Greg Braden

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[Greg Braden @notofools]

Snow, speed, and a little bit of freedom. 🏔️✨

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The cat examines the grass, taking in the scents of its environment.

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Each commonplace day arrives as a precious offering from existence, bringing with it the glow of new light, the gentle warmth of the breeze, and those modest, unexpected joys that infuse life with a constant sense of hopefulness.

[Greg Braden @notofools]

@bnbchen Thank you. You have (apparently unknowingly) explained precisely why we are obliterating Iran’s ability to manufacture and launch ballistic missiles that can carry nuclear warheads.

[M.A. Rothman @MichaelARothman]

𝗧𝗢 𝗘𝗩𝗘𝗥𝗬 𝗟𝗜𝗙𝗘𝗟𝗢𝗡𝗚 𝗗𝗘𝗠𝗢𝗖𝗥𝗔𝗧 𝗔𝗦𝗞𝗜𝗡𝗚 "𝗪𝗛𝗔𝗧 𝗛𝗔𝗣𝗣𝗘𝗡𝗘𝗗 𝗧𝗢 𝗠𝗬 𝗣𝗔𝗥𝗧𝗬": 𝗧𝗛𝗜𝗦 𝗜𝗦 𝗪𝗛𝗔𝗧 𝗛𝗔𝗣𝗣𝗘𝗡𝗘𝗗.

The Iran war has done something no political consultant could have engineered. It has stripped the Democratic Party down to its bare operating principle — in front of everyone — in real time.

For years the hypocrisy was easier to hide. They could talk about human rights in the abstract. Democracy in theory. Women's rights as a campaign slogan. But the moment the United States moved to destroy a regime that has been murdering its own people since 1979 — a regime that k!lls women for removing their hijabs, that hangs teenage wrestlers in public squares, that has financed every major terror network on earth for 47 years — the Democratic Party had a choice.

Side with the Iranian people fighting for secular democratic freedom. Or side against Trump.

They chose against Trump. Which this time meant siding with the IRGC.

And people finally saw it.

Here's the ideology that produced that outcome. The Democratic Party's entire worldview runs on a single binary: oppressor versus oppressed. America is the oppressor. Therefore anyone fighting America is the oppressed — even when they are the ones doing the murdering and oppressing. The IRGC hangs protesters in the streets and the left categorizes them as victims because they are anti-American. That is not a political position. That is a moral illness.

The Iranian people are in the streets. They are getting shot. They have been sacrificing their lives for secular democratic freedom — the exact values the American left claims to champion. The left's response before the U.S. attacked: silence. The moment the U.S. attacked to help end the regime oppressing them: outrage.

That sequence tells you everything about what the party has become.

When your entire ideology collapses into opposition to one person, you no longer have an ideology. You have nothing. And the war with Iran proved it in real time — not because anyone set a trap, but because the moment demanded a real answer and the party gave the only answer it has left.

Whatever Trump does is bad.

Even when what Trump did was strike the regime that has been murdering Americans and oppressing Iranians for nearly five decades.

If you are a lifelong Democrat feeling politically homeless tonight — you did not abandon your party.

𝗬𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗽𝗮𝗿𝘁𝘆 𝗮𝗯𝗮𝗻𝗱𝗼𝗻𝗲𝗱 𝘆𝗼𝘂.

[A Gene Robinson @AlGeneRobi96834]

🚨Oh this is rich…

So let me get this straight…

In 2022, Kathy Hochul basically said:
“Republicans… grab a bus… head to Florida… you don’t belong here.”

Translation at the time?
“We don’t need you.”

She also went further…
Called Republican voters “anti-American”… “anti-woman”…
Mocked people for leaving to places like Florida…

Confidence was high back then.

Fast forward…

People actually leave.
Tax base drops.
Seats get lost.
Businesses follow the money.

New York is bleeding population… and it’s not a theory… it’s documented.

And now suddenly…

“Come back…”
“We need people…”
“Invest in New York…”

Oh now you need them?

Now the same people you pushed out are supposed to come fund everything?

Amazing how fast
“you don’t belong here”
turns into
“please come back and pay the bill.”

That’s not leadership…
That’s consequences catching up.
@libsoftiktok @RealJamesWoods @mrddmia
#SilentMajoritySpeaks #AStoneGroove

[Greg Braden @notofools]

@mrssmith2018 @MichaelARothman Right. That’s what happens when you don’t blow up the deficit by adding a couple million government jobs and claiming you’re helping the economy while doing exactly the opposite.

[M.A. Rothman @MichaelARothman]

𝗩𝗗𝗛: 𝗪𝗘 𝗔𝗥𝗘 𝗪𝗔𝗧𝗖𝗛𝗜𝗡𝗚 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗚𝗥𝗘𝗔𝗧𝗘𝗦𝗧 𝗖𝗢𝗨𝗡𝗧𝗘𝗥-𝗥𝗘𝗩𝗢𝗟𝗨𝗧𝗜𝗢𝗡 𝗜𝗡 𝟵𝟬 𝗬𝗘𝗔𝗥𝗦

Victor Davis Hanson just put the Trump era in its proper historical context — and the scale of what he's describing should stop you cold.

The last time America saw a president attempt to fundamentally restructure the nature of government was Franklin Roosevelt from the left during the New Deal in the 1930s. What Trump is doing from the right is that consequential. Not a policy adjustment. Not a pendulum swing. A structural counterrevolution.

The border is closed. DEI is being dismantled and Trump is winning the argument publicly. Iran no longer poses a nuclear threat for the foreseeable future. Universities are competing with each other to cut deals with the administration rather than defy it. The institutions that enforced left-wing ideological dominance for decades are retreating on multiple fronts simultaneously.

But Hanson's most important insight is the one about power. The left exercises power even when they control nothing — no White House, no Congress, no governorship. They do it through universities, through media, through HR departments, through accreditation bodies, through regulatory agencies, through the permanent bureaucracy. They impose an agenda that the majority of Americans oppose — on immigration, on DEI, on gender ideology, on crime — because they captured the institutions that don't require winning elections.

What Trump is doing is attacking those institutions directly. And that's why the reaction is so unhinged. This isn't Democrats upset about losing an election. This is an ideological class watching the infrastructure of their unelected power be dismantled in real time.

Hanson's warning is worth heeding: brace yourself. The resistance coming will be frantic and fierce precisely because the stakes are existential for the left's ability to govern from the shadows. They know if this counterrevolution succeeds, they'll have to actually win elections to impose their agenda.

And they know they can't.

[Cynical Publius @CynicalPublius]

RE: The Way of War of Our Enemies

In every hot war the United States has become involved in since the Korean War, we have enjoyed absolute tactical and operational dominance over our enemies. We win every tactical engagement, overwhelmingly. Operationally we can and do dominate any theater of our choosing. No one—and I mean NO ONE—can stand toe to toe with the US military.

This has been true for decades.

We’ve talked before about the elements of national power—the “DIME” (Diplomacy, Informational, Military, Economic).

Our military power is unsurpassed. We are masters of diplomacy. We have the world’s strongest economy.

So how do we lose? The INFORMATIONAL component.

Our military opponents, from Ho Chi Minh to Osama bin Ladin, knew that the only way to defeat the USA is to demoralize the American populace such that it demands withdrawal and throws the then current Commander-in-Chief out of office. The ONLY way to defeat America militarily is to convince the American people that a war is unwinnable.

The slow dribble of IED deaths in OIF was not actually targeting soldiers and Marines—it was targeting YOU, the American people. And CNN eagerly complied with death counts running across the bottom of the screen.

The Tet Offensive? It was a decisive US victory that could have ended the Vietnam War in our favor. But Walter Cronkite instead declared the war lost, protests erupted nationwide, and the war was lost.

The Highway of Death in Kuwait? We could have taken out Saddam Hussein in 1991 and never needed to go back in 2003, but international media made the attack on retreating Iraqis look “too cruel,” so we halted just short of the finish line.

The strategic imperative of every one of America’s military enemies is to break the will of the American people with skewed information, propaganda, and extreme emphasis on America’s minor losses amidst overwhelming military victory.

But the Ho Chi Minhs and Osama bin Ladins can’t do that by themselves. They need willing partners in the American media and government.

And for Operation Epic Fury, boy oh boy do the Iranian mullahs have an over abundance of American morale killers to draw from in order to defeat America through the informational instrument of national power.

Tucker Carlson.

Senator Mark Kelly and the rest of the Seditious Six.

CNN.

ABC.

NBC.

CBS.

NYT, WaPo.

Pakistani bot armies on social media.

X “influencers” like Cerno, Candace, MartyrMade and Ian Carroll.

Every idiot claiming we are fighting “Israel’s war."

There is an entire Army of American politicians and media figures who are willingly fighting Iran’s informational war on its behalf (and in some cases, at its behest).

America is DECISIVELY WINNING the war on Iran in every measurable respect.

Yet there are so many influential Americans who are desperately determined to make you believe otherwise.

In days of old in non-US countries, such people would have been strung up for treason.

Thankfully it’s 2026 and we have a First Amendment, so no one fear being treated in such a medieval manner. But we can still ostracize and ridicule such people and sources for the irreparable harm they are wreaking upon the USA as they do the bidding (intentionally or unintentionally) of Theo-fascist mullahs who are determined to set off a nuclear bomb so that the Twelfth Imam will arise from a well in Qom and precipitate the global apocalypse.

We all need to choose sides. Are you with America, or are you with theologic-inspired, deliberate Armageddon?

And anyone who chooses the latter needs to be the target of mockery, derision and clearly-stated facts disproving their lies.

And if YOU are an American Patriot, you can fight that informational war on America’s behalf, right now, right here on social media, right there in your own living room. Your voice matters, and your voice is actually a part of the war.

FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT.

[Greg Braden @notofools]

@CynicalPublius Well said. And let’s not forget the rules of engagement that have progressively tied our soldiers’ hands, part, parcel and product of the propaganda campaigns you so accurately describe.

[Greg Braden @notofools]

@LBGamestips If we are talking about people likely to die suddenly in the next few years, my money is on you pal. And hopefully by your preferred method, at the end of a rope.

[Greg Braden @notofools]

@bnbchen Yes! Please draft those 90 million citizens, arm them, and teach them how to shoot. Please! 🙄😂

[M.A. Rothman @MichaelARothman]

𝗛𝗢𝗡𝗘𝗦𝗧𝗥𝗘𝗣𝗢𝗥𝗧𝗜𝗡𝗚.𝗔𝗜 𝗧𝗥𝗔𝗖𝗞𝗘𝗗 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗝𝗢𝗘 𝗞𝗘𝗡𝗧 𝗡𝗔𝗥𝗥𝗔𝗧𝗜𝗩𝗘 𝗜𝗡 𝗥𝗘𝗔𝗟 𝗧𝗜𝗠𝗘. 𝗪𝗛𝗔𝗧 𝗧𝗛𝗘𝗬 𝗙𝗢𝗨𝗡𝗗 𝗦𝗛𝗢𝗨𝗟𝗗 𝗘𝗡𝗗 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗗𝗘𝗕𝗔𝗧𝗘.

Joe Kent goes on Tucker Carlson. Within minutes — not hours, minutes — the same clip, same caption, same outrage floods hundreds of accounts simultaneously. https://t.co/6HVdFLxeuU Labs tracked every amplification event in real time, and the data is damning.

The trigger quote — 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘐𝘴𝘳𝘢𝘦𝘭𝘪𝘴 𝘥𝘳𝘰𝘷𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘥𝘦𝘤𝘪𝘴𝘪𝘰𝘯 — was clipped and posted across hundreds of accounts almost simultaneously. Not after it trended. During the broadcast. Real breaking news takes time to spread organically. This had a running start.

Who amplified it? Look at the coalition:

Russian state TV (RT).
Iranian state media through HispanTV.
Hamas-aligned Quds News Network.
Turkish state broadcaster TRT.
Sputnik Brasil.

And simultaneously — Jackson Hinkle, Candace Owens, Marjorie Taylor Greene, and Max Blumenthal.
Russia, Iran, Hamas, and MAGA dissidents.

All posting the same message. At the same time.

When does that happen naturally? It doesn't.

The charts tell the story precisely. Within 2 to 4 hours of the Tucker broadcast, tracked amplification events spiked to 30 — dominated by MAGA dissident amplifiers and Pro-Palestinian/Islamist networks firing in parallel.

The second chart shows how far the narrative traveled from what Kent actually said. By the time the amplification cycle was complete, the message had escalated from Kent's original claim all the way to "Israel controls America" — an approximately 85-90% departure from source material. That is not interpretation. That is narrative laundering.

The rollout wasn't spontaneous. Kent resigned. Tucker booked him within hours. Real whistleblowers are chaotic. They call journalists from parking lots. They don't have a media tour lined up before the ink dries on their resignation letter.

And here's what got buried in all of it: from 2020 to 2024, Joe Kent publicly and repeatedly called for destroying Iran's nuclear AND ballistic capabilities. That record was almost completely absent from the amplified conversation. Narrative laundering doesn't only determine what to amplify. It determines what to erase.

The FBI was already investigating Kent. He resigned to control the narrative. The speed, the uniformity, and the foreign state amplification are not organic. This was a coordinated information operation — and the people pushing it included both foreign adversaries and Americans who should know better.

𝗥𝘂𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗮, 𝗜𝗿𝗮𝗻, 𝗛𝗮𝗺𝗮𝘀, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗔𝗺𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗻 𝗱𝗶𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀 𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝗽𝘂𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘀𝗮𝗺𝗲 𝗺𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗮𝗴𝗲 𝗮𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘀𝗮𝗺𝗲 𝘁𝗶𝗺𝗲 𝗶𝘀 𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝗮 𝗰𝗼𝗶𝗻𝗰𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲. 𝗜𝘁'𝘀 𝗮 𝗼𝗽𝗲𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻.

[Greg Braden @notofools]

@grok @Vincent05254221 @IbrahimMajed Right. Like I said, no evidence Israel or the US made any cease-fire or mediation offers. It’s easy to turn down offers from intermediaries who have no authority to make them.

[Greg Braden @notofools]

@TMT_arabic Lol! If that had happened, it would’ve been great target practice. Come on ayatollah fans! You really need to step up your propaganda game.🙄😂😂

[Greg Braden @notofools]

@RussianSnappy Wow! They shot down a B2 bomber, reassembled it perfectly, brought the crew back to life, and took a picture!😂😂

[Greg Braden @notofools]

@IbrahimMajed Hilarious!

[Greg Braden @notofools]

@grok @Vincent05254221 @IbrahimMajed First, I’ve heard of the US or Israel proposing “ceasefire . . . and mediation“, at least since the hostilities started.

[Greg Braden @notofools]

@MarioNawfal @vali_nasr The size of the population is precisely the problem for the regime, who are hated by a significant majority of it. Take out the IRGC and the army will defect.

[Greg Braden @notofools]

@carriecoon Wow! What an insightful analysis! And so well supported by an actual evidence and examples! 🙄🙄 Please confine your below average intellect to crayons and coloring books and keep your boring baseless tantrums to yourself. Thanks!