John thaxton

[Joe Kent @joekent16jan19]

The most powerful thing President Trump can do right now is to just walk away— it’s his best option to end the war with Iran.

To do so effectively, he has to be prepared to dismiss the inevitable onslaught of pressure campaigns and screaming from the pro-war, Israeli lobby neocon crew he’ll undoubtedly face.

They’ll tell him he’s surrendering & hurting his legacy, that he’s endangering American lives—never mind, of course, the Americans already killed and wounded, or those who are still in harm’s way as this foolish war drags on.

Their narrative is nonsense. Until Iran, Trump was on track to right the ship domestically. The reality is, this warmonger class has always hated Trump, & they talked him into this mess hoping it would destroy his legacy and derail his administration’s promise to finally put the needs of the American people first.

Trump’s power lies in walking away now and refusing to bow to the pressures of the machine, proving he can’t be controlled. His supporters will understand that this the right call.

President Trump clearly understands that there is no viable military solution to this war.

Hopefully, by now he also sees that Iran will not present a formal deal he can realistically accept. Again—we MUST consider the effect our killing the Ayatollah & bombing the girls’ school has had on radicalizing the Iranians. It’s very likely that both for the sake of its national honor & for deterrence, Iran will feel compelled to drag us back into the war in order to force the U.S. to a humiliating retreat.

Notice that the Iranians will not commit to opening the SOH. This is by design: as long as our assets remain in the region, they have leverage. Hardliners in Iran want Trump stuck so they have the excuse to escalate— it’s critical to not take that bait.

Choosing to maintain the naval blockade is inviting a disaster that will ultimately force that escalation, and on Iran’s terms. Iran has proven its ballistic missiles can reach our ships—we are one failed interceptor away from a mass casualty event that propels us into a broader war. The blockade, just like our bases in the region, quickly becomes a liability, not an asset.

This is why NOW is the time to leave. Declare victory, then quietly offer sanctions relief & the unfreezing of assets in exchange for Iran opening the SOH.

Trump has the political power to frame this maneuvering as a win, but his time to do so successfully is running out.

[John thaxton @johnthaxton]

@PeteRuelingF @Discourse__News “I hate Trump” is not its reason for being.

[Scott Horton @scotthortonshow]

Who Opposed Nuking Japan?

“The Japanese were ready to surrender and it wasn’t necessary to hit them with that awful thing.” —Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower

“In 1945 Secretary of War Stimson, visiting my headquarters in Germany, informed me that our government was preparing to drop an atomic bomb on Japan. I was one of those who felt that there were a number of cogent reasons to question the wisdom of such an act. … The Secretary, upon giving me the news of the successful bomb test in New Mexico, and of the plan for using it, asked for my reaction, apparently expecting a vigorous assent. During his recitation of the relevant facts, I had been conscious of a feeling of depression and so I voiced to him my grave misgivings, first on the basis of my belief that Japan was already defeated and that dropping the bomb was completely unnecessary, and secondly because I thought that our country should avoid shocking world opinion by the use of a weapon whose employment was, I thought, no longer mandatory as a measure to save American lives. It was my belief that Japan was, at that very moment, seeking some way to surrender with a minimum loss of ‘face.’ The Secretary was deeply perturbed by my attitude.” —Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower

“The use of the atomic bomb, with its indiscriminate killing of women and children, revolts my soul.” —Herbert Hoover

“[T]he Japanese were prepared to negotiate all the way from February 1945 … up to and before the time the atomic bombs were dropped; … [I]f such leads had been followed up, there would have been no occasion to drop the bombs.” —Herber Hoover

“I told [Gen. Douglas] MacArthur of my memorandum of mid-May 1945 to Truman, that peace could be had with Japan by which our major objectives would be accomplished. MacArthur said that was correct and that we would have avoided all of the losses, the Atomic bomb, and the entry of Russia into Manchuria.” —Herbert Hoover

“MacArthur’s views about the decision to drop the atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki were starkly different from what the general public supposed. When I asked General MacArthur about the decision to drop the bomb, I was surprised to learn he had not even been consulted. What, I asked, would his advice have been? He replied that he saw no military justification for the dropping of the bomb. The war might have ended weeks earlier, he said, if the United States had agreed, as it later did anyway, to the retention of the institution of the emperor.” — Norman Cousins

“General MacArthur definitely is appalled and depressed by this Frankenstein monster. I had a long talk with him today, necessitated by the impending trip to Okinawa. He wants time to think the thing out, so he has postponed the trip to some future date to be decided later.” — Gen. Douglas MacArthur’s pilot, Weldon E. Rhoades

“[General Douglas] MacArthur once spoke to me very eloquently about it, pacing the floor of his apartment in the Waldorf. He thought it a tragedy that the bomb was ever exploded. MacArthur believed that the same restrictions ought to apply to atomic weapons as to conventional weapons, that the military objective should always be limited damage to noncombatants…MacArthur, you see, was a soldier. He believed in using force only against military targets, and that is why the nuclear thing turned him off…” — Richard Nixon

“The Japanese were ready for peace, and they already had approached the Russians and the Swiss. And that suggestion of giving a warning of the atomic bomb was a face-saving proposition for them, and one that they could have readily accepted. In my opinion, the Japanese war was really won before we ever used the atom bomb.” —Under Secretary of the Navy, Ralph Bird

“The Japanese position was hopeless even before the first atomic bomb fell, because the Japanese had lost control of their own air.” — General “Hap” Arnold

“[Gen.] Arnold’s view was that the dropping of the atomic bomb was totally unnecessary. He said he knew the Japanese wanted peace. There were political implications in the decision, and Arnold did not feel it was the military’s job to question them. … [Arnold’s view was]: when the question comes up of whether we use the atomic bomb or not, my view is that the Air Force will not oppose the use of the bomb, and they will deliver it effectively if the Commander-in-Chief decides to use it. But it is not necessary to use it in order to conquer the Japanese without the necessity of a land invasion.” — General Ira Eaker, Deputy Commander of U.S. Army Air Forces

“The Japanese had, in fact, already sued for peace. The atomic bomb played no decisive part, from a purely military point of view, in the defeat of Japan.” — Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, Commander in Chief of the U.S. Pacific Fleet

“The Japanese had, in fact, already sued for peace before the atomic age was announced to the world with the destruction of Hiroshima and before the Russian entry into the war.” — Adm. Nimitz

“The use of this barbarous weapon at Hiroshima and Nagasaki was of no material assistance in our war against Japan. The Japanese were already defeated and ready to surrender because of the effective sea blockade and the successful bombing with conventional weapons … The lethal possibilities of atomic warfare in the future are frightening. My own feeling was that in being the first to use it, we had adopted an ethical standard common to the barbarians of the Dark Ages. I was not taught to make war in that fashion, and wars cannot be won by destroying women and children.” —Fleet Admiral William D. Leahy, Chief of Staff to President Truman

“Truman told me it was agreed they would use it, after military men’s statements that it would save many, many American lives, by shortening the war, only to hit military objectives. Of course, then they went ahead and killed as many women and children as they could, which was just what they wanted all the time.” —Adm. Leahy

“The war would have been over in two weeks without the Russians entering and without the atomic bomb. … The atomic bomb had nothing to do with the end of the war at all.” — Major General Curtis LeMay, XXI Bomber Command

“[LeMay said] if we’d lost the war, we’d all have been prosecuted as war criminals. And I think he’s right. He, and I’d say I, were behaving as war criminals. LeMay recognized that what he was doing would be thought immoral if his side had lost. But what makes it immoral if you lose and not immoral if you win?” —Robert MacNamara

“The first atomic bomb was an unnecessary experiment … It was a mistake to ever drop it … [the scientists] had this toy and they wanted to try it out, so they dropped it.” — Fleet Admiral William Halsey Jr.

“I concluded that even without the atomic bomb, Japan was likely to surrender in a matter of months. My own view was that Japan would capitulate by November 1945. Even without the attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, it seemed highly unlikely, given what we found to have been the mood of the Japanese government, that a U.S. invasion of the islands scheduled for 1 November 1945 would have been necessary.” — Paul Nitze, director and then Vice Chairman of the Strategic Bombing Survey

“[E]ven without the atomic bombing attacks, air supremacy over Japan could have exerted sufficient pressure to bring about unconditional surrender and obviate the need for invasion. Based on a detailed investigation of all the facts, and supported by the testimony of the surviving Japanese leaders involved, it is the Survey’s opinion that certainly prior to 31 December 1945, and in all probability prior to 1 November 1945, Japan would have surrendered even if the atomic bombs had not been dropped, even if Russia had not entered the war, and even if no invasion had been planned or contemplated.” — U.S. Strategic Bombing Survey, 1946

“Just when the Japanese were ready to capitulate, we went ahead and introduced to the world the most devastating weapon it had ever seen and, in effect, gave the go-ahead to Russia to swarm over Eastern Asia. Washington decided it was time to use the A-bomb. I submit that it was the wrong decision. It was wrong on strategic grounds. And it was wrong on humanitarian grounds.” — Ellis Zacharias Deputy Director of the Office of Naval Intelligence

“When we didn’t need to do it, and we knew we didn’t need to do it, and they knew that we knew we didn’t need to do it, we used them as an experiment for two atomic bombs. Many other high-level military officers concurred.” — Brigadier General Carter Clarke, the Military Intelligence officer in charge of preparing summaries of intercepted Japanese cables for President Truman and his advisors

“The commander in chief of the U.S. Fleet and Chief of Naval Operations, Ernest J. King, stated that the naval blockade and prior bombing of Japan in March of 1945, had rendered the Japanese helpless and that the use of the atomic bomb was both unnecessary and immoral. — Carter Clarke

“I proposed to Secretary Forrestal that the weapon should be demonstrated before it was used… the war was very nearly over. The Japanese were nearly ready to capitulate… My proposal… was that the weapon should be demonstrated over… a large forest of cryptomeria trees not far from Tokyo… Would lay the trees out in windrows from the center of the explosion in all directions as though they were matchsticks, and, of course, set them afire in the center. It seemed to me that a demonstration of this sort would prove to the Japanese that we could destroy any of their cities at will… Secretary Forrestal agreed wholeheartedly with the recommendation… It seemed to me that such a weapon was not necessary to bring the war to a successful conclusion, that once used it would find its way into the armaments of the world.” — Special Assistant to the Secretary of the Navy Lewis Strauss

“In the light of available evidence I myself and others felt that if such a categorical statement about the retention of the dynasty had been issued in May 1945, the surrender-minded elements in the Japanese government might well have been afforded by such a statement a valid reason and the necessary strength to come to an early clear cut decision. If surrender could have been brought about in May 1945, or even in June, or July, before the entrance of Soviet Russia into the Pacific war and the use of the atomic bomb, the world would have been the gainer.” — Under Secretary of State Joseph Grew

And for what it’s worth, then-Army Chief George Marshall wanted only to hit military facilities with it, not cities.

“It will not be long before we are reduced to savagery. We are the barbarians within our own empire.” — Russell Kirk, author of The Conservative Mind

“This doctrine of progress is a most interesting instance of the blind and foolish confidence of Americans in the God Progress. … Thus far, apparently, it has been progress toward annihilation, an end to be accomplished, perhaps, by the improved atomic bomb? We have dealt more death and destruction in the space of ten years than the men of the Middle Ages, with their Devil, were able to accomplish in a thousand.” —Russell Kirk

“The atomic bomb was a final blow to the code of humanity. I cannot help thinking that we will suffer retribution for this. For a long time to come I believe my chief interest is going to be the restoration of civilization, of the distinctions that make life intelligible.” — Richard Weaver, author of Ideas Have Consequences

[Marjorie Taylor Greene 🇺🇸 @mtgreenee]

If you’re a conservative political commentator or conservative media and you’re calling out how bad affordability is and you’re calling out neocons BUT unwilling to acknowledge and name Republicans in charge right now and unwilling to call out President Trump and his administration who is directly in charge, waging a war driving inflation and gas prices, then you cannot be taken seriously.

And you just recently got brave enough to dip your little toe in the water and say it out loud.

If you’re afraid you won’t get your little influencer invites, occasional reposts, or might get kicked out of the talking point group chats, then you have no credibility and you’re a big part of the problem.

You are no different than the press during Biden/Harris presidency that never questioned or challenged a thing.

You might want to wake up to reality that Trump won’t be in office much longer so you’re kissing up to a lame duck who has completely lost support of America First and the young generations of voters.

Don’t make me name names.

The future is ours.

Trump is the past.

[Former Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene🇺🇸 @FmrRepMTG]

Any member of the Trump admin that wants to run for POTUS in 28 who has defended Trump’s war in Iran and not spoken out against it publicly, has stood with the admin on the coverup of the Epstein files, and refuses to publicly apologize to the American people for the creating more inflation and high gas prices with the Iran war, will not be trusted.

64% of Americans are against the Iran war, and it is a complete betrayal of campaign promises.

The Epstein files are still not fully released, which has been one of the biggest issues the American people demanded in recent history.

Lowering cost of living and gas prices was a key campaign promise that had been completely broken because of Trump’s Iran war making costs of living even worse for the American people.

You won’t get to walk out on 2028 presidential stages with your anti-neocon tough talk and try to tell us this time will be different because all we will see is your blood stains from 18 US service members and children of the Minab girls school.

We won’t believe you when you claim to bring transparency and accountability because the Epstein victims will still be crying out demanding the Epstein files and justice they never received.

And if you utter the phrase America First claiming to focus on a domestic agenda, we will laugh at you because your pockets are lined with AIPAC, MIC, and other corporate pac dollars that always fight against putting regular Americans first.

YOU are in power right now.

End the war and bring our beloved troops home immediately.

Release the files and prosecute pedophiles and rapists, even if they are your donors and friends.

And put 100% of your focus on domestic issues that lower inflation, costs of groceries, and gas and energy prices for the American people.

We no longer live in the failed two party system and will no longer be controlled by it.

Both parties, no matter who is in charge, put us in deeper debt, continue to ruin the value of our hard earned dollars, and always drag us into foreign war after foreign war that feed the debt, ruin the dollar, and kill people.

It’s gross.

We are done.

We won’t vote for you anymore because the other side is worse than you, there’s no difference, both are disgracefully bad.

Approximately 45% of Americans are independents.

We don’t need the two parties anymore.

[John thaxton @johnthaxton]

@specialopsmag Women should not be in combat. A nation should not use women to do a man’s job. The matter of how capable they are is a separate issue. This was unquestioned for thousands of years and we think we know better in the last 20? Satanic.

[Diligent Denizen 🇺🇸 @DiligentDenizen]

‼️🇺🇸: @RealCandaceO RELEASES EXCLUSIVE FOOTAGE OF CHARLIE KIRK ASSASSIN ON LOSEE CENTER 👀

The alleged shooter does a MILITARY crawl into position & appears to SIGNAL w a BRIGHT object just before taking the shot

Tyler Robinson is NOT TRAINED and WHO was the shooter SIGNALING?!

[John thaxton @johnthaxton]

@megbasham Are you getting paid by or do you coordinate your posts with Zionist, Israeli, or pro Israeli organizations?

[John thaxton @johnthaxton]

@megbasham @IanCarrollShow @RealCandaceO Are you getting paid for these posts or are you following coordinated talking points?

[John thaxton @johnthaxton]

@megbasham Do we know that he confessed to his parents? There is doubt and at least some family members say he did not. Perhaps he surrendered for his safety and to clear this up? If these are true then fine but it needs to be proven in court, right?

[John thaxton @johnthaxton]

@megbasham Are you getting paid for your anti-Candace posts? Are you part of a group following coordinated talking points with your posts?

[John thaxton @johnthaxton]

@megbasham @ShawnRyan762 Disgusting human being? This is your sister in Christ. Differ, argue, but don’t begin down the path of dehumanization.
“May this be what you are know for forever,” is an attempt at a curse. If she’s wrong don’t you want her to repent and be restored?

[Joel Webbon @JoelWebbon]

Mike Lee's complaint only works if everyone agrees to ignore what Mormonism actually teaches.

He wants the public to focus on the label while averting its eyes from the contents.

But theology is not judged by branding.

If it were, every cult in America could become orthodox by hiring a better marketing department.

Mike Lee belongs to a religion that teaches God the Father was once a man who progressed to godhood, that human beings may follow the same path, that Jesus and Lucifer share the same heavenly parentage, and that the highest aspiration of the faithful is not merely to worship God forever but to become gods themselves.

These are not minor disagreements within Christianity. These are different answers to the most basic questions Christianity asks.

Mike Lee knows this.

He was raised in Mormon royalty, educated in Mormon institutions, and formed by Mormon theology. His objection is not that the Pentagon misunderstood Mormonism. His objection is that the Pentagon accidentally described it accurately.

What makes the spectacle particularly amusing is that Mormon leaders spent generations insisting they were not what Mike Lee now demands to be called.

-Joseph Smith launched his movement by declaring every existing church on earth an abomination.

-Brigham Young mocked the God of Christianity as a being who "never did exist."

-John Taylor described Christianity as "a perfect pack of nonsense."

-Bruce McConkie warned that the doctrines of Christendom would damn men's souls.

-Gordon Hinckley openly admitted that the Christ worshiped by Mormons was not the Christ worshiped by traditional Christians.

For nearly two centuries Mormon leaders built a theological wall between themselves and Christianity brick by brick, sermon by sermon, book by book. Now Mike Lee appears before that same wall demanding to know who built it. The answer is simple: his own prophets did.

The deeper problem for Senator Lee is that Mormonism's truth claims are so spectacularly strange that they force a choice. Either they are true, in which case historic Christianity has been wrong for nearly two thousand years and Joseph Smith really did restore the gospel through golden plates, angelic visitations, sacred underwear, proxy baptisms for the dead, and a seer stone in a hat. Or they are false, in which case Mormonism is one of the most successful religious inventions in American history.

What it cannot be is ordinary Christianity.

The faith that emerged from Nicaea and Chalcedon has many internal disputes, but none of them involve exalted men becoming gods, planets populated by spirit children, or a deity residing near a star called Kolob.

Mike Lee is free to believe every one of those things.

What he is not free to do is pretend they are the same religion that produced the Apostles' Creed.

[Matt Walsh @MattWalshBlog]

Pretty much all of the prominent voices who supported the Iran War assured us it would be over by now. None of them will admit they were wrong. Even less will they admit that their initial assurances were based on nothing but their own wishcasting. This whole shitshow has been an enormous waste of time and resources and our country has not benefited from it at all. Its advocates have moved the goal posts repeatedly and have even to this day refused to clearly articulate what constitutes a victory and how we’ll know that it’s been achieved.

[Joe Kent @joekent16jan19]

What Massie’s loss means for America 1st & why I’m optimistic about the future of our movement.

We can save our Republic if we can build a broad populist movement against more wars & foreign influence:

[Peter Schiff @PeterSchiff]

@marklevinshow He'll be just another rubber stamp for big government, massive deficit spending, and more inflation. If you are against those things then vote for Massie.

[Buckley Carlson @buckleycarlson]

"Crushing Massie for telling the TRUTH is itself a moral crime."

[Buckley Carlson @buckleycarlson]

AMEN. Vote Massie. And vote to expel foreign money and influence.

[JP Sears @AwakenWithJP]

How Israel hijacks politicians in America...

[Buckley Carlson @buckleycarlson]

Treason IS:

- Welcoming, shielding, empowering the enemies within..."Adhering to enemies, giving them aid & comfort;"
- Destroying the empire with which you were entrusted...through neglect, incompetence, self-preservation, greed...or worse, to satisfy the bloodthirsty, destructive aims of a hostile, foreign nation; AND, 
- Sending America's most impressive young men to fight and die for a hostile, foreign nation.

It is NOT:

- Championing America & Americans
- advocating for peace
- doing your job as a journalist