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Alice Ball's avatar

They bet on Iran. Big time. What a world weโ€™re living in that the Dems and Euros are cheering for the murderous Iran regime just bc they hate Trump. DJT is brilliant and Iโ€™m happy every day that we elected him and just maybe we can get our country back. GO TRUMP GO๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ

Marlene Swann's avatar

I echo - GO TRUMP GO! This is what we voted for!

donald b welch's avatar

long ago trump tried to explain to those who would listen...he doesn't intentionally lose at anything and even if he does lose, another then another and yet a another way to win is what he lives for. trumps best and to me most important message has always been:

"never give up. never. if there is a wall in front of you, go through it, around it or over it but don't let that wall stop you". well stated mr donald j. trump.

iran never had a chance.

Sam Prentice's avatar

That is the exact thing I also said to my son and daughter. "Never let an obstacle stand in your way - you go over it, around it, or right through it." And they have lived their lives in that manner. I also told them that in life they will either be a leader or they will be a follower, and the only thing for certain is that they will be one or the other. They both chose to live as leaders and have prospered.

Jeremy R's avatar

During Xiden's reign our military was gutted, poison and castrated. Literally, they opened the doors wide to gender pretenders, forced soldiers to get the poison injections for Fauci's fake flu and discharged any who refused.

That we have a military capable of defending our shores is a miracle from GOD, that we are able to defeat Iran and their allies, Russia and China, stand idly by is amazing.

The press mocked the notion that Iran was only weeks away from having a nuclear weapon. Well, a drag car sitting at the line may not be moving, but it's seconds away from the finish line.

Iran could easily have built their bombs at any time during the last two years. They didn't because they were in fear of Israel hitting them the moment they tried to assemble it. Thousands of missiles drones and other assorted munitions were their intended ace up the sleeve.

steph_gray's avatar

> their intended ace up the sleeve

Yes - and now turning out to be the joker.

Jeremy R's avatar

Depends on the card game, in some the joker weilds power. I'd call it a deuce, " thrown out like a deuce".

Don Reed's avatar

By Iran The Dunce.

Ross's avatar

Yes indeed.

The fact that they had 459kg enriched to 60% shows that.

They needed several markers to be met at the same time before they could proceed with their hideous plans.

The first was obviously a nuclear weapon. Next was an intercontinental ballistic missile. Then they needed an invulnerable air defence, the ability to dominate and deny the Arabian Gulf to any American carrier task force through swarms of drones and fast boats, this they thought they had. Finally they needed a major distraction that would cripple Israel. That was the Hamas attack intended to be supported by Hezbollah and the Houthi.

All their duckies were in a row.

They had all the above.

One nuclear bomb was never enough. Israel would need three for total destruction. The remaining weapons were for nuclear blackmail and protect their regime while they worked towards their mad dreams of a world caliphate.

It all started to come unglued when the Israelis crushed Hamas followed by Hezbollah.

Then Trump was reelected.

Before the twelve day war by Israel and the USA they were literally only a few weeks from having nuclear weapons the moment the decision to build them was taken.

As we now know they had a nuclear capable missile capable of reaching Europe. They were so close.

Seriously, these are religious people, even although they are monsters. They deeply and sincerely believe in an Omnipotent God. The failed assassination in Butler showed them unmistakably that God had chosen sides and it wasnโ€™t them.

The first air war and the destruction of their nuclear facilities signalled the end of their existence and they knew it.

They never had an invulnerable air space protecting them.

It is over.

Sam Prentice's avatar

Their behavior and conduct in supporting our enemy is blatant treason and they need to be called out for it and punished severely. They are traitors and don't deserve to live freely even one more day in our country. They were cheering for America to lose just to diminish Trump and they have no regard whatsoever for the damage they have done to our people. They need to pay, and pay very dearly. When are we going to finally have enough of them and stop them from undermining our freedom?

Don Reed's avatar

[04/02/26]: England had been in WWII since September 3, 1939.

By Pearl Harbor Day (12/07/41), they were still recovering from the shambles of Dunkirk, and humiliatingly forced to ally themselves with odious Russia.

American isolationists up until 12/07/41: โ€œThis is not our war.โ€

England to America on 12/08/41 (ruefully/resentfully stated):

โ€œWelcome aboard. Where the HELL have you been?!โ€

UK (Useless Kingdom) PM Starmer, this week: โ€œThis is not our war.โ€

Trump: โ€œOkay.โ€

UK (Useless Kingdom) PM Starmer, next week:

โ€œWe ran out of jet fuel!โ€

Trump: โ€œOkay.โ€

James Mead's avatar

"Trumpโ€™s refusal to re-open the Strait of Hormuz was a diplomatic way of telling our frenemies in NATO to put up or shut up."

The bumbling of the EU & our NATO allies would be funny if we hadn't been subsidizing their faculty lounge lifestyles and dreams.

Thank you for covering American strength Mr. S.

Jeremy R's avatar

We need NATO like combat soldiers need a tuba.

Trump needs to halt the sales of all military equipment to those nations that didn't support the operation to end Iranian terrorism. Most of Europe is overrun with muslim dregs from Africa.

We don't see much these days about the rapefugees and the car-b-ques because they have become commonplace. Years ago we heard about no-go zones in Paris. Today most of Europe is a no-go zone. Continuing to fund what is turning into the next califate needs to stop

WTPuck's avatar

I am so stealing your first sentence.

Jeremy R's avatar

I was envisioning Skyler from the cartoon "Shoe".

PJT36's avatar

Or, to paraphrase Stormin' Norman, "Going to war without NATO (he said France) is like going hunting without your accordion."

Jim Miller's avatar

I am SO with you on that, WT.

NNTX's avatar

Too right Jeremy. I read a horrifying first person account from a woman in the UK CID about the rape gangs and their crimes against young British women. This went on for years with no help and no protection from the UK police (in some cases, the police there participated in gang rapes, torture and worse).

Europe has fallen to the Islamists it imported. No longer safe to travel city streets there as a woman (and probably not accompanied, either). Their failure is echoed in how they treat the USA, their most valuable and loyal ally. We will not forget.

donald b welch's avatar

agreed jimmy and i would add...it also allows american technology to now work on sensible replacements to oil. it can be r&d correctly and with precision, not hurried along like the donks and globalists tried to do with ev's. in a hundred years when the world 'perhaps' starts to run out of oil, we could possibly be there, offering solutions, for price of course and have trump to thank for the opportunities.

also, trump might now try to de-nuke the world or at least begin that process.

Retirednottired's avatar

We are NOT going to run out of oil, not next year, not in a hundred years, not in a thousand years. Oil is created CONSTANTLY by natural processes in the interior of the earth. Nothing to do with dead dinosaurs. That was a myth created by the oil barons to make people think it was a scarce resource so they could raise their prices. Donโ€™t fall for it.

Jeremy R's avatar

Oil and coal are the result of the global flood documented in Genesis. The upper portion of the earth was churned up and the debris from the first thousand years is what has turned into oil and coal.

Some of that debris is still being converted. The oil isn't in pools and veins, it's throughout the entire mass of what was redistributed as the flood waters receded.

More is slowly seeping into the spots where it congregates just like the water that refills my well.

Some years ago there was a fire in Canada on a landfill that was packed with tires. Rather than fight it, they buried it. Several months later oil began to seep from that now buried but still smoldering pile. Pure crude oil.

That mass also contained other waste, old lumber etc.

From that we've gained an understanding into how heat and pressure can turn waste into oil.

We can take biomass, tree limbs grass etc and accomplish the same thing. There is sufficient biomass formed every year to meet all our energy needs. We simply need to develop the processes for extracting it.

We have wasted a lot by dumping it into landfills and the ocean.

All energy is ultimately nuclear. The sun is a massive nuclear reaction. Oil, gas, biomass, wind and solar are simply different means for capturing and storing what GOD created for us.

donald b welch's avatar

from grock:

Why We Won't "Run Out"

Technology keeps expanding the resource base โ€” What was "unrecoverable" yesterday becomes reserves tomorrow. Oil shale, deeper offshore fields, and enhanced recovery techniques (e.g., COโ‚‚ injection) add potential.

Economics rule โ€” As easy/cheap oil depletes, prices rise, which spurs innovation, efficiency, and alternatives. Very expensive oil becomes uncompetitive.

Substitution and transition โ€” Oil's biggest uses (transportation fuel, petrochemicals) face growing competition from electric vehicles, biofuels, hydrogen, and synthetic alternatives. Demand may peak or decline even with ample supply available. We're already seeing this in passenger cars; aviation and shipping are harder to decarbonize quickly.

Abundance in the near term โ€” Recent outlooks highlight risks of oversupply in 2026 and beyond if production keeps growing while demand growth slows.

The Real Risks and Timeline

Short/medium term (next 20โ€“30 years): No shortage. Supply is abundant enough that the bigger issues are price volatility, geopolitics (e.g., conflicts affecting exports), and environmental/climate impacts of continued use.

Longer term (beyond 2050): Conventional cheap oil will become scarcer. Production could decline without massive investment in unconventional sources or new tech. But by then, the world may have largely shifted to other energy sources for many applications. "Running out" would look more like oil becoming too expensive or undesirable to burn widely, rather than literal exhaustion.

Coal and natural gas have their own longer timelines, but the fossil era as a whole will wind down due to policy, cost curves for renewables/storage, and innovationโ€”not total depletion.

In short: The Earth has a lot more oil than we'll likely burn in a sustainable future. The bigger question isn't "will we run out?" but "how quickly and smoothly can we reduce our dependence on it while managing the economic and climate trade-offs?" History shows energy transitions happen when better/cheaper options emerge, and oil is no exception.

Retirednottired's avatar

True. At some point, oil use will fade to insignificant amounts, when suitable, affordable substitutes develop. Biden's EV push was NOT that substitute. It was a forced effort to transfer to an as yet immature technology. Electricity may never be the affordable replacement for ICE, who can say? But yes, something, someday will replace oil for motor fuel use. But the oil will still be there, underground.

Richard Luthmann's avatar

This feels like the front edge of something biggerโ€”a reset where America stops drifting and starts building again. Not just reacting, not just managing decline, but pushing forward with purpose. Weโ€™ve got the technology, the talent, and nowโ€”finallyโ€”the willingness to use both. Back to the moon. Dominance without endless wars. Strength without apology. Thatโ€™s not nostalgiaโ€”thatโ€™s trajectory. This is what a New American Golden Age looks like in real time: innovation paired with resolve, power paired with direction. The question isnโ€™t whether we can lead again. Itโ€™s whether we stay disciplined enough to keep this momentumโ€”and not squander it.

RevMikeyMac's avatar

The most difficult work is yet to be done: EMPTY THE SWAMP. The Congress/Senate are still resisting Trump like a petulant teenager: until we clean house there, our biggest enemy is still right here in our own "house".

RevMikeyMac's avatar

I'm sure Trump has a plan...I can't wait to see it!

Jeremy R's avatar

Most of them have become rich in office. Millions of dollars in bribes called speaking fees and book deals, money that originated with foreign entities determined to destroy the last bastion of freedom in the world.

John Carter's avatar

That is heavy, heavy lifting. lifting such as transforming higher education, enlightening Divinity schools, and etc. The make-up of our legislative branch is not a product of our own opinions. Those institutions have been forming opinions for generations.

TeaPartyGal's avatar

The good news is that Americans in general, at least on the Right, are really good at "heavy lifting". The American Spirit in its purest, true form, is inherently a heavy lifter. There is a buoyancy, an energy, that comes with the freedom to make your own decisions and enjoy either the fruits of your hard labor, or accept the consequences of failure, but then move on to the next endeavor with fresh energy.

I'll never forget once I took an accounting continuing education class on the Titans of American Industry, the railroad barons, the steel, etc, Carnegie, Rockefeller, etc, etc.

It was fascinating to see that I think all but one of these Titans of business had had at least one, and usually MORE than one, bankruptcy in their early endeavors. But they learned from the experience, and went on into their next endeavor, and ultimately had phenomenal success.

America has been drenched recently in a focus on trying to lift the lowly. Hopefully the pendulum is shifting, and we will again celebrate the dynamic Spirit.

NNTX's avatar

One of Elonโ€™s ideas which I think will move forward and succeed, is to put data centers in space. This obviates the need for cooling and also provides unfettered access to solar power. Win/win.

The launch yesterday was wonderful to watch!

Jerry from Chicago's avatar

I hope and pray you are right and I pray every night that God is guiding Trumpโ€™s hand in leading our nation and the world.

Douglas Baringer's avatar

That is a great sounding trajectory. Some positivity is certainly in order. The worst enemies we have are the negativity spreading leftists of the democrap/multi- cultural/marxist/hate America crowd. They are truly evil. The way to advance the USA is to trust in God work hard to make good things happen. ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ฒ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ฒ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ฒ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ฒ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ฒ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ฒ

CactusMatt32's avatar

I am waiting to see Trump & Bessentโ€™s plan to deal with US Debt and moronic Congressional deficit spending - that is the Looming threat - at least it is denominated in USDโ€ฆneed to own hard assets to keep wealthโ€ฆ

NNTX's avatar

One linchpin is to grow our way out of the bite of debt. GDP growth of 3-4% will accomplish that. The foundations were laid last year and inbound investments in US plants will help as well.

Improving Congress seems to be, otoh, a Herculean task. However, if we can make real dents in fraud (which likely amounts to 75-over 100% of our deficit) that would be amazing.

Reddog's avatar

Great comment. I second your comment. The world, not just the US, is changing and Europe is facing a rapid decline and possible extinction as a European culture. South America is on the rise. I wonder how this changing world will impact us in twenty five years or so? We canโ€™t be an island. Iโ€™m not sure the rise of one hemisphere and decline of another will continue without major problems. Parts of the ME with its oil are doing little to position themselves for what comes after the oil is gone. Maybe they should ask Japan what that looks like?

TeaPartyGal's avatar

I love your comment, Richard, and think it is very valuable that you have put into words the concept of a trajectory.

Before a trajectory can occur, it has to be envisioned. And the people who play a role in envisioning and articulating the trajectory are fulfilling a valuable purpose. Kudos!

John Carter's avatar

Very well put. A key word is โ€œweโ€. That same โ€œweโ€ needs to coalesce. And that includes we as a country.

Skinnydip's avatar

Italy's refusing to allow US warplanes to land at the Sigonella air base in Sicily is my biggest disappointment. I thought PM Meloni was the one European leader the US could rely on.

Cookie McCall's avatar

you and I both, Skinnydip

Marlan Hoerer's avatar

enough disappointment to go around I fear imho

Douglas Baringer's avatar

Both you and I. What a disappointment!

Big Dog 333's avatar

Wait until they canโ€™t get gasoline or LNG. Theyโ€™ll โ€œkeep the landing lights onโ€! I love DJT saying, โ€œyou come open the straitโ€, brilliant, get off your ass NATO, smell the coffee, time is running out. Can you imagine how many civilian jobs there are on US bases in Europe? All high paying! Whoosh, gone with the troops. Serves them right.

OldeArtiste's avatar

President Trump might want the NATO countries to send their Naval vessels to the Straight of Homuz but the NATO countries probably don't have any naval vessels worth sending. The Iranian naval vessels that were sunk by the US Navy were probably as good as the NATO ships.

Jake's avatar

Trump always has something else up his sleeve. Nobody has any idea what it is until it happens. Time and time again he has outmaneuvered the MSM/Dem party. They have no common sense policy plans or ideas to run on. All they have is fight Trump. Fair elections and a booming economy will be the death of their party and they know it. We are not fighting for the Dem vote. We are fighting for the middle and those not paying attention. Easter with family would be a good time to have the conversation. Their future is at stake.

Marlene Swann's avatar

I absolutely LOVE this new idea to control mail-in ballots through the executive branch controlled post office! They never saw that cominโ€™ - and are shrieking in their blue-haired distress! Again - this is what we voted for!

Cookie McCall's avatar

Well Marlene, that would give the post office something else to do other than fill our mailboxes with nothing but junk mail that goes directly into the trash bin. I do like the way he explained the mail-in ballot plan - well thought out!

Joe LaGreca's avatar

I find junk mail useful for lining the bottom of my garbage bin. I'm been getting so much mail from the GOP NRSC & John Thune - can't believe that those do-nothings want money from me for doing nothing to help PDJT & the USA.

BJ54's avatar

Truth. My texts are 90% fund raising and propaganda from the republican party.

Douglas Baringer's avatar

I have the same thing BJ45. I block every one of them. I get a big laugh at the ones that srart out "getting too many messages from the GOP"?

TeaPartyGal's avatar

Haha--cool to hear you-all are getting the exact same messages I'm getting. Another recurring one recently is "You're making a big mistake ignoring us...".

Joe LaGreca's avatar

That's why I never give out my cell phone #. When I went to join Truth Social, I keyed in my home phone # instead of the cell # but they detected that & insisted on entering a cell # - so, I communicated via email with them and got them to give me access without providing a cell #. Same thing happened with Mike Lindell's Frank Speech - but, I didn't bother pursuing that. The only downside of using my home # for things like contributions is that I get a ton of phone calls every freaking day - thank God for call-screening.

Marlan Hoerer's avatar

my home phone is 2 rings and sorry , the message box is full.

BJ54's avatar

I get only texts. Blocking helped after blocking phone numbers for a few months! Bums. They try to sound polite but that's a big FAIL. Also, there's no way to really tell who's sending the text. Even phone numbers don't prove anything any more.

Don Reed's avatar

04/02/26: I used to answer the phone, after seeing "Rahway NJ" on call screen: "Hello, India! GOODBYE, India!" Now I just click on, then off.

Don Reed's avatar

04/02/26: Same here. 100% deleted unread. And who the hell even KNOWS if the people who say they sent it are REALLY the people who say they sent it? Trojan Horses?

Don Reed's avatar

04/02/26: Thune was reincarnated from the ghost of Eddie Haskel.

John Swindall's avatar

Itโ€™s the media. Perfect example was last Thursday Birmingham, Alabamaโ€™s ABC 33/40 news and its evening broadcast on Thursday by paying homage to the Muslim brotherhood.

Talking Head, Ashonti Ford signed off the evening with a quote she attributed to the brotherhoodโ€™s founder. Take their license.

You canโ€™t make this shit up.

Amy's avatar

I looked Ashanti up, what a stereotype, all she needs is a stripper pole. Sheโ€™s the WOC version of Don Henleyโ€™s bubble headed bleach blond. Too gullible, ignorant, immature to understand that the โ€œwise sageโ€ Muz Bruth founder she eagerly quoted would also eagerly r&pe her, and her dimwit husband, dis member them and drag them around in the streets if she dared show up in any Muz society in the Frederickโ€™s of Hollywood hooker outfits she wears to read the news. Democrat voters, ๐Ÿคท๐Ÿผ

steph_gray's avatar

๐Ÿคฃ I donโ€™t know who she is but what a word pictureโ€ฆ

John Swindall's avatar

Iโ€™ll have that song in my head for the rest of the day. ๐Ÿคฃ

Jim Miller's avatar

Thank God I didn't hear the song. Sorry you did, John.

James Mead's avatar

That's not surprising though. Sad to say that

Damn the torpedoes's avatar

Well, if we ever needed confirmation that our โ€œalliesโ€ arenโ€™t allied with us anymore, Trump has provided it. But he already has the Board of Peace, made up of all the guys with oil and minerals and the other things Starmer & Co. need. So bring it on Keir, but weโ€™re the piper youโ€™ll be paying because your windmills have failed you, and the sun rarely shines in Europe anymore. Oh, and those solders and bases we have in your countries? That help prop up your failing economies? Yeah, weโ€™re moving them to Greenland.

MLR's avatar

โ€œThe UK will convene 35 countriesโ€”excluding the USโ€”to explore ways to reopen the strait of Hormuz, the vital shipping route for oil and gas that has been blocked by Iran.โ€

A perfect example of the Onanism that masquerades as foreign policy which is all that we can expect from the Islamized U.K. and the rest of the Euroweinies, allegedly our allies.

Jake's avatar

I wonder what would happen if the Trumpster pulled eighty percent of the troops from Europe? Leave enough staff to maintain the base facilities for future use but pull most of the fighters back home. The economic impact to the EU would be a huge blow to their economies. BTW: Spain, Italy, Germany and the UK can kiss my American ass.....

Cookie McCall's avatar

Jake, I think you're onto a great idea. I'd absolutely support pulling the majority of our troops from Europe. They don't want us there anyway, so let them stew in their own juices - just like Trump said, we've cleared their path, they need to go get their own oil and gas. I admit, I am disappointed in Italy and Meloni, I thought she was a true friend of America-what the heck happened to her?

Reddog's avatar

Cookie, depends on who you mean โ€œtheyโ€ are. The governments maybe, maybe not, officially. But ask the people who work at those bases and the trades. Different answer from them. Ask the military expats who live there and avail themselves of military hospitals and healthcare. When the Army pulled out of Heidelberg, suddenly a lot of military retirees and their families were without quality US healthcare facilities and have to travel long distances for care. Itโ€™s a complicated dynamic. We spend billions in those countries and the official positions of government are not always the whole story. My feeling is, if the governments are not going to assist us when we need it, pull the bases out. And make NATO countries pay rack rate for our weapons and equipment. Lots at stake here for sure.

Jeremy R's avatar

Those expats can move anytime they want. Besides, Europe isn't safe anywhere now as it's overrun with jihadists.

Reddog's avatar

True Jeremy, but those expats are the guys we served with once. They have lives too and the fact that they married someone from the country they were deployed to should matter some..Canโ€™t just slam door on them because they are now retired maybe.

Jeremy R's avatar

I would encourage them to move back to the states.

I knew a lot of guys who were Dept Army Civilians after they retired and worked in Europe, but if it's time to end our involvement in NATO, then they should consider living in the greatest nation on earth, and if they think that is Germany, I sho hate it for em.

steph_gray's avatar

As the Bad Witch said:

This must be handled _delicately_.

True for this, though she meant it for evil.

TeaPartyGal's avatar

Why can't we just "declare" that we have assumed a 100-year lease of these bases, and plan to stay, whether Europe likes it or not. We built them, we paid for them, we paid for their security for decades, they didn't pay even their minimum contractual share. We are ENTITLED to a 100 year lease, and I don't see any reason why we should even need to negotiate such a lease with them. WE declare the terms, and move forward on this new basis.

If they don't like it, they can try to "make us" leave. Good luck with that, Euroweenies.

Wim de Vriend's avatar

On the other hand, many people on those American bases make excellent goodwill-ambassadors, at no cost to the US State Department -- and I speak from sweet experience. In the early 1960s I had hitchhiked to Spain, and on the way back to Holland, dead-broke, had pitched my little tent just off the Autobahn, on a berm adjacent to the big Rhein-Main air base, which I believe is now gone. First thing the next morning, two German police officers came to investigate me, explaining that there had been an active pedophile in the area, and the American mothers on the base had asked them to check me out -- which they did, but I didn't fit the profile, so they left. But that was not the end of it: the mothers on the base felt so bad about that, they all started bringing me food; so much kindness, so much generosity, it still makes me teary-eyed.

Reddog's avatar

I think you have a job waiting in Trumps administration.๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ˜ I agree with you but somehow the meaning of owing people or other countries changes with time. Not sure why but I wish state departments werenโ€™t so quick to write off past administrations expenditures of tax dollars.

Joe LaGreca's avatar

Yes - very disappointing about Italy - I haven't read any explanation of that decision by Italy.

Tom's avatar

The only thing I saw Joe was that the Italian population is violently against any involvement.

Joe LaGreca's avatar

Within the Italian populace their are plenty of communists & just as the left in the USA - they'll do whatever they can to thwart PDJT & the USA.

Jeremy R's avatar

Do we need to leave that many? Leave a second lieutenant and a platoon of soldiers to guard each facility. Give the butterbar a brevet promotion to Lieutenant General so they can't try pulling rank on him.

Wim de Vriend's avatar

I'm sure it would take more than a platoon to secure one of those bases ...

Jeremy R's avatar

It depends on where. I'm talking about the ones in Germany, England and Spain. If things were to turn hostile, would a larger unit make any difference? Help would be hours away, actually days or weeks.

CactusMatt32's avatar

Maybe EU-weenies can tweet #OpenHomuz#SellUsCarbonRichOil&Gas#OurWindmillsSuck

Retirednottired's avatar

More bureaucratic BS. Here is the solution. Every nation who uses the Straight sends a few ships to the area, and tells Iran: โ€œIf you block any ships, we will blow up something important to you. If you do it again, we will blow up even more. And we will repeat it every time you try anything foolish.โ€

William Coulter's avatar

Right after Trumpโ€™s brief speech last night I turned into MSNOW to see how they covered it. โ€œTrump struggles to explain Iran missionโ€ was the way they presented it and of course Obama was just returning Iranโ€™s own money to them. Technically yes, I guess, but why give it to them knowing they hate and want to obliterate us? Ask Barry.

When a portion of the nation get this kind of โ€œinformation โ€œ it is no wonder we are where we are.

Don Surber's avatar

It wasn't theirv money. It was the shah's

TeaPartyGal's avatar

Yes, can't recall where I saw it, but there was a detailed write up of the history of that money. It was still in the process of being adjudicated--some had been promised to Americans who lost family in Beirut. Obama overrode that entire process and unilaterally gave that money back to Iran. And it was INCREDIBLE that he gave it to them in cash, small bills, etc. How stupid did Obama think we were!?!

Cookie McCall's avatar

WC, I agree. A good friend had a f/b post asking if we thought the democrat party was the greatest problem to which she responded Absolutely! Of course, I completely agree, but looking at the numerous other responses, one can clearly see what a divided nation we are. Some of the responses were so hateful, and hate filled I couldn't believe it. I loved the speech and thought PDJT did a great job laying out his reasons, etc. Any sentient being should be able to understand why we can't have a nuclear Iran who is a threat to the whole world.

steph_gray's avatar

I recommend keeping in mind how many of the horrible comments are useful idiots and/or bots funded by the likes of Neville Singham.

Grumpy Oldman's avatar

My heart jumped with joy the moment I read โ€˜I terminated Barack Hussein Obamaโ€™ but, alas and alack, it was only Dumboโ€™s disastrous Iran โ€˜nucularโ€™ deal, a $2,000,000,000.00 bribe trying to buy some respect.

Respect is earned, Dumbo, and no one respects you. Thatโ€™s why your LIE-BARRY resembles a dilapidated, overflowing outhouse.

Joe LaGreca's avatar

Now that you mention that monstrosity in Chicago, which resembles a large garbage container, - I haven't read any criticisms about that structure from the MSM - but, the NY Slimes got some "experts" to criticize the WH ballroom renovations and the harpies on the View said that the proposed Trump library in Miami resembles a penis - so, by that logic all skyscrapers resemble a penis.

Grumpy Oldman's avatar

Seriously Joe, you used the word โ€˜logicโ€™ in the same sentence with those dumba$$e$ on the View?

Joe LaGreca's avatar

I guess i should have used the terms demented logic or perverse logic.

steph_gray's avatar

How about illogic.

They have none!

Wim de Vriend's avatar

If they have none, then by the rules of English grammar they DO have logic.

Big Dog 333's avatar

I only see The View when Jesse plays a funny or stupid from them!

Wim de Vriend's avatar

Somebody should carve or paint the traditional heart on the door!

Grumpy Oldman's avatar

Hmmm, Heart or Crescent Moon?

Wim de Vriend's avatar

Clearly it has to be a Crescent Moon, (1) because Obama loved Islam, and (2) because neither he nor his satraps had a heart, as confirmed by his brashly incompetent Secretary of State. You know, the one who screamed: "What difference does it make?" about her massacred embassy staff in Libya.

The only good part of that was that it helped her lose the election against Trump in 2016. Plus, according to the reports she did even more screaming on Election Night. To me, that event was evidence for Bismarck's observation that God protects drunkards and fools and the United States of America.

Shoveltusker's avatar

โ€œThe UK will convene 35 countriesโ€”excluding the USโ€”to explore ways to reopen the strait of Hormuz..."

After he gets the boot as PM, Starmer would be a perfect fit as a feckless and pompous mid-tier university president who never takes action, never accomplishes anything, but fiddles and piddles and diddles convening meetings that are a total waste of everyone's time.

Shrugged's avatar

I was glued to the TV in July, 1969 to see Apollo 11 lift off and was glued to the computer screen yesterday to revisit that excitement 56 years later.

The private sector will out-perform 'government work' every time, and I agree that an Elon rocket will be the first to land on Mars as long as we recall the lesson that it was the private sector mercenaries (government funded privateers) who abdicated their loyalty and became private sector pirates.

That's what the Democrats have become - pirates - stealing the government wealth for themselves in everything through USAID, fake daycare centers or hospice care, and who knows what else is to be discovered. All corrupt piracy.

The new mission has started and we must keep stepping forward.

P.S.: The only thing that would make this week even better is for PDJT to flat-out - and immediately - dump NATO and tell those countries to suck an egg. . . a BIG egg . . . about the size of Keir Starmer's head.

Cookie McCall's avatar

Shrugged, like you I was also glued to the TV in July, 1969 to watch the moon landing, and was there celebrating the spectacular sight yesterday. God bless those brave astronaughts and we know from recent previous experience that Elon and Space-X will be there to the rescue if need be

Albert P. Sweeney's avatar

We needed one more choice on the poll Don, โ€œBecause they are a**holesโ€, and it would have won. ๐Ÿคฃ๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿคฃ

damnfingers's avatar

โ€œNever discount their idiocyโ€ should have covered thatโ€ฆit got my vote.

steph_gray's avatar

I think That Darn Cat allows only 5โ€ฆ

EAWass's avatar

Couldnโ€™t be happier that Trumps refusal to let America โ€œgo gentle into that goodnightโ€ decline. He refuses to lose! His love for winning and greatness is saving our country.

Danimal28's avatar

The 'media' told me as I was going downrange in '91 that the Iraqi army was battle tested and the "fourth largest Army in the world"...

17Jan91 - 28Feb91, 100 hours of ground combat. Done.

Don Surber's avatar

By battle tested, they meant beat up and depleted in the Iran War

Danimal28's avatar

Oh no, not here in MN where the MPLS Star & Sickle actually were ghastly afraid of them and conveyed the message. I just went through the papers my parents saved last weekend. The national media, as I recall, had an ominous tone as well. After the air campaign started everything changed of course.

Another recall... I wasn't in Armor so I hadn't studied the Russian T-72 in detail, but the media sold it as the most lethal tank around. We knew the Abrams was the baddest land vehicle ever invented and maybe the media wasn't privy to its capabilities.

Catherine Kasparian's avatar

Legacy media will never hand DJT the win.

steph_gray's avatar

I agree.

They must be pulled out root and branch.