Imagine you're about to fire an employee who's been stealing from you for years.
You don't send in the guy from legal with a stack of complaints. Nah, you send in the nicest manager in the building. The one everybody likes. The one who always gives second chances.
And you tell him: "Go sit with them. See if they'll stop."
But you already know they won't stop. Then, why bother? well, because now the entire office watched the nice guy try, and the entire office watched them spit in his face, while pocketing a stapler before ducking out early.
That's what Trump just did with JD Vance.
Vance is the most diplomatic voice in the administration. Iran literally requested him by name. He represents the faction inside the US government that genuinely wanted to exhaust every option before escalation. Democrats, Republicans, and a huge chunk of the American public share that instinct.
So Trump sent him. Not because he thought Iran would fold. Because he needed the world to watch Iran refuse the one guy everybody agreed was fair.
And now? Nobody can say the US sent hawks to sabotage peace. Nobody can say Iran wasn't given a real chance. The man who wanted peace the most walked into that room, and Tehran flipped the table with the cameras rolling.
Twenty minutes later Trump announced a full naval blockade of the Strait of Hormuz.
And if you still had any doubt about what Iran actually wants... they told you. Out loud. At the negotiating table.
They refused to stop funding Hamas. They refused to stop funding Hezbollah. They refused to stop funding the Houthis.
They refused to stop enriching uranium, and they refused to open the Strait without charging a $2 million toll per ship in crypto, like some dark web scammer.
They didn't just reject peace. They handed the world a signed confession that the regime's real priorities are nukes, terrorism, and extortion. In that order.
Iran didn't lose a negotiation. Iran lost the argument.
@TCNetwork You have lost your way and your mind.
Islam doesn't love Jesus.
If Islam loves Jesus why do they call his followers infidels and kill them?
Also Jesus wasn't a "prophet", He was and is the Son of God and God.
Tucker, you don't know Scripture.
Stop speaking like you do.
So the Pope met with David Axelrod last week. David Axelrod. Obama's campaign architect. A man who is not Catholic, has never met a pope before, and whose entire career has been engineering political narratives for the American left.
And then, by pure coincidence, the Pope immediately started lobbing shots at the Trump administration, and three US Cardinals popped up on 60 Minutes doing the same thing.
All organically, I'm sure.
I'm a practicing Catholic. I need you to understand that part. But in my opinion, Trump has all the right to lash out at him. Maybe you'll disagree, but in the end, Trump talks like Trump. Water is wet. I'm talking about MY Church being run like a DNC satellite office but with a golden throne.
This is the same Vatican that watched governments padlock churches during COVID and said nothing. That let Biden take communion while funding abortion and said nothing. That fired Bishop Strickland for defending actual Church doctrine. That removed Bishop Fernández in Puerto Rico for defending religious exemptions THE CATECHISM ITSELF supports.
But somehow Trump is the threat to human dignity.
Pope Francis was bad. Leo has turned out to be worse. Francis at least was vague about his politics. Leo went and hired the consulting firm.
The man has ignored the slaughter of Christians across Nigeria, the Sahel, India, Syria, Bangladesh, Pakistan. Hundreds of believers murdered, churches burned, pastors kidnapped. His response? Platitudes about dialogue.
OF COURSE he won't even name who's doing the killing.
But he'll fly across continents to make interfaith gestures the week after his people coordinated a media hit on a sitting US president.
The weaponization of belief is obvious. You get the Pope to pick a fight with Trump, and suddenly millions of conservative Catholics have to choose between their faith and their vote.
No sooner did I tweet that my Nigerian friend, Jwan Zhumbes the Bishop of Bukuru, was here in the US visiting me than he received this video.
It is a member of his church taken hostage today by Muslim terrorists. They are demanding millions or he will be killed.
This is Islam.
Woke up this morning struggling with worldly dissatisfaction and discontent and a general spiritual frustration and unease in my soul. It was a mood that was not of God and was not healthy spiritually. So I battled it with gratitude - started thanking Him for the birds I could hear singing (I love birds so much!), then for the trees, then for the fact that I had been given another day of life. Prayed for my boys, had a small spat with hubs (natch), resolved it (after 36 years you don’t give too much weight to these things), had a phone meeting that could have gone off the rails but ended up on a very positive note. Feeling much better. Thank you Jesus. If your Monday started off badly, start with the birds and work your way back to Him.
Horrifying, an Islamic Scholar at North Carolina State University:
“If a loving father wants to marry off his nine-year-old daughter to a righteous man and all parties consent, what is the issue with that?”
The House passed the SAVE Act, but the Senate hasn’t yet voted on it.
President Trump has requested a survey to tag @LeaderJohnThune , so he can see your support.
A. Watermarked Paper Ballot
B. Same Day Voting
C. Voter Photo ID
D. Proof of Citizenship
E. All of the above.
Senate Republicans,
If you stay in DC — while democrats flee for a paid vacation —
you can pass the SAVE America Act with a simple 51 quorum
& unanimous consent.
@RealCandaceO "For every tree is known by its own fruit...A good man out of the good treasure of his heart brings forth good;and an evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart brings forth evil. For out of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaks."Luke 6:43
Repent from your bitterness