And You Wonder Why Conservatives Hate Republicans, Part I

 By Rich Kozlovich

Conservatives have strong feelings about how things should work, and typically they despise the Democrats because they really are the party of treason, and even the most casual observer has finally come to that conclusion.  It's clear now they're openly communists and they support all things that are antithetical anything that actually works.  

They want more taxes, more regulations, ending police protection, closing all prisons, and overall promoting all the things the world would have clearly thought was not only stupid and insane, but disgusting 25 years ago.  Not to mention the fact they openly state they wish to destroy America.  One thing should finally be clear to everyone, this really is a conspiracy by a cabal of wealthy leftist and Anti-American governments around the world who are organizing and funding these people. 

Then we come to the Republicans who publicly decry all the things Democrats stand for and promote.  At least publicly.  The difference between Democrats and Republicans is Democrats know what they believe and work for those things, no matter how insane or despicable they may be.  

The Republicans are clueless and are totally incapable of walking their talk because.... as a party ..... they really have no idea what they believe, and the public is sure they don't really believe in anything except to get elected so they can get rich, as so many other politicians have done while earning 175 thousand a year became multimillionaires in just a few years.  Now... why would anyone think there was anything corrupt with that?  Right?   

What prompted this piece isn't the Republican leadership's invertebracy over their unwillingness to pass the SAVE act knowing full well the Democrats will cheat.  Especially after this latest ruling by SCOTUS that says the Democrats can count ballots (many of which will be "lost" ballots that Scotty will beam down from the Starship Enterprise) for just as long as they please, and will be just as fictional as Star Trek.

• Your Freedom Vs. Democrat Control: The 2026 Midterms Will Decide America’s Future  Joseph Ford Cotto | We can either renew the spirit of liberty that made America exceptional, or watch her collapse under policies that pull toward perdition......
•  The Senate’s Gutless Republican Wonders - In today’s America, you can’t even get a speeding ticket without a photo ID. Granted, you might be thrown in jail if you get caught speeding and forgot your ID; but you will eventually have to prove that you are who you say you are to get out of the hoosgow. Nor will you be able to board an airliner. However, you can vote in most states. To many Americans who voted Republican in the last election, voter ID should be a no-brainer. With a majority — however thin — the gutless Senate Republicans cannot pass one of the president’s most important legislative priorities: the Safeguard America voter ID bill.......
•  Senate RINOS Too Busy Scolding Trump To Pass Voter ID Bill - Four Republicans — guess who? — joined Democrats Tuesday in passing a resolution telling Trump to pull U.S. troops out of Iran War............
•  Report: GOP Senators ‘Pile-On’ Mike Lee for Pushing for Passage of SAVE America Act - Republican senators reportedly criticized Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) for pushing for the Senate to pass the SAVE America Act, with Republican senators John Cornyn (R-TX) and John Kennedy (R-LA) challenging “his strategy.”  (Editor's Note:  Kennedy is a surprise. RK)

Ah, c'mon man, let's be reasonable, there's no need to worry about election fraud .... right!  This was one of the issues Republicans ran on, but as usual, they were talking big and ended up walking small.  No, that isn't what motivated this piece.  This piece was prompted by two article I just read. 

 The Highway to Hell Bill That’ll Raise Costs for Families by EJ Antoni, Ph.D. | Jul 02, 2026 saying:

After years of soaring costs and an affordability crisis, the last thing Americans need is a bloated highway bill that wastes taxpayers’ dollars while imposing higher costs on consumers. Unfortunately, that’s exactly what’s getting kicked around the halls of Congress right now: a pork-filled monstrosity masquerading as a highway bill.

 The legislation in question is the deceptively named “BUILD America 250 Act,”,...............Despite its name, the act doesn’t improve railway safety but does impose a slew of new mandates and costs. It would impose draconian standards on America’s railroads and lock in older technologies, thereby discouraging the very innovation that has made these railroads the most efficient in the world.......

 And what does the country receive in exchange for all these downsides? No proven safety benefit.............The bill also directly reaches into drivers' wallets. It creates a new federal vehicle registration fee and conscripts notoriously inefficient state motor vehicle departments to collect and remit the fee to Washington, turning the states into federal tax collectors. Not only does the law deputize state-level bureaucracy, but it’ll also subsidize the inefficiency, too............

The Transportation Bill That Proves Washington Can't Quit Clientelism  By Veronique de Rugy |  Jul 02, 2026 saying:

Congress loves to wrap legislation in the language of the public interest. This year's surface transportation reauthorization bill is no exception. Supporters describe the House Transportation Committee-passed package as a major safety bill designed to make America's transportation system more secure and efficient...........

Fiscal conservatives, assuming there are still enough of them to be heard in Congress, should be particularly concerned about a package that authorizes roughly $580 billion in spending while doing little to address the long-term insolvency of the Highway Trust Fund. Legislators are instead choosing to promise more spending while avoiding the structural reforms necessary to put transportation funding on sustainable footing.................... t

hey inserted a controversial new federal registration fee structure for electric and hybrid vehicles. Progressives oppose it because they believe it discourages EV adoption. Many conservatives oppose it because it expands federal fee collection and further entangles state governments in administering federal policy............The result is predictable: Every organized interest receives something of value. Taxpayers inherit the costs..........

Pigs feeding at the government trough, and please remember, less regulations, less government, ending corruption and less taxes were the themes touted by all the Republicans.... you know..... that party that controls Congress.  Hey, c'mon man, stop being so picky, what's to dislike?  Right?  

Part II will follow.   

It's Long Overdue for Jews to Take the Right Trail

By Rich Kozlovich 

Tikkun Olam is a foundational Jewish philosophy that is all about “fixing the world”:

"......that calls on humanity to partner with the Divine to heal, fix, and improve a broken world. It has evolved from an ancient mystical and legal idea into a contemporary guiding principle for social justice, environmentalism, and community action."

But one has to wonder how can a people, especially a people who are arguably smartest people in the world, possibly believe that concept resides in the Democrat party, or any leftist movement for that matter? 

Leftists, especially the far-left crowd, are philosophically and actively antisemites.  They are now and have always been antisemites. That’s history, and that history is incontestable. Yet America’s Jews have consistently been the most reliable voters for the Democrat party. Why? Because Jews suffer from heuristic preconceptualism, and not just in America, 

So, lets define this.  

• Heuristic - "A mental shortcut or "rule of thumb" used to make quick decisions, solve problems, or form judgments when time or information is limited. While these methods trade precision for speed, they offer a "good enough" solution that saves vital mental energy in everyday situations......While heuristics enable highly efficient, automatic thinking, they can sometimes lead to systematic errors, cognitive biases, or faulty assumptions if over-relied upon."
• Preconceptualism - Drawing conclusions without doing any research, and then refuse to hear anything that contradicts those conclusions, ergo, since you never hear anything that refutes the conclusion, the conclusion must be right.

They clearly refuse to see, read or hear anything that refutes their views, irrespective of history, facts or reality.    Will this change?  I think to a degree, but when you look at what happened on October 7th 2023 in Israel and the direction the leftist Israelis have taken ever since, I have to doubt the numbers will change dramatically. 

It’s the Two Trails Story, and they keep taking the wrong trail.  As Daniel Greenfield notes:

The attacks were launched less than a month after the new Israeli government was sworn in. The Netanyahu government has pledged to reform the leftist judiciary which enables terrorism......

A generation of Israelis has grown up in a state of siege because the terrorists waging war on the country enjoy extensive foreign support from Iran, the EU, and the State Department in the United States, as well as domestic support from the Israeli Left, which uses its official and activist arms to undermine the fight against terrorism in every possible way...........

The Left was able to legitimize the PLO and give it control of sizable parts of Israel by crippling previous efforts by conservative governments to defeat the terrorists and expel them from Israel...........

What is going on in Israel is not just warfare, but a culture war between the democratic majority and an entrenched leftist elite that will use any means to protect its power and privilege............

The positions taken by these leftists are insane and clearly represent an existential threat to Israel, and yet they continue down that destructive trail.   Leftists are certifiable lunatics, irrespective of geography, religion, race, or ethnicity.

 

I'm Sorry, But Joe McCarthy Was Right!

By Rich Kozlovich

Yesterday Susan Quinn post this article over at American Thinker, Do we need another Joe McCarthy?, which must have made leftists heads explode.  She went on to answer her question saying:

The short answer to the title is a no! But, aspects of McCarthy’s anti-communist campaign are worth considering when the stability of our nation is jeopardized by communist ideologues. 

She went on to describe how the left has been working to destroy America. 

Bezmenov stated that it would take 15–20 years to re-educate a generation of students in Marxist thinking. Then destabilization would take place in various parts of our country—the economy, the schools, the government, foreign relations and defense systems—and we may be in the middle of this process. Bezmenov then predicted that a “crisis” would occur, which he describes as “a violent change of power, structure, and economy.” Normalization would then follow.

Byron York of the Washington Examiner stated that the socialists are determined to use the Democrat party to gain traction, and will eventually work to destroy them. So, although Joe McCarthy was destructive to this country in the way he pursued his anti-communist goals, he evidently had a point. 

There are seven things I would like to add to this conversation.

1. McCarthy didn’t go after Hollywood. That was done by the Democrats with HUAC.
2. McCarthy focused on communists who infested the federal government, and while was despicable in many ways, but the fact remains, he was right. All those agencies created by FDR, was infested with communist agents, socialists and fellow travelers, including the OSS which became the CIA.   One of these agents, Harry Hopkins, even lived in FDR’s White House for over three years …. and both he and Eleanore had to know what he was.
3. He didn’t have the evidence but the federal government did via the VENONA intercepts, which were released in 96.
4. Both Eisenhower and Truman were against McCarthy and claimed they knew nothing about the VENONA intercepts, which I simply find to be totally non credible.
5. The federal government at that time has been called the most infiltrated government in the history of the world.  Diana West in her book, American Betrayal: The Secret Assault on Our Nation's Character, called Washington D.C. an occupied city during those years.
6. When the Soviet Union fell these leftists remained loyal to the leftist goal of destroying America, which is where we are today.  Among the 45 Communist Goals to Destroy America as Listed in the 1963 Congressional Record, most of which they’ve fulfilled, they’ve absolutely fulfilled number 15 to “Capture one or both of the political parties in the United States.”
7. You may wish to read this April 6, 2019 AT article by Jack Cashill, “On Joe McCarthy, Washington Post Gets It Embarrassingly Wrong.”

Here's an article I wrote on Thursday, July 18, 2024, The History Lesson You Never Learned! The History Lesson You Were Never Taught! saying:

This is the history lesson everyone should have gotten and never received.  As I have said they in the past – they just won’t teach history.  ...........

I have posted information in the past discussing this, but two things happened recently that have motivated me to really expand on this important history.  A history that is virtually unknown to most people.  First, I have been reading, Stalin’s Secret Agents, The Subversion of Roosevelt’s Government, by M. Stanton Evans and Herbert Romerstein, and secondly I watched the attacks on Michelle Bachmann.  Mark Levin noted the scorn congressional colleagues directed at “Reps. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn., Louie Gohmert, R-Texas, and three other House members who asked for an examination of evidence that the parent organization of jihadist groups such as al-Qaida and Hama were wielding influence on U.S. policy from within”, saying “The lawmakers were “treated like pariahs”!  ...........

Arguably the most comprehensive, detailed FBI file on attempted Communist and Soviet penetration of the Federal government, based initially on the allegations of former Soviet espionage courier Elizabeth Bentley (code-named "Gregory" by the FBI, by which name this file is also known), beginning in November 1945.  (This list is tip of the iceberg. RK)

The Silvermaster File of the United States' Federal Bureau of Investigation is a 162-volume compendium of some 26,000 pages of documents relating to the Bureau's investigation of Communist penetration of the U.S. federal government during the Cold War............ 

 

 Joe McCarthy was right. 

Democrat Civil War

"The worst enemy of socialism is not capitalism. It is reality!" - Margaret Thatcher 

By Rich Kozlovich

 

I’m shocked, shocked I tell you, the Democrats are in a panic over the power of socialists in their ranks.  Imagine that!  

Since this is who they are, and socialism is what they’ve promoted for decades, I would think they would be thrilled….. but nooooo…. even America’s Gollum, James Carville, says he no longer wants to be part of this new Democrat party. Now that’s really hard to imagine as I don’t see anyone from the farthest left who is all that more radical than him.  So why is he upset?  After all, wasn't it the Democrat party who embraced the values of the DSA hate America crowd and enabled these radicals to grow?  Now, that's the way I remember it, did I get that right?  I didn't miss anything........ did I? 

The Democrat party has been the force driving these lunatics.  If answered truthfully, this article clearly demonstrates this is who they've been right along.  10 Questions Every Democrat Must  Now Be Made Answer. 

He's upset because like Obama he played the secret goals game, and these new socialists are out in the open about their hatred of America along with their efforts to destroy America and turn it into a Marxist nightmare.  No more pretending, they're brash, bold, totally out in the open, totally out of control, stunningly stupid, and it's clear they're in charge.  

•  The Commies Aren't Even Hiding How They Plan to Use the Democratic Party

They even have a former DNC Chairman pathetically pleading with them.  In my view they're scary to the vast majority of Americans.  

That’s what upsets Carville and the current leadership it's clear they're in deep trouble.  At the "victory party for Claire Valdez, this is what happened following her primary win.  The crowd began booing and chanting "you're next" when Hakeem Jeffries appeared on screen. "Everyone is fair game to the commies"

They're getting what they've spent a lifetime promoting and voting for, all the while castigating conservatives for not going along.  Well, enjoy it, it's not going to get better.   Democrats Are Gearing Up for a Decade of Socialism—and Hasan Piker's Price Just Went Up.

There's been calls for a change in leadership. Sen. Slotkin was one who has done so, but she lost sight of reality.... Hakeem Jeffries black and she's white.... so guess what?... and you're really going to be shocked at this.... shocked I tell you....... the Congressional Black Caucus has pushed back against her.  Imagine that!

In Florida they've restructured their Congressional districts and now Debbie Wasserman Schultz is running in a district that's been represented by blacks in the past, and guess what?   She's now getting backlash for daring to run in that district as a white person.  So, whats it all about?  Its about race, and she, like so many others is getting a taste of what she's promoted all these years.  Enjoy! 

1. ‘Let Others Lead’: Senate Democrat Throws Schumer and Jeffries Under the Bus 
2.  Trump Derangement Syndrome Will Be the Downfall of the Democrat Party. And Not for the Reason You Think.

But they're even more concerned that all this radicalism can potentially impact elections outside of the far left districts that vote Democrat, no matter how radical Democrat candidate may be.   Make no mistake, if they take over the Congress, Carville and these others will once again find how much they will love this new Democrat party, and will desperately want to be part of it.  However, leftist Democrats losing seats to more radical leftist Democrats isn't going to take over the Congress.  

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They need to take over Republican seats, and I don't think that's going to happen to any large degree.  Of course Republican ability to snatch defeat out of the jaws of victory is legendary.  But I'll have more on that.  

1. These people are seriously deranged — This is why Carville is crying.
2. Panic Sets In: Dems Tailspin as They Realize the Hostile Socialist Takeover Already Started
3. Mamdani Will Be The Face of the Democrat Party!
4. CNN's Van Jones Had the Perfect Line to Describe the NY Socialist Takeover Tonight 
5. Letitia James Rips Mamdani For Blowing Up Dem Establishment

The nation is shocked, the Democrats are shocked, the Republicans are confused.... wow... that's a shocker....and we're potentially going to wake up living in a waking nightmare, and yet the warning signs were all there.  It was obvious to the most casual observer, aka, sane people, the radicals were going to take over at some point, but, the Democrat leaders aren’t sane and they’re not very bright, just like Carville, and they have a lot of RINO's like Bill Kristol, Michael Steeles, Governor Mike DeWine and former governor John Kasich, all of whom are just as flawed, enabling them.   

Mark Lewis asks:  If Half of the Body Is Saturated With Cancer, What’s the Prognosis?, and he answers:

I don’t want to be a droll pessimist here, but I don’t want to be an unrealistic optimist, either. America is a country today where half the people hate the very civilization (Western Civilization) that gave them every single right they’ve got, including the right to hate their civilization. What hope is there for the survival of that civilization when half the people want to destroy it?

Scott McKay notes:  

 

There are no moderate Democrats left in the political class in this country. It’s a pretty good bet there are lots of moderate voters left on that side, but they don’t run for office, and when they do, they certainly don’t win. And the moderate Democrat voters have largely given up on trying to save their party from the George Soros/Neville Roy Singham/anti-American communist horde; they don’t even show up for the primaries. 

• The Godfather Returns: George Soros Is Top Midterm Donor With $102M Cash Dump So Far 

As I've watch the world spinning I marveled at how the left has managed to make insanity the cultural norm for so many uninformed, misinformed, and ignorant people.   I’ve followed and written about this trend for years, and I agree the danger is very real, but New York isn’t the nation. There are some districts that will always elect Democrats, and the most radical will be preferred, and that number is fixed currently.  This is why leftists scream, cry and shoot thinking fear and intimidation will work. 

The question that needs answered is whether or not this pattern of radicalism has grown outside of the tradition leftist districts?   While that kind of “growth” certainly is being promoted and is being funded by far left billionaires (which seems oxymoronic to me), and foreign governments, and that’s had some effect.  But truth be told, the screaming, crying, shooting and violence doesn't play well outside of the leftist fever swamps. 

While the Kirk assassination was the latest big outrage in leftist violence, it has become a pattern of behavior.  Leftists found it "necessary" to attack pro-life pregnancy centers 96 times and 356 attacks on Catholic churches since the leak of the Supreme Court opinion overturning Roe v. Wade in 2022....."  The Democrat Party Is a domestic terrorist organization, it's a climate of evil, an evil is being expressed by the left and exposed by their actions.  All of which has been promoted by the Democrat party.  The left is sick to it's core as they cheered as Kirk was murdered.

While radicalism can seem to be attractive initially, in America's historical past around 100 years ago now it rode a wave of popularity for a couple of years, but it didn’t have a lasting effect.  The difference between now and then was American’s believed in America.  Today there’s a substantial margin of people in America, including American citizens, who want the nation destroyed. 

If we want this fixed, fixing education is job one, and that needs to start by banning public employee unions, especially the Teacher’s Unions, and the legislation needs to clearly state it cannot be reviewed by the courts, which the Congress has the Constitutional authority to do, and has done so in the past.  That’s a good start, but here’s what really needs to be done to fix the Republic.  Do not be deluded, the nation is in the midst of a third revolution, and the courts are part of that insurrection. 

In times past I thought all this political controversy and strife might lead to a third party made up of RINO’s, and “moderate” Democrats.   RINO’s will leave the Republican party because the base is solidly conservative, and they’re being purged. The “moderate” democrats will leave because they’re being purged at the ballot box, and the far left radicals are going to be in control of the money. It’s interesting to see Democrat politicians being purged by the very things they promoted for decades, especially their illegal immigration lunacy. 

But I’ve abandoned that idea because none of them believe in anything, and they're all fighting among themselves as each of these groups have different agendas; labor, race, environment, immigration, gender, antisemitism, etc., and often times these agendas conflict, the only binding force they share harmoniously is to hate Trump.  They have no stable moral foundation except hate and the need to have power.

There has only been one successful third party in American history. The Republican party and they were thoroughly united behind a singular idea; end slavery in America.   Democrats have a singular idea;  destroy America by destroying the American economy, the American culture, the American identity, and the Constitution.  In that they're in total harmony.   

The Republican party's singular idea is America First, but there's a reason they're called the Stupid Party, as a lot of Republican don’t walk that talk, and the ones being purged like Cornym and Tellis are not going out quietly, or with class.   We’re heading into a maelstrom where only one party will dominate, and this midterm election will be the turning point for which party that will be.  And that will decide if America will continue to exist.  

This is a scary bunch of people. They are a segment of society that only hates. They hate the Jews and Christians, they hate capitalists and capitalism, they hate the police, they hate the military, they hate the banks, they hate the pharmaceutical companies, they hate America, they hate white Americans, conservatives, Republicans and they despise authority and law and order.  Which is a perfect demonstration of cognitive dissonance because they love Muslim fanatics and communists, who epitomize authority in its most tyrannical forms.

Their other big love affair is with environmentalism, which has killed almost as many people as Stalin, Hitler and Mao combined.  While they rail against violence of any kind, they are perpetuating it themselves.  

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2. Revealed: Mamdani and the DSA Love the CCP and Cannot Wait to Bend the Knee

How insane can all of that be? In truth, they hate humanity....and they hate themselves. To quote Dennis Prager; 

"People who are haters can't be happy and happy people can't be haters". 

• Wonder If Adriano Espaillat Regrets Endorsing Mamdani Now  - Adriano Espaillat endorsing Zohran for Mayor. 1 year later Mamdani would fabricate a story, painting him as a racist and oust him from Congress for a personal sycophant of his own. There should be a lesson here. is that Democratic Socialists will sell you out and destroy you, no matter how loyal you may be.

How else can you explain what they do to themselves?  These people are scary, crazy, violent and self-righteous; what better definition can there be for fascists? FYI: Fascism is the right wing of socialism and communism is the left wing, but they are still two sides of the same coin. We really do need to get that!

Leftism is a death dealing cancerous metastasizing disease.

1. Khanna: Lander’s Win ‘Fundamentally About Gaza’
2. Radical Palestinian Activist Wins NY State Senate Seat Justified 9/11, Waved Hamas Headband
3. Rashida Tlaib Calls Sentencing of Convicted Antifa Terrorists 'a Travesty'  
4. After Latest Primaries, Next Congress Will Have a ‘Jihad Caucus’ By Daniel Greenfield • June 24, 2026 A generation later, 9/11 ended with the Islamic colonization of New York City.  After last night The Democrats’ wave of the future lapped the shore again yesterday in New York’s congressional primaries. It’s the Mamdani wave — a wave carrying a combination of socialism and rank anti-Semitism. In other words, it’s a wave of the future that harks back to the past. It portends nothing good. Politico highlights the socialist component of the wave. According to results posted here by the New York Times, Mamdani-endorsed candidates

 More links on the Democrat Socialist movement and the Democrat "crazy train".

1.  Democrats board the crazy train in New York,
2. After New York's Socialist Sweep, Don't Forget Where This 'Moderate' Democrat Stands
3. In Mamdani’s New York, Democratic Primary Winner Tied to Group Calling for the Destruction of Western Civilization
4. Did the Socialists Win in NY? 
5. Scott Jennings Explains Why the Democratic Socialist Takeover of the Dem Party Should Frighten Us All
6.  In New York, The Democrats Go Completely Crazy
7.  Welcome to National Democrats’ No Good, Very Bad Week in Maine
   

   
   

   
   
   

Doesn't Anyone Read History Books Any Longer?

By Rich Kozlovich

This article,  Rubio unveils 'framework for lasting peace' between Israel and Lebanon, appeared on the World Net Daily news site with Marco Rubio having "unveiled a U.S. plan for an end to the military hostilities between Lebanon and Israel." calling this plan a "framework for lasting peace and security." 

Let me think.... when has the last time a ceasefire was honored by Hezbollah?  Oh yeah, I remember, never!

Rubio says this will "put in place a framework for lasting peace and security. And that's what these two nations deserve".  Really?  This agreement requires both Israel's IDF to leave Southern Lebanon turning that over to the Lebanese military, and Hezbollah has agreed to embrace a cease fire.  

Does anyone besides me think that falls under the category of , "you just can't make this stuff up"?

Rubio goes on the say:

"The people of Lebanon have suffered tremendously now for decades, as a result of outside interference in their affair, of countries trying to use the country as a launchpad for attacks. And this is not what the people of Lebanon want and that's not what they deserve."

 "What they deserve to have is what they once had, and of which there is recent history of. And that is a prosperous and peaceful country, a diverse country where people of different backgrounds are able to live and go co-exist side by side, and in many ways was the envy of the region and of the world."

Okay, since Rubio is aware that Lebanon was at one time a peaceful, prosperous nation (which was once called the "Riviera of the Middle East", and it's capital, Beirut, called the Paris of the Middle East), one should ask..... what changed?  Lebanon was a Christian nation, and they allowed massive migration of Muslims into their country.  Result?  A never ending disastrous "forever war" between Muslims and everyone else.   As for the Lebanese military taking control.... That'll be the day. 

"Lebanon is a fractured society", and is incapable of making substantial changes, as they have no ability to enforce anything.  The world knows there is in no way the Lebanese government and military can control Hezbollah.  

1. They were incapable of dismantling Hezbollah's missile manufacturing plants in years past. 
2. They can't control the economy with eighty percent of their nation living beneath the poverty line. 
3. The nation is broken up into four primary groups, Sunni Muslims, Shiite Muslims, Druze Muslims, all of which hate each other, and Christians who all of them hate, and, a scattering of others.  

In 2020 Hilal Khashan writing for Geopolitical Futures (subscription site only) noted just how all this came about saying:

The First Lebanese Republic (1943-1975) collapsed because of social injustice and armed Palestinian presence. The Second Republic (1989-2019) collapsed because of rampant corruption and Hezbollah’s political domination. The Third Republic is on hold pending the fate of Hezbollah and restructuring of the Lebanese political system. For the past century, the Lebanese demonstrated an inability to solve their problems. It does not look like they have become more capable today. 

Lebanese Druze leader Walid Jumblatt believes there is a major international struggle for the Middle East, and Lebanon lies beyond the ability of the Lebanese people to control. He advised his coreligionists to keep their heads low until the storm is over.

The Druze are an offshoot of Islam, and they're aware of the government's inability to protect them from the other sects of Islam, and they're scared of Hezbollah, and yet, we're to believe this "agreement" is the framework for lasting peace and security."  

The patterns of life repeat over and over again.  Here's what happened in 2018, Obama’s Shadow Looms Over US Lebanon Policy, and truthfully, I have no doubt Hezbollah continues to infest the power institutions of Lebanon, including their military, and they have no intention of honoring any agreement that will forestall their efforts to attack Israel.  To believe otherwise is historically, intellectually and realistically irrational.  Rubio can't possibly believe what he's saying!

This Falls Under, "It Seemed Like a Good Idea at the Time", Category

By Rich Kozlovich

On July 4, 2025 Antifa attacked Prairieland Detention Center in Texas.  Antifa has been declared a terrorist organization, and with the information about these arrest has been made public, it's clear that's exactly what they are, terrorists. This wasn't a protest, it was a riot, with a police officer being shot it the neck.  This was intended to be violent terrorist attack through use of firearms and explosives.  A number of them were identified and arrested with their leader sentenced to 100 years, and the others between 30 and 70 years.  

As U.S. District Judge Reed O'Connor, "one of two judges overseeing the proceedings, said what happened last July wasn't a protest but "an assault on democracy." "The need to deter this type of conduct is high," and their sentences reflected that reality.  

1. Terrorist Gang Gets Nearly a Half Millenium in Prison for ICE Facility Attack 
2. Former Marine gets 100 years in prison as judge calls ICE detention center ambush 'an assault on democracy'
3. Antifa Hardest Hit As Kash Patel Shares Big News About Suspects in Prairieland Detention Center Attack
4. Domestic terror: It's prison, and a long time there, for protesters allegedly linked to Antifa

These foolish people have ruined their lives. Why would these young people act in such a manner? The answer is clear to the most casual observer.  The leftist fever swamps warped their thinking. They lived in a leftist preconceptional philosophical bubble where they reached conclusions without concern for truth, facts or justice.  Since they refused to hear or read anything that disputed or refuted their preconceived notions, their views must be right. 

Here's how one of the defense lawyers defined what they did:

 "a bunch of kids and young adults who really have a really big heart and really wanted their voice to be heard."

I guess they thought they couldn't be properly heard without guns and explosives?  Did I get that right? 

Did they really think they could get away with this?  Actually, given the corruption of the Biden DOJ and the federal judiciary they most likely did think that. But that's over, at least for the time being. Interestingly two of these misfits are transgender "women". Their time in prison is going to be interesting,

• Update, 10:42 AM.  If you have any doubt this is an organized effort, internationally,  take a look at my 2025 article, The Trojan Horses and who's funding every left wing movement there is.  The green movement is merely part and parcel of this organized well funded destructive international effort.  

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The Iran Deal is Already Crumbling

 By Rich Kozlovich 

Since I posted this article on June 15th, "Is the Iran Deal Really That Good?", I've been collecting dozens of articles dealing with the point/counter point arguments about this deal.  In my article I started out saying:

This "deal" Trump has negotiated is being lauded and touted as something great.  Let the oil flow, ships can now start their engines, the world is safe now.  It's being lauded as if it's going to stand the test of time.  I think that might be just a bit premature.  

Premature?  Okay, let's start out with this foundational logic based on factual and historical reality: Any Deal With Iran is Worthless:

Deals between Islamic terrorists and 'infidels' only end one way.  Deals with Islamic terrorists don’t work. Period.  Deals with Islamic terrorists don’t work. Period. The Trump administration should have learned that lesson from its deal with the Taliban, which was negotiated through the auspices of Qatar and assorted ‘insiders’, and which the Jihadist group broke and took over Afghanistan. There’s over a thousand years of history on how deals between infidels and non-Muslims go. For that matter, there’s the humiliating ‘Peace and Friendship’ treaty that John Adams signed with a Muslim pirate state, which was promptly violated, leading to the first Barbary War.

Sane and civilized people are opposed to "forever wars", but what do sane and civilized people do when they're facing adversaries who not only believe in a forever war, they believe those wars are commanded by god?   We  have over 1400 years of Islamic world history that tells that tale, and we have 242 years where America has been fighting an Islamic "forever war". 

Jefferson and Adams both heard directly from the Tripoli ambassador that the aggression “was founded on the Laws of their Prophet, that it was written in their Koran, that all nations who should not have acknowledged their authority were sinners, that it was their right and duty to make war upon them wherever they could be found, and to make slaves of all they could take as Prisoners, and that every Musselman who should be slain in battle was sure to go to Paradise.”

“The precept of the Koran is perpetual war against all who deny that Mahomet is the prophet of God. The vanquished may purchase their lives, by the payment of tribute,” Adams wrote in a later essay. “The command to propagate the Moslem creed by the sword is always obligatory, when it can be made effective. The commands of the prophet may be performed alike, by fraud, or by force. The natural hatred of the Mussulmen towards the infidels is in just accordance with the precepts of the Koran.”

Critics say this deal isn't appeasement, it's a "pragmatic" victory.  What exactly does that mean?  I think it's a "pragmatic" victory, much like John Adams Peace and Friendship treaty with the Barbary pirates, and we know how well that worked out.  When has it ever occurred when pragmatism overcame insurmountable obstacles?  Often times pragmatism is a justification for appeasement. 

Trump says Iran's regime is finished, but like the Barbary pirates, they've haven't gotten that message yet, since they're still in power and they have all the guns.  

Victor Davis Hanson outlines the bombing wars conducted by both Obama and Bill Clinton, and lists and refutes the Iran War misconceptions saying: "in this confusing, ongoing drama, many fabrications and distortions still circulate", such as:

1.  The Strait of Hormuz was open before the war and is now closed, so the war was a failure.
2.  Trump’s agreement will simply be a copy of Obama’s earlier Iran deal.
3.  The U.S. is bereft of allies and strategically isolated in the war.
4.  The war has torn apart the Republican Party, ensured a Democratic landslide in the midterms, and endangered a Republican victory in 2028.
5.  The Iran War was a betrayal of MAGA’s commitment to no “forever wars.”

He concludes saying:

There is a good chance that less than six weeks of active bombing achieved far more than 20 years in Afghanistan and a decade in Iraq—at a fraction of the human and fiscal costs. The key to negotiating an end to the war is to always remember that Iran’s regime—its theocrats, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, military leaders, and elected officials—has no history of telling the truth or abiding by any agreement it signs. So the only means of enforcing concessions is to use disproportionate force each time Iran inevitably violates the terms of the armistice.

Jefferson's answer to the backstabbing Barbary pirates?  Disproportionate force.  I'll tell you what,  we'll come back to that.  Hanson reaffirms that point here, Iran Deal Can Work If We Hit Them Every Time They Break It.

Hanson is one of my favorite writers and my favorite historian.  History is a story, and there are a lot of great historians out there who are lousy story tellers.  If you're wanting to teach the world history, then great story telling and great history go hand in hand, and Hanson is a great story teller.   In his article, This Is the Trigger That Could Shred the Memorandum of Understanding and Cause All-Out War to Erupt in the Middle East, he starts out saying"

 I cannot understand the people that are dancing around and celebrating the “memorandum of understanding” now that we have the full text of the agreement. After reviewing the document, I am having a difficult time processing how horrifyingly bad it is. JD Vance and the other U.S. negotiators essentially surrendered and gave the Iranians whatever they wanted.

Iran thinks this memo requires Israel to leave Lebanon in order for Iran's terrorist cats-paw Hezbollah to survive.  The U.S. says it doesn't say that at all.  More importantly, no one asked the Israelis what they wanted during the negotiations.  Iran is insisting any attack by Israel on the Hezbollah violates the memorandum.  

1. Vance Issues Reality Check To Israel: America Is Your Only Ally, Start Acting Like It
2. Trump Seeks Ceasefire on All Fronts as Israel Holds Ground in Lebanon

Well, for the next minute or so that's not a problem any longer as Israel and the Hezbollah have agreed to a ceasefire which, based on history,  means Hezbollah can still lob missiles into Israel's civilian population and Israel can protest their violations.  Let's face it, Iran can in no way be considered a civil society, under the rule of the current regime. 

Update:  Apparently that minute is up as, "Israel launched new airstrikes in southern Lebanon overnight, hitting 80 targets that the Israel Defense Forces said were linked to Hezbollah. According to Lebanon's Health Ministry, 18 people were killed in the attack, while the Israeli military said four Israeli soldiers died."

The Deal

First, let's understand this memorandum isn't "the deal" as it's more like a suggestion on how to behave for the next  60 days of negotiations to actually signing a "deal", and President Trump says he is open to extending 60-day timeline in the Iran memorandum.  How is that not an appeasement?    

• An Iran Agreement Defined by Unanswered Questions - The Trump administration is promoting a new agreement with Iran as a diplomatic breakthrough. White House talking points emphasize Iranian commitments to forgo nuclear weapons, international verification, regional stability and economic incentives tied to compliance. Yet many of the details that have emerged so far raise more questions than answers.
•  Iran’s art of the deal - Consistent with President Trump’s prior formulation, Iran lost the war but won the negotiation. Relying on the Wall Street Journal’s annotated analysis of the Memorandum of Understanding with Iran here, I broke down the provisions of the MOU into winners and losers for each side. NBC has posted a version of the final text of the MOU here. On second thought, however, it seems obvious that on balance the terms significantly favor Iran. Why belabor the obvious?
•  Iran Got Everything It Wanted. All We Got Was the Strait - J.D. Vance, playing point man for the deal with Iran, has been not so much defending it as attacking anyone who objects to it and claiming that there’s lots of ‘misinformation’ about the deal. There’s certainly plenty of ‘misinformation’ about it......
•  The Truth About the “First Muslim Country to Recognize America” - When Gov. Gretchen Whitmer announced that January would be Muslim American Heritage Month, she began it with the claim that “Muslim-majority Morocco was the first country to recognize the United States of America. Together, the two countries signed the Treaty of Friendship in 1786, which remains America’s longest-standing unbroken treaty.”  Islamists have repeatedly injected these and other blatant lies into American history............

Both Witkoff and Trump’s son-in-law are troubling. I’ve watched their antics for some time and my view is they’re actions and positions are not much different than the positions being taken by the Islam/RINO/Democrat cabal. They suffer from the Nixon Bargain syndrome, and now we’re seeing the disaster of his “bargain” with China, and Carter set all this in motion with his abandonment of the Shah of Iran. One more thing about all these short term fixes that failed to have a low long term vision and wisdom fix; who really is responsible? America’s intelligence community going back decades, and the insanity is still being embraced.   But allegedly the real driving force behind this deal is Vice President Vance,  who I find troubling as a result of his relationship with Tucker Carlson, who has become an irrational antisemitic Islamic supporter, and in my opinion is in serious need of psychological help.   If this deal is flushed down the toilet, which I think it will be, who's going to be blamed?  

1.  Blame Vance' Strategy Emerges on Iran Deal 
2.  Trump Ties His Name and Credibility to Vance's Dubious Iran Diplomacy
3.  READ THE FULL DEAL WITH IRAN: Text of Memorandum of Understanding Revealed

 On June 18, John Hinderaker posted this piece, Some Deal, saying;

 For some weeks now, ever since the bombing stopped, I have been writing and saying on radio and television that there is no point in trying to make a deal with the IRGC, that we should finish up our bombing and go home. I was baffled as to why President Trump was so determined to negotiate an agreement, and chalked it up to his love of deal-making. .........I have no theory as to how Trump could have done something this foolish. It is being viewed everywhere as a massive defeat for the United States, and the Democrats, who are unabashedly on Iran’s side, are turning cartwheels.  

Here's one of the biggest beefs about this deal,  U.S. Pledges to Help Provide the Islamic Republic of Iran With $300 Billion.  Now, Trump called that a lie, and he's right, and has bashed those critics stating this money will not be American tax dollars. While that's true it won't be American taxpayer money, that doesn't change the fact Iran has the potential to be handed 300 billion dollars to rebuild their nation, which has shocked the Iranian people, they can't believe America could make such a bad deal, especially when Trump promised them, "help Is on the way", and demanded unconditional surrender. Guess what, Hezbollah chief is celebrating Iran deal — ‘This is a great victory for us.' 

Here’s what’s in the US–Iran deal - The deal kicks off a 60-day period of negotiations before both sides reach a final agreement.'If it doesn't get done, we'll go back to bombing': Watch Trump take on global media with more about Iran deal

1.  Trump says Iran can keep arsenal of ballistic missiles.
2.  Trump Defends Iran Deal Not Including Restrictions on Iranian Missiles
3.  U.S. and Iran Beginning Discussions on a Final Deal — Here’s What We Know
4.  Details of US-Iran deal revealed in 12-point plan — timeline for US withdrawal, $300B fund, Hormuz passage 

  Arguments For Opposing the Deal

• Iran’s Crown Prince Warns of What’s Coming -  If Trump’s “deal” goes through, the damage won’t be limited to the America-First president’s legacy. President Donald Trump is going full speed ahead with his disastrous Iran deal, and that’s not good news for Americans, Israelis, Iranians, or anyone else. Fox News reported Wednesday that the Trump administration finally disclosed the details, which include “plans for immediate waivers on Iranian oil exports, a framework for at least $300 billion in reconstruction and economic development, and a 60-day negotiation period aimed at securing a final agreement on Iran’s nuclear program.”

Then we have Trump Derangement Syndrome lunatic Senator Cory Booker who would accuse Trump of trying starve the sharks if he saved a drowning child. 

•  Booker: Trump’s Horrific Deal Is an ‘Unconditional Surrender’ to Iran - Wednesday on MS NOW’s “All In,” Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) said President Donald Trump’s Iran deal was an “unconditional surrender.”  Host Chris Hayes said, “I think there’s basically two Democratic policy party positions I’ve seen. The war was a bad idea, stupid and reckless to enter into. And we it led to a bad agreement because of that. But that’s basically the best up of bad options. And the other is it was a bad idea to begin with. It led to bad options because of it. But ultimately it’s so bad he shouldn’t have signed the deal. What is your position?”

There's a lot of talk about the nuclear deal, and in my opinion the only thing making that work for the time being is their program is covered by a lot of concrete Trump blew up.  What's interesting is Nancy Pelosi calling ‘Obama’s disastrous nuclear agreement with Iran a masterpiece of diplomacy’.  She's the same nitwit that said the Congress must pass Obama care in order to see what's in it.  Brilliant! So, let's compare the Trump deal to Obama’s deal, point by point. Make no mistake, Iran never followed the ‘very strict’ JCPOA terms, and if given the chance, they won't follow this agreement.  

• General Keane strikes again General Jack Keane appeared yesterday for a brief segment on Fox News with Bill Melugin. He was great, as usual. Vice President Vance turns up in a clip at the beginning of the segment. I cannot square what Vance says in the clip about the right of destruction of Iran’s “enriched stockpile” under the Memorandum of Understanding with the terms as we have received them (no such provision exists). 
• Trey Gowdy is furious over deal with Iran, and his points are well made, but he's gone over the cliff too often to care what he thinks.  
• Mark Levin has "picked the Memorandum of Understanding  - President Trump ordered this military operation to prevent Iran from getting and using nuclear weapons. And the early days of this war was a spectacular success. For some reason, a ceasefire was quickly ordered, and it lasted for over 2-months, despite the scores of violations by Iran and Hezbollah. Great damage has been done to Iran’s military. And the president deserves enormous credit for having the courage to do what no other president did before him. My fear is that no other president after him will have the same courage to act should the terms of any agreement be violated,” began Levin, who continued:
•  Sen. Dave McCormick: Iran Sanctions Must Stay
•  Trump Gives Iran a Lifeline and Calls It Peace 
•  Kellogg: Iran Will ‘Probably Kill Americans in the Future’

Arguments Supporting the Deal

First, there Senator Mark Warner from Virginia who likes this deal because he believes it Pmakes America weaker and that will force Americans to see through it.  His take is strictly anti-Trump even if it hurts America.   

Now this piece has some interesting logic worth your time, The Hawks are Right, Iran Will Cheat...That's the Point.

Here the critics deserve their due, because their central prediction is almost certainly correct. Iran will cheat. It is what the regime does. It denied international inspectors access to the very sites America bombed. It squirreled away highly enriched uranium in a facility that survived the strikes. It has sworn for nearly half a century that it harbors no nuclear ambitions while building steadily toward exactly that.

Even now, before the formal signing, sanctioned Iranian tankers are slipping through Hormuz and the Revolutionary Guard is signing contracts for Russian helicopters. A leopard that has never once changed its spots is not about to start because a memorandum asked nicely.

But turn that certainty over and examine the other side. A performance-based framework backed by an open military threat accomplishes something a blockade alone never could. It converts Iranian treachery into American justification. When the regime reaches for the bomb, or throttles the strait again, or stiff-arms the inspectors, the waivers vanish, the snapback fires, and the case for force becomes cleaner and more defensible before a watching world than it was in February. The trap is baited with the one thing Tehran cannot resist, the appearance of having won, and it springs on the one thing Tehran cannot help but do..............Maximum Pressure, Repackaged as Patience

•  Gingrich Applauds Trump’s Iran Agreement - “Negotiating with Iran, monitoring its commitments and occasionally having to pressure the dictatorship militarily or economically is simply reality. (Remember Ronald Reagan’s advice to ‘Trust but verify’ and Connie Mack’s ‘You get what you inspect, not what you expect.’) There will be no end to the requirement to police, monitor, and occasionally penalize the religious dictatorship,” Gingrich wrote. “The leaders of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps will try to push for as much influence and flexibility as they can get away with. It’s simply their nature.”........
•  Republicans Lindsey Graham, Rand Paul Rally Behind Trump’s Iran Deal
•  Trump’s Coercive Diplomacy Exactly How To Neuter Iran 
• These People Are Nuts!

Of course Trump is in favor of this deal saying at G7: Iran Deal Will Bring ‘A Lot of Success to the World’; Demining Process Underway, Strait of Hormuz to Fully Open Friday 

Well, that minute has passed, and Iran Abruptly Nixes Peace Deal Signing in Switzerland, and Good News: Iran Blocks the Strait.  As Victor Davis Hanson noted, "the only means of enforcing concessions is to use disproportionate force each time Iran inevitably violates the terms of the armistice".  And if history is anything, it shows that's the final conclusion dealing with these terrorist fanatics.  

One more point, Rubio hasn't been on the pro-deal circuit, and it's been reported he wasn't in favor of this deal, at least in it's current form.  Rubio has become more impressive by the day.  He's loyal, smart, has a load of character,

Update, 6/20/26:   

1. Hezbollah fires 50 rockets at Israel overnight — IDF returns fire, killing 7.
2. Mullahs expected to earn $60 billion/year from oil sales.
3. Iran wants $100 billion in frozen funds.
4. DEVELOPING: Jared Kusher in Switzerland, Steve Witkoff en Route for Delayed Iran Talks
5. Marlow: The Definitive Breakdown of the Iran Deal