2 Suspected Terror Attacks Fuel Tensions Across the US
The Reviews Are in… It’s Not Looking Good, America
Cackling Kamala Harris
Many Americans give their country positive reviews. Some of the United States’ closest allies give far less flattering ratings.
The POLITICO Poll, conducted across five countries, reveals a stark disconnect between how Americans see their country and how several top allies do. As the Trump administration’s aggressive posture abroad disrupts the longstanding world order, the United States’ global reputation appears far worse than Americans realize.
In the U.S., the divergence is especially sharp along partisan lines. Americans who voted for President Donald Trump in 2024 overwhelmingly give the country high marks on the world stage.
Those who backed former Vice President Kamala Harris, however, offer negative assessments far closer to America’s allies. The results paint a lopsided picture, with Americans — driven by the president’s own supporters — increasingly on an island in how they view the country… (Continue to full article)
‘He’s at the end of his life’: MAGA podcaster claims Trump simply ‘doesn’t care’ anymore
A Trump-friendly right-wing podcaster is furious with the president over the Iran war.
Comedian Tim Dillon, an influencer with a wide male fanbase who advocated hard for President Donald Trump during the election but has grown more critical of the president in recent months, weighed in on the Iran issue in a recent podcast.
Specifically, the “manosphere” influencer said of Trump, “He’s at the end of his life. He’s endorsing Jake Paul for president. He doesn’t care about what happens next. That’s the thing with Donald Trump, he doesn’t really care about what happens next…Trump is just kind of on a farewell tour.”
He went on to beg Trump insiders to tell the president anything they need to tell him in order to get him to halt the sprawling war… (Continue to full article)
Chris Murphy Says “Trump Has Lost Control Of This War” and Warns Strait Of Hormuz Closure Could Spark Global Recession
Trump Miscalculates Iran, Strait Of Hormuz Crisis Escalates
On Saturday, Murphy, in a post on X, outlined what he called the four biggest crises stemming from the conflict.
“It’s crystal clear now that Trump has lost control of this war. He badly misjudged Iran’s ability to retaliate. The region is on fire,” Murphy wrote.
He said Trump assumed Iran would not close the Strait of Hormuz, a key oil shipping route, a miscalculation with potentially global consequences.
“If the Strait stays closed, a global recession will result. It actually may already be too late. Gas prices are the first to spike, but food prices are next… (Continue to full article)
‘His brain has deteriorated’: Trump Ridiculed for Undercutting Own Claim in Panicked Plea
Trump took to Truth Social Saturday to insist that his administration had completely “destroyed” Iran’s military capabilities. In the same sentence, however, he also noted that Iran’s military was still capable of sending “a drone or two,” deploying mines and launching “close range missiles” to keep closed the Strait of Hormuz, a major shipping route through which a fifth of the world’s oil trade travels.
“In a single unhinged post Trump is saying that the Iranian military is COMPLETELY DESTROYED BUT they are STILL CAPABLE OF ATTACKING ships in the Strait of Hormuz?” wrote X user “Robin,” a frequent political commentator and Trump critic, to their nearly 20,000 followers. “Even the stupid, ignorant MAGA have to see how insane that is? Why are they so willing to be LIED to?”
Trump has attempted to dismiss panic around surging gas prices, insisting last week that higher prices at the pump would be temporary, and were a “very small price to pay” to topple Iran’s government… (Continue to full article)
48% of Americans Blame Trump for High Gas Prices — More Than Any Other Factor
Americans are growing increasingly concerned with rising gas prices, and about half are blaming President Trump, per flash polling conducted Wednesday night by Morning Consult and shared with Axios.
Why it matters: The spike in oil prices caused by the war is fast becoming a political liability for the White House — and threatening economic growth in the U.S.
74% of Americans say gas prices have increased this year, per the survey.
That’s up 30 points from six weeks ago, the last time the polling firm surveyed on this question.
When asked who is most responsible for current gas prices, 48% said the president and his administration. That was followed by 16% who pointed at oil and gas companies, 13% who blamed global market forces and 11% who cited former President Biden… (Continue to full article)
Trump Admin Admits That US Already Blew $11.3 Billion on the Iran War in 6 Days, but the True Financial Horror Is Only Just Beginning
Officials from President Donald Trump’s administration have estimated that the first six days of the war on Iran had already cost the United States at least $11.3 billion, according to details from a congressional briefing, as reported by Al Jazeera. This staggering figure, shared during a closed-door session for senators, doesn’t even cover the entire cost of the ongoing conflict. Lawmakers have been clamoring for more information about the financial implications as the war continues to unfold.
You can expect the White House to submit a request to Congress for additional funding for the war very soon. Some officials are speculating this request could be around $50 billion, though others feel that estimate might actually be on the low side. The administration hasn’t actually given a public assessment of the war’s cost or even a clear idea of how long they expect it to last.
President Trump, however, made some interesting comments during a trip to Kentucky, claiming that “we won” the war. He then added that the US would still stay in the fight to “finish the job,” which feels a bit contradictory if you ask me… (Continue to full article)
“Instead of going to war with Iran, we could cover health care for millions of Americans“
Hiawatha Warren – Land of Flakes
Sen. Elizabeth Warren argued Thursday that the money being discussed for the U.S. war effort against Iran could instead be used to help millions of Americans keep or afford health coverage, sharpening Democrats’ attack on President Donald Trump’s spending priorities as the conflict abroad grows more expensive. In a post on X, Warren wrote, “Instead of going to war with Iran, we could cover health care for millions of Americans. And still have $20 billion left over.”
Warren’s argument lines up with two numbers now driving the debate in Washington. Reuters reported that Trump administration officials told lawmakers in a closed-door briefing that the first six days of the U.S.-led war with Iran had already cost at least $11.3 billion, and that Congress could soon face a White House request for as much as $50 billion more… (Continue to full article)
What comes after victory is not freedom at all. It’s control. Control of institutions. Control of speech. Control of memory. Control of what is allowed to be said out loud without consequences.
This old world didn’t send out invitations, for you young men and women — no fancy cards with gilt edges, no polite “RSVP” for the grand show of existence. Most of us tumbled into this big, roaring, wonderful room we call the earth by pure mischance, like a prospector stumbling on a claim he never filed. We didn’t ask for the ticket, nor the rough ride that brought us here. For me, it was a near thing from the start – kicking and screaming down the birth canal, fighting the dark tunnel like a wild mustang bucking a blizzard, half sure I’d never see the light of day. The doctor later said it was touch and go, but touch I did, and go I didn’t. I came bawling into a world brimming with hope and promise, only to find shadows waiting, the old evil that prowls every path, sniffing at every soul like a wolf at a campfire.
Ain’t life just ducky, you mammy jammers? Another week of life goes by for 28,000 unborn babies and tens of thousands more from starvation, ‘war’ and other depravations perpetrated by uncaring governments. And here we go again….
That’s a higher percentage than people who think America’s biggest problem is the economy. Or immigration. Or inflation.
The military-industrial complex and the American police state have joined forces.
The Founding Fathers feared judicial tyranny. They had watched British judges operate as little more than a rubber stamp for the Crown and Parliament, enforcing political will rather than the law. That experience shaped the debates at the Constitutional Convention, where some delegates even argued against creating a federal judiciary at all. A federal court system ultimately prevailed only because disputes between states, maritime cases, and controversies involving the federal government required it.
We are all exhausted by modern politics. But a 3,000-year-old story in Judges 9 perfectly explains why the worst people often end up in power.
Gen Z students are struggling to read and comprehend a sentence, one Pepperdine University professor recently said.
We are entering a new period where we will find ourselves facing an incredibly dangerous asymmetrical warfare mission conducted by Islamic terrorists of all stripes, aligned with homegrown domestic terrorists, and our response must be a hard, determined resolve to stop it dead in its tracks before it takes off and takes more innocent American lives. The law enforcement agents cannot be everywhere at once and often are not present in the first moments of a terrorist attack, and so, that leaves it to the good, decent, solid, and courageous Americans to fill the void by way of their own armed interventions in order to thwart evil wherever it rears its ugly head.
Bo Gritz, also known as James Gordon Gritz, has died at the age of 87, according to his wife. The Green Beret and Vietnam War veteran was a major inspiration for Sylvester Stallone’s character of John Rambo in the 1992 movie First Blood.