Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Dan “Razin? Caine hold a Pentagon press briefing to discuss the U.S/Israel war against Iran. The anticipated start time is 8:00am ET with livestream links below:
UPDATE: Video Added – Media Questions begin at 29:00 of the video
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Looking forward to getting the story direct from the horse’s mouth when this Hegseth event starts.
Woke up to MTG’s boyfriend Brian on Real America’s Voice sounding as anti-PDJT as I’ve ever heard, and blackpilling all that’s happened this week.
I guess pillow talk with Marjorie, and being RAV’s guy in the Swamp, is now showing in his point of view.
This may shock you, but regime change nation building wars aren’t terribly popular among those of us who watch the USA lose three wars in 20 years…followed by mass migration of “refugees” to America…
But I’m sure it’ll be different this time. 🙄
What nation building?
What refugees?
Are you seriously equating President Trump with Biden and Obama?
This operation is to allow the people of Iran to reclaim what is theirs, without being slaughtered by forces loyal to a thug regime, and finally righting a 50 year wrong.
Nothing more.
How do you know that their government wasn’t supported by “the Iranian people”? A few protests?
That’s like saying the shitlibs in Minneapolis represent popular opinion in the USA on deportations.
I’m actually comparing Trump to Bush, but if you like comparisons to Biden, the Taliban are still in charge in Afghanistan…and, btw, we’re currently putting a known terrorist in charge of Syria:
https://www.state.gov/releases/office-of-the-spokesperson/2025/11/united-states-leads-effort-to-delist-syrian-leaders
😂 You can’t make this stuff up.
Is it asking too much to reserve judgment for one week after the bombing starts before assuming it’s going to turn into a bush-era disaster?
Hey, remember that time we bombed Libya and turned North Africa into the greatest refugee crisis since WW2 and flooded Europe and America with Muslims foreigners…?
lol.
Based on history, the most likely outcome is we end up putting most of the people in charge who were in charge before.
The onus is on you to explain why the most fractured and unstable tribal areas in the world outside of Africa benefited from greater levels of shattering…
You are conflating completely different issues and circumstances, and you know it.
I’m not saying things might not turn bad, I’m just saying wait one week before dooming and glooming. One week to assess and consider instead of knee-jerk emoting.
WT actual F are you talking about? This is our fifth war over there.
Never been done or framed this way, though.
Ah, framing. So as long as they get the optics right?
The framing? How about the execution? This has not been done before.
What part of what CD said don’t you understand?
The part that made me laugh. Because he wrote, “I’m not saying things might not turn bad”
bahahahaha, I’m so sorry, but that is comedy gold.
When I compare people to the Underpants Gnomes from South Park, I do it with love.
You can’t see beyond the end of your nose. You’re not a long-term planner. You can’t comprehend what this world will be like if Iran gets the bomb.
Iran is not simply a grouping of tribal factions and war leaders like Libya, Afghanistan and Somalia. Nor do we currently have boots on the ground as Iraq or Afghan. The Iranian people have a history of having a functioning civilization.
Again, it could all go to hell. But its way too early to declare failure
I have bad news for you if you think we don’t have “boots on the ground” in Iran. The US government figured out how to get around that a long time ago by
1. Claiming there are no boots on the ground
2. Using paid military contractors and CIA
3. Hiding the participation of Special Forces
It was a lie when they claimed it in Libya, and it’s a lie today.
I’m so old I remember slick willy bombing Serbia.
Opening the floodgates to mass Muslim migration into Europe…
Are you saying those gates were closed?
open-ING
Never said it was closed. All the wars created justification to increase the invasion.
Opening the floodgates implies that they are closed. You don’t like what your statement says, then don’t say it think before you speak.
No. Opening the floodgates implies that the floodgates are open. English much?
It’s been long standing US and Israel policy that Iran will never acquire the means to have a nuclear weapon. I think most logical folks see that as a reasonable policy. I guess that policy just got enacted. The radical islamists in Iran will not have access to nuclear arms and as such Saudi Arabia will live up to its agreement to not have its own nuclear weapons program.
Meh, for now. Keep in mind that the current governments of Afghanistan (Taliban), Iraq (Iranian client state), and Syria (an al Qaeda terrorist), are the same people who hated us and Israel before we deposed their former leaders and then put the same basic people in charge when the nation building efforts failed.
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. Short of a ground invasion and total military occupation of Iran, it is unlikely that the new government that emerges will be friendly. And they will most likely resume their nuclear ambitions.
Why? Because we have a history of getting bored and leaving behind the people we supposedly went in there to stop. And the Iranians now understand that their only option to avoid a US military attack is nuclear deterrence.
Israel running our foreign policy aside, there’s a reason we haven’t gone into Korea and taken out their leaders.
They have nukes.
“Libya and turned North Africa into the greatest refugee crisis ”
Gaddafi wants EU cash to stop African migrants (2010)
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-11139345
Tomorrow Europe might no longer be European, and even black, as there are millions who want to come in,” said Col Gaddafi, quoted by the AFP news agency.
He was speaking at a ceremony in Rome late on Monday, standing next to Italy’s Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi.
“We don’t know what will happen, what will be the reaction of the white and Christian Europeans faced with this influx of starving and ignorant Africans,” Col Gaddafi said.
The refugee crisis accelerated during the so-called “Arab Spring”.
And since you brought it up. Why not just pay Qaddafi?
Why not just pay Qaddafi?
Might have been cheaper, but personally I am not a big fan of extortion.
Ah, so instead we get 60-80M muslim invaders and entire cities in the USA that are mini Islamic states….
..not only this, but Iran has run out of water. We’ll see major mayhem after this.
32,000 Iranians died while expressing their displeasure with the “regime”. We have never seen such opposition in the US. It is hard to imagine being so brave while protesting the regime. May God bless those brave Iranians.
Sir.all due respect to you…it was 7.000+ half of security(caps) personnell……
The well respected South African/Iranian economist, Iraj Abedian, someone who does not play fast and loose with numbers, spoke earlier this year of the numbers. He said the number of deaths probably exceed 8000 civilians. He gave sources for these numbers. I am more inclined to believe him because of his track record and reasoned assessment than your throw away comment.
And you know this, how? Lol
“We’ll be greeted as liberators”
How quickly we forget.
If my memory is correct…it, the protests, started over high prices especially for food…?
I hope the good people, average citizens, are able to ‘reclaim’ their country…
,…in the words of the famous Elwood…”To Live Thrive and Survive …everybody needs somebody…..”…..
Right now, we are ‘their’ somebody…
God Bless America.
What about what about what about….?
Tough girl with her dilley cusswords…
While ignoring the gist of the response.
What nation building?
What refugees?
This is an altogether new and different battlefield, with an altogether new purpose.
Some people refuse to deal with reality. We all know the past events, but many of us take Trump’s actions and words over the last 13 months at face value. Those who have been here a long time and refuse to do so leaves little room that something is “off”(for lack of a better word). Sad.
The something off is person’s who do not trust in the faith of their initial convictions (MAGA). The something off is that there are divisive voices with agendas here at TCTH. The something off is that some long time posters have bought into the divisive issues.
The real something off is still “republicans” and “conservatives” especially the ones holding office who are as bitter an opposition to this administration as the open enemies in the liberal camp.
Wait until all means of Iran power projection outside its own borders are eliminated and or another non-muslim cleric government claims power in Iran. Patience is a virtue in these situations.
Have we invaded Venezuela yet? Do you think that we will? Doesn’t seem likely, invading Iran seems even less likely.
Let’s wait and see. Meanwhile let’s support our troops and our President during a conflict until we have justifiable reasons to point to not to support our President.
Well said . Maybe it’s time for some to leave the treehouse .
If they cant put the pieces together by now I don’t think they ever will .
How can you have voted for President Trump and not just love this f.ing sh.t ??!???!?!
Well said. That’s it in a nutshell.
Lol. Aren’t we now something like 9,744 hours into the “I can end the Ukraine war in 24 hours” thing?
And here’s the thing. The Ukraine war is still going on because Washington wants war with Ukraine. Trump can’t do anything about it. Because all you guys have forgotten that you opposed these national building regime change wars 13 months ago.
You’re practicing selective amnesia. That’s fine. People lie to themselves all the time. I prefer to be consistent and believe that the Permanent War Party has been desperate for this war for a long time, and they got their way.
No. The UKR-RUS IS NOT going on b/c DC wants it. It’s going on bc UK/EU want it. PDJT backed out. You have a very warped viewpoint on all this.
What refugees? You mean like Ilhan Omar or the guy who just killed a bunch of people in Texas yesterday? Or the Afghani who executed the National Guardsman in DC?
What nation building? I posted it elsewhere, but here is your handy dandy nation building checklist:
Step 1: Collapse the nation
Step 2: ?
Step 3: Glorious victoryStep 3: Reinstall the previous leadership*
*See also: Ba’ath party, Taliban, and this guy who is a terrorist:
https://www.state.gov/releases/office-of-the-spokesperson/2025/11/united-states-leads-effort-to-delist-syrian-leaders
You are currently on Step 1, fyi.
Both Sen. Tom Cotton and Marco Rubio (Sundance posted this yesterday), answered “?” when asked about Step 2. And I am not joking. Both said, “I don’t know.”
There are no refugees fleeing Iran. They are not only staying, many ex-pat Iranians are desperate to return to their homeland. They want to rebuild their country.
Continue berating us all at your leisure. You aren’t making a case, you’re only sounding unhinged now.
Oh, but you do!
Millions of people protesting and calling for the death of the filthy ayatollah.
“How do you know that their government wasn’t supported by “the Iranian people”? A few protests?”
Really?
“comparing Trump to Bush”? You’ve got to be kidding. Bush, and his daddy, brought us 9/11 (the second-greatest False Flag operation perpetrated on the U.S.), Iraq, and the Patriot Act (not to mention the activities of the CIA). He did more damage to the U.S. than any president, except for maybe Obama and Biden.
Are you a troll?
Did you vote for President Trump? If you did, this is what you voted for. If you didn’t, your disparaging remarks don’t matter. America’s greatness will not return to the world stage without some very decisive actions. But the demise of America’s greatness has become apparent over the last six decades. if you have anyone in America that you care about, you should want that to stop. If you don’t… I suggest you go back to wherever it is you came from. OR, go to wherever you think it will be better.
GOD BLESS AMERICA!! GOD BLESS OUR AMERICAN TROOPS!!
Your regime change / nation building checklist:
Step 1: Collapse the nation
Step 2: ?
Step 3: Glorious victoryStep 3: Reinstall the previous leadership*
*See also: Ba’ath party, Taliban, and this guy who is a terrorist: https://www.state.gov/releases/office-of-the-spokesperson/2025/11/united-states-leads-effort-to-delist-syrian-leaders
Silly. Tell Thomas it isn’t working. 🙄
It’s easy to get caught up with the plan for the new Iranian government. The many worldwide peaceful demonstrations by the Iranian diaspora should have made it clear, who they want.
On this website you will learn about the Phoenix Plan, an extremely detailed and practical plan for the establishment of the government the Iranian people will choose. It has been written and honed over decades by the only person the Iranian protesters have been calling for, Reza Pahlavi.
https://rezapahlavi.org/en/about
lol yes how dare I question what the plan is that Sen Tom Cotton and Marco Rubio have stated doesn’t exist. More accurately, when asked, both responded
“I don’t know.”
Why would either of them make a public statement outlining plans?
Last that I checked… neither have been elected POTUS.
Just let it go already
Thank you.
U should be president. Of Haiti.
No, Hokkoda should be driving a garbage truck in Haiti.
Yep, you really are a troll.
Left off GHWB, Clinton and GWB. Trump is better than them too.
Any action, even ‘peacefully’ helping Somalia carries huge risks. Damages are still ongoing 35 years later.
I don’t yet see how Trump will navigate them for Iran, but I trust him to do his best.
On the other hand. The best might not ever be good enough.
We haven’t yet forced the end of the existing regime. We could make a Venezuela like deal with least unsavory regime members. We could leave behind utter chaos like in Libya. We could succumb to R2P and Pottery Barn thinking that guarantees another eternal war that we will lose, or worse nation building nonsense.. Or maybe, the people of Iran can free themselves and not need us to put boots on that ground. That last seems very ahistorical. Usually it requires boots on the ground to root out these terror regimes.
The fearsome part is that Trump may not do the worse, but if it is not cleanly resolved by 2029, the next President could easily do so. At least changing Presidents doesn’t completely change allies into enemies and vice a versa. Oh wait, that is what Obama did.
I am quite sure that many of us wanted no new wars. Period. But that was never realistic.
On the other hand, we are moving from new war to new war at a rapid pace. How many more wars are we going to start? Cuba is already being talked about. Others are describing this as a sort of cold War against China, taking out its allies. Venezuela, Iran, Cuba? What comes next?
I don’t want any new wars. I want military strength so that we won’t have war. A sound principle, but life doesn’t always work out that way. What does it take to stop deranged lunatics who kill their own people, kill other people and scheme to get and use nuclear weapons?
But the flip side is the urge to use that strength. Since WW2, we have not been able to avoid that urge. Many justify it as doing good for the world. It usually ends up doing bad. Others lay it out as our duty and responsibility to the World. The same world that is ripping us off and abusing us every way they can, while trying to make us fight their wars.
This is all ground that we tread over and over again. All those names to compare to started wars. But now, it is Trump starting the wars.
Trump 1.0 had many military engagements. But none were wars he started.
Well, starting wars can be quibbled over with Iran fighting us for almost 50 years. And realizing that Venezuela drug running was acts of terror does switch Trump from starting it to ending it. Hopefully in both cases.
Will we invade Mexico to stop the cartels? (Same reasons as Venezuela.) Will we free the Cuban people? (Same reasons as Iran.) Or do we have yet more reasons to abuse the World with wars? What is the line between inviting Canada to be a state and taking them out because China switched from running fentanyl through Mexico to running it through Canada? Where is the line between asking nicely for Greenland and taking it by force? (At least the force has been ruled out now.)
I have even seen articles stating that Trump is racing to save the world before his term ends. To leave us a better world. If so, even with success, it will fall apart after he is gone. But is it really worth the blood of our good patriots?
What wars are we engaged in other than the current action in IRAN?
Where do you people come from ?
How about allowing the people of California reclaim what is ours from the Communists? 🫡
Are the CA state officials shooting protesters in the streets by the thousands? Or summarily hanging 16 yr olds for offending Islam?
You have reached your limit of stupid things you can say to me today. Check back tomorrow.
Total Propaganda…
“shooting protesters in the streets by the thousands? Or summarily hanging 16 yr olds for offending Islam?”
Like weapons of mass distraction!
Okay, Achmed.
/s
A rogue power should not be allowed to build nuclear long range missiles, if we can prevent it.
I think you meant to be posting elsewhere ? The inference that this will turn out worse than than what is in place, or that we should let them continue to terrorize the world much less keep building the “Nuks” and that may be the way to go ? NO SIR
lol, I’m old enough to remember the last 5 times our government assured us “it’ll be different this time, trust us”.
And since 95-99% of the government that was in place in 2024 is still in place today, I’m probably right.
So we should have waited until they carried out “death to America” by nuking us?
Would you have been ok with us retaliating to that?
ROFL!!! You claimed we destroyed their nukes last summer. So that was a lie?
(Don’t get me wrong, I called it a lie then, and predicted we’d be at war in Iran within a year.)
Oh…so nukes can only be built once…I didn’t know that. Thanks for your valuable information.
… And you remember who was President during those times, don’t you?
This time we have a different co-captain at the helm. Following the orders of the captain of the ship, Almighty God.
Previous administrations were disconnected from anything other than their worldly goals and ambitions.
Ok, quick reminder, 95-98% of the permanent government still exists today.
It’s President Trump at the Helm ,,,,Quick….
Try to keep up …
Not at all shocked.
Hegseth just said that war is hell no matter what, and every thinking person knows this.
Your comment, to me, seems simply blind to the differences between PDJT’s surgical track record on military intervention, and those of all the RINOs and Dims previous for decades. The conflation sounds very Dimocrat-like to me.
I just think it’s sad when his surgical approach is so clear, but some can’t or won’t see or understand it. He does what’s needed abroad and then simply continues what’s needed here.
It works.
Agreed Hokkoda. For those who have been to and served in the “big sandbox” overseas, this “war” is not going over too well. When the Joint Chiefs of Staff advises that this is not a good idea, you tend to listen. IF we actually get support form the Saudi’s and the Euroweenies, that may change everything however, regime change remains questionable.
This isn’t a “wait 48 hours and reassess” scenario. To all of it, at what cost?
Talk about pretending not to know certain things.
We do not require Europe’s support.
The Saudis expressed their unconditional support… in writing.
Good grief the neurosis is off the charts.
For additional info…which forces were hit and what happened in Israel. You can also look at foreign countries’ “media” for more information as well. This looks like a long read but it’s quick.
https://www.theburningplatform.com/2026/03/01/march-1-day-two/
We’ve gone from a group of treehouse dwellers with similar mind sets , goals and talking points to a group of parents trying to explain to children why they can’t eat “all “ of the cake . My Dad used to say it’s like pulling teeth with you people .
Thank you Alleycats for being more patient than me !!!
Agree – the big wildcard is actual KSA support not just words and letters. Barry and FJB financed and created this mess, unfortunately Pres Trump has to fix it.
And will prevail.
A lot of people are fully into bloodlust mode. When they sober up, they’ll remember that they opposed this stuff.
A lot of people are in reality mode.
A lot of people want the root source of worldwide terrorism eliminated.
A lot of people want the Muslim Islamic terrorist actions in this country to be eliminated, like an Austin Texas, two days ago.
This is what we want.
War isn’t our mode it’s the plan of action necessary to eliminate the above scenarios.
You’re old and you just wanna sit back and just let this continue. Maybe your Trump’s age, fortunately he doesn’t think like you I’m about his age and I don’t think like you either, not on this issue.
I am 56, and lost two friends in Afghanistan who weren’t there to conduct combat operations. One was there building roads, killed by an IED a few days after being profiled in Stars and Stripes surrounded by villagers cheering for him. The second was shot in the back inside the green zone by an Afghani who was cleared to be “behind the wire”, several others were executed as well.
You can smoke all the hopium you want. We just took a plate glass window and smashed it on the sidewalk.
It’s different this time. Wake up. 56? PDJT’s 79. More experience and wisdom. There is no way his mission is the same as the defeated Iraq/Afghan/VM missions. Not the same. I want the Iran proxy terrorism to stop in USA and worldwide.
Stop with the insults.
Please re read the rules for posting.
This has been a PSA.
Agree, and it shouldn’t shock anyone who can see beyond “Orange Man great.” This submission will not be popular here
– No defined end state and objectives other than “regime change”
– Clearly no planning for 2nd / 3rd order effects & regional / global spillover
– Iran has been a barking dog ever since the bearded nitwits kicked out the Shah; now we have to attack? They’ve been “minutes from a nuke” for decades. This action was the only one of DIMEFIL that could be executed?
– How, exactly, is this America First and how does it nest in our National Security Strategy?
– Whenever the post-mortem happens, it’ll be interesting to see if the Joint Staff and COCOMs advised against the use of force
in this “4D chess move”
– Where is the, “then what?”
– How, exactly, is this making America great?
– I voted for the man three times, but something has certainly occurred that causes his actions to shift from his campaign rhetoric.
– Helping Israel achieve regional hegemony was not on the dance card
– Shocking to me how many on this site are so enthusiastic; perhaps they are unaware of the civilian casualties, particularly children, elderly, and infirm. We misjudged in Vietnam, Iraq, and Afghanistan and this seems to be a fool’s errand. I hope I’m wrong.
Damn.. The Slick handlers worked overtime this weekend coming up with this weak, silly diatribe.
means they got nuttin…
Please explain the weakness of the “diatribe.”
Lol, says the person who can’t make an argument so he’s just sending over personal insults…
I don’t believe the reach of Iran was on the expectation list…they have hit so many. Seems as though they planned to pull the world into the fray. Look at the bottom of the list where they hit bases or locations operated by France, Italy and the UK.
https://x.com/antmillionsbot/status/2028395750640476657
It appears to be a Chinese post.
Don’t let the Israel Firsters bark you down.
My goal isn’t to persuade them. My goal is to make sure people like you know that you’re not alone.
The wars we “lost” weren’t because of our Military. It was due to weak hands at home.
I never said they were. They were sent to fight wars under false pretenses in a part of the world that is so utterly incompatible with Western ideals as to be an alien race.
Before the Iraq reinvasion in 2003, I was writing about how we’d have to occupy that part of the world with millions of troops ala post WW2 to even have a shot at success.
Democrats are losers. Fact.
In case you haven’t been keeping up with current events for the past 30 years or so, Democrats are just one wing of the uniparty bird…
We checked that box with Iran long ago. The Iranian diaspora in LA and suburban MD is huge. At least we got the smart ones. Not that any of that will make you feel better.
It usually happens in waves, and usually following some disaster the that US precipitated.
Trump isn’t like any president we’ve seen in modern times.
Hokkoda, who was in office when “the wars were lost”? That ought to tell you something.
99% of the government that lost those wars from 2001-2017 is still in existence today.
But stupider.
I love what Trump has done, despite 6 military conflicts in 13 months, which I try to overlook. But we are reaching levels of crazy MIC warmongering here that I don’t think anyone who voted for Trump expected at the time.
RAV is CON Inc. personified. Noticed it years ago.
I don’t think in every case – but thanks to sundance, my ears are tuned to notice these things.
Brian just showed his butt big time at a level none of them usually do.
Let The Noticing continue. 😁👍
That’s the cool thing about Truth; it always comes out eventually.
What a shame, I used to like Brian. MTG is a freaking loose cannon now.
She was a loose canon before – looking for a place to unload.
That is why she never cared about voter fraud in Georgia.
We’ve seen it so often in the political “class” – a woman can poison a man’s mind far more easily than the reverse, imho.
I’ve seen it mostly in person in the blue state where I live, and particularly in my own extended family.
I have younger male relatives, particularly two brothers. They both grew up with at least some common sense and some libertarian free-market instincts.
One married a sensible more conservative normie woman and they are both now solid MAGA.
The other married a woke nightmare and they became exactly that, complete with a couple of gender confused kids.
Marjorie wrote her 700 word meltdown on X..
She described President Trump’s Operation Epic Fury as feeling “like the worst betrayal”.
As JJ Sefton at Ace added “says the poster child of betrayal”.
She and any who proclaiming themselves MAGA are shamefully, reprehensibly, aligning with the murderous regime against America and Western Civilization and those in the thick of it defending both.
This isn’t about you, Marjorie, or your “feelings”.
Sit down and shut up 😎
Israel first, right?
What are we at? 5 military conflicts in 13 months? Or is it 6?
You seem hurt. Don’t let influencers influence you. It is not about Israel.
Think of oil. Think of manufacturers leaving China and coming back to America.
👇
“Venezuela supplies maybe 3-4% of China’s imported oil.”
“But Iran was somewhere between 15-23%.”
Gordon Chang told me that President Trump is “going after the Chinese” with his war in Iran.
“He is doing it indirectly.”
“He’s cutting off their sources of oil.”
“President Trump may allow the Venezuelans to sell oil to China, but not at the heavily discounted rates that China was benefiting from.”
“And Chinese factories are now dependent on cheap oil.”
“Well, they’re not getting it anymore.”
“If they get their oil, they’re gonna have to pay market prices.”
Video here: https://nitter.poast.org/JanJekielek/status/2028269211487715746#m
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Good, Val 👍🏻
This is how President Trump operates and few can see it.
Of course he is quite rightly, finally “deactivating” a deadly foe which has cost us so much in terms of lives lost. On this alone he is in my estimation the greatest president this Republic has ever had.
But, and I am reticent to used the 3/4 D chess reference which has become so trite, he is a man who has always looked further than the thing in front of him. This is a remarkable talent.
In whatever form the globalist world he has made no secret of working to destroy and rebuild takes, there is no doubt he knows the consequences for China by these actions.
I’m a fan of Gordon Chang. I wonder if PDJT has availed himself of this man’s analysis 🤔
“It’s not about Israel”
Do you even read what you write before you click Post Comment?
This is a joint Israeli-US war.
VERY troll-like.
You guys should start calling us Putin’s Puppets…save some time and what few brain cells remain…
The way MTG flipped makes me wonder what new, shiny things she suddenly
has laying around loose. Taking up the narrative after strongly opposing it in the
past seems to be very lucrative the past few years.
It was sudden all right…
“Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.”
~George Washington
Or women.
Fox is reporting a 4th warrior has succumbed to injuries…
Let’s hope there is a plan to bring this to a timely conclusion.
God Bless America.
I 🙏🏻 and trust in God that there is.
Iran has been at war with the USA for 47 years.
Sun, 1 Mar 2026 9:33 AM PST by Daniel Greenfield
“America can’t do a damn thing against us,” Ayatollah Khomeini bragged while holding our hostages.
Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei taunted President Trump with the same slogan after being asked to give up Iran’s nuclear weapons program.
“Our response to the US nonsense is clear: they cannot do a damn thing in this matter,” he echoed his regime’s founder.’
Carter’s failure to defend Americans had turned Khomeini’s taunt into a confident slogan.
America couldn’t stop its diplomats and soldiers from being taken hostage and paraded through the streets.
In subsequent decades, future administrations couldn’t stop other Americans from being taken hostage again, tortured and executed.
By the end of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, Iranian IEDs alone had accounted for as many as 1,000 American victims.
They have it coming. Finally, they are being put down like a rabid dog
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A quick reminder that similar arguments were used to justify the Iraq war.
Oh, and the US government ended up putting the Taliban back in charge in Afghanistan…
Biden’s government. Huge difference.
DEMOCRAT govt. FIFY.
Absolutely, Biden didn’t even know he was the President half the time. The other half the time he was soaking up the sun on Rehobeth Beach like a president on vacation. Thank God Kamala did not win and we now have a real President. Js
There is only the UniParty, And MAGA.
The same Permanent Government that was in place during the Biden Regime is in place today.
Easy to forget that outside of a few political appointments, most of the IC, DoD, etc. are completely unchanged from when Trump took office.
You’re trying so hard… It’s ok, failure is not fatal. Slick handlers will give you new material soon enough.
No one is doing 180s, no one is warmongering, no one is betting on protracted boots on the ground. Once again, this operation is specific in goal and mission. President Trump is not anything like previous Presidents, despite the lengths you go to to undermine his agenda and actions to MAGA, by conflating him thusly.
I get that you disagree with the President. What I don’t get is why you are hellbent on convincing others to lose support for him, because YOU are dissatisfied.
we remember..fake WMD…and thousands and thousands death soldiers+…
Are you the bot
These people have found a meaning in life and it is not conducive with living in the real world.
What people?
Might you kindly define and identify “these people” so I know who you are talking about?
Watching war on TV is fun. It’s mostly other peoples’ kids doing the fighting, so…
I look at it like the NFL. Fly a few jets, show some people in uniform, and everyone forgets that they were “boycotting the NFL” over the kneeling.
“if all you can see is the past then you should tear out your eyes.”
Supposedly, Stalin said something like this this to Churchill during an all night meeting/drinking session in Moscow toward the end of WW2. It’s a variation on a well known Russian proverb: “Dwell on the past and you’ll lose an eye; forget the past and you’ll lose both eyes.”
I think both statements apply equally to what PDJT is currently overseeing in Iran.
The battle cry of the revolutionary…
Afghans were not working on nuclear weapons,Saddam’s son-in-law defected to the West and said Iraq was working on developing nukes.No nukes for countries that want to use them as a first option.
Have you ever given an ounce of sacrifice for this country? Or is it complaining all you do.
Go eat a crustless cucumber sandwich and kiss the Rino traitor’s right and left cheeks
You mean besides my 10 years in uniform?
And my wife’s?
And my son heading off to CSO school in a few months?
Or my retired USMC brother in law with severe PTSD?
Or my nephew / Marine with back problems?
Or my USN sister?
I understand them temptation to attack the man instead of the ideas. After all, you opposed this garbage just a couple years ago…
Iraq didnt have any nuke material,so why are you posting that opinion?Just curious as to why.
On 31 May 2025, IAEA reported that Iran had sharply increased its stockpile of uranium enriched to 60% purity, just below weapons-grade, reaching over 408 kilograms, a nearly 50% rise since February. The agency warned that this amount is enough for multiple nuclear weapons if further enriched.
You’re not going to win over people by claiming that was legit…
I’m not interested in ”winning”anybody over. Nobody posting here has any information that isn’t public information, and nobody here knows the future.
Some people posting have a lot of emotions and are certain that their opinion is the absolute fact, and insist that others accept that.
I’m not certain of anything and accept that what info I do access online will only be partial facts, and be incorrect.
We are all just spectators, like watching a football game on TV.
We could rant at the screen, demolish the screen, wish really hard, but we have zero input or influence on any outcome.
I’ve noticed that all the NFL had to do was do a few jet flyovers and show some military people in uniform, and everybody forgot about the kneeling…
There seems to be a correlation…
Yeah, WHICH government? Do they pay you by the word or by the post?
I’m just having some fun, Rob. Lighten up.
You have to just sit back and laugh at people sometimes. I’m watching “no more regime change wars” MAGAs tell me this regime change war is different. I’m hearing people say “this isn’t about Israel”, when it’s a joint US-Israeli war against Iran. And I literally posted the Underpants Gnomes meme which was quickly followed by an interview with Sen. Tom Cotton who literally answered “?” (i.e. “I don’t know”) when asked what Step 2 is.
Seriously, how is this not fun?
That wouldn’t have happened in Afghanistan,
if Biden didn’t steal the election.
The Taliban would be in charge of Afghanistan today, even if Trump had not been overthrown.
The difference is that it wouldn’t have looked like Saigon/1975 and we wouldn’t have left $80B in weapons behind.
The rest of the article contains MANY more atrocities towards U.S. citizens and assets then I remembered.
THANK YOU, homer d, for posting this LINK.
Wow.
also found this direct Department of War you tube link:
Everyday we get stronger, everyday they get weaker, no backing down.
Only a warrior himself as Secretary Hegseth has been and is could deliver remarks like this to the military in harm’s way.
General Cain, the same.
No more DEI, no more social experiments, no more wiping unworthy feet on the faces of those who are better men bearing the actual costs of conflict than those who send them.
Just patriotic masculinity, laser like purpose, and ability. Our beloved military is well served by these men.
God bless and protect each and every one 🙏🏻 🇺🇸
Thank you Betsy !! I needed your (always wonderful) posting to kick-start my morning. God bless you !!
Good Monday morning, my friend…Coffee up. We sit here in prayer while the best of us do what is necessary and dangerous. How can we not salute all of them and those in command who are finally worthy, able leaders? Bless you, Jeems…
Betsy, a simple upvote just doesn’t seem sufficient to express my appreciation for and agreement with your post, so I’ll post this link and ask had you seen it?
https://x.com/BeKindBehave/status/2028428621031883233
I had not, dear Ma….
Unfortunately because I am not on X…
Phooey ….😖
Did you copy and paste the link? It worked for me.
Also we might try this:
https://xcancel.com/BeKindBehave/status/2028428621031883233
Let me know how you do.
Oh NITTER!!! AWESOME!!
👍🏻 🇺🇸 👍🏻 🇺🇸 👍🏻 🇺🇸 👍🏻 🇺🇸 👍🏻 🇺🇸 !!
(Thanks for not giving, Ma 😉💕)
😉
Our allies, Britain, France and Germany have now indicated they “may” join on against Iran to protect their interests in the area. Does anyone care??
Britain, France and Germany Say They Could Join Attacks on Iran Through ‘Necessary and Proportionate Defensive Action’ | The Gateway Pundit | by Ben Kew https://share.google/nO7DpQaMIBUIKOHOv
Starmer rushed to his microphone to announce in the early hours that the UK was not involved, hoping to be eaten last…and maybe not at all.
His was a pathetic and sickening display of fear and cowardice.
Perhaps we can put paid to the ridiculous pretense that there is a “special” relationship between our two nations.
There isn’t… and hasn’t been for decades.
*ladylike spit*
–“*ladylike spit*”–
Good on ya, Betsy!
My Grandmother, ‘Betts’, was the only one I ever knew that could pull off a ‘ladylike spit’. But she’s been gone for 45 years now.
I’m delighted say that I do believe that you make the second!
With high regard and admiration,
Paprika
I am humbled and honoured, dear Paprika. You cannot imagine…💕
But I must tell you, somewhere in the Great Beyond, I’m sure there is another who is also delivering hers as well. And I cannot keep from believing that she would have said to President Trump, “What do you need from Britain? We will provide it, and stand beside you, shoulder to shoulder.”
God bless the beautiful soul and memory of your beloved and much missed “Betts” 🙏🏻
Wonderful portrait of an exceptional leader!
I don’t know who the portraitist was, KS.
But it is a fine work and caught her essence in every detail.
Steely but still womanly. Raw power without sacrificing her femininity.
My dad always said Maggie Thatcher was the best leader post WWII Britain ever saw. He was very disappointed over her being forced out and saddened by her descent into dementia.
Her male cabinet ministers wanted her gone, sis. But they were all feeble and, like Starmer, cowards to a man.
There waited until she was in France to knife her, Brutus-like.
Every PM who followed her unto this day was a capitulator worse than the one who preceded. First to the wretched EU, and much now to Islam and China, the latter being granted permission to build a mega embassy feet away from Parliament and Whitehall.
She was a lioness, fierce and protective of the UK.
Many despised her.
I dare say today, decades later, those who remember her wish desperately for her doppleganger.
So sad.
Their egos were bruised.
No one holds an office forever except in totalitarian regimes. But after she was overthrown, Britain joined Europe. And that was the beginning of their descent.
I still remember being horrified at the thought of the EU formation. I could not believe so many countries could be talked into willingly ceding their sovereignty. Least of all, Britain with their storied history of self-definition throughout the ages.
We were in the UK at the time.
Country after country bought the snake oil, except for Ireland and Portugal, both of which voted “No”.
The EU and then sovereign countries’ traitorous panjandrums forced a second vote in these two nations, and miracles of miracles (🤔) the “No” in both turned into a resounding ” Yes”.
It’s painful to remember.
Even Britain receiving an opt out on converting their currency from £ into € couldn’t save them because their yoke is still attached to the EU Court of Human Rights…the HRs of others that is, and not those of the ethnic British…
Curious, I’ve always thought, that no true Brit seems to have thought about that.
Theirs are null and void.
That was then, this is now. What a disgrace, hiding from the mobs of Londonistan and the grooming gangs of Norwich, Canterbury, etc.
Rotherham, Shrewsbury, Leeds…and as you say, etc…
“Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren’t.”
“…I have had time and cause to reflect on what made him a great president. Ronald Reagan knew his own mind. He had firm principles – and, I believe, right ones. He expounded them clearly, he acted upon them decisively. When the world threw problems at the White House, he was not baffled, or disorientated, or overwhelmed. He knew almost instinctively what to do. When his aides were preparing option papers for his decision, they were able to cut out entire rafts of proposals that they knew ‘the Old Man’ would never wear. When his allies came under Soviet or domestic pressure, they could look confidently to Washington for firm leadership. And when his enemies tested American resolve, they soon discovered that his resolve was firm and unyielding. Yet his ideas, though clear, were never simplistic. He saw the many sides of truth. Yes, he warned that the Soviet Union had an insatiable drive for military power and territorial expansion; but he also sensed it was being eaten away by systemic failures impossible to reform. Yes, he did not shrink from denouncing Moscow’s ‘evil empire’. But he realized that a man of goodwill might nonetheless emerge from within its dark corridors. So the President resisted Soviet expansion and pressed down on Soviet weakness at every point until the day came when communism began to collapse beneath the combined weight of these pressures and its own failures. And when a man of goodwill did emerge from the ruins, President Reagan stepped forward to shake his hand and to offer sincere cooperation. Nothing was more typical of Ronald Reagan than that large-hearted magnanimity – and nothing was more American.”
In contrast to our Blood Money War Pig Traitor Class, who cannot take “Yes” for an answer, personified by Keir Starmer circling at the bottom of the driveway on a bicycle he stole from a 14 year-old Scottish girl.
I think she’s watching us, Betsy.
“People think that at the top there isn’t much room. They tend to think of it as an Everest. My message is that there is tons of room at the top.”
Look up!
Rest in the Vine: “Mister, We Could Use a Man Like Margaret Thatcher Again!”
Thank you, dear Gipper 💕 She was a powerhouse, operating on four hours of sleep a night. I suspect President Trump at this moment is doing the same, and maybe less.
She and Reagan were of one mind. A truly dynamic duo.
I’m betting she’s watching, too, dear friend…and is incandescent.
(As for the elegant quote/definition prefacing the rest of your wonderful post? Precisely 😎💕
Bless you, Treehouse brother…
And you, sis. 😉
👍🏻 😘
Definitely an AMAZING Lady and Leader!
“What do you need from Britain? We will provide it, and stand beside you, shoulder to shoulder.”
AND YES SHE would have!
Continued PRAYERS!
She set the standard, girl.
No one as PM since has measured even halfway up to it.
Amen times a million.
(And this… to my friends I am “Bets” -minus a “t”- or a”Bet”, of which everyone here is one. Blessings always, dear sir)
These European “allies “ are so afraid of their immigrants that they will hide behind the “it wasn’t us” narrative.
Starmer is more concerned about keeping his Muslim voting bloc on board, using ‘international law’ as an excuse to deny cooperation. A bit ironic when the US remains the international policeman.
The video says a lot about the spineless character of the man.
I saw this, Sonia. Thank you for posting. Yes indeed….that’s Starmer all right.
What other reaction can there be…
I LOLOLOL every time you post this pic. 🤣
Was he handcuffed??? lol!
Did you notice the way he held his hands? It telegraphed complete surrender and powerlessness.
Oh yes, girl…body language is the most honest language there is.
His screamed submission to the enemy.
Islam precisely.
Precisely.
He’s a political eunuch.
Hahahah. I hope PDJT says, “Thanks, but no thanks.” Morons.
I hope that PDJT answers with “Diego Garcia.”
Our allies they are not.
Insert puke emoji here.
I’ve never really paid much attention to Gen. Caine…he is impressive!
Yes, indeedy!
Is this video up on X, GAB, Rumble ?
Hegseth needs to watch Rumsfeld video. I like Caine.
While several here are spitting into the wind with personal perspective and opinion …
There are some assessments supporting President Trump’s statements of purpose…
https://t.me/beholdisraelchannel/70380
Terrific update at that link.
Those who keep conflating the military errors of the past 25 years with this current military operation might benefit from this assessment.
Thank you.
fwiw, if one wishes not to go to the link…
Israel and the United States acted with great wisdom.
The Tehran Police Headquarters building was destroyed.
90% of the police stations in Tehran were completely demolished.
On the surface, this may appear to be a routine report – but it is anything but.
Assessment / Insight
Hundreds of strikes dismantled the core infrastructure of the regime, effectively targeting the very foundation of its internal security apparatus.
Basij bases and multiple security bodies – those directly responsible for the repression and suffering inflicted on the Iranian people – were destroyed. A strategically brilliant decision.
The systematic neutralization of entities capable of threatening ordinary Iranian citizens reduces the regime’s ability to intimidate through force. This could eventually enable citizens to take to the streets without fear of being shot and to pursue change from within.
In simple terms:
The United States and Israel are shaping the conditions for the Iranian people to rise and replace a regime that has endured for decades.
(Abu Saleh)
Well done. Thank you very much.
Hegseth prays for “the Biblical wisdom to do what is right, and the courage to do it.”
AMEN.
Four of the questions, “How long is it going to be?”
Ukraine going 5 years.
Ask Obama and Biden, they created the mess.
But you left that out of course
Just think about 15 months ago, AWOL Austin and Milley.
I note the “clarity” of communication, thoughts, opinions, directives, objectives, goals, etc. of Hegseth and Caine–especially when I compare this presentation with those of Austin and Milley.
Real leaders who will stand the line and who support their Commander in Chief’s goals. I also, having been around since 1979, have had to live with Iran’s constant threats and killing of Americans plus many others, where our previous so called “CIC leaders” seem to have specialized in “kicking the can down the road” with Iran.
Common sense would tell the average citizen that “crazy neighbor” down the block, who has constantly threatened everyone who passes by–to kill them, will one day “act out” those threats in real time.
My sincere wish is that there are more “silent majority” Iranians who will seek a better life without such hatreds controlling their world that will rise to this opportunity for freedom and peace in their lives, governed by new leaders who will provide such.
I second your thoughts. Uber-competence IMHO.
I joined the Navy in 79 so I too have seen MANY SECDEF/WAR JCOS briefings. This current pair have earned the respect of this old sailor, veteran of the Cold War.
Tell me you wouldn’t wish to be younger and sneaking around those waters today in offensive ops! Can you imagine those “general quarters” drills that have taken place prior to operations so that shipmates got their times, etc. down to “combat ready”? Bet me you can still smell that salt water!
The smell I remember is the Amine. Bubbleheads in the crowd will know what I mean.
Would post a sea story or two but alas, this is a public forum.
Immensely proud of the thousands of sailors doing their jobs
After closely watching and studying the people of Iran for the past two years I feel pretty confident your wish will come true.
The unknown factor remains the will, resolve, and courage of Iranians.
President TRUMP has been quite direct: we will not help you again. Seize control of your destiny from the medieval theocrats now, at this great opportunity, or remain under their control for another 50 years.
Reports that only a 1/3rd of Iranians are Islamic, and that perhaps 50% are atheists, are not to be trusted: how do you decipher these numbers from a totalitarian country, closed off, terrorized, fanaticized, possibly mesmerized by the government?
However, even if the numbers are true, fine: now we must discover what they will decide to do…or not to do!
And keep in mind that some people fear the whole idea of freedom!
They prefer the security of a dictatorial state, as it relieves them of many responsibilities in Life. There were people in Russia who longed for Stalin decades later.
The Iranian military especially may be loyal to an aggressive, terrorist Islamic government: one finds a quite different way of thinking east of Greece!
I believe humans intrinsically desire freedom.
Iran is also a country that knew a prior standard of living and working in relative freedom and prosperity, not so long ago.
Millions want that back. I am more hopeful than not that they will lead in that direction.
Do you believe in coincidences still ?
47 yrs being dealt with by the 47th President
Victor Davis Hanson on Youtube, Trump’s grand strategy, from 0:56:30.
This is a great explanation that puts me more at ease with this gamble. God bless America and God bless President Trump.
Need to re-que video to 0:56:30, sorry.
Good post. Thank you.
Always there have been Trolls coming to the treehouse…….some silly ,some tricky….some just damn stupid…
for every yes you post..they say no ..for every positive you state ,they have a negative…
their goal is to drag you into an fight ,to spread discord…
often they come in pairs to support each other……..quite a few are bots….
they have many different names but you can tell who they are quickly….
best to not feed them, ignore em and they will go away in time….
Ran out of troll food quite awhile ago…
Not in the budget anymore.
Your assessment is one reason I spend little time here for some time now.
I realize it is the same Internet wide ….. that isn’t going to change.
Be well.
Despite the trolls and those with who I disagree I spend time here every day because of all the places/sites around I can find truth and learn the ability to look behind the curtain.
I’m thankful for this place
I understand.
Personally, I have found more peace in a few places with just and with no opinion noise.
From there, I form my decisions off the info gleaned and act accordingly.
Skim past The Trolls!
Do not let them control what you would like to read!
Best Wishes!
Thank you for sharing this wisdom.
The comments unfortunately don’t add as much good to the site content as they used to do. Sad.
Disagree. Still a massive amount of great thinking and info here – even in paying some attention to the trolls and loonies.
Barack Hussein Obama: “Islam is part of America. We are no longer a Christian nation.”
He took the Muslim Brotherhood’s presence in America to the next level.
https://x.com/i/status/2028359109976723768
Chiraq still more deadly
Count for just the weekend.
6 Killed 20 Wounded
The bots coming here are not interested in facts.
But it is a damn good comparison
After reading some of the comments on the page, I had to look and be sure it was not the Huffington Post. I want my old tree house back.
The treehouse isn’t meant to be an echo chamber, it has always been thus. It’s where free thinking people share their thoughts. For better or worse.
In a civil manner of course 🙂
I think JAW is referring to the quality of the discussion in the past.
Much less substance these days, and inane comments getting lots of “likes.”
That I can agree with.
Although purposeful, This too, shall pass. Sundance warned us things would get worse before they get better. God has blessed this President for this Mission in this Time.
Fleas in front of the furnace… 🙏
Well, the civility is sorely lacking, and that’s when people stop commenting and just absorb the articles.
The trolls add spice to the stew. It’s a “sticks and stones” thing. Everybody has to make a living somehow.
WE FIGHT TO WIN !!!!!
“Reporters, no we won’t need to tell you anything about the future strategy, that’s war. NEXT.”
Real MEN are in charge.
Pray harder for them.
PA Kettle agrees
Would not be surprised about any of this, between the Fog of War and bad decisions things like this happen. The first casualty of war is the truth.🖖🏻
That is a lie and literally ignores what the man said the sentence prior.
Media distortion and slanted reporting on display once again. It just never ends. 24/7 news sites have to make people click on their site every minute of everyday.
Hezbollah Enters War, Gets Instant Regret; UPDATE: Intel Chief Killed
Head of Hezbollah was also “retired”
The word “Eliminated” resonates! Haha.
The attack on Iran solves many issues:
If this plays out in our best interests its a huuge win !
Thank you for a well-reasoned and civil post. Perhaps many others here could follow this example.
Operation Epic Fury: Why Iran’s Ballistic Missile Force Remains the Greatest Threat
These military testing memos are strong evidence Iran experimented with and deployed contaminated or “dirty warheads” against US forces as early as January 2020.
We obtained the memos as part of a recent investigation into the toxic fallout of Iran’s 2020 ballistic missile strike on US forces at the Al Asad air base in Iraq.
Three independent environmental experts who reviewed the military records told us Actinium-228, Bismuth-214 and Cesium-137 seemed “out of place” with a conventional warhead.
https://x.com/C__Herridge/status/2028284209710715339
Well worth reading.
For those friends and family grumbling about US military “over there” suggesting regime change and not “defending the US” direct them to paragraph 33 of this November 2024 criminal complaint against Iranian assassins in NY. Note Victim 4-Donald Trump::
https://www.justice.gov/archives/opa/media/1376516/dl
Epic Fury seems to be an appropriate name for this Operation. Godspeed US warriors. 🙏
Hat tip Derek Johnson Telegram Rattletrap1776.
https://t.me/s/rattletrap1776
Thank you very much.
What nobody is willing to say is that hard core Islamists will only stop when they are dead. That being the case, this will never end until they are all rooted out and killed. I have no idea how that can be done, since there are so many of them all over the world, but I know that we can’t just sit by and allow the problem to continue to metastasize until it’s truly unstoppable. That would be a hell on Earth. I think this strategy of cutting of the head of the snake rather than playing whack-a-mole with all it’s proxies gives us the best chance and will result in less killing in the long run.
“What nobody is willing to say is that hard core Islamists will only stop when they are dead…. I have no idea how that can be done”
The LORD.
Eric Daugherty
@EricLDaugh
🚨 BREAKING: NATO SecGen Mark Rutte just STUNNED the Democrats, coming out in 100% support of President Trump’s Iran triumph
“The Commander-in-Chief, the leader of the free world, President Donald J. Trump, I REALLY commend what is happening here! Taking out Khamenei, taking out the nuclear capability and ballistic missile program in Iran.” 🔥
“This is crucial. I spoke with ALL the key European leaders…there’s WIDESPREAD support for the president’s doing.”
Video linked….
Our President is a fair minded man, and treats all (until it becomes clear it is undeserved) with respect. It makes me think of Proverbs 16:7 –
“When a man’s ways please the Lord,
He makes even his enemies to be at peace with him.”
Everybody needs to understand that, whether you like it or not, we are at war with an evil and ruthless enemy. Think about what you post and ask yourself, am I aiding and abetting the enemy by posting this? Am I helping our war effort or hurting it? That is, unless venting and sniveling are more important to you.
Contrarian viewpoints most certainly do not amount to “venting and sniveling!” One of the many reasons I am BLESSED to be an American is because I have the freedom to voice my opinion. Except apparently on this site.
But you keep coming back and complaining about temperament. You might be the only person I know forced to read and post here.
Brett Baier reports on his conversation with Trump this morning…
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Eric Daugherty
@EricLDaugh
🚨 BREAKING: President Trump announces the US is WAY AHEAD of schedule in Iran, the regime was totally discombobulated and is now PANICKED
Cont and video….
There’s that element of discombobulation again.
Gotta love it.
Fetterman…
I am genuinely impressed with Fetterman.
I thought he would be like all the other democrats and oppose Trump, and the Nation, for simply living.
There are areas where I will disagree with him, BUT, he actually calls the other democrats out on their hypocrisy!
Please look at his voting record, which is reality. He’s a knucklehead pandering for some votes and supporting his Jewish heritage. He’s not and old school blue dog.
The Senator is an “old school” Democrat, the kind my parents voted for (except for Goldwater – they loved him!) Wondering why he just doesn’t switch parties or go “Independent” because he surely is no Dem as we know that party today. Perhaps he remains an official Dem to persuade other moderate Dems to join him in speaking out and going against the party line? Regardless, he is his own man. Doesn’t matter whether I agree with him or not, he most surely has my respect.
We should be looking at what it’s taking to deal with Iran right now and making very serious and immediate changes in America to rid ourselves of any and all Islam.
Anything that we’ve got in America that is going to lead towards anything at all that resembles what we’re fighting in the Middle East, that all should not exist here in America- none- zero.
Look at Minneapolis and Dearborn Michigan today and then think about what we’ve been enduring for our lives that has come out of Iran.
One is the beginning and one is now the ending, BUT look at this and see the connection, see how one leads to the other.
We Must see this !!
This is urgent, we’ve got to see it all for what it really is and end it all NOW.
There is a difference between ‘Religion’ and what we’re seeing that has the Middle East at war since the beginning of time.
We do not want this conflict here in America on our own soil.
We cannot be a free country and then deal with all that here, the two are completely incompatible, one is a weapon to end the other.
America is a Christian nation, the Founders said this over and over again: In God We Trust.. Period.
Mustafa Ataturk did it; we can too.
Sundance on MTG comments re Iran….
I’m pretty sure that MTG is bought and paid for, nowadays. I saw some posts on Twitter/X about it the other day; the sources were shown for both herself and Thomas Massie. I didn’t save the info about who the funder was, though.
Appeasement plan is not equal to peace.
Yes, let’s surrender to Islam and and all the bad confrontations go away.
Defund and abolish all law enforcement and all the bad confrontations go away.
Rinse and repeat.
They could always buy windmills from themselves.
Just trying to be helpful.
You have amazing President, Secretary of War and Secretary of State. You can be proud!
Thank you, David! We certainly are!
Thank You, David!
Continued BLESSINGS!
After reading all these comments, I wonder whose side some of the regular posters are on…………………….
The US strike on Iran is Trump’s high-risk gamble to choke China’s energy lifeline, flip Tehran to allied control, open the India-Middle East-Europe corridor, weaken Russia, and lock in 21st-century US hegemony—delivering quick regime change and falling oil prices that cement Trumpism as a historic win, OR sparking Middle East chaos and global blowback that hands Beijing the advantage in a new age of empires.
From rabobank
I am not here often… Seems a lot has changed No one should be in lock step with everything Trump does but I don’t understand anyone not backing this particular operation… New posters ?
…Special Operation K is really taking the Hollywood spotlight off of Special Operation Z…
President Trump will be speaking live soon per RSBN
Seems to be well executed, as I’d expect under President Trump.
Congrats also to Israel for capturing the U.S. and its foreign policy.
This is hardly the most important issue facing this country. I would much have preferred to have seen positive news on a balanced budget, people going to jail over waste, fraud and abuse, elimination of the waste, fraud and abuse, ELECTION INTEGRITY, the muslim threat within THIS country, elimination of the income tax, term limits, funding DHS, and plans to pay down our $40 trillion deficit.
Because they’re all so intertwined…
Right… This might be important to you and most Americans but it’s not what Congress has planned
I have always defended Hegseth but he sounded clownish. Some are trying to make too much out of his refusal to rule out ground troops but that is just standard language here. No way in the world are we going to invade Iran.
President Trump is taking a big risk.
I think it’s a risk to his plans for a golden age, and to his legacy.
Hope this war is short, as in days.
Hope the Iranians hated their leaders, now that they are martyrs, but what do I know about Shia Islam? Not much. Very different culture.
Hope Iran doesn’t sink an aircraft carrier.
Hope Iran doesn’t bomb Saudi Arabia’s oil fields.
Hope a destabilized Iran doesn’t lead to sustained high oil prices.
Hope there’s no global recession as a result.
Iran is half the size of Europe, and it has 90 million people.
Big risk.
But the president has won before. Venezuela could have gone very wrong, that was a big risk too. But not as risky as this.
The Risky Place is being out of the Will of the Holy Spirit.
Do nothing is always the most risk free option and most often in the way of actual positive / necessary. action.
Iran is certainly demostrating why they can never have a nuclear weapon.
OK, all you treepers, argue the lower-level pros and cons of the attack on Iran all you want to. The big issue here is what kinds of collateral impacts on Trump’s domestic policy agenda will be happening from here on out.
The attack and its aftermath will be consuming much of the political capital and the public outreach effort better spent on the upcoming 2026 mid-terms, on fighting Deep State criminality, on election integrity issues, and on deporting illegal aliens.
For a long-time MAGA supporter like myself, my basic issue with the attack is this — it is a huge distraction from the MAGA America First domestic policy agenda. And it paints a picture that Donald Trump is more concerned with the well-being of foreigners in the Middle East than he is with the well-being of American citizens here in America.
Perception is reality. A perception in the MAGA voter base that President Trump is no longer putting America first will guarantee that not enough Republicans and MAGA-leaning independents will show up at the polls in November 2026 to prevent a Democrat blowout victory in the mid-terms.
What happens when he’s right? Deportations will get easier and there will be more push to end the judicial tyranny over the topic. President will have built political capital by pulling out of the loudest naysayers.
Your assumption that the rest of the agenda leaves is as pessimistic as possible.
You can get folks that are naysayers, doom and gloomer’s. However every other president from Bush until now Trump failed to fully destroy Iran’s nuclear ambition, a nuclear ambition that had technological assistance from China and Russia. It’s also well known that Saudi Arabia has stated clearly it would pursue a nuclear weapons program if Iran was allowed to produce nuclear bombs. No person in their right mind would allow Iran a nuclear bomb. Only one President had the guts to take them out. The nay sayers are folks that willfully allow a murderous child molester live next door to your family and just think, no worries my high fence will keep me safe.
11: 49 A.M. E.S.T.
President TRUMP speaks now, looking very somber and tired, which is quite understandable.
Emphasizes the Long-Range Missile Program of the Iranian Terrorists, along with restarting the nuclear weapon program.
“Barack Obama’s deal with them was a horrible, horrible idea…”
“This was our last, best chance to eliminate this sick and sinister regime…” (My emphasis)
“We are assuring that they will not be able to fund terrorist armies in other countries…”
“Their navy, 10 ships, are at the bottom of the sea…”
“We are substantially ahead in our time projections….we projected 4 to 5 weeks…but we are prepared to go longer…”
“Somebody in the media said I would get bored by this attack, but I don’t get bored, especially by something like this…”
He praises the Armed Forces and receives applause.
(Makes comments on the building addition to the White House)
CBS is cutting him off, as he talks about the ballroom.
ABC is now blabbering that President TRUMP is wrong about the immediate threats from Iran, that Iran was “9 years away” from being a threat, blah-blah-blah.
“Iran has a plan to escalate and open up a front in Lebanon, oil prices and natural gas prices have spiked, there is no clear sense of how to measure success, no clear sense of what the objective is, Iran has thousands and thousands of missiles throughout the Middle East, blah-blah-blah…“
I especially liked Gabbin’ Newscum’s incoherent yet double-minded and hypocritical take:
‘I stand with Iranians in their New Freedom and against their vicious dictators who cannot be allowed to have nukes and damn that sonofabitch Donald Trump for making it all happen!’
I quote from memory and the loading platform of California’s $Trillion-Dollar Bullet Train.
CUT THE CORD
CUT THE CORD
CUT THE CORD
When Hussein el Jefe negotiated with the Moolahs, there was only one side represented at the table.
the Darkness.
braaaaaack barry hussein sotero obamalamadingdong gave his mullah masters BILLION$.
I’m posting this again, because it lays out the brilliance of Trump’s strategy by a man who has spent his professional career studying strategy. Cue to 0:56:40. VDH expresses no outrage, vengefulness, or indignation to justify the war, thank God, because it never sways anyone, anyhow.
Thank you for sharing this…
What many might miss, PDJT is not going to broadcast his future plans openly. Reason is that far too many enemies within will find ways to ruin the plans should they know what the President is planning.
thx – I am so glad to have Victor back!
Thank you, KC…
As long as we are sharing, I will add two superb missives from the estimable Daniel Greenfield of FrontPage Magazine.
The first is a tutorial for any nation who still does not understand what sort of man sits in the Oval Office, and believes by any threats it will escape what Iran’s monsters did not.
https://www.frontpagemag.com/how-not-to-get-bombed-by-the-united-states/
The second is a dissection of the last 47 years of barbaric inhumanity which has held the entire world hostage, and which has been robustly supported by an organization which should be dismantled and cremated…the UN.
From the essay…
“President Trump has taken the opposite approach, punishing Iran’s intransigence, instead of rewarding it, and making a mockery of its beloved slogan ” America can’t do a damn thing against us”.
Iran never had Allah on its side. It had Carter, Obama, and Biden.”
President Trump was right when he said on shutting down the borders opened up to the entire world…and he would be equally correct about putting a mortal end to the murderous barbarians in Iran.
All it took was a change of presidents 🇺🇸
https://www.frontpagemag.com/america-cant-do-a-damn-thing-against-us/
I like it. Would that be pronounced M-eye-pa, Meepa, or Mippa? I need to know so I can properly share it!
I will add one more “Don’t”. Don’t call your head of state “Supreme leader”. It really leaves a bad impression.
I would pronounce it “MIPPA” John, with a short “I”.
I like your addition 😁👍🏻
Persia is cool with that.