On X, I found a group of kindred souls. It keeps me sane even though I know we are in the tiny minority. I am no longer left or right. I align with no party now. I am pro individual rights and freedom and against the "common good" because there's no such thing. I want solutions
🚨 INCREDIBLE! President Trump personally awards US Marine Maj. James Capers, Jr. with the Medal of Honor, 60 YEARS after he saved his ENTIRE team while badly wounded in Vietnam
Thank you for your service, Maj. Capers!
You’re a TRUE American hero! 🇺🇸
The people my heart goes out to is all those proud Iranians, inside and outside Iran, who trusted Trump and the likes of Lindsey Graham. I know you feel betrayed but for what it's worth I still stand by you and will advocate for your freedom. #FreeIran#JavidShah
I want to thank the IDF, Mossad and Israel for killing the Hezbollah leaders who have killed so many Americans. Tough, dirty work. America and the world are safer because of your sacrifices.
VP JD Vance just brought the US to its knees with a humiliating deal weeks before our 250th birthday and he has the audacity to blame … Israel! … for the terrible situation we’re in. We're watching the Tucker Carlsonifcation of our Vice President in real time.
Greetings, President Trump,
You may have secured a temporary deal, but you've shaken the trust of almost everyone around you except perhaps JD Vance and Iran's Supreme Leader. Attacking friends who stood with you in wartime while defending an enemy that attacked both of you is how nations stop trusting you, even if they keep smiling for the cameras. The way many of us, including me, see it, Israel is America's biggest ally in the Middle East. Telling Israel not to hit Hezbollah for the sake of a deal with Iran is like telling America not to hit al-Qaeda because you're negotiating with Hamas.
And a deal that lasts only 60 days? That's not diplomacy, that's a ceasefire with an expiry date shorter than a carton of milk.
If this picture makes you happy then sorry, we are not the same.
I'm a day one Trump supporter. I have never wavered.
I've been on the Iran portfolio for the better part of a decade. These people cannot be trusted. They are the very definition of evil.
I can't believe this day has arrived where we are lifting oil sanctions and unfreezing billions hoping they change their behavior just months after these monsters killed +40,000 of their own unarmed people in cold blood.
To my Iranian brothers and sisters - I am speechless but now I know how the Holocaust happened. The world knew Jews were being slaughtered but everyone looked the other way. Now the world is not just looking away, they are rewarding the Regime's war crimes.
To the idiots on both sides who said, "Process doesn't matter. This terrible deal is why process DOES matter.
Iran's an awful, dangerous, repressive regime.
But going to war on one man's whim - rather than after a full and proper Congressional debate and with the support of the American people (if that support was forthcoming) meant that our military, as good as it is, had ONE CHANCE to accomplish regime change, from the air alone, a strategy that has never worked in the history of airpower.
Guess what? It didn't this time either. And once it failed, Donald Trump could not escalate. He didn't have the political mandate to do so. I'm not even sure if he could have legally. All his threats were bluffs, as Iran well knew.
So he was negotiating from weakness -- barely negotiating at all, in fact. And the fecal sandwich of a deal we got reflects that.
Now one of the world's worst regimes is more powerful than it was, and the rest of the world knows how easy humiliating the United States can be.
Whether or not you think the risks of going to war against Iran might have been justifiable (I'm on the fence but lean no, as much as I dislike the regime), whether or not you think preemptive war is EVER justifiable, this is the worst possible outcome, and it rests entirely on one @realDonaldTrump and his insistence that he and his whims are more important than Congress, the Constitution, and the American people he is supposed to serve.
Hope that cage match Sunday was fun.
If the MOU actually envisioned a terrible final agreement w/the Islamic Republic instead of a punt to be followed by another punt followed by a post-elections return to clarity, I’d expect a resignation from @SecRubio who knows the nature of the IRGC and the regime it controls.
Criticism of Trump’s MoU growing amongst senators and congressmen
"Giving billions of dollars to theocratic lunatics who want to murder us is not a good idea."
Oh boy, things are escalating quickly.
Vance: “My message to people in Bibi's government who are attacking Trump: Do not attack the only leader in the world who supports you. Your country was built with our money.”
No, Mr. Vice President, our country wasn’t built with your money and as a Christian, you should know exactly who gave us this country.
We appreciate your friendship and support but we will not take orders from you or anyone else about how we defend ourselves from the enemies you are now funding with hundreds of billions that’ll go straight to weapons directed at Israel.
Let’s not be confused, Mr. Vance.
JD Vance is behind this whole anti-Israel stance that the administration seems to be taking, no doubt egged on by his buddy Tucker Carlson. Vance was a big mistake. I will never support him for any office he ever runs for.
#Rubio2028#MAGA#IStandWithIsrael
Here's how Trump fumbled the Iran issue.
It appears that after two months of fighting and relatively minimal losses, Trump grew tired of winning so much and decided to start losing a little to try and balance it out.
The biggest mistakes Trump has made:
1. Not using the negotiations process itself as a tool.
We came to the table with no preconditions while Iran successfully made their very participation in those negotiations contingent on compliance with other demands.
2. Sounding desperate to make a deal.
When you're negotiating, you must come from a position of strength. When you sound desperate to make a deal, you are automatically coming from a position of weakness, regardless of your position on the battlefield.
3. Letting Iran tie the deal to the Hezbollah issue:
We should never have let Iran dictate the terms and tie themselves together. They are two separate issues as far as we are concerned, and if we accept this new equation whereby Hezbollah gets to fire at Israel, and Israel is not allowed to respond because Iran's feelings might get hurt, it's a massive win for terrorism.
4. Even discussing the financial issue without complete capitulation.
The frozen funds and sanctions shouldn't be tied to just the nuclear issue. Iran would be able to spend those new funds in a variety of other nefarious ways, including their ballistic missile program and terrorist proxies.
I don't have TDS. I'm a three time Trump voter. It's just impossible to see this any other way. We are snatching defeat out of the jaws of victory.
Iran has incurred some damage in the war, but if by the end of it, they come out in a stronger position than before the war, it's hard to see this as anything other than a win for them.
We are the stronger party. We have the upper hand on the battlefield. And yet we still let Iran play us for fools. We can't even blame them, because it's working. It's incomprehensible.