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War is when things get broken and people get hurt. I think many in the media have forgotten what it takes for victory. It ain’t pretty but the alternative is much much worse.
The Great Rush Limbaugh:
“The purpose of armies, the purpose of war is to kill people and break things. That’s what war is. You kill people and break things. And you keep going until your opponent surrenders and apologizes to you.”
And he continued…
“And if you’re not committed to take it to that end, you don’t start it. And if you don’t understand the purpose of armies is to kill people and break things, then you don’t have one and you don’t use it. Because if you have an army and you send it to war and it starts killing people and breaking things and then you get upset and start pulling it back, you are irresponsible.”
How. I miss RHL!
Man, I mean. Rush is missed.
Mega Ditto’s.
Trump tears into Tucker Carlson over Iran war claims: ‘Low-IQ person’
President Trump on Tuesday denied Tucker Carlson’s bombastic reporting that he was considering nuclear war on Iran, blasting the controversial commentator in a phone call with The Post.
“Tucker’s a low IQ person that has absolutely no idea what’s going on,” the president said. “He calls me all the time; I don’t respond to his calls. I don’t deal with him. I like dealing with smart people, not fools.”
Carlson in a Monday night post to X claimed that President Trump’s expletive-laden Easter morning Truth Social post that the US would soon bomb Iran’s power plants and bridges was “the first step toward nuclear war.”
https://nypost.com/2026/04/07/us-news/trump-tears-into-tucker-carlson-over-iran-war-claims/
Tucker’s Full Monologue on President Trump and the religion(s) guiding him.
Desecrating Easter was the first step toward nuclear war. Christians need to understand where Trump is taking us.
0:00 Monologue
43:23 Paula White’s Strange Easter Sunday Service
51:17 Who Really Is Paula White?
57:24 How Did Paula Become Trump’s Spiritual Advisor?
1:00:03 The Exposed Megachurch Documents
1:09:52 Why Is Corruption So Prevalent in American Protestant Churches?
1:13:10 The Scam That’s Taken Over the Nonprofit Industry
1:27:14 The Mormon Church’s Investments in Weapons Manufacturing
1:28:52 How Much Money Does Franklin Graham’s Nonprofit Have?
1:33:11 How Do Megachurch Pastors Justify Owning Private Jets?
1:39:30 Graham’s Bizarre Alaskan Hideout
1:52:42 The Love of Money Is the Root of All Evil
1:54:27 What Is Dispensationalism?
2:07:15 The Attempts to Usher in the Antichrist
2:13:00 Finding Contentment and Fulfillment in Christ
2:16:36 The Spiritual War Happening in the White House
Tucker is bipolar.
He’s completely wrong and ill informed on the purpose of the Iran war. He’s treasonous by calling for gov’t workers or military to disobey orders.
He’s right about evil dispensationalism (Christian Zionism) which absolutely is a cancer in American society. I pray everyday for the many misled well meaning Christians falling for false, bribed pastors selling that crap. Tucker is also right by exposing the evil grifter Paula White. Paula White should be nowhere near my most favorite President ever, President Trump and her presence is very concerning and damaging.
I pray President Trump knows how corrupt Paula White is and not allowing her to influence him. That he only keeps her around for some unknown ulterior motive.
Women cannot be pastors. It’s like gay marriage. It is not possible.
Tucker, was, is and always will be CIA. Whether knowingly or is he is being fed misinformation, it’s makes no difference, once you see the stings you can not un-see them and like a black hole you cannot see the object but you can only discern how it makes objects around it behave.
My view is POTUS knew he could never take on the Israel lobby and its puppets directly, so he has been bear hugging political Zionism / Greater Israel fanatics / dispensationalists to death instead.
I think he wants to see the nation of Israel survive and play nicely in the sandbox and, along with the rest of the Middle Eastern countries, abandon any greater ambitions and all learn to get along, as intended by the Abraham Accords (which would be anathema to Hamas, Ben Gvir, Smotrich, Hagee, White, etc)
But we shall see.
President Trump would never be where he is UNLESS he could withstand any lobby – and he has.
There are those who despise Israel as anti-Semites (woke consumers), there are those who feel the relationship with Israel is over-valued and detrimental (the Qatari-influenced, and Globalists), there are those who value the relationship with Israel as important but disagree with Israel’s outsized footprint on American political decision-making (the Jewish Obami), and those who see Israel for its own outsized impact on making the world better and representing an idealized dynamism where ideas germinate and attempt to raise everyone who doesn’t want to kill them (Trump, Christian Zionists, traditional Jews, Nationalists).
Ben Gvir and Smotrich do not equate to Hamas. They represent a country that was attacked from the outside and has sectarian conflicts with a population that rejects coexistence with Israel. Their policies are merely “Peace through Strength” and disincentivizing Muslim initiatives to annhilate Israel by showing that such initiatives only further erode the land available to Palestinians to self-govern and land available to hostile neighbors. Ben Gvir and Smotrich are no less radical than El Salvador’s President Bukele, who treats enemies of the state as they should be treated. You have to protect your country from nihilists – the October 7 leaders were coddled in Israeli jails and enabled, and like Bukele, Ben Gvir and Smotrich feel that resources belong with the victims, not the assailants.
I don’t have much confidence that those who dislike the Jew and try to hide it will be likely to change their minds. Perhaps when The Divine Jew returns in glory?
I would also like to see Israel survive and play nicely in the sandbox. Islam won’t let them… Israel’s sandbox belongs to Israel. And that tidbit did not originate with me.
As for Tucker, does he really not understand why the Book of Esther is making an appearance, or is he pretending not to know?
Whether you think that certain 17th letter of the alphabet was a white hat psy op or a black hat psy op, a quick listen to Roseanne Barr talking about the 17th book of the Bible being the book of reversals could have clued him in to why it is in the conversation. And has been for about 8 years.
Is he really that out of it? I doubt it?
He might be, or see-eye-aye, or simply cray-cray, or, remembering the one interview I watched him do he openly talked about an entity that invaded his sleep so possessed might also be a thing he’s dealing with.
The crazy thing is that people still follow him, share his posts, and act like he’s relevant.
What culture do you think will inhabit Jerusalem after the Second Coming of Christ?
What evidence do we have that Paula White is having any influence on his decisions and thoughts?
If one cannot rightly divide the word of God, one will remain lost.
He never told Autopen’s minions to disobey the inanimate device.
I just now got done reading this article about Tucker at ZH..
Tucker is not on our side at all and maybe he never was.. the Ozempic seems to be shrinking his brain right along with his waistline.
War is ugly, costly and filled with sacrifice- but we’re setting these Iranians free, Tucker clearly is paid not to see it that way.
Tucker Carlson Urges U.S. Officials To Defy Trump On Iran Orders: “Say No, Absolutely Not”
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/tucker-carlson-urges-us-officials-defy-trump-iran-orders-say-no-absolutely-not#comment-stream
If Tucker’s opinions are legitimate and not just propaganda for being blackmailed/paid off, he is part of the group who cannot recognize any middle option.
It is not a binary choice of never use force vs always use force; neither option is good. The answer is rather when to use that force, not using it at the right time can be just as bad as using it at the wrong time.
With Conservatives like these, who needs Democrats?
“but we’re setting these Iranians free”
Yes, in the same manner the Nazis set the Jews and other political prisoners free in their Concentration Camps, EH?
https://imgs.search.brave.com/-CfpK-hpXZk6AxT2KTlejaXVGWmEHt9s50UX3-kpTU4/rs:fit:500:0:0:0/g:ce/aHR0cHM6Ly91cGxv/YWQud2lraW1lZGlh/Lm9yZy93aWtpcGVk/aWEvY29tbW9ucy90/aHVtYi85LzkyL0Fy/YmVpdF9NYWNodF9G/cmVpX0RhY2hhdV8y/MDE4MDEyNS1QUjZB/OTMxNC5qcGcvNTEy/cHgtQXJiZWl0X01h/Y2h0X0ZyZWlfRGFj/aGF1XzIwMTgwMTI1/LVBSNkE5MzE0Lmpw/Zw
“Arbeit Macht Frei”
Who is paying you?
You are in serious need of Holocaust education. I’d actually reflect on the merit of your idea if you did not cynically apply history in a way that only highlights your extreme ignorance.
There is the message, the idea, and the messenger. Above is a message that, in a sickening way, is so revolting that it diseases the messenger to the end that whatever idea you have is squandered. Either you just hate Jews, as some people here sadly do, or you are just young enough and uneducated enough to be stunningly uneducated and unapologetically so.
Tucker was always on Tucker’s side.
One of his goals is to make money.
The other goal is he believes he’s the smartest and most moral guy around and he’s out to prove it.
I used to like Tucker, now he makes me puke…
I wonder if he is low IQ or IC operative; am open to the argument of both.
Carlson was never much of a person to listen to but after some of his twist of the Bible, his is another dead voice on my pages along with Kent
Whatever else Pres. Trump targets, I don’t expect Kharg Island’s oil distribution electronics to be working much past 8:00 p.m. EST today.
And employing Salena Zito’s “seriously, but not literally” standard, I’m guessing the “civilization” he has in mind is not all of Iran, but the Islamist Shia lunatics the Persians will likely deal with when the IRGC and brownshirt street thugs see their payrolls go to zero.
*Just MHO*
Heads up, Lunatics,… USAF bombers just left their EU bases to arrive at their Persian targets on time tonight.
Tik Tok, Mad Mullahs, PDJ Trump is going to finish the war you started against .your Great Satan 47 years ago when you attacked our US Embassy in Tehran.
I almost think sometimes that the US Embassy fiasco left a scar on my otherwise beautiful self that will always be with me. I will never forget…
before that, I didn’t even know what a Muhammaden was…
I appreciate many Muslim background Believers in Christ though 🙂
Sorry, EDT
Pakistan makes a plea:
“Diplomatic efforts for peaceful settlement of the ongoing war in the Middle East are progressing steadily, strongly and powerfully with the potential to lead to substantive results in near future. To allow diplomacy to run its course, I earnestly request President Trump to extend the deadline for two weeks. Pakistan, in all sincerity, requests the Iranian brothers to open Strait of Hormuz for a corresponding period of two weeks as a goodwill gesture. We also urge all warring parties to observe a ceasefire everywhere for two weeks to allow diplomacy to achieve conclusive termination of war, in the interest of long-term peace and stability in the region. “
Stalling technique to allow more time for PDJT’s enemies to push public opinion against him and force him to back down. That would be a major error at this point. What has been started must be completed to its stated conclusion.
War sucks.
Amen. JUST DO IT!!!
It’s too late.
Yes, the bombers already took off….
They have had enough time. They are just dicking around now.
Lucy and the Football.
If you allow the Mullahs to remain in power, then Epic Fury will have been for naught.
They are taught to lie to “the infidel.” And to pretend to make peace until they can regroup and resume fighting.
Another gullible politician will come out holding a piece of paper and proclaiming “Peace For Our Time.”
The IRGC is the true power, not the Mullahs.
Stop trying to negotiate, it is 100% stall tactics and they will never honor their word.
Ha,… this BS tactic from the Pakis who hid and gave Osama Bin Ladin sanctuary for years?
No Dice, Dbags.
25th amendment Trump vs Biden. I don’t think I have ever heard Trump talk like some of his Tweets/truth socials. His speech is measured and calm. That means he can discern his situation and his audience. And doesn’t accidentally mix the two. His tweets/truth socials are massive trolling. He probably tells those around him, let’s see how they react to this one. I think there is the video of someone typing a tweet as he talks in real time about something on TV and the side by side of the two in real time. That is situational awareness.
Biden on the other hand would frequently talk and act rather abrasive. Calling working men liar and abrading them. There were times he could not discern his immediate situation and where he was.
using the 25th on trump is a ridiculous assertion.
even if you don’t like his tweets, thats not evidence of anything in particular, and i tend to agree with you that he uses it the same way a large portion of people use social media. we’ve wanted a politician our entire lives that would just say what he thinks and means… well, here he is!
we voted, he is implementing what he thinks his mandate was, and we are all consenting to be governed. if the people really loath what he is doing, they can either vote or revolt.
This is to funny. Democrats are having a complete melt down over the word Civilization, giving it a new meaning of Genocide.
Infrastructure has also been a target of war. The cry babies can go pound sand and protest in the streets. Apparently no one thought of remade signs and whistles for this.
Those morons are so butt hurt over Biden’s dementia and the fact that we all knew. Plus, they have been screaming 25th since he was 45.
i still regard him as 45. there was no 46th president – there was an illegal occupation. as long as i live i will never acknowledge that clown as anything other than a usurper that we decided to consent to in the interest of not destroying what remained of the republic.
Someone has Grandad’s hair 💕
I’ve seen that same look on Granddad’s face too!
Many many times 😉
Why can’t most of these slow flying Iranian drones be shot down with either 20mm or 50 Caliber Anti-Aircraft machine guns? Most of them are barely at World War One aircraft speed!
Iranian drones, particularly the widely used Shahed-136, travel at relatively slow speeds of approximately 185 km/h (115 mph), acting as low-cost, long-range loitering munitions. Newer, jet-powered models like the Hadid-110 (or Dalahu) are significantly faster, exceeding 510 km/h (317 mph) to evade air defenses.
Key Iranian Drone Speeds:
Shahed-136: ~185 km/h (115 mph)
Shahed-131: Similar slow-speed, piston-engine profile to the 136.
Shahed-107: Reconnaissance/loitering munition with jet/propeller options (speeds vary).
Shahed-238 (Jet-powered Shahed): Estimated at >500 km/h.
Hadid-110: >510 km/h (317 mph).
Ababil-5: ~200 km/h (124 mph).
It’s pretty damn hard to hit a target that small with munitions.
We need friggin laser beams!
Old style flak would be very effective 😎
CIA song…very clever!
https://substack.com/@dissidentmedia/note/c-236835838?r=b7nwz&utm_medium=ios&utm_source=notes-share-action
A Voice of Truth has finally arisen in the UK. Praise God.
I woke up with the awareness this morning that “crowns” are nothing but frequency receiving antennae for wishful thinkers;
all metal & gemstones carry inherent properties that are scientifically shown to transmit specific measurable energy frequencies…
which is why “rulers” choose to own/wear/use crowns fashioned from high-frequency metals & gemstones.
Did you never wonder why the “rulers” & the wealthy oligarchs covet the biggest most rare gemstones in the world?
For some reason… the “rulers”, the “leaders” & their followers denigrate critical thinkers who identify & expose nefarious conspiracies as “TINFOIL HAT WEARERS”,
but…
what is a “royalty crown” if not simply an expensive antenna… a fancy tinfoil hat???
Interesting thought.
I don’t know the signals received by crown wearers; but the signal received by their supplicants is ‘Bow’ to the crown.
I would love to be the Techno Nerd at Cyber Command who gets to push the go button on the Cyber-attack tonight at 8pm. My guess is that Palintir has been into every last spreadsheet, let alone software programs, that run Iran for months/years.
Since the President isn’t allowed into any of our combat missions, maybe they should let him do it!
Iran threatening President Trump with $200 oil. This is to a man who is selling oil hand over fist. Is this sound reasoning?
Drill baby, Drill!
they may want to wait and see if any is left after tonight.
Is there finally movement?
In two weeks…
Yeah yeah. Nothing will happen.
Didn’t include the governor?!
So we just let the whole world know we have a ‘futuristic’ technology? That found the ‘back seater’….Fascinating, but should we be advertising this for every spook in the world to try and copy?
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/04/ghost-murmur-cia-used-futuristic-tool-locate-missing/
It will be a big mistake to give Iran another 2 weeks to reorganize, get shipped weapons from China and/or Russia. It will give time for their proxies to load up again and spread out all over the ME and Europe to do their dirty deeds.
If this is delayed another 2 weeks, it will be the beginnings of a MAGA revolt.
TGP is late…this was on Maritime news this morning although I prefer to call the Bridge by its original name…Thatcher Ferry Bridge. We used to just call it “The Bridge” back in the day. We what “The Bridge” was…
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/04/shock-videos-major-explosion-under-panama-canals-bridge/
I just seen this. Doesn’t look like the bridge is damaged from the blast, but engineers are saying the heat could have affected the integrity of the bridge.
Yikes, I was crossing that bridge just last month!
I knew we had satellites that could read a license plate from orbit. I did not know that we had tech that could identify, isolate, and locate a person’s unique heartbeat pattern from a thousand miles away. That’s how we found the second airman. Forget putting your phone in a tater chip bag. You’re gonna have to WEAR one.
Cool stuff. But raises some interesting questions. Are they gathering everyone’s unique heartbeat patterns, just like they record our emails and facial features? Is that why some of the antifa demonstrators wear those inflatable cartoon costumes? You know, the ones that the counter protesters like to sneak up behind and spray Fart In A Can into the air intake.
“We’ve found him, sir. He’s in a coffee shop in Kansas City, third table from the door. What would you like us to do with him?”
Or – hone in on the unique heartbeats of every member of the ruling elite in Iran, then launch? No place to hide. Ghost Murmer will find you.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/04/ghost-murmur-cia-used-futuristic-tool-locate-missing/
Bullcrap. There no giant database of everybody’s EKG patterns, and even if they had this airman’s there is no technology to read it from thousands of feet away. Furthermore, unless a person has a heart murmer or other irregularity, their EKG would look like most anyone else’s.
Unique…
https://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/episode/biometric-identifies-you-in-a-heartbeat/
New post from President Trump.
2 week ceasefire.
Big mistake, if true.
I agree unless he gets something like the strait to open fully for those two weeks
Two week ceasefire brings him up to the 60 day War Powers Act deadline on April 29th.
If Trump wants to continue past that date he will have to use a legal loophole by recognizing the opposition as the true leaders. This reclassifies the conflict as defensive support for an ally rather than unilateral hostilities against a state, effectively bypassing the 60-day Congressional limit and providing a permanent ‘air shield’ for the internal uprising.”
Ceasefire for both sides. Let’s see if it lasts that long.
Actually it leaves a week for retribution if needed.
MSM is not yet reporting it but apparently a deal has been struck at least for 2 weeks and PDJT has a posting on Truth Social…i don’t have access…Dow futures up almost 400 points.
https://www.foxnews.com/live-news/trump-iran-deadline-israel-hormuz-april-7
Yup.
https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/116365796713313030
I can sympathize with the Iranian people.
They don’t know if their new leader is the one in charge, or if he is just a cardboard cutout fronting for the unelected handlers that are really running the show behind the scenes.
We just went 4 years wondering the same thing.
Two More Weeks ® …
Minnesota = FUBAR
https://x.com/libsoftiktok/status/2041622183160553594?s=42
Minnesota is so FUBAR its RABUF.
Almost 20 years ago my ex’s family moved to MN to get away from the encroachment of lefty absurdity. Wonder how they are feeling about that decision now?
As much as I hate clicking on Ateniso’s naked url’s here it is:
So Jim, How do you post what is in my naked url. I am not on Twitter.
Change x.com to twitter.com and remove the ? and anything after it.
Here’s an Idea…
Election Integrity
Lex Greene
According to all previous federal administrations, they kept a record, a database, of every person in our country illegally or under a VISA of some type….which is why we have a backlog of non-citizen people waiting for their day in immigration court, over eight years deep in court scheduling…
So, instead of trying to make every legal American Citizen prove that they have a right to vote, why don’t we just create a nationwide list of everyone in our country who doesn’t have a legal right to vote, any non-citizen of any status, and share that list with every state and voting district across the country.
Federal Law already makes it illegal for any non-citizen to vote in the USA. It also makes it a crime (treason) for any American to “aid and abet” any effort to undermine our Constitutional Republic, such as election officials allowing non-citizens to vote in our elections.
Then we can place people at every polling station to make sure no one on that list is able to cast a ballot by any means!
Last, we can verify all reported election results against that list before certifying any election results! If anyone on that list was allowed to vote, immediately disqualify the elections where that happened.
No? Tell me why!
Lex Greene
Did you not see video of the invading hoards streaming through the border? You think anyone was keeping RECORDS on what their names were or where they live currently? How you gonna keep them from voting?
I agree. No one knows how many illegals Biden left in, how many snuck in, their names or where they are today. We know some are foreign agents, some terrorist, some criminals, some gang and cartel members and some who just hate the US and want to see it destroyed. And what better way to do that than to vote for the Democrats?
For all of you (including me) A-10 Warthog fans:
https://www.rodmartin.org/p/the-a-10-sea-hog
BRRRRRT!
🙂
Department of War has scheduled an Operation Epic Fury press conference for Wednesday morning, 8:00 a.m. east coast time, with Sec. of War Hegseth and Chairman Caine:
Shrinkage…
Meanwhile CONgress…
Oil tonight…
Trump-endorsed Clay Fuller has won the special election in Georgia for Marjorie Taylor Greene’s old House seat.