***Anecdotal Observation***
I spoke to an Iranian friend of mine. Full disclosure: She is a Zoroastrian, and she migrated to America to escape the Islamic revolution in Iran when she was a young girl. She has been here for over 40 years and is a U.S. Citizen. She spoke to her family this week and shared with me the following:
-She was able to communicate because of Starlink. Hat tip to Elon Musk.
-Her family members are all alive.
-They have fled Tehran to an undisclosed city in the north of the country.
-Their bank cards do not work, and they have no cash. They are relying on friends of friends for food. They are living in their car.
-Fully 100% of the people they know are hoping and praying that the Islamic regime will fall or be overthrown and the Prince will return to restore order.
-Her conservative guess is that 75-80% of the people in general want the Islamic regime to be overthrown.
-She made it clear that she believes all senior leadership should be killed fearing that if they survive, they will become even more oppressive.
-She said that the populace is largely disarmed. The only people with guns are the “bad guys”, i.e. police, muslim militias, and military. Any uprising would need to be supplied/supported by outside entities.
-She praised Benjamin Netanyahu and Donald Trump.
-She is optimistic that things will improve quickly once the Ayatollah and his henchmen meet their virgins.
It sounds like a Neocon wet dream.
Based on public statements from Trump and numerous other officials, elected and other wise, the US has no intention of overtly pushing for regime change. No US “boots on the ground”. I have it on good authority, however, that private contractors with the requisite credentials are currently being recruited and vetted for potential missions within Iran.
Anything less than regime change in Iran is a big fat “L” for the US and Israel. I suspect the Mullahs will either go full totalitarian to quell any sort of rebellion before it has a chance to get started, or, if they are weakened significantly enough, a significant popular uprising could begin. Such an endeavor would be supported by certain western intelligence entities and staffed by private contractors. I wonder if they’ll call it the “Iranian Spring”?
We’ll see.
Victor Davis Hanson talking about the middle east. He essentially agrees with my assessment last week. Key points at 4:00 mark. More VDH.
The article shines a light on the shady underworld of so called non-government organizations (NGO’s), most of which are fully funded by the government, and most of which fund headaches for regular citizens in the form of organized protests (which often turn into riots or illegal roadblocks), paying attorneys for illegal aliens to fight deportation, and providing grift money for the activists who run them. It is a racket, and it needs to cease.
I know the new administration has only been in place for six months , and they have a lot on their plate, but they need to get serious about stopping the embedded communists, stopping the corruption, auditing/eliminating NGO funding, and reducing the size of the federal footprint in general.
A smart man once said, “We don’t have a revenue problem. We have a spending problem.”
Speaking of Blatant Corruption…
The former administration gave away billions after they lost the election. It is unapologetic, in-your-face malfeasance, and people need to go to jail. In a sane society corrupt public officials would be publicly executed.
Border Patrol and ICE Getting Assaulted by Communists and Illegals…
The story is about a couple of DHS vehicles being targeted in hit and run attacks, but the officers themselves are being targeted as well. I suspect the insurrectionists will keep escalating.
This guy will likely be the next Mayor of New York. He is a Muslim who is openly communist. Who would’ve ever figured on September 12, 2001, that New York would have a communist Muslim mayor in 25 years?
This is only possible because our leaders over that time period have allowed millions of largely unvetted and thoroughly unassimilable immigrants, both legal and not, to invade our country. I applaud and support our current deportation efforts, but I fear it is too little, too late.
We’ll see.
Interesting Article Discussing Homosexual Marriage and It’s Impact Ten Years On…
The author is both concise and thoughtful in his assessment, and it is worth the read.
The main point is that men and women are not interchangeable. Pretending they are interchangeable is detrimental to a society.
I personally do not care (nor have I ever cared) what consenting adults do with one another in private, but keep the kids away from it.
The bobble head is obviously a joke, but the Dodgers are definitely trying to curry favor with the communists and illegals. The Dodgers tweeted that they had not allowed ICE/DHS vehicles to use their parking lot as if they had boldly thwarted a huge operation saving hundreds from deportation. ICE responded to the tweet calling them out as liars and stating they were never in the Dodgers parking lot.
California has more illegal aliens than some other states have people, so I understand that the team is trying to be liked locally.
Let’s hope they are on the wrong side of history.
An interesting snapshot.