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Posted on 05/03/2026 6:21:54 AM PDT by MtnClimber
It is shocking how many people with major media platforms would rather see Iran win its battle to preserve its nuclear program than have President Trump achieve some kind of success.
Thomas Friedman essentially conceded in a recent New York Times column that he is torn, because he doesn’t want to see Trump or Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu “strengthened” by success against Iran.
This is disgusting.
Imagine how an American soldier on the front line feels when he hears or reads about this moral betrayal from mainstream liberal figures in the American media.
Both the U.S. and Israel are taking proper military action against a tyrannical and unlawful regime that might well use a nuclear arsenal against its enemies, were it be allowed to develop one. Neither country needs to take that risk if they have the military ability to prevent it.
Preventive wars against threatened nuclear attacks are justified both morally, legally and under any theory of just war. Yet one doesn’t have to agree with this entirely reasonable statement in order to disagree with those who are cheering for the most evil and dangerous regime since Nazi Germany.
Recall that hundreds of thousands of Americans and millions of Europeans were rooting for Germany in the run-up to World War II. So it should not be surprising that some perverse America- and Israel-haters are rooting for Iran today.
No decent person should be on Iran’s side or remain ambivalent about the need to defeat Iran’s genocidal ambitions. No decent person should support Iran’s repression and murder of tens of thousands of its own citizens just this calendar year.
But some indecent Americans and Europeans are siding with evil because they disapprove so strongly of the current leaders of the nations fighting it.
These are not close questions. Perhaps it is arguable that some of the means chosen by the U.S. and Israel are poorly designed to achieve their laudable ends. But there can be little dispute about these ends being laudable, or about these democracies being on the right side in their conflict with a tyrannical regime sworn to the destruction of democratic nations it characterizes as “the big Satan” and “the little Satan.”
The First Amendment gives Americans the right to cheer for Iran if they want, just as it gave them the right to cheer for Nazi Germany. But their exercise of a constitutional right doesn’t mean that others don’t also have the right to point out that they are wrong on the merits.
The First Amendment bars the government from censoring Jimmy Kimmel’s unfunny description of First Lady Melania Trump as having “a glow like an expectant widow,” but it doesn’t require ABC to promote such a revolting image.
Nor does it mean that The New York Times acts wisely in platforming anti-American and antisemitic bigots like Hasan Piker, even if it is free to do so. Piker praises major terrorist groups, including the proxy militias that Iran uses to destabilize its region. He trivializes the Holocaust and the rapes and murders that Hamas committed in its Oct. 7, 2023 massacre in southern Israel. He has also coyly encouraged the assassination of Trump — unmistakably but without directly saying so — as well as other U.S. politicians.
The First Amendment is very limited in its exceptions. It empowers the government to censor only speech that creates a high risk of imminent harm. But some constitutionally protected speech can and does encourage non-imminent violence, including assassinations.
And private organizations are not bound by the First Amendment. They are not required to platform, promote or even tolerate speech that they reasonably believe may lead to violence. They all have standards that they apply to decide what to allow to appear under their imprimatur.
The spirit of the First Amendment should incline even private institutions to err on the side of permitting and not censoring controversial speech. But that presumption in favor of free expression should not be used as an excuse not to exercise good judgment in deciding which speech to promote.
Consumers of the media should be asking whether the media they read, watch or listen to are striking that balance appropriately today.
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They are gleeful for anything that hurts, harms or is against Trump.
> They don’t want America to win because that would mean Trump won. <
I really think that’s the bottom line. It’s an automatic reaction of sorts.
If Biden or Obama had done this, there’d still be some grumbling. But overall, thumbs up from the Democrats and the mainstream media.
President Trump needs to come out and say he supports breathing 😎😂
But sipping coffee here in America, I’m more concerned about illegal immigration, gangs, high taxes, and statist destruction of life, liberty, and property onshore.
Iran is a classic neocon boogeyman. They can’t launch anything 7,000+ miles that’d hit America. Yet for decades we’ve been fed the line that Iran is “only months if not weeks” away from having nuclear capabilities. And yeah, they’re harsh leaders…like most nations that are lead by idiots.
In reality, the only people at risk from the mullahs are their own citizens and nations close by - and THEY won’t take action.
Iranian citizens should go full Ceauçescu on their leaders. Neighboring nations should do whatever they think is right.
America can watch from afar, and keep our military and soldiers out of this hot mess.
I encourage Dershowitz, if he’s so passionate, to book a flight to Israel and pick up a gun. Oh wait…he’s anti-gun. Well, he can always Venmo money; has he done that yet?
Why are some in our media cheering for Iran?
Because Trump.
They hate Pres Trump.
Every Trump defeat is their victory!
They are also working on November election.
and that’s all that matters to them.
That ain’t right.
In reality, the only people at risk from the mullahs are their own citizens and nations close by - and THEY won’t take action.
Iranian citizens should go full Ceauçescu on their leaders. Neighboring nations should do whatever they think is right.
Their missiles have recently been shown to be able to reach European targets. The idea that we need to rely on Iran’s neighbors to stop the threat is short sighted. It is sort of like relying on Poland to stop the German threat in WWII.
They do not even have to have long range missles to deliver a nuke to the USA. A nuke delivered via a cheap freighter to withing a few miles off of New York could be very effective.
The Iranians have already killed hundreds of Americans with the strike at Marine Barracks in Lebanon in 1983, and with supplying deadly IEDs in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. There is at least some evidence they have been plotting to assassinate American presidents.
For decades the USA has taken half measures to contain the Iranian threat. We sabotaged their nuclear capabilities. Sancitions in President Trump’s first term were working.
But President Obama and Biden did the opposite, giving Iran billions of dollars and giving them a clear path to develop nuclear weapons. When an entity repeatedly tells you they are going to destroy you, and is building the weapon to do so, it is stupid to ignore them and tell their neighbors “take care of it, it is none of our business”.
Over the past 20 years, I have had a conservative friend I talk to a lot, but he has a lib daughter and lives in a blue area, and never misses an opportunity to say something like “I hope the moderate DemoKKKrats will come out and stop (x, y, z).” I’ve been telling him this whole time . . .
THERE. ARE. NO. MODERATE. DEMOKKKRATS.
They all left or were purged. The voter registration shifts of over 1.3m from D to R nationally in just over a year confirm that.
So, Iran? DemoKKKrats don’t just hate you and me and (quite literally) want us dead. They hate AMERICA because they know America, still, represents that center-right vision implemented by Ronald Reagan in the 1980s that has never gone away, and has been accelerated by Trump.
Trump’s whole message is “Make America Great Again.” But they hated it when America was great. Remember fat Teddy Kennedy sending letters to the Soviet dictators undermining Reagan?
Iran is just the latest “my enemy’s enemy is my friend” unholy marriage. And no, it does not do a bit of good to say that the Mullahs stone people and throw homosexuals off buildings.
A good look inside this transition and how an uncritical mind is changed within a decade is Jane Fonda’s bio, “Citizen Jane.” Did you know that in 1962 the U.S. Army named Fonda “Recruiter of the Year” and that she made a speech gushing with PRAISE for the U.S. military? But she married Euroweenie Roger Vadim, never bothered to actually read anything, and hung out with commies. And “Whup! Dere it is!” Jane on an aa gun for the North Vietnamese commies.
Because they're lying, stinking, commie cucks who need to dragged through the streets on a rope.??
THERE. ARE. NO. MODERATE. DEMOKKKRATS.
and we should repeat it too.
Political antagonism. Their idea is they’ll fight Trump any way they can no matter who it hurts. Even themselves as they think they are right. Damn the torpedoes... Stupid.
wy69
Democrats have always abandoned allies and helped America’s enemies to win. Democrats pulled the plug on Nationalist China, Cuba, Viet Nam, the Shah, Iraq and A-stan. There are probably many other small countries that they abandoned as well. Democrats are a dangerous fifth column seeking to overthrow America from within.
Ai Overview:
AI Overview
A “fifth column” is a group of secret sympathizers or agents who undermine a nation or organization from within, often assisting an external enemy through espionage, sabotage, or propaganda. Originating during the 1936 Spanish Civil War, these groups operate clandestinely, spreading misinformation and infiltrating key positions to cause fear and disrupt defense
Why are some in our media cheering for Iran?
Most of the MSM has always leaned the Marxist way even during WWII look how they looked up to Germany and note how many Americans joined the German army.
Hate boils deep and it dangerous for all.
I read somewhere that John Effin’ Kerry served in RVN…
Ukraine did so for democrat traitors during Biden’s destructive time in office.
Yep. It’s tribal.
1. enemy agents
2. paid by enemy agents or the NGO’s they control
3. useful idiots of enemy agents
<< It is a mixture of extreme TDS, anti military, and anti US sentiments. >>
Plus pro-jihadi sentiments — the red/green alliance.
And of course reflexively anti-Israel sentiments, which is the strongest motivating factor for many.
The only thing they will ever understand is being shot in the face.
But be won’t.
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