You Had 47 Years of Diplomacy With Iran. Here's What It Got You.
Mahsa Amini was 22 years old. Arrested by Iran's morality police because her headscarf was too loose. She died in custody three days later. They beat her to death. Over a piece of fabric.
Her death set off the biggest protests Iran had seen in a generation. The regime's answer? Kill them. Over 500 dead.
They shot a 16-year-old girl named Nika Shakarami in the street. Then snatched her body and tried to bury her in secret before her family could find her.
Amirhesam Khodayarifard was 20 years old. Walked into a protest because his country was starving. He was chanting. Peacefully. A government agent shot him in the head.
This is who they are. This is who they've always been.
January 8th and 9th, 2026. The Islamic Republic of Iran executed the largest massacre of civilians in its modern history.
Snipers on rooftops firing into crowds. Targeting heads and chests. Dragging protesters into prisons. Torturing them. Raping them. Returning women's bodies with organs removed to destroy the evidence.
~36,000 dead. In days.
A former UN prosecutor who helped draft the Srebrenica genocide indictment said Iran killed twice as many in half the time.
He called it an extermination.
Where were the marches? Where was Ilhan Omar? Where was Rashida Tlaib? Where was Mamdani?
Nowhere.
But today, after we attack the regime that did this… NOW they want "diplomacy." NOW it's "illegal."
What country do you stand for?
In 1979 they stormed our embassy. Held 52 Americans hostage for 444 days.
In 1983 they bombed our Marine barracks in Beirut. 241 Americans crushed to death in their sleep.
Khobar Towers. 19 more Americans dead.
2003 to 2011. They supplied the bombs that killed 600+ American soldiers in Iraq.
They built Hezbollah. Funded Hamas. Armed the Houthis. Spent a billion dollars a year on terrorism.
Orchestrated October 7th.
Forty-seven years. The single greatest engine of death in the Middle East. And through all of it we kept talking and praying.
In 2002, Iran's own dissidents blew the whistle. Iran had been building nuclear weapons underground. For 17 years. Hidden from the world.
Not the CIA. Not the UN. Dissidents.
It took 13 years to get a deal. Keep enrichment at civilian grade. Keep the stockpile under 300 kilograms. Let inspectors in.
They agreed. Then broke every provision. From 300 kilograms to over 9,000. They ripped the cameras off the walls. By late 2024 they could build 5 to 6 bombs in under two weeks.
France, Germany, and the UK, not neocons, no war hawks, said Iran had a stockpile with "no credible civilian justification."
Two days before the strikes we sat with them in Muscat. Stop enriching. Stop the missiles. Stop funding terrorists. They said no. To all three.
You don't negotiate with someone loading a gun under the table. The Tooth Fairy isn't real. And neither was Iran's willingness to negotiate. Every year of "diplomacy" was another year closer to the bomb. That was always the plan.
This isn't about Democrat or Republican. By the laws of game theory, someone was going to have to confront Iran.
A regime that kills 36,000 of its own people doesn't stop because you ask nicely. A country enriching to weapons grade while funding terrorism on six continents doesn't come to the table in good faith.
Any president. Any party. This moment was always coming.
Spare me the "international law" lecture. You don't get to hide behind rules you've spent five decades burning to the ground.
You want to know what's illegal? Beating a 22-year-old woman to death over a headscarf. Shooting children from rooftops. Torturing women in prison. Removing organs from corpses. Building nuclear weapons while shaking hands with diplomats.
That's what's illegal.
Ilhan Omar. The day before a military operation she signaled the timing of a strike to a foreign adversary. That's not dissent. That is treason.
Iranians responded: "We don't care about Ramadan. We are waiting for the US attack to overthrow your friend the Ayatollah."
Listen to them. For once in your life.
The Iranian people are dancing in the streets. They waited 47 years for someone to act.
If not now, when? When they have the bomb? When it's too late?
It was now or never. And we chose now.
Diplomacy didn't fail. Diplomacy was the lie Iran told you while they built the bomb.
And you believed it. Every. Single. Time.
So... Let me get this straight:
Having separate/alternate halftime shows for the Super Bowl is bad...
But having separate/alternate National Anthems for the Super Bowl is good?
The Left can never pass it's own tests.
(Warning: long rant)
My liberal friends are completely oblivious about how radicalizing the last week has been for tens of millions of normal Americans. Zero clue.
I’m not talking about people who are “online”; I mean regular, everyday Americans. “Normies.” People who scroll through Facebook posts and Instagram reels from the Dutch Bros drive thru line. Political moderates who have water cooler chats about Mahomes touchdowns and Bon Jovi concerts, not Twitter threads or Rachel Maddow monologues.
Millions of them. Tens of millions. They’re logging on, they’re engaging, and they’re furious.
And I’ll be candid: They blame you guys. They blame the left.
Regardless of whether you believe it to be justified, they think you’re the bad guys here. And they are reacting accordingly.
I can already hear some of you racing toward the comments to start screeching in moral indignation, so I’m going to be blunt: Shut up and listen to what I’m telling you. Your movement will lose any semblance of relevance if you don’t develop some small measure of self-awareness, and—absent someone force-feeding you bitter medicine—you guys collectively lack the humility to do this on your own.
Here are the facts:
Fact 1. Tens of millions of Americans started the week seeing a 23-year-old blonde woman—a young woman in whom virtually every parent watching pictured their own daughter—stabbed in the neck by a career criminal. These people then found out the murderer had been released from jail 14 times over.
Fact 2. Two days later, tens of millions of Americans watched a video of Charlie Kirk get murdered speaking to college students. Millions of these people knew who Charlie was; millions of them didn’t. Upon seeing the video, however, these normal Americans from across the land and across the political spectrum agreed that he was the victim of a terrible, fundamentally unjustifiable crime, and their hearts broke in sympathy for his family. Good people who had never even heard the name Charlie Kirk before wept.
Fact 3. Immediately after seeing the footage of a peaceful young man get shot in the neck, these same people logged onto Facebook and Instagram (remember, we are talking about regular Americans, not perpetually online Twitter or Bluesky users) and saw some of their local nurses, school teachers, college administrators, and retail workers celebrating this horrific crime. Not just defending it, but cheering it.
These are all facts. You may not like the implications of these facts, and we can certainly debate the underlying causes thereof, but, indisputably, they are nevertheless factual statements.
Here’s what it means for you, the Democrats reading this:
These normal, middle-of-the-road, non-political citizens just become politically active. They realized that politics cares about them, even if they don’t particularly care about politics. After watching Iryna Zarutska and Charlie Kirk both bleed out from the neck, they think their lives and the physical safety of their families—the bedrock of human society, the foundation of Maslow’s hierarchy of needs—depend on political activation, whether they desire it or not.
These people are now sprinting—not jogging, not walking, but racing—to the right. Because they blame you guys for everything that just happened.
When they see footage of Decarlos Brown stabbing a Ukrainian refugee to death, they don’t see just one demon-possessed man. They picture every university administrator, HR bureaucrat, and DEI apparatchik that ever lectured them about systemic racism, the “carceral state,” or the need to release violent crime suspects without bail in the name of social justice.
They then think back to conversations they’ve had with their cop friends—their buddy from high school who quit the force after getting tired of being called a racist, their friend at the local YMCA who vents about having to release career criminals because Soros-funded prosecutors aren’t willing to file charges—and they realize everything the left has told them over the last five years has been utter bullshit.
And they blame you. Because, even if you count yourself as a moderate Democrat, your party supported the district attorneys, city council members, and mayors that let fictitious concerns about mental health and racial justice supersede very real concerns for their family’s safety.
When these Americans see blood erupt from the side of Charlie Kirk’s neck, they don’t see just a martyred political activist. They think of every extreme leftist they’ve ever met who (1) calls anyone to the right of Hillary Clinton a fascist and (2) constantly jokes—“jokes”—about punching Nazis and “bashing the fash.”
They realize that there really do exist people who wish to see them dead for their moderately conservative political beliefs, their Christian faith, and even the color of their skin. They ask themselves if the violence visited upon Charlie might one day show up on their own doorstep.
And they blame you. Because, even if you’re just a center-of-the-road liberal, you lacked the courage to police your own ranks. You let modern-day Maoist red guards run loose across every facet of society, and what started with social-media struggle sessions has now turned to 30-06 bullet holes.
When these Americans log onto social media and see their neighbors justifying, celebrating, glorifying murder, they realize that some who walk among them are soulless ghouls at best, literally demon-possessed at worst. These people—whether they faithfully attend church every Sunday or only attend with relatives once a year, on Christmas Eve—start talking about things like spiritual warfare. They implicitly understand that no normal human casually celebrates the mortal demise of a peaceful person.
And they blame you. Because, even if you condemned Charlie Kirk’s murder, they probably haven’t seen you condemn those in your own movement who cheered it on. They view you as complicit in allowing heartless fellow travelers to celebrate death, and it repulses them.
For all of these situations, what has your response been? Nothing but bullshit.
In response to Iryna Zarutska bleeding out on the floor of a train, you post bullshit statistics about reductions in reported crime, when everyone who’s ever been to a major urban center in the last decade knows that actual crime has skyrocketed, only for victims not to waste their time reporting it to cops that don’t have the manpower to respond and prosecutors that seek to downgrade as many felonies as possible to misdemeanor citations.
In response to a 31-year-old man taking a bullet to the neck in front of his family, you post nothing but bullshit whataboutism.
> “What about January 6th?” (Honest answer: After you let Liz Cheney spend two years operating a star chamber in the House, combined with countless other failed attempts at “lawfare” against Trump, no one cares anymore.)
> “What about Mike Lee making a dumb joke on Twitter about some guy in a mask in Minnesota?” (No one outside of Utah, DC, or Twitter knows who Mike Lee even is.)
> “What about Paul Pelosi?” (That’s not comparable to Charlie Kirk getting shot, and we all know it. And, again, Paul who?)
> “What about regulations on assault rifles?” (That’s not going to get you very far when one of these killers used a knife and the other one used a common hunting rifle.)
In response to teachers, healthcare workers, and thousands of other liberals cheering on Charlie’s murder, it’s nothing but more bullshit and misdirection.
> “It’s not THAT many people celebrating!” (Yes, it is. Everyone has seen it on their Facebook and Instagram feeds.)
> “I thought you guys didn’t support cancel culture.” (We don’t cancel people over their opinions; we’re more than happy to see people lose their jobs—especially their taxpayer-funded jobs—for actively cheering on murder, though. If you can’t see the difference, that’s your own shortcoming.)
All bullshit. Not even smart bullshit, but stale, mid-grade, low-IQ bullshit. Ordinary Americans see right through it, and they don’t like how it smells.
You probably don’t like hearing this. But you need to hear it.
Because I’m right, and, as you reflect on this, you know I’m right. The ranks of my political movement gained millions of righteously angry new members this week. We have a mandate to ensure these crimes never happen again, and that’s exactly what we are now going to do.
If you want to keep a seat at the table as we do so, you’d better clean house and start policing your own.
I think I've figured it out.
I've been watching the US confirmation hearings and something very deep has shifted.
It's more than just the kinds of people being appointed, it's bigger than a 'vibe shift'... but I couldn't figure out what it was.
It's the revolution eating it's own.
Even Democrats are having their eyes opened as they watch their heros from the last few decades try to tear down the people who COULD have made the Democrats great again... People who SHOULD have been their next generation of Democratic heros.
RFK Jr and Tulsi Gabbard stand out as great examples, and long time Democrat power brokers like Bernie Sanders are trying every trick to destroy them, every weapon, all the things that USED to work, and it's blowing up in their faces.
The Revolutionary Old Guard are trying to eat their own children, and are being devoured by them instead.
These senate confirmation hearings are highlighting the fact that MAGA is actually a unity movement, with the best of the Republicans AND the best of the Democrats, taking the country forward together and leaving the decrepit old guard behind.
I really wonder if all the people complaining about Trump and his EOs will be willing to continue to pay taxes on their tips or be okay letting the Trump tax cuts pass them by. Doubtful.
2023 Financial disclosure for Caroline Kennedy show she holds a significant position in Big Pharma, specifically with Bristol-Meyers Squibb, Eli Lilly & Co., and Johnson & Johnson.
Perhaps Caroline is a little too supportive of Big Pharma???
@RobertKennedyJc I am a 💯 behind you and your agenda make America healthy. I wish I had a vote in your confirmation! Looking forward to seeing your changes to our country!