Posted on 04/10/2026 5:17:54 AM PDT by MtnClimber
“And notice how nonchalant it sounds. Trump didn’t go for epic, carnage-heavy branding. He branded it the way you’d casually announce National Potato Chip Day.” American Debunk on X.
[Truth Social post from President Trump]
Note: you are living through the FAFO of all FAFOs just now. The USA is brooking no more aspersions from whomever is still left alive to speak for the jihad posse in Iran. These are the terms: open the strait, layoff the other Gulf states, surrender those thousand pounds of enriched uranium. You can still go forward in time as a developed nation, enjoy the modern Persian life. Or, you can go backward in time to the twelfth century without electric service, bridges, and other conveniences. Your choice.
Over the weekend, further demonstration of what we can do. Such as, against all odds and expectations, rescue an American airman stuck under fire in the middle of Iranian mountain nowhere and do it with no casualties. The Lefty-lefties were so disappointed! No body-bags to celebrate. No Trump failure to trumpet. They were praying out loud Sunday to the Easter Bunny for war crimes they can do a hate-dance over. They insist the USA must be defeated in Iran so that Chuck Schumer and Hakim Jeffries can win the mid-terms. . . so they can destroy Trump in Congress. (Uh, okay, and then what?)
Meanwhile, another couple of dozen Iranian military higher-ups got kinetically removed from operations Saturday. Good luck with your military command structure over there. Got carrier pigeons? But, as far as is known, President Masoud Pezeshkian is still above ground, along with Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi, with whom US negotiators have at least been messaging, if not talking directly.
Trouble is, their civilian government has no authority over the Revolutionary Guard (the IRGC), which controls all the missiles and drones, the proxy Quds forces outside Iran, and what’s left of the Basij secret police for terrorizing Iran’s people. Remember, it was the Revolutionary Guard who started this jihad long ago in 1979 when they seized the US embassy in Teheran and held 52 Americans hostages for more than a year.
The ultimatum to roll over Iran’s vital infrastructure on Tuesday is a forcing function to clarify who exactly can speak for the Iranian nation if they sincerely want the punishment to stop. It is unlikely to be anyone atop the IRGC, which is the rectified essence of the Islamic death cult. It lives for death! Death to America. . . death to ourselves for that ticket to paradise where the seventy-two virgins beckon. . . death to the global economy, if Allah requires it! Lovely, lovely death!
What part of that does Western Civ not understand? Jihad rolls across Europe without opposition. Nightclub massacres, trucks smashing through bodies in the Christmas markets, rape gangs, beheadings of teachers and Christian priests in broad daylight — none of that was enough to bestir the prime ministers and presidents of Euroland to consider expelling the uninvited hordes. New York City, the bastion of Lefty-left masochism, now lives under the sway of Mamdani’s soft jihad, the Islamic call-to-prayer rings through the neighborhoods twenty-five years after 9-11. The Jews of the Upper West Side voted for it. Compassion for the oppressed, as always. . . at one’s own expense.
The US President will have none of that, of course. So, he put it in the starkest form possible, with a touch of manic glee to annoy his homeland enemies. Developments since then? An Israeli air strike overnight took out Majid Khademi, the IRGC Intel chief. Who’s next? Step right up. Foreign Minister Araghchi hastily proposed a forty-five-day ceasefire through Egyptian-Turkish-Pakistani mediators. I doubt that our side wants to give them forty-five days to re-shuffle their remaining assets around. Mr. Trump is not bluffing about those bridges and power plants. Russia and China are not riding to the rescue. And Europe is still off in its corner, pearl-clutching and sniveling while its economies sputter.
Epic Fury leads to epic change on the global landscape. The old arrangements are over, especially the sponsored export of jihadi terror. The Hormuz crisis is the actualization of the global resource scramble underway. The winners and losers are sorting themselves out now, and Mr. Trump seeks to make sure that America is on the winners’ side. So, you must ask: why does the American Left, as personified in the Democratic Party, so desperately want our country to lose?
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The democRATs want our country to lose because they think they can then deal with the islamists and then be free to build their utopia without opposition.
James Howard Kunstler ping
GREAT article. Thanks for posting. HOORAY President Trump, America’s armed forces, their families, their friends.
One shudders to think. If the democommies manage to fraud their way back into power, it will make the tyranny of the Biden administration pale in comparison.
Regime change...
The democRATs want our country to lose because they hate Trump. They choose to suffer bad democrat policy, fraud, high taxes, crime, corruption and everything else just because it’s anti Trump.
It dosen’t matter if the way they vote ruins everyone’s life as long as it is bad for Trump, or whoever they are told to oppose.
Fanatical psychopaths.
He also said this:
“This is no time to lack faith in the authority of the CIA Director, but you must for now because hardly anybody commands authority except Mr. Trump, the president, and he has been busy frittering it away on childish tweets, calling his enemies names as though we were back in the third grade.”
“He better cut that out and show some decorum or his enemies will peel away the authority that he has left in this epic battle to preserve the republic from utter ruin.”
“The Jews of the Upper West Side voted for it. Compassion for the oppressed, as always. . . at one’s own expense.”
Yes, what I call “pathological compassion” and it doesn’t involve just jews, a big chunh of white non jewish self loathing useful idiots are infected with it as well.
Because they want unaccountable power to destroy all opposition.
Power, by any means or at any cost.
Kuntsler is good at getting g to the heart of it. I think Trump is at least partly agreeing to this ceasefire to give the two warring leadership factions in Iran time to duke it out so there’s someone with authority to cut a deal.
The left is so delusional. They have illogical ideals, which have always been unobtainable, and they will be steam rolled to death by the islamacysts.
That’s what the left get after watching 70 years of “happy ending” moving picture story telling. And enjoying the unprecedented solution to many aspects of living. Things like food production, travel, communication, etc. They forget that there are people who have a different take on life, and would like to see the left dead if they don’t submit.
IMHO
There is only one way, and it is basically non-historic.
MAGA/Conservative voters have to vote this year.
They cannot sit this one out. It is actually more important for their political ideals and outcome for them to vote this year than it was in 2024.
It is a long row to hoe, and I don’t know how one can motivate people who aren’t active politically like FReepers.
I also believe he is trying to publicly position himself as still trying to avoid continued war. But I believe we are positioning military elements and assets (IDF, USA, others, and the Persians, and other political factions) for the final overthrow of the mullahs. As soon as a major violation of the truce occurs by Iran ...a decisive war will happen.
IMHO
National Potato Chip Day was a month ago. Some of us take it VERY seriously.
Yes, IMO its naive to think we can leave this regime in power. They will never change.
The end of the op-ed ( 12 December 2025 ) to which you linked:
"Mr. Trump needs to take a cue from the name of that desk he sits behind in the Oval Office: it's called Resolute. Please stop yapping idly and just be resolute in the face of your enemies."
It's rather sure the Trump-Vance administration hasn't got Kuntsler in their view, but nonetheless, "be resolute in the face of your enemies" seems to be ongoing. Resolute.
What seems NOT to be resolute in this moment is captured in Kunstler's latest, the topic of this thread:
What part of that does Western Civ not understand? Jihad rolls across Europe without opposition. Nightclub massacres, trucks smashing through bodies in the Christmas markets, rape gangs, beheadings of teachers and Christian priests in broad daylight — none of that was enough to bestir the prime ministers and presidents of Euroland to consider expelling the uninvited hordes. New York City, the bastion of Lefty-left masochism, now lives under the sway of Mamdani’s soft jihad, the Islamic call-to-prayer rings through the neighborhoods twenty-five years after 9-11.Taking a word or two from the Kunstler piece, "not bluffing." The jihad rolling over the world in "not bluffing." Neither should we. And this op-ed end....
The old arrangements are over, especially the sponsored export of jihadi terror. The Hormuz crisis is the actualization of the global resource scramble underway. The winners and losers are sorting themselves out now, and Mr. Trump seeks to make sure that America is on the winners’ side. So, you must ask: why does the American Left, as personified in the Democratic Party, so desperately want our country to lose?As above, Kunstler's underlined words are most worthy.
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Not bluffing? It’s Friday and straights still not open!
I think he has stated that he changed his mind on a number of things.
I suggest you get off his back. He’s a very skilled writer who is pointing out a lot of true things.
Nobody had everything right at every step.
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