SO...This fiasco with Iran has been going on since the CARTER administration. lets see, that's 8 presidents (including Trump) and no one had the guts to do anything about them until it got to Trumps second term. NOW...  Trump is the BAD president for getting us into a war.

Why didn't ANY of the other presidents do anything? I  know a few of them were too busy making lots of money off  of Iran. We all know who they are! 

Melissa Steinberg Brodsky March 6 at 7:16 AM 

·Let’s get something straight, because this hasn’t been talked about enough. And I’m tired of seeing people grabbing headlines and posts that agree with their narrative instead of doing their own research.

What’s happening right now in Iran is not Israel’s war. It’s not a Jewish vendetta, it’s not a Middle East skirmish that has nothing to do with the rest of us, and contrary to Tucker Carlson, it has nothing to do with Chabad. You need to know what’s actually going on.

Washington severed diplomatic ties with Iran under the Carter administration after Iranian students stormed the U.S. embassy in Tehran and held 52 Americans hostage. That was 1979.
Since then, EVERY administration, Carter, Reagan, Bush (senior), Clinton, Bush (junior), Obama, Biden, and Trump, has said that a nuclear-armed Iran is unacceptable. The White House recently documented 74 separate instances of Trump making that case, calling it “longstanding, bipartisan American policy.” This isn’t a new position. It isn’t a right-wing position. It’s what every administration has believed for half a century.

So why did it take until now? Because Iran kept moving the goalposts, and the world kept letting them.

By May 2025, the IAEA reported that Iran’s cache of near-weapons-grade enriched uranium had surged by roughly 50 percent in just three months, putting Tehran one step away from having enough material for ten nuclear weapons.

That’s not some little vague threat. That’s a countdown.
The head of U.S. Central Command testified that if Iran decided to sprint toward a nuclear weapon, it could produce enough weapons-grade material for a simple device in one week, and enough for ten weapons in three weeks.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio put it plainly: “They have everything they need to build nuclear weapons.” When you’ve built the engine, loaded the fuel, and pointed the car at the wall, it doesn’t matter much whether you’ve pressed the gas yet.
Iran spent years insisting its program was civilian. All the while, it was moving toward weapons capability. According to reporting sourced by the Institute for International Political Studies, Khamenei had authorized development of miniaturized nuclear warheads for ballistic missiles as recently as October 2025.

Now let’s talk about China, because this piece of the picture is pretty darn critical.

China is not a bystander in this story. Iran is central to Beijing’s entire overland trade and energy strategy. Iran sits at the heart of China’s Belt and Road Initiative, the infrastructure network connecting East Asia to Europe through land-based transport and Persian Gulf energy routes. Without stable access through Iranian territory, Beijing’s supply chains have no viable alternative. Iran exported more than 520 million barrels of crude oil to China in 2025 alone. Only Saudi Arabia supplied more. China buys over 80 percent of Iran’s oil. This isn’t ideological solidarity. It’s a dependency that neither side wants disrupted.

Which brings us to the Strait of Hormuz.
Roughly 13 million barrels of oil per day moved through the Strait in 2025, about 31 percent of all seaborne crude in the world.

About 45 percent of China’s oil imports pass through it. Iran has threatened to close it. And here’s what that threat actually produced: China is now in direct talks with Iran, pressing Tehran to allow crude oil and LNG vessels safe passage and to hold off on targeting tankers or key export hubs. When Beijing’s energy supply is on the line, the anti-American posturing has real limits.

Here’s what this all adds up to.

The United States didn’t stumble into this war because Israel asked nicely. It acted on a threat that five decades of American presidents acknowledged and mostly kicked down the road.

Iran was weeks away, not years, from having the material needed for nuclear weapons. It had long-range ballistic missiles capable of reaching U.S. bases and allies throughout the region. It had a weapons development program it had been lying about for years.

Calling this Israel’s war ignores fifty years of American policy, multiple rounds of failed diplomacy, and a nuclear program that was running out of road.

The world needed someone to act. The better question isn’t why it happened. It’s why it took this long.
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 GREAT RESPONSE !!  I know it's probably NOT real bu I still like it..

  I never heard the "manifesto" before this and after reading it, I'm not at all surprised it was a HATE crime against whites. 

FBI Finally Releases Maifesto Docs From Nashville Catholic School Shooter – It’s As Bad As We Suspected  Jonathan Davis  December 31, 2025  POLITICS

Earlier this week, reports revealed that Audrey Hale, the shooter at the Covenant School, used federal student aid money to purchase the weapons she used to kill six people at the Christian school. Notably, she was a former student of the Catholic school in Nashville that was attacked last year. The tragic incident resulted in the deaths of three students and three staff members, with two others sustaining injuries

Hale, a transgender individual, was shot and killed by law enforcement during the incident. The police department declined to publish Hale’s manifesto, likely fearing it would negatively impact the perception of the LGBTQ community. Recently, the FBI has made available documents that provide insight into Hale’s motives, revealing why the Biden administration and law enforcement chose to keep this information from the public

According to The New York Post, Hale even went so far as to write out a chilling “pros-and-cons” list before carrying out the attack.

That list reportedly spelled out what Hale viewed as the “advantages” and “disadvantages” of targeting another school she had previously attended—before ultimately deciding against it for one disturbing reason: the school’s student body was “mostly black.”

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JD VANCE RUSHED TO SENATE - ALL HELL BREAKS LOOSE OVER TIED VOTE

A studio technician has leaked the unedited audio of a DNC meeting where leaders discussed "manufacturing" a protest to stop Vance’s vote. The radical Democrats are terrified because they know they can't stop the MAGA momentum in the Senate. The level of fear in D.C. proves that the establishment is losing its grip on the country. Trump is speaking for the silent majority, and the establishment can't handle the transparency. The reckoning for the shadow government is moving faster.   

 

Commen

No Kings explained for people who think they're fighting fascism.  Ken Blackwell

No Kings explained for people who think they're fighting fascism.

500 groups. Three billion dollars in revenue. Pre printed signs stacked and shipped before you even knew what you were supposed to be mad about.

That is not a spontaneous uprising. That is infrastructure.
That is planning. That is money. That is message discipline.
And that is what you walked into on Saturday.
You looked around, saw the crowd, saw the slogans, felt the energy, and told yourself this was democracy. “No Kings.” It sounded clean. It sounded righteous. It felt like you were part of something organic.
But the signs were ready before your outrage was.

That should bother you.

Because you are not living under a king. You are living in a constitutional republic with elections, term limits, and a press that has spent years attacking the most powerful figures in the country without consequence. No one is being arrested for calling a president a fascist. No one is being silenced for dissenting.

That is not tyranny.

And yet you are being told it is.
You are being trained to see normal functions of a country as authoritarian. Loving your country becomes suspicious. Wanting a secure border becomes immoral. Believing parents should have a say in their children’s lives becomes dangerous. Asking basic questions about elections becomes taboo.

That is not clarity. That is conditioning.

Every country on Earth enforces its borders. Most require identification to vote. That is not controversial anywhere else. It is only controversial here because you have been told it should be.

And you believed it.

Meanwhile, look at the people who actually hold power and how long they have held it:

Chuck Schumer. 46 years. Longer than Stalin.

Steny Hoyer. 45 years. Longer than Mao.

Mitch McConnell. 42 years. 5x more than Napoleon.

Nancy Pelosi. 39 years. Longer than Henry VIII.

Maxine Waters. 35 years. Longer than Mussolini.

Bernie Sanders. 35 years. Triple Hitler’s entire reign.

That is what entrenched power looks like.
Decades. Not months. Not a single term. Decades.
But you are told the threat to democracy is the outsider who disrupted that system for a brief window of time.

You are told he is the king.

No. What you are reacting to is not monarchy. It is loss of control.
You do not hate kings. You hate kings that are not yours.
Because when power consolidates on your side, you justify it.
A sitting president steps aside. Within days, a replacement is effectively crowned without a real contest, without a meaningful debate, without voters having a say in a process that is supposed to belong to them.

No primary. No debate. No ballot.

And you said nothing.

Three days before you marched, lawmakers aligned with your movement rejected voter identification requirements. At the same time, you lived through a period where you had to show documentation to participate in basic parts of life.

You needed proof to eat, to travel, to work.

But asking for proof to vote is suddenly oppression.
That contradiction should stop you cold. Instead, it gets waved away.
Look at how power is actually maintained.

Non citizens are counted in the census. Census numbers determine representation. Representation determines power. Remove verification, expand the count, and you increase influence without ever needing a crown.That is how modern systems entrench themselves.

Then look at speech.

There is written evidence of government officials pressuring platforms like Facebook to suppress information. Not just misinformation. Information that later proved to be accurate. Scientists were sidelined. Doctors were ignored. Even humor and satire were targeted.

Humor.

When people in power are deciding which jokes are allowed, you are not dealing with a healthy system.
That control did not come through loud decrees. It came through quiet coordination with corporations that act as extensions of political authority.
That is far more effective than any throne.

And it does not stop at speech.

Across the country, institutions are redefining the relationship between parents and children, sometimes making life altering decisions without transparency or consent. The state is stepping into spaces that used to belong to families.

History has seen that pattern before.

Then there is the selective 

During lockdowns, small businesses were shut down. Churches were closed. Families were kept from their lovenforcement of rules.ed ones in their final moments.

At the same time, large scale unrest that caused billions in damage and cost lives was treated as justified or even necessary.

One standard for one group. A completely different standard for another.
That is not equal application of law. That is power deciding what counts.
And when it comes to political violence, the conversation is selective.
When Charlie Kirk spent years walking onto campuses trying to engage in debate, he represented something fundamental about open discourse. The ability to show up, speak, and be challenged.

But increasingly, one side is met not with argument but with shutdowns, intimidation, and sometimes violence. Data that complicates the dominant narrative gets buried because it is inconvenient.
One side talks. The other side tries to silence.
And you are told which one is dangerous.

Look at who you marched alongside.

Organizations like the Party for Socialism and Liberation were not hiding. They were present, organized, and clear about their goal: revolution, not reform.

That ideology has already been tested in the real world. It does not produce freedom. It produces control.

And yet they had signs ready for you.

Hundreds of groups. Billions in funding. A coordinated message. And money that traces back to figures like Neville Roy Singham, a billionaire operating out of Shanghai with ties to networks aligned with the Chinese Communist Party.\

You thought you were fighting for democracy.

You were participating in something far more organized than you realized.
Even institutions that once stood firmly for civil liberties are raising concerns. The American Civil Liberties Union built its legacy defending speech for people it disagreed with because it understood that once you start carving out exceptions, the entire principle collapses.
Now even that standard is eroding.

Look at the shift over time.

Bill Clinton stood before the country and said illegal immigration was wrong and received a standing ovation. He expanded policing. He talked about limiting government. He operated within a framework that assumed borders, law enforcement, and free speech were foundational.

Today, many of those same positions would get him labeled extreme by his own party.

That is how far the ground has moved.

So when you chant about kings, understand what you are actually defending and what you are actually ignoring.
Historians look for patterns when evaluating systems of power. Suppression of opposition. Disregard for process. Acceptance of political violence. Enforcement of ideology through institutions. Alignment between corporate and state power.

Ask yourself honestly where those patterns are showing up.

Because the answer is not as simple as the slogan you were handed.
You marched against kings.

But what you are actually enabling is a system that does not need a crown to control you.

You think you’re resisting control while helping construct it.