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๐ฃ The Real Legacy of Obamaโs Iran Gamble
When Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman recently remarked that Iran โdidnโt build a single streetโ with the billions Barack Obama returned to the regime, he wasnโt exaggerating โ he was summarizing a decade of Western self-sabotage dressed up as diplomacy.
In 2015, under the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), the Obama administration unfroze over $100โ150 billion of Iranian assets and sent $1.7 billion in literal cash transfers to Tehran. The official explanation was that this was Iranโs โown money,โ part of a decades-old settlement from the Shahโs era. In reality, it became the single greatest funding injection ever received by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) โ a military and intelligence octopus already controlling the nationโs economy through shell corporations and terror-aligned front groups.
Within months of the payout, Iran funneled hundreds of millions to Hezbollah and Hamas, expanded its IRGC Quds Force operations across Syria and Iraq, and increased funding for Yemenโs Houthi insurgency (later responsible for targeting civilian ships in the Red Sea). Iranian officials themselves admitted it: everything from โwhat we eat and drinkโ to โour rocketsโ comes from Tehranโs regime coffers.
While Iranian cities fell further into poverty, the regimeโs war machine boomed โ drones, ballistic missiles, and oil-smuggling networks began popping up in violation of international sanctions that Obama himself had dismantled. Western elites congratulated themselves on a โhistoric peace dealโ while Tehran armed militias from Lebanon to Sanaโa.
And as intelligence later confirmed, Iran served as a covert haven for senior Al Qaeda figures, including Osama bin Ladenโs son Hamza, who spent years under the protection of the IRGC before being groomed into jihadist leadership. Washington conveniently ignored this.
๐ฅ Neoliberal Chaos as a Governing Strategy
The Obama team โ Clinton, Nuland, Power, Rhodes โ werenโt naรฏve idealists. They were intentional engineers of disorder. Their strategy was not to stabilize the Middle East, but to strategically destabilize it โ just enough to maintain leverage over both allies and adversaries.
By empowering Iran as a โregional counterweight,โ they diluted the influence of the Gulf and contained Israeli power under the veneer of โnonproliferation.โ But what they actually created was a proliferation of chaos, not of nukes but of dependency: Europe flooded with refugees, North Africa imploded, and militant networks metastasized in the vacuum.
The Arab Spring, romanticized as a democratic awakening, devolved almost immediately into a U.S.-managed implosion โ a controlled burn that shattered regional economies and sent millions fleeing toward Europe. That migratory tidal wave destabilized EU politics, broke social cohesion, and imposed irreversible demographic and fiscal stress. If that looks like an accident, you havenโt studied Washingtonโs history of โaccidents.โ
๐งฉ The Pattern Repeats: Ukraine and Beyond
The same ideological playbook reappeared in Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Belarus, and attempts at color revolutions in Georgia and Central Europe. The toolset shifted from armies to NGOs, from bombs to โdevelopment aid.โ
USAID and its constellation of โcivil societyโ fronts became the soft-gloved hand of the same policy. As independent reports have shown, millions in U.S. taxpayer money have been funneled โ often through Western NGOs โ into organizations later caught promoting agitation and even associating with militant movements. Itโs the same coercive architecture the U.S. used to micromanage the Middle East, now redeployed against Russiaโs periphery and Eastern Europeโs populist strongholds.
๐ธ The Logic Beneath It All
For the permanent Washington bureaucracy โ the neoliberal establishment entrenched in intelligence, media, and the diplomatic corps โ peace is a liability and chaos is capital.
A stable Middle East would mean a self-sufficient Eurasia โ and that threatens the unipolar financial and geopolitical order sustained by Washington and Brussels since 1945. Iran was never meant to be โcontained.โ It was meant to be weaponized as a pressure valve, a permanent destabilizer preventing the region from forming independent energy, trade, and defense alliances.
The refugee crises, the proxy wars, the endless โhumanitarian interventionsโ โ all are manifestations of a consistent doctrine: weaponize volatility to preserve control.
The Obama administration perfected this formula. Bidenโs teams only inherited it. And every Western capital paying the price today โ from Paris to Warsaw โ is now living amid the debris of Obama-era globalism.
In short: the Iran Deal wasnโt a mistake. It was a design.
A design that traded regional peace for permanent leverage โ that armed terrorists under the banner of โdiplomacyโ and fractured Western civilization under the banner of โhuman rights.โ
If chaos is a ladder, Obama built the first few rungs.
โThey called it peace โ but it was an investment in permanent war.โ
โ After-Action memo, CENTCOM analyst (2025)
What began as Obamaโs diplomatic victory ended as a $150 billion liquidity bomb that armed tyrants, sent millions fleeing, and handed the 21st centuryโs most dangerous regime the global keys to chaos.
History will not remember it as diplomacy.
It will remember it as economic warfare against civilization itself. โ ๏ธ
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I'll tell you why John Thune doesn't want to ๐ก๐จ๐๐ ๐ง๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐จ๐ฆ๐ง๐๐ฅ, and why he doesn't want the ๐ฆ๐๐ฉ๐ ๐๐ ๐๐ฅ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ง to pass.
He and Mitch McConnell, and the other globalists in the Senate, know that if we have a big Senate majority, then they are going to be forced to pass the Trump agenda.
And if they pass the Trump agenda, America will love it. And MAGA will be in control of DC for the next generation!
As globalists, of course, they hate that idea because MAGA is nationalist and anti-open borders. The globalists love open borders. They hate tariffs.
And this is why Thune has been slow walking the SAVE America Act.
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๐จ Former Illinois Dem Governor Rod Blagojevich drops a bombshell:
Democrats are already working to STEAL the 2026 midterms through massive voter fraud.
He says rigged elections were routine in his party โ illegal aliens voting, fake mail-in ballots, and rigged machines โ especially in Chicago.
Asked if Democrats steal elections: โIs the Pope Catholic?โ
Blago also calls the 2020 election stolen from Trump.
Courageous truth from inside the machine.
#ElectionIntegrity #VoterFraud #2026Midterms #Blagojevich #DrainTheSwamp #Chicago

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This @60Minutes piece on California's high speed rail disaster is incredible. From the comparison to costs in other countries to the questions about where the money went (consultants, lawyers, vendors), and how much supporters like Gavin Newsom have moved the goalposts. Time's Up
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๐จ BOOM: Israel eliminates IRGC Intelligence Chief Major General Majid Khademi overnight.
He was effectively #2 in the IRGC and survived multiple prior Israeli & US targeting attemptsโฆ until now.
Huge blow to Iranโs terror regime.
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PRESIDENT DONALD J. TRUMP JUST GAVE STEVE HILTON HIS COMPLETE & TOTAL ENDORSEMENT FOR GOVERNOR OF CALIFORNIA! ๐บ๐ธ
In his powerful statement, President Trump said:
โI have known and respected Steve Hiltonโฆ for many years. He is a truly fine manโฆ Steve can turn it around, before it is too lateโฆ Steve Hilton has my COMPLETE & TOTAL ENDORSEMENT. He will be a GREAT Governor and, importantly, WILL NEVER LET YOU DOWN!!!โ
With President Trumpโs full backing and federal support, we are going to take California back and make it better than ever before!
Thank you, Mr. President!
This is the moment California has been waiting for!

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๐๐๐: ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐
๐'๐ ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐
๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐-๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐
Victor Davis Hanson opens with a claim that sounds hyperbolic until he backs it up: we are watching ๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐ ๐ซ๐๐๐ญ๐๐ฌ๐ญ ๐๐จ๐ฎ๐ง๐ญ๐๐ซ-๐ซ๐๐ฏ๐จ๐ฅ๐ฎ๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง ๐ข๐ง ๐๐ ๐ฒ๐๐๐ซ๐ฌ. No president has attempted to fundamentally restructure the nature of American government since FDR's New Deal in the mid-1930s. Trump is doing it โ and the left is losing its mind because it's working.
The scoreboard is hard to argue with. Trump closed the border โ something critics said couldn't be done. Over ๐๐๐,๐๐๐ illegal aliens have been deported, more than 400,000 of them charged with or convicted of crimes, and an estimated ๐.๐ ๐ฆ๐ข๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ข๐จ๐ง have self-deported (Department of Homeland Security). He declared war on DEI and is winning. He barred biological males from women's sports with full public support. Universities are now rushing to cut deals โ agreeing to stop gouging the federal government on grant surcharges exceeding 40-50%, to follow Supreme Court rulings on race-based preferences, and to restore free speech on campus.
Abroad, Iran no longer poses an immediate nuclear threat. H-z-b, H-m-s, and the Houthis are in disarray or severely degraded. There's progress on Ukraine.
And the economic doomsayers? Wrong across the board. VDH notes the ๐๐ข๐ญ๐ญ ๐๐ต๐ณ๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ต ๐๐ฐ๐ถ๐ณ๐ฏ๐ข๐ญ news page predicted a recession. Critics said tariffs would crash the stock market. Instead, foreign investment commitments have surged past $๐.๐ ๐ญ๐ซ๐ข๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ข๐จ๐ง (White House), with tariff revenue projected at $๐๐๐ ๐๐ข๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ข๐จ๐ง for 2026 alone (Tax Foundation).
But VDH's sharpest insight is about why this time is different from Trump's first term. In term one, he was surrounded by people who thought they knew better โ Rex Tillerson, Jim Mattis, Bill Barr, the anonymous op-ed writers โ all either blocking or reinterpreting the MAGA agenda from within. This time, the team is aligned. And instead of treating progressive overreach as a set of individual policy disputes, Trump is going after ๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐ข๐ง๐๐ซ๐๐ฌ๐ญ๐ซ๐ฎ๐๐ญ๐ฎ๐ซ๐ ๐ข๐ญ๐ฌ๐๐ฅ๐.
That's the part the left really can't stomach. PBS and NPR โ defunded. Cable and network news โ facing court ramifications when they lie and defame. Universities โ hit with fines, endowment taxes, and scrutiny over a $๐.๐ ๐ญ๐ซ๐ข๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ข๐จ๐ง student loan program, campus segregation in dorms and graduation ceremonies, and discriminatory hiring practices. The Department of Education itself is being questioned. And the foundational progressive assumption โ that residency equals eventual citizenship โ is being dismantled. If you came here illegally, you face deportation, even without a violent criminal record.
VDH's framework is elegant. The left holds power even when it doesn't control a single branch of government. It does this through ๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐๐ฎ๐ซ๐๐๐ฎ๐๐ซ๐๐๐ข๐๐ฌ, ๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐ฆ๐๐๐ข๐, ๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐ฎ๐ง๐ข๐ฏ๐๐ซ๐ฌ๐ข๐ญ๐ข๐๐ฌ, ๐๐ง๐ ๐ฉ๐จ๐ฉ๐ฎ๐ฅ๐๐ซ ๐๐ฎ๐ฅ๐ญ๐ฎ๐ซ๐ โ even though its actual constituency is only about 40% on most issues. Trump is the first president to recognize that fighting the policies without dismantling the power structure that produces them is a losing game.
His warning is worth hearing. The resistance is coming, and it's going to be "๐ง๐ณ๐ข๐ฏ๐ต๐ช๐ค, ๐ข๐ญ๐ฎ๐ฐ๐ด๐ต ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ต ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ฎ๐ช๐ฏ๐ฅ." The left knows that if this counter-revolution succeeds, it will be very difficult to force an unpopular agenda on a country that never wanted it. VDH's advice is two words: brace yourself.
๐๐ก๐๐ฒ'๐ซ๐ ๐ง๐จ๐ญ ๐๐ง๐ ๐ซ๐ฒ ๐๐๐๐๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ ๐ก๐'๐ฌ ๐๐๐ข๐ฅ๐ข๐ง๐ . ๐๐ก๐๐ฒ'๐ซ๐ ๐๐ง๐ ๐ซ๐ฒ ๐๐๐๐๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ ๐ก๐'๐ฌ ๐ง๐จ๐ญ.
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Newsom's Sneaky VMT Tax Hammers California Families for the Crime of Wanting a Home and a Car
Gavin Newsom just signed another disastrous bill disguised as a fix for California's housing crisis, and it's a classic big-government gut punch to working families. AB 130, rushed through last year, creates a statewide Vehicle Miles Traveled Mitigation Bank that lets developers pay big fees into a state slush fund instead of actually building what people need.
Steve Hilton, candidate for California governor, exposed the scam in his video: "Gavin Newsom's latest sneaky scheme to gouge you for the crime of driving your car. VMT โ 'Vehicle Miles Traveled' โ charged at $1,350 per month for 20 years for every new single-family home. They snuck it into the bill that was supposed to SOLVE their housing crisis!"
That's right. This hidden tax could add up to $324,000 per new home or apartment over 20 years. Developers will simply pass every penny of it on to buyers and renters, jacking up prices even higher in a state already choking on sky-high costs. It punishes families who dare to live in suburbs, drive to work, or want a yard for their kids โ all while funneling money to "transit-oriented" dense urban projects that most Californians don't want.
The radicals in Sacramento hate cars and single-family homes. This VMT fee is their way of forcing everyone into government-approved concrete stacks near buses and trains. It won't reduce emissions or solve traffic. It will just make housing even less affordable, drive more people out of the state, and line the pockets of the same failed bureaucracy that caused the crisis in the first place.
Hilton nailed it: this is not about the environment or affordability. It's about control. Newsom and the Democrat supermajority keep sneaking in taxes while pretending to help. They block real solutions like cutting red tape, reforming zoning, and letting the free market build homes people actually want.
California families are fed up with being punished for living normal lives. It's time to end the war on cars, end the war on suburbs, and end the endless tax-and-spend schemes that make everything more expensive. Real leadership would scrap this VMT nonsense, streamline permitting, and put working people first โ not climate bureaucrats.
Enough is enough. Californians deserve affordable homes without a $1,350 monthly penalty for daring to drive.

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There's MASSIVE outrage today after reports that @CAgovernor Gavin Newsom and his wife are recipients of over $700K from California's largest public utility company. According to those reports, $300K of those funds went to his wife's NGO. But that's not all.
When PG&E was fined $200M for starting wildfires, Gavin's board reportedly WAIVED THE FINE.
REPOST this absolutely everywhere.
#thinblueline #lawenforcement
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