Tag: Iran

Getting Drafty In Here

Trump Administration Moves To Automate U.S. Military Draft Registration… While Trump built the campaign that led him back to the White House upon a platform of refusing to drag the country into any new conflicts like the endless cycle of regime change wars in the Middle East that has haunted the United States since the dawn of the new millennium, that promise has been completely broken little more than a year into his second term in the Oval Office. [More]

It’s like he’s trying to break every promise and blow the midterms, be impeached and then prosecuted, and hand the whole thing over to the Dems in ’28.

Blackpilling or observing?

I know… 3D chess!

[Via bondmen]

Related UPDATE

And there was war in Heaven…

Waist Deep in the Big Muddy

Prof. John Mearsheimer : No Way for Trump to Win [Watch]

A lefty Pete Seeger song comes to mind.

Alluded to in the conversation between Judge Nap and the professor is a concern I’ve had from Day One– that the Iranian masses don’t have the will and the wherewithal to replace their regime, thinking we can do it for them is an invitation to disaster, that what they would replace it with has never been identified, and that Reza Pahlavi is the wrong horse to back.

It does kind of raise some questions for those who maintain millions of hard core gun owners would have no chance against a gun-confiscating government. If an ostensibly omnipotent military can’t bring the Iranians to heel, what makes people think they could do it here, where “We are everywhere“?

We’ll see how wrong I am. Pray that I am. I do.

[Via WRSA]

Fueling the Fire

From Biden’s ‘war’ on gas prices to ‘small price to pay,’ GOP shifts tone as Iran conflict hits pumps – Gas prices jumped 50 cents per gallon since Operation Epic Fury began, reaching $3.54 average nationwide [More]

So, with a “war” under Trump it’s basically .02/gal. more than in Biden’s heyday.

Nobody remembers the sacrifices that had to be made by “the greatest generation”– and the sacrifices they required of enemy civilian populations.

Ol’ Clausewitz was right, and it’s pretty obvious the freak-out-over-no-toilet-paper generation will fold like a cheap suit and vote in communists if subjected to what would previously have been considered inconveniences.

And don’t get me wrong– I’m still not convinced that the course we’re on is the best one, I’m merely making an observation about the fortitude of an electorate that more often than not asks what their country can do for them.

Oh, look: There is no joy in Mudville.

Related UPDATE

Ruh-roh!

Oil Prices Drop, Establishment Media And Democrats Enraged

Persian to Persian Call

Exiled Iranian Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi called for “humanitarian intervention” in his country and urgent international measures against Iran’s ruling regime amid protests and reported mass casualties. Pahlavi appealed to President Donald Trump after Trump said regime change in Iran “would be the best thing that could happen.” [More]

Lead the charge, Reza. We’re not going to die so you can rule without earning it.

We’re told your old man got out with $2B and you won’t say how much of that you now control.

This whole Iranian thing is ultimately about them not being motivated enough to do it for themselves. If they want the lion with the sword back, they need to pick up the damn sword and wield it themselves.

Mystery to Me

A U-Haul driver allegedly plowed into a massive crowd of protesters at an anti-Iran regime rally in Los Angeles on Sunday… The rental truck, which had the words “NO SHAH. NO REGIME. USA: DON’T REPEAT 1953. NO MULLAH” emblazoned on one side … Bill Essayli, the first assistant US attorney for the Central District of California, wrote on X that the FBI is on the scene and will assist the LAPD in determining the motive of the driver. [More]

I guess that beats the wild guess I was gonna take…

[Via Michael G]

Imams Demand Action

State television reported the arrest of an unspecified number of people in another western city, Kermanshah, accused of manufacturing petrol bombs and homemade pistols. [More]

So… ghost guns?

Every terrible implement of the soldier… this is what it’s all about. This is what the Democrats and Swamp Republicans want to deny to us.

This is why when we focus exclusively on “self-defense” we’re leaving major arguments ignored, to our peril.

Did Someone Say ‘Mission Creep’?

Iran orders closure of Strait of Hormuz — putting one-fifth of world’s oil supply at risk [More]

And Trump promises more if they retaliate.

So much for “We’re just going to take out the nukes, honest.”

Did someone way “regime change“?

Let’s see, how do they retaliate?

We strike military targets. They target civilians.

Let’s see what happens to that “increasing appetite” when their people here start doing that. Speaking of which, file this under “WTF?”

I want the Constitution observed. Since this affects me and mine, I want my representatives to weigh in. Calling someone who agrees with that a “pathetic loser” is ad hominem, a logical fallacy. It does not speak well to position or character.

Oh, and I’d like to see the evidence.

Still, we would be remiss if we didn’t acknowledge how we got to this point.

UPDATE

Iran fires missiles at US bases in Qatar, Iraq

[Via Jess]

Come Now, and Let Us Reason Together

H.Con.Res. 38: Directing the President pursuant to section 5(c) of the War Powers Resolution to remove United States Armed Forces from unauthorized hostilities in the Islamic Republic of Iran… Prognosis
24% chance of being agreed to [More]

Seems to me ignoring the Constitutional delegation of the power to declare war to Congress has produced nothing but catastrophe since the end of WWII. If we’re going to risk WWIII, I want to have a say in it through my representatives.

It’s both amazing and depressing to see how knee-jerk hostile many self-identified MAGA types get on social media at the suggestion that we might just want to listen to the Founders on this. Ditto for some gun owners, who aren’t grokking a text, history, and tradition parallel…

I guess they’re ready for martial law, ration cards, and suspension of rights. Either that or they think it will always just be something we see on the news.

Very few seem to be asking “Cui bono?” or connecting dots to the “Deep State” Trump campaigned against.

Droning On

That they haven’t been taken out already suggests either incompetence or complicity.

[Via Jess]

UPDATE

The Pentagon says this isn’t accurate, but doesn’t say what is.

None Dare Call It Treason

Iranian Nationals Apprehended at Texas Border – Special interest illegal aliens from Middle Eastern countries continue to swarm the southwest land border. [More]

Brought to you by “pathway to citizenship” traitors.

If they succeed in acting out, watch their Democrat enablers blame lax gun laws and the racist fascists who oppose them.

[Via Sweet Babboo]