Forgot to tell you, we're deploying to Iran tomorrow. Better pack up and say goodbye to the wife and kids.

I followed orders!  I threw my hands up.  I stuck my tush out.  I put my hands on my hips and gave it a push, but I was very surprised at what happened next!20250620

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□ [“Supreme Court 6-3 Allows Trump to Resume Deporting Illegal Aliens to ‘Third-Party Countries’"]

When was the last time there was a 6-3 decision that was even slightly different on who was on what side?  That could at least do that for novelty's sake.

No explanation is given here about why they made this decision.  You'd think that would be expected, even if it's just boring legalism.  But now the illegals don't get a pass and taxpayer-funded support and the government has jump through a bunch of hoops until a new judge comes up with even more delays.  At least that was shot down.

It's probably pretty basic.  You've got American citizens, those who are given official permission to come here, and everybody else.  That's why we have laws and enforcement.  We also have a commander-in-chief who can use the military to protect us.  That's part of the job requirements and the courts would have to go out of their way to avoid admitting that.

When is something going to be done about these activist judges?  It would be nice to think that it's one of those issues that can actually solve itself but it's not something we'll understand.  If the laws get applied correctly, the judges have to stay in line or be too obvious.  But we need to see more of this.

Note:  After writing the above, it came out that the judge defied the Supreme Court's ruling.  I didn't know you could do that.

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□ [“Qatar Confirms Interception of All Iranian Missiles at Al‑Udeid — No U.S. Casualties Reported"]

This isn't a very impressive response.  I've seen different numbers but Iran shot less than a dozen missiles at US bases in Qatar and didn't hit anything.  There's Iranian leaders talking about how big their response will be and it's just coming off as hollow propaganda.

They're not even showing any massive protests at the US embassy.  Ok, Iran doesn't have that option anyway but other Muslim countries do.  Either other countries don't really care what happens to Iran or their governments really need to prevent large gatherings of angry citizens.  If the governments look like they support Iran, they could targets of the US and Israel and they might be targets of their own people if the protests aren't controlled.

There's speculation that this is just at token reaction by Iran.  No evidence but it could explain a lot.  If they had anything big to respond with, they'd be using it.  They need to do something or they just look helpless which is a bad thing in the Muslim world.  There's even a chance, and more news articles coming out, that unlike leftists, Iran is sane enough to be willing to surrender quickly as long as the regime can stay in power.

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□ [“'We Came, We Saw, He Died': Dems' Breathtaking Hypocrisy on War Powers"]

Meanwhile the left is caught in a trap of their own making, magically finding reasons to criticize the POTUS for using his war powers when they totally ignored Democrats doing the same thing.  Most of the examples being cited are from Libya where Obama bombed them for several months and, even after 60 days had passed, saw no reason to inform Congress.  Trump did that before he started bombing, meaning he obeyed the law more than Obama did.  Hakeem Jeffries couldn't be bothered to answer the phone but that's on him.

But the "anti-war" movement won't work.  These same people have been demanding Ukraine keep fighting a losing battle and giving lots of taxpayer money and military equipment to make it happen.  You're not 'anti-war' if you keep picking wars to support.  At least Trump is clear that he doesn't want a long engagement or troops on the ground.

They're trying to set up a peace movement but don't even recognize how idiotic that is.  They have to support Iran to do that.  Iran's biggest allies are Russia and China in BRICS.  You're siding with Russia to oppose Trump when you spent the last eight years claiming Russia controlled Trump.  If anyone's being manipulated by Russia, it's the Democrats, although they have decades of experience with that.

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□ [“Trump Announces Israel and Iran Have Agreed to a 'Complete and Total Ceasefire'"]

Didn't he say the same thing a couple weeks ago about Israel and Palestine?  This does not bode well.  Unless there's a specific tactic here which laymen would be ignorant of, I really don't see the point of saying that.  One of those things that really is annoying about Trump is that he always seems to make a point of going the wrong way at the moment of victory.  Maybe that's why he gets so tired of winning.

I think both Israel and Iran have stated that they have not agreed to a ceasefire.  Israel keeps hitting Iran, including some interesting targets.  They've hit the Revolutionary Guards' main base, which probably didn't do much real damage but looks bad for these powerful leaders.  They also blew the gates off a political prison, giving victims of the regime a chance to escape.  Iran can agree to a ceasefire but I think Trump and Israel's priority is getting rid of the regime.

The son of the last Shah has announced he'll try to help overthrow the regime and, presumably, doesn't expect to be restored to power if it works.  We're clearly trying to get the Iranian people inspired to do the work.  I'm still being optimistic but this could work.  We're still in danger and Iran will still have many problems we have to face, but that means in less than six months, he removed a problem the US has faced for a half-century, fought inflation, seal the borders, kick out illegals, used the tariffs and cut a ton of government spending.

If this actually works, if the mullahs have to run away, then Trump would have enormous leverage to use on the country and the world with all these successes.  I know I'm just being optimistic, and there's still a lot to criticize about him, but wow.  What do Congress and the Supreme Court have to use against him?  Even the left is going to be so humiliated that a lot of them will actually have to think about what they've been doing.  What are they going to do, impeach him for beating Iran?

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