed diplomatic relations with the United States.
Polk began with diplomacy – he initially attempted to buy California, New Mexico and land near Texas for $30 million.
In November 1845, he even sent US diplomat John Slidell to open negotiations with Mexico.
However, Slidell was soundly rebuffed – the Mexican government refused to even see him.
But Polk was prepared– he had already sent US Army commander Zachary Taylor to occupy disputed land.
When Mexican troops fired on Taylor and his forces, Polk had the pretext he needed.
Polk immediately moved Congress for a declaration of war against America’s neighbour.
The Mexican-American War would end (with) the US comprehensively defeating its neighbour.
American armies led by General Zachary Taylor and General Winfield Scott, often outnumbered, would defeat Mexican troops again and again in a series of pitched battles.
The US lost more soldiers to infection and disease than actual battle.
Ulysses S Grant and Robert E Lee, the men who would respectively lead the Union and Confederate armies during the Civil War, received their first taste of real combat in Mexico.
And the rest, as they say, is history…like it or lump it, beaners.
The glancing mention of Grant and Marse Robert above is notable, apt, and historically insructive. By and large, Civil War v1.0 would be fought by two national armies whose officer corps had won their respective spurs in the Mex-Ami rhubarb. With the Federal army, the majority of its field-grade officers would be offered their commissions based almost entirely on their Mexican War reputations, which sometimes had been fairly won and other times…eh, not so much.
In the long run, the relative cakewalk South of the US border ended up serving the US and CSA both quite well as a sort of hands-on, non-classroom OCS/practical training course/advanced tactical studies program for the shattering, murderous conflagration soon to get underway North of the border.
Not again update! Another day, another dumpster-dive for those poor Jarheads.
Marines Deployed To Another Third-World Country Full Of Hostile Foreigners
LOS ANGELES, CA — As has become the standard operating procedure for the military branch over the last half-century, 700 members of the United States Marines found themselves being deployed to yet another third-world country that is full of hostile foreigners.
In this latest deployment to a non-English-speaking wasteland, the Marines were supremely confident that they would be able to handle the marauding hordes of foreign nationals, despite the inhospitable conditions presented by the rubble and destruction of the surroundings.
“Same thing, different day,” said Sergeant Heath Parsons. “We know the drill. We train and prepare until the day when our number is called and we have to report to save the world by traveling to some third-world hell-hole to confront foreign hostiles. We’re used to it at this point.”
Though there had already been some skirmishes in which Marines clashed with the angry natives in the area, the presence of the U.S. Military had already had an impact on the war-torn region. “You can catch little glimpses of what this place used to be like,” said another Marine. “It’s part of our job as Marines, in addition to being prepared to fight, to bring a little bit of hope with us from the United States to show places like this what life can be like under better circumstances.”
Some of the foreigners cautiously welcomed the Marines, while others remained combative when faced with English-speaking Americans.
Well, it’s just that, out in the “press 2 for English” sectors of the FUSA, they run across so vanishingly few of the darn things, see. Puts them right out of their reckoning. “Exotic” doesn’t even begin to cover the idea of an American in LA who actually speaks the King’s English.
At publishing time, rumors persisted that the Pentagon was committed to eventually establishing a democracy in the area.
Shhhhyeeeaah, THAT’LL be the day. You’d have a tough time coming up with much more than, oh, eight or ten people—irrespective of ethnicity, nationality, income (if any) and/or educational level, citizenship status, gender, sexual orientation, etc etc who’d be willing to admit harboring even a passing interest in that ”democracy/liberty/prosperity” horsepuckey at this late date, I‘d guess. Well, except for the areas within, say, five-ten minutes’ walk of Ft Irwin, Camp Pendleton, Coronado, Miramar, Seal Beach, and El Centro, perhaps—haven’t been out to any of those places in a long while, but I can’t imagine that the old-time religion of abiding love of country, strong sense of duty and honor, the legacy of traditions and beliefs faithfully passed down from our Forefathers from generation to generation have all just quietly passed not just from existence but even from the memories of our young soldiers, sailors, airmen, and Marines. No way.
Then again, though, throw San Fransicko, San Berdoo, Compton, and Oakland into the mix with LA and it would probably be more than enough to tip the scales well back into Team Stalin territory and away from any more of that “democracy” nonsense for good.
Let’s not even go into the impact on this “democracy” discussion Cullyfornia’s military airfields; training bases; rifle, AGM, aerial bombing, and artillery ranges, as well as not-quite-as-venerable but every bit as proud, honorable installations such as Fort St George of Fentanyl, Camp Jordan Neely, and NAS “Bathhouse” Barry Soetero are likely to bring to bear when all’s said and done, ‘kay?
21Swiped this ‘un from our boy Ken, just ‘cuz it got a snicker out of grouchy old me.
Heh. Also, *snort, chortle!* On reflection, I suspect the main reason this groaner got me to giggling so was the reminder of how overjoyed I was back when Madeleine began to show the first early signs that her early-toddler-years fascination with godawful puns was beginning to wear off at last.
A “mostly peaceful” assault against DHS head Kristi Noem by lunatic Dem Senator Alex Padilla—who is now whining that actually, you guys, HE was the real victim here.
BREAKING: Secretary Kristi Noem fires back at Democrat Senator Alex Padilla — who’s now claiming mistreatment after storming a DHS press conference.
“I think his statement is actually ridiculous.”
She laid out exactly what happened from her perspective.
“This man burst into a… pic.twitter.com/3d51jxKpnP
— The Vigilant Fox 🦊 (@VigilantFox)
Your obligatory “Show more” end run:
BREAKING: Secretary Kristi Noem fires back at Democrat Senator Alex Padilla — who’s now claiming mistreatment after storming a DHS press conference.
“I think his statement is actually ridiculous.”
She laid out exactly what happened from her perspective.
“This man burst into a room, started advancing towards the podium, interrupting an opening statement, elevating his voice, shouting questions.”
“People tried to stop him from interrupting the press conference, he refused and continued to lunge towards the podium and that is when he was removed from the room.”
Then came the reality check:
“So the way that he acted was completely inappropriate.”
“It wasn’t becoming of a U.S. Senator or a public official and perhaps he wanted the scene and that’s what he wanted.”
The rest of country is tired of these charades:
“But I think the American people are sick of this action.”
“I think the American people are tired of this, they just want the truth and they want to know it’s happening and that’s what we were trying to provide.”
Just remember: anyone attempting to govern against the will of the D卐M☭CRATs will pay a heavy price for their balls-out impudence.
So I go into the hospital for a cpl weeks, get cut, sawn, and stitched upon a bit, emerge a good bit the worse for wear, have to go back in for an encore performance, emerge thinking what the hell, Death CAN’T be THIS busy, can he? During this agonizing interregnum, natch, I avoided all things Innarnuts like the proverbial plague, knowing as I do that A) a thorough cleaning-out of the mental pipes is a good and necessary thing now and again, and B) my worn-out, Amazon’s Cheapest wired keyboard and mouse rig was due to give up the ghost at any moment.
When what to my wondering eyes did appear, upon my exit from Hospital Durance Vile and re-entry into what some poor deluded souls are pleased to kid themselves is the Real World, but a PayPal account that had, for reasons unknown to me, absolutely blown the fuck UP over the past weekend, rocketing from a running daily balance of, basically, zero (0) dollars and no (0) cents, up to a pretty hefty surplusage in nothing flat.
Pulled 40 bucks from the slush pile right away and headed back to the ‘Zon to see if a more satisfactory keyboard/mouse siuation might be arranged, whereupon I picked up this sweet little rig. Now all’s I gotta do is get used to the feel of the keyboard, which is definitely nowhere near as stiff and clunky as the old one was—with the added advantage that most, possibly even ALL, of the keys seem to work too. Yowza!
Many, many humble thanks to all you fine folks out there in Blogolandia, for all the many things you do and have always done for me over lo, these many years. Back to regular posting in a trice, soon as my head stops spinning like a spinning top.
This 9-0 Supreme Court ruling sends a loud and clear message: the DEI house of cards is starting to collapse. First, it was academia. Now, it’s the workplace. The tide is definitely turning – and not a moment too soon.
Do not give up. Do not listen to those that say we can not come back. They are at best a disservice to America, and at worst, on the other side.
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