Smiley Blanton

Bored retiree, Ramnusia, cynic

[P a u l ◉ @SkylineReport]

🚨 BREAKING

Remember when Trump told Iranians to overthrow their government?

Now he says he "never cared about regime change."

That's a hell of a journey.

At the start of the war, Trump urged Iranians to "take control of your government" and "seize control of your destiny" after U.S. strikes.

The expectation was clear:

• Bomb the regime
• Trigger an uprising
• Collapse the government

Instead:

• No mass uprising happened
• The regime survived
• The IRGC remained intact
• Iran's leadership reorganized and consolidated power

So the story changed.

What began as "help us topple them" became:

"We already achieved regime change."

Then became:

"I never cared about regime change."

The reality on the ground didn't match the promise.

The messaging adapted.

Follow @SkylineReport for more analysis and reporting.

[Jonah Goldberg @JonahDispatch]

"The United States is conducting an operation to eliminate the threat of Iran’s short-range ballistic missiles"

"...the purpose of this is to destroy that missile capability."

"our mission and our focus is the destruction of their ballistic missile capabilities"

"the objective of this mission is the destruction of their ballistic missile capabilities"

"I’m telling you what the objectives of this operation are.  The objectives of this operation are to destroy their ballistic missile capability and make sure they can’t rebuild it, and make sure that they can’t hide behind that to have a nuclear program.  That’s the objective of the mission."
-- Marco Rubio, 3/2/26

https://t.co/yNCUakGrmx

[Harry Sisson @harryjsisson]

WHAT IRAN GOT:

•$300 billion
•Removed sanctions
•Control of Strait of Hormuz
•Maintains missile program
•No destruction of nuclear program

WHAT THE U.S. GOT

•Higher gas prices
•Billions spent
•No major objectives achieved
•Americans dead

We got fleeced.

[Max Boot 🇺🇦🇺🇸 @MaxBoot]

Trump is paying Iran to reopen the Strait of Hormuz—which was already open before he launched this war. Speaking on CNN International.

[John Collins @Logically_JC]

Some tweets are timeless.

[Anonymous @YourAnonNews]

LOL: Trump eyes firing Pete Hegseth and CIA chief John Ratcliffe over Iran deal clash
[they're all fucking imbecilic morons]
https://t.co/aOYIq3P1v9

[Moe Davis (U.S. Air Force, Retired) @ColMoeDavis]

Trump was able to quickly put together $300 billion in recovery money for Iran after he decided to bomb it.

He stood in Swannanoa NC not far from my house in October 2024 and said he’d build back bigger, better, more beautiful, and faster than Biden after Hurricane Helene inflicted $60 billion in damage in the Blue Ridge . . . and then he went MIA.

Imagine if @realDonaldTrump cared as much about rebuilding Western North Carolina for Americans as he does about rebuilding Iran for Iranians.

[The Intellectualist @highbrow_nobrow]

Alexander Smirnov, a former F.B.I. informant tied by prosecutors to Russian intelligence, fed false Biden claims into Congress. Now President Trump’s Justice Department is backing his effort to reduce his sentence. https://t.co/NamQ6SCelY

[InfoGram @_InfoGram_]

🇺🇸 Trump on 23 March 2026: "I started the war for regime change in Iran. We won. We wiped out their whole regime."

🇺🇸 Trump on 16 June 2026: "I don’t believe in regime change. Never works."🤣

This man is a habitual liar.

[Sammi🦋 @StoriesBySammi]

Fifty years of rules keeping off-road vehicles on designated trails — GONE.

Lifted trucks, ATVs, dirt bikes, snowmobiles.

Anywhere they want. On your public lands.

Nixon protected it. Carter protected it. Trump just erased both quietly on a Friday afternoon.

A grizzly bear will abandon its habitat when there's just one mile of road per square mile. One mile. Now there's no limit on where these vehicles can go.

In the Mojave, desert tortoises have already lost 96% of their population in some monitored areas - partly because off-road vehicles crush their burrows. A federal judge just ordered 2,200 miles of trails closed to protect what's left.

Then Trump signed this.

No designated trails. No boundaries. No framework at all. When vehicles go off trail they shatter habitat into pieces too small for wildlife to survive in. They destroy stream banks. They push predators toward humans. And when that happens, the animals always lose.

There was no vote. No public comment. Just a signature.

Now the agencies tasked with writing replacement rules are the BLM, the Forest Service, and the National Park Service - all under an administration that has spent months dismantling every protection they had.

The Interior Department, led by Doug Burgum, is in charge of most of it. The same Doug Burgum who has opened public lands to drilling, mining, and grazing at every turn.

Don't hold your breath.

When the last quiet place is gone, what do we tell the children who never got to hear it?

#DemsUnited

[Anonymous @YourAnonNews]

He's such a piece of shit, no one likes him. His own staff must hate him so much, but they just put up with his bs for the grift.
This picture speaks more than 1,000 words.

[Headquarters @HQNewsNow]

Sen. @brianschatz: If this deal is so good, why can't the public see it? Donald Trump hasn't made anything materially better. 13 service members dead. 3,000 Iranians killed, billions of dollars, maybe hundreds of billions of dollars in 3 months, and prices spiked everywhere. There is a reason they are not publishing this deal and it's because it makes plain that this is one of the biggest foreign policy blunders in many generations.

[Ryan J Higgins, Ed.D. @ryanjhiggins]

Fiscal responsibility

[Furkan Gözükara @FurkanGozukara]

🚨 WTF?! NYT confirms JD Vance demanded the Insurrection Act be invoked to violently crush protests after ICE killed two American citizens.

He coldly admitted it would be painful but wanted to send a terrifying message. The White House is eager to unleash troops on us!

[Anonymous @YourAnonNews]

Trump officials suggest that US households take out loans to cover their medical costs...

[Michael McFaul @McFaul]

Simply shocking.

To all those who screamed bloody hell when the Obama administration returned a tiny fraction of this amount to Tehran after they signed JCPOA, I look forward to hearing from you now.

[Jim Stewartson, Decelerationist 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇺🇸 @jimstewartson]

Nothing mattered but getting a “deal” for his birthday party and the Iranians knew it. Trump told his people “Do what you have to do to close the deal” and the price was $324 billion.

It is one of the most absurd events in the history of the world.

[VoteVets @votevets]

BREAKING: In a SCATHING statement, Major General (Ret.) Paul Eaton just called out Donald Trump's War In Iran for what it is: a complete and utter FAILURE.

[Elizabeth Warren @ewarren]

Trump’s administration has barred the IRS from even looking at his past returns.

Teachers, nurses, and firefighters all pay what they owe.

Why does the President of the United States get a special tax deal?

[Anonymous @YourAnonNews]

Pediatric cancer research was considered wasteful spending... Keeping poor people from starving to death was considered wasteful spending...