You called it. From the beginning of your piece, I questioned the person's "independent" longing for the middle. They clearly outed themselves when they "othered" people on the right. You nailed it. Clearly a leftie though they are in denial.
Yup, sounds like my mom, who lives and breathes every delusion the Democrats have to offer especially FXS-- excluding vaccine zealotry, thank goodness, she is unjabbed-- but thinks she's "independent" and is "smart enough" to realize "both sides" are bad but only listens to or believes one side and refuse to believe anything bad about them, while only accepting the worst claims about the other side. Again, especially TDS.
Lol! I told her something similar, I said to all her favored Democrat leaders and news sources she's little more than a Trump supporter, no different from me, without that jab!
Haha Gabe, it's funny and sad at the same time, how the vax became a political thing.
And how, before the 2020 election, the Dem talking heads all said that they would never trust a "Trump vaccine"... But then, after the election, they were the ones trying to coerce everyone into getting it!
The level of brainwashing is disturbing. It's like they don't even remember when it was a "Trump vaccine"... all they know is that Biden said to take it, and they lined up. Sad...
There's no doubt in my mind that, if they hadn't managed to install Biden, the script would be flipped and the Dems would be the ones screaming about all the vaccine injuries in the VAERS data! And they certainly would've impeached Trump over it too!
You’re correct, only they give themselves away by trashing Trump and anyone who supports him. I avoid FB at all costs for that reason. Plus, it bores me.
As much as I DESPISE the current Iranian conflict, and it CERTAINLY wasn't what Trump was promising in his campaign, but there AIN'T NO WAY,....NO WAY!!..., never, never, never, EVER is his Administration anywhere NEAR as HORRIBLE as what America/The World has been suffering with under the LEFTIST LOONIES❕️
ANY more of that and the USA would be unrecognizable.
And the threat of 'Death to America' coming from a militant theology believing they will be martyrs with milk/honey/72 vitgins waiting for them! In layman's terms, those people are nuts!
If Iran builds a nuke what do you think they will do?
NK may be horrid but they have no desire to be exterminated either.
These mullahs and the IRGC have their shelters. If they close the strait and have a nuke what then?
Hamas and Hezbollah will be flooded with cash and arms. War will break out all over the middle east and there is NOTHING anybody can do about it. We already know Europe won't.. The Arab states can't. That leaves the US and Israel and we won't either. IOW everyone is screwed.
I would say we should have nipped Iran's nuke program in the bud earlier, like 2-3 decades earlier but we lacked the technology to do that without suffering casualties. In hind sight we suffered those casualties anyway with Iran's terror proxy wars.
Now that we have overwhelming military power we can effect what we always wanted with relative impunity.
First destroy their nuclear program
Second, IF THEY TRY TO RECONSTITUTE IT destroy their command and leadership
Third destroy their ability to fight
Fourth destroy their ability to manufacture weapons
Fifth economically strangle them so they either a) give up their nuclear stock pile and abandon their pursuit of a nuclear weapon or b) they can never afford to build one..
Option "b" would leave them in an unstable state with the potential of a Kurd invasion from the north and/or an armed revolution.
The IRGC made a fatal error. They thought they could control the strait and now they learn they can't. We control the strait. Our ships transit the strait with their AIS on full blast to make sure they know we are there and there is nothing they can do about it.
Pretty much the only people willing to self-identify as Democrat already hold some position of power. They announce it so the radical base knows to vote for them. But that's only 20% (or less) of the Adult population.
Reasonable people don't dare admit to being a Democrat, even if they always vote that way. (Bad habits are tough to break.)
That would be like saying "I'm a proud deviant. And I should be in a rubber room counting my digits, but I'll call myself an Independent so that you ignore my tantrums and blatant deviancy."
Democrats who are embarrassed to identify as Democrat call themselves Independent, and Republicans who are embarrassed to identify as Republican call themselves Libertarians.
Hard for Leftists to believe, but Trump IS a centrist. He was and always has been. What of his policies makes him "far right"? For heaven's sake, he was a Democrat until the early 2000s (and so was JD Vance). That the Leftists, including this so-called independent, have moved so far left they can't see that, is the entire problem. Many former Democrats have made that statement, including former Democrat patron saint Elon Musk. John F Kennedy would not be welcome on the left anymore (I was young, yet a fan of JFK).
And what the Leftists also don’t understand is that those of us who are Republicans who voted for Trump did so knowing (and in my case BECAUSE) he is not hard Right. We wanted a shift in the Republican Party!
Exactly!! Do Leftists, including the "independent", even understand the term "populist"? Trump was ALWAYS a populist. That is what drove him in the entertainment business. He enjoys being the center of attention and does what is required to appeal to the most people possible. He is a very good listener (even Bill Maher admitted this) and takes direction from the people who empower him. Trump's policies are a reflection of what the majority demands. This is all lost on Leftists who claim Trump is a puppet-master and we are all part of a cult. No, that is the Left who are the cultists
Who remembers in 2020 when Trump suggested some temporary Medicare for all during the pandemic because it was popular and also so many were struggling to pay medical bills at the time due to lockdowns? And the Democrats screamed that he was once again trying to steal an election by giving the voters things they wanted hoping it would make him popular with voters so they would vote for him? And we were like "YES!! YES!! THAT IS HOW FUCKING DEMOCRACY WORKS!!! ELECTED LEADERS ARE SUPPOSED TO FUCKING REPRESENT THE VOTERS AND DO THE THINGS THAT WANT, NOT (ironically) RULE LIKE AN ACTUAL KING!!!"
I remember that.
Yes, the people who called Trump a king were pissed he was listening to the voters and considering giving them b something they wanted, while themselves ruling like kings by doing what they wanted in the full knowledge they were ignoring the will of the people to prioritize their own interests.
I love Trumps strategies for election theft too. Masterful criminally genius strategies such as "win by the established rules" (electoral college) and "find out what the public wants and supports and make it happen so they want to vote for you" (democracy). My god, who but a true dictator would come up with the idea that by ruling according to the voters will you can say the election in your direction? Pure fascism!
Moderate Democrats are cowards . they should take a stand against the “progressive” left and fight for common sense . They have to know there’s no way their policies will lead to better outcomes.
DJT is more like Bill Clinton than they will admit.
Your reader is living in an old paradigm and hasn't evolved their thinking to understand the seismic shift in the political "spectrum" with the 2007/2008 economic collapse that saw the birth of We The People Populism where those lower in the power heriarvhy finally took back control over the"UNIPARTY"...AKA the moderate middle who got us in all these messes.
Winston Marshall'# Oxford Union debate on Is Populism a Threat to Democracy vs Nancy Pelosi is must see content to understand the full context of this sea change.
Sasha isn't MAGA.. she's Blue MAGA....and that's fine by MAGA. Her only alternative was to join the Marxists and Anarchists occupying the Populist basement of the Democrat Party.
I have no idea whether the person is on the left or not, but the idea that "answers always lie in the middle" simply is not true for all issues. For example, there is no "middle ground" for free speech.
Mathematics is not generally a wishy/washy "in the middle" subject eaither.
If your feet are in an ice cooler 0 degrees and your head is in a baking 200 degrees oven, your average temperature is not 100 degrees. You're either dead, or soon to be.
Exactly, and notice that they didn't give an example of a candidate they consider to be in the middle. Why? Because there is none, especially on the Democratic side.
Sure, they fake it to get elected - like Governor Big Bird in Virginia - but then do bait-and-switch to the radical left right after. Those like Fetterman who truly are more in the center find themselves alienated and primaried by their party.
In fairness, the right does this too, by labeling more moderate Republicans "RINOs."
It's not hard to see why any politician would see claiming the "center" as a liability these days.
The sanctimonious, self-described moderates and independents turn my stomach. They think they are so morally superior staying above the fray. They are cowards. "So because you are lukewarm--neither hot nor cold--I am about to spit you out of my mouth." Revelation 3:16
To these so called independents calling for kumbaya - it might help if the left stops threatening all MAGA supporters with personal & professional destruction once they have power again. And we know they’ll follow through on their threats. Look for antisemitism on steroids as well, nothing good to come of this latest op. Look who’s calling for harmony with the left. Who’ll be next to join this crowd - T. Carlson? Bannon? Jones?
I voted for Trump when he was America First. But when he became Israel First and put their interests before Americans by starting another foreign war, fully against his campaign commitment, and also didn’t release the Epstein Mossad files, I left him. I want America First in action and not just words. And starting wars with countries who were zero threat to America is not America First. (And yea they were zero threat). And I don’t want to fund the slaughter of children in Gaza, Lebanon and Iran; I’m weird that way.
I also don’t want a president who mocks my pope and portrays himself as Jesus Christ.
I am a Catholic US military veteran who voted for Trump several times , left the bandwagon, and am hoping for a GOP candidate that will act on America First and not betray it again.
Libertarian, old friend: while I share your objection to launching the Iran War at this particular moment and in this particular way, the claim you and others make that the Islamic Republic of Iran is "zero threat" to the US leaves me dumbfounded... Actually, the Islamic Republic has been a threat to the US since they took 54 American hostages in 1979... Their proxies have murdered some hundreds or maybe thousands of Americans since then, including the Beirut Bombing in 1983--241 fine US servicemen and women killed by Hezbollah, whom we are still dealing with. Multiple US presidents from both parties have acknowledged that Iran cannot have a nuke, although not one of them really did anything about it until now. And my final point: when somebody chants "death to America" 10,,000 times or more, I say believe them. Responding to that sort of threat is certainly a part of my definition of "America First," although again, I would have handled it in a more targeted way than has Trump. How in the name of God can you not see that? Honest question.
Hi Pacificus, below is a small subset of our attacks on Iran prior to 1979. And we did a lot after as well. I think if another country did all these things to us, we would do a lot more than chant at them. Take care, amigo.
“The CIA's primary operation in Iran prior to 1979
Operation Ajax in 1953, which overthrew the democratically elected Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh. Orchestrated with British intelligence (Operation Boot), the coup restored absolute power to Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi to protect Western oil interests and prevent alleged Soviet influence, reshaping US-Iran relations for decades.
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Key CIA Operations and Actions (Pre-1979):
1953 Coup (Operation Ajax): Led by Kermit Roosevelt Jr., the CIA used roughly
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million to bribe officials, journalists, and orchestrate street protests. They manufactured anti-Mossadegh sentiment, eventually resulting in his arrest and the strengthening of the Shah’s autocracy.
Establishment of SAVAK (1950s): Following the coup, the CIA helped create and train SAVAK, the Shah's feared secret police, which was used to suppress political dissent.
Cold War Intelligence Gathering: In the 1960s and 70s, the CIA station in Tehran operated as a crucial intelligence post bordering the Soviet Union, maintaining close ties with the Shah's security apparatus.
Counter-Revolutionary Planning (Late 1970s): Before the 1979 revolution, CIA activities included monitoring the rise of anti-Shah sentiment and attempting to gain intelligence on opposition groups.
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Following the 1953 coup, the US backed the Shah's regime until he was overthrown in the 1979 revolution. “
Libertarian, thanks for your reply. Yes, I am aware of all the history you recounted. Full disclosure: professionally, I am a scholar of American History with a specialization in US foreign relations. So the US Cold War history with Iran is not news to me. And yes, there is much to regret.
That said, I would argue that the repressive nature of the Shah's regime was a fraction of that of the Mullahs over the last 47 years. Under the Shah, by all accounts, Iran was a rapidly modernizing society that allowed substantial freedom, esp for women. So long as you did not cross the Shah, things were generally OK and improving. Can't say that about Iran today, where the "basiji" (sp?) patrol the streets whipping women who are not covered up from head to toe, a regime that seems determined to keep Iran in the 14th century. And of course, there is the little detail that the Mullahs seem to have executed tens of thousands of people just this year for daring to oppose them. I'm guessing most Iranians today would, if they could, take back the Shah and his vision of modernization in a heartbeat.
More to the point, it is a regime that means us, Israel, and large parts of the Middle East harm, directly and indirectly. Whatever historical reasons they may or may not have, I'm not OK with them nuking us, or killing our servicemembers to even the score. As I said before, I disagree with the timing and extent of what Trump is doing, but I'm praying that it ends with the Mullahs permanently defanged. You?
Thanks for an informative reply, Pacificus. I too was dismayed when Trump went after Iran. And I fear we may never get out. But all you said about the regime is true, and the Islamists are a death cult that will never never make peace we can depend on. They want nukes to wipe Israel and jewry off the map and clearly they won't stop till either they are all with their 73 virgins , or the Iranian people themselves find a way to take back their freedom and dignity. I hate that it gives such a chance to the Dems who I believe will be worse for the US than the Biden admin. But no one - NO ONE else will ever again have the cojones Trump has, to go after the worst and most enduring ulcerous abcess on the planet. May God bless him and give him success.
Thanks for your kind words, Bonnie. But I think you were off in you estimate re: the number of virgins each Jihadi will receive in Paradise. I think the correct number is 72. But what's an extra virgin or two between religious fanatics?
The true villain in the Iran sector is Britain(City of London) and our CIA/State Dept; they need the never ending conflict to keep control of the supply of oil which means price, of which they get a cut via Lloyds of London and the insurance scam among other colonial- methods.
Your points are fairly put and well taken. I agree with the threat of Iran. I like Libertarian, too, but on this one I believe that he is mistaken. Oh well, agree to disagree. :-)
Trump is removing the Iranian proxy threat which means Netanyahu is toast and Bibi knows it; his government only exists if there are threats - real or imagined.
All true except one detail in that statement. Iran will not be removed. Putin and Xe can not afford to let that happen. Nor is any empire strong enough to destroy it. As ever, Persia is where empires go to die.
The purpose of empire leaders going to war is and always has been to keep wars going continuously. Trump is now in the same boat as Bibi. If the war ends they are both cooked. They need Iran's oil production completely stopped for their own personal survival. That is their goal. They are trying to close Hormuz not open it.
Meanwhile, we are all paying attention to least important details. This little war destroyed the Middle East's helium production. That is 33% of the worlds helium supply. China controls the rest. Please research and see whether helium or petroleum is more important to the industrialized world. Every chip fabricator, every high level electronics manufacturer depends on their steady supply of helium.
It will take a decade and the goal of Jared, Witkoff, Trump, Bibi,...... is to destroy Iran and Hormuz and replace it with a new trade route through Gaza. Who could have predicted?
Yeh for sure that will happen when CIA MI6 impose another Shah on them. How exactly did that go the last time?
BTW, what will happen in Persia and what Trump (or more accurately his owners) want and what is likely to happen are two very different things. Trump's cartel is only reaching for their version of the WEF's Great Reset imposing digital slavery on all. Safe bet Rothschilds' and the rest of their Epstein Cartel are delighted regardless who is the slave master after their Great Reset since Rothschilds / Epsteins own all sides in this war.
Standard talking points from libertarian who hides behind the shield of (righteous) Catholic and (selfless) military vet pretending that those two things exclude him from being cast as the anti-Jew that he is. His pitiful response that "David", ie Jewish, is a tell, tells you all you need to know in just how deeply deluded he is on behalf of antisemitism.
It’s not about how certain Jews act or what they do, it’s about God’s everlasting covenant with Israel. It’s nearly the entire theme of the Bible. Catholicism has too many rules and too few Bible readings. Reminds me of another group from Jesus’ time.
What happened to the New Testament? Is that no longer part of the Bible? Are you telling us that the Covenant with the Chosen People was not fulfilled and replaced on Easter morning when He rose? I thought the NEW Covenant fulfilled, ended and replaced the old Covenant. The New Covenant was with ALL people and not just the Chosen Ones, right?
I could be wrong though. Perhaps Scofield's Bible was not written by a scam artist financed by Rockefeller, Perhaps His Chosen People really are the superior race and Christians, Moslems, Buddhists, all other religions need to bow down to them.
Hi David, I don’t hate people (Zionists, Bibi or Jews) but I do hate the actions of Israeli Zionist Jews because they have consistently and intentionally slaughtered tens of thousands of women and children in Gaza and Lebanon. That the vast majority of Jews globally support the Zionists slaughter of innocent women and children is despicable but i don’t hate them for it. Indeed a significant number of Jews on Substack actively oppose the actions of Israel and Zionists. It’s a historical fact now that Israel committed ethnic cleansing and genocide in Gaza in 2025 and 2026 and to deny it is to be a Gaza Genocide Denier: similar to a Hologram Denier.
But no; I do not hate people but I do hate genocides and human slaughter.
I have not asserted what you think, like or hate; don’t think you can read my mind either.
I have never denied a hologram, and firmly believe in their existence, no matter what Candace Owens says.
The rest of your answer is similarly non-sensical, citing nonexistent "historical facts;" saying that the "vast majority of Jews globally support the Zionists slaughter" just gives cover to your rather obvious anti-semitism. It was already clear in your comment about my name.
I share this opinion, but are we allowed to have honest and principled disagreements, as you so very well expressed here, without being called names or accused of TDS?
It seems to me that in order to form a strong consensus, we first have to respect each other’s points of view, trusting that each is formed by our experiences. In doing so, we can at least understand why we’ve come to that position and work from there.
Trump saying he wanted no new wars, to me, meant no US boots on the ground. Air strikes in Iran don't really count, although I agree some people may see it differntly.
The Epstein Files have been released, and all members of Congress have access to the unredacted raw data.
As for Trump reacting to Pope Leo, I know that his own denomination, PCUSA, has continually attacked him and every one of his positions since 2016. He basically just said screw you to the Presbyterians, so don't be surprised that he will say the same to the pope.
Inaccurate per Google; here is the result I just got;
“As of early 2026, the full, unredacted Epstein files have not been released to the public, although a massive,666666”. No idea why google is repeating the 6!
Further, what good is it to only release some of it to Congress when they include many of the pedo’s anyway.
Finally, we have had military members die in Iran now and so their boots were on the ground. Plus we intentionally killed a school full of girls who were the daughters of Iranian military; a very low tactic in any Christian’s code.
We did not intentionally kill a school of girls. The truth is that Islamic religious totalitarians always build their military weaponry and bases of operation in close proximity to civilian use buildings such as schools, hospitals and residential areas. This is to ensure that any military hit will also claim innocent lives that are a great PR value on the world stage. The Palestinians do it all the time.
Epstein files have all been released, and both Dems and Republicans were given access. Some details were redacted in the data released publicly to protect victims. The six million number refers to, "We reviewed 6 million pieces of paper. What we released was anything associated with the Epstein file. So there we are, not sitting on a single piece of paper, nothing that should be released. If we find something else tomorrow, we’ll release it" - Todd Blanche
The only US boots on the ground in Iran were those who rescued a downed pilot.
Hamas was really very proud of thir torture and murder of Israelis, and took videos of it.
The Israelis are also very proud of their rape and torture of child prisoners and there is also plenty of videos to prove it. The problem is that we fund one of those two disgusting actors.
Libertarian - I truly would like to see evidence that Israeli soldiers "rape and torture child prisoners.". We know Hamas for certain that did.
And as for "palestinian genocide" - that is a gobsmackingly inaccurate assessment of Israeli actions.
1. It is Hamas and Palestinians who have repeatedly expressed the desire/intention of killing all Jews - the very definition of genocide.
2. Hamas deliberately built underground tunnels with exits in schools, mosques and hospitals, in order to use Palestinians as human shields. It is near impossible for Israelis to get at Hamas without harming the human shields. Hamas have stolen charity money meant to help Palestinians, they have stolen food meant for Palestinians and forced Palestinians to pay them for it, they have slaughtered Palestinians who complained about Hamas actions, and they cancelled all elections once Hamas won the last one.
This "genocide" accusation against Israelis is just another form of the "blood libel" smear.
Less than 2% of the Epstein files have been released. And all the predators names were redacted. There is vastly more to the Epstein files than a few measly emails.
Even so those emails show Lutnik lied and is lying about his horrifically close relationship with Epstein. Lucky Lutnik? The guy who amazingly was not in the collapsed buildings along with every other person in his company that day? The guy who collected millions in life insurance on those employees and trickled out bits of it to those employees' families? Lutnik the guy Trump made Secretary of Commerce? The guy who told us he cut all contact to Epstein in 2005 on the first day he met him. Even though he later shared a business with Epstein and visited him on his island with his family?
Lutnik, the guy who's sons bought billions of insurance contracts on tarriffs for companies who it later turned out the Supreme Court ended the tarriffs and forced the return of the funds? So now the insurance contracts the Lucky Lutnik's sons bought are returning anywhere from 10 to 1 to 100 to 1 on their investment? Wow that is almost as profitable insider trading as Pelosi eh?
Thanks for the clarity and accuracy. zdb. It seems few here want to know the facts about the non-release of the Epstein files. I think at is likely due to their connection to Epstein and Israel.
Surprised me to see Sasha running with the ad hominem crowd. Been loving her stuff since Fraudci started his Punch and Judy show with Trump. As ever name calling clarifies a lack of facts to draw on. Frustrated fighters rant names. Effective people site facts and look for contradictory facts.
What I would pay to be wrong in these conversations. Unfortunately all I see in Prometheans and Q-anons is Operation Trust as a continuation of the successful Bolshevik counterintelligence operations. Surprised to see Sasha and her commenters of all people falling for it.
Would have thought betrayal by Bernie and Killary would have cured us all of blind faith in anyone. Would have thought Trumps Warp Speed would have given us more than enough evidence.
Oh, that’s rich. Supporting Israel makes you America First? Supporting another country doesn’t mean they’re first. Iran is no threat? Sure. Death to America isn’t a threat, lol. Your Pope thinks he’s God, yet his Bible is dusty and mostly unread. He’s also another social justice warrior, a Marxist. Your version of America First doesn’t exist and never will. We’re not on this planet alone. God is very clear regarding his support for Israel and he never cancels his everlasting covenant. In fact, he brings back his remnant in Revelation. The Catholic Church thinks they’re God. It should open God’s word, outside of its misinterpretations of Matthew. Trump really is the least of your worries.
So you agree with prosperity preachers like John Hagee? The guy who says poverty is a curse? The same guy who says Jewish people are special and chosen?
If memory is correct, there was an OLD Covenant in the Old Testament and a NEW Covenant in the New Testament. Are Catholics the only Christians who believe in the New Testament and the New Covenant?
While his bold stance against anti-Semitism is certainly praiseworthy, Hagee’s zealousness for the Jewish people and their cause has led him to commit a most serious doctrinal error — salvation for the Jews without conversion to Christianity. One newspaper account puts it this way:
Trying to convert Jews is a “waste of time,” he [Hagee] said. . . .
Everyone else, whether Buddhist or Baha’i, needs to believe in Jesus, he says. But not Jews. Jews already have a covenant with God that has never been replaced with Christianity, he says.
“The Jewish people have a relationship to God through the law of God as given through Moses,” Hagee said. “I believe that every Gentile person can only come to God through the cross of Christ. I believe that every Jewish person who lives in the light of the Torah, which is the word of God, has a relationship with God and will come to redemption.
“The law of Moses is sufficient enough to bring a person into the knowledge of God until God gives him a greater revelation. And God has not,” said Hagee . . .9
“There are right now Jewish people on this earth who have a powerful and special relationship with God,” declares Hagee in one of his books. “They have been chosen by the ‘election of grace’ in which God does what he does without asking man to approve or understand it. Let us put an end to the Christian chatter that “all the Jews are lost” and can’t be in the will of God until they convert to Christianity! . . . there are a certain number of Jews in relationship with God right now through divine election.” 10
Hagee also affirms: “If God blinded the Jewish people to the identity of Jesus as Messiah, how could He send them to hell for not seeing what he had forbidden them to see?”11 He continues, “All people will gain entrance into heaven through Christ. The question is one of timing.” 12
Such rhetoric raises some thorny questions. When Hagee says “all people will gain entrance into heaven through Christ,” he is either advocating universalism (literally all people — Jewish and Gentile — will be saved), or he believes that all Jews will be saved. In either case, both positions are in serious error, but the latter is more consistent with his other statements.
The “timing” of the salvation of the entire Jewish nation is actually irrelevant to Hagee’s argument since he advocates that it is a waste of time attempting to convert them. At best, then, Hagee implies that even if they are not currently saved, God will save all Jewish keepers of the Law — past, present, and future — at some future point.
The Bible paints a different picture. The apostle Paul demonstrates that Israel had a responsibility to respond to the Gospel, but rejected it. In Romans 10:19-21, he asks, “Did they [the Jews] fail to hear?” The rhetorical answer is “no.” Paul relates that, as light and darkness are understood by all, so the gospel has been made known to all the Jews (cf. Acts 17:6; 21:28). He continues, “Did they fail to understand?” The answer once again is “no.” Since Israel has become disobedient through unbelief (Rom. 11:30), God has delivered the gospel to the Gentiles.13
But God has not entirely rejected Israel — Paul (himself a Jew) is living proof of this (Rom. 11:1). God has preserved a remnant, while the others were hardened as a consequence of their unbelief and trusting in works instead of the righteousness of Christ (Rom. 11:5-7; cf. 9:31-32; 11:20-23). Elsewhere the apostle writes, “. . . by the works of the Law no flesh will be justified in His [God’s] sight; for through the Law comes the knowledge of sin. . . . for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, being justified by His grace through the redemption which is in Christ Jesus” (Rom. 3:20, 23-24, emphasis added).
To drive the point home, Paul goes on to say, “. . . the promise to Abraham or to his descendants that he would be heir of the world was not through the Law, but through the righteousness of faith. For if those who are of the Law are heirs, faith is made void and the promise nullified; . . . it is by faith, that it might be in accordance with grace” (Rom. 4:13-14, 16). Scripture draws no distinction between Jews and Gentiles on the issue of salvation, which is attained by grace through faith alone in Christ, “apart from works of the law” (3:28; cf. vv. 21-22).
That’s a lot words to say that God brings back his remnant, as you acknowledge, which is the fulfillment of the everlasting covenant. It is stated again in Revelation, but you have to get that far in the Bible. I rely on the Bible, not what some random preacher states. If God’s everlasting covenant is not everlasting, then that would mean God is a liar. You are simply justifying your hate of Jews. As you stated, Jesus’ disciples accepted Jesus. God did not turn away from Jesus’ Jewish disciples or the Jewish people. The Jewish disciples started the Christian churches. Only those who accept Jesus and believe he is the Son of God will go to heaven. This includes Jews, Gentiles - everyone. Nowhere does the Bible state any exceptions. You’re bloviating over a guy I’ve never even heard of. Everything we need to know is intentionally in the bible, both the Old Testament and the New.
The Abrahamic covenant laid the foundation for each of us to become part of God’s family. (Gal. 3:8, 28-29) It opened the way for the establishment of what Jeremiah and Jesus both called the new covenant, which God made with the whole house of Israel. The new covenant is offered to each of us. It’s the covenant of grace, the covenant of our salvation, made possible through the blood of Jesus. (Jer. 31:31; Matt. 26:26-28; 1 Peter 1:18-19) We are welcomed into Abraham’s family of faith, into God’s family, through the provisions of the new covenant.
How, exactly, do you know what's in the "Epstein Mossad files" if the Orange Golem hasn't released them? And you're quite sure that a nuked up, ICBM-equipped deranged Shia Twelvers state which calls the USA the Great Satan was a "zero threat"? Puh-leeeeze!
I appreciate and like your comment, but please don't let your opinion be used by the likes of "her" to vote Democrats in. Choose your public postings carefully; unless you're a Chinese bot, that is.
Trump certainly has is faults and occasionally needs a filter between his brain and his mouth, but I shudder at what the alternative would have been like. He is America First and that's what I want in a President.
This is an interesting comment. So in America, where we have free expression, speech, association etc- you’re saying the answer is that it’s ok to have an opinion, just don’t share it otherwise risk being exploited by the left.? A close relative of mine agrees with this take- but honestly, is it productive? Especially when we’re heading into an election where we’re voting for the actual people responsible (in many cases, not all) for failing to deliver on Trump’s agenda?
Try to be like one of those extraordinary PATRIOTS in 1776... They were 10% or even less of the entire population, but changed the course of History by their cumulative actions.
DJT was a liberal Democrat, and he hasn’t changed much- the left just has always been proceeding more left. That’s why they are called “progressive”. They are following Satan, hell or bust. Actually, hell AND bust!
Not arguing, but my impression - and DJT admits this - has always been that he had to pay politicians to get things(buildings) done in NYC which is fully controlled by democrats.
Could be, but even today I wouldn’t call him a conservative. And back then definitely not! But I think he’s a pragmatic person and his passion is building over the top things. He cares about his legacy and his family, which makes him care about the future of America. And though I have had to choose the Republican Party over the years, I have utterly despised most of the candidates that have been foisted upon us. I think they have long been the controlled opposition and they haven’t done much opposing. Trump is the first Republican president to actually try to keep his campaign promises. In spite of fierce resistance. How shockingly refreshing! Of course he’s not perfect, but honestly who could take his place? What a huge mess this country is in! We are being attacked in so many ways.
I agree! I am pro-Trump and appreciate much of what he is doing. I guess it was a silly point to bring up, that I don’t think of him as a conservative. Actually, we didn’t need a conservative- there wasn’t much left to conserve! We needed a visionary and risk-taker who had enough courage, knowledge and care to save this country from disaster. And I agree also that the fact that establishment politicians on both sides hate him is a good sign.
"We need a better leader". And I'll bet this person voted for Kamala Harris, who would have "led" this country further towards socialism, done nothing about the border, trashed the economy, driven investment out of the country, continued with the climate change hysteria, etc. Trump, although annoying at times, is anything but a bad leader. He has pushed through many initiatives that have benefitted the country despite the blowback from the left. He's not afraid to tell the truth, such as that men should not be in women's sports, that illegal aliens need to be deported (speaking as a legal immigrant), and all the other things that have led to the TDS on the left. Yes, they would have ruined the country.
Kamala blew through a BILLION dollars during her very short campaign...!!! and apparently it didn't even phase her. She even had to pay her friends to stump and entertain for her!!! WHAT would she have done to our country?? Boggles the mind. Thank God we didn't have to find out.
Nearly 48% of Americans (if can trust the current voting system) voted to find out what that alcoholic hyena would have done to this country. Or, rather, what her handlers from Arabella Advisors prompted her to say and do. As she skews higher with younger and more easily manipulated voters, if she tries again in '28 she just might make it.
Absolutely! 911 shook our country but eventually it clawed its way back with bumps in the road. Harris as president would have had the same effect as those terrorists did on 911. It would shake us to the core with no return. It’s hard enough even with Trump in office trying to stop the momentum of the machine.
I was also wondering who they voted for. There was a Republican primary, and Trump won. There was a Democrat primary in 2020 and 2024, and Biden won. Did this person stay home.
It sounds like this person did not read The Fourth Turning, or didn’t understand it if she or he did read it.
The Salem Witch Trials did not end because independents/moderates managed to soothe and reconcile both sides. They ended because enough people completely rejected the entire premise of witches living among them as ordinary people.
The Fourth Turning makes this clear. One side or the other will emerge victorious. It will not end with independents convincing everyone that both sides had some good points.
The problem is that the sinister far left exists in a bubble of cancel culture of their own making. Despite the gaslighting, they don't allow any diversity of ideas.
Whereas on the right, we're all individualists – all seeming to be going in different directions.
People in the leftist bubble don't see this – they only see the propaganda.
We don’t. We don't argue with them or try to convince them. It feeds them to do that. They at some point some of them look at us living our lives in reality and decide they want that- some have already done that. If they can't they are destined to live in a bubble. It is not our responsibility to break them out.
So? please name me one big societal change that required everyone to be on the same page thinking the same. Its ALWAYS a minority or a smaller group. Assuming we are all the same or are here for the same purposes in life is silly and a waste of our time. We can still try to accommodate those you cannot or will not see. But to argue, educate explain is a waste of our time.
"You have to understand. Most people are not ready to be unplugged. And many of them are so inured and so hopelessly dependent on the system that they will fight to protect it."
They also see that diversity of thought as a sign "MAGA is disintegrating, OMG!" Because they allow zero dissent or debate themselves other than "exactly how far should we go to force our way on everyone in the country?" with the answer always being an increasingly extreme one with earlier milder positions becoming blasphemy and apostasy, they see any form of actual difference of opinion or discussion as "the base is fracturing, the movement is falling apart!" So of course to them that must also be true for MAGA which "everyone knows" is "the real cult".
"Liberals can't link." She may think she understood what you were saying, but she is unable. When (if) she hits bottom, she will flounder in the cesspool for a bit and then eventually say, "You know, Sasha made some good points. Maybe I was wrong."
Or not. Either way, keep on keeping on, Sasha. You're doing the Lord's work.
You are so correct (not using the word RIGHT INTENTIONALLY) that we, as a country, are very far from that middle ground. Years ago I considered myself slightly left of center. However, with this insane push to the EXTREME left, and the absurd levels of TDS, I moved farther and farther away to the right. I am NOT a extreme right zealot by any means. I just can't get on board with the "democratic socialist" garbage. And I will NEVER be ok with permanently disfiguring children via "affirmation care."
We have miles to go before we are back to a middle ground.
I think it's meaningful she starts out by saying she's "registered independent" - so was I, my entire voting career, until in response to the Butler assassination attempt so many lefties cheered and mocked. I generally, not always, voted to the right; on some level I cherished the badge of "fair and unbiased independent" - but actually, while I did and do consider myself fair, I am NOT unbiased. So going back to your AWFL correspondent (I will bet my entire pension check that's what she is): no one who calls someone as earnest as you "radical right" is herself anywhere near the middle of the spectrum. It's a term consistently used by, yes, the radical left - not normie Democrats, not fair-minded lefties/progressives. Do NOT agonize over where you went wrong or could have done things differently with this AWFL, Sasha - she was never fair and she never gave you a fair hearing; what she wanted was you to slam Trump (you regularly criticize him, but she didn't listen or read long enough to see that I guess) and say "both sides" - just like she does. >shakes head<. You didn't lose anything when she left other than someone sure to have posted trolly comments.
Great answer. As a fellow life-long Democrat from the San Francisco Bay who used to consider myself very liberal, I am sick of being called a right wing extremist if I don't hate and obsess over Trump. I never thought I'd vote for him, or any Republican really, but I did. I try not to broadcast that fact to most of my friends and acquaintances who just assume that our common religion is to hate Trump. Trump has done a lot of good things in my opinion, and although I don't really understand this war, I'm still more on board than not at the moment.
I’m 87 next month & always have been a Trump supporter— warts & all. He’s still got his heart in the right place. My family has given me Trump T-shirts, hats, Knicknacks, etc— I wear these only around my house even tho I use a walker, I am in fear of wearing in public even if only of the angry faces. What happened to people?
Way to go, Judith. I'm an elder too, I remember in college being attracted by the SDS and sneering at the kids in ROTC. After the Biden admin and the prospect of a totally elite-selected Kamala, I saw no democracy in the Dems. Trump is deeply flawed, but unlike the Democrats, he loves America for all the right reasons. And I'm thinking God had a hand in that "incident" in Butler.
The thing is that Trump is the middle. Trump is not an ideologue, which is why many on the populist right have turned on him. He is, and always has been, a deal-making pragmatist. He will talk and work with anybody who is willing to make a deal. If the Democrats could only get over their TDS they could get quite a bit out of Trump but they would rather appeal to their radical base.
Trump is not a Neocon but he is willing to work with them. Some, like Bill Kristol have decided to turn their back on everything they said they believed in because they don't like the cut of Trump's jib. Others like Marco Rubio have been willing to work with Trump and have gotten a lot done.
Trump only appears radical to those who have become completely untethered from reality and believe that boys can become girls or that a secret Jewish cabal of cannibalistic pedophiles rule the world.
It is Trump's style more than his policies that prevent so many from seeing who he really is. If Trump fails, we will see what radical really looks like and we will long for the good old days of mean tweets.
The word "progressive" is best understood by using the medical definition of the word; a terminal condition that will never improve, and only continue to worsen until the patient is dead.
Real liberals, these days, are on the right, as paradoxical as it sounds. The "right" is now everything that's not a far-left progressive.
For people who claim to be forward thinking, they are instead obsessed with the past. Especially old grievances -- real or imagined -- which can be dredged up and used as rage bait to manipulate and trigger the pathologically uninformed. And their donors.
Sasha, your lost subscriber is just another leftist who is so self-assured that she calls her self a centrist. By thinking of herself as in the middle of the political spectrum she can have the illusion that everybody who disagrees with her to the right is a radical. I wouldn’t be a bit surprised if she has used the term Hitler a few times in her descriptions of people with whom she disagrees.
In the year 2000 we had some electricians working in our house and they would listen to Rush Limbaugh. I of course only listened to NPR. I thought of myself as open minded and when I told them I was a centrist they said “Yeah that means you’re a leftist.” The nerve.
They got me listening to Rush and I never looked back— he was hilarious and cut through the sham veneer of the liberal elite in a way that few have been able to replicate. When leftists are able to see the absurdity of their arguments and actually laugh at them, then there might be hope for them. But I suspect they have so much invested in their righteous rage that the brain damage is too severe.
Here’s the problem. What exactly has Trump done that is right wing?
Tariffs? Reindustrialization? Ending illegal immigration? Ending free trade agreements? All the province of labor Democrats only a couple decades ago, and heavily opposed by the GOP.
Mass deportations? The province of such esteemed presidents as Clinton and Eisenhower.
Closing the southern border? Why that was what FDR did, the great spiritual leader of the left prior to the coming of Obama.
Overthrowing foreign dictators? The province of both parties for our entire 250 year history. Remember Gadaffi, Obama fans? Oops.
I have to leave for work, but you can carry this out through every policy.
I don’t necessarily believe in a fourth turning, but I do recognize a political renewal at those points. A great shakeup occurs every so often, and it’s far more obvious in democracies.
If we don’t allow the reordering of the system against the accumulated corruption and stagnation, we end up with the Roman Empire, completely incapable of fixing the obvious problems because it cuts into some or all patricians’ profits and self-image. We are at 400AD now. It all has to be fixed, everyone knows it, but only Trump is willing to do it, and everyone else is fighting tooth and nail to stop him.
I have a very sweet friend who thinks Trump is Hitler. Not said aloud, because, remember she is sweet, is the tautology that if I support him that I am a Nazi. But she knows I am not. So, what's going on? Why does she grant herself the privilege of not completing the logical loop. If Ray is not a Nazi and Ray supports Trump, then...? This is the point in StarTrek where the computer starts smoking as it overheats. But, she simply resets and starts again: Trump is Hitler. I hope we can wait this out.
You called it. From the beginning of your piece, I questioned the person's "independent" longing for the middle. They clearly outed themselves when they "othered" people on the right. You nailed it. Clearly a leftie though they are in denial.
On fB, I noticed that nobody will admit to being a Democrat anymore. They all want to claim "independent" even though they are CLEARLY Democrat.
The Dem party has become a real embarrassment.
Then, polls are even more skewif if Dem's are now claiming they're 'independent'.
Yup, sounds like my mom, who lives and breathes every delusion the Democrats have to offer especially FXS-- excluding vaccine zealotry, thank goodness, she is unjabbed-- but thinks she's "independent" and is "smart enough" to realize "both sides" are bad but only listens to or believes one side and refuse to believe anything bad about them, while only accepting the worst claims about the other side. Again, especially TDS.
Face it mom. You're a Democrat.
Nah, if she refused the jab then she’s not really a Democrat
Lol! I told her something similar, I said to all her favored Democrat leaders and news sources she's little more than a Trump supporter, no different from me, without that jab!
Haha Gabe, it's funny and sad at the same time, how the vax became a political thing.
And how, before the 2020 election, the Dem talking heads all said that they would never trust a "Trump vaccine"... But then, after the election, they were the ones trying to coerce everyone into getting it!
The level of brainwashing is disturbing. It's like they don't even remember when it was a "Trump vaccine"... all they know is that Biden said to take it, and they lined up. Sad...
There's no doubt in my mind that, if they hadn't managed to install Biden, the script would be flipped and the Dems would be the ones screaming about all the vaccine injuries in the VAERS data! And they certainly would've impeached Trump over it too!
That’s so funny!! She sure sounds like a Democrat, but it’s mom. And we love our moms!!
I do love mom! Which is why I am eternally grateful her TDS stopped short of getting the depop shot.
Apparently we have the same mom!
You’re correct, only they give themselves away by trashing Trump and anyone who supports him. I avoid FB at all costs for that reason. Plus, it bores me.
Sasha's correct here.
NOW, Please don't let Me be misunderstood.
As much as I DESPISE the current Iranian conflict, and it CERTAINLY wasn't what Trump was promising in his campaign, but there AIN'T NO WAY,....NO WAY!!..., never, never, never, EVER is his Administration anywhere NEAR as HORRIBLE as what America/The World has been suffering with under the LEFTIST LOONIES❕️
ANY more of that and the USA would be unrecognizable.
It's about the nukes.
And the threat of 'Death to America' coming from a militant theology believing they will be martyrs with milk/honey/72 vitgins waiting for them! In layman's terms, those people are nuts!
and the fact it should have been done years ago!
As the cliche goes: what could go wrong?
If Iran builds a nuke what do you think they will do?
NK may be horrid but they have no desire to be exterminated either.
These mullahs and the IRGC have their shelters. If they close the strait and have a nuke what then?
Hamas and Hezbollah will be flooded with cash and arms. War will break out all over the middle east and there is NOTHING anybody can do about it. We already know Europe won't.. The Arab states can't. That leaves the US and Israel and we won't either. IOW everyone is screwed.
so...what would you have us do?
I would say we should have nipped Iran's nuke program in the bud earlier, like 2-3 decades earlier but we lacked the technology to do that without suffering casualties. In hind sight we suffered those casualties anyway with Iran's terror proxy wars.
Now that we have overwhelming military power we can effect what we always wanted with relative impunity.
First destroy their nuclear program
Second, IF THEY TRY TO RECONSTITUTE IT destroy their command and leadership
Third destroy their ability to fight
Fourth destroy their ability to manufacture weapons
Fifth economically strangle them so they either a) give up their nuclear stock pile and abandon their pursuit of a nuclear weapon or b) they can never afford to build one..
Option "b" would leave them in an unstable state with the potential of a Kurd invasion from the north and/or an armed revolution.
The IRGC made a fatal error. They thought they could control the strait and now they learn they can't. We control the strait. Our ships transit the strait with their AIS on full blast to make sure they know we are there and there is nothing they can do about it.
Pretty much the only people willing to self-identify as Democrat already hold some position of power. They announce it so the radical base knows to vote for them. But that's only 20% (or less) of the Adult population.
Reasonable people don't dare admit to being a Democrat, even if they always vote that way. (Bad habits are tough to break.)
That would be like saying "I'm a proud deviant. And I should be in a rubber room counting my digits, but I'll call myself an Independent so that you ignore my tantrums and blatant deviancy."
Democrats who are embarrassed to identify as Democrat call themselves Independent, and Republicans who are embarrassed to identify as Republican call themselves Libertarians.
Hard for Leftists to believe, but Trump IS a centrist. He was and always has been. What of his policies makes him "far right"? For heaven's sake, he was a Democrat until the early 2000s (and so was JD Vance). That the Leftists, including this so-called independent, have moved so far left they can't see that, is the entire problem. Many former Democrats have made that statement, including former Democrat patron saint Elon Musk. John F Kennedy would not be welcome on the left anymore (I was young, yet a fan of JFK).
And what the Leftists also don’t understand is that those of us who are Republicans who voted for Trump did so knowing (and in my case BECAUSE) he is not hard Right. We wanted a shift in the Republican Party!
Exactly!! Do Leftists, including the "independent", even understand the term "populist"? Trump was ALWAYS a populist. That is what drove him in the entertainment business. He enjoys being the center of attention and does what is required to appeal to the most people possible. He is a very good listener (even Bill Maher admitted this) and takes direction from the people who empower him. Trump's policies are a reflection of what the majority demands. This is all lost on Leftists who claim Trump is a puppet-master and we are all part of a cult. No, that is the Left who are the cultists
Who remembers in 2020 when Trump suggested some temporary Medicare for all during the pandemic because it was popular and also so many were struggling to pay medical bills at the time due to lockdowns? And the Democrats screamed that he was once again trying to steal an election by giving the voters things they wanted hoping it would make him popular with voters so they would vote for him? And we were like "YES!! YES!! THAT IS HOW FUCKING DEMOCRACY WORKS!!! ELECTED LEADERS ARE SUPPOSED TO FUCKING REPRESENT THE VOTERS AND DO THE THINGS THAT WANT, NOT (ironically) RULE LIKE AN ACTUAL KING!!!"
I remember that.
Yes, the people who called Trump a king were pissed he was listening to the voters and considering giving them b something they wanted, while themselves ruling like kings by doing what they wanted in the full knowledge they were ignoring the will of the people to prioritize their own interests.
I love Trumps strategies for election theft too. Masterful criminally genius strategies such as "win by the established rules" (electoral college) and "find out what the public wants and supports and make it happen so they want to vote for you" (democracy). My god, who but a true dictator would come up with the idea that by ruling according to the voters will you can say the election in your direction? Pure fascism!
Moderate Democrats are cowards . they should take a stand against the “progressive” left and fight for common sense . They have to know there’s no way their policies will lead to better outcomes.
DJT is more like Bill Clinton than they will admit.
Those policies are centrist unless they belong to Trump.
Your reader is living in an old paradigm and hasn't evolved their thinking to understand the seismic shift in the political "spectrum" with the 2007/2008 economic collapse that saw the birth of We The People Populism where those lower in the power heriarvhy finally took back control over the"UNIPARTY"...AKA the moderate middle who got us in all these messes.
Winston Marshall'# Oxford Union debate on Is Populism a Threat to Democracy vs Nancy Pelosi is must see content to understand the full context of this sea change.
Sasha isn't MAGA.. she's Blue MAGA....and that's fine by MAGA. Her only alternative was to join the Marxists and Anarchists occupying the Populist basement of the Democrat Party.
They're (the Marxists and anarchists) pouring, overflowing out of the basement onto the main floor. Let's be real, here.
I have no idea whether the person is on the left or not, but the idea that "answers always lie in the middle" simply is not true for all issues. For example, there is no "middle ground" for free speech.
Mathematics is not generally a wishy/washy "in the middle" subject eaither.
If your feet are in an ice cooler 0 degrees and your head is in a baking 200 degrees oven, your average temperature is not 100 degrees. You're either dead, or soon to be.
Exactly, and notice that they didn't give an example of a candidate they consider to be in the middle. Why? Because there is none, especially on the Democratic side.
Sure, they fake it to get elected - like Governor Big Bird in Virginia - but then do bait-and-switch to the radical left right after. Those like Fetterman who truly are more in the center find themselves alienated and primaried by their party.
In fairness, the right does this too, by labeling more moderate Republicans "RINOs."
It's not hard to see why any politician would see claiming the "center" as a liability these days.
I agree.
The sanctimonious, self-described moderates and independents turn my stomach. They think they are so morally superior staying above the fray. They are cowards. "So because you are lukewarm--neither hot nor cold--I am about to spit you out of my mouth." Revelation 3:16
TDS is always easy to spot.
The subscriber lives in a fantasy world. Trump isn't radical right at all, he is simply an American. First.
To these so called independents calling for kumbaya - it might help if the left stops threatening all MAGA supporters with personal & professional destruction once they have power again. And we know they’ll follow through on their threats. Look for antisemitism on steroids as well, nothing good to come of this latest op. Look who’s calling for harmony with the left. Who’ll be next to join this crowd - T. Carlson? Bannon? Jones?
https://x.com/catturd2/status/2051685479053959404?s=20
Yep,,shes a scared rabbit or secret leftie phoney
I voted for Trump when he was America First. But when he became Israel First and put their interests before Americans by starting another foreign war, fully against his campaign commitment, and also didn’t release the Epstein Mossad files, I left him. I want America First in action and not just words. And starting wars with countries who were zero threat to America is not America First. (And yea they were zero threat). And I don’t want to fund the slaughter of children in Gaza, Lebanon and Iran; I’m weird that way.
I also don’t want a president who mocks my pope and portrays himself as Jesus Christ.
I am a Catholic US military veteran who voted for Trump several times , left the bandwagon, and am hoping for a GOP candidate that will act on America First and not betray it again.
Libertarian, old friend: while I share your objection to launching the Iran War at this particular moment and in this particular way, the claim you and others make that the Islamic Republic of Iran is "zero threat" to the US leaves me dumbfounded... Actually, the Islamic Republic has been a threat to the US since they took 54 American hostages in 1979... Their proxies have murdered some hundreds or maybe thousands of Americans since then, including the Beirut Bombing in 1983--241 fine US servicemen and women killed by Hezbollah, whom we are still dealing with. Multiple US presidents from both parties have acknowledged that Iran cannot have a nuke, although not one of them really did anything about it until now. And my final point: when somebody chants "death to America" 10,,000 times or more, I say believe them. Responding to that sort of threat is certainly a part of my definition of "America First," although again, I would have handled it in a more targeted way than has Trump. How in the name of God can you not see that? Honest question.
Hi Pacificus, below is a small subset of our attacks on Iran prior to 1979. And we did a lot after as well. I think if another country did all these things to us, we would do a lot more than chant at them. Take care, amigo.
“The CIA's primary operation in Iran prior to 1979
Operation Ajax in 1953, which overthrew the democratically elected Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh. Orchestrated with British intelligence (Operation Boot), the coup restored absolute power to Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi to protect Western oil interests and prevent alleged Soviet influence, reshaping US-Iran relations for decades.
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Key CIA Operations and Actions (Pre-1979):
1953 Coup (Operation Ajax): Led by Kermit Roosevelt Jr., the CIA used roughly
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million to bribe officials, journalists, and orchestrate street protests. They manufactured anti-Mossadegh sentiment, eventually resulting in his arrest and the strengthening of the Shah’s autocracy.
Establishment of SAVAK (1950s): Following the coup, the CIA helped create and train SAVAK, the Shah's feared secret police, which was used to suppress political dissent.
Cold War Intelligence Gathering: In the 1960s and 70s, the CIA station in Tehran operated as a crucial intelligence post bordering the Soviet Union, maintaining close ties with the Shah's security apparatus.
Counter-Revolutionary Planning (Late 1970s): Before the 1979 revolution, CIA activities included monitoring the rise of anti-Shah sentiment and attempting to gain intelligence on opposition groups.
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Following the 1953 coup, the US backed the Shah's regime until he was overthrown in the 1979 revolution. “
Libertarian, thanks for your reply. Yes, I am aware of all the history you recounted. Full disclosure: professionally, I am a scholar of American History with a specialization in US foreign relations. So the US Cold War history with Iran is not news to me. And yes, there is much to regret.
That said, I would argue that the repressive nature of the Shah's regime was a fraction of that of the Mullahs over the last 47 years. Under the Shah, by all accounts, Iran was a rapidly modernizing society that allowed substantial freedom, esp for women. So long as you did not cross the Shah, things were generally OK and improving. Can't say that about Iran today, where the "basiji" (sp?) patrol the streets whipping women who are not covered up from head to toe, a regime that seems determined to keep Iran in the 14th century. And of course, there is the little detail that the Mullahs seem to have executed tens of thousands of people just this year for daring to oppose them. I'm guessing most Iranians today would, if they could, take back the Shah and his vision of modernization in a heartbeat.
More to the point, it is a regime that means us, Israel, and large parts of the Middle East harm, directly and indirectly. Whatever historical reasons they may or may not have, I'm not OK with them nuking us, or killing our servicemembers to even the score. As I said before, I disagree with the timing and extent of what Trump is doing, but I'm praying that it ends with the Mullahs permanently defanged. You?
Thanks for an informative reply, Pacificus. I too was dismayed when Trump went after Iran. And I fear we may never get out. But all you said about the regime is true, and the Islamists are a death cult that will never never make peace we can depend on. They want nukes to wipe Israel and jewry off the map and clearly they won't stop till either they are all with their 73 virgins , or the Iranian people themselves find a way to take back their freedom and dignity. I hate that it gives such a chance to the Dems who I believe will be worse for the US than the Biden admin. But no one - NO ONE else will ever again have the cojones Trump has, to go after the worst and most enduring ulcerous abcess on the planet. May God bless him and give him success.
Thanks for your kind words, Bonnie. But I think you were off in you estimate re: the number of virgins each Jihadi will receive in Paradise. I think the correct number is 72. But what's an extra virgin or two between religious fanatics?
The true villain in the Iran sector is Britain(City of London) and our CIA/State Dept; they need the never ending conflict to keep control of the supply of oil which means price, of which they get a cut via Lloyds of London and the insurance scam among other colonial- methods.
TOTALLY. Visit Promethean Action.com to get a good taste of the truth to this.
Been there for a year now, also do not miss "Badlands Brief" with Ashe, Ghost, and Burning Bright.
Yes - they are a major part of it.
Say a hundred Hail Mary's & then convert to Islam
Not making much sense there, Bobby. Are you sure you don’t want to curse in caps again? 😂
Bobby is saying you support those who want to kill us, over Gods chosen. It’s not that hard.
Your points are fairly put and well taken. I agree with the threat of Iran. I like Libertarian, too, but on this one I believe that he is mistaken. Oh well, agree to disagree. :-)
Trump is removing the Iranian proxy threat which means Netanyahu is toast and Bibi knows it; his government only exists if there are threats - real or imagined.
Trump is not a subject to Israel.
All true except one detail in that statement. Iran will not be removed. Putin and Xe can not afford to let that happen. Nor is any empire strong enough to destroy it. As ever, Persia is where empires go to die.
The purpose of empire leaders going to war is and always has been to keep wars going continuously. Trump is now in the same boat as Bibi. If the war ends they are both cooked. They need Iran's oil production completely stopped for their own personal survival. That is their goal. They are trying to close Hormuz not open it.
Meanwhile, we are all paying attention to least important details. This little war destroyed the Middle East's helium production. That is 33% of the worlds helium supply. China controls the rest. Please research and see whether helium or petroleum is more important to the industrialized world. Every chip fabricator, every high level electronics manufacturer depends on their steady supply of helium.
It will take a decade and the goal of Jared, Witkoff, Trump, Bibi,...... is to destroy Iran and Hormuz and replace it with a new trade route through Gaza. Who could have predicted?
Respectfully disagree. Trump wants Persia to come back into real life rather than be a proxy of the MI6/CIA axis.
Yeh for sure that will happen when CIA MI6 impose another Shah on them. How exactly did that go the last time?
BTW, what will happen in Persia and what Trump (or more accurately his owners) want and what is likely to happen are two very different things. Trump's cartel is only reaching for their version of the WEF's Great Reset imposing digital slavery on all. Safe bet Rothschilds' and the rest of their Epstein Cartel are delighted regardless who is the slave master after their Great Reset since Rothschilds / Epsteins own all sides in this war.
Excellent insight
You may not realize it, but "Israel First" and "Epstein Mossad files" are kind of a tell.
Standard talking points from libertarian who hides behind the shield of (righteous) Catholic and (selfless) military vet pretending that those two things exclude him from being cast as the anti-Jew that he is. His pitiful response that "David", ie Jewish, is a tell, tells you all you need to know in just how deeply deluded he is on behalf of antisemitism.
Israeli Soldier in Lebanon Sledgehammered a Statue of Jesus
Israeli violently attacks French nun
Israeli police block Catholic figures from Palm Sunday Mass at Jerusalem's Holy Sepulchre
The incident marks "the first time in centuries" Palm Sunday Mass couldn't be celebrated where many believe Jesus was crucified.
Jews spitting during Christian ceremony in East Jerusalem sparks outrage
Plenty of headlines here and in Israel of Jews attacking Catholics and Christians. Thanks for giving me the space to reply, Jen.
It’s not about how certain Jews act or what they do, it’s about God’s everlasting covenant with Israel. It’s nearly the entire theme of the Bible. Catholicism has too many rules and too few Bible readings. Reminds me of another group from Jesus’ time.
What happened to the New Testament? Is that no longer part of the Bible? Are you telling us that the Covenant with the Chosen People was not fulfilled and replaced on Easter morning when He rose? I thought the NEW Covenant fulfilled, ended and replaced the old Covenant. The New Covenant was with ALL people and not just the Chosen Ones, right?
I could be wrong though. Perhaps Scofield's Bible was not written by a scam artist financed by Rockefeller, Perhaps His Chosen People really are the superior race and Christians, Moslems, Buddhists, all other religions need to bow down to them.
Uh oh, Lib. You dared to be critical of the Israeli government and were labeled an anti-jew, antisemite!
Many people who defend the Israeli government don't realize they are nothing more than an animal to that very group that they are defending.
I wish we would end foreign aid and military aid to all foreign countries: every last one of them.
Nobody cares about criticizing the Israeli government.
So is “David”.
But you just hate Zionists and the Netanyahu government, right? Not Jews?
His answer....But ...I know & met some Jews
Kind of like “ my best friend is black”.
Hi David, I don’t hate people (Zionists, Bibi or Jews) but I do hate the actions of Israeli Zionist Jews because they have consistently and intentionally slaughtered tens of thousands of women and children in Gaza and Lebanon. That the vast majority of Jews globally support the Zionists slaughter of innocent women and children is despicable but i don’t hate them for it. Indeed a significant number of Jews on Substack actively oppose the actions of Israel and Zionists. It’s a historical fact now that Israel committed ethnic cleansing and genocide in Gaza in 2025 and 2026 and to deny it is to be a Gaza Genocide Denier: similar to a Hologram Denier.
But no; I do not hate people but I do hate genocides and human slaughter.
I have not asserted what you think, like or hate; don’t think you can read my mind either.
I have never denied a hologram, and firmly believe in their existence, no matter what Candace Owens says.
The rest of your answer is similarly non-sensical, citing nonexistent "historical facts;" saying that the "vast majority of Jews globally support the Zionists slaughter" just gives cover to your rather obvious anti-semitism. It was already clear in your comment about my name.
STFU!!!
If you think Iran is no threat to the US, you aren't paying attention
If you think Iran is a threat to the US, you aren't paying attention.
I share this opinion, but are we allowed to have honest and principled disagreements, as you so very well expressed here, without being called names or accused of TDS?
It seems to me that in order to form a strong consensus, we first have to respect each other’s points of view, trusting that each is formed by our experiences. In doing so, we can at least understand why we’ve come to that position and work from there.
No, most people's "views" were created in their heads by propaganda & misinformation....
If we don’t have respect for others, how can we ever come to terms?
Stop trying to kill us first. That might help.
What?
I agree, Granny62 and I did intend to be respectful and note that I recognize you are being so also. Thanks.
But ...it's those damn Jew's ....right?
But …. It’s those damn Muslims and Christians… right?
That’s all you restack. Not sure why you’re here trying to pretend.
The really disgusting deviant Epstein tapes were either destroyed or squirreled away by the Obama/Bide FBI/CIA.
You really ought not to blame Trump for data he had no control over.
In fact, during his 1st term, the FBI and DOJ sabotaged him at every opportunity.
You must surely know this.
You do make some fair points, Rick.
For someone who voted for the President, you sure do seem to repeat the half truths of the left.
For instance he wasn’t portrayed as Jesus, he was portrayed as a Doctor.
Thank you for your service.
LOLOLOL
Apparently it was Doctor Jesus Christ and I missed that.
Trump saying he wanted no new wars, to me, meant no US boots on the ground. Air strikes in Iran don't really count, although I agree some people may see it differntly.
The Epstein Files have been released, and all members of Congress have access to the unredacted raw data.
As for Trump reacting to Pope Leo, I know that his own denomination, PCUSA, has continually attacked him and every one of his positions since 2016. He basically just said screw you to the Presbyterians, so don't be surprised that he will say the same to the pope.
Inaccurate per Google; here is the result I just got;
“As of early 2026, the full, unredacted Epstein files have not been released to the public, although a massive,666666”. No idea why google is repeating the 6!
Further, what good is it to only release some of it to Congress when they include many of the pedo’s anyway.
Finally, we have had military members die in Iran now and so their boots were on the ground. Plus we intentionally killed a school full of girls who were the daughters of Iranian military; a very low tactic in any Christian’s code.
We did not intentionally kill a school of girls. The truth is that Islamic religious totalitarians always build their military weaponry and bases of operation in close proximity to civilian use buildings such as schools, hospitals and residential areas. This is to ensure that any military hit will also claim innocent lives that are a great PR value on the world stage. The Palestinians do it all the time.
Epstein files have all been released, and both Dems and Republicans were given access. Some details were redacted in the data released publicly to protect victims. The six million number refers to, "We reviewed 6 million pieces of paper. What we released was anything associated with the Epstein file. So there we are, not sitting on a single piece of paper, nothing that should be released. If we find something else tomorrow, we’ll release it" - Todd Blanche
The only US boots on the ground in Iran were those who rescued a downed pilot.
Hamas was really very proud of thir torture and murder of Israelis, and took videos of it.
The Israelis are also very proud of their rape and torture of child prisoners and there is also plenty of videos to prove it. The problem is that we fund one of those two disgusting actors.
Libertarian - I truly would like to see evidence that Israeli soldiers "rape and torture child prisoners.". We know Hamas for certain that did.
And as for "palestinian genocide" - that is a gobsmackingly inaccurate assessment of Israeli actions.
1. It is Hamas and Palestinians who have repeatedly expressed the desire/intention of killing all Jews - the very definition of genocide.
2. Hamas deliberately built underground tunnels with exits in schools, mosques and hospitals, in order to use Palestinians as human shields. It is near impossible for Israelis to get at Hamas without harming the human shields. Hamas have stolen charity money meant to help Palestinians, they have stolen food meant for Palestinians and forced Palestinians to pay them for it, they have slaughtered Palestinians who complained about Hamas actions, and they cancelled all elections once Hamas won the last one.
This "genocide" accusation against Israelis is just another form of the "blood libel" smear.
Since 1993, the U.S. government has provided over $7.6 billion in bilateral assistance to Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza.
Less than 2% of the Epstein files have been released. And all the predators names were redacted. There is vastly more to the Epstein files than a few measly emails.
Even so those emails show Lutnik lied and is lying about his horrifically close relationship with Epstein. Lucky Lutnik? The guy who amazingly was not in the collapsed buildings along with every other person in his company that day? The guy who collected millions in life insurance on those employees and trickled out bits of it to those employees' families? Lutnik the guy Trump made Secretary of Commerce? The guy who told us he cut all contact to Epstein in 2005 on the first day he met him. Even though he later shared a business with Epstein and visited him on his island with his family?
Lutnik, the guy who's sons bought billions of insurance contracts on tarriffs for companies who it later turned out the Supreme Court ended the tarriffs and forced the return of the funds? So now the insurance contracts the Lucky Lutnik's sons bought are returning anywhere from 10 to 1 to 100 to 1 on their investment? Wow that is almost as profitable insider trading as Pelosi eh?
Thanks for the clarity and accuracy. zdb. It seems few here want to know the facts about the non-release of the Epstein files. I think at is likely due to their connection to Epstein and Israel.
Surprised me to see Sasha running with the ad hominem crowd. Been loving her stuff since Fraudci started his Punch and Judy show with Trump. As ever name calling clarifies a lack of facts to draw on. Frustrated fighters rant names. Effective people site facts and look for contradictory facts.
What I would pay to be wrong in these conversations. Unfortunately all I see in Prometheans and Q-anons is Operation Trust as a continuation of the successful Bolshevik counterintelligence operations. Surprised to see Sasha and her commenters of all people falling for it.
Would have thought betrayal by Bernie and Killary would have cured us all of blind faith in anyone. Would have thought Trumps Warp Speed would have given us more than enough evidence.
Libertarian you make too much sense for this group!
Oh, that’s rich. Supporting Israel makes you America First? Supporting another country doesn’t mean they’re first. Iran is no threat? Sure. Death to America isn’t a threat, lol. Your Pope thinks he’s God, yet his Bible is dusty and mostly unread. He’s also another social justice warrior, a Marxist. Your version of America First doesn’t exist and never will. We’re not on this planet alone. God is very clear regarding his support for Israel and he never cancels his everlasting covenant. In fact, he brings back his remnant in Revelation. The Catholic Church thinks they’re God. It should open God’s word, outside of its misinterpretations of Matthew. Trump really is the least of your worries.
So you agree with prosperity preachers like John Hagee? The guy who says poverty is a curse? The same guy who says Jewish people are special and chosen?
If memory is correct, there was an OLD Covenant in the Old Testament and a NEW Covenant in the New Testament. Are Catholics the only Christians who believe in the New Testament and the New Covenant?
https://www.equip.org/articles/pastor-john-hagee/
While his bold stance against anti-Semitism is certainly praiseworthy, Hagee’s zealousness for the Jewish people and their cause has led him to commit a most serious doctrinal error — salvation for the Jews without conversion to Christianity. One newspaper account puts it this way:
Trying to convert Jews is a “waste of time,” he [Hagee] said. . . .
Everyone else, whether Buddhist or Baha’i, needs to believe in Jesus, he says. But not Jews. Jews already have a covenant with God that has never been replaced with Christianity, he says.
“The Jewish people have a relationship to God through the law of God as given through Moses,” Hagee said. “I believe that every Gentile person can only come to God through the cross of Christ. I believe that every Jewish person who lives in the light of the Torah, which is the word of God, has a relationship with God and will come to redemption.
“The law of Moses is sufficient enough to bring a person into the knowledge of God until God gives him a greater revelation. And God has not,” said Hagee . . .9
“There are right now Jewish people on this earth who have a powerful and special relationship with God,” declares Hagee in one of his books. “They have been chosen by the ‘election of grace’ in which God does what he does without asking man to approve or understand it. Let us put an end to the Christian chatter that “all the Jews are lost” and can’t be in the will of God until they convert to Christianity! . . . there are a certain number of Jews in relationship with God right now through divine election.” 10
Hagee also affirms: “If God blinded the Jewish people to the identity of Jesus as Messiah, how could He send them to hell for not seeing what he had forbidden them to see?”11 He continues, “All people will gain entrance into heaven through Christ. The question is one of timing.” 12
Such rhetoric raises some thorny questions. When Hagee says “all people will gain entrance into heaven through Christ,” he is either advocating universalism (literally all people — Jewish and Gentile — will be saved), or he believes that all Jews will be saved. In either case, both positions are in serious error, but the latter is more consistent with his other statements.
The “timing” of the salvation of the entire Jewish nation is actually irrelevant to Hagee’s argument since he advocates that it is a waste of time attempting to convert them. At best, then, Hagee implies that even if they are not currently saved, God will save all Jewish keepers of the Law — past, present, and future — at some future point.
The Bible paints a different picture. The apostle Paul demonstrates that Israel had a responsibility to respond to the Gospel, but rejected it. In Romans 10:19-21, he asks, “Did they [the Jews] fail to hear?” The rhetorical answer is “no.” Paul relates that, as light and darkness are understood by all, so the gospel has been made known to all the Jews (cf. Acts 17:6; 21:28). He continues, “Did they fail to understand?” The answer once again is “no.” Since Israel has become disobedient through unbelief (Rom. 11:30), God has delivered the gospel to the Gentiles.13
But God has not entirely rejected Israel — Paul (himself a Jew) is living proof of this (Rom. 11:1). God has preserved a remnant, while the others were hardened as a consequence of their unbelief and trusting in works instead of the righteousness of Christ (Rom. 11:5-7; cf. 9:31-32; 11:20-23). Elsewhere the apostle writes, “. . . by the works of the Law no flesh will be justified in His [God’s] sight; for through the Law comes the knowledge of sin. . . . for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, being justified by His grace through the redemption which is in Christ Jesus” (Rom. 3:20, 23-24, emphasis added).
To drive the point home, Paul goes on to say, “. . . the promise to Abraham or to his descendants that he would be heir of the world was not through the Law, but through the righteousness of faith. For if those who are of the Law are heirs, faith is made void and the promise nullified; . . . it is by faith, that it might be in accordance with grace” (Rom. 4:13-14, 16). Scripture draws no distinction between Jews and Gentiles on the issue of salvation, which is attained by grace through faith alone in Christ, “apart from works of the law” (3:28; cf. vv. 21-22).
Excellent analysis.
That’s a lot words to say that God brings back his remnant, as you acknowledge, which is the fulfillment of the everlasting covenant. It is stated again in Revelation, but you have to get that far in the Bible. I rely on the Bible, not what some random preacher states. If God’s everlasting covenant is not everlasting, then that would mean God is a liar. You are simply justifying your hate of Jews. As you stated, Jesus’ disciples accepted Jesus. God did not turn away from Jesus’ Jewish disciples or the Jewish people. The Jewish disciples started the Christian churches. Only those who accept Jesus and believe he is the Son of God will go to heaven. This includes Jews, Gentiles - everyone. Nowhere does the Bible state any exceptions. You’re bloviating over a guy I’ve never even heard of. Everything we need to know is intentionally in the bible, both the Old Testament and the New.
The Abrahamic covenant laid the foundation for each of us to become part of God’s family. (Gal. 3:8, 28-29) It opened the way for the establishment of what Jeremiah and Jesus both called the new covenant, which God made with the whole house of Israel. The new covenant is offered to each of us. It’s the covenant of grace, the covenant of our salvation, made possible through the blood of Jesus. (Jer. 31:31; Matt. 26:26-28; 1 Peter 1:18-19) We are welcomed into Abraham’s family of faith, into God’s family, through the provisions of the new covenant.
How, exactly, do you know what's in the "Epstein Mossad files" if the Orange Golem hasn't released them? And you're quite sure that a nuked up, ICBM-equipped deranged Shia Twelvers state which calls the USA the Great Satan was a "zero threat"? Puh-leeeeze!
You been under a rock? For about 50 years?
Did you not see the note about trying to be civil?
I appreciate and like your comment, but please don't let your opinion be used by the likes of "her" to vote Democrats in. Choose your public postings carefully; unless you're a Chinese bot, that is.
Trump certainly has is faults and occasionally needs a filter between his brain and his mouth, but I shudder at what the alternative would have been like. He is America First and that's what I want in a President.
Trump is a very shrewd man, especially now that he knows the true enemies within.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/realspin/2016/08/19/the-day-i-went-head-to-head-with-donald-trump/#624a2a035570
This is an interesting comment. So in America, where we have free expression, speech, association etc- you’re saying the answer is that it’s ok to have an opinion, just don’t share it otherwise risk being exploited by the left.? A close relative of mine agrees with this take- but honestly, is it productive? Especially when we’re heading into an election where we’re voting for the actual people responsible (in many cases, not all) for failing to deliver on Trump’s agenda?
I am sincerely curious.
To be a proud American today *is* radical. To trash her and wish her overrun with the dregs of the Third World is embraced and celebrated.
It was a nice 250 years while it lasted. I'm not too sure how much longer it has left.
Try to be like one of those extraordinary PATRIOTS in 1776... They were 10% or even less of the entire population, but changed the course of History by their cumulative actions.
Trump is intent on ending it & installing a cabal of oligarchs like himself.
Hahahaha...fantasy land strikes again.
To the "America Never" left, that is radical
Always forget that.
Yep.
Sleestacks Unite!!! LOL!
DJT was a liberal Democrat, and he hasn’t changed much- the left just has always been proceeding more left. That’s why they are called “progressive”. They are following Satan, hell or bust. Actually, hell AND bust!
Not arguing, but my impression - and DJT admits this - has always been that he had to pay politicians to get things(buildings) done in NYC which is fully controlled by democrats.
Could be, but even today I wouldn’t call him a conservative. And back then definitely not! But I think he’s a pragmatic person and his passion is building over the top things. He cares about his legacy and his family, which makes him care about the future of America. And though I have had to choose the Republican Party over the years, I have utterly despised most of the candidates that have been foisted upon us. I think they have long been the controlled opposition and they haven’t done much opposing. Trump is the first Republican president to actually try to keep his campaign promises. In spite of fierce resistance. How shockingly refreshing! Of course he’s not perfect, but honestly who could take his place? What a huge mess this country is in! We are being attacked in so many ways.
Please consider what he has done for conservatives:
https://donsurber.substack.com/p/trump-saved-indiana-in-2016
The establishment sucks, Trump doesn't.
I agree! I am pro-Trump and appreciate much of what he is doing. I guess it was a silly point to bring up, that I don’t think of him as a conservative. Actually, we didn’t need a conservative- there wasn’t much left to conserve! We needed a visionary and risk-taker who had enough courage, knowledge and care to save this country from disaster. And I agree also that the fact that establishment politicians on both sides hate him is a good sign.
Trump is being attacked by both parties, especially establishment republicans. That tells the entire story in my book.
When the democrats voted to recently leave the “dead” on the voting rosters I knew I was on the “ right” side.
The person said STONE is radical right.
Well, we all know she isn't. SHE is now America. First.
"We need a better leader". And I'll bet this person voted for Kamala Harris, who would have "led" this country further towards socialism, done nothing about the border, trashed the economy, driven investment out of the country, continued with the climate change hysteria, etc. Trump, although annoying at times, is anything but a bad leader. He has pushed through many initiatives that have benefitted the country despite the blowback from the left. He's not afraid to tell the truth, such as that men should not be in women's sports, that illegal aliens need to be deported (speaking as a legal immigrant), and all the other things that have led to the TDS on the left. Yes, they would have ruined the country.
Kamala blew through a BILLION dollars during her very short campaign...!!! and apparently it didn't even phase her. She even had to pay her friends to stump and entertain for her!!! WHAT would she have done to our country?? Boggles the mind. Thank God we didn't have to find out.
Nearly 48% of Americans (if can trust the current voting system) voted to find out what that alcoholic hyena would have done to this country. Or, rather, what her handlers from Arabella Advisors prompted her to say and do. As she skews higher with younger and more easily manipulated voters, if she tries again in '28 she just might make it.
That should keep you up at night. It keeps me up.
It’s true. That’s why I focus on Christ and his word more. Seems end times are knocking at the door.
We never would have found out. Kamala was just some window-dressing by the Puppet Masters....
Absolutely! 911 shook our country but eventually it clawed its way back with bumps in the road. Harris as president would have had the same effect as those terrorists did on 911. It would shake us to the core with no return. It’s hard enough even with Trump in office trying to stop the momentum of the machine.
I was also wondering who they voted for. There was a Republican primary, and Trump won. There was a Democrat primary in 2020 and 2024, and Biden won. Did this person stay home.
Too bad they didn’t know of Sasha’s background.
how bad does it get before we just say,,,we are under socialism
The Puppet Masters never intended Kamala to "win", - they installed Trump....
It sounds like this person did not read The Fourth Turning, or didn’t understand it if she or he did read it.
The Salem Witch Trials did not end because independents/moderates managed to soothe and reconcile both sides. They ended because enough people completely rejected the entire premise of witches living among them as ordinary people.
The Fourth Turning makes this clear. One side or the other will emerge victorious. It will not end with independents convincing everyone that both sides had some good points.
The problem is that the sinister far left exists in a bubble of cancel culture of their own making. Despite the gaslighting, they don't allow any diversity of ideas.
Whereas on the right, we're all individualists – all seeming to be going in different directions.
People in the leftist bubble don't see this – they only see the propaganda.
So how do we break them out of this?
How do we break them out of the 'Matrix'?
We don’t. We don't argue with them or try to convince them. It feeds them to do that. They at some point some of them look at us living our lives in reality and decide they want that- some have already done that. If they can't they are destined to live in a bubble. It is not our responsibility to break them out.
There might be some that are still within reason.
The fact is that side of the spectrum has two distinct factions – the far left and the Liberals.
The Liberals go along with the left because of the promises of 'equality' with collectivism, even though they never pan out.
So? please name me one big societal change that required everyone to be on the same page thinking the same. Its ALWAYS a minority or a smaller group. Assuming we are all the same or are here for the same purposes in life is silly and a waste of our time. We can still try to accommodate those you cannot or will not see. But to argue, educate explain is a waste of our time.
"You have to understand. Most people are not ready to be unplugged. And many of them are so inured and so hopelessly dependent on the system that they will fight to protect it."
-- Morpheus
They believe in all their crap,,until it stings them and then they say,,,Republicans!
They also see that diversity of thought as a sign "MAGA is disintegrating, OMG!" Because they allow zero dissent or debate themselves other than "exactly how far should we go to force our way on everyone in the country?" with the answer always being an increasingly extreme one with earlier milder positions becoming blasphemy and apostasy, they see any form of actual difference of opinion or discussion as "the base is fracturing, the movement is falling apart!" So of course to them that must also be true for MAGA which "everyone knows" is "the real cult".
The "left-right" is a DELUSION!....WAKE UP!....
"Liberals can't link." She may think she understood what you were saying, but she is unable. When (if) she hits bottom, she will flounder in the cesspool for a bit and then eventually say, "You know, Sasha made some good points. Maybe I was wrong."
Or not. Either way, keep on keeping on, Sasha. You're doing the Lord's work.
You are so correct (not using the word RIGHT INTENTIONALLY) that we, as a country, are very far from that middle ground. Years ago I considered myself slightly left of center. However, with this insane push to the EXTREME left, and the absurd levels of TDS, I moved farther and farther away to the right. I am NOT a extreme right zealot by any means. I just can't get on board with the "democratic socialist" garbage. And I will NEVER be ok with permanently disfiguring children via "affirmation care."
We have miles to go before we are back to a middle ground.
I think it's meaningful she starts out by saying she's "registered independent" - so was I, my entire voting career, until in response to the Butler assassination attempt so many lefties cheered and mocked. I generally, not always, voted to the right; on some level I cherished the badge of "fair and unbiased independent" - but actually, while I did and do consider myself fair, I am NOT unbiased. So going back to your AWFL correspondent (I will bet my entire pension check that's what she is): no one who calls someone as earnest as you "radical right" is herself anywhere near the middle of the spectrum. It's a term consistently used by, yes, the radical left - not normie Democrats, not fair-minded lefties/progressives. Do NOT agonize over where you went wrong or could have done things differently with this AWFL, Sasha - she was never fair and she never gave you a fair hearing; what she wanted was you to slam Trump (you regularly criticize him, but she didn't listen or read long enough to see that I guess) and say "both sides" - just like she does. >shakes head<. You didn't lose anything when she left other than someone sure to have posted trolly comments.
Great answer. As a fellow life-long Democrat from the San Francisco Bay who used to consider myself very liberal, I am sick of being called a right wing extremist if I don't hate and obsess over Trump. I never thought I'd vote for him, or any Republican really, but I did. I try not to broadcast that fact to most of my friends and acquaintances who just assume that our common religion is to hate Trump. Trump has done a lot of good things in my opinion, and although I don't really understand this war, I'm still more on board than not at the moment.
I’m 87 next month & always have been a Trump supporter— warts & all. He’s still got his heart in the right place. My family has given me Trump T-shirts, hats, Knicknacks, etc— I wear these only around my house even tho I use a walker, I am in fear of wearing in public even if only of the angry faces. What happened to people?
Way to go, Judith. I'm an elder too, I remember in college being attracted by the SDS and sneering at the kids in ROTC. After the Biden admin and the prospect of a totally elite-selected Kamala, I saw no democracy in the Dems. Trump is deeply flawed, but unlike the Democrats, he loves America for all the right reasons. And I'm thinking God had a hand in that "incident" in Butler.
Sad you have to hide who you voted for. I don’t think it was meant to be that way but maybe I’m naive.
Brilliant.
You are a bargain.
He/she complaining is not an independent. (Mind reading, I know)
Thank you so much for your writing. This article helps.
There are more of us out there than you know. I only wished they all voted consistently.
The thing is that Trump is the middle. Trump is not an ideologue, which is why many on the populist right have turned on him. He is, and always has been, a deal-making pragmatist. He will talk and work with anybody who is willing to make a deal. If the Democrats could only get over their TDS they could get quite a bit out of Trump but they would rather appeal to their radical base.
Trump is not a Neocon but he is willing to work with them. Some, like Bill Kristol have decided to turn their back on everything they said they believed in because they don't like the cut of Trump's jib. Others like Marco Rubio have been willing to work with Trump and have gotten a lot done.
Trump only appears radical to those who have become completely untethered from reality and believe that boys can become girls or that a secret Jewish cabal of cannibalistic pedophiles rule the world.
It is Trump's style more than his policies that prevent so many from seeing who he really is. If Trump fails, we will see what radical really looks like and we will long for the good old days of mean tweets.
The word "progressive" is best understood by using the medical definition of the word; a terminal condition that will never improve, and only continue to worsen until the patient is dead.
Real liberals, these days, are on the right, as paradoxical as it sounds. The "right" is now everything that's not a far-left progressive.
I prefer the term metastasizing.
For people who claim to be forward thinking, they are instead obsessed with the past. Especially old grievances -- real or imagined -- which can be dredged up and used as rage bait to manipulate and trigger the pathologically uninformed. And their donors.
Sasha, your lost subscriber is just another leftist who is so self-assured that she calls her self a centrist. By thinking of herself as in the middle of the political spectrum she can have the illusion that everybody who disagrees with her to the right is a radical. I wouldn’t be a bit surprised if she has used the term Hitler a few times in her descriptions of people with whom she disagrees.
In the year 2000 we had some electricians working in our house and they would listen to Rush Limbaugh. I of course only listened to NPR. I thought of myself as open minded and when I told them I was a centrist they said “Yeah that means you’re a leftist.” The nerve.
They got me listening to Rush and I never looked back— he was hilarious and cut through the sham veneer of the liberal elite in a way that few have been able to replicate. When leftists are able to see the absurdity of their arguments and actually laugh at them, then there might be hope for them. But I suspect they have so much invested in their righteous rage that the brain damage is too severe.
What Leftists fear most: the Red Pill. Once out of the Matrix your mind is freed. You can't be reinserted.
That’s good. 👍🏼
Sunk cost fallacy
She is just lying,,,what the media wants is the accusation
Here’s the problem. What exactly has Trump done that is right wing?
Tariffs? Reindustrialization? Ending illegal immigration? Ending free trade agreements? All the province of labor Democrats only a couple decades ago, and heavily opposed by the GOP.
Mass deportations? The province of such esteemed presidents as Clinton and Eisenhower.
Closing the southern border? Why that was what FDR did, the great spiritual leader of the left prior to the coming of Obama.
Overthrowing foreign dictators? The province of both parties for our entire 250 year history. Remember Gadaffi, Obama fans? Oops.
I have to leave for work, but you can carry this out through every policy.
I don’t necessarily believe in a fourth turning, but I do recognize a political renewal at those points. A great shakeup occurs every so often, and it’s far more obvious in democracies.
If we don’t allow the reordering of the system against the accumulated corruption and stagnation, we end up with the Roman Empire, completely incapable of fixing the obvious problems because it cuts into some or all patricians’ profits and self-image. We are at 400AD now. It all has to be fixed, everyone knows it, but only Trump is willing to do it, and everyone else is fighting tooth and nail to stop him.
I have a very sweet friend who thinks Trump is Hitler. Not said aloud, because, remember she is sweet, is the tautology that if I support him that I am a Nazi. But she knows I am not. So, what's going on? Why does she grant herself the privilege of not completing the logical loop. If Ray is not a Nazi and Ray supports Trump, then...? This is the point in StarTrek where the computer starts smoking as it overheats. But, she simply resets and starts again: Trump is Hitler. I hope we can wait this out.
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