My family has been forever impacted by the Ayatollah. My aunt was one of the hostages at the embassy
My family back home spent over a year being harassed non stop by reporters, supporters, and nefarious actors.
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Dear @MattWalshBlog:
I was 11 when the Islamic Revolution swept the Ayatollah into power in 1979. You weren’t born yet, I know, but for those of us who were, well, the memory of it is seared into our consciousness.
66 Americans were held hostage for 444 days. America was held hostage. Then President Carter was impotent. Americans wanted, no, they demanded a strong response.
It never came.
Since that time, the ayatollahs have waged war on America and Americans — they coined the term “The Great Satan” — with impunity, knowing that the America governed by Clintons and Obamas and Bidens (and even Bushes) was weak and tolerant. Thus, the Iranians funded 90+ attacks on American soldiers since 2020 alone. They have killed more than 600.
So, no, I do not accept your straw man argument that those of us who support President Trump’s decision to bomb Iran came up with the talking points “5 minutes ago.” We came up with them 47 years ago, Matt. The charge is outrageous, condescending (which you are prone to), and historically ignorant — but you weren’t born yet and maybe you just don’t know any better. You’re better than your flaccid arguments. (I saw your What is a Woman? movie. And liked it. Do better.)
Many of us do remember 1979 and the attacks and tortures and murders since, and we’ve wanted a strong response for decades. Not for revenge, mind you, as that makes for poor policy. But for justice. And because Iran is the head (a hydra, there are many heads) of the terrorist snake. You want the terrorists at home gone? So do I. So does every Trump voter. But who do you think funds them, trains them, sends them to do their dirty work?
I live in the South. Fire ants are a thing. I fought that battle for years pointlessly. Why? Because my neighbors didn’t fight it at all. No sooner did I destroy an ant hill than a new one almost spontaneously generated. Finally, I convinced my neighbors to let me kill theirs, too. Only then were my children safe from the bane of fire ants.
This is America First.
You tend to lean not America First, but America Only. Get out more. See the world as I have. And when you do you’ll realize the storm brewing at home is fueled from abroad. They are not mutually exclusive.
Attack both.
Strike the root of the terrorist tree or you accomplish nothing.
If Mamdani would like me, a white New Yorker who never owned slaves, to pay a black New Yorker who never was a slave, then I propose:
Every Muslim in NYC starting with Mamdani, should pay us for 9/11.
Please explain why the latter makes no sense but the former does.
On trading Connelly Early:
He’s been pretty much exclusively awesome since his call-up last year. But the metrics have been a talking point. ERA 3.44 but xERA 4.33. And now the elbow barks. Just like WSH surely feels they’re selling high on Curtis Mead, the Red Sox probably feel the same about Early.
But it’s a huge gamble because you now have 22 games of evidence / results that show he’s a high level MLB starter that can handle this market. And the dudes who just came from the Red Sox org to run the Nationals and know Early are making that bet.
That said, the Red Sox have a number of starters on the MLB team, on the IL, and in the system that either are or project to be mid rotation or better arms. It was an area of depth that at some point they were gonna need to trade from. This type of move was in the cards the second they signed Ranger Suarez.
He’ll be missed. Really good pitcher. Incredibly nice person.
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Where does Curtis Mead immediately rank in the Red Sox lineup?
135 wRC+ - 2nd
.359 xwOBA - 2nd
.856 OPS - 2nd
.351 OBP - 2nd
.505 SLG - 2nd
17 HR - 2nd
Willson Contreras is the only bat ahead of him at the moment.
Caution didn't win women the vote, or equal pay, or fair sport, or the right to single-sex spaces. Sophie Cunningham is standing up for women and girls everywhere and it's glorious. Fuck caution.