"It is likely to lead to Dr. Fauci, Dr. Deborah Birx, and other public health officials who ran a dastardly number on the citizens of this land."
Thankyou for mentioning Birx, JHK. People focus on Fauci, but it's clear from the beginning he was SOMEwhat focused on science, as when he initially told people masking was not needed, since he knew the science on that. As Scott Atlas documents, it was Birx who drove the shutdown narrative. Fauci has his own items to answer for, but Birx has escaped.
I would say that RINO is redundant; they are just being regular Republicans, white shoes at the country club before Labor Day, muh stonks n' bonds, and a sweet sixteen birthday gift of a new car for Muffy.
When everyone around him goes down.....the American People will look at him as a TRAITOR for not standing up for them when he was in a position to do so.
Great adumbration of the cons, scams, hustles conducted by our national and international leaders. While we’re all distracted by the far-away, the mayors and councilmen of our towns and villages continue to refine their own methods of defrauding the populace.
Very true. Even my lowly and insignificant HOA has managed to refine the fraud. The President of this HOA (which manages 5000 homes), just anounced that $2 million is missing from the budget.
Of course the missing money has nothing to do with his cash purchase of new Land Rovers for he and his wife and a lavish vacation to Hawaii.
Yesterday the Board of Directors announced that the HOA would be going paperless and all communication would be thru an Ai chat bot. Probably a good idea since some residents are beginning to question the missing $2 million. LOL
A HOA per se isn't a totally horrible idea (just mostly), but watch out if the members exceed 200 and the board has another board above it, or some such nonsense. You need to know each other for real accountability.
Corruption and grift permeate every level of our vaunted self centered society of "get gain" or "get more." From the Hallowed Halls of Congress down to our local churches and school boards individuals seek to pad their pockets with the filthy unearned lucre of this planet. They take what they want without regard to how it impacts their fellow men. This system we humans have created is a failed system at best. There has to be a better way to transact the affairs of man that does not involve money.
Until humans evolve past their greed and lust for money and the acquisition of "things" we as a species have reached our apex. The dinosaurs had millions of years on this planet. Will humanity? I doubt it.
CORRECTAMUNDO- it's known as Property Tax which is far and away the worst of all possible taxes.
First of all- it's a tax on unrealized Gain. Say you bought a house back in the 1980s for $150,000. Today, according to the tax assessor, that home is now worth $700,000 as just happened in my NY neighborhood. So the owner is paying school, town, county taxes on the future Selling Price of his home even though he has no intention of moving.
Second- we do not really own our own homes. We pay "rent" to the local government in the form of property taxes. If you don't pay the tax, they will auction off your home to the highest bidder. If I buy a car and pay it off, I don't have to keep paying for it year after year. Why isn't that true for my house??
I am very disappointed in Donald Trump. He promised that if elected he would ensure we had cheap gasoline, low inflation, and no foreign wars. He has delivered just the opposite, and the war is now in its 10th week. 61 percent of those polled oppose our war in Iran, similar to the opposition for our war in Iraq, and to the Vietnam war. Trump's approval rating is deep in negative territory, and Republican prospects in the mid-terms look ever more gloomy. Trump gambled his presidency on this war with Iran, and it has proven to be a losing proposition.
C’mon, “he has promised”, don’t you think that much of the problems you mention might have something to do with lunatics in Iran? Trump also promised that Iran will never have a nuke and is delivering on that promise.
Gee, let me think about that. Before Trump went to war with Iran, gas was $2.50 a gallon and falling, inflation was low, and the economy was making a recovery. Trump was popular, and things were looking good for the Republican Party in the mid terms. Now gas is well over $4.10 a gallon, inflation has made a big comeback, and the economy is doing poorly. The war drags on, into its 10th week. Trump's initial talk of "regime change" and "unconditional surrender" sounds delusional now. So, no, I don't think that anyone in Iran caused any of this to happen: The POTUS caused this to happen by deciding to go to war.
Trump made a promise to stop Iran from developing a nuke, first by B2 bombing the nuke sites, and now by destroying most of their delivery systems. He wants the nuke material and will destroy Iran’s military to get it.
I believe that not allowing a group of religious death-sect lunatics to have nuclear weapons is much more important than paying more for gasoline for a short while and worrying about a .5% increase in inflation due to oil.
Trump is going to kick ass in November, the polls, a Lefty-Left tool, means nothing. Right now, SCOTUS just drove a stake into the racist methods of assigning political districts. We shall see.
As an aside, I saw a graphic of what the congressional map would look like were all districts designed to be as compact as possible without those districts snaking 150 miles through a dozen counties from Rockford on the Wisconsin border to the Quad Cities on the Iowa border and over and down to Peoria in Central Illinois as Erik Sorenson's (D-IL) does. With a computer generated map of districts the Dems would lose 90 seats. There are those who claim with some justification that the country is actual 2-1 non-Democrat and the "50/50 nation" saw comes from gerrymandering up the ying yang as well as outright fraud via a dozen schemes from voting machines to mail in fraud and good old ballot stuffing in their corrupt strongholds.
The old WMD lie again. Iran has been "on the cusp" of developing nuclear weapons every year since the mid 1980s. Our noble leaders must have figured they could reuse this tired old excuse for starting an illegal war since it's 25 years since they last used it to justify the Iraq invasion. I suppose we should be thankful that Trump chose to just go with the lie instead of blowing up a building with 3,000 people in it first in order to justify his war on behalf of Israel.
As far as I can tell this war is covid part II. Soon there will be petro-lockdowns, smart cities, more digital surveillance, rampant inflation and economic collapse - all justified by the war which of course was started precisely in order to justify such measures.
It's hard to sift the truth from the lies, but I think your comment is the most likely of many possibilities to be accurate more so than others.
If nothing else, Trump is blowing smoke on describing any policy with this Iran Project as "humanitarian". Killing the leader of a country on Day 1 of a "police action" is not humanitarian, even if justified, and will not be forgotten any time soon by your average Joe on the street. Or whatever the Persian equivalent to Joe might be. Nor will it be forgotten by those that believe in International Laws. Until proven otherwise, Trump's Tarbaby in Iran is a distraction from other Uuuge problems.
As for the ongoing predictions of bringing the guilty "Lefties" to justice in the courtrooms of the U.S., I think we're past that point now. I hope not, but I see one or two high profile convictions being the spark that triggers a Civil War. Which of course, may be the exact goal of the Puppet Masters controlling the narrative. But like Yogi said, "Predictions are difficult, especially about the future."
The US has achieved zero of its stated goals in trying to prosecute Netanyahu's war. In the meantime Iran, playing rope-a-dope while we destroy our own economy and that our allies, has relinquished none of its original terms for ending the war.
Trump is desperate for an off-ramp, and there isn't one.
Let’s see, stock market up, unemployment doing well, a .5% uptick in inflation, and all the lunatics busy working for Soros. Things look pretty good right now.
He does need an off-ramp. Iran is going to collapse when their wells stop pumping.
I missed the part where Trump stated his goals for bombing Iran were to raise the stock market and employment. As for inflation. Talk to any shopper and ask them about inflation.
There's always an off ramp. But when you are a bully whose income is predicated mostly on your ability to collect tribute from everyone else on the basis that you could beat them senseless if they didn't pay, then losing a fight tends to cost rather more than pride.
This is the Fourth War the US has launched in the Middle East since 1991. The last three didn't work out well for the US, and so far this one isn't working out either. One definition of insanity is doing the same idiotic thing over and over again, while expecting a different result.
"The last three didn't work out well for the US" Hmmm.
1) Desert Storm. The operation to free Kuwait from the Iraqi Invasion. They were freed. And Kuwait remains a loyal, if a little quirky, ally.
2) Iraqi Freedom. The operation to rid Iraq of a crazed dictator and his sons in order to allow the Iraqis to join a stable GCC. Not a clean success, but effective. While not like the US, Iraq remains a neutral ally in their own mold that DOES NOT threaten their neighbors.
3) Enduring Freedom. The first invasion following 9/11 meant to smash the terrorist refuge and find/kill Bin Ladin. Achieved most of the original goals but got bogged down in the mission creep into civilizing of aboriginal tribes. That has never worked out for the US.
4) Epic Fury. Crush the mullahcracy and rid Iran of their nuclear weapons capability and assuage their desire to gain it. So far so good, actually. After weeding out the chest pumping of Trump and Hegseth you get an Iranian autocracy that has been decapitated and mostly defanged - yes, their bench is deep but, it's not the same team. You also get a radical replacement regime considered a pariah by their neighbors. That matters A LOT. Both religious and cultural dynamics are in play right now in the Middle East (similar to Iraq's comeuppance) that the US will never understand. Odds favor a peaceful Gulf region.
So, the US didn't do the "same idiotic thing over and over again...." It did what was determined to be the best choice in a dynamic, chaotic, and dangerous situation. Just like all violent diplomacy, for ever.
NOTE: Don't confuse my expose' of your failed and emotional vitriol with my support or opposition of any or all of these recent endeavors in the region. I just have a hard NOT chasing people around the stupid tree.
Let me get this right. . .you think our first war with Iraq was a roaring success, so that's why the Bush family and others lamented that we didn't finish the job, and had a second war there? And you think the search for mysterious WMD's in Iran--that did not exist, outside of W. Bush's imagination--was a success. Gee, that's funny, even Jeb Bush had to admit that the war was a mistake in his failed bid for the 2016 Republican nomination. Even W. Bush himself has said that the decision to invade Iraq was based on "flawed intelligence". We lost 4,500 military personnel in that failed war, and we STILL have boots on the ground in Iraq to this day. As to Afghanistan, we were there for 20 long years, fled in shame in the middle of the night, and accomplished NOTHING. The Taliban took the country back over the very next morning, and we left them a huge cache of weapons. Three failed wars in the Middle East, and Trump launched a fourth one. Sheer brilliance.
You discredit your banal cliche, "same idiotic thing over and over again...." in your response. That's your narrative you tell yourself as if you're lip-synching a tatted and pierced protestor on the Mall. I provided clear, reasoned analysis of the actual facts. It's your tree, keep running. And, read more.
Donald Trump has consistently described the 2003 invasion of Iraq as a major foreign policy failure, often calling it a "big, fat mistake" and the "worst decision ever made."
Be careful TM. The war humpers are thick on the CFN blog.
What I find interesting is the war humpers like JohnAZ and David Penny don't give a seconds thought the the trillions of dollars these little wars and foreign excursions have cost the USA. What they don't understand is that to fund these wars the printing presses have to run and when the printing presses have to run the dollar loses its purchasing power and when the purchasing power of the dollar goes down so goes our way of life.
I supposed if you are an old retired dude at the end of the their long lives things like rampant inflation don't mean much to them. So they don't they don't truly consider the impacts of these little wars on the homeland and the people here at home.
Well Puss, I'm not a war humper. I have never stated on CFN that I was in favor on any military intervention - nor against. All I do is counter the shallow mimicry of the deluded minions here such as you.
As for the 'trillions of dollars wasted on wars' reposte far too often pasted on this site, I have two rebuttals. First, the trillions of dollars of fiat currency distributed as "entitlements" that are actually enslavement far overshadow those spent pursuing "diplomacy by other means." Second, there is not an honest way to calculate the ROI of these foreign exploits without laying in confabulated assumptions. Yet, I aver the second is the wiser investment of the two.
I'm of the opinion that generating a world were security is assured within and between states is the only road to universal freedom and prosperity.
I buy the ethanol free 88 grade for my vehicles (ethanol contains water which in turn harms the engines). In Utah (we get our gasoline from refineries in Wyoming and Alberta, not from the Middle East) ethanol free 88 grade is nearly $5.00 a gallon. The cheap 85 grade is $4.39 per gallon. If these prices don't come down the average voter isn't going to care about Iran's nukes. They are going to care about their ability to fill their tanks and buy the more expensive food now that diesel costs well above $5.00 per gallon and truck drivers need to drop over $1,000 each time they fill up their big rigs. They don't eat this cost, they roll it over to their customers which are, in the long run, US.
Debating with JohnAZ over this matter is a futile endeavor. I tried and he is pretty set in his views on this. I don't fault him for his views but I am staunchly opposed to him on this matter.
Trump, for all intents and purposes, seems to be torpedoing his own presidency and I predict he will spend the last two years of his lame duck presidency fighting back impeachment charges. That being said, I hope I am wrong. I really do. Trump, although flawed and in many ways a failure, is the best person we have.
"Trump, for all intents and purposes, seems to be torpedoing his own presidency and I predict he will spend the last two years of his lame duck presidency fighting back impeachment charges." Exactly. Going to war is always a big, risky gamble. We had a very wise president, long ago, named Abraham Lincoln who worked hard to avoid a war. Ultimately his efforts failed, and his cause was just, so he fought even harder to win that war. We had presidents who waited, and calculated risk before getting the US involved in either WW1 or WW2. Then, at some point, we lost our way, and started unilaterally getting into wars that were unnecessary, wars that we didn't win, and wars that hurt our country. Wars in Vietnam, in Iraq, in Afghanistan. . .and we seem incapable of learning from our mistakes. I ask those who support this, the Fourth War we have launched in the Middle East since 1991, if it ends with without great calamity, will you support the fifth one, a few years down the line? And the sixth one after that? At some point this foolish, expensive, very risky behavior by the US needs to stop.
I support your post until you got to Abraham Lincoln the tyrant. He didn't work hard to avoid a war. He signed the Morrill tariff into law, caused the south the secede over the tariff and then unleashed his diabolical demonic generals into the south to make war on women, children and farm animals. Abraham Lincoln over threw the Constitution of 1788 and forever changed the USA from a "union of sovereign states" to a massive federal leviathan with smaller administrative districts. The USA died because of Lincoln and his war of aggression over the southern states.
So, yes, at some point the USA died and became a war aggressive nation. It began during the Civil War under Lincoln and was culminated under Woodrow Wilson and the advent of the Fed, income tax and the changing of the US Senate to a glorified House of Representatives. Once the USA got into WWI for no apparent reason the war mongering never ceased.
Here is the giant piece of logic that every Doomer, Leftist, RINO, and cowardly dork misses: President Trump had NOTHING to gain politically from ordering military action against the IRGC in Iran. Which begs the question of why he did it. Use Occam's Razor here, morons: it was because the President had irrefutable evidence that Iran was very near to having the ability to both produce nuclear weapons, and the means to attack other countries in the Mideast, Europe, and even possibly the United States with them. Dorks just purposely ignore the fact that members of the IRGC also clearly stated that intent publicly.
Of course, leftist dorks continue to bleat (in unison, with the exact same phrases) that Trump "started" the war with Iran to distract America from his "disastrous" policies in the U.S. The only "disastrous" policies that Trump was conducting was to flush out all of the corruption, sedition, treason, crime, and even murder being encouraged, supported, perpetrated, and even directly being committed by the Democrats. Trump's policies were "disastrous", alright, for the Democrat Socialist dictator-wannabes trying desperately to destroy the American Republic. No wonder so many Democrat traitors against America openly support Iran.
One final note: President Trump is still playing 4D chess. He declared hostilities "over" in Iran. The IRGC, being the dumbfucks that they are in addition to being profoundly evil, fired "warning" shots at foreign and U.S. vessels operating in International Waters. Congratulations, IRGC dumbfucks, you just reset the War Powers Act clock. President Trump now has ANOTHER 60 days to absolutely pound the hell out of you. If IRGC had any decency or compassion for its own citizens, it would unconditionally surrender right now. They likely don't, so now the whole of Iran may pay a horrific price. And the result--in a few months at most, fuel prices in the U.S will be back down to early 2026 levels, and Iran as a country will be wrecked for at least 1-3 generations.
Whenever someone starts hurling insults, you know they have lost the argument. I will look forward to hearing from you in week 11 of this war, and then week 12: I wonder what the price of a gallon of gasoline will be by then?
Nuclear jihad? The only country to have ever launched any nukes against another nation is the USA. So what do you mean "nuclear jihad?" Are you talking about the potential for a nuclear jihad if Iran were ever to get nukes?
Pakistan is an islamic nation. They have nukes. Why is the USA not bombing Islamabad and Karachi?
Currently Iranian oil is "sanctioned" with China basically being the only buyer on the "down-low." Because it is sanctioned, China is paying "pennies on the dollar" rather than market price. ( surprised other didn't do that, personally)
Market price is determined by product availability.
Should Iranian oil no longer be sanctioned but sold freely at market price, two things happen. The nation begins to have greater income for the people and the base price of oil diminishes.
The base price going down sets a long term floor price for the entire world.
When this is attained, Americans will not just be happy for sustained affordable energy but that another nation's people, who had lost their liberties to Authoritarians in the Name of God, will get them back and create the natio they desire.
the rapid breakdown of support, for the campaign to take down the mullahs, IF the reporting is factual, reflects the character of a weak non committed people, with no "staying power". they want, in the fashion typical to self obsessed vision-less gimme, gimme, gimme geeks, instant gratification with them needing to contribute nothing or net to nothing. They are, fundamentally, petulant children. From the likes of them, nothing that will be good and will endure, ever comes.
That's kind of the pattern we have become accustomed to in the good ole USA. Politicians and government bureaucrats have become untouchable.
I welcome a change to that pattern. Would love to see this filthy in hand cuffs and perp walked to their prison cell. Or, better yet, people like Fauci and Birx, swinging on the end of a gallows. So, I keep coming back to the CFN to read JHK's offerings of hope of better times and justice to come. Perhaps one day all of this madness will finally break loose. The waiting continues........................
The way things are, any attempt to indict, much less try and convict, any Democrat pol, gov't employee, donor, etc. in DC, NYC or Chicago will be met with a dismissal of chsrges because, well, "die Partei uber alles!"
Don't see how it's possible that Trump WON'T declare a National Emergency, given how much and how deep the fraud/corruption/conspiracy runs. To use overused terminology: "MASSIVE, HISTORIC . . . UNNNNNN-prescidented!"
Mr. Madden --- so Iran did not cause any of this to happen? 50+ years of being the #1 sponsor of terrorism is nothing? Gleefully telling the US they want to exterminate us is nothing. The mullahs are getting exactly what they deserve
Maybe you are right but who anointed the USA to be the harbinger of justice throughout the world?
$40 trillion and counting, Ron Neff. These wars have bankrupted the USA. The USA is busted. Broke. The money is gone. The pie has been eaten. Add to that $40 trillion all of the private debt and you are talking over $100 trillion and this doesn't include all of the promised entitlements.
The fact is the USA no longer has the resources to continue the war mongering throughout the globe. The rampant inflation we are experiencing is the proof.
It's well past time to bring the troops home, stop the countless wars, and fix the problems here. If it doesn't happen by choice it will happen by force.
Personally, I am not afraid of Iran. It is a poverty stricken water starved nation with limited military capabilities. They aren't the boogie man to me. They can chant "Death to the USA" all they want. They don't have the ability to bring about the death of the USA and they never will. Now Mexico? That's a different discussion.
Of course, coming to terms on the nuclear bomb-making issue would allow Iran the possibility of becoming, once more, a normal advanced industrial modern nation,
What in the hell is that supposed to mean? A normal advanced industrial modern nation like the US, with nukes? Like Russia with nukes? Like China with nukes? Like North Korea with nukes? And BTW, Iran never wanted nukes and was not planning on nukes – just ask our 19 Intel agencies who have verified that Iran is not building nuclear weapons. We had at one time a perfectly sound nuclear weapons deterrent agreement with Iran, which Trump tore up in 2018. we can thank the Zionists for that little stupid misstep.
Without getting the SAVE Act passed, and getting elections under sensible control, much of this seeming progress towards accountability will be likely swept away under the foamy tides of resurgent JOY.
JHK has come a long way from the days when he bemoaned our country’s “happy motoring” addiction to cheap oil, warned us of the looming Peak Oil apocalypse, and mocked the soul-crushing, angst-driven, auto-dependent, sprawling suburbia that defines America.
Where did that guy go?? Now he’s cheerleading for keeping those petroleum tankers chugging through the Gulf of Hormuz like Olympian runners heroically crossing the marathon finish line. Go Team Go! Gas prices back down to $3 a gallon by Thanksgiving!
GonzoDon-- I'm still the same guy. It's still very unfortunate that suburban sprawl development is the favored template for property development — and especially with MAGA. This arrangement of things on the landscape remains a curse for our country. You can partly blame the Congress for the New Urbanism, the principal leader of the reform movement. The org, like so many others, leaned into DEI and woke-ism and forgot its mission. Major tragedy for the nation.
Methinks that JHK discovered the ugly truth about liberalism: Scratch any leftist and you will find a Fascist underneath. You see, the whole premise of modern liberalism is that "the people" are not smart enough to make their own decisions, and must be "led" to whatever Promised Land is the current liberals vision of it. The problem is that many, often most, people are not "in tune" with the "liberal vision," so they can't be "led" there, they must be DIRECTED there, which means de facto dictatorial coercion, threat of physical force, or actual use of physical force.
One note about suburbanization: It's the Democrats' fault. Literally every Democrat policy since World War II has, as its real effect, made core urban areas crime-ridden, unsafe, segregated, economically sick, and generally unlivable. Suburbia has many of its own ills, but ask most any suburbanite if they would move back into a core urban area and nearly all will say "no." More and more efforts of "redevelopment" of core urban areas are failing today because the leftist policies have made even those "re-developed" areas too unsafe for ordinary law-abiding citizens. And business is also leaving those core urban areas in droves for the same reasons. And where do they go? To pleasant suburban office "campuses." Even factories are moving to suburban areas or small to medium-size towns. It's past time to face the real truth: American core cities are like sewer ponds, where--as de facto liberal policy--whatever clean water is left in the pond is being drained out of it, leaving only every more putrid sewage remaining.
Sorry JHK disappoints you with his failure to be a Johnny One Note clinging to the past as the world changes around him and all of us. I admire those like JHK who can be objective about what is going on and calling out the duplicity wherever they find it.
Jimbo knows which side his bread is buttered on, a candle in the wind. Remember, he's almost 80 y. o. Cut him some slack. He's still an entertaining writer, especially for us old guys.
I despise the casual and sloppy arrogance of such offhand accusations based on nothing. Doesn’t matter who or where.
I attended a talk Jim gave on “The Geography of Nowhere” in Missoula, MT in 1996 and spoke with him briefly after the presentation. Two salient statements stand out.
First, he told me, regarding the subject on the book in question, he wasn’t going to stay on that subject. “I have other fish to fry.”
Second, he said, “I’ve been traveling this country giving talks, and can say we are a wicked people and deserve to be punished.”
"Mr. Trump has advised Congress as of May 1 that hostilities with Iran (Operation Epic Fury) are terminated, at the 60-day limit of the War Powers Resolution."
Today, the Navy is escorting non-Iranian ships through the Straits as they should. Once the security of ships will be demonstrated, insurance will cover the transit and the oil tap will be turned on for everyone except Iran.
That is a brilliant strategic move by President Trump, but not just to get the tankers moving again. The Iranians took the bait and fired on U.S. and foreign ships in the Straits. Iran just reset the War Powers Act clock. For another 60 days, the U.S. can now pound the IRGC into the ground at any time, place, or extent that the U.S. chooses.
The "conflict" has nothing to do with uranium enrichment or nuclear weapons. Issue #1: Iran's intransigent and devout policy that Israel has no right to exist. Issue #2: Iran's willingness to sell oil for things other than US dollars. Both issues (Israel's and the US's) indicate regime change. Then, they can have whatever defense they deem necessary.
The ouster of Mosaddegh in 1953, another cloak and dagger regime change, began over oil. Nationalizing it didn’t sit well with the Brits. MI6 got involved. Truman, possibly having a semblance of an epiphany moment, didn’t want the CIA involved, likely not wanting to feed the creature he signed into existence.
Eisenhower, when he became President, allowed it. And so the ‘new’ agency, rising from the ‘ashes’ of the OSS, had a strong beginning in the intrigue and regime change business. The agency branched out further. How much further might never truly be known.
Thus the Shah was installed, reigning for 26 years.
Oil, and gas resource, comes down to money and where the money goes. It is energy and energy has a price, with a lot of profit in the process. The ongoing British/Russian competition at the time fed into the situation. It was about oil.
The three ‘R’s” of war and conflict are Religion, Routes and Resources. In this case: Oil.
The Russians would gladly be part of securing the enriched uranium belonging to Iran, and monitoring its use. it is a solution to the perceived 'problem' of Iran having nukes, and a whole lot cheaper than both the massive destruction in the Middle East and the significant depletion of expensive US munitions supplies while trying to stop cheap missiles and drones from reaching their target
Nukes are in a way obsolescent. The advent of hypersonic missiles with multiple warheads armed with conventional explosives and the emergence of cheap drone warfare has altered the game board.
Wrong. China, London, Globalists, Communists and Socialists, Deep State traitors, Islamic jihad…. The nuclear issue is a fulcrum being employed in the removal or mitigation of a number of inimical forces hostile to the best interests of the US and world at large.
Agreed, sir. By Q3, despite the efforts of the globalists in both parties, oil will be down and with our gnat-like attention spans life will be roaring into the midterms on our side for once.
Out here in flyover MN even my democrat friends(mostly teachers) fully see the narratives.
Kunstler’s right on the direction—and this time it actually looks engineered, not improvised.
“Project Freedom” isn’t cute. It’s deliberate framing. Not a war, not an escalation—a controlled humanitarian posture with teeth. Trump hits the 60-day War Powers limit exactly, shuts down “Epic Fury,” then reopens the board with naval escorts. That’s not retreat. That’s a reset with leverage intact.
Iran thought it could run out the clock while regrouping. Instead, the clock just got rewound—with conditions. Take a shot at a protected tanker, and the whole thing snaps back into a fresh 60-day operational window—with infrastructure targets already implied. That’s not ambiguity. That’s a tripwire.
The oil play is the quiet kill shot. Keep Gulf exports flowing and you deny Iran the upside of chaos. No price spike. No global panic. No indirect win. Pressure without volatility. That’s discipline.
Domestic side—this is where it either becomes real or collapses into the usual noise.
Kunstler always offers hope. Occasionally that hope cashes out. More often, it doesn’t.
Todd Blanche looks serious. Focused. Controlled. Not auditioning for cable hits. That alone is a shift. DOJ only works when someone is actually running cases instead of narrating them. At minimum, we’re no longer getting the “the evidence is on my desk” routine. That’s progress.
Bondi never projected that level of focus. Whether she got boxed in, lost the thread, or didn’t grasp the scale of the machine—results never came. And DOJ is a machine. If you don’t run it, it runs you.
Now—no leaks out of Florida. That’s the tell. When nothing leaks, something’s building. Grand juries don’t chatter. They stack.
If this is being built as a layered conspiracy—phases, actors, coordination—then it won’t arrive as one cinematic moment. It will come in waves. Indictments grouped by operation. Each tightening the frame on the next. That’s orchestration.
But here’s the line: we’ve seen this movie before. “Accountability is coming” is the longest-running trailer in American politics.
So this time, it’s simple.
No credit for intent.
No credit for tone.
No credit for rumors.
Hope is not evidence.
Show the paper.
If Blanche produces filings—real names, real charges, real timelines—this becomes an event.
If not, it’s just another well-written prelude to nothing.
Bob: Wake me when the first indictment hits the docket.
Thanks for this. Quite a round-up of villains. By coincidence, the villains in the sequel to RACK are going to trial in the Southern District of Florida (where Epstein first ran into trouble).
"It is likely to lead to Dr. Fauci, Dr. Deborah Birx, and other public health officials who ran a dastardly number on the citizens of this land."
Thankyou for mentioning Birx, JHK. People focus on Fauci, but it's clear from the beginning he was SOMEwhat focused on science, as when he initially told people masking was not needed, since he knew the science on that. As Scott Atlas documents, it was Birx who drove the shutdown narrative. Fauci has his own items to answer for, but Birx has escaped.
And she wasn't granted a pardon, either.
What about their leader, Pence?
JHK rightfully IDs the Lefty-Left as bad characters, but forgets the RINO class of the GOP.
The political spectrum is not a line, but a circle.
And right on time, "Lefty-Left" makes its first appearance - followed by RINO no less! What a moronic expression.
I would say that RINO is redundant; they are just being regular Republicans, white shoes at the country club before Labor Day, muh stonks n' bonds, and a sweet sixteen birthday gift of a new car for Muffy.
What does brother Biff get?
Pence could not lead a horse to water.
When everyone around him goes down.....the American People will look at him as a TRAITOR for not standing up for them when he was in a position to do so.
EXACTLY! I was waiting to see if his name was in the mix as well it should be for a ring leader of the coup.
Great adumbration of the cons, scams, hustles conducted by our national and international leaders. While we’re all distracted by the far-away, the mayors and councilmen of our towns and villages continue to refine their own methods of defrauding the populace.
Very true. Even my lowly and insignificant HOA has managed to refine the fraud. The President of this HOA (which manages 5000 homes), just anounced that $2 million is missing from the budget.
Of course the missing money has nothing to do with his cash purchase of new Land Rovers for he and his wife and a lavish vacation to Hawaii.
Yesterday the Board of Directors announced that the HOA would be going paperless and all communication would be thru an Ai chat bot. Probably a good idea since some residents are beginning to question the missing $2 million. LOL
A HOA per se isn't a totally horrible idea (just mostly), but watch out if the members exceed 200 and the board has another board above it, or some such nonsense. You need to know each other for real accountability.
What do you call a gaggle of Karens? An HOA.
Corruption and grift permeate every level of our vaunted self centered society of "get gain" or "get more." From the Hallowed Halls of Congress down to our local churches and school boards individuals seek to pad their pockets with the filthy unearned lucre of this planet. They take what they want without regard to how it impacts their fellow men. This system we humans have created is a failed system at best. There has to be a better way to transact the affairs of man that does not involve money.
Until humans evolve past their greed and lust for money and the acquisition of "things" we as a species have reached our apex. The dinosaurs had millions of years on this planet. Will humanity? I doubt it.
CORRECTAMUNDO- it's known as Property Tax which is far and away the worst of all possible taxes.
First of all- it's a tax on unrealized Gain. Say you bought a house back in the 1980s for $150,000. Today, according to the tax assessor, that home is now worth $700,000 as just happened in my NY neighborhood. So the owner is paying school, town, county taxes on the future Selling Price of his home even though he has no intention of moving.
Second- we do not really own our own homes. We pay "rent" to the local government in the form of property taxes. If you don't pay the tax, they will auction off your home to the highest bidder. If I buy a car and pay it off, I don't have to keep paying for it year after year. Why isn't that true for my house??
"...would allow Iran the possibility of becoming, once more, a normal advanced industrial modern nation..."
You funny guy, GI.
Maybe when all the mullahs are down there with Satan (where they belong), Iran can become normal.
Until then, they remain a gang of thugs.
I am very disappointed in Donald Trump. He promised that if elected he would ensure we had cheap gasoline, low inflation, and no foreign wars. He has delivered just the opposite, and the war is now in its 10th week. 61 percent of those polled oppose our war in Iran, similar to the opposition for our war in Iraq, and to the Vietnam war. Trump's approval rating is deep in negative territory, and Republican prospects in the mid-terms look ever more gloomy. Trump gambled his presidency on this war with Iran, and it has proven to be a losing proposition.
C’mon, “he has promised”, don’t you think that much of the problems you mention might have something to do with lunatics in Iran? Trump also promised that Iran will never have a nuke and is delivering on that promise.
Gee, let me think about that. Before Trump went to war with Iran, gas was $2.50 a gallon and falling, inflation was low, and the economy was making a recovery. Trump was popular, and things were looking good for the Republican Party in the mid terms. Now gas is well over $4.10 a gallon, inflation has made a big comeback, and the economy is doing poorly. The war drags on, into its 10th week. Trump's initial talk of "regime change" and "unconditional surrender" sounds delusional now. So, no, I don't think that anyone in Iran caused any of this to happen: The POTUS caused this to happen by deciding to go to war.
You miss the point.
Trump made a promise to stop Iran from developing a nuke, first by B2 bombing the nuke sites, and now by destroying most of their delivery systems. He wants the nuke material and will destroy Iran’s military to get it.
I believe that not allowing a group of religious death-sect lunatics to have nuclear weapons is much more important than paying more for gasoline for a short while and worrying about a .5% increase in inflation due to oil.
Trump is going to kick ass in November, the polls, a Lefty-Left tool, means nothing. Right now, SCOTUS just drove a stake into the racist methods of assigning political districts. We shall see.
As an aside, I saw a graphic of what the congressional map would look like were all districts designed to be as compact as possible without those districts snaking 150 miles through a dozen counties from Rockford on the Wisconsin border to the Quad Cities on the Iowa border and over and down to Peoria in Central Illinois as Erik Sorenson's (D-IL) does. With a computer generated map of districts the Dems would lose 90 seats. There are those who claim with some justification that the country is actual 2-1 non-Democrat and the "50/50 nation" saw comes from gerrymandering up the ying yang as well as outright fraud via a dozen schemes from voting machines to mail in fraud and good old ballot stuffing in their corrupt strongholds.
I absolutely hope you are right. It is weird that 20% of the population can overwhelm the majority.
Look at what happened in CT where there are over 30% registered Repubs who have zero representation in Congress.
Weird is a very gentle way of putting it!!! 😂🙄
Excellent commentary. Thank you John AZ.
The old WMD lie again. Iran has been "on the cusp" of developing nuclear weapons every year since the mid 1980s. Our noble leaders must have figured they could reuse this tired old excuse for starting an illegal war since it's 25 years since they last used it to justify the Iraq invasion. I suppose we should be thankful that Trump chose to just go with the lie instead of blowing up a building with 3,000 people in it first in order to justify his war on behalf of Israel.
As far as I can tell this war is covid part II. Soon there will be petro-lockdowns, smart cities, more digital surveillance, rampant inflation and economic collapse - all justified by the war which of course was started precisely in order to justify such measures.
It's hard to sift the truth from the lies, but I think your comment is the most likely of many possibilities to be accurate more so than others.
If nothing else, Trump is blowing smoke on describing any policy with this Iran Project as "humanitarian". Killing the leader of a country on Day 1 of a "police action" is not humanitarian, even if justified, and will not be forgotten any time soon by your average Joe on the street. Or whatever the Persian equivalent to Joe might be. Nor will it be forgotten by those that believe in International Laws. Until proven otherwise, Trump's Tarbaby in Iran is a distraction from other Uuuge problems.
As for the ongoing predictions of bringing the guilty "Lefties" to justice in the courtrooms of the U.S., I think we're past that point now. I hope not, but I see one or two high profile convictions being the spark that triggers a Civil War. Which of course, may be the exact goal of the Puppet Masters controlling the narrative. But like Yogi said, "Predictions are difficult, especially about the future."
The US has achieved zero of its stated goals in trying to prosecute Netanyahu's war. In the meantime Iran, playing rope-a-dope while we destroy our own economy and that our allies, has relinquished none of its original terms for ending the war.
Trump is desperate for an off-ramp, and there isn't one.
Let’s see, stock market up, unemployment doing well, a .5% uptick in inflation, and all the lunatics busy working for Soros. Things look pretty good right now.
He does need an off-ramp. Iran is going to collapse when their wells stop pumping.
I missed the part where Trump stated his goals for bombing Iran were to raise the stock market and employment. As for inflation. Talk to any shopper and ask them about inflation.
There's ALWAYS an off ramp, but it usually means swallowing some pride.
There's always an off ramp. But when you are a bully whose income is predicated mostly on your ability to collect tribute from everyone else on the basis that you could beat them senseless if they didn't pay, then losing a fight tends to cost rather more than pride.
Let’s see, taking tribute from the conquered when you conquer them, or covert them, or kill them. Right out of the Quran.
One more, or enslave them. Is it disturbing to you that most of the slaves sold in Africa to European ships were sold by Islamic warlords?
I hope Trump has the guts to shove Iran’s rhetoric right down their throats.
Delayed gratification must be a foreign concept to you. Do you also live paycheck to paycheck?
"Trump also promised that Iran will never have a nuke and is delivering on that promise."
John,
Well, the HMWBIC also made the same suggestion.
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Head Mullah What Be In Charge....
Would you please cry just a little bit harder?
It is so much fun reading such whiny-weak complaints.
Dear Thomas, I am so sorry you have the "sads"
Democrats will not allow "Donald Trump" to have any success.... ever.
They are more than half of the barrier with their antics at destroying the country
Stay tuned. The road of history is a long one and this is but a millisecond.
This is the Fourth War the US has launched in the Middle East since 1991. The last three didn't work out well for the US, and so far this one isn't working out either. One definition of insanity is doing the same idiotic thing over and over again, while expecting a different result.
"The last three didn't work out well for the US" Hmmm.
1) Desert Storm. The operation to free Kuwait from the Iraqi Invasion. They were freed. And Kuwait remains a loyal, if a little quirky, ally.
2) Iraqi Freedom. The operation to rid Iraq of a crazed dictator and his sons in order to allow the Iraqis to join a stable GCC. Not a clean success, but effective. While not like the US, Iraq remains a neutral ally in their own mold that DOES NOT threaten their neighbors.
3) Enduring Freedom. The first invasion following 9/11 meant to smash the terrorist refuge and find/kill Bin Ladin. Achieved most of the original goals but got bogged down in the mission creep into civilizing of aboriginal tribes. That has never worked out for the US.
4) Epic Fury. Crush the mullahcracy and rid Iran of their nuclear weapons capability and assuage their desire to gain it. So far so good, actually. After weeding out the chest pumping of Trump and Hegseth you get an Iranian autocracy that has been decapitated and mostly defanged - yes, their bench is deep but, it's not the same team. You also get a radical replacement regime considered a pariah by their neighbors. That matters A LOT. Both religious and cultural dynamics are in play right now in the Middle East (similar to Iraq's comeuppance) that the US will never understand. Odds favor a peaceful Gulf region.
So, the US didn't do the "same idiotic thing over and over again...." It did what was determined to be the best choice in a dynamic, chaotic, and dangerous situation. Just like all violent diplomacy, for ever.
NOTE: Don't confuse my expose' of your failed and emotional vitriol with my support or opposition of any or all of these recent endeavors in the region. I just have a hard NOT chasing people around the stupid tree.
The Iraq war was clearly a bad mistake. Like one wag put it, and I paraphrase, ‘The President clearly can’t spell - it’s an “n,” not a “q.”’ IRAN
Let me get this right. . .you think our first war with Iraq was a roaring success, so that's why the Bush family and others lamented that we didn't finish the job, and had a second war there? And you think the search for mysterious WMD's in Iran--that did not exist, outside of W. Bush's imagination--was a success. Gee, that's funny, even Jeb Bush had to admit that the war was a mistake in his failed bid for the 2016 Republican nomination. Even W. Bush himself has said that the decision to invade Iraq was based on "flawed intelligence". We lost 4,500 military personnel in that failed war, and we STILL have boots on the ground in Iraq to this day. As to Afghanistan, we were there for 20 long years, fled in shame in the middle of the night, and accomplished NOTHING. The Taliban took the country back over the very next morning, and we left them a huge cache of weapons. Three failed wars in the Middle East, and Trump launched a fourth one. Sheer brilliance.
You discredit your banal cliche, "same idiotic thing over and over again...." in your response. That's your narrative you tell yourself as if you're lip-synching a tatted and pierced protestor on the Mall. I provided clear, reasoned analysis of the actual facts. It's your tree, keep running. And, read more.
Donald Trump has consistently described the 2003 invasion of Iraq as a major foreign policy failure, often calling it a "big, fat mistake" and the "worst decision ever made."
Be careful TM. The war humpers are thick on the CFN blog.
What I find interesting is the war humpers like JohnAZ and David Penny don't give a seconds thought the the trillions of dollars these little wars and foreign excursions have cost the USA. What they don't understand is that to fund these wars the printing presses have to run and when the printing presses have to run the dollar loses its purchasing power and when the purchasing power of the dollar goes down so goes our way of life.
I supposed if you are an old retired dude at the end of the their long lives things like rampant inflation don't mean much to them. So they don't they don't truly consider the impacts of these little wars on the homeland and the people here at home.
Well Puss, I'm not a war humper. I have never stated on CFN that I was in favor on any military intervention - nor against. All I do is counter the shallow mimicry of the deluded minions here such as you.
As for the 'trillions of dollars wasted on wars' reposte far too often pasted on this site, I have two rebuttals. First, the trillions of dollars of fiat currency distributed as "entitlements" that are actually enslavement far overshadow those spent pursuing "diplomacy by other means." Second, there is not an honest way to calculate the ROI of these foreign exploits without laying in confabulated assumptions. Yet, I aver the second is the wiser investment of the two.
I'm of the opinion that generating a world were security is assured within and between states is the only road to universal freedom and prosperity.
Sorry Tom, my response was meant for Tom the Lesser (Thomas Madden). My bad!
I’m not tired of winning yet. The only thing worse than being a loser is having the mentality of a loser when you’re winning.
I buy the ethanol free 88 grade for my vehicles (ethanol contains water which in turn harms the engines). In Utah (we get our gasoline from refineries in Wyoming and Alberta, not from the Middle East) ethanol free 88 grade is nearly $5.00 a gallon. The cheap 85 grade is $4.39 per gallon. If these prices don't come down the average voter isn't going to care about Iran's nukes. They are going to care about their ability to fill their tanks and buy the more expensive food now that diesel costs well above $5.00 per gallon and truck drivers need to drop over $1,000 each time they fill up their big rigs. They don't eat this cost, they roll it over to their customers which are, in the long run, US.
Debating with JohnAZ over this matter is a futile endeavor. I tried and he is pretty set in his views on this. I don't fault him for his views but I am staunchly opposed to him on this matter.
Trump, for all intents and purposes, seems to be torpedoing his own presidency and I predict he will spend the last two years of his lame duck presidency fighting back impeachment charges. That being said, I hope I am wrong. I really do. Trump, although flawed and in many ways a failure, is the best person we have.
"Trump, for all intents and purposes, seems to be torpedoing his own presidency and I predict he will spend the last two years of his lame duck presidency fighting back impeachment charges." Exactly. Going to war is always a big, risky gamble. We had a very wise president, long ago, named Abraham Lincoln who worked hard to avoid a war. Ultimately his efforts failed, and his cause was just, so he fought even harder to win that war. We had presidents who waited, and calculated risk before getting the US involved in either WW1 or WW2. Then, at some point, we lost our way, and started unilaterally getting into wars that were unnecessary, wars that we didn't win, and wars that hurt our country. Wars in Vietnam, in Iraq, in Afghanistan. . .and we seem incapable of learning from our mistakes. I ask those who support this, the Fourth War we have launched in the Middle East since 1991, if it ends with without great calamity, will you support the fifth one, a few years down the line? And the sixth one after that? At some point this foolish, expensive, very risky behavior by the US needs to stop.
I support your post until you got to Abraham Lincoln the tyrant. He didn't work hard to avoid a war. He signed the Morrill tariff into law, caused the south the secede over the tariff and then unleashed his diabolical demonic generals into the south to make war on women, children and farm animals. Abraham Lincoln over threw the Constitution of 1788 and forever changed the USA from a "union of sovereign states" to a massive federal leviathan with smaller administrative districts. The USA died because of Lincoln and his war of aggression over the southern states.
So, yes, at some point the USA died and became a war aggressive nation. It began during the Civil War under Lincoln and was culminated under Woodrow Wilson and the advent of the Fed, income tax and the changing of the US Senate to a glorified House of Representatives. Once the USA got into WWI for no apparent reason the war mongering never ceased.
I do agree with the last half of your post.
It is nice to see that people can have a civil exchange of views online, and things don't always have to descend into hurling insults.
Here is the giant piece of logic that every Doomer, Leftist, RINO, and cowardly dork misses: President Trump had NOTHING to gain politically from ordering military action against the IRGC in Iran. Which begs the question of why he did it. Use Occam's Razor here, morons: it was because the President had irrefutable evidence that Iran was very near to having the ability to both produce nuclear weapons, and the means to attack other countries in the Mideast, Europe, and even possibly the United States with them. Dorks just purposely ignore the fact that members of the IRGC also clearly stated that intent publicly.
Of course, leftist dorks continue to bleat (in unison, with the exact same phrases) that Trump "started" the war with Iran to distract America from his "disastrous" policies in the U.S. The only "disastrous" policies that Trump was conducting was to flush out all of the corruption, sedition, treason, crime, and even murder being encouraged, supported, perpetrated, and even directly being committed by the Democrats. Trump's policies were "disastrous", alright, for the Democrat Socialist dictator-wannabes trying desperately to destroy the American Republic. No wonder so many Democrat traitors against America openly support Iran.
One final note: President Trump is still playing 4D chess. He declared hostilities "over" in Iran. The IRGC, being the dumbfucks that they are in addition to being profoundly evil, fired "warning" shots at foreign and U.S. vessels operating in International Waters. Congratulations, IRGC dumbfucks, you just reset the War Powers Act clock. President Trump now has ANOTHER 60 days to absolutely pound the hell out of you. If IRGC had any decency or compassion for its own citizens, it would unconditionally surrender right now. They likely don't, so now the whole of Iran may pay a horrific price. And the result--in a few months at most, fuel prices in the U.S will be back down to early 2026 levels, and Iran as a country will be wrecked for at least 1-3 generations.
"To say that Thomas Madden is a moron would be an insult to morons. "
You're not doing yourself any favors with comments and insults like this, F4C.
OK, so maybe I went "over the top" with that. I'll just say that his opinion is horribly misguided and misinformed.
Whenever someone starts hurling insults, you know they have lost the argument. I will look forward to hearing from you in week 11 of this war, and then week 12: I wonder what the price of a gallon of gasoline will be by then?
The “irrefutable evidence” Trump had was refuted by every one of his own eighteen or so intelligence agencies. So consider the quote nonsensical.
You are witnessing belief perseverance on steroids from the diminishing number of Trump acolytes.
Excellent commentary, very much appreciated. It has been my experience that TAW. (Trump Always Wins).
Sometimes pesky things like nuclear jihad get in the way, to be sure.
Nuclear jihad? The only country to have ever launched any nukes against another nation is the USA. So what do you mean "nuclear jihad?" Are you talking about the potential for a nuclear jihad if Iran were ever to get nukes?
Pakistan is an islamic nation. They have nukes. Why is the USA not bombing Islamabad and Karachi?
Iran has been two weeks away from a nuke for about 30 years. LOL
Not yet and far from it.
Here's a different perspective:
Currently Iranian oil is "sanctioned" with China basically being the only buyer on the "down-low." Because it is sanctioned, China is paying "pennies on the dollar" rather than market price. ( surprised other didn't do that, personally)
Market price is determined by product availability.
Should Iranian oil no longer be sanctioned but sold freely at market price, two things happen. The nation begins to have greater income for the people and the base price of oil diminishes.
The base price going down sets a long term floor price for the entire world.
When this is attained, Americans will not just be happy for sustained affordable energy but that another nation's people, who had lost their liberties to Authoritarians in the Name of God, will get them back and create the natio they desire.
the rapid breakdown of support, for the campaign to take down the mullahs, IF the reporting is factual, reflects the character of a weak non committed people, with no "staying power". they want, in the fashion typical to self obsessed vision-less gimme, gimme, gimme geeks, instant gratification with them needing to contribute nothing or net to nothing. They are, fundamentally, petulant children. From the likes of them, nothing that will be good and will endure, ever comes.
Another wish list from Jim. I pray it all happens, but do not be surprised if it doesn’t.
I don't swallow black pills.
I’m not tired of winning yet.
I suspect nothing will happen to the guilty until they stand before God. That'll be ugly.
That's kind of the pattern we have become accustomed to in the good ole USA. Politicians and government bureaucrats have become untouchable.
I welcome a change to that pattern. Would love to see this filthy in hand cuffs and perp walked to their prison cell. Or, better yet, people like Fauci and Birx, swinging on the end of a gallows. So, I keep coming back to the CFN to read JHK's offerings of hope of better times and justice to come. Perhaps one day all of this madness will finally break loose. The waiting continues........................
The way things are, any attempt to indict, much less try and convict, any Democrat pol, gov't employee, donor, etc. in DC, NYC or Chicago will be met with a dismissal of chsrges because, well, "die Partei uber alles!"
Don't see how it's possible that Trump WON'T declare a National Emergency, given how much and how deep the fraud/corruption/conspiracy runs. To use overused terminology: "MASSIVE, HISTORIC . . . UNNNNNN-prescidented!"
Mr. Madden --- so Iran did not cause any of this to happen? 50+ years of being the #1 sponsor of terrorism is nothing? Gleefully telling the US they want to exterminate us is nothing. The mullahs are getting exactly what they deserve
Maybe you are right but who anointed the USA to be the harbinger of justice throughout the world?
$40 trillion and counting, Ron Neff. These wars have bankrupted the USA. The USA is busted. Broke. The money is gone. The pie has been eaten. Add to that $40 trillion all of the private debt and you are talking over $100 trillion and this doesn't include all of the promised entitlements.
The fact is the USA no longer has the resources to continue the war mongering throughout the globe. The rampant inflation we are experiencing is the proof.
It's well past time to bring the troops home, stop the countless wars, and fix the problems here. If it doesn't happen by choice it will happen by force.
Personally, I am not afraid of Iran. It is a poverty stricken water starved nation with limited military capabilities. They aren't the boogie man to me. They can chant "Death to the USA" all they want. They don't have the ability to bring about the death of the USA and they never will. Now Mexico? That's a different discussion.
Of course, coming to terms on the nuclear bomb-making issue would allow Iran the possibility of becoming, once more, a normal advanced industrial modern nation,
What in the hell is that supposed to mean? A normal advanced industrial modern nation like the US, with nukes? Like Russia with nukes? Like China with nukes? Like North Korea with nukes? And BTW, Iran never wanted nukes and was not planning on nukes – just ask our 19 Intel agencies who have verified that Iran is not building nuclear weapons. We had at one time a perfectly sound nuclear weapons deterrent agreement with Iran, which Trump tore up in 2018. we can thank the Zionists for that little stupid misstep.
Without getting the SAVE Act passed, and getting elections under sensible control, much of this seeming progress towards accountability will be likely swept away under the foamy tides of resurgent JOY.
JHK has come a long way from the days when he bemoaned our country’s “happy motoring” addiction to cheap oil, warned us of the looming Peak Oil apocalypse, and mocked the soul-crushing, angst-driven, auto-dependent, sprawling suburbia that defines America.
Where did that guy go?? Now he’s cheerleading for keeping those petroleum tankers chugging through the Gulf of Hormuz like Olympian runners heroically crossing the marathon finish line. Go Team Go! Gas prices back down to $3 a gallon by Thanksgiving!
GonzoDon-- I'm still the same guy. It's still very unfortunate that suburban sprawl development is the favored template for property development — and especially with MAGA. This arrangement of things on the landscape remains a curse for our country. You can partly blame the Congress for the New Urbanism, the principal leader of the reform movement. The org, like so many others, leaned into DEI and woke-ism and forgot its mission. Major tragedy for the nation.
Methinks that JHK discovered the ugly truth about liberalism: Scratch any leftist and you will find a Fascist underneath. You see, the whole premise of modern liberalism is that "the people" are not smart enough to make their own decisions, and must be "led" to whatever Promised Land is the current liberals vision of it. The problem is that many, often most, people are not "in tune" with the "liberal vision," so they can't be "led" there, they must be DIRECTED there, which means de facto dictatorial coercion, threat of physical force, or actual use of physical force.
One note about suburbanization: It's the Democrats' fault. Literally every Democrat policy since World War II has, as its real effect, made core urban areas crime-ridden, unsafe, segregated, economically sick, and generally unlivable. Suburbia has many of its own ills, but ask most any suburbanite if they would move back into a core urban area and nearly all will say "no." More and more efforts of "redevelopment" of core urban areas are failing today because the leftist policies have made even those "re-developed" areas too unsafe for ordinary law-abiding citizens. And business is also leaving those core urban areas in droves for the same reasons. And where do they go? To pleasant suburban office "campuses." Even factories are moving to suburban areas or small to medium-size towns. It's past time to face the real truth: American core cities are like sewer ponds, where--as de facto liberal policy--whatever clean water is left in the pond is being drained out of it, leaving only every more putrid sewage remaining.
Sorry JHK disappoints you with his failure to be a Johnny One Note clinging to the past as the world changes around him and all of us. I admire those like JHK who can be objective about what is going on and calling out the duplicity wherever they find it.
You have an odd choice of usage re: Johnny One Note. The concerto for a dozen years or so has been B flat.
Jimbo knows which side his bread is buttered on, a candle in the wind. Remember, he's almost 80 y. o. Cut him some slack. He's still an entertaining writer, especially for us old guys.
I despise the casual and sloppy arrogance of such offhand accusations based on nothing. Doesn’t matter who or where.
I attended a talk Jim gave on “The Geography of Nowhere” in Missoula, MT in 1996 and spoke with him briefly after the presentation. Two salient statements stand out.
First, he told me, regarding the subject on the book in question, he wasn’t going to stay on that subject. “I have other fish to fry.”
Second, he said, “I’ve been traveling this country giving talks, and can say we are a wicked people and deserve to be punished.”
That applies to you, too, Tom.
Rabbit hole.
How've you been, lo' t?
"Mr. Trump has advised Congress as of May 1 that hostilities with Iran (Operation Epic Fury) are terminated, at the 60-day limit of the War Powers Resolution."
But...But I'm told he's a dictator. :-)
Today, the Navy is escorting non-Iranian ships through the Straits as they should. Once the security of ships will be demonstrated, insurance will cover the transit and the oil tap will be turned on for everyone except Iran.
That is a brilliant strategic move by President Trump, but not just to get the tankers moving again. The Iranians took the bait and fired on U.S. and foreign ships in the Straits. Iran just reset the War Powers Act clock. For another 60 days, the U.S. can now pound the IRGC into the ground at any time, place, or extent that the U.S. chooses.
The "conflict" has nothing to do with uranium enrichment or nuclear weapons. Issue #1: Iran's intransigent and devout policy that Israel has no right to exist. Issue #2: Iran's willingness to sell oil for things other than US dollars. Both issues (Israel's and the US's) indicate regime change. Then, they can have whatever defense they deem necessary.
Issue # 2:
The ouster of Mosaddegh in 1953, another cloak and dagger regime change, began over oil. Nationalizing it didn’t sit well with the Brits. MI6 got involved. Truman, possibly having a semblance of an epiphany moment, didn’t want the CIA involved, likely not wanting to feed the creature he signed into existence.
Eisenhower, when he became President, allowed it. And so the ‘new’ agency, rising from the ‘ashes’ of the OSS, had a strong beginning in the intrigue and regime change business. The agency branched out further. How much further might never truly be known.
Thus the Shah was installed, reigning for 26 years.
Oil, and gas resource, comes down to money and where the money goes. It is energy and energy has a price, with a lot of profit in the process. The ongoing British/Russian competition at the time fed into the situation. It was about oil.
The three ‘R’s” of war and conflict are Religion, Routes and Resources. In this case: Oil.
The Russians would gladly be part of securing the enriched uranium belonging to Iran, and monitoring its use. it is a solution to the perceived 'problem' of Iran having nukes, and a whole lot cheaper than both the massive destruction in the Middle East and the significant depletion of expensive US munitions supplies while trying to stop cheap missiles and drones from reaching their target
Nukes are in a way obsolescent. The advent of hypersonic missiles with multiple warheads armed with conventional explosives and the emergence of cheap drone warfare has altered the game board.
Wrong. China, London, Globalists, Communists and Socialists, Deep State traitors, Islamic jihad…. The nuclear issue is a fulcrum being employed in the removal or mitigation of a number of inimical forces hostile to the best interests of the US and world at large.
Agreed, sir. By Q3, despite the efforts of the globalists in both parties, oil will be down and with our gnat-like attention spans life will be roaring into the midterms on our side for once.
Out here in flyover MN even my democrat friends(mostly teachers) fully see the narratives.
Kunstler’s right on the direction—and this time it actually looks engineered, not improvised.
“Project Freedom” isn’t cute. It’s deliberate framing. Not a war, not an escalation—a controlled humanitarian posture with teeth. Trump hits the 60-day War Powers limit exactly, shuts down “Epic Fury,” then reopens the board with naval escorts. That’s not retreat. That’s a reset with leverage intact.
Iran thought it could run out the clock while regrouping. Instead, the clock just got rewound—with conditions. Take a shot at a protected tanker, and the whole thing snaps back into a fresh 60-day operational window—with infrastructure targets already implied. That’s not ambiguity. That’s a tripwire.
The oil play is the quiet kill shot. Keep Gulf exports flowing and you deny Iran the upside of chaos. No price spike. No global panic. No indirect win. Pressure without volatility. That’s discipline.
Domestic side—this is where it either becomes real or collapses into the usual noise.
Kunstler always offers hope. Occasionally that hope cashes out. More often, it doesn’t.
Todd Blanche looks serious. Focused. Controlled. Not auditioning for cable hits. That alone is a shift. DOJ only works when someone is actually running cases instead of narrating them. At minimum, we’re no longer getting the “the evidence is on my desk” routine. That’s progress.
Bondi never projected that level of focus. Whether she got boxed in, lost the thread, or didn’t grasp the scale of the machine—results never came. And DOJ is a machine. If you don’t run it, it runs you.
Now—no leaks out of Florida. That’s the tell. When nothing leaks, something’s building. Grand juries don’t chatter. They stack.
If this is being built as a layered conspiracy—phases, actors, coordination—then it won’t arrive as one cinematic moment. It will come in waves. Indictments grouped by operation. Each tightening the frame on the next. That’s orchestration.
But here’s the line: we’ve seen this movie before. “Accountability is coming” is the longest-running trailer in American politics.
So this time, it’s simple.
No credit for intent.
No credit for tone.
No credit for rumors.
Hope is not evidence.
Show the paper.
If Blanche produces filings—real names, real charges, real timelines—this becomes an event.
If not, it’s just another well-written prelude to nothing.
Bob: Wake me when the first indictment hits the docket.
The Democrat party is a racketeering enterprise in its totality & should be RICO’d out of existence.
Thanks for this. Quite a round-up of villains. By coincidence, the villains in the sequel to RACK are going to trial in the Southern District of Florida (where Epstein first ran into trouble).