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In Jesus’ Name, Amen~
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Amen. Go God beat the devil.
The Game Plan
Sundance @TheLastRefuge2
“Trump will not find perfect solutions. He will find OPTIMAL solutions. We cannot ask for more.
Trump has stood by and watched Perfect murder Good for 8 years – maybe longer. He’s not gonna do it. He’s going to deliver the best outcome possible, and he’s not waiting for us to feel relaxed about it.
Best presidency ever! Just hang on. More winning is coming, but a lot of people are going to scream that it’s all over at EVERY turn.
The best way through this is to define viewpoints, not people, because people will shift as they change position and velocity in Trump gravity.
Bash the neocon, warmonger, and dopey globalist positions – not the people who are going to hold them one moment and come loose from them later.
Trump is Jupiter moving through the asteroid belt. He is going to pull people into his orbit.
A few will get slung off into space, but most will come along for the ride of their lives.
I am ON the Trump Train for good, even if I scream that I want off and can’t take it. In the end, I only want to scream “TOO MUCH WINNING!!!”
Unseen1 @unseen1_unseen
Here is the game plan that the forces against Trump will be using for the foreseeable future.
They will attempt to get you to make the perfect the enemy of the good.
Be it the freedom clowns and spending, the immigration hawks with H1B visas, the peace doves with timing, the cultural warriors with total bans of DEI/CRT, the neocons with war fighting, or the swamp dwellers with draining the swamp.
All of them will attempt to get you to believe on whatever issue is the issue of the day that it doesn’t go far enough or do enough. They will try to make you think that some sub issue of that issue is more important and should be handled first, that since the issue hasn’t been handled yet it won’t be, that we can’t do more than one thing, that so and so is a plant to stop the draining of the swamp, or that because it wasn’t 100% Trump lied. On every single issue, one or more groups will attempt this strategy.
You can’t allow them that power over you. If Trump secures the border and deports 2 million, don’t allow them to reduce that good by them saying well he didn’t deport 2.5 million, so he failed or lied.
You can’t allow them to use the perfect to void out the good in the coming months.
They will try. They already have with the CR and the H1b visa debates. It works, that is why they use it. You have to keep it in the front of your head on everything about to occur that half a loaf or hopefully in most cases 7/8ths a loaf is better than no loaf.
Do not allow them to gaslight you into thinking the good is the enemy of the perfect.
In the real world, most things are never perfect, but if we try real hard, we can get plenty of good accomplished in the coming 4 years.
The purpose and goals of President Trump are plainly visible by his actions and consistent: He is for the benefit first of the common PEOPLE of this country, then of the PEOPLE in the rest of the world. It is validating, even to our battered conservative skepticism.
The methods of his leadership are amazing. I still don’t get HOW he does it, or HOW he is able to get so much momentum going, but every day the momentum is growing. Everyone and every organization has their eyes opened every day — just by watching him. Even those who hate him, are biased against him, and want to see him gone — cannot ignore him. He lives rent free in their head, and they come around to seeing the universal principles by which he is operating. He hammers actions based on truth from one direction, then another, and they cannot mount an organized opposition against him.
President Trump is transparent in his words and actions. He is consistent in what he says, what he does, and what he asks/demands of others. His promises are bold and he keeps them like no other president has. He is making massive, nearly overnight changes, not only in our country, but in the world. It is amazing that he is able to accomplish so much when there are so many snakes in the grass. This second term, he is weeding them out faster and choosing like-minded servants who multiply his effectiveness. No U.S. president has ever faced so much organized resistance and treason than President Trump
He has chosen to use his intellect and every skill he has to do what is right. He has tremendous faith that he can make a difference in this world. He has a confidence and courage such that he doesn’t care what others think, yet a humility to know he has to do it with the help of like minded people. Those people are the “common” people, and he ridicules those who think they are not common.
He believes people are basically good. He believes that God is real. He believes that healthy people are happy people, and they need to be able to create wealth freely for their labor, and have the freedom to spend their money on what is good for them.
He believes the United States, with its Constitutional Republic, is the best environment in the world to enable and give opportunity for people to be happy and prosperous.
He believes that we can be a light for the world, but we must demand that the rest of the world respect us and our right to Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness.
He believes the enemy of our country are the stupid, greedy American people who have been selfishly taking advantage of this country; who betrayed the trust and obedience of its people; and who diverted the people’s wealth for their own selfish gain, at the expense of the principles of this country. He’s not going to allow that anymore.
He has cultivated and focused the family of MAGA. Identifying those people whose goodness, industriousness, trust, and obedience have been taken advantage of and abused. He has opened our eyes to this abuse, and to the rights of freedom and self determination that have been quietly stolen from us.
He has rekindled the same healthy distrust held by our founders of government and men with too much power. He has recultivated the desire to reclaim our freedoms and rights, and is empowering us with a hope and pathway to reclaim our spiritual and economic freedom.
He wants the US to be a light of hope on the hill for all people. He will negotiate win/win agreements with those nations and countries who respect us; who respect the principles and intent of our Constitution. If you do not respect us, however, we are not going to let you take advantage of our goodness, or share in our wealth at our expense. If you as a nation are treating your people badly, you are going to be treated less favorably by us, until you show that you value your people as much as we value ours. He believes that nations who treat their people well will also be good economic neighbors with us.
He is convincing those who are very wealthy (most of whom truly earned their money), that the best economic soil in which to build wealth is in a constitutional republic, which supports the ability of the common man to earn wealth in proportion to his efforts. The economic engine of the United States is the human spirit freed to enjoy the fruits of honest labor, and that engine has more natural and raw horsepower than any other governed economy.
The Trump Train seems to be remarkably aligned with universal principles of Truth, which reflect the will and design of our Creator, and are the best standard by which we should live. These same principles were what our country’s founders used to declare independence, and framed into the Constitution of this nation.
Our founders believed that a nation should preserve the right and freedom of an individual to seek, understand, and live by God’s principles. They believed that free individuals working together in humility would make a stronger nation than a government which dictates its will on the people. President Trump professes and seeks to lead and restore this nation back to these same principles.
These principles resonate deeply within all human beings, down to our DNA in every cell, in our spirits, and produce fruit that “miraculously” multiplies. Because we follow universal principles, we see the snowballing acceleration of momentum on day 81 of the 2nd year of the 2nd term of this very stable genius in the history of the kingdoms of this world in the year of our Lord 2025.
Amen!
New York Post, Miranda Devine:
“Trump’s own appointees, Kash Patel at the FBI and John Ratcliffe at the CIA, appear to be engaged in turf wars, or at least have allowed their bureaucrats to stymie her [Tulsi Gabbards] work.
“You don’t need inside information to know that. The tensions are there for all to see.”
https://nypost.com/2026/04/08/opinion/miranda-devine-tulsi-gabbard-keeps-her-focus-on-revealing-deep-states-dirty-secrets-even-as-they-try-to-take-her-down/
I’d say that Turf Wars are the normal state of things- this is always going on.
God bless and protect Tulsi Gabbard! 💕🇺🇸🙏
Looks a bit like Feisty, who looks a bit like Festus.
LOL !!! Especially the bottom right…
The first three got there on their own by doing stupid things.
The last one got there by other people doing stupid things.
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I predict this one gets worn out from posting in the years ahead …
not difficult:
An intentional middle finger from the Democrats to Americans who care about the Constitution.
Someone should have asked at her confirmation hearing: If she does not know what a woman is, how does she identify herself.
I see, you see….Trump
The Outlaw Josey Wales
‘I notice when you get to dislikin’ someone, they ain’t around long neither’. Favorite line
That movie is chock full of fantastic lines.
“You get them holes a leakin’ and I’m gonna whomp you with a knotted plow line.”
“Buzzards gotta eat, just like the worms.”
“You boys gonna pull them pistols, or whistle Dixie?”
“Not a hard man to track, leaves dead men wherever he goes”.
Would love to have this in a copy and pasteable format
Press is always free to make up its own fake news.
“Pass on” implies it is someone else’s fake news.
And as miss Joy implies, It is Obama’s propaganda lies and censorship.
Not sure that outlawing government propaganda will stop it. Voting in new government hasn’t stopped it. Or even changed it. Except to target the anti-Obama new government.
Given that this hasn’t been done, I’m left with the idea that think propaganda is fine- as long as it’s their own propaganda.
The biggest ‘propaganda’ is that We have a two-party system; propaganda keeps that going and growing.
God Help US
Mass immigration is bringing people that don’t get the division of party’s and much less the division of government and US. Especially the part that We are the government and should be ‘represented’ not governed by politicians. They only see what the ‘government’ gives them.
Covid was a full on propaganda operation.
Did Mike Lee vote for or against the 2013 NDAA?
I have never understood why President Trump didn’t do this immediately in his first term or now?
Given that he so understands the degree of which the media is the enemy within- I don’t understand why this hasn’t been done.
Think he’s diving deep to ‘uproot’ not just ‘trim’ the problem of media and political compliance in governing.
Elections cost and win BILLIONS and media and politicians ‘make’ money on them!!! It’s called propaganda spreading.
Propaganda has lead many to believe ‘what you read and see in the news’ is all real and relevant; remember the warning of old – ‘Never believe anything you read in the paper’……
Propaganda has also taken the blindfold off Lady Justice; the courts rely on and use propaganda to win cases!!
The propaganda of abortion being a ‘right’ has cost humanity a future.
The ‘racist’ card has corrupted the deck and spread propaganda.
The ‘feminists’ movement has created a division of male and female; so that ‘others’ can be joined (PLGBTQA++)
Propaganda doesn’t only sink ships it causes glee with the sinking.
Propaganda pits people against people to the point of endless fighting; propaganda starts and wins wars!
TRILLIONS are made on propaganda.
AND IC is not only complicit they ‘run’ the dog and pony show of propaganda.
Bo Loudon
@BoLoudon
🚨BREAKING:
@SpeakerMcCarthy
just declared President Trump the REAL “Whip and Speaker.”
“Right now, Trump has more power than Reagan.”
Video….
Congress sucks! That is why. It is like the Star Wars bar scene, as Rush used to say.
RINO scum.
Spread the ‘scum’ around; it’s the Uniparty scum and not one member of the ‘club’ is free of the slime.
God Help US
Without legal elections the scum wins.
Wakey Wakey at 7:11, a saltie having made a long ocean trip and even went thru the Panama Canal…first time to Duluth, MN.
Recently they had ships stuck in the harbor. First ore ships leaving. Brought in the ice breaker to free them.
Ice breakers are absolutely fascinating! The Tregurtha had problems getting out, I think…
How many illegals on board??
The new Silk Road?
New border to broach?
Beautiful pictures though.
Dignity Act…
We already have a process to apply to come here legally. Just them go through the normal process.
It seems like it should be illegal to create laws that break down existing Law.
We do have an immigration policy, so how about follow it.
What is so hard about this?
It’s like the US Constitution and the Ten Commandments; follow them!
They were written by people in the know. AND don’t need amending or other laws to verify their legitimacy and TRUTH.
God Help US
Follow the written instructions; get rid of the tomes lawyers have written AND everyone will understand the laws of the land by the time they are 15 years old.
Too many people in America hate their own country and people. What happened?
Immigration lawyers loobyists driving it. Its a bonanza. Taxpayers paying for it.
Cheap labor too.
If the price is right, there is no job Americans won’t do.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/3444481/ice-raids-mid-west-workforce-wages-meat-packing-plants/
ICE agents arrested 76 illegal immigrants at Hartmann’s plant alone, which he said was about half his entire workforce, and over 500 across Omaha that day.
Despite losing half his workforce, Hartmann said production at his plant only dropped 20%. And despite his protestations about there being “no playbook” on what to do after an immigration raid, it seemed his plant was doing just fine.
NBC News reported that when it arrived two days after the raid, “every seat in the waiting area” was “occupied with people filling out job applications,” with dozens of job applicants moving in and out of the building at a time.
The rest is behind a paywall, but you get the point.
Low wages for us? And if big companies could get away with it, they would not pay us at all.
I know some teens who can’t get into internships; there are ‘filled’ slots already. Immigrants deserve a leg up. Right??
God Help US
I know old folks who don’t carry enough insurance and are losing their homes; every age group is affected by mass illegal immigration. It was the plan! Churches are closing, too. No good has come of massive illegal immigration. I’ll help pay for their deportation! Oh, right I’m already paying and so have my teen and elderly friends.
Cheap labor in one hand, more renters & huge consumers in the other hand, all on the taxpayers dime.
Win/win for the oligarchy, lose/lose for the citizen & taxpayers.
For some: 💰
I think that MSM and Social Media happened, and some just lost their souls over it. The need for clicks and likes and, of course, payments for anti-America and anti-Trump anything,
superseded their own conscience… and down they went.
You’ve been ‘taught’ by a ‘social justice’ system instead of a Judicial System; lawyers have rewritten every law on the books millions of times with differ ‘wordings’……..and they took the blindfold off Lady Justice so you can ‘see’ who’s being defended in a ‘social’ manner.
God Help US
Lawyers wrote the book on hanky-panky! Yes, that includes sex; pedophelia is going to be lawful if lawyers have anything to do with it. pun intended
Only $580M, but at least something.
But President Trump wants to increase defense spending to $1.5 Trillion a year. (50%+ increase)
If they would stop handing it out to democrats, we would have it.
If Democrats stopped stealing it through fraudulent NGOs they would have it.
#UNIPARTY, not just Democrats
They Steal as One, grasshopper.
There are days I believe you’ve lost all ability to think.
I’m not happy about this, but following Iran, the need to rebuild stock, this comes as no surprise.
Defense is paid for by US; it’s the only thing Our tax dollars are supposed to be used for. It’s now time to make sure that Our Defense is first on the agenda; Defense of Our borders not foreign nation’s. Unless Irans pulls some shite on US. A definitive win instead of a forever war or a Cold War should settle the matter.
Here at home; 40 MILLION illegal aliens is just cause for activation to remove the threat, and especially the NWO/communists who ‘MADE’ it happen; the Uniparty treason of mass migration for ‘control’ of US is a fact to be dealt with.
An ‘out of control’ military is always the first cry of anarchists. Propaganda makes US believe that a ‘military takeover’ by Trump is the ‘plot’………when the goal to get 40 MILLION illegals out is what it’s all about.
God Help US
Trump is the best hope for US, better hope than the last 30 presidents gave US. The GOPe became part of the Uniparty and hopefully Trump will cut the ties that bind. AND it won’t be about the ‘money’……..
About 1/4 of an Arleigh Burke class Destroyer. Well, its a start if the goal is reallocating to things the Department of War has much greater need of.
SCOTUS offed up the Tariff revenue that probably would have paid for the rebuilding of our military.
Iran’s leader declares Strait of Hormuz ‘under new management’ with warning to US
Why has that guy not been “neutralized”?
Defense and commerce are the only legally binding contracts for US tax payers; cut the size of ‘government’ and salaries.
Sundance’s phrase “slowly at first, then all at once” comes to mind when thinking on this. Yes, a small dent, but wow! For the first time in generations financial accountability is in the room.
Ireland out of gas
Massive protests and traffic standstills
Top cop ( ex Canadian ) calls in the army
https://hotair.com/tree-hugging-sister/2026/04/09/ireland-on-the-precipice-n3813740
Reportedly (according to her anyway…) the Irish government is deploying its army to remove Irish citizens described as “fuel protesters” and “anti immigrant protesters.” The woman speaking here, Garda Deputy Commissioner Shawna Coxon, isn’t even from Ireland. Plan accordingly…
https://x.com/Mrgunsngear/status/2042295757336678795
And now you know why they install Foreign Born to positions of power-heritage Citizens are not readily wiling to fire upon their fellow countrymen
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UPCOMING PRIMARY ELECTIONS
These are only the initial election dates. You will need to check the runoff date, if needed, for your state.
Example: The Texas primary runoff election is on Tuesday, May 26 – when we will give chippy roy the final kick out of Texas politics.
The democrat / RINO trolls will be trying to discourage MAGA / America First voters from voting for MAGA candidates. Don’t fall for their tricks. Have your MAGA list prepared to go into the voting both on your voting day.
We vote RINOs out in the primary elections, we vote democrats out in the general elections in the fall.
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Redistricting Vote on April, 21, 2026
VIRGINIA: Vote against “temporarily” making VA a ten D to one R state. VA is presently 6 D to 5 R.
Primary Elections on May 5, 2026
INDIANA
OHIO
Primary Elections on May 12, 2026
NEBRASKA
WEST VIRGINA
Primary Elections on May 16, 2026
LOUISIANA
Primary Elections on May 19, 2026
ALABAMA
GEORGIA
IDAHO
KENTUCKY — you have the honor to replace the turtle mc connell and manic massie
OREGON
PENNSYLVANIA
Primary Elections on June 2, 2026
California
Iowa
Montana
New Jersey
New Mexico
South Dakota
Primary Elections on June 9, 2026
Maine
Nevada
North Dakota
South Carolina
Here is a link that shows all of the states primary election dates.
https://ballotpedia.org/2026_election_and_voting_dates
Tuesday May 6
Texas evicts cornyn day.
Thank you, 🌵
Sundance and CTH regulars, I’d love your opinions on today’s article by economist James Thorne.
https://wellington-altus.ca/april-market-insights-bretton-woods-2-0-the-new-great-game-and-trump/
Excellent piece, Thanks. Highly recommend following James Thorne on X
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Professor John Mearsheimer claims 80% of Lebanese missiles getting through to Israel.
He also still can’t understand why Israel has a problem with Hezb-Allah
Trump won. People can cheer for Iran, embrace their propaganda and their terrorist allies all they want. It’s just the TDS talking.
Charlie
@MAGACharlie2024
The United States just activated its first commercial small modular nuclear reactor — a compact nuclear power station in Pocatello Idaho that generates clean baseload electricity for 400,000 American homes from a facility small enough to fit on a city block.
Cont reading…
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Related:
World’s First Microreactor Test Bed Now Open for Business
https://www.energy.gov/ne/articles/worlds-first-microreactor-test-bed-now-open-business
I have been screaming about SMNRs for years! I am thrilled it is finally becoming reality!
Noticing the community comment and reading about the test bed, I got to wondering what NuScale was saying.
https://www.nuscalepower.com/press-releases
Nothing about either.
Again, long overdue.
… and still overdue since the one in the tweet was canceled.
So… the one in the tweet was actually canceled.
I like the thought, but this one in fact was canceled.
“terminated in 2023”
Barack Obiden, in his “Screw You, America!” -third term we call the Biden Installation, declared war on American Energy as a way to impoverish Americans.
Not just to punish Americans for electing PDT twice at that point, but to destabilize America for One World Gumment.
We praise You, Father, for delivering Your nation America from the hand of the wicked, Hallelujah!
There should be these everywhere and keep off the grid unless it is a wartime emergency.
I wish the freedom and sovereignty for my Iranian brothers and sisters. You have suffered so much for so long.
The only way for them to remain free is dumping Islam, I doubt they will do that.
Iranians (Persians) are not Islamic by nature or history. A majority don’t want it. Like EU countries, it’s been imported and forced upon them – including via importation of people. Both (Iran and EU/UK) serve as a very vivid history lesson for our nation…
Look at what the Islamic Republic did to Iran.
They forced our brightest minds into exile, drained our national wealth, and handed our streets over to imported proxy thugs. This is exactly what a true occupation looks like.
When you lose your nation to terrorists, taking it back requires the ultimate sacrifice. We are fighting to end this nightmare and reclaim Iran. Don’t let this happen to your countries!
We should not equate the people of a country with the government of that country.
We read and comment here at the Conservative Treehouse because our government is deeply corrupt and most certainly does not represent us.
I despair that many Americans are so superficial and apathetic about their understanding of global geopolitics. I’m sure some probably believe that all the people in China strongly support the CCP, when they never chose it, and are the first ones to suffer its cruelty.
The people of Iran have tried so many times to regain their freedom: in 2009, 2019, 2022 after the murder of Mahsa Imini for not wearing her hijab correctly, and now the recent slaughter of unarmed protesters in the streets by IRGC and Basij. They are sick of living under Sharia. They are the most under-appreciated fighters for human rights and freedom.
The Russian people overthrew a monarchy, then overthrew communism to become a Republic. They are building churches.
The US people overthrew a monarchy, fought wars against invaders, and fought a civil war for independence; AND sent Our troops to fight in other country’s wars up to the very present. AND Churches are being closed while mosques are being built. Sharia law is being recognized.
The ME is a different kettle of fish because every war there is a ‘religious’ war; every terroristic act is a ‘religious’ act………AND they want to spread their ‘religion’ throughout the world. They hate infidels, so only one religion can reign……I have no hope Iranians will stop the spread of Islam.
God Help US
There is a lot, I mean a lot of Christians there!
Escalating unrest in Iran: drive-by attacks targeting regime security forces are increasing. Yesterday, a newly formed “Homeland Defenders Organization” reportedly killed 2 NAJA officers at a checkpoint in Saveh near Qom.
https://nitter.poast.org/MOSSADil/status/2042381863398814195#m
May God protect the Iranian Wolverines!
JMO.
The communist democrats / RINOs have taken over the state and local governments of the so-called blue states / cities, aka “sanctuary states / cities”. The anti-American officials of the blue states / cities openly challenge America’s Constitutional Republic and its Constitution.
The blue state / cities are not independent entities. They operate under a “charter” created by an act of the Congress of the United States at the time the “state” was admitted to the United States.
That charter gave them the authority to serve the citizens of the original territory. They had to operating within America’s Constitution Republic and under The Constitution of the United States.
By their actions over the past 5 years, the blue state / cities’ officials have repeatedly broken the terms of the state’s federal charter by acting seditiously.
The seditious acts were numerous, continuous and well documented ….. it was not a one time occurrence. Their unconstitutional, seditious actions demand their removal from office “for cause.”
As The Executive Branch of the United States, aka Head of State, President Trump can revoke, aka fire, the treasonous, anti-American officials of the blue states / cities “for cause”.
He can temporarily appoint custodian officials to expedite non-fraudulent elections to replace the current treasonous officials of the offending blue states / cities.
Regardless of whether they were “voted in” or “appointed” they can be fired for their seditious acts. This needs to be done before the 2026 mid-term elections.
The seditious blue states / cities must be returned to their original Constitutional compliant status, aka eliminating the threat to America’s Constitutional Republic.
MAGA / America First isn’t just our motto, it is our duty!
One response to current events….
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/JwSox-FFJLY
Well, good luck with that! President Trump doesn’t have a cross dressing first degree relative in the family.
@Cactus-Absolutely!!!!! The entire US west coast is effectively a foreign nation, especially California. I’ve been trying to get people to understand this reality.
We’ve been talking about this for years in NH, we sit next to Vermont and Massachusetts and now Maine- these states up here today feel like colonies of CA.
I mean MANY of the people that have moved to this coast and then destroyed it are from CA !!
Look at NY, it’s not any bit better than CA at this point. The President even fled his own home there.
It’s not America at all in these states- it’s true.
That’s what happened to CO too. CO was red until it became the winter playground for the elite californicators who decided to move there.
Last night, I was in my midwest WMT at around 7pm. I thought I was in a country south of the border.
Every customer I passed while pushing my cart, was speaking spanish.
Minnesota and Minneapolis define Blue state sedition.
Sanctuary Cities are proving this point I’d say.
I read last night, sorry now I didn’t save that post, but MarkWayne Mullin has a plan to end security at International airports that are in Sanctuary Cities- which are the major cities in all these blue states.
Without this security, they can’t receive international flights.. this is the gist of it from memory.
But having seen your above post, I’m now seeing what MarkWayne is doing as the start of ending what you are saying?
AND, I know this is all true about blue states because I can see up up close and personal in this part of the country, my state has become an island surrounded by danger and we’ve got a serious invasion of them, so yeah, I get it- believe me.
https://www.reuters.com/world/dhs-says-us-could-stop-processing-international-travelers-some-airports-2026-04-07/
Hopefully it happens, but why announce this kind of stuff until it does happen? Until it does happen it’s just empty rhetoric.
Kinda ranks up there with Tom Homan – back in January – stating that “Justice is coming” for the organizers of the attacks on ICE in Minnesota.
https://nypost.com/2026/01/29/us-news/tom-homan-warns-left-wing-groups-funding-attacks-on-ice-justice-is-coming/
We already know who a lot of the organizers and funders are (and some of those are high up in Minnesota government). So why hasn’t justice been administered?
Probably need to give a bit of a heads up for 2 reasons.
Let the city re-think their position on Sanctuary Status.Need to give the airlines a heads up before flights are inbound to the airport with no way to deplane the passengers.
To clarify…. ending Customs at those airports.
If that happens, they can no longer receive any international flights.
Thanks for this, I could only remember the gist of it.
𝐒𝐂𝐎𝐓𝐓 𝐉𝐄𝐍𝐍𝐈𝐍𝐆𝐒 𝐉𝐔𝐒𝐓 𝐒𝐄𝐓 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐒𝐂𝐄𝐍𝐄 𝐅𝐎𝐑 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐇𝐈𝐆𝐇𝐄𝐒𝐓-𝐒𝐓𝐀𝐊𝐄𝐒 𝐔𝐒-𝐈𝐑𝐀𝐍 𝐌𝐄𝐄𝐓𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐒𝐈𝐍𝐂𝐄 𝟏𝟗𝟕𝟗.
I think Pakistan is a proxy for China.
China sure wants this war over!
MNN BREAKING…
* THE AMERICAN PRESS CORPSE HAS ISSUED THEIR WISE AND BALANCED TEN-POINT CEASEFIRE PLAN FOR THE IRAN/AMERICA CONFLICT AS THE CONSTITUTION DEMANDS, AND URGES ALL PARTIES TO ADOPT IT AT ONCE
Manufactured News Network: “Is There Any Other Kind?”
Coast Guard seizes $34M cocaine shipment off Ecuador The U.S. Coast Guard intercepted a suspected narco-terrorist vessel in the Eastern Pacific off the coast of Manta, Ecuador, recovering more than 4,500 pounds of cocaine valued at about $34 million. The crew was observed dumping contraband overboard before a boarding team and air unit located and recovered the cargo. The seizure was carried out under Operation Pacific Viper, a counter-drug campaign that has reportedly seized over 215,000 pounds of cocaine and led to more than 160 arrests since its launch in 2025.
https://nitter.poast.org/MOSSADil/status/2042488215441912083#m
Turley talks about his new book in this short interview on the challenges that AI will bring our way. He does not think the EU will survive. The US might…but we will have great challenges ahead.
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“@JonathanTurley
explains the AI revolution and its surprising ties to America’s founding”…
What makes me mad about AI is that we didn’t need all this, that is the bottom line.
Just because we can- should we?
Seems this question was never seriously asked and discussed with We The People- who voted to be replaced by AI ???
I’m no biblical scholar as so many readers here are- but this I know: Idle hands are the devil’s workshop- we’ve seen this to be very true.
So is this about AI or is this an attack because of how many ‘idle hands’ it’s going to create- there is something to ponder.
It is not going to be good for humanity at all, as a whole, to have so many people with so much free time due to unemployment.
I don’t see the framework being set up to employ all these people that will lose jobs from AI.
If we’re forced down this road, seems to me there needs to be an equal effort in scale to build work for all these people forced out of the work force because of AI- I don’t see this happening.
I don’t get why we’re doing this, allowing this, it boggles my mind !!
To Turley, the tyranny envisioned in Europe is much like what democrats would wish on us; a state that uses the power of AI and the dependency of the population to eliminate the inconvenience of individual dissent. It is a system where democracy is used to destroy liberty, resulting in a continent that looks more like the Reign of Terror than the Enlightenment republic our founders envisioned. One might call it techno-Jacobinism.
Anybody else wonder when this will kick in?
Pakistan and Saudi Arabia signed the Strategic Mutual Defence Agreement (SMDA) on 17 September 2025, formalizing a security pact where any act of aggression against one nation is treated as an act against both. The treaty was signed by Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman at Al-Yamamah Palace in Riyadh.
Given the close relationship that Pakistan has with China, I don’t understand why MbS signed this.
Yet Pakistan sat by and did nothing while Iran attacked numerous Saudi facilities…
Trying reading a little before posting your drivel ….
Small detail but Chinese “Friend” Pakistan is busy defending themselves from the Afghan Taliban deposited in the country by the US and Taliban living in Afghanistan encouraged by Iran to start attacks vs Pakistan … who supports the US efforts vs Iran. Part of that minor detail .. Is that Iran and Afghanistan are China Inc. friends as well.
All the above are also members of China Inc. lead BRICS, Belt&Road and SCO. The reason existence BRICS, Belt&Road and SCO are now under allot of pressure because China Inc. duplicity and self-serving interests associated with these arrangements are on public display.
“In the Q3 of 2026, a supporter of President Trump will take ownership of @CNN.
RIGHT BEFORE THE MIDTERMS.”….
So a channel nobody watches changes owners.
Do the old watchers flee?
Or are they stupid sheep that think as they are told?
Paraphrasing the Bengazi Witch,
What difference, at the point, can it make?
Agree Jim- given that TV is rapidly becoming a thing of the past, I don’t get it either.
My teenage kids have never watched TV in their lives and wonder why anyone would want to do such a thing.
TV is literally going to be a thing of the past, the young people watch NO TV at all.
They don’t even know what CNN is.
Scott Jennings may be the new face of CNN. Please observe his telecast above. He has been speaking truth to power on CNN for some time.
CBS is also due for big changes. Scott could be the lead telecaster at CBS.
Townhall.com practically worships Jennings.
Everytime they brag about him besting liberal democrats, they fail to actually say what he said.
No offense, but I am tired of falling for Jennings worship.
Putin’s Special Envoy Dmitriev Reportedly in the US Meeting Trump Administration Officials: REUTERS
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/04/putins-special-envoy-dmitriev-reportedly-us-meeting-trump
Chess
The GOP Rep. Behind New Amnesty Push Keeps Digging Herself a Deeper Hole
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/04/gop-rep-behind-new-amnesty-push-keeps-digging
FOUND IN A LEBANESE HOME: MEIN KAMPF — IN ARABIC
IDF troops discovered a copy of Hitler’s Mein Kampf in Arabic inside a home in Lebanon.
For anyone still asking why Israel is operating there, this your answer.
https://nitter.poast.org/MOSSADil/status/2042505173788958972#m
You know Danny Thomas was a Lebanese-American? How far we have fallen!
And a devout Catholic, and a commander in the Knights of Columbus. And made a pledge after donating his last dollar to a church…when he was struggling himself. The Power of Prayer.
https://www.stjude.org/directory/t/danny-thomas-founder.html
A more detailed history:
https://www.bewaretheblog.com/2020/02/danny-thomas-entertainer-who-founded.html
My city had a bridge collapse, the school children are going to school in 100 year-old buildings that shut down on hot days because of lack of HVAC, a pedestrian was killed a mile from my house in a hit-and-run by an illegal alien, and yet I’m expected to be more mad that someone found a Hitler book in a random house in Lebanon than what’s happening within a mile radius of my own home. Do the people who report the garbage even hear themselves? Spoiler alert: I don’t care if they found an entire warehouse of Hitler books in Lebanon. FIX THE PROBLEMS IN AMERICA FIRST.
Supposedly, this is what America First was going to do Ronin.
I think that what America First means to us out here and what the movement, the ‘Label”, the “Slogan” means are seemingly worlds apart at this point.
All of us normies out here just want our basics re-built- ya know, schools, bridges, fix the roads, end crime, is this so much to ask?
The Never Satisfied™️Worn through edition.
You appear to be a troll when you go down the whole thread posting shit like this because you don’t agree with a comment. You’ve been called out repeatedly about doing this and yet you continue.
You yourself are the Worn Through Edition.
Nothing is more disgusting than lining up here every day to say AMEN to pretend to be so Christian-Like and then trolling the readership here like you are the thought police with a job to form a Cult of like-minded thinkers- which is the complete opposite of the mission of this site.
How about you take the note of the banner along the top Alleycats, Andrew Breitbart was not a blind follower.
Hit dog hollars.
Bridges, schools and sanctuary cities are all “LOCAL” county and state issues. It’s your problem to fix.
The Executive Branch does not directly control the projects related to MAGA … by law and acts of congress it is the States that CONTROL those projects. Billions of dollars have been AUTHORIZED by CONGRESS and sent (per the law) to the States.
It is the local voters problem to ensure their State and Local governments actually USE the money sent to them in Federal Grants is actually put towards the projects such as fixing infrastructure and buildings.
See .. LA Fire Prevention Projects, CA Land Management Projects and CA High Speed Rail Projects …ALL the Federal Funds were diverted to to support the cause and NGO of the day as well as 10% kick backs to the democrat big guys.
See 10’s of $Millions of COVID relief funds reprogrammed in MI and ILL.
See 10’s of $Millions of Infrastructure money reprogrammed in ILL and Chicago.
See 10’s of $Millions in Medicaid & Welfare Money sent to Biden Auto-Pen residents in CO, CA, ILL, MI, et al.
See the $Billions in daycare and Medicaid fraud in MN, ILL, MI and CA.
Notice ALL the lawfare cases and Congressional resistance to prosecuting and holding accountable the waste, fraud and abuse of the funds sent.
It is the local voters who put the state and Local democrats in office who do the reprogramming. Get off your lazy butts and vote in local elections where less than 20% of the voters actually show up to vote or even mail in a ballot.
The MAGA movement is NOT President Trump it is the voters who believe and time those take responsibility for the failures at local level by VOTING. The President has kept his end of the bargain.
MAGA is Trump. Without him, it would be the tea party and a Sarah Palin blog. And I like Sarah.
I hope JD Vance is up to the task as the successor.
HUGE NEWS: BILL INTRODUCED TO DESIGNATE CAIR AS A TERROR ORGANIZATION
Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX) has introduced new legislation to designate CAIR as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist Organization. What the bill would do:
• Freeze CAIR’s assets
• Ban Americans from interacting with the organization
• Revoke its 501(c)(3) tax-exempt status
Roy: CAIR is “not an innocent nonprofit” but an organization that facilitates terrorism under that cover.
The bill, titled the Designating Hamas Affiliates in America Act of 2026, aims to bring full federal enforcement against the group. Now the question: does this gain traction, or does it get buried in politics?
Is it going to be called “Islamophobia”?
https://nitter.poast.org/MOSSADil/status/2042501482277118150#m
Another case of a day late and a dollar short. You can be sure the democrat communists will vote against it as will some of the republican democrats.
It’s not Phobic to move to end an attack upon your country.
It’s not phobic to desire to survive in your own country, Islam needs to be fully ended and gone in America.
Why is it difficult (yet necessary) to root out Hezbollah and destroy its terrorist infrastructure, stockpiles, and means of movement?
Because this is what they’ve built: sophisticated tunnels – with lighting, comms, and rail transport – drilled through solid rock as deep as 20 stories below the surface.
This tunnel near Shtula under the Israel-Lebanon border (aka right under the UN’s nose) was discovered and sealed by the IDF during Operation Northern Shield.
https://nitter.poast.org/MOSSADil/status/2042482766005092558#m
They also ‘offer’ to build houses on the border that have firing bunkers integrated into the structure, then force the occupants to remain during an engagement. If Western nations made it absolutely clear that they will disregard civilian casualties in any operational calculus this practice, amongst all of Iran’s proxies, would vanish overnight.
As for the situation in Iran, Trump’s flipped the Iranian centres of gravity, so the fanaticism is now targeted internally, in their hunt for the traitors, and the ‘mosaic’ structure is now a handicap to that goal, given the loss of any central command. The deadline is there to force a resolution to this internal conflict, by giving the various factions a clear binary choice. Either deal or die, either at each other’s hands or by US and Israeli intervention that follows.
The regime’s death clock is creeping towards midnight and it’s unable to stop the minute hand with the usual tactics it’s used for decades. I’d expect a lot of thrashing about in the next days as that realisation, that no one’s going to save them, them sinks in.
It is now more clear than ever that Hezbollah is a UNIT of the IRGC operating in Lebanon under control of Iran.
It is disturbing to see all these online grifters suddenly proclaim they are Catholics and that the Vatican’s interests should be prioritized over America’s interests. After all, since our country’s founding, the American government has always refused to ratify any concordat with the Vatican. If these online grifters desire to have Pope Leo ruling over their lives so much, they are free to move to the Vatican because here in America, we have separation of church and state. Maybe Pope Francis should have lived longer because his successor is already acting like a typical Chicago politician suffering from TDS instead of a a spiritual leader
There’s a particular correlation I’ve noticed, which is there for those with eyes to see and ears to hear…
BREAKING
Former Iranian FM Kharazi dies Iranian state media reports Kamal Kharazi (81) has died from injuries sustained in an airstrike on his Tehran residence earlier this month.
His wife was killed in the strike, while Kharazi had been hospitalized since. Kharazi, a former foreign minister (1997–2005) and senior adviser to Iran’s leadership, held multiple key roles, including heading the Strategic Council on Foreign Relations. Iran did not specify whether the strike was carried out by the U.S. or Israel
https://nitter.poast.org/MOSSADil/status/2042481995742085265#m
Good riddance and Rest in Pieces….
In a rapid response, the IDF struck approximately 10 Hezbollah launchers that fired rockets toward northern Israel on Thursday evening
https://nitter.poast.org/MOSSADil/status/2042481712815280154#m
Iranian actress Mamdana Karimi just sent a message to Trump… And it exposes something most Americans just don’t understand about Iran
https://nitter.poast.org/NimaYamini/status/2042340757206446264#m
^^^
And another voice out of Iran, this time with a message directed at Trump. These voices are growing bolder by the day. While many still stay silent out of fear of reprisal, especially those with family inside Iran, others are beginning to feel there is no other path forward. SHARE, SHARE, SHARE #TrumpDontStop
https://nitter.poast.org/MOSSADil/status/2042474927127736567#m
Oh, there is a path forward and the clock is ticking, either remove the serpent in your midst or the US will do it for you. Either option imposes a particular cost in blood and treasure, the Iranians have to work out which is their best option. The one thing they cannot do is delay, prevaricate or pretend, the favoured solutions in the ME toolbox, this time it’s a binary option, in effect Trump is imposing on them a traditional Western model (not the globalist bastard version) of conflict resolution.
WAR SUMMARY: During the war Iran launched ~650 ballistic missiles at Israel, with over half carrying cluster warheads, dispersing hundreds of bomblets across populated areas. The attacks killed 24 civilians (20 in Israel, 4 in the West Bank), most of whom were outside shelters, and injured 7,000+.
At least 16 conventional missiles directly struck populated areas, while ~50 cluster strikes created hundreds of impact sites. Cluster munitions killed 10, conventional warheads killed 14, and over 5,500 people were displaced due to widespread damage.
Key figures: •
~650 ballistic missiles launched
• 24 total fatalities (20 in Israel, 4 in West Bank) — all civilians
• Majority of victims outside bomb shelters (all but 2)
• 7,000+ injured
• 16 conventional missiles struck populated areas
• ~50 cluster munition strikes in populated areas
• Hundreds of separate bomblet impact sites
• Cluster munitions caused 10 deaths
• Conventional warheads caused 14 deaths
• 5,500+ people displaced due to damage to homes
https://nitter.poast.org/MOSSADil/status/2042474927127736567#m
650 missiles killing 24 people is not a good return on investment. It is like 84 shootings in Chicago with only 5 killed over a weekend (bad shots).
650 Fired, not 650 impacts.
Of the dozens that were not intercepted, aside from those killed, the destruction on the civilian targets is immense.
This is not limited to Israel, it includes every country targeted by Iran
Maybe 650 bullets killing 24 people is acceptable. But with missiles it’s laughable.
Epic fail for Iran. Reminds me of Saddam’s Scud tantrum.
You could do more damage bringing BLM to riot in Israel. LOL
Greetings Treepers! 🙏✝️🙏
morning how goes the day for you and yours?
VENEZUELA OPENS MINERAL RESERVES TO INVESTORS Venezuela has opened its vast mineral reserves to private and foreign investors, just months after loosening state control over oil. The new law targets gold, diamonds, bauxite, and coltan, aiming to attract U.S.-backed investment and revive the economy. But major risks remain—illegal mining, armed groups, and corruption still dominate key regions.
https://nitter.poast.org/MOSSADil/status/2042431337009742273#m
Kuwait accuses Iran and its proxies of violating the ceasefire with drone strikes on “some vital Kuwaiti facilities Thursday night,” while Saudi Arabia confirms a recent attack damaged its key East-West oil pipeline. Iran’s IRGC denies responsibility, claiming: “If these reports published by the media are true, without a doubt it is the work of the Zionist enemy or America,” despite ongoing proxy activity raising tensions ahead of US-Iran talks in Islamabad.
https://nitter.poast.org/MOSSADil/status/2042423737052704963#m
Lebanon’s MTV reports that during intense Israeli strikes in Beirut, several IRGC operatives were killed while directing Hezbollah operations.
https://nitter.poast.org/Osint613/status/2042514617411186775#m
Zelensky says the United States is not currently showing willingness to devote additional time to negotiations aimed at ending the war in Ukraine.
https://nitter.poast.org/Osint613/status/2042523722070786455#m
I wonder why?
His puppet masters have bigger issues, tough luck Lil man.
Disengaging is a form of negotiation. It lines up with “we’re done here.”
Make a deal with Putin and get the hell of dodge. You have killed enough of your countrymen.
Play us a song Piano Man! Maybe some BLues? ” Its Cryin Time Again?”
Zelinsky should stop playing the piano, put some clothes on and negotiate with Putin himself.
I’d REALLY like for Sundance to weigh in on Maria Salazar and her DIGNIDAD bill with an op-ed.
I’d also like for someone to take the song, ‘How Do You Solve A Problem Like Maria’ from The Sound Of Music, and make it into a parody rendiition for Maria Salazar and her bill.
I am very disappointed that nobody in the Florida GOP has brought up censuring Salazar over her amnesty bill much less pressuring her to resign from the House.
Last thing we need is to lose a seat in the house now, just got back the seat from GA.
People in Miami need to vote in someone better.
She is a wolf in sheep’s clothing.
Even at the local level, there a lot of rino/neocon types and probably they are all over FL, that masquerade as conservatives…and the demographics are changing, fewer conservative retirees from the Greatest Generation…now a lot of liberal baby boomers and millennials. I see it in Port St. Lucie, Indian River and Martin counties.
In some ways, the towns all have their own “Public Administration” business model…that is where change needs to occur, IMHO…where policies for taxes and spending ‘hang out’.
A year and a half ago, while hanging out at a local Florida library, I was listening to an alleged ‘conservative’ that was spouting progressive ideas…who was campaigning out front…it sickened me…
Florida Mannequin.
Sundance is too busy chasing his ‘grifters’.
his?
As you sit in his house and read his words… for free.
The Never Satisfied™️Mooch Edition
And
Elvira appeared on FOX many times before the name switch.
great
I was much better off with “my head in the sand”, so to speak. I read “Rules For Radicals” and it was all over .
All learning of all the crap going on has done to me is reinforce how important my Savior, Jesus Christ is.
This world disappoints at every turn. The Lord does not.
As Sundance is fond of saying “Live your best life.” You do that by aligning your life to God.
Do that and everything else becomes manageable.
I read that book, about 20 years ago…and thought to myself…”he’s describing Chicago”…his protptype.
The innocence of youth…
A senior Chinese Communist Party official reportedly had 26 children through U.S.-based surrogacy. All of them were born in the United States.
That means all are U.S. citizens under current birthright citizenship interpretations.
According to California officials, he even stated that one of those children, he hopes, could one day become president of the United States.
This is the kind of case driving the growing debate around birthright citizenship, foreign influence, and how U.S. law is being used in ways lawmakers never anticipated.
https://nitter.poast.org/Govt_Acct_Inst/status/2042245219056312386#m
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I don’t see many talking about this situation here: What is going on with Islam in the UK?
The King, who is the supposedly the head of the Church of England, skipped his Easter message.
Right on the heels of this, Prince William praises the Muslim community and reflects upon the peaceful nature of Islam (?! )
It seems to me like something has definitely happened in the background..
I find it ironic and odd perhaps that this ‘rise’ shall we say is going on in the background of the war in Iran- then add into this that they then won’t help us out over there.
Has the Monarchy been captured?
Given the King’s position as the head of the church, I’m not understanding what on earth they are doing right now, I find it concerning in what it may be signaling – that we’re not tuning into enough.
Islam in the UK has a serious problem, dogs, bacon and booze. This is not being flippant at all, but illustrates a core issue. The religion/philosophy has been allowed to advance institutionally, by the globalists who see it as a control mechanism that aligns with their immediate and intermediate goals, but now its adherents are pushing hard to have its core restrictions applied, using that official foothold.
This though puts them on a collision course with cultural pillars that are far harder to remove, the aforementioned dogs, bacon and booze. The former has massively expanded due to COVID and will destroy any political party that attempts to enact stealth legislation to remove, or limit dog ownership. Same with bacon and booze, however much the government and the scientific community try to suggest that people are switching to alternatives, any attempt to try to restrict these would trigger a huge campaign against it.
The camel is constantly sticking its nose under the tent, but most of the easily accessible goodies have been eaten already, and recent attempts to probe further have been sharply rejected (proposed ban on certain dog breeds, halal meat in supermarkets). This then is causing frustration, as Islam’s survival depends on the image it is always winning, and exacerbated by the nature of the majority of Muslims here (from the the largely uncivilised regions of Pakistan) whose increasing arrogance is becoming counter-productive to the cause, by waking up more and more people.
Demographically, however, this country is toast in 20-30 years, as the government does everything in its power to support the Muslim community increasing, via immigration or birth rate (recently the NHS reversed policy, saying marrying first cousins was ok, and benefits cap on two children was lifted); however dogs, booze and bacon are not only holding the line for now, but have the capability of reversing some of the recent cultural ‘advances’.
New Immigration plan; call it “The Great Trade.”
We give the UK/EU one US-residing Somali or Islamist of their choice, and we get one heritage European and their dogs, bacon, and booze.
It’s a win-win.
If I had the means I’d be across the Atlantic faster than one of the Iranian time-travelling, stealth, hypersonic missiles that are obviously being held back, now the regime have won!
Beyond the dogs, bacon & booze, Islam forbids any image from Earth or Heaven.
Every painting & sculpture will be destroyed. Every image of Christ smashed into a million unrecognizable pieces.
We need to save the art when we go get the nukes.
The Brits have done what you better hope America doesn’t do, and that is continue allowing the followers of Islam a even bigger stake in the country than they already have. They are involved in government at all levels now and no one is really paying attention. They are protesting in your streets and gaining control of local governments, see NYC, you are making the same mistakes England and Canada has made.
The Second Amendment will not save you if you will not use it.
Blame it on Henry the VIII and his ‘feud’ with a Pope.
“Border Patrol caught & arrested four British nationals entering the US illegally through a remote forest in Maine – Their names: Ali Mohammed Ali Abdullah, Hameed Mohammed Nagi, Ibrahim Ayyub Khan, and Mohammed Sultan Saleh.” Britain really needs to sort this issue out because the fact that these guys have British passports is an absolute catastrophe for national security in the West.
https://nitter.poast.org/DrewPavlou/status/2042371303819395488#m
Map of where they were found is at the link
Lots of Canadians around with names just like those. There are already millions in America with citizenship and names just like those. I wonder what the connection might be?
Good luck because you will need it, our own people are the problem.
Option 3 is a brilliant idea written by Wayne Root. It states treat Iran like Japan at the end of WW2. Take out one infrastructure piece each day until they unconditionally surrender.
https://rootforamerica.com/the-iran-solution/
Nice idea, but 40% of the world’s oil didn’t flow by imperial Japan. LOL
NYPD-hating lunatic judge’s outrageous sentence in Bronx ‘cooler cop’ case is judicial abuse
A radical Bronx judge’s outrageous 3- to 9-year prison sentence for NYPD Sergeant Erik Duran surely qualifies as one of the worst judicial abuses ever to come out of a US courtroom.
The result will be fewer cops making fewer arrests, and crime spiking.
Judge Guy Mitchell slapped Duran after he found him guilty of manslaughter for having hurled a drink cooler at a scooter-fleeing drug suspect — who then fell, hit his head and died.
https://nypost.com/2026/04/09/opinion/nypd-hating-lunatic-judges-outrageous-sentence-in-bronx-cooler-cop-case-is-judicial-abuse/
No helmet on the scooter driver?
Whatever happened to all those safety laws?
Was the decedent an organ donor?
Asking for a friend…
Marc A. Thiessen
Iran thinks it has leverage. Here’s how Trump can prove it wrong.
If Iran won’t accept the president’s terms in two weeks, he should impose them.
https://archive.is/20260408222139/https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2026/04/08/ceasefire-deal-iran-us-israel-war-trump/
It’s not a cease-fire, it’s a 14 day (now 12) countdown to regime change.
how many regime changes do you want. We’re down to third still alive
It’s not the number, it’s the way you do it, exterior force v’s internal, with exterior ‘motivation’. Big difference. Call it a delayed counter-regime change, given the events of 1979.