March 29, 2026
Old Maid Ilhan
Timothy Birdnow
I am pleased by this although I have to question the sanity of the Somalilanders.
She is rather like the old maid in the card game; the guy who gets stuck with her is the loser.
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The Compassionate Liberals
Timothy Birdnow
What do you do with such vile dirtbags as these two? They get fired and the Left takes care of them, getting them another job almost immediately.
So they think it's fun to ponder the murder of a man with whom you disagree. I wonder how they would feel if it were their own lives at stake.
This kind of abject hatred is going to tear this nation completely apart.
I'll bet these two goons were high-fiving when Charlie Kirk was murdered too.
I wouldn't want to be them on Judgement Day.
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Democrat Calls for Reparations, Nuremberg Trials for Illegal Aliens
Timothy Birdnow
The Democrats are calling for reparations for illegal aliens.
Yes, you read that right.
Gateway Pundit dishes:
Woke Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.) has called for "some form of reparation” for illegal aliens she says were "traumatized” by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) during President Donald Trump’s deportation crackdown.
Speaking at a shadow hearing she hosted titled "Kidnapped and Disappeared: Trump’s Attack on Children,” Jayapal argued that federal reparations should be considered for illegal aliens targeted nationwide by ICE operations.
Jayapal also demanded "offensive actions around prosecutions,” saying that "the people that have been inflicting this harm need to be prosecuted” and "brought before us” so they can be held accountable for the trauma caused by deportations and raids.
So this scumbaggettue wants to not only pay illegals for being afraid of apprehension when they broke into the country illegally but she wants to hold Nuremberg style trials for "war crimes" committed by border agents enforcing our laws - and for the Conservatives who asked them to do it.
I don't know how any American could possibly ever vote for a Democrat ever again.
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March 28, 2026
Climate Models Failed Predictions
Timothy Birdnow
I posted this on a climate debate forum on Facebook. I thought it worth reposting here, even if I have already gone over this stuff time and time again:
According to a 2024 report from the World Health Organization drowning deaths globally dropped by a whopping 38% since the year 2000.
https://www.who.int/news/item/13-12-2024-drowning-deaths-decline-globally-but-the-most-vulnerable-remain-at-risk
So riddle me this; how is this possible if sea levels are rising precipitously and extreme weather events are becoming more common (they aren't) how can this be?
More people than ever are hanging out at beaches and lakes and other watery areas.
Even if we attribute fewer drownings to better rescue techniques and more care for life-preserving systems we have to admit that this suggests the environmental apocalypse predicted over climate change just isn't happening. And remember the population has increased since 2000, not gone down.
I would add 2025 was a "quiet" hurricane season in violation of the predictions made by climate models. https://arxiv.org/html/2511.23458v3 In fact the 21st century has largely been quiet in terms of hurricanes, as well as tornadoes. The frequency of tornadoes in the U.S. has declined significantly since 1950. https://www.heritage.org/environment/report/twisters-and-trends-analysis-us-tornado-activity-and-climate-change Tornadoes do more damage now because there is a lot more stuff built down on the flats to be destroyed than in bygone days. (The same holds true for Hurricanes - much more stuff on the sea shore than in the past). Floods have become less deadly too. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/378523732_Floods_have_become_less_deadly_an_analysis_of_global_flood_fatalities_1975-2022 This despite more property damage being caused by flooding, primarily because we are building more in flood plains now than we used to and so there is more stuff to get wrecked.
Oh, I hear you now...but, but,but what about wildfires? What about them? IF there is an increase in wildfires (and many of them were intentionally set over the last few years by environmentalists to "prove" climate change, such as in California https://www.foxla.com/news/multiple-people-accused-starting-fires-firestorm-rages-california and in Australia ) then we must ask how that is possible in a world that has heated up one degree and thus evaporated more water vapor which, logically, should make wildfires harder to start. And of course we conveniently forget about the changes in wildfire management and prevention (like not removing deadwood from forests and then being surprised when a bunch of dry tinder catches).
None of this comports with the climate change models.
At what point do we admit the models are just wrong?
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Iran Losing Friends
Timothy Birdnow
The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has vowed to join the fight against Iran after being bombed more than even Israel by the Benighted Beelzebub (if they call us the Great Satan I'll call Iran the BB).
Iran has at least convinced the UAE that Iran is an existential threat and needs to be dealt with for good.
I suspect other Arab states in the region may feel the same.
And if these states join a "coalition of the willing" to kick the Ayatollahs out then it will happen Iran won't be able to ship so much as a pair of shoelaces out if the Gulf states decide to stop them. (Yes, they can ship via the Gulf of Oman (the outlet into the Arabian Sea) but that wouldn't be all that had to blockade and shipping oil out of there would be much harder than out of the Arabian Gulf (formerly Persian Gulf). I would add Iran just has a small portion of their seacoast on the Omani sector.
We can squeeze the life right out of Iran economically if Oman should decide to shut the Strait of Hormuz down to Iran and her allies as well.
Bear in mind Iran is losing huge amounts of money daily and they won't be able to endure this for too much longer.
At any rate Iran isn't making any friends, and it's just a matter of time before they have no choice but fold.
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Presiding Judge Colluded with Jack Smith
Timothy Birdnow
Newly released documents show that Jack Smith was quietly corresponding with two judges intimately involved in Trump cases - Beryl Howell and our old buddy James "Bozo" Boasberg.
I would call that colluding. I would further call that a complete ethics lapse.
Howell spoke gushingly of Smith's lawfare, I might add.
From the Federalist:
According to the briefing document, Smith’s team informed Garland that they had been in touch with Howell and that "She liked our approach of pursuing the executive privilege litigation in an omnibus fashion,” meaning the consolidation of various motions into a single filing rather than handling each separately. The notes record that Howell was aware such a motion was coming "and loves the idea.” A separate entry referenced a forthcoming meeting with Boasberg scheduled for Saturday, March 18, 2023, the day after he became chief judge, taking over from Howell.
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Judges are not allowed to communicate with only one side of a legal matter; they are required by law to at least inform the other party. But this judge was actually giving pointers to the prosecution. To me that is clearly an impeachable offense. In fact it is probably a crime.
But she will never be prosecuted, and she will not be impeached.
We have to find new ways to punish people like this or it will happen again and again.
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Dem Congresswoman Found Guilty of Ethics Violations
Timothy Birdnow
GUILTY!
Now the House has to hold hearings to remove her from office.
McCormick stole federal relief funds and used them to fund her campaign for Congress.
I wonder if they really will expel her or if they will end up just censuring her. The numbers are dicey enough for the Democrats that I suspect they will all back letting her off the hook, and some Republicans may even join them.
The crooked Congresscritter now must face criminal charges in a court of law.
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Well, Half a Cuddle
Timothy Birdnow
These are the people we are inviting into our countries:
Samantha Smith@SamanthaTaghoyInterviewer: "Do you ever think about the consequences of rape?”
Illegal migrant: "Like, if she screams and wakes someone up?”
Interviewer: "No, I’m talking about the girl.”
Illegal migrant: "Yeah. When we rape her we might get an STD.”
THIS IS WHAT’S COMING TO THE WEST.
Makes me think of Yellowbeard the Pirate "1: oh, you mean he's beaten ya and kicked ya and smashed ya in the teeth?
Woman: "you know just before you went to Jail we was having a cuddle"
Yellowbeard: "I was raping ya if thats what ya mean. :
Woman: "well half cuddle"
That woman sounds like a modern white liberal chick.
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Nuclear Suicide Vests?
Timothy Birdnow
Tyler Durden is wrong; nuclear weapons can indeed be vest sized. We and the Soviets both had "suitcase nukes" which could be so adapted. But it's doubtful the Iranians could build such a device.
A "suitcase nuke" isn't small enough to fit into, say, a briefcase but it would be backpack sized. And if detonated in the right place (like Manhattan) it could indeed kill tens of thousand of people (such devices would only take out multiple blocks, not the whole of New York City).
For instance, the Swift nuclear device weighed about a hundred pounds and had a maximum yield of 0,19 kilotons, not much for a nuclear weapon but plenty for an attack in a very densely populated area. A hundred pounds is heavy for a backpack but not extremely so and anyone in good shape should be able to carry it. I carried backpacks that heavy myself (not that I enjoyed it). The Swift was from the mid '50's and no doubt the U.S. military got them even smaller.
So while I appreciate Durden fact-checking Vance I would say his fundamental premise is wrong.
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The Drones of War
Timothy Birdnow
There was a drone attack on a Louisiana bomber base that seems to be of unknown origin.
The March 9 attack on Barksdale Air Force Base in Louisiana, near Shreveport, disrupted flights intended to help in the Epic Fury attack on Iran.
Barksdale is no dog of an airbase; it's the nerve center for the Air Force Strike Command. It is a major center for B-52 bombers and is also a major base for American nuclear weapons.
The waves of attacks forced the temporary closure of the base.
This shows Iran or her proxies were in the U.S. and had weapons of war at the ready.
At any rate Barksdale does not have fighters to protect against such a threat and the electronic countermeasures to disrupt communications with the drones failed, suggesting someone knew how they worked and were able to harden the drones, which came in four hour waves and which came with lights on as if daring us to stop them. As the article points out these drones are far superior to any Iran has shown the world, especially the ones used in the Russo-Ukrainian war, so their origin is a mystery. Why, if I didn't know better I would say they are either our own, or Chinese.
These drones were far more sophisticated even than anything we have.
As things stand mysterious drones over American military bases are nothing new; we've seen them over the last couple of years. Anyone remember the New Jersey drone sightings? Our government told us these were simply domestic hobby drones. Our government lied. Witnesses say these drones were huge and amazingly sophisticated.
And don't forget the Chinese spy balloons which went over a bunch of our military bases.
So I suspect we've known they were there and we've probably got a good idea of who is behind them, but we can't prove it.
We'd better hustle it up and create superior military drones and do it damned quick.
Do notice that we've not heard any other stories of drone attacks on U.S. facilities since the start of the war. Now why do you suppose that is? My guess is that we've been able to disrupt Chinese spy networks here in the states (quietly) and probably put other countermeasures in place.
At any rate we are in another cloak and dagger spy v. spy Cold War and this sort of thing is going to continue to happen.
Naturally, the Chinese are being creamed by the Iran war and had everything to lose from it - and still do.
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Yes, Trump has Plenty of Options Besides Troops
Timothy Birdnow
More doom and gloom from CNN which is essentially echoing Walter Kronkite "this war is lost".
Speaking to largely anonymous "insider" sources they proudly proclaim Trump will have to send in troops.
He may but there are still plenty of options. He has yet to actually strike anything of importance in Iran except the leadership and that can change at any time. Trump has been very careful to avoid DESTROYING Iran but rather has made a series of surgical strikes to get the leadership. He can change that.
He can destroy Kharg Island and the islands near the strait where Iran is laying in wait like a crocodile for ships to try to pass. He can squeeze Iranian oil more. He can pressure the Saudis to ramp up oil production and thus get the prices down - Iran needs the high prices at this moment since they are selling less. He still has plenty of options.
But not if you listen to CNN.
From the article:
Military escalation by the US would almost certainly prompt Iran to retaliate in kind, potentially by striking energy-related targets in the region. The regime’s missile attacks on the Ras Laffan natural gas facility in Qatar earlier this month have already significantly damaged parts of the major industrial site, spurring fears in the energy markets of a widening regional war.
So CNN itself is admitting the Iranians have already tried to strike oil production sites in neighboring countries. If so, why did they stop? They were unable to destroy these sites largely because most of their missiles are getting shot down by us, and because hitting those countries might well widen the war - against THEM. Iran was quickly pissing off all of her neighbors. The Iranians strategy was to punish those working with the U.S. to make them turn against us - and it wasn't working. From our perspective the Arab states in the Gulf and nearby entering the war would be the ideal situation; it would mean we could leave a regional problem to those in the region. We WANT this war to widen. A regional coalition handling the Iran problem would take the issue off our plate. And Iran is hated by everyone in the region (except Iraq, controlled by an Iranian proxy) so the Iranians wouldn't be happy at all to bring Arabia and Qatar and maybe even Turkey or Syria or Pakistan into the war against them.
I would add Iran will eventually run out of missiles and drones. They've been firing off huge numbers of them and that won't last forever. As the aggressors we have been able to choose our times and places and thus shepherd our larger arsenal more carefully. They have had to rely on sheer volume, firing four, five missiles in the hopes one might get through and do some damage. That will exhaust them. And we can strike the munitions plants so they can't build more.
I recently read the Russians are going to supply them with drones. The Russians already need every weapon they can get their hands on because of their war with the Ukraine. So if they give weapons to Iran they can't use them against Kiev. The point is the very fact that the Russians are having to do this proves Iran is running out of weaponry.
Again, Trump has yet to destroy infrastructure.
I think another thing that is in the wings is the Kurdish contingency.
The Iranian People have yet to revolt, partly because the regime murdered 40,000 of them just to make sure they did not but also because they have nothing with which to fight. We can't just airlift weapons to the Iranian People; they will end up in the hands of the IRGC. But if we give them to the Kurds, the Kurds could see to it they get into the hands of the Iranian People and there is already a considerable network in "Kurdistan" capable of handling this.
This, I believe, is what Trump has in mind. Right now he's setting up the network and funneling weapons to the Kurds for distribution when the shooting phase is over. He's now on record telling the Iranian People to wait because it's not safe for them and so it is not. But once the shooting stops and the weapons are in the proper hands and are distributed to the rebels the Mullahs will find it very hard to hold onto power. That is especially true since those who were in power are now dead and the newbies are trying to organize in the middle of a fight.
Revolutions are not a case of one group seizing power from another but of the ruling group seeing their power evaporate and then the other group steps into the vacuum. There is an increasingly hard vacuum in Iranian power these days. Organize a group with weapons and the proper expertise to use them and you can push this whole rotten structure down.
And as for ground troops, Mike here said it best when he pointed out Kharg Island is too far from the actual strait to be worth seizing; we could just interdict it with naval and air power and the Iranians would be powerless to USE the island. Better to seize the islands near the strait itself, which is lousy with IRGC and are being used as firebases to close the strait.
I would add that even with Iran firing rockets and drones from their side of the strait we could easily handle that with air power; just burn the land along the strait with our big bombs, I mean really torch it. Make it a no-go zone. We could give plenty of warning to the populace to leave but the Iranians would find it much harder to mess with oil traffic if they didn't have control of the strait islands and their own coastline there. Oil tankers can just travel along the western shore of the Gulf up to the strait.
So CNN is just hanging crepe, and that to sour the chances of Trump winning this war. Don't believe it.
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The Fishbowl
Timothy Birdnow
I wrote about this long ago here at The Aviary; robot vacuum cleaners are designed to spy on you and it's not just the manufacturer who can access that data - or do other things with the crazy robot maids, but the U.S. government.
Bug? No, it's a design feature.
FTA:
It all started when Azdoufal had the bright idea to connect his DJI Romo robot vacuum to a PlayStation 5 game controller.
"But when his homegrown remote control app started talking to DJI’s servers, it wasn’t just one vacuum cleaner that replied,” Hollister reported. "Roughly 7,000 of them, all around the world, began treating Azdoufal like their boss.”
Azdoufal found he could control other vacuums, monitor their audio and video, and watch them map out houses.
This, of course, would be very useful to law enforcement, as well as for espionage. In the wrong hands it's better than a wiretap.
And you are bringing a pair of eyeballs when you bring one of these gadgets into your home. Those eyeballs MAY be friendly or maybe not.
We were lucky this Spanish engineer was a good guy who didn't want to exploit this. Imagine how easy it would be to steal someone's identity with such a gadget; just look at some mail set down on a coffee table or whatnot.
Of course the machine is making a map of your house and if the authorities want to come get you they will know exactly where you are. That may not seem that big a deal to most people but trust me it is if the authorities are the wrong people.
Increasingly Americans are careless with their privacy and their security. Did you know that every modern television has a camera on it that can broadcast to the government and you don't even know it's there? It's true and turning your t.v. off won't stop access. This is literally George Orwell's nightmare scenario. Oh, and the authorities can turn your television on or off if they see fit whether you want them to or not.
The other day my t.v. kept turning itself back on after I shut it off. It made me wonder if the authorities weren't conducting a test of the system.
I eventually had to just mute the stupid thing. In about half an hour it went off.
And cell phones all have GPS trackers so the authorities can know your whereabouts at any time they like - even if the phone is turned off. You have to pull the battery to shut that feature down.
Ditto laptops and most modern laptops have batteries that cannot be removed.
And of course laptops and smart phones all have video cameras on them so the authorities can watch you if you have them out.
But that's just technology; people are busily putting every aspect of their lives online on social media platforms. I once read a quote by a CIA operative who said that for years they had schemed to find ways to get information on people and they never thought of the obvious; just ask them for it. People are eager to hand it over to total strangers these days.
So robot cleaning machines that spy on you should come as no surprise as we increasingly live in a fishbowl society. And whoever has the techspertise to access the spyware will wind up being king, or at least filthy rich off of what he can steal from the fool who let his information be stolen from him through the promises made for advanced technology.
I have become increasingly luddite in my old age, but I may well have the last laugh.
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More Aliens, More Power
Timothy Birdnow
This says it all:
"I’m from Brooklyn, New York, We have a diaspora that can absorb a significant number of these migrants and that, you know, when I hear colleagues talk about, you know, the, the, the doors of the inn being closed [and] no room in the inn, I, I’m saying, you know, I, I need more people in my district just for redistricting purposes.”
Democratic New York Rep. Yvette Clarke Oct. 7, 2021
More aliens means more power.
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March 27, 2026
Seizeher wwas Always an Octopus
Timothy Birdnow
Our old friend Tom DeWeese gives us the unvarnished truth about Seizher Grabaz, er, Caesar Chavez.
He was a fraud hand picked by Saul Alinsky who lied about farm workers being non-unionized (most were Teamsters) and who never held a farm job in his life - he was a pool hall hustler.
Don't miss it.
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Thune Blows it Again
Timothy Birdnow
John Thune's gone and done it. He caved to the Democrats, cutting a deal that would fund all of DHS BUT ICE.
Damned his weaselly hide anyway! The Democrats were taking a beating on this and would have had to cave eventually - especially after Trump said he was going to pay the TSA by using emergency executive orders. But Thune wanted to go home and enjoy himself so he caved - no talking filibuster, no rule change to end the filibuster, no nothing. This was a pure surrender, plain and simple.
This will probably cost the GOP the election in November. It is this kind of sheer cowardice that has long dispirited the GOP base and led to Democrat victories. Schumer and his buddies are probably popping champagne corks now, knowing they won.
Saul Alinsky admonished his disciples "if you push a negative long and hard enough it can break through and become a positive" and this is exactly what that traitorous creep Chuck Schumer did - and Thune went right along with the script.
Why is it the GOP never stands firm and wins? Because our champions are not there to accomplish anything but rather to feather their own nests and enjoy the trappings of money and power. It's like Michael Corleone says in Godfather II "all of our people are businessmen. When loyalty is based on that anything is possible". This was in a discussion about who betrayed him. That is the GOP.
Trump endorsed Thune for Senate Majority Leader - Trump really screwed the pooch on that one.
This was a crust defense of the Senate majority, nay, the whole Republican Congressional majority; one break in the line and the barbarians come pouring in. Thune just turned tail and ran and now the Democrat horde is inside the city walls. We may well lose both houses of Congress.
After a voice vote the Senate recessed for Spring Break, and I suspect a lot of them are going to Cancun to enjoy the beaches and meet with their future constituents.
No, the Democrats didn't get their other demands; bench warrants, no masking, etc. And ICE is currently funded so enforcement won't ed immediately. No doubt Thune is patting himself on the back for being snookered by Schumer because to him it appears he won - or he thinks he can make the public think he won. But what happens when the funding runs out for ICE?
There was nothing done about the SAVE America Act either, the one thing that would have seriously damaged Democrats in the upcoming election.
The House still needs to pass this bill and President Trump needs to sign it. Of course, with the Senate on Fiesta that means if the House refuses to accept the bill as is it will have to wait until after Easter, or at least until the tequila runs out down in Acapulco.
While this is not a final victory it means yet another battle and another government shutdown when ICE funding runs out again when we had them on the ropes. But Thune wanted it finished "time is running out". What time was running out where? Time for him to lay in the tropical sun and sip strawberry margueritas maybe. Lazy bastard.
With these people as our champions we are doomed.
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John Cleese Helped Make the U.K. Monster
Timothy Birdnow
The American Spectator notes that John Cleese was beloved when trashing Western Civilization and Christianity and now hated for defending both against the creeping tide of Islam in Lesser Britain.
The author argues that Monty Python was a very liberal entity. I disagree.
The Monty Python troop was not so much liberal as libertarian, and while sometimes that is a distinction without a difference at other times it was quite telling. For instance there was the Dennis Moore sketch, in which a benighted boob named Dennis Moore took on the role of Robin Hood, redistributing wealth. Moore stole so much from the rich they became paupers, still living in their now bare-walled mansions and sitting in their underwear because Moore stole all their clothes while telling the same upper-crust jokes with the fake laughter. The poor because filthy rich, with fine tapestries on the walls, crystal cut glass and golden eating utensils and the like. And they were wholly ungrateful when Moore brought them silver spoons they snapped at him for bringing them junk. The song then sang "Dennis Moore, Dennis Moore, he steals from the poor and gives to the rich...stupid bitch". At which point Moore says "this redistribution of wealth is trickier than I though" and then he robs a stage coach and makes the passengers get out their valuables "now you don't have one of those so you get this, and you don't have that..."
Then there was the episode about the National Health Service where dusty skeletons were sitting in the waiting room.
I could go on but the point is made. They weren't actual lefties but not really right wing either. I would say they were libertarian.
That doesn't detract from the point of this article at all, it's just an important distinction to note. Libertarianism is in it's own way as destructive as Leftism because it guts the very soul of Western Civilization, sine most libertarians are atheists and reject tradition and cultural norms as surely as do Leftists.
Oh, and even when being quite liberal they were damned funny.
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Dem's Won't Win the Midterms, the GOP Will Lose Them
Timothy Birdnow
R. Emmett Tyrell argues the GOP is flubbing the next election and that they should be calling for the elimination of the TSA entirely.
As Tyrell points out, the TSA was one of the demands made by none other than Chuck U. Schumer after 911, that a unionized federal bureaucracy be created to take over what airports had traditionally done with private security. And the TSA does "security theatre" as he calls it. He's right; they do not catch any more terrorists than did the old private screeners but simply make it more difficult and inconvenient and embarrassing to fly. They do full body cavity searches to elderly grandmothers while ignoring military age Middle Eastern men, all in the name of "equity". The private guys can do better, and some airports never went with the TSA and actually do fine.
Tyrell is right; Trump should talk about eliminating the TSA now. He at least should talk about how the Democrats refuse to fund it while we're at war with a major sponsor of terrorism. Make the People think about THAT.
I would argue the Democrats WANT a terrorist attack so they an blame Donald J. Trump.
He observes:
And there aren’t many — any — wins to brag about right now. (Congressional wins he means.)
That’s what’s creating the perception that the midterms will be a disaster, even though the Democrats are the true disaster.
That's right; the GOP is not fulfilling it's contract with the nation and especially not with MAGA and the public is quick to fire such as they and try someone else, even if fearing the new folks will be worse. Americans are sick to death of inaction by our government and want them to wake from their tax-fueled slumber at any cost.
Lethargy by the Party breeds lethargy from the base, while the Democrats are energized, much like the demons after their fall from Heaven in Milon's immortal poem. Independents see that and are attracted to the passion; these are the unthinking folks, the low information voters, who don't understand the vicissitudes of politics but know they want someone who will take action. It's the same thing that gave Germany Hitler, or Italy Mussolini, or Russia Lenin. JUST DO SOMETHING! The Democrats will do the wrong thing but the LoFo Voto won't know.
If the GOP doesn't awaken soon they will zombie-walk their way into minority status and all will crash down. But then that is the goal of John Thune and his mentor Mitch "the long game" McConnell all along - to undermine MAGA and kill it so the rightful rulers of the GOP can return to suck up the money and bask in the power without doing anything of substance.
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Jed Babbin Asks What 's the Plan in Iran, Stan?
Timothy Birdnow
Jed Babbin asks what our definition of victory is in Iran.
Jed is a former assistant Secretary of Defense (War) during the Reagan years and is someone whose opinion is not to be taken lightly, but in this instance I think he's wrong.
For example, Jed argue:
"But no one — not even the son of the late Shah — has been able to establish a new government, even one in exile. Mr. Trump has made many pleas to the Iranian people to rise up but they are still too afraid of the regime to do so."
But that is NOT what Mr. Trump said - he said specifically for the Iranians to NOT take action until our military campaign is concluded then he welcomes them to move. He specifically asked them not to while the bombs were dropping.
He is correct that no one group has been able to take control of the country but he sees that as a bad thing while I see it as a good thing; it means the old regime is no longer unified and in charge. I believe Trump has been negotiating with one faction while another wants to continue the war. Which faction will win out? Probably the ones who remain alive after all is said and done. Now which faction do you suppose that will be?
He's also right that Iran continues to launch missile and drone strikes on Israel but again, what does that tell us? Every time they launch these weapons they no longer have them in their arsenal, and the bombing has likely taken out their ability to produce new ones. What this tells us is Iran was far better armed than they let on and there was a reason for that. They had those weapons for offensive capabilities, which means so they could attack their neighbors. Those were not for defense.
We all know that Iran surprised us with the missile attack on Diego Garcia, which was twice as far as their missiles could supposedly reach; they lied to us about their missile range. Now they could hit Paris or perhaps even London with their longer range missiles and once they had nukes small enough to mount on such they would pose a serious threat to Europe. In nuclear strategy it's not what someone has so much as what someone could have. That's how strategic thinking went all through the Cold War and it helped prevent a thermonuclear war.
He says:
"So where do we go from here? It is pretty clear that we will have to deploy ground troops to really end the ayatollahs’ regime. About 5,000 more Marines and sailors are on the way to Iran. If the Marines are landed their small force will not be capable of removing the regime without help from the Iranian people."
With all due respect to someone with superior expertise, I don't see why. Jed assumes the Iranian People aren't going to do the job, but eventually the survivors of the regime will not be able to project any power and there will be a vacuum in Iran, to be filled by new people. It may take too much time, and that is a political problem and not a military one, but troops in Iran would still have no clear objective (except maybe to capture and remove nuclear material) while the bombing campaign has specific, clear objectives - kill the Iranian leadership, degrade their military capabilities, and demoralize them. Send in troops and all you get are a bunch of guys wandering around, just prime for booby traps and guerilla warfare.
Once we get the Strait of Hormuz open, and that is likely what Trump is doing with this contingent of paratroopers and the like coming in, trying to take Kharg island and thus paralyze the Iranian oil industry while at the same time helping to open the Strait, then Iran can be completely strangled economically. They will run out of weapons, there is no question. And their leadership is all too busy enjoying 72 virgins and a mule to be able to fight back effectively.
You do know that we have not touched Iran's basic infrastructure yet and we could go there well before we launch a physical invasion of the country. Trump is trying to take out the leadership but leave the nation intact.
I think Trump has been quite clear on his aims; finish off the nuclear program, drive the Mullah-ocracy out of power, and end Iran's support for terrorism worldwide. He's largely accomplished the second goal, although the Revolutionary government is still in power in theory. And Israel is accomplishing the latter, bombing Hizbollah into the last century. Getting the Iranian nuclear material out of the country is going to be the toughest problem, but we've certainly degraded their program and there is every reason to believe a lot of that nuclear material they possessed could have been damaged by the bombing.
Jed makes a good argument but I think he's just wrong.
For the record, years ago Jed and I had a long e-mail argument over the "war on terror" that was initiated by him after I left a comment on one of his American Spectator articles. He devoted a LOT of time arguing with me over it and I took that as an honor as he obviously had great respect for my opinion, just some schlub babbling in a comments section. I have to admit I did not win the debate (although I don't think I lost it) because Jed was GOOD and really knew his stuff. But he's pretty much an isolationist, was then and remains so today.
I think there is something to not wanting to get tangled up in all sorts of conflicts (and as you all know I'm for staying out of the Ukraine dustup), but there are times you simply have to act. This is one of them. It's always been one of them with Iran and we kicked the issue down the road far too long. At some point you run out of road. That's where we are now.
I agree; Trump should address the nation and give us his game plan. But Trump doesn't want to do that because he's read Sun Tzu and knows a good commander is unpredictable and confusing to his enemies and Trump has not just the Iranians as enemies but the Democrats and media too and he dare not give away his strategy. Trump's thinking on this is sound. But it's costing the GOP with the American People.
And if we lose in the upcoming elections we lose EVERYTHING. Trump will be investigated repeatedly, will be impeached again and again, and will lose funding for everything he tries to do. Trump needs to shore up popular support and he needs to nail this sucker down and leave triumphant. I think he can do it but I think he may find himself unduly delayed, and that isn't going to be helpful for the midterms.
So hopefully Jed is wrong and my rather sunny assessment is correct. I'm not a military guy, nor am I a Middle Eastern/Iranian guy. My main area of study in college was Russia, which is largely out of the picture in all this.
I sure do know how to pick my fights, don't I? Me, a former Real Estate guy who was trained in Russian Affairs and Scientific Translation up against a former undersecretary of Defense under the great Ronald Reagan.
God I hope and pray I am right.
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March 26, 2026
Dem Steals Millions, Media Uninterested
Timothy Birdnow
Florida Democrat Congresswoman Sheila Cherfilus McCormick Stole $5 million from FEMA relief and all we got from the media is this lousy tee-shirt.
She spent the money to get herself re-elected.
Not one single peep from the corporate media.
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