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Just take Israeli nukes away, then no pressure for anyone else to have them...easy-peasey.
 
Here's a bit more on the phone call.

Details of Trump's expletive-laden phone call with Netanyahu revealed​


Donald Trump reportedly called Benjamin Netanyahu 'f***ing crazy' on a phone call just before the President announced a halt to fighting between Israel and Hezbollah.

The President announced on Truth Social that the Israeli prime minister 'turned his troops around' instead of conducting a 'major raid' on Lebanon Monday.

He added that both the Israeli military and Hezbollah-aligned militia groups agreed to 'stop shooting' at one another.

However, Trump issued a note of hopeful skepticism: 'Let's see how long that lasts — Hopefully it will be for ETERNITY!'

More:

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/worl...tanyahu-revealed/ar-AA24B0Wl?ocid=socialshare
 
Just take Israeli nukes away, then no pressure for anyone else to have them...easy-peasey.
Kind of hard to take the knowledge of how to make one, away.

There's no putting the toothpaste back in the tube. The bell cannot be un-rung.

Most of the nation-states that do not have a nuclear weapon now, outside of NATO, lack the technological infrastructure and in some cases, have populations with mean IQ scores so low they're unlikely ever to obtain one on their own.
 

NOW: Sec. Marco Rubio says it PERFECTLY

"If Iran is going to shut down the straits for everybody, WE are going to shut down the straits for THEM!"

"The cost to Iran every single DAY in lost revenue is in the hundreds of MILLIONS of dollars that they are losing in lost revenue, that they're not generating as a result of that."

"For the first time in my memory, Iran has agreed to negotiate aspects of their NUCLEAR program that just a month ago, a YEAR ago, they were refusing to even MENTION in their discussions."
 
And yet we must, no Muslim state will ever give up until Mutually Assured Destruction is achieved. As for I.Q., those guys invented algebra and the numerical system we still use today....
 
Marco Rubio the liar???
 
And yet we must, no Muslim state will ever give up until Mutually Assured Destruction is achieved. As for I.Q., those guys invented algebra and the numerical system we still use today....
Sorry to burst your bubble but those came into being before the illiterate pedophile was born. By a century or more. Just as all dogs aren't poodles neither are all Arabs Moslem.
 
Sorry to burst your bubble but those came into being before the illiterate pedophile was born. By a century or more. Just as all dogs aren't poodles neither are all Arabs Moslem.
Same people...
 
A dirty bomb, or radiological dispersal device (RDD), combines conventional explosives (like dynamite) with radioactive material (such as powders or pellets). Its primary purpose is to scatter radiation over a limited area to cause mass panic and economic disruption. It is not a nuclear bomb and cannot create an atomic explosion.
I am sure the Iranians can build these as a revenge missile if need be.
 
And yet we must, no Muslim state will ever give up until Mutually Assured Destruction is achieved. As for I.Q., those guys invented algebra and the numerical system we still use today....
There's a wide disparity between the IQ mean of the Persian peoples, and those of the Semitic Arabs.

My own guess is, it factors how long they've had to live under Islam, and under what nature and variety.

A world which punishes learning, which keeps the intellectually rigid, almost-retarded mullah class in charge, and where ambition is punished, and social mobility almost nil; where SEX is the only release...sex with unwilling mates, sex with children, sex with animals...such a world is going to see greater reproductive success in low-IQ types.

It will take centuries to bring the mean IQ values down. Persia had been less under the iron fist of Islam, in my understanding, than had the Arab regions.

And that's also why, now, two generations past the Shah's overthrow, I'd actually trust the Iranians more than I would our own Political Elites.
 
No doubt they can cause mayhem.
 
I'm not at all sure the Iranians even want to.

They've got a neat little racket there, pumping oil for the Infidels. All they had to do was keep it flowing, and leave their mouth-foaming hatred for the Grate Satan, off the video feeds. The Petrodollar is not an ideal Reserve Currency, and it does finance a lot of evil, but life, post-Shah, had been good for Iran, once things settled down.

No, I'm sure it wasn't a lot of fun for the average Iranian. Islam is not a fun way of life. But they've found a stasis; and the nation was making bank.

Political terrorism is for malcontents and megalomaniacs who want to USE them to elevate themselves beyond their proper station. Like Lenin; like Mao; like Castro; like Chavez. Like Billy Ayers. Like Barry Hussein Dunham.
 
Remember, Israel wanted this war, for the Greater Israel project using the blackmailed flunkey Trump...Iran was perfectly happy making money till the genocide in Gaza, the West Bank, and Lebanon.
 
Venezuela has so much oil weath, it has no need of nuke power...when israel dies, iran will ditch its nuke program too.
 

BREAKING UPDATE: The US military carried out “SELF DEFENSE STRIKES” on Iran’s Qeshm Island, before Iran launched missiles at US military installations in the region

NO US servicemembers were injured, thank God.

One of the Iranian missiles seems to have BROKEN APART in the air, causing burning shrapnel to rain down on Kuwait

Full statement from CENTCOM:

“U.S. forces successfully defeated multiple Iranian ballistic missiles and drones, and conducted self-defense strikes on Qeshm Island in response to attempted attacks by Iran across the Middle East, June 2.

Iran launched several ballistic missiles toward regional neighbors; however, all failed to hit their intended targets. Two Iranian missiles fired at Kuwait fell short or broke apart enroute, and three missiles launched at Bahrain were immediately intercepted by U.S. and Bahrain air defense forces.

Moments earlier, U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) forces shot down three one-way attack drones launched by Iran toward civilian mariners that were rightfully transiting regional waters. American forces also conducted self-defense strikes on an Iranian military ground control station on Qeshm Island.”
 
Here's what condition our condition is presently in................

Rubio vs. Booker: "The war is over," "I don't know where you're getting this perception that Iran is stronger"​

Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) questioned Secretary of State Marco Rubio in a hearing Tuesday held by the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations. Rubio faces back-to-back hearings before Senate and House committees on Tuesday, his first since the Iran war started at the end of February.

In a tense exchange, Booker argued the war strengthened Iran's leverage and increased costs for Americans, while Rubio said Iran has been severely weakened militarily and economically.

More on our condition here:

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/poli...iran-is-stronger/ar-AA24GkD1?ocid=socialshare
 
How a president acts.

Trump Orders Netanyahu to Stand Down: Why London Is Panicking​

This episode argues that leaked details of a Trump-Netanyahu call and John Bolton’s complaints reveal Trump’s rejection of the traditional National Security Council process and the permanent intelligence bureaucracy’s control over presidential decision-making. It links that shift to Trump’s appointment of Bill Pulte as acting Director of National Intelligence, citing establishment and bipartisan backlash and JD Vance’s statement that the intel bureaucracy must answer elected leadership. The script then highlights Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s speech at the Shangri-La Dialogue, describing a move away from “globalist” rules-based rhetoric toward a scoped Pacific posture defined by a balance of power, sovereignty, free commerce, and improved U.S.-China relations. Finally, it cites a Council on Foreign Relations essay, “After Hegemony,” as an admission that the old Hobbes/Locke philosophical basis of geopolitics is ending, framing the conflict as empire versus sovereign nations.

00:00 The Midweek Update - Trump Orders Netanyahu to Stand Down: Why London Is Panicking - June 3, 2026
02:00 Trump Pulls Rank: The Presidency Comes Off the Leash
04:35 Bill Pulte, New Acting Director of National Intelligence
06:32 What Hegseth Planted in the Pacific
10:10 The Confession: "Locke's World Would Emerge From Hobbes'"
 

Fire and Freedom: The Unseen Trump Effect​

President Trump's influence extends far beyond elections, headlines, and political victories. Beneath the daily news cycle, a deeper cultural transformation is underway—one rooted in leadership, responsibility, truth, and the rebuilding of American civic life.

In this episode, we examine the unseen Trump effect: how a commitment to solving real problems is reshaping American culture, inspiring institutions, reviving communities, and restoring a spirit of self-government that has defined the nation since its founding.

From Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent's reflections on American renewal to Jamieson Greer's challenge to decades of economic orthodoxy, from the College of St. Joseph the Worker in Ohio to the pastors and farmers who fueled the American Revolution, this episode explores the deeper forces that create lasting cultural change.

We break down:

• The difference between political spectacle and real leadership
• Scott Bessent on America's cultural and economic renewal
• Why solving problems changes institutions and nations
• President Trump's approach to China and global stability
• Jamieson Greer's challenge to the economics establishment
• The College of St. Joseph the Worker and rebuilding America from the ground up
• The role of faith, sacrifice, and leadership in American history
• The Black Regiment and the Revolutionary generation
• George Whitefield's influence on American liberty
• The deeper cultural meaning of the MAGA movement
• Why self-government begins with individual responsibility

From Lexington Green to modern-day America, this episode explores how nations are renewed—not through rhetoric, but through courage, sacrifice, leadership, and a commitment to truth.

TIMESTAMPS
00:00 Intro
01:35 Scott Bessent and the American Revival
04:05 Solving Problems vs Managing Decline
06:10 The Fire of Truth
07:50 Trump, China, and Global Stability
09:45 Jamieson Greer and Economic Reality
11:15 The College of St. Joseph the Worker
12:45 Rebuilding America from the Ground Up
14:10 Reverend Jonas Clarke and Lexington
15:30 Peter Muhlenberg and the Black Regiment
17:00 Benedict Arnold's Army and George Whitefield
18:40 The Deeper Trump Effect
20:00 Final Thoughts

 
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