Maybe the best thing about overthrowing Maduro and the mullahs is the friends we made along the way.

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□ [“Iranian State TV Hacked - On Iranian State Media, Trump Encourages Iranians to Take Back Their Country"]

There are still plenty of reasons to criticize Trump but this sort of thing is why he has so many supporters.  Iran has appointed a new Ayatollah but now he has to get new people for his administration.  It's rumored we took out 40 or so top leaders in the attack and even if that's off by a dozen or more, it's going to be tough finding replacements.  Everyone of them is already thinking about how Trump put out that you can surrender or you can die, how many will actually want to die for the FNG?

Of course the left is going berserk about this.  They're sadder about the death of the Ayatollah than they were about Charlie Kirk and United HealthCare CEO Brian Thompson combined, and the Ayatollah had killed more people in February alone than they did.  Supposedly they're having protests against the war this week but I can't find out if they're real or A.I. generated.  Very few non-whites in the protests so maybe they're real after all.

But one thing they cannot get through their heads is that this isn't a war.  After all these years of dealing with Trump, how can you still be ignorant of this?  He doesn't do wars.  He loaded up massive force and showed what could be done with it.  Then he told the Iranian regime to surrender or die and told the Iranian people to handle it themselves.  If he really did get hacked into Iranian tv, he showed the country, the region and the world what could be done.  To call this a "war" is to get in the ring with the current heavyweight champion and thinking it'll be a real boxing match.

Supposedly some girls school was bombed.  For some reason the left is really focused on this girls school, it helps them ignore all the Iranians killed by the regime in February.  And January.  December, November, etc. for almost 50 years.  But yeah, you focus on little girls, that's what you're best at.

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□ [“Hanoi Jane Fonda Melts Down Over Trump’s Iran Strikes — He’s 'Accelerating Climate Catastrophe'"]

So of course the left has nothing to do but fall back on what they've always done.  Jane was born rich and famous and she's pushing 90 now, the left has always adored that.  They don't even notice that now Iran and Venezuela can't sell oil for China to pollute, that would just get in the way of their ancient rhetoric.  They're certainly not going to support freedom for Iranians.

I'm guessing Democrats will be seeing problems with their stance here.  A Democrat Iranian female was permitted to go on CNN and trash the party for acting like this.  Iranians all over the world are reportedly thrilled by the mullahs being taken down and grateful to Trump for making it happen.  Maybe the party can bribe them enough to keep their votes but that will cause its own problems.  How do you explain this to anybody in a way that makes sense?  Reportedly there are pro-Trump rallies in Los Angeles by Iranians.  There's also been a number of headlinese of criminal acts which suggest there might be a rise in terrorism.

That's believable although I have to wonder what Iran could really do at this point.  They've got their own problems to deal with.  I'm sure they have some influence and money stashed elsewhere to use for things like this but it seems like more of 'going through the motions' until the regime is gone.  I'm also sure there are other nations, groups and leftists who will try the same things so it is an issue to be dealt with but also less of a threat than you might expect.

We will have to worry about the individual psychos because they have every incentive to do something now.  Maybe they'll team up with the transgender movement to fight against us.  But given what Iran has funded over the years, maybe they're already on the same side.  At least in public, the transgender movement basically started around the time Obama gave Iran lots of cash.  Interesting coincidence.

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□ [“Britain, France and Germany Could Join Attacks on Iran Through ‘Necessary and Proportionate Defensive Action’"]

The EU has announced that they'll have to start discussing this sometime in the few days because no crisis is so big that you have to work on a weekend or something.  The three main countries decided they should look a bit more sensible but only a bit.  "Proportionate defense action"?  For what?  Israel's out there because they need to survive.  I'm not sure what Iran's neighbors are actually doing but Iran attacked them so they're uniting to stand against them.  But the three main countries of Europe?

France says they're sending in an aircraft carrier.  Ok, fine, what are they going to do other than provide a place for US jets to land?  The British PM made a really dorky speech yesterday.  I suspect the Big Three realize which is the right side to be on in this conflict but there's so much inertia that it'll be very difficult to even make the attempt.  Putin and Xi are not nervous about what Europe will do them, why do you suppose that is?

Even worse, this is only a difference of degree from the problem American leftists are having.  They're willing to keep Iranians enslaved to keep Trump from looking good.  The EU leaders aren't American so that's not the issue, they just don't want to help and couldn't really do anything anyway.  They've got their own Iranian-funded threats at home.

So they need to defend themselves from all sides at the moment.  In addition to all the foreign threats, European leaders could be facing their own citizens.  A couple days ago I saw a rumor that the British had really started protesting.  No follow-up so I don't know if that's true but it feels like it's getting close.  Europeans are looking at what's happening in Iran and might be realizing that if they can protest too for a few months, Trump might provide help.

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But the mullahs didn't realize that Trump had the one weapon they could never defend themselves against:  love.