Lefty Paingood

Former car dealer here. 47 years of desking deals. Guiding the negotiatons. Tens of thousands of negotiatons. One at a time. They're all different, and the same, at once. One thing you come to learn is it's never over. If it must be done in phases, it's done in phases. The winning begins when the SIGNING begins, even if it's a ridiculous, unacceptable offer. There is immense, negotiation-defining POWER, of the psychological kind, in getting a SIGNATURE on paper. Get it, and you've simultaneously confirmed, and weakened the opposition's position, and you begin another phase. "Sign 'em up". If there is anyone who will eventually pay us what we need, it's that person that was willing to take the pen, and sign an offer. Trump understands this. Yes, the IRGC retains the ability to close the strait, but has given up all the other chips they swore they never would give up. And THE PEOPLE of Iran will soon smell this weakness too. You think you're disappointed, how do you think the disciples of the IRGC feel? In time, they all will begin to dwell on what the IRGC have given up. And what they've retained isn't worth as much as they once thought. Sure, the IRGC doesn't ever abide by any agreement, but it won't matter, if they are no longer in power. They will be seen as weak by everyone that matters. The final phase is coming. It's next. Patience, people. It had to be done this way if troops were not to be put in danger. And that's so obviously one of Trump's main goals. It's the art of the deal. It's pure negotiating genius. Not really, he's just following the rules. Coldly, confidently. I may be one of the only ones, but I'm not worried.

They keep predicting civil war, street riots, and fascism because that’s the only version of backlash they know how to market and the only version they know how to crush with force. What’s actually rising is colder, quieter, and far more lethal to their system. Young men under forty are not showing up with emotional meltdowns and burning cars. They’re showing up with a calm, methodical anger that has decided it is willing to die rather than keep living as managed cattle in a culture that treats meaning, discipline, and the sacred as optional. They watched their inheritance get looted by NGOs, bankers, and professional liars. They watched porn get sold as liberation while two-year-olds get trafficked on an industrial scale and the people in charge looked the other way. They watched every institution that was supposed to give life weight turn into a machine for producing comfort addicts and moral cowards. Now they want their time back. They want work that actually matters instead of fake jobs pushing fake problems. They want a culture that doesn’t treat marriage, children, and excellence like prisons. They want God without having to apologize for it. They want ordinary life to feel holy again instead of just another transaction in the global human farm. The left-wing machine is desperate for this to turn into riots and spectacle because riots are easy to police and easier to lie about. What they’re actually facing is restoration ... a slow, brutal reclamation of the moral seriousness that built this civilization in the first place. That doesn’t require burning cities. It requires millions of men who have simply decided they are done being farmed. And that decision is already made. (article below)

What matters is the trend. If the USN blockade strengthens over time while the Islamic Republic's gradually weakens sooner or later Iran's ultimate weapon will be turned against it and it will be in the Ayatollah's interest to demand a return to free international passage of Hormuz, which the media will doubtless remind us, was their demand all along.

"American forces have counted nearly 1,000 commercial vessel transits in and out of the Strait of Hormuz in the last two months, according to an official familiar with US Central Command operations, a figure that’s higher than private sector estimates that rely mostly on ship transponders." My comment: this has been the perfect two track war. Iran has sunk the USN, blocked Hormuz and won a military victory in the newspaper track. But in physical track the Islamic Republic is not doing so well. gcaptain.com/u-s-counts-far…

Iran has gone completely insane Direct attacks on Kuwait and Bahrain today? Bombing an airport, killing civilians, and striking brotherly Gulf countries… this is pure terrorism, not resistance. The Iranian regime is a cancer threatening the entire region. They’re playing with fire and won’t like what comes next. Attacking Kuwait and Bahrain is a declaration of war on all of us.

Things are going down soon. Understand that this is not normal training exercises. Shit is about to hit the proverbial fan. Buckle up buttercups.

@SuitablePolitic Iran is slightly more annoying than Somali pirates. The only thing keeping the straits of Hormuz open is commercial entities not knowing how weak the Iranian forces really are. These attacks try to keep that illusion alive. Once the world sees how weak Iran truly is, done

California is not "counting" votes. They are manufacturing them for Democrat candidates. Isn't this clear?

I'm not saying this was the plan all along, because the implementation is too clumsy for us to not have realized this sometime after the fact, but there's a broad strokes strategy here that's quite interesting. Iran's only leverage—both in limiting military action and at the negotiating table—is a suggestion whispered to stupid people. The suggestion is that they control the oil markets. They control the oil markets, they imply, because they can use their missiles and drones to hit most of the biggest producers in the world. They control the oil markets, they claim, because they can use their missiles and drones to hit one of the world's most critical commercial waterways. Imperative for that threat to make sense is that people believe the missiles and drones actually accomplish anything. If Iran were to destroy that belief by having their missiles and drones repeatedly swatted away by a US blockade which is doubling as mobile air defense systems... in addition to the usual air defenses at the bases... they'd have nothing. Do that for a few weeks, and they light their leverage on fire. Whether that's the leverage to keep us from annihilating them? Or the leverage keeping Iran at the negotiating table? It's all the same. If the threat of Iranian missiles and drones becomes a comedy instead of a drama? They're fucked.

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It’s abundantly clear that the Democrats actively wanted DC, and this nation as a whole, to be a dump. They went out of their way to destroy this nation’s beauty and culture. It was not an accident. They attempted to conquer and destroy us from within. Never again.

You want your car insurance to decrease? Deport 20 million illegals You want less traffic? Deport 20 million illegals You want cheaper housing? Deport 20 million illegals You want no waiting time in emergency rooms? Deport 20 million illegals You want Medicaid spending and therefore the deficit to decrease? Deport 20 million illegals You want cleaner, safer cities and walkable sidewalks? Deport 20 million illegals You want no panhandlers at traffic lights? Deport 20 million illegals You want Democrats to never win a national election? Deport 20 million illegals Thank you for your attention to this matter.

Food service and drinking places added 48,000 jobs last month during rising gas prices. This tells me the consumer is doing just fine.

🚨BREAKING: The “taking the knee” trend has exploded across Britain. Thousands are kneeling for Henry Nowak specifically to the track: Michael Jackson “They Don’t Really Care About Us.” The left are in a complete meltdown.

🚨 BREAKING NEWS: Jamshid Ghomi. Dual citizen. $35M mansion. 250 tons of tech sent to Iran's nuclear program. Claimed poverty on his taxes. America gave him everything. He gave our secrets to our enemies. THE FBI is taking the mansion. They should be taking the passport too.

Spencer Pratt got 0 out of 24,000 votes in a late night LA ballot drop. 0/24,000 A guy getting around 30% support got 0 out of 24,000. Astronomically small probability of happening. Impossible. California no longer even hides it. Doors need to be kicked in.

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Paul Krugman just stood there like the arrogant, out-of-touch NYT jackass he is and openly called for a “thorough purging of the United States” and a “deMAGAfication” modeled on fucking denazification after World War II. Read that shit again. He didn’t say “beat Trump.” He didn’t say “marginalize his movement.” He said defang him, make sure nobody who thinks like him ever holds power again, and then run a full goddamn purge on the rest of the country ... the same framework used on actual Nazis. And then he had the balls to say he wasn’t going over the top with that comparison. This is a Nobel Prize-winning, New York Times-employed piece of shit looking at 70+ million Americans and deciding they’re a disease that needs to be systematically removed from public life, from professions, from influence. Not defeated. Purged. Cleansed. Treated like a conquered enemy population. And he said it calmly. Casually. Like he was suggesting what to have for lunch. Fuck your democracy talk. This is what these people actually want when they think nobody’s listening hard enough. They want their political enemies defanged, deplatformed, de-personed, and driven out of every institution. They want the millions of us who rejected their bullshit to be treated like a problem to be solved, not voters to be persuaded. Krugman didn’t slip. He didn’t get baited. He looked straight into the camera and told you exactly what the “save democracy” crowd has been fantasizing about. A purge. A deMAGAfication. Believe him. (article below)

𝐕𝐈𝐂𝐓𝐎𝐑𝐈𝐀 𝐂𝐎𝐀𝐓𝐄𝐒 𝐎𝐍 𝐈𝐑𝐀𝐍: 𝐎𝐈𝐋 𝐏𝐑𝐎𝐃𝐔𝐂𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍 𝐃𝐎𝐖𝐍 𝟓𝟎 𝐏𝐄𝐑𝐂𝐄𝐍𝐓, 𝐄𝐗𝐏𝐎𝐑𝐓𝐒 𝐃𝐎𝐖𝐍 𝟗𝟎, 𝐀𝐍𝐃 𝐖𝐄𝐄𝐊𝐒 𝐎𝐅 𝐂𝐀𝐒𝐇 𝐋𝐄𝐅𝐓 Heritage’s Victoria Coates laid out just how badly the pressure campaign is crushing the Iranian regime, and the numbers are staggering. “𝘛𝘩𝘦𝘪𝘳 𝘰𝘪𝘭 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘥𝘶𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘪𝘴 𝘥𝘰𝘸𝘯 50 𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘤𝘦𝘯𝘵. 𝘛𝘩𝘦𝘪𝘳 𝘦𝘹𝘱𝘰𝘳𝘵𝘴 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘥𝘰𝘸𝘯 90 𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘤𝘦𝘯𝘵. 𝘈𝘯𝘥 𝘴𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘫𝘶𝘴𝘵 𝘨𝘦𝘵𝘴 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘴𝘦 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘴𝘦 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘮. 𝘐𝘵’𝘴 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘱𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘨”, she said. 𝐀 𝐫𝐞𝐠𝐢𝐦𝐞 𝐫𝐮𝐧𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐦𝐨𝐧𝐞𝐲 𝐢𝐬 𝐚 𝐫𝐞𝐠𝐢𝐦𝐞 𝐫𝐮𝐧𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐞. She credited the President with keeping Tehran guessing: “𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘐𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘪𝘢𝘯𝘴 𝘥𝘰𝘯’𝘵 𝘬𝘯𝘰𝘸 𝘸𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘩𝘦’𝘴 𝘨𝘰𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘰 𝘥𝘰 𝘯𝘦𝘹𝘵”, 𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐠𝐢𝐜 𝐚𝐦𝐛𝐢𝐠𝐮𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐯𝐞𝐬 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲 𝐨𝐩𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐭𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞. The mullahs can’t plan around a leader they can’t predict. And the clock is real. Coates pointed to Secretary Bessent’s warning that Iran has 𝘢 𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘱𝘭𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘸𝘦𝘦𝘬𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘭𝘪𝘲𝘶𝘪𝘥𝘪𝘵𝘺 𝘭𝘦𝘧𝘵 before it can’t even pay salaries. 𝐈𝐫𝐚𝐧 𝐛𝐞𝐭 𝐀𝐦𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐚 𝐰𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐛𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐤 𝐟𝐢𝐫𝐬𝐭. 𝐈𝐧𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐚𝐝 𝐢𝐭 𝐢𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐫𝐞𝐠𝐢𝐦𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐢𝐬 𝐠𝐨𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐛𝐫𝐨𝐤𝐞.

None of the FISA justifications align with reality. The FISA system is a designated secret court system that is said to pertain only to “foreign nationals.” Ok, so if we accept the premise. Foreign nationals do not have U.S. constitutional protection. So why does the surveillance and intercept of them require secret U.S. courts? Think!