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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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Let's do away with their stinking union and seek-out those who are unfit to teach how to live and prosper in the Republic of the United States of America and kick their furry butts OUT OF THE COUNTRY..!!!
Then you can run for the school board in the next election.
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Because they hate white western Christian civiiization and Trump
They are morally superior to all that came before
And they are paid by their media masters who are true believers with a dog in the hunt
Always been like this just worse now
No hiding it
In the early days of the Texas oil boom, they has so much oil they were putting it in open air pools. After several explosions and fires…they stopped doing that.
Surprised to see The Hill saying this as they usually bend to the left, from what I’ve seen.
“note how many Americans joined the German army.”
I searched for a number, and the true figure is not known. Estimates are maybe a couple hundred. I call BS on your claim.
I would say a few things are missing from the Iran war -as they were missing from Vietnam, Iraq, and Afghanistan.
Congress's power and authority are in there for a reason.
No, it isn't. Welcome to the real world.
You really have to ask the question?
Follow the money. Just like this:
Venezuela’s former Chief of National Intelligence Hugo Carvajal has OFFICIALLY RELEASED every U.S. Senator who is on THE VENEZUELA LIST of politicians who have been receiving MILLIONS OF DOLLARS IN KICKBACKS from the Maduro regime and Venezuelan drug trafficking organizations that make up his government in exchange for using their government positions and influence to undermine President Trump and Secretary of War Pete Hegseth’s ongoing war with these narcoterrorists.
Every one of these Senators is guilty of providing aid and comfort to THE ENEMY during a time of war and has the blood of their fellow American citizens.
(HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS of whom die of drug overdoses every year at the hands of these criminal drug trafficking organizations that bring deadly drugs into our country) on their hands.
May each and every one of them be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law and may their names forever live in shame for their treason.
Below is EVERY U.S. SENATOR ON THE VENEZUELA LIST:
Lisa Murkowski - R - Alaska
Mark Kelly - D - Arizona
Ruben Gallego - D - Arizona
Alex Padilla - D - California
Adam Schiff - D - California
Michael Bennet - D - Colorado
John Hickenlooper - D - Colorado
Richard Blumenthal - D - Connecticut
Chris Murphy - D - Connecticut
Chris Coons - D - Delaware
Jon Ossoff - D - Georgia
Raphael Warnock - D - Georgia
Brian Schatz - D - Hawaii
Mazie Hirono - D - Hawaii
Dick Durbin - D - Illinois
Tammy Duckworth - D - Illinois
Chuck Grassley - R - Iowa
Joni Ernst - R - Iowa
Mitch McConnell - R - Kentucky
Rand Paul - R - Kentucky
Bill Cassidy - R - Louisiana
Susan Collins - R - Maine
Angus King - I - Maine
Chris Van Hollen - D - Maryland
Angela Alsobrooks - D - Maryland
Elizabeth Warren - D - Massachusetts
Ed Markey - D - Massachusetts
Gary Peters - D - Michigan
Elissa Slotkin - D - Michigan
Amy Klobuchar - D - Minnesota
Tina Smith - D - Minnesota
Roger Wicker - R - Mississippi
Deb Fischer - R - Nebraska
Jacky Rosen - D - Nevada
Catherine Cortez Masto - D - Nevada
Jeanne Shaheen - D - New Hampshire
Maggie Hassan - D - New Hampshire
Cory Booker - D - New Jersey
Andy Kim - D - New Jersey
Martin Heinrich - D - New Mexico
Ben Ray Lujan - D - New Mexico
Some men (and women) want to see the world burn. It’s no more complex than that. A substantial part of the population is motivated by harm to others. They don’t respond to rational argument. They seek harm. This is usually carefully masked as help. But their results are always harmful.
Anyone who still supports the Democrats has an evil and criminal heart, mind and soul.
Anyone.
Cuz some of them are followers of Satan!
Poor Alan is just starting down a learning curve that most of us went down many years ago.
They’ve honestly been taught and are true believers that the USA is a horrible country full of all sorts of bad that makes us systemically a terrible nation.
Couple that with TDS and it becomes a breeding ground for real evil and insanity.
The left is openly evil and deluded.
TDS, of course. They hate Trump so much that they’re willing to sacrifice the lives of their children and grandchildren to thwart him.
May it be that again soon.
We will wait to fight back though until the left controls the
military and then they will slaughter us.
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