Here's Bernie Sanders six years ago claiming that humanity only had about six years left to stop the existential threat of climate change.
We would all still be alive today if we had just passed his $30 trillion Green New Deal. 😂
@alainpaulweber Why were they blacked out for 45 minutes when they circled behind the back side of the moon. From this video, it looks like they completed that journey in about 25 seconds.
This didn’t begin Friday.
Carter started it.
He watched the Islamic Republic take power, watched American diplomats get seized and paraded on television for 444 days, spent the rest of his presidency negotiating with people who had already told us exactly what they were.
Reagan facilitated it.
October 23rd, 1983. A Hezbollah truck bomb funded and directed by Iran killed 241 United States Marines in Beirut while they slept. The deadliest single day for the Marine Corps since Iwo Jima. Reagan’s response? Tehran was heard clearly and never forgotten kill enough Americans at once and America will leave.
That lesson became the operational blueprint for every Iran-backed proxy attack for the next forty years.
Clinton ignored it.
1995 — a car bomb in Riyadh kills five Americans.
1996 — Khobar Towers. A massive truck bomb kills 19 United States Air Force personnel in Saudi Arabia. Nothing.
1998 — Embassy bombings in Africa.
2000 — USS Cole. Seventeen sailors killed. Clinton launched missiles at an empty training camp and an aspirin factory. Eight years. Hundreds of Americans dead or wounded. Zero consequences for Tehran.
Bush handed them the keys.
He called them the Axis of Evil correctly. Then invaded two countries simultaneously and handed Iran the greatest strategic gift in its history. Iranian Quds Force operatives flooded across the border funding, training, and arming the militias killing our soldiers.
And the response was to continue the war while avoiding direct confrontation with the country killing our people.
By the time Bush left office Iran had deeper influence in Iraq than we did.
Obama funded it.
This is where failure becomes unforgivable. The Green Revolution of 2009 where millions of Iranians in the streets begging for American support ignored.
The protesters were crushed. The regime survived. Then came the $150 billion in sanctions relief, sunset clauses that expired within a decade, zero restrictions on ballistic missiles, and zero restrictions on funding proxy terror networks.
Then came the cash. $1.7 billion. On pallets. On an unmarked plane. In the middle of the night. Delivered simultaneously with American hostages.
The regime used the imagery as propaganda for years and used the money to fund Hezbollah, Hamas, the Houthi expansion in Yemen, and the proxy militia networks in Iraq and Syria that spent the next decade killing Americans.
Obama literally funded the apparatus that put the drone into Tower 22.
Biden surrendered to it.
160-plus attacks on American forces from October 2023 forward. American soldiers killed in Jordan. Two Navy SEALs lost at sea intercepting Iranian weapons shipments to the Houthis.
Houthi missiles disrupting global shipping lanes.
Iranian proxies running operations across five countries.
Three Georgia soldiers died in their beds.
Then came Trump.
He looked at forty-five years of this record and did something no president had done since the hostages came home.
He said no.
Maximum pressure. IRGC designated as a foreign terrorist organization. Sanctions reimposed. The JCPOA abandoned. Soleimani the architect of Iranian proxy violence across the entire Middle East, personally responsible for hundreds of American deaths killed in a precision strike in January 2020.
The regime paralyzed.
The proxies recalibrated. The nuclear program set back. For the first time in four decades the regime faced a president it genuinely could not predict.
Then Trump left office. Biden came in. The pressure evaporated. The appeasement resumed. And the regime, patient as it has always been, went back to work.
And now we’re here.
So the next time someone tells you this is Trump’s war tell them they are brainless twats.
This isn’t Trump’s war.
This is forty-five years of American presidents refusing to finish it and one president finally deciding that the bill comes due.
If you are not capable of comprehending that move to Iran and defend the regime personally.
This American’s mom just died and was going through her paperwork
Her mom and dad paid in roughly $1 million combined into social security throughout their lives
Her dad died before he could collect, her mom only collected for 4 years at 32k per year
They got back $128,000 combined from social security before they both died after paying in a million
This is a scam
VENEZUELA:
You’re hearing, of course, a ton of politics about what happened in Venezuela. Everyone is spinning, and candidly, many have no actual depth on the issue and default to politics and political angles...as always. Since I just got off the phone with one of my closest friends, who I met while reporting in Venezuela and was crying on the phone, and since I have spent multiple trips in the country, and since Hugo Chavez and indirectly Maduro threatened me by name, I figured I would weigh in with facts. Don't care if you like or dislike this administration; here's what this is all about. Here is some clarification.
First...I can assure you, they were brutal dictators. I have many friends who still live in Venezuela and others who were lucky enough to leave, but who desperately want to return to help rebuild a free nation. It's been a rough 25 years. Murdering opposition, massive corruption disguised as working socialism, the removal of most freedoms. That's their legacy.
First of all, the action of going in and taking them out—like it or not—is something that has been done by pretty much every U.S. president since World War II. The last time Congress truly authorized a war was December 8, 1941. If you weren't mad when Biden, Obama, Bush, Clinton, Bush, Reagan, Nixon...you get the idea...if you weren't angry about Obama and Libya, then sit this one out. Equal outrage, or none at all. The fact that American special forces went in and took out this madman without losing a single life is remarkable and shows the strength of U.S. special forces. If we had not done this, ultimately it would have cost many more Venezuelans' lives, and possibly US lives if an action was eventually necessary.
As someone who wants peace, I also understand that sometimes peace has to be achieved through strength. Americans may not always understand that, but spending time in some of the places I’ve been makes it very clear.
So why did we go into Venezuela? There are a lot of reasons, but four major ones:
1. Oil—though not because we need it.
We don’t need Venezuelan oil. Their oil is actually dirtier, harder to refine, and we have cleaner domestic sources. The key issue is that the oil we are now cutting off was going to Iran, China, and ultimately Russia. By removing that cheap supply—which was only enriching Maduro and his buddies—we put significant pressure on Iran, Russia, and China, who right now are exploiting natural resources across the globe. You can read about what they’ve done in Africa and what’s happening on the ocean floor.
Yes, the U.S. has its issues—no argument there. But if I have to choose who leads the world between China, Iran, Russia, or us, I will choose us every single time.
2. Regional destabilization.
Maduro and the Venezuelan regime have continued to destabilize the region—hurting other countries, supporting drug networks throughout Latin America, and collapsing what was once the wealthiest country in the region into one of the poorest. Talk to anyone down there who isn’t aligned with the corruption, and they’ll tell you the same thing: the regime enriched only its leaders, hurt its own people, and damaged the entire area.
3. The Monroe Doctrine.
The Monroe Doctrine essentially says the U.S. needs to monitor and protect its own hemisphere. It's about ensuring the security of this region. In the last 25 years—something I’ve witnessed firsthand—Iran, Russia, and China have all built strategic outposts in Venezuela. They didn’t care about the people or the devastation they caused; they cared about resources and the opportunity to establish a foothold right in America’s backyard. Their growing presence threatened stability and security in
"The actual Venezuelan people, the ones who lived under Maduro's boot, a whole lot of them are celebrating."
"But you, sitting on your couch, eating your DoorDash, are pissed off."
"Last week you were mad at Nick Shirley for exposing corruption, this week you are mad about an administration that doesn't even govern you."
"You rotate outrage like it's a subscription service."
"Pick a standard, or admit you don't have one."
BASED!!!