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.
I do not want to sell false hope. I just want to lay out the puzzle pieces the way they look from here.
I do not think this ceasefire is a ceasefire. I think it is a Trojan horse.
Trump spent Monday, more than once and in different ways, talking about Iranians fearing the bombing would stop and they would be abandoned with the regime. Nobody dragged that out of him. He volunteered it. Then before any ceasefire even existed, he said that if one happened, Iranians should come to the streets. Then he suddenly started talking about weapons meant for Iranians that were stolen. Maybe true, maybe not. But none of that sounds random.
Then look at the board. Right in the middle of the deadline drama, while Trump was threatening infrastructure, the Crown Prince called on the military. In the last 24 hours before the pause, bridges, rail lines, roads, oil, and power nodes were hit. That did not look like punishment for punishment’s sake. It looked like shaping the board, slowing transfers, choking movement, and complicating the regime’s ability to move suppression forces.
Now Ghalibaf is publicly saying even their own so called workable 10 point framework was violated before talks began, Lebanon, a drone over Lar in Fars, and Iran’s claimed right to enrichment. That tells me Tehran itself did not read this as a clean peace landing. It read it as a contested pause before the next fight.
And the core issue is still sitting there. The 440 kilos of uranium enriched to 60 percent are still part of the story, still enough in principle to become bombs if pushed further.
So what exactly is “resolved” here.
And please spare me the fantasy of a new regime. What fucking new regime. The four main names have not changed. Khamenei became Khamenei Junior, and the rest are still the same bastards as before, Pezeshkian, Qalibaf, Ejei.
Then there is the rescue mission, 48 hours of activity deep inside Iran, deception, jamming, roads hit, aircraft destroyed. And the assassination pattern. Trump pushed the line that around 50 high level figures were gone. Public names are already out there, but I would bet a large part of the real list is still being held back.
So no, I do not think this means the war is over. I think it means a lot is happening behind the curtain. This pause serves Washington and Jerusalem more than it serves the terrorist Islamic Regime occupying Iran, buys time, steadies markets, preserves escalation control, and prepares the next phase.
Pāyandeh Iran
Javid Shah
آتشبس۱- آمریکا دو هفته فرصت پیدا کرد برای کنترل بازار نفت و گاز و برخورد از موضع بالاتر و بهتر با ج.ا ۲- جمهوریاسلامی کارت ایجاد بحران در بازار نفت و گاز را از دست داد.۳- تهدید ترامپ به نابودی نیروگاهها و پلها، تهدید آمریکا و اسرائیل را به سطح تهدید علیه بقای ج.ا تبدیل کرد و نظام را مجبور به عقبنشینی کرد.۴- این عقبنشینی مثل عقبنشینی بعد از شکستهای آخر جنگ با عراق است که نظام مجبور به پذیرش قطعنامه ۵۹۸ شد که سقوط نکند.۵- عقبنشینی در اثر فشار، شبیه پذیرش برجام در سال ۱۳۹۴ در اثر ترس از فروپاشی اقتصادی آن دوره است.۶- ترامپ قصد دارد چهار شرط اصلی را در هر توافقی بگنجاند که باز هم به معنای تسلیم کردن ج.ا است. چهار شرط عبارتند از توقف غنیسازی، توقف برنامه موشکی بالستیک، قطع حمایت از نیابتی ها و تحویل دادن اورانیوم غنی شده.۷- ج.ا این شروط را بپذیرد تسلیم شدن است نپذیرد احتمال شروع دوباره جنگ بسیار است.۸-جمهوری اسلامی، خامنهای و شمار بسیار زیادی از فرماندهان و مقاماتش را از دست داده و این ساختار حکومتی در سطح عالی را شکننده کرده است در حالی که ج.ا نتوانسته هیچیک از فرماندهان و مقامات آمریکا و اسرائیل را بکشد.۹- فرمانده نیروی دریایی سپاه کشته شد و خود نیرو بشدت آسیب دیده و بزودی قابل بازسازی نیست.۱۰- نیروی هوایی ج.ا تقریبا نابود شده و بسیاری از پایگاهها و هواپیماها منهدم شدهاند.۱۱- پدافند کشور تقریبا منهدم شده و ناکارآمد است. ۱۲- آسمان کشور هنوز در اختیار آمریکا و اسرائیل است.۱۳- عمده صنایع پتروشیمی به عنوان منبع درآمد ارزی منهدم شده.۱۴- بسیاری از صنایع نظامی در سراسر کشور منهدم شدهاند۰ ۱۵- بسیاری از مقرها و پایگاه های بسیج منهدم شده.۱۶- مراکز فرماندهی نیروی انتظامی در استانها و بسیاری از کلانتریها منهدم شدهاند. ۱۷-وزیر اطلاعات و بسیاری از مدیران اصلی این وزارتخانه کشته شدهاند. ۱۸- رئیس سازمان اطلاعات سپاه کشته شده. ۱۹- رئیس و معاون اطلاعات فراجا کشته شدند. درمجموع شکست بزرگ اطلاعاتی است. ۲۰- رئیس و معاون بسیج کشته شدند.۲۱- رئیس ستاد کل نیروهای مسلح کشته شده.۲۲- شمخانی دبیر شورای دفاع کشته شده. شورا در اداره جنگ ناموفق بود.۲۳- فرمانده کل سپاه کشته شد.۲۴- دو رئیس سازمان سپند مسوول ساخت سلاح هستهای برای نظام کشته شدند.۲۵-وزیر دفاع کشته شد.۲۶- کشورهای عضو شورای همکاری خلیج فارس به جمع دشمنان جمهوریاسلامی اضافه شدند.۲۷- راه دور زدن تحریمها از دوبی بسته شد ۲۸- دوستی با قطر از بین رفت و تبدیل به دشمنی شد.۲۹- اقتصاد کشور با موجی از مطالبات انباشته دوران جنگ و خرابیهای جنگ روبرو است که در دوره جنگ معوق شده بودند و الان به دولت هجوم میآورند. ۳۰- مردم ایران به عنوان مهمترین قدرت مخالف ج.ا همچنان خواهان سرنگونی نظام هستند و بعد از کشتار دی ماه دریایی از خون، تنفر و خشم بین مردم و نظام جدایی انداخته ۳۱- آتشبس هنوز به معنای پایان جنگ نیست. ۳۲- ج.ا به دلیل رها کردن مردم و غیرنظامیان در جنگ از نگاه مردم بی اعتبارتر شد.۳۳- ج.ا چون فقط تا اينجا سقوط نکرده به اینها میگوید پیروزی.۳۴- سیاست بالا و پایین بسیار دارد صبر باید کرد.
No Kings explained for people who think they're fighting fascism.
You're standing in a crowd on Saturday. You look around and think yeah. No Kings. This is what democracy looks like.
Bro.
You're holding a sign made by a communist billionaire who lives in Shanghai.
You live in a constitutional republic.
Elections. Term limits. A free press that spent four years calling the president a fascist without one journalist being arrested.
The modern left's definition of fascism:
You love your country? Fascist.
You want to enforce the border? Racist.
You think parents should raise their kids? Bigot.
You want to know who's voting in your elections? Jim Crow.
Being patriotic is fascism to the modern left.
But every country has borders and enforces them. 176 countries require ID to vote. That's the definition of a country.
But the Democratic establishment told you otherwise. And you believed them.
Congress has a 15% approval rating. 80% of Americans disapprove. 97% of incumbents got re-elected.
Chuck Schumer. 46 years. Longer than Stalin.
Steny Hoyer. 45 years. Longer than Mao.
Mitch McConnell. 42 years. 5x more than Napoleon.
Nancy Pelosi. 39 years. Longer than Henry VIII.
Maxine Waters. 35 years. Longer than Mussolini.
Bernie Sanders. 35 years. Triple Hitler's entire reign.
Trump. 5 years and 3 months. Won the popular vote and the electoral vote.
But Trump is the king. Okay buddy.
You don't hate kings. You hate kings that aren't yours.
And Saturday they had you in the streets carrying their water.
The Democratic Party installed a president without letting you vote. Biden quit on a Sunday. By Tuesday your queen was crowned.
No primary. No debate. No ballot. First time since 1968.
Three days before your march every Senate Democrat voted against photo ID to vote.
During COVID you carried a vaccine card everywhere like a hall pass from the government just to eat at a restaurant.
But getting a birth certificate or waiting two hours at the DMV to prove you're a citizen before you vote? That's oppression.
The Democratic Party is pro illegal immigration.
Counts non-citizens in the Census. Census determines congressional seats. More non-citizens means more seats means more power. No voter ID means no way to check.
That's how you keep power without wearing a crown.
Biden built a censorship machine.
Pressured Facebook to suppress true information and admitted it in writing. Censored scientists. Censored doctors. Censored JOKES. The Biden White House told Facebook to remove "humor and satire."
They literally went after people for making fun of them. UK does it better tho...
Everything they censored turned out to be right. They just outsourced the silencing to Silicon Valley.
And it doesn't stop at speech.
The extreme left justifies taking children from families.
Six thousand schools rewrite children's identities without telling parents. And the State has the right to intervene.
The Hitler Youth did this. Mao's Red Guards did this. The Soviets built statues of a child who reported his own father.
Same playbook.
During Covid, your bakery got shut down. Church closed. You couldn't hold your dying mother's hand at the hospital.
But thousands packed together during BLM to burn Minneapolis and THAT was essential civic engagement. Obviously.
$2 billion in damage. 25 dead. 2,000 cops injured. 20 states burning. VP Kamala promoted a bail fund for the rioters. No investigation. No hearings.
January 6. One building. Few hours. 1,000 prosecuted. Two years of televised hearings.
Kings decide which violence counts. The left decided.
Charlie Kirk spent his life walking onto campuses asking for honest debate. He was assassinated.
CSIS terrorism database. 2025 is the first year in 30 years that left-wing attacks outnumber right-wing. Yet no one brings this up.
75% of liberal students say preventing a speaker from talking is justified. 27% say violence is acceptable.
Liberals who went to Trump rallies: "I never felt unsafe." "The experience changed me."
Conservatives who show up on liberal campuses get screamed at, blocked, and assassinated.
One side talks. The other side screams.
The Party for Socialism and Liberation marched with you Saturday.
Their stated purpose in their own words: "Revolution." Not reform. Marxism.
The system that killed a hundred million people last century. They had you holding their signs while they said it out loud.
500 groups. $3 billion in revenue. Pre-printed signs. The signs were ready before you were angry.
The money leads to Neville Roy Singham. Billionaire in Shanghai. Attends CCP workshops. Funnels millions through shell companies at UPS mailboxes. Three Congressional committees have subpoenaed him as a suspected CCP foreign agent.
You thought you were fighting for democracy. You were carrying water for Beijing.
"Liberals are leaving the First Amendment behind." Spoken by the ACLU lawyer who defended Nazis in court because it was their constitutional right.
Bill Clinton put 100,000 cops on the street. Reformed welfare. Said illegal immigration is wrong to a standing ovation. Told America the era of big government is over.
Today his own party would call him a fascist.
The 1990s Democrat defended free speech for Nazis. Yours censors doctors for telling the truth.
The 1990s Democrat held open primaries. Yours installed a nominee without a vote.
The 1990s Democrat trusted parents. Yours takes their children.
Historians measure fascism across eight traits. Here's who checks the boxes in 2026:
Censorship of political opposition. Democrats.
Contempt for democratic process. Democrats.
Tolerance of political violence. Democrats.
State ideology forced on families. Democrats.
Corporate-state fusion. Democrats.
Scapegoating and manufactured enemies. Both sides.
Cult of personality. Both sides.
Ultranationalism. Republicans.
Five for the left. One for the right. Two shared.
You marched against kings on Saturday.
You marched FOR kings.
You just didn't know which was which.
Stop being gaslit.
I hope you understand what's at stake.
@crypto_with_seb Two flavors with $QUBIC, one as an investor and another as a community member; I've already dismissed the latter (you can too I believe) and just focus on it and get maximal value out of the former (which IMO I'm still bullish)! Hope that helps, bro
If you’re going to post about Holocaust Remembrance Day, it is critical that you explicitly state that millions of Jews were murdered.
People assume that using “Holocaust” with a capital H automatically implies this, but it doesn’t.
Neo-Nazis are obsessed with severing Jews from the industrial-scale murder that occurred.
They love nothing more than making Jews —rather than the Nazis — the cause of millions of deaths across Europe, while simultaneously minimizing the murder of Jews by referring to them as “deaths” (often attributed to illness rather than murder and reduced to hundreds of thousands rather than millions).
This is especially true of major media figures and elected officials.
I have seen in real time how Neo-Nazis will notice a statement or social media post from someone prominent that does not explicitly mention the mass murder of millions of Jews in reference to the Holocaust and ask whether that person is secretly on their side, or if they’ve “woken up” or “noticed.”
The current state of the MAGA grift alliances…
Team Candace Owens:
Tucker Carlson
Jason Whitlock
Anti-Semites
Team Anti-Ben while winking at Candace:
JD Vance
Megyn Kelly
Steve Bannon
Attempting to be Switzerland:
Erika Kirk
Team Ben:
Dave Rubin
Rational rank & file GOP
@bennyjohnson If you’re sick of it then call out the filthy morally defunct extremists in your own party like @RealCandaceO and @TuckerCarlson for what they are and call for unity around the principles that have always defined the conservative movement. Anti-semitism is not one of those bro