Trump's One Year Anniversary: Many Successes, Many Promises Kept

Trump took office one year ago, January 20, 2025.

Amanda Head of Just the News notes some of the big success.

Tuesday marks the one-year anniversary of President Donald Trump's return to office for his second term, and the country is nearly unrecognizable from the way it looked under his predecessor, former President Joe Biden.
The average 30-year fixed mortgage rate right now is at roughly 6.02%, down from about 7.04% a year ago in January, when Biden was still in office. However, that's three-quarters of a point down from the rate in October of 2023, when the 30-year fixed mortgage rate reached 7.79%. Average rates were roughly 2.5 times higher than when Biden took over following Trump's first term.
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Gas prices cratering
As of January 2026, the national average price for regular gasoline is roughly $2.82 a gallon, down from around $3.08 in January 2025 under the end of the Biden administration.

The highest national average gas price during the Biden presidency skyrocketed to roughly $5.02 a gallon in June 2022, driven largely by self-inflicted refining capacity constraints.
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Egg-cellent prices
Right now, the national average retail price for a dozen Grade A large eggs is about $2.71, down from around $4.15 in January 2025 at the end of the Biden administration.
The highest egg prices under Biden hit roughly $4.82 per dozen, in early 2023, and spiked again in 2025 (reaching $8.17 in some retail locations in March) mainly due to avian flu outbreaks that forced massive flock culling.
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Bidenflation no more
The annual U.S. inflation rate (taken from the federal government's monthly Consumer Price Index report) now sits at 2.7% for the 12 months ending December 2025, unchanged from the prior month and down from around 3% at the end of Biden's term in January 2025.
In what came to be known as Bidenflation, the highest rate during the Biden presidency peaked at 9.1% year-over-year in June 2022, the highest in over 40 years, with cumulative inflation totaling a staggering 21.5%.
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GDP growth
The latest BEA (Bureau of Economic Analysis) numbers show real domestic Gross Domestic Product grew at a solid 4.3% annualized pace in the third quarter of 2025 (July--September), and the Atlanta Fed's GDPNow is now pointing to roughly 5.3% for the fourth quarter of 2025 -- up substantially from the roughly 2.4% annualized growth in fourth-quarter 2024 toward the end of the Biden administration.

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Trump closes out his first year with border crossings down 95%.
This drop includes the illegal-alien population, which fell by an estimated 576,000 amid over 622,000 reported deportations and reports of 1.9 million self-deportations.
Under Biden's administration, the foreign-born population grew to a peak of 53.3 million by January 2025. The illegal-alien population reached a record 14 million in 2023 before beginning to stabilize or slightly decline in late 2024, contrasting with the sharp contraction in 2025 as Biden-era deportations focused more on border encounters rather than interior enforcement.

More at the link, including the peace deals.

Which brings me to a point of dissatisfaction: Trump might just have decided that Obama Was Right to Spare the Mullahs and Protect the Ayatollah.

I don't know if this is true -- the USS Abraham Lincoln is still four days away (I think) from Iran -- but it looks like he's selling out the Iranian protesters he urged to take to the streets and "TAKE OVER YOUR INSTITUTIONS!"

If [leftwing critics]had been right this time [that Trump is a warmonger], we'd now be hearing Trump give the command for "bombs away" over Tehran.
Instead, there he was on the White House lawn Friday afternoon, pointedly thanking the mullahs for not following through on their vow to execute hundreds of political prisoners rounded up in the protests.
"Iran canceled the hanging of over 800 people," Trump said, adding that he "greatly respected" the move.
To those with an honest and open mind, the week's roller coaster ride illustrated how Trump's fondness for talking about America's military might is often purposeful sword-rattling.
The bluster, this time and often, serves as an invitation to negotiations or is so persuasive that he gets most of what he wants without having to fire a shot.
'I convinced myself'
As the week began, the scenes in Iran looked like a five-alarm fire.
With the mullahs slaughtering their own citizens for the crime of protesting a collapsing economy, the calls for America to stop it grew louder, and Trump was game.
He gave every indication that our military was locked, loaded and ready to go.
In a bristling Tuesday post on Truth Social, he sounded prepared to take action with his promise to the brave demonstrators that "help is on its way."
"KEEP PROTESTING -- TAKE OVER YOUR INSTITUTIONS!!!."
He urged those in the streets, adding, "Save the names of the killers and abusers. They will pay a big price."
Within 24 hours, he pulled back and explained the move by saying "very important sources" told him Iran had stopped killing protesters and was not moving forward with mass executions.
It's not clear where he got that information, but so far it has been largely accurate.
Additionally, reports surfaced that Trump was hearing warnings from our regional allies, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Oman and Turkey, that hitting Iran could ignite a much bigger war because of counterattacks by Iran and its heavily armed terror allies, such as Hezbollah in Lebanon and the Houthis in Yemen.
Some warnings raised the possibility of an Iranian civil war that could unleash a flood of refugees.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu also asked Trump to postpone any attack so Israel would have more time to prepare for the likelihood that it would be a target of Iranian retaliation.
On Friday, Trump rebuffed the chatter that pressure from foreign leaders led him to pull back.
"Nobody convinced me. I convinced myself," he told reporters.
He also added that the regime's canceling of executions "had a big impact" on his decision.
The Wall Street Journal added two other factors.
First, military advisers told the president the US must beef up its resources in the region to carry out a significant attack and also protect our troops and allies.
The second reason was that Trump was told that a military attack probably would not topple the Islamic regime but would result in stepped-up brutality against demonstrators.
The upshot is that Trump's decision to hold off on a military strike was clearly the right and prudent call, at least for now.

Another reason? He keeps meeting with the sinister Islamist Tucker Carlson.

Sad to see Tucker Carlson hanging out with Trump and oil oligarchs at the White House. pic.twitter.com/xKs9IVNXi3
— Stew Peters Network (@StewpetersNet1) January 11, 2026

Tucker Carlson is unabashedly advocating for Iran to get nuclear missiles.

This is the same regime that just murdered 20,000 of its own people, and threatened to murder President Trump earlier this week.

I wonder if this came up in their White House meeting the other day pic.twitter.com/ADXvw84K98
— Eitan Fischberger (@EFischberger) January 20, 2026

As I’ve been telling you for more than a year: people who are obsessed with ZOG fantasies see an Iran armed with nuclear weapons as the only thing that can save them from the evil Jews who they think control the west. That’s what all this has been about.

And today Tucker… pic.twitter.com/k3v4CYaLBK
— David Reaboi, Late Republic Nonsense (@davereaboi) January 20, 2026

Does Trump know that Tucker Carlson keeps claiming that Netanyahu "controls" him?

Grok
@grok
After reviewing the video and multiple sources, Tucker Carlson claims Netanyahu privately told people he controls the US and Trump, based on unnamed sources Tucker spoke to. No verifiable public records or direct quotes from Netanyahu confirm this. Netanyahu denied similar claims

I'm still hoping that Trump is making pacifist noises just to encourage the Iranians to stop the mass slaughter of civilians. I hope he's playing them, to give the protesters time until US forces are gathered and ready to strike.

But I kind of doubt that. I think the sinister Islamist Tucker Carlson has once again tricked Trump into pursuing the Carlson Foreign Policy rather than the Trump Foreign Policy we actually voted for.

Posted by: Ace at 03:50 PM

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1 False.

All is lost because the people that Biden pardoned have not been executed by the DOJ.

Who cares that material success on other matters has happened?

All is lost.

I'm voting for Newsom because his wife is white.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 20, 2026 03:51 PM (GBKbO)

2 THE BLADE STRIKES FIRST AND HARD

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 20, 2026 03:52 PM (iFTx/)

3 It’s what I voted for.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at January 20, 2026 03:52 PM (u73oe)

4 JOOOOOS!

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at January 20, 2026 03:52 PM (Kt19C)

5 Meep meep mothercluckers.

Posted by: nurse ratched at January 20, 2026 03:52 PM (W2Pud)

6 We are proud to announce the new poster child for our "Depends" is Joey "Bidet" Biden.

He is now the USA poster boy for a serious condition called "Anal Leakage"

So, if you see Ole Joe try to FART and see that weird look on his face you know our product is working...

Posted by: Proctor and Gamble CEO at January 20, 2026 03:53 PM (ff2r3)

7 Yeah.. I doubt Tucker controls Trump but I'd rather he stay away ...

Posted by: It's me donna at January 20, 2026 03:53 PM (VE6XX)

8 w00t

Posted by: m at January 20, 2026 03:54 PM (SSiCQ)

9 Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 20, 2026 03:52 PM (iFTx/)

And lost to the zombie 4th president of the US who blade is evidently sharper than yours.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 20, 2026 03:54 PM (Nx5jP)

10 7 Yeah.. I doubt Tucker controls Trump but I'd rather he stay away ...

agree Donna

nice roundup! things are just so much better

OF COURSE the bolshies are getting violent. that's what those nut jobs DO

Posted by: BlackOrchid at January 20, 2026 03:54 PM (emBoF)

11 I put Tucker in the same boat I put Lemon.
A slow leaking boat.

Posted by: Case at January 20, 2026 03:54 PM (4rWc3)

12 GDP growth

The latest BEA (Bureau of Economic Analysis) numbers show real domestic Gross Domestic Product grew at a solid 4.3% annualized pace in the third quarter of 2025 (July--September), and the Atlanta Fed's GDPNow is now pointing to roughly 5.3% for the fourth quarter of 2025 -- up substantially from the roughly 2.4% annualized growth in fourth-quarter 2024 toward the end of the Biden administration.

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It's a point to consider that if you remove government spending, we haven't had positive GDP growth since 2007.

Will late 2025 buck that trend? End the actual nearly 20 year depression that we've been in?

Fingers crossed!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 20, 2026 03:54 PM (GBKbO)

13 "Iran canceled the hanging of over 800 people," Trump said, adding that he "greatly respected" the move.
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Instead they'll all be quietly executed once there's a sufficient distraction elsewhere. Win, apparently.

Posted by: Methos at January 20, 2026 03:55 PM (vSvIl)

14 Showing the mugshots of the illegal criminals was a nice touch... The media seems to forget that part..

Posted by: It's me donna at January 20, 2026 03:55 PM (VE6XX)

15 I have been and will continue to adopt a "believe it when I see it" posture on Iran.

I'd like to see the smelly mullahs ousted. I'd like to see a free and prosperous Iran. I'd also like a pet dragon.

I think probably 90% of the news coming out of Iran is fake or greatly exaggerated. I believe nothing.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 20, 2026 03:55 PM (iFTx/)

16 DOJ subpoenas Walz, Ellison, Frey, Minnesota officials in probe alleging immigration obstruction, sources say

Posted by: SMOD at January 20, 2026 03:56 PM (RHGPo)

17 So, Horde, are we just going to take a pass on Iran? Serious question.

Posted by: tubal at January 20, 2026 03:56 PM (pDt9x)

18 Today’s news is just one huge black pill.

Posted by: Oglebay at January 20, 2026 03:56 PM (2ap+5)

19 17 So, Horde, are we just going to take a pass on Iran? Serious question.
Posted by: tubal at January 20, 2026 03:56 PM (pDt9x)

Good question.... Hopefully we are working undercover there feeling it out..

Posted by: It's me donna at January 20, 2026 03:57 PM (VE6XX)

20 Egg-cellent prices
.....

Fun Fact:
Guy Fieri hates eggs.

Posted by: wth at January 20, 2026 03:57 PM (UjdFS)

21 So the tucker thing is all because of professional jealousy over his influence?

Cause that's kind of what it looks like to the few remaining people in the country reading "conservative" blogs.

Posted by: The Obvious, Plain Truth at January 20, 2026 03:57 PM (33JYF)

22 in probe alleging immigration obstruction, sources say

Immigration obstruction?!

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 20, 2026 03:57 PM (Nx5jP)

23 Danish lawmaker cut off, scolded after telling President Trump to ‘f—k off’ during meeting

... I prefer my Danish without nuts

Posted by: SMOD at January 20, 2026 03:58 PM (RHGPo)

24 20 Egg-cellent prices
.....

Fun Fact:
Guy Fieri hates eggs.

Posted by: wth at January 20, 2026 03:57 PM (UjdFS)

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Double-bite Charlie doesn't like some kind of food?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 20, 2026 03:58 PM (GBKbO)

25 I was listenting to our chatty Prez. while driving. I don't know if he was embellishing or not, but he said he think he can get growth of the economy well above the projected 5% in the fourth quarter. He thinks that the 4th quarter will not only exceed 5%, he thinks sometime next year we will approach 20%.....and then added the caveat, provided the Fed doesn't try to continue to sabotage it. He then went into a diatribe about how in the old days the Fed used to lower or sit on interest rates even (and especially) during a prosperous time, to make it that much more strong.

Posted by: Orson at January 20, 2026 03:58 PM (dIske)

26 18 Today’s news is just one huge black pill.
Posted by: Oglebay at January 20, 2026 03:56 PM (2ap+5)

A licorice flavored day.

Posted by: tubal at January 20, 2026 03:58 PM (pDt9x)

27 23 Danish lawmaker cut off, scolded after telling President Trump to ‘f—k off’ during meeting

... I prefer my Danish without nuts
Posted by: SMOD at January 20, 2026 03:58 PM (RHGPo)

Good move... Best not to make Donald mad....

Posted by: Venezuela at January 20, 2026 03:59 PM (VE6XX)

28 Okay, but apart from the lower gas prices, lower egg prices, lower inflation, greater GDP growth, lower border crossings, stopping 8 wars, the sanitation, medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh water system and public health, what has Trump ever done for us?

Posted by: Reg, PFJ Leader at January 20, 2026 03:59 PM (wVcYX)

29 I saw Tom Kratman mentioned on the previous thread. Fun fact: I met him during the Virginia bar exam - he sat across the table from me.

Posted by: Dark Litigator at January 20, 2026 03:59 PM (KAi1n)

30 I'd also like a pet dragon.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade

Make sure you have a big room under the front stairs.
-- Eddie Munster

Posted by: Bulg at January 20, 2026 03:59 PM (77rzZ)

31 25 I was listenting to our chatty Prez.
Posted by: Orson at January 20, 2026 03:58 PM (dIske)

heh

Posted by: m at January 20, 2026 03:59 PM (SSiCQ)

32 I still think he has something up his sleeve to deal with Iran but waiting for the right time and place to execute.

I do not recall him wavering his sword for no reason at all...

Did anyone expect Trump to take out Maduro? All the Commies in the Press were focusing on the boat attacks and BAM Maduro is captured....

Slight move of the hand to hide the trick....

Posted by: Jackson K. at January 20, 2026 04:00 PM (J9q9v)

33 28 Okay, but apart from the lower gas prices, lower egg prices, lower inflation, greater GDP growth, lower border crossings, stopping 8 wars, the sanitation, medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh water system and public health, what has Trump ever done for us?

Posted by: Reg, PFJ Leader at January 20, 2026 03:59 PM (wVcYX)

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The problem is that counter-messaging is happening.

All is lost.

No one knows if they have it better because Trump doesn't talk himself up enough.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 20, 2026 04:00 PM (GBKbO)

34 I would support a decapitation strike on Iran, but honestly I can live with some equivocation on another foreign military intervention.

Posted by: Frasier Crane at January 20, 2026 04:00 PM (bNf8H)

35 Egg-cellent prices

Right now, the national average retail price for a dozen Grade A large eggs is about $2.71, down from around $4.15 in January 2025 at the end of the Biden administration.

$4.24/2 dozen at Sam's. ($2.12 doz)

Posted by: rickb223 at January 20, 2026 04:00 PM (eefky)

36 Again, my favorite Trumpian tactic is him flooding the zone with all sorts of actions, feints, attacks, retreats, blusters, threats, jokes, successes and talk.

"But, but, but - he's a loud-mouthed snook!!"

Exactly! It's one of the reasons I voted for him.

Posted by: Tonypete at January 20, 2026 04:00 PM (cYBz/)

37 I think probably 90% of the news coming out of Iran is fake or greatly exaggerated. I believe nothing.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 20, 2026 03:55 PM (iFTx/)

Or we don't know the full extent of the Mullah's and the IRGC's response. It could be much worse than what we see.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 20, 2026 04:00 PM (n9ltV)

38 Also, Usha Vance is preggers again.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 20, 2026 04:01 PM (GBKbO)

39 Double-bite Charlie doesn't like some kind of food?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 20, 2026 03:58 PM (GBKbO)

Guy is actually a nice person.. I have met him and he is very generous to the Community .. Can't say he's much of a chef though.. His restaurants aren't great

Posted by: Venezuela at January 20, 2026 04:01 PM (VE6XX)

40 Meh.

If Iranians want change, they will have to make it so. On their own. Look what happened when we tried to build a democratic Iraq? Trillions of dollars and many American lives lost. This has to be organic. Yes, we had some help during our Revolutionary war 250 years ago, but it was 90% on our backs. We had to fight.

So do they. Otherwise they will never be legitimate.

Posted by: nurse ratched at January 20, 2026 04:02 PM (W2Pud)

41 Guy is actually a nice person.. I have met him and he is very generous to the Community .. Can't say he's much of a chef though.. His restaurants aren't great
Posted by: Venezuela at January 20, 2026 04:01 PM (VE6XX)

Off sock

Posted by: Venezuela at January 20, 2026 04:02 PM (VE6XX)

42 37 I think probably 90% of the news coming out of Iran is fake or greatly exaggerated. I believe nothing.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 20, 2026 03:55 PM (iFTx/)

Or we don't know the full extent of the Mullah's and the IRGC's response. It could be much worse than what we see.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 20, 2026 04:00 PM (n9ltV)

It’s like we don’t know, CBD!

Posted by: tubal at January 20, 2026 04:02 PM (pDt9x)

43 I distinctly remember some Trump 45 staffer or cabinet member saying that Trump was like a couch cushion... the last one to talk to him before he spoke or made a decision was the imprint that was left.

Just like the last person to sit on a couch left the impression of their butt.

Posted by: Defenestratus at January 20, 2026 04:02 PM (WYStd)

44 Started out fine, closed poorly.

Posted by: connected and litigious at January 20, 2026 04:02 PM (cS1cw)

45 No war for mohel!

Posted by: Tuck at January 20, 2026 04:02 PM (w3Wop)

46 41 Guy is actually a nice person.. I have met him and he is very generous to the Community .. Can't say he's much of a chef though.. His restaurants aren't great
Posted by: Venezuela at January 20, 2026 04:01 PM (VE6XX)

Off sock
Posted by: Venezuela at January 20, 2026 04:02 PM (VE6XX)

LOL.. Lets try that again... Off sock

Posted by: It's me donna at January 20, 2026 04:02 PM (VE6XX)

47 I was also sickened to hear Trump say the Mad Mullahs have stopped executing Iranians -- the desperate videos from inside Iran are still showing them machine-gunning people in the streets.

Also, are the regional "partners" going to actually step to the United States if we do a powerful decapitation strike? They didn't do jack squat when we took out their nuke facilities and killed the top echelon of their leaders.

Unreal.

Posted by: Beverly at January 20, 2026 04:03 PM (reMys)

48 Danish lawmaker cut off, scolded after telling President Trump to ‘f—k off’ during meeting

... I prefer my Danish without nuts
Posted by: SMOD at January 20, 2026 03:58 PM (RHGPo)

Big bosomed, trying to change his point of view? BTDT.

Posted by: Sir Rod Stewart at January 20, 2026 04:03 PM (wVcYX)

49 Also, Usha Vance is preggers again
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SHRIEEEEEEEEEK!!!!!

Posted by: AWFLS at January 20, 2026 04:03 PM (31BE0)

50 38 Also, Usha Vance is preggers again.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 20, 2026 04:01 PM (GBKbO)

Way to go JD !

Posted by: It's me donna at January 20, 2026 04:03 PM (VE6XX)

51 No war for mohel!
Posted by: Tuck

Thanks for the tip!

Posted by: Tonypete at January 20, 2026 04:03 PM (cYBz/)

52 Again, my favorite Trumpian tactic is him flooding the zone with all sorts of actions, feints, attacks, retreats, blusters, threats, jokes, successes and talk.

"But, but, but - he's a loud-mouthed snook!!"

Exactly! It's one of the reasons I voted for him.

Posted by: Tonypete at January 20, 2026 04:00 PM

I have friends and relatives that hate Trump because he is an arrogant a$$ (which he is). They don't hate what he has done they just hate him as a person and reflexively bad mouth everything he does even if it is a net positive. I can't change their minds on anything Trump related so I have given up trying.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at January 20, 2026 04:04 PM (0N4FZ)

53 We spent months observing Maduro's habits, built a mock up of his bunker and rehearsed everything thousands of times. That little op was pretty fucking impressive.

Iran is a thousand times more difficult. We don't know where the mullahs are at every time of day/night. We don't know who among these "freedom loving Iranians" are actually Islamic assholes with weapons and a desire to kill. We don't have eyes on the thousands of ballistic missiles still a threat, and we certainly don't know who's got the proverbial keys to them.

If/when all that's sorted out and if the situation still warrants "action" I think we'll see "action."

Tucker Carlson isn't a factor in any of that.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 20, 2026 04:04 PM (U2OZr)

54 >>>Another reason? He keeps meeting with the sinister Islamist Tucker Carlson.

That sonovabitch Trump has BETRAYED us.

HOW CAN HE KEEP THE NEOCONS ON HIS SIDE WITHOUT INVASIONS?

How can he be a true American? I quote Mark Levin, "We must hit this Iranian Nazi regime now or very soon. Their Holocaust is intensifying"

If he loses Mark Levin, how can he hold the middle? It is as if Trump has forgotten what everyone hoped he would be

Posted by: Kindltot at January 20, 2026 04:04 PM (rbvCR)

55 What's the Iranian version of Kremlinology?

Posted by: Bulg at January 20, 2026 04:04 PM (77rzZ)

56 More than likely the calculus is that if the topple the regime, they might get something worse.

And they don't want to get into a you broke it you bought it tar baby.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at January 20, 2026 04:04 PM (g8loK)

57
I think the sinister Islamist Tucker Carlson has once again tricked Trump into pursuing the Carlson Foreign Policy rather than the Trump Foreign Policy we actually voted for.

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You'd think Rubio could talk him out of it. wtf?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 20, 2026 04:04 PM (tkcii)

58 40 Meh.

If Iranians want change, they will have to make it so. On their own. Look what happened when we tried to build a democratic Iraq? Trillions of dollars and many American lives lost. This has to be organic. Yes, we had some help during our Revolutionary war 250 years ago, but it was 90% on our backs. We had to fight.

So do they. Otherwise they will never be legitimate.
Posted by: nurse ratched at January 20, 2026 04:02 PM (W2Pud)

Well said.

Posted by: m at January 20, 2026 04:04 PM (SSiCQ)

59
Tuesday Trap: Tucker Tricks Trump

Trump to Tucker - Toodles!

Posted by: ... at January 20, 2026 04:04 PM (siUZu)

60
What's the Iranian version of Kremlinology?
Posted by: Bulg

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Mullahnology? You're right, we need a new word.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 20, 2026 04:05 PM (tkcii)

61 Yeah I'm not going to get myself all het up about Trump taking a step back and not just charging boner-first into a conflict with Iran.

Posted by: ballistic at January 20, 2026 04:05 PM (5aZAZ)

62 >"North Korea's nuclearization has undeniably stabilized the Korean Peninsula. The region has seen no wars, coups, or interventionist-forced regime changes since 2006."

Well, there it is. Everyone can go home, the dumbest statement of the year has already been locked in and it is only January.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at January 20, 2026 04:05 PM (5XW27)

63 Psst! *whispers* It's the Jews.

Posted by: Cadaver Joe Biden at January 20, 2026 04:05 PM (oT7pT)

64 Tucker Carlson has the charisma of a bad dose of the clap.

How that skidmark got the second person to listen to him is a mystery to me.

Posted by: sifty boones at January 20, 2026 04:05 PM (jOoNx)

65 The USS Abraham Lincoln has just turned off it's transponders
Iranian TV was hacked and every channel showed the protestors still in the streets and also a speech from Pahlavi
An IRGC bases was overtaken and burned to the ground
IRGC forces are being captured and killed.

Posted by: Ben Had at January 20, 2026 04:05 PM (0KSrI)

66 There are good reasons to hold off on a full attack on Iran, even though I want them to fall as much or more than anyone here.
First: air strikes alone will not topple that regime. With all this warning, the top people will all be in deep bunkers; maybe we know where they are, maybe not, but Iran is a huge country.
Also: the military and paramilitary forces are dispersed to the cities; to hit them now requires hitting the cities, not just their bases.
And most of all - we do not have a good "casus belli", a strong legal justification for launching an attack, which if we're honest means starting a war at least as big as the war against Saddam. I think we could win, but this is going to be a hell of a lot longer and messier than any of us would like to think.

so what should we do?

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 20, 2026 04:05 PM (giMmT)

67 Um Don, Tucker here. Imma need you to do whatever I say, now get me a diet coke.

Posted by: DeSantis would never fetch cokes for Tucker at January 20, 2026 04:06 PM (31BE0)

68 I give Trump a solid A, for accomplishments. I doubt I would like to be around him for any length of time. I don’t need the guy as a BFF, just as a doer.

Posted by: tubal at January 20, 2026 04:06 PM (pDt9x)

69 If Trump is going to do knowing to the Ragheads in Iran, then why is he moving a Carrier from the Pacific to the Gulf??

Lots of money and time to move a beast that large and also leave less USA Forces near the PRC..

Posted by: Jackson K. at January 20, 2026 04:06 PM (J9q9v)

70 I was listenting to our chatty Prez. while driving.
Posted by: Orson
......

He is rather loquacious.

Posted by: wth at January 20, 2026 04:06 PM (UjdFS)

71 Bill Kristol has broken unprecedented ground in biological studies, noting that he is the first person in history to observe that men can become women.

Posted by: SMOD at January 20, 2026 04:07 PM (RHGPo)

72 Mullahnology? You're right, we need a new word.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 20, 2026 04:05 PM (tkcii)

Mullato-ology?

Posted by: ... at January 20, 2026 04:07 PM (siUZu)

73 I think the sinister Islamist Tucker Carlson has once again tricked Trump into pursuing the Carlson Foreign Policy rather than the Trump Foreign Policy we actually voted for.

Posted by: Ace at 03:50 PM
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I can't read how sarcastic this is supposed to be.

Posted by: ballistic at January 20, 2026 04:07 PM (5aZAZ)

74 Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at January 20, 2026 04:05 PM (5XW27)

Who said that?

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 20, 2026 04:07 PM (n9ltV)

75 I have no idea what is going on in Iran. I have no idea what Trump is or is not planning on doing. I have no idea if Trump is sharing real intel he has.

Instead, I think of Star Trek.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 20, 2026 04:07 PM (GBKbO)

76 >"North Korea's nuclearization has undeniably stabilized the Korean Peninsula. The region has seen no wars, coups, or interventionist-forced regime changes since 2006."

This is the kind of thing that only someone paid by Iran or it's allies (Quatar) could make. It is so stupid my ctrl-P command sighed when I pressed it.

I have been saying this for years -- Tucker is a f-ing idiot. This (once again) proves it.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at January 20, 2026 04:07 PM (5XW27)

77 My W2 came, need to send it to the tax guy pronto and see what kind of return we get. I keep hearing people say that Trump's BBB giving us more back for taxes means it will help at the midterms. No idea. But I think there is a new child tax credit, and that would apply to us.

Posted by: LizLem at January 20, 2026 04:07 PM (Eng1Z)

78 65 The USS Abraham Lincoln has just turned off it's transponders
Iranian TV was hacked and every channel showed the protestors still in the streets and also a speech from Pahlavi
An IRGC bases was overtaken and burned to the ground
IRGC forces are being captured and killed.
Posted by: Ben Had at January 20, 2026 04:05 PM (0KSrI)

Maybe PDT won't be going to Davos.

Posted by: m at January 20, 2026 04:07 PM (SSiCQ)

79 66
so what should we do?
Posted by: Tom Servo at January 20, 2026 04:05 PM (giMmT)

Beats me. Expectations of something were ginned up though.

Posted by: tubal at January 20, 2026 04:08 PM (pDt9x)

80 This just feels more like the first term. He had a lot of success, particularly economic and trade, in the first term. He definitely came out the gates on fire with the exec orders and Musk / DOGE this time, and it's good to see ICE going hard at it, but IMO the Iran strikes and Maduro aren't dissimilar in boldness to taking out Suleimani and getting direct with Kim Jong Un. We don't have Russiagate and his crew did a better job of cutting out deep staters, but the swamp is still there and this inaction on Dem rioters, Dem politicians fomenting it, no accountability from the 2020 elections or COVID or Summer of Love or conservative blacklisting or autopen, but keep telling us to wait for it... Feels like we're waiting for John Durham all over again. Having a hard time feeling Pam Bondi isn't a problem...

Posted by: bearski at January 20, 2026 04:08 PM (Bhsk7)

81 Just like the last person to sit on a couch left the impression of their butt.
Posted by: Defenestratus at January 20, 2026 04:02 PM (WYStd)

Yep. Everything he has done is flapping in the wind. He is a rag to be blown here and there, never achieving anything.
Trump is clearly without direction, only fulfilling his own demented wishes, controlled by his evil underlings.

Posted by: Kindltot at January 20, 2026 04:08 PM (rbvCR)

82 Townhall: Bombshell Footage Claims Judges Can Be Bought With Bribes in Ohio Immigration Courts

Posted by: SMOD at January 20, 2026 04:08 PM (RHGPo)

83 Mullato-ology?
Posted by: ...

Yeah, you gotta keep an eye on those mullatoes.

Posted by: Bulg at January 20, 2026 04:08 PM (77rzZ)

84 73 I think the sinister Islamist Tucker Carlson has once again tricked Trump into pursuing the Carlson Foreign Policy rather than the Trump Foreign Policy we actually voted for.

Posted by: Ace at 03:50 PM
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I can't read how sarcastic this is supposed to be.
Posted by: ballistic at January 20, 2026 04:07 PM (5aZAZ)

Pretty sure it was in jest... As we've seen Trump is open to talk to anyone.. Look at his "bromance" with Commie Mamdani..

Posted by: It's me donna at January 20, 2026 04:08 PM (VE6XX)

85
Who said that?
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo
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Oh, I'm sorry. I read the content.

It is in the TCN (tucker) tweet embedded as an image at bottom of post.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at January 20, 2026 04:09 PM (5XW27)

86 >>If Trump is going to do knowing to the Ragheads in Iran, then why is he moving a Carrier from the Pacific to the Gulf??
__
We park shit offshore of adversaries all the time. It doesn't mean we're going to use them - just that we can when and if we want to.

Posted by: Frasier Crane at January 20, 2026 04:09 PM (bNf8H)

87 so what should we do?
Posted by: Tom Servo

Send messages to the mullah's pagers?

Posted by: Auspex at January 20, 2026 04:09 PM (Y8DZL)

88 82 Townhall: Bombshell Footage Claims Judges Can Be Bought With Bribes in Ohio Immigration Courts

Posted by: SMOD at January 20, 2026 04:08 PM (RHGPo)

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Ace should write a post on it.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 20, 2026 04:09 PM (GBKbO)

89 Trump and his administration kept the mission against Iran's nukes pretty quiet. Every choice you make in the Middle East is bad . Find the least bad option that aligns with our national interest and go with it

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 20, 2026 04:09 PM (PTsqM)

90 Any previous examples of when Tucker "tricked" Trump into doing something - anything ?

Posted by: deadrody at January 20, 2026 04:09 PM (vgB0v)

91 90 Any previous examples of when Tucker "tricked" Trump into doing something - anything ?

Posted by: deadrody at January 20, 2026 04:09 PM (vgB0v)

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Tucker bragged that he convinced Trump to go all in on covid hysteria.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 20, 2026 04:10 PM (GBKbO)

92 so, what should we do?
First, make sure we are in a very strong defensive posture, both for ourselves and our allies. Iran could easily do something incredibly stupid here; launch missile attacks on Israel, or the Saudi's, or are ships just because they're desperate and crazy.
That would actually be a big win for us, since that would give us our casus belli.
after that, the best we can do is covert ops to weaken the regime, while at the same time they wither due to the complete collapse of their financial sector. Opportunities will arise in various places. Perhaps weapons can be smuggled in. Wait for the enemy to make a big mistake.

Iran is like the 3rd Reich in the spring of 1945; they're on the way down, but they can still cause a hell of a lot of death and mayhem on the way their.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 20, 2026 04:10 PM (giMmT)

93 3 years to fix all this shit.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, diseased garbage human at January 20, 2026 04:10 PM (P7vXf)

94 I just saw that there's a pickleball place less than a mile from my house.

I guess the scourge has finally reached my AO.

Posted by: Bulg at January 20, 2026 04:11 PM (77rzZ)

95 I forgot to add this in the last thread...Those who think Newsome is a given, especially Newsome himself, forget the state machine that props them up is different than a national campaign.

Ask McCain how far the AZ state political machine got him in the general election for POTUS. Pretty far, but not far enough.

Posted by: LizLem at January 20, 2026 04:11 PM (Eng1Z)

96 I give Trump a solid A, for accomplishments. I doubt I would like to be around him for any length of time. I don’t need the guy as a BFF, just as a doer.

Posted by: tubal at January 20, 2026 04:06 PM (pDt9x)

Exactly. I have decided not to invite him to my Seder or to Thanksgiving dinner.

But I give him a solid B+.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 20, 2026 04:11 PM (n9ltV)

97 So what happened to the threat that at 2pm today all the Leftist AWFL Karens were going to storm state houses?

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 20, 2026 04:11 PM (2GVsD)

98 But I kind of doubt that. I think the sinister Islamist Tucker Carlson has once again tricked Trump into pursuing the Carlson Foreign Policy rather than the Trump Foreign Policy we actually voted for.

==
Here's my 2 cents.

believe nothing; WH knows what Cuckson is, though he has a fan or two, you can guess who. what he is doing is known. his mask slipped way too many times. all is on the table.

Posted by: runner at January 20, 2026 04:11 PM (g47mK)

99

I think that Rubio, at the very least, would have a few words with PDT about this if true. I don't think it is true.

Posted by: Cheri at January 20, 2026 04:12 PM (oiNtH)

100 Tucker is a big fan of Maduro, claims he is THE champion of the western anti-gay marriage movement, and Trump still took him down. I don't think Tucker is controlling Trump anymore than Netanyahu or Putin.

I think Trump knows he's not the omnipotent King of the World and while he wants to help where he can not at the risk of hurting America or our interests. Perhaps we didn't have the assets prepared or he was warned that the thousands of jihadists Biden let into the US would hit back or maybe we just couldn't do much to hurt the mullahs without boots on the ground. Could be a lot of things but I don't think he listens to anyone enough to be swayed by an argument about evil Jews taking the world and I really don't think Tucker has much influence at all.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 20, 2026 04:12 PM (viF8m)

101
95 I forgot to add this in the last thread...Those who think Newsome is a given, especially Newsome himself, forget the state machine that props them up is different than a national campaign.

Ask McCain how far the AZ state political machine got him in the general election for POTUS. Pretty far, but not far enough.

Posted by: LizLem at January 20, 2026 04:11 PM (Eng1Z)

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The Democrat machine is really bad at gaming presidential primaries.

When it was much stronger, they threw up Bernie as a sacrificial lamb against Hillary in 2016 and turned Bernie into a superstar on the left instead, having to resort to outright cheating in Nevada to beat him.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 20, 2026 04:12 PM (GBKbO)

102 Oh, I'm sorry. I read the content.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at January 20, 2026 04:09 PM (5XW27)

What kind of a moron are you?

[Oh...the bob kind!]

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 20, 2026 04:12 PM (n9ltV)

103 LOL. I wouldn't count the Ejaculantern out just yet.

He's not done makin moves. After a generation of faggot politicians telegraphing every move we make every way they can, it's kind of refreshing to not know what he and Hegseth are working on.

The anticipation is costing me dearly in cigars though.

Posted by: sifty boones at January 20, 2026 04:12 PM (jOoNx)

104 >>>Also, Usha Vance is preggers again
~~~~~

That's wonderful! We need lots more little Americans.

Posted by: IrishEi at January 20, 2026 04:13 PM (3ImbR)

105 Have you considered that Tucker is the back channel?

Posted by: Kolin at January 20, 2026 04:13 PM (uK5Gm)

106 94 I just saw that there's a pickleball place less than a mile from my house.

I guess the scourge has finally reached my AO.
Posted by: Bulg at January 20, 2026 04:11 PM (77rzZ)
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Being a suburban person of whiteness with a wife and kids, I've done a lot of stereotypical cornball-ass family man shit. Think apple-picking, hay rides, that kinda stuff. I also enjoy golf. The only time I've ever been in public doing something like that where I felt like a complete freakin' goober was the one time I got talked into playing pickleball. Yeeeeeesh.

Posted by: ballistic at January 20, 2026 04:13 PM (5aZAZ)

107 Tucker bragged that he convinced Trump to go all in on covid hysteria.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 20, 2026 04:10 PM (GBKbO)

Except he didn't go all in on it

Posted by: ... at January 20, 2026 04:13 PM (siUZu)

108 @97 the white wine and Prozac buzz kicked in at 1:30 and the AWFLs blew off storming the castle

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 20, 2026 04:13 PM (PTsqM)

109 104 >>>Also, Usha Vance is preggers again
~~~~~

That's wonderful! We need lots more little Americans.

Posted by: IrishEi at January 20, 2026 04:13 PM (3ImbR)

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I'm pretty Nick Fuentes is pissed because it's another half-brown baby and we all have to take him seriously as a conservative voice as he advocates for voting for Newsom because Newsom's kids are white.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 20, 2026 04:13 PM (GBKbO)

110 97 So what happened to the threat that at 2pm today all the Leftist AWFL Karens were going to storm state houses?
Posted by: Anna Puma

That’s 2pm Hawaii time.

Posted by: nurse ratched at January 20, 2026 04:14 PM (W2Pud)

111 Also, Usha Vance is preggers again

I wonder how the Twitterati are reacting. Probably badly.

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 20, 2026 04:14 PM (2GVsD)

112 62 >"North Korea's nuclearization has undeniably stabilized the Korean Peninsula. The region has seen no wars, coups, or interventionist-forced regime changes since 2006."

Well, there it is. Everyone can go home, the dumbest statement of the year has already been locked in and it is only January.
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at January 20, 2026 04:05 PM (5XW27)

74 Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at January 20, 2026 04:05 PM (5XW27)

Who said that?
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 20, 2026 04:07 PM (n9ltV)

It's quoted in the TCN screenshot by Eitan Fischberger in the post.

Posted by: m at January 20, 2026 04:14 PM (SSiCQ)

113 I will tell you though, the rot runs deep. All those claims that Trump put the Venezuelan oil money into banks in Doha to keep it out of the judges' hands when Venezuela's debtors come a-suing.

What lies, vile lies. Qatar is nothing to the US

Posted by: Kindltot at January 20, 2026 04:14 PM (rbvCR)

114 I also think that pic of cuckson at the WH is a message, not to us, but certain individuals outside the US.

Posted by: runner at January 20, 2026 04:14 PM (g47mK)

115 "I have no idea what is going on in Iran. I have no idea what Trump is or is not planning on doing. I have no idea if Trump is sharing real intel he has.

Instead, I think of ~~Star Trek.~~ Winter Field Day"

amended to reflect my own priorities

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at January 20, 2026 04:15 PM (Cjt/F)

116 107 Tucker bragged that he convinced Trump to go all in on covid hysteria.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 20, 2026 04:10 PM (GBKbO)

Except he didn't go all in on it

Posted by: ... at January 20, 2026 04:13 PM (siUZu)

======

Trump went enough that it allowed people like Fauci to set recommendations that the states used to shut down the economy and change voting rules on a whim.

Trump fucked up covid.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 20, 2026 04:15 PM (GBKbO)

117 We need a Humphrey Bogart to run guns to Ethiopia, er, Iran. My fantasy: our cargo planes dropping big crates of guns and ammo at night to the rebels, guided in by Mossad in-country guys to the right people....

Pray for the folks there, that they can actually get this revolution done.

Posted by: Beverly at January 20, 2026 04:15 PM (reMys)

118 It may be an unreasonable ask, but one of the measures of success should be - "what is being done that can't be UNdone?"

Still looking at a relatively intact FBI, DOJ, EPA, etc.

Posted by: 2009Refugee at January 20, 2026 04:15 PM (8AONa)

119 I'm in CO and it is 2:13pm now. The leftist scourge in Denver were going to storm the Capitol but were too high and forgot to check the time.

Posted by: Cheri at January 20, 2026 04:15 PM (oiNtH)

120 First: air strikes alone will not topple that regime.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 20, 2026 04:05 PM (giMmT)

This is an unknowable assumption.

Killing the Mullahs would be nice but not necessary. Degrading command and control of the IRGC and the army would be relatively easy from the air. Hunting the IRGC wherever they are would also be doable because we would have total control of the air.

Air power is far different than it was in Iraq.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 20, 2026 04:16 PM (n9ltV)

121 Ever wonder if we are fucking over obsessed with Tucker Fucking Carlson?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 20, 2026 04:16 PM (zZu0s)

122 Trump has a plan to kill everyone he meets. He meets a lot of people.

Sure he smiles...he is thinking about where he's gonna shive ya. We just got through microwaving some poor saps brains in Ven. While the Chinese were there no less.

3 years to go.

Posted by: connected and litigious at January 20, 2026 04:16 PM (cS1cw)

123 110.

Democrats asked a District Judge to rule that there were in fact riots and walkouts today and that they were very successful.

Posted by: sifty boones at January 20, 2026 04:16 PM (jOoNx)

124 114 I also think that pic of cuckson at the WH is a message, not to us, but certain individuals outside the US.
Posted by: runner at January 20, 2026 04:14 PM (g47mK)

hmm

Posted by: m at January 20, 2026 04:16 PM (SSiCQ)

125 That picture with Tucker Carlson in it - his face looks "manipulated". Are we sure he was there, and not photoshopped/AI'ed in?

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at January 20, 2026 04:16 PM (SRRAx)

126 The Lincoln is coming from the South China sea not the Pacific.

Posted by: Ben Had at January 20, 2026 04:16 PM (0KSrI)

127 But I kind of doubt that. I think the sinister Islamist Tucker Carlson has once again tricked Trump into pursuing the Carlson Foreign Policy rather than the Trump Foreign Policy we actually voted for.

I kinda, sorta, get the sense that you're pulling our leg here.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 20, 2026 04:16 PM (Riz8t)

128 Trump 45 made 2 major mistakes, along with his successes, Fauci and Pence.

Posted by: tubal at January 20, 2026 04:16 PM (pDt9x)

129 >>> 111 Also, Usha Vance is preggers again
I wonder how the Twitterati are reacting. Probably badly.
Posted by: Anna Puma at January 20, 2026 04:14 PM (2GVsD)

A toddler in the WH in 2029 would be great!

Please, let things like this put to rest the rumors that Vance is boinking Erika Kirk, because hug-gate. But I always trust social media to take something benign and have the dumbest take on it. And they never fail to prove me right!

Posted by: LizLem at January 20, 2026 04:16 PM (Eng1Z)

130 The leftist scourge in Denver were going to storm the Capitol but were too high and forgot to check the time.

Posted by: Cheri at January 20, 2026 04:15 PM (oiNtH)

JUST WAIT UNTIL 4:20!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo...fire up the bong! at January 20, 2026 04:17 PM (n9ltV)

131
Well, snowed in, bitter cold outside, it might just make sense to move Happy Hour up to... now.

Posted by: Auspex at January 20, 2026 04:17 PM (Y8DZL)

132 One major accomplishment that DJT achieved is cutting 9% of the federal labor force.

Another is the $10Trillion in new investment from overseas.

Posted by: mrp at January 20, 2026 04:17 PM (rj6Yv)

133 I'm pretty Nick Fuentes is pissed because it's another half-brown baby and we all have to take him seriously as a conservative voice as he advocates for voting for Newsom because Newsom's kids are white.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 20, 2026 04:13 PM (GBKbO)
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Subsequent to his telling his followers to vote for Kamala Harris.

If I never have to read that retard's name in print ever again, it will be too soon. If I found a genie in a lamp, one of my wishes would be that no harm come to him, but that nobody would ever give a shit about what he has to say for the rest of his natural life.

Posted by: ballistic at January 20, 2026 04:17 PM (5aZAZ)

134 Has there ever been a previous case of a President or Vice President's wife giving birth while her husband was in office?

Posted by: Bulg at January 20, 2026 04:17 PM (77rzZ)

135 121.

A to the MEN.

Posted by: sifty boones at January 20, 2026 04:17 PM (jOoNx)

136 The Prez seemed to be enjoying the high energy in the press room, and even remarked on it. At one point, he asked them if they were glad he was President, and a bunch of them exclaimed "Yes!" (amazing).

Getting some patriotic/conservative/normie press people into the briefing room was brilliant: the Jonestown unanimity of "thought" of the leftwing journos is broken up somewhat, and it lets some fresh air into the room.

Posted by: Beverly at January 20, 2026 04:18 PM (reMys)

137 It's easy to feel overconfident because of the mission against Iran's nuke's sites - but be clear about what that was, and what that wasn't. That was a finite, carefully defined mission against a few very specific locations. And it was carried out marvelously.

Regime Change is nothing like that at all - this is like trying to get Saddam out of Iraq. Remember the air campaign of Shock and Awe? Did a marvelous job of degrading Iraq's military assets, didn't budge Saddam one inch out of his seat of power. As I wrote upthread, this is like trying to get rid of the 3rd Reich in spring of '45. It won't be easy.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 20, 2026 04:18 PM (giMmT)

138 Tucker is a big fan of Maduro, claims he is THE champion of the western anti-gay marriage movement, and Trump still took him down. I don't think Tucker is controlling Trump anymore than Netanyahu or Putin.

well, no. He claimed that the US was going to put Machado in because she was all pro-trans and homo marriage like the EU.

But I only know that because I listened to that interview. I was able to go "pff" on it because I listened to it after they put Delcy Rodriges into place though.

Posted by: Kindltot at January 20, 2026 04:18 PM (rbvCR)

139 People are going nuts for later this week now. Re: weather.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 20, 2026 04:18 PM (zZu0s)

140 134 Has there ever been a previous case of a President or Vice President's wife giving birth while her husband was in office?

Posted by: Bulg at January 20, 2026 04:17 PM (77rzZ)

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I'm assuming that Michelle Obama's shits don't count.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 20, 2026 04:18 PM (GBKbO)

141 regime is already changed, it's just the mullahs are in the denial stage. my opinion.

Posted by: runner at January 20, 2026 04:18 PM (g47mK)

142 I think the biggest factor here affecting Trump on Iran is the question "then what?"

I suspected this with Venezuela, and a couple days ago he mentioned it briefly that he did not want to "fire everyone" for a regime change because that is what the "very stupid people" did with Iraq and we were left with a mess.

So it comes down to figuring out a path for debathification -- or demullahization -- that does not lead to chaos. That is a tough nut.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at January 20, 2026 04:19 PM (5XW27)

143 17 So, Horde, are we just going to take a pass on Iran? Serious question.
Posted by: tubal at January 20, 2026 03:56 PM (pDt9x)

Good question.... Hopefully we are working undercover there feeling it out..
Posted by: It's me donna at January 20, 2026 03:57

I hope so too donna. The economy is a wreck, the mullahs have had to bring in foreign fighting forces to control the population...I don't see how the govt recovers from this.

We, and the Israelis, have to be careful, this has to be an Iranian overthrow. But I hope we can help in whatever ways that we can.

Posted by: Farmer, with his own historic take at January 20, 2026 04:19 PM (55Qr6)

144 Trump went enough that it allowed people like Fauci to set recommendations that the states used to shut down the economy and change voting rules on a whim.

Trump fucked up covid.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 20, 2026 04:15 PM (GBKbO)

Trump did not go all in on covid.

Posted by: ... at January 20, 2026 04:19 PM (siUZu)

145 "North Korea's nuclearization has undeniably stabilized the Korean peninsula..."
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Incontrovertible proof Tuca is batshit-crazy.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 20, 2026 04:19 PM (RIvkX)

146 Exactly a year ago, y'all (virtually) held my hand as Lil Pooky had hernia surgery. He's now a very active little boy, needing extra high baby gates due to his height and ability to climb like a monkey.

Posted by: pookysgirl, very grateful at January 20, 2026 04:19 PM (Wt5PA)

147 I have no idea what is going on in Iran. I have no idea what Trump is or is not planning on doing. I have no idea if Trump is sharing real intel he has.

Instead, I think of ~~Star Trek~~ being Uhura's chair.
.......

amended to reflect my own priorities

Posted by: wth at January 20, 2026 04:20 PM (UjdFS)

148 All of the objectively measurable economic accomplishments aside, Trump drives the left completely batshit which is his greatest gift.

Posted by: Weasel at January 20, 2026 04:20 PM (SuPQb)

149 >>Still looking at a relatively intact FBI, DOJ, EPA, etc.

No you're not. Not in the case of the FBI or DOJ anyway. They've been gutted which is one reason it is taking longer for cases to get built.

Trump can only reshape and downsize Congressionally created agencies, he can delete them. Only Congress can do that.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 20, 2026 04:20 PM (viF8m)

150 144 Trump went enough that it allowed people like Fauci to set recommendations that the states used to shut down the economy and change voting rules on a whim.

Trump fucked up covid.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 20, 2026 04:15 PM (GBKbO)

Trump did not go all in on covid.

Posted by: ... at January 20, 2026 04:19 PM (siUZu)

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Trump went enough.

He fucked it up.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 20, 2026 04:20 PM (GBKbO)

151 JUST WAIT UNTIL 4:20!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo...fire up the bong!

Bravo!

Posted by: Cheri at January 20, 2026 04:20 PM (oiNtH)

152 The anti-blackpill post.

Posted by: Opinion fact at January 20, 2026 04:20 PM (KDPiq)

153 I think the sinister Islamist Tucker Carlson has once again tricked Trump into pursuing the Carlson Foreign Policy rather than the Trump Foreign Policy we actually voted for.

------------

Is anybody surprised that two of Putin's puppets are conspiring together?

/

Posted by: ShainS -- 'The Warmth Of Collectivism' Is Code For 'Hell On Earth' at January 20, 2026 04:21 PM (ULFrs)

154 . As I wrote upthread, this is like trying to get rid of the 3rd Reich in spring of '45. It won't be easy.

Nonsense! We just had to unleash Patton and the Germans would have surrendered forthwith and the Russkis would have retreated back to the Urals.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 20, 2026 04:21 PM (Riz8t)

155 Not a good day, all in all.

Posted by: toby928(c) at January 20, 2026 04:21 PM (jc0TO)

156 People tend to think that Germany was done with the Nazis after Jodl surrendered.

The Allies kept the Donitz Nazi rump government running for a few more months after the surrender. And when the Allies were pretty confident of their position then the Donitz government was shut down.

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 20, 2026 04:21 PM (2GVsD)

157 Exactly a year ago, y'all (virtually) held my hand as Lil Pooky had hernia surgery. He's now a very active little boy, needing extra high baby gates due to his height and ability to climb like a monkey.
Posted by: pookysgirl

That's great news, Pookysgirl. Hope you are well.

How is Pookette these days?

Posted by: Bulg at January 20, 2026 04:22 PM (77rzZ)

158 No one knows if they have it better because Trump doesn't talk himself up enough.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

What are "sentences I never thought I'd see typed, even in jest"?

Posted by: FeatherBlade at January 20, 2026 04:22 PM (a+4eV)

159 I like to think the Vance's got down in the Lincoln Bedroom for this pregnancy. Airforce2 also acceptable.

Posted by: connected and litigious at January 20, 2026 04:22 PM (cS1cw)

160 Trump has done more, way more, then I expected.

But TBH not as much as a I hoped.

And the interesting thing is you can break it down by departments where say Rubio or Bessent have been VERY successful and other like Bondi not as much.

Yes, before the discussion goes down that path there are different levels of challenge in different departments.

But, here is my metric for what Trump needs to do THIS year to be successful:

1) The economy is seen as strong by the end of the summer - this will have a major impact in how people vote in Nov
2) At least one national level Democrat has to be charged with something that will stick
3) At least one funder/leader of one of the larger NGOs has to be charged with something that will stick
4) RFK needs to get a criminal or civil complaint around the clot shot crap to hit someone at Pfizer, Moderna, or Fauci's minions

Posted by: 18-1 at January 20, 2026 04:22 PM (sKqQm)

161 Greenland will fall. China and Iran and Russia will be cowed into subservience to Trump's foreign policy agenda. Pax Trump will be in full swing...

Posted by: Diabeetus at January 20, 2026 04:22 PM (FEAjO)

162 Trump went enough.

He fucked it up.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 20, 2026 04:20 PM (GBKbO)

Have agree with that but that was then and this is now.

Posted by: Opinion fact at January 20, 2026 04:22 PM (KDPiq)

163 Killing the Mullahs would be nice but not necessary. Degrading command and control of the IRGC and the army would be relatively easy from the air. Hunting the IRGC wherever they are would also be doable because we would have total control of the air.

Air power is far different than it was in Iraq.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 20, 2026 04:16 PM (n9ltV)

I wish that were true, I do. But right now the military's orders seem to simply be "go into the cities and shoot anyone who sticks their heads out."

I fear Iran is on the edge of a great massacre, one with a death toll in the millions. The mullah's are a true death cult, and this could be how they want to go down.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 20, 2026 04:22 PM (giMmT)

164 Trump in his first term was naive . He's was a business man who was used to saying "jump" and people said "how high". In DC it doesn't work that way. Everyone especially the deep state and people like Fauci have their own agendas . Now he's figured it out

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 20, 2026 04:23 PM (PTsqM)

165 If I never have to read that retard's name in print ever again, it will be too soon. If I found a genie in a lamp, one of my wishes would be that no harm come to him, but that nobody would ever give a shit about what he has to say for the rest of his natural life.
Posted by: ballistic at January 20, 2026 04:17 PM (5aZAZ)

according to people who follow media trends in a big way, Fuentes' big blow up posts tend to be "out of context, inflammatory comments" that sound worse in isolation than when taken in the 2 hour monologues.
Also the main source posting those out of context clips is . . . Nick Fuentes himself.

You've been punked by a Nazi!

Posted by: Kindltot at January 20, 2026 04:23 PM (rbvCR)

166 We, and the Israelis, have to be careful, this has to be an Iranian overthrow. But I hope we can help in whatever ways that we can.

I agree, but nothing changes the fact that the Iranians are moslems. Moslems seem to have a desperate desire to be crushed by a strongman. I don't know how to overcome that.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at January 20, 2026 04:23 PM (CHHv1)

167 Also, Usha Vance is preggers again

I wonder how the Twitterati are reacting. Probably badly.
Posted by: Anna Puma at January 20, 2026 04:14 PM (2GVsD)
******
Another baby boy. Due in July.

Posted by: redridinghood at January 20, 2026 04:23 PM (NpAcC)

168 It's easy to feel overconfident because of the mission against Iran's nuke's sites - but be clear about what that was, and what that wasn't. That was a finite, carefully defined mission against a few very specific locations. And it was carried out marvelously.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 20, 2026 04:18 PM (giMmT)

Comparing Iran to Iraq is disingenuous. There was no insurgency in Iraq, let alone a full-blown revolution. Iran is infiltrated by Israeli intelligence, with the willing support of a huge number of Iranians, including some in the military.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 20, 2026 04:23 PM (n9ltV)

169 We, and the Israelis, have to be careful, this has to be an Iranian overthrow. But I hope we can help in whatever ways that we can.
Posted by: Farmer, with his own historic take at January 20, 2026 04:19 PM (55Qr6)
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And when they do, we will earned their ire.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 20, 2026 04:23 PM (RIvkX)

170 Where is Tucker's new home in Qatar? And yes, he can buy a home anywhere. But he has to understand what a bad look it is. And clearly does not care, the grift money lets him sleep like a baby at night.

(I also find the people that come from money and sell out for even more money baffling. How much money do you need?!)

Posted by: LizLem at January 20, 2026 04:24 PM (Eng1Z)

171 141 regime is already changed, it's just the mullahs are in the denial stage. my opinion.
Posted by: runner

That's not necessarily good.
In 1916, Ludendorff accurately diagnosed the Kaiser Wilhelm as a moron and took over the economy from him. There was still a Kaiser, but he wasn't making decisions.
If Khamanei is a figurehead, and at 86 years old he assuredly is, that means the decisions are being made by the Sepah ("Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps") and the Basij. That is, by the thugs who really fucking hate westerners, as opposed to pretending to.

Posted by: gKWVE at January 20, 2026 04:24 PM (gKWVE)

172 158 No one knows if they have it better because Trump doesn't talk himself up enough.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

What are "sentences I never thought I'd see typed, even in jest"?

Posted by: FeatherBlade at January 20, 2026 04:22 PM (a+4eV)

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"No one will know that they're doing better because Democrats are dooming and Democrats will get a slim majority in the House and impeach Trump and all will be lost!"

Does that sound more familiar?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 20, 2026 04:24 PM (GBKbO)

173 Someone needs to kick TUCA in the nads.

Posted by: Gmac - WTF did you think was going to happen? at January 20, 2026 04:24 PM (/HRQ5)

174 Trump went enough.

He fucked it up.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 20, 2026 04:20 PM (GBKbO)

DeSantis went further.

Kate Brown (that c___) went longer

Posted by: Kindltot at January 20, 2026 04:24 PM (rbvCR)

175 116 Trump went enough that it allowed people like Fauci to set recommendations that the states used to shut down the economy and change voting rules on a whim. Trump fucked up covid. Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen

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Don't forget the clot shots...

Bringing in RFK Jr. and, for the time he was there, Musk were some of the big improvements from the first term. Taking on RFK Jr. in particular is basically conceding that Trump was wrong on some things (e.g. clot shots), and conceding that he was wrong on some things is not typical Trump...

Posted by: bearski at January 20, 2026 04:25 PM (Bhsk7)

176 If/when all that's sorted out and if the situation still warrants "action" I think we'll see "action."

Tucker Carlson isn't a factor in any of that.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 20, 2026 04:04 PM (U2OZr)

Yeah, I strongly doubt Tucker has any actual influence, and they may well be deliberately feeding him things to scare Qatar and the mullahs.

The report I saw on X was that the Tuesday Iranian strike was called off because Mossad believed the mullahs were going to stuff uranium in rockets and fire them off willy-nilly as sort of ad-hoc dirty bomb. So if you think that's coming it's a good idea to have the big guns nearby and Iron Dome at full readiness.

Posted by: Ian S. at January 20, 2026 04:25 PM (2ocoG)

177 Also, Usha Vance is preggers again
.....

Have they picked out a name yet?
May I suggest Ulysses?

Posted by: wth at January 20, 2026 04:25 PM (UjdFS)

178 Come on, 4D Chess. You're our only hope.

Btw, how long was Trump speaking today? I swear it must have been two hours.

Posted by: toby928(c) at January 20, 2026 04:26 PM (jc0TO)

179 I agree, but nothing changes the fact that the Iranians are moslems. Moslems seem to have a desperate desire to be crushed by a strongman. I don't know how to overcome that.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm

But word is that the muleasses have soured the Persians on Islam. Zoroastrianism and Christianity are reportedly on the rise.

Grain of salt, as always. But, still.

Posted by: Bulg at January 20, 2026 04:26 PM (77rzZ)

180 I'd rather Amanda Hugankiss then Amanda Head, but then I'm just picky that way.

Posted by: pewb at January 20, 2026 04:26 PM (xxLlo)

181 Trump went enough.

He fucked it up.

Ironically I think Trump mostly played it safe on COVID, and yes that was a critical failure. He pushed Fauci and Brix to loosen up and when they refused he didn't challenge them.

One can imagine an alternative history where in the spring of 2020 he takes Fauci off of COVID or fires him and leaves Atlas in charge. The FNM then claims EVERYONE IS GOING TO DIE and the GOPe gets ready to impeach him but it all fails apart when nothing bad happens from opening up...

Posted by: 18-1 at January 20, 2026 04:26 PM (sKqQm)

182 Posted by: BeckoningChasm at January 20, 2026 04:23 PM (CHHv1)

I think there is a big divide between the rabid Islamic loons, and a big chunk of Iran. They may be Muslim, but they aren't maniacal about it.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 20, 2026 04:26 PM (n9ltV)

183 174
DeSantis went further.

Kate Brown (that c___) went longer

Posted by: Kindltot at January 20, 2026 04:24 PM (rbvCR)

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I agree. DeSantis shut down his state for 3 months. I'm pretty sure Ace almost banned me last year for noting it (his memory told him it was 3 weeks which is still...not good).

"I trampled on your rights for three months because the media scared me, but it's alright because I stopped before most other people," is honestly not a good defense.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 20, 2026 04:26 PM (GBKbO)

184 The mullah's are a true death cult, and this could be how they want to go down.

Except that they've been sending the national wealth of Iran off into a variety of accounts. That's not something one does if one anticipates imminent death.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 20, 2026 04:26 PM (Riz8t)

185 The Lincoln CAG on the way gives Israel time to plan with US CENTCOM to put the final nail in the Ayatollah's Coffin...

Iran will probably launch their entire arsenal against Israel, and we will need the LPD Based Ballistic Missile Defense Ships on station to help knock down what the Iron Dome misses. Also ABM Systems at selected CENTCOM Bases...

Just Sayin.......

I believe it will start by taking down all Comm and Electrical Grids to put Iran in the Electronic Midnight Phase.

And then Level the Military and Strategic sites (Missiles, Etc..)

Posted by: Jackson K. at January 20, 2026 04:27 PM (J9q9v)

186 You neocon meltdown good tucker meeting trump about well worst. Ace calls be a "sinister islamist" not pushing america first--no yes endless wars, now yes trillions wasted overseas, now yes writing lives fight what foreign fights.

trump isn't being tricked. He's bringing tucker what over yourself views align have but here voted not: floor man send, all diving think talking dumb cannot this helps you mullahs recruit the endangers let's troops.

you finding notes trump's pullback that mother. Saudi arabia, qatar, oman, turkey--even netanyahu--urged be to seen could to paper escalation, refugee floods, as you regime cracking there harder no protesters. Advisers on a dog wouldn't topple you mullahs; it'd well harden take wondering. Trump on plainly, "nobody convinced for. I convinced understand. " classic trump, all puppetry.

calling tucker pro-iran as "pro-nukes" about lazy smears. He's ask sending u. S. boots to different not a regime this hates please day here movie you standing. Bombing that's says thousands and let's guys, spike gas prices, bright you economy, the ignite chaos--stuff neocons hot you're safety day demanding others questions you price

Posted by: AoS Neocons are girly men... or just girls. at January 20, 2026 04:27 PM (FmzM3)

187 Friday there were 3 large explosions across Iran. There are 31 regions in Iran and many aren't being held by the IRGC or security forces but by the Iranians themselves.
The IRGC is not getting paid and defections are growing by the day
The Iranians are not standing around waiting to be saved, they are in the fight to the end.

Posted by: Ben Had at January 20, 2026 04:28 PM (0KSrI)

188 Neocons.. Heh.

Posted by: toby928(c) at January 20, 2026 04:28 PM (jc0TO)

189
If Iranians want change, they will have to make it so. On their own.

Posted by: nurse ratched

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At what cost? At least the American Revolutionaries had an army. The Iranian protestors? How can they overthrow a regime that big and that ruthless? I don't even think the Soviets circa 1989 were ready to outright murder tens of thousands.

And they've already said they can't do it on their own; they're going to have to have some external assistance. We got it from the French.

I don't want boots on the ground, and I agree we'd have to have a solid replacement lined up -- I don't see why Reza Pahlavi isn't that solid replacement.

rambling...

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 20, 2026 04:28 PM (tkcii)

190 That picture with Tucker Carlson in it - his face looks "manipulated". Are we sure he was there, and not photoshopped/AI'ed in?
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at January 20, 2026 04:16 PM (SRRAx)
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I had reports at the time he had lunch with VP and then "tagged along" with Vance.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 20, 2026 04:28 PM (RIvkX)

191 >>> 38 Also, Usha Vance is preggers again.

But I was reliably told that they were divorcing and she hates him. So I guess now they will say it's not his.

Posted by: DJ at January 20, 2026 04:28 PM (uosPt)

192 Now a black bitch is on a presser, blaming the church members for the terroristic takeover and protest.

Says "we need to investigate how many other members are ICE agents."
Now she's comparing the protestors to Jesus whipping the money changers.

This shit is making me incandescent with rage.

These are a nasty, vile, amoral, evil, horrible people.

She and the others have the dead eyes of the possessed by demonic forces.
They are more than doubling down--the are defiantly proud of what they did.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at January 20, 2026 04:29 PM (HXT0k)

193 Posted by: AoS Neocons are girly men... or just girls. at January 20, 2026 04:27 PM (FmzM3)

Funny that you think Tucker is the tough guy. Do you share bow ties?

Posted by: Opinion fact at January 20, 2026 04:29 PM (KDPiq)

194 At least the American Revolutionaries had an army.

And Superpower backing from France. Yeah, I know, France, but they were something back then.

Posted by: toby928(c) at January 20, 2026 04:29 PM (jc0TO)

195 Glad HHS finally said to eat real food and not "Soylent Green" Garbage pushed by the Homo Left......

Posted by: Jackson K. at January 20, 2026 04:30 PM (J9q9v)

196 "It may be the reason the Somalis represent so much of the fraud in Minnesota is they were the only ones foolish enough to get caught." Dr Oz

Posted by: SMOD at January 20, 2026 04:30 PM (RHGPo)

197 Black people don't really care about the Klan church burnings; they care that the Klan burned their own churches.

Posted by: gKWVE at January 20, 2026 04:30 PM (gKWVE)

198 But I was reliably told that they were divorcing and she hates him. So I guess now they will say it's not his.
Posted by: DJ at January 20, 2026 04:28 PM

She's lucky JD didn't murder her, like Trump did with Melania.

Posted by: toby928(c) at January 20, 2026 04:30 PM (jc0TO)

199 Posted by: 18-1 at January 20, 2026 04:26 PM (sKqQm)
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My thoughts exactly. Should've canned Fauci and Birx and let things fall where they may.

Posted by: 496 at January 20, 2026 04:31 PM (t+VLa)

200 I had reports at the time he had lunch with VP and then "tagged along" with Vance.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 20, 2026 04:28 PM (RIvkX)

they dragged his ass to the WH when Vance was not there and had a "chat" with him. then posted a pic , so his "friends" (handlers) could see.

Posted by: runner at January 20, 2026 04:31 PM (g47mK)

201 But I was reliably told that they were divorcing and she hates him. So I guess now they will say it's not his.
Posted by: DJ at January 20, 2026 04:28 PM (uosPt)

He RAPED her!

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 20, 2026 04:31 PM (zZu0s)

202 I don't want boots on the ground, and I agree we'd have to have a solid replacement lined up -- I don't see why Reza Pahlavi isn't that solid replacement.

rambling...
Posted by: Blonde Morticia

I think the problem with that is he'd be seen as our replacement.

What we need is for the Iranians to choose a replacement, not for the US to install one.

And who knows who long it'll take for them to be ready for that.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at January 20, 2026 04:31 PM (a+4eV)

203 When Trump and Vance are impeached in 2027, New Permanent Interim President Newsom will appoint Bill Nye Military Governor of Iran.

I think there was something in this cigar...

Posted by: sifty boones at January 20, 2026 04:31 PM (bCMb8)

204 As far as the Trump alarmist stuff and Cucker Tarlson...a couple thoughts.

1. Trump's track record on foreign affairs is admirable. He's been bold, audacious and, yes, conservative. I'm inclined to trust him and not juggle his elbow.
2. Cucker is a Deep State creature and as such, all his public statements are part of an op. I wouldn't trust him any further than I can bowl him. That includes the things I agree with and the stuff I don't. It's all part of a psy op of some sort, every word out of his mouth.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at January 20, 2026 04:31 PM (xcxpd)

205 One wonders just how many black pills are required for a fatal overdose. What are the symptoms? Ennui?

Posted by: Archimedes at January 20, 2026 04:31 PM (Riz8t)

206 >>Calling Tucker pro-Iran or “pro-nukes” is lazy smears. He’s against sending U.S. boots to die for a regime that hates us while we foot the bill. Bombing would kill thousands of our guys, spike gas prices, tank the economy, and ignite chaos—stuff neocons ignore from safety while demanding others pay the price.

Nobody was a bigger proponent of the Iraq war than Tucker. He pushed it relentlessly until things started going pear shaped.

He seems to have done a 180 but there is no doubt he constantly pushes the idea that the evil Jew are secretly running the war and dragging us into endless wars while backing terrorist supporting countries like Qatar. It's not some evil neo-con conspiracy, it's Tucker's own words.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 20, 2026 04:32 PM (viF8m)

207 Le sigh.

Posted by: Henri, le Chat Noir at January 20, 2026 04:32 PM (jc0TO)

208 I agree, but nothing changes the fact that the Iranians are moslems. Moslems seem to have a desperate desire to be crushed by a strongman. I don't know how to overcome that.

Its not so much that Islam creates that situation - that is the natural situation. Yes, Islam exacerbates it but the more interesting part is that Christianity (and Judaism) provide an alternative without an authoritarian government

This is something of minor complaint I suppose - functionally if Iran converted to Christianity in mass it would almost certainly liberate as well...but if the Eu-nicks got their wish in Iran and somewhat secularized it you would just see a different authoritarian regime - similiar to Hussien's in Iraq.

Posted by: 18-1 at January 20, 2026 04:32 PM (sKqQm)

209
Dunno, Gollum was on FOX this week and said the Dems would sweep the midterms and the walls were closing in on Trump.

Important Cable Journalists furrowed their brows in agreement.

Posted by: Auspex at January 20, 2026 04:32 PM (Y8DZL)

210 Being a suburban person of whiteness with a wife and kids, I've done a lot of stereotypical cornball-ass family man shit. Think apple-picking, hay rides, that kinda stuff. I also enjoy golf. The only time I've ever been in public doing something like that where I felt like a complete freakin' goober was the one time I got talked into playing pickleball. Yeeeeeesh.
Posted by: ballistic

I live in a resort community - most everyone is retired and we have more than enough of the busybody persuasion. That said, the biggest local fights and drama is between the tennis purists and the pickleball crowd. Words, fistfights, lawsuits, cast spells, etc. all over courts, fees, noise, dress and other serious matters.

Absolutely hilarious for us uninvolved folk.

Posted by: Tonypete at January 20, 2026 04:32 PM (cYBz/)

211 The IRGC is not getting paid and defections are growing by the day

That's the big factor in Iran now: the mullahs and IRGC can't make payroll and their currency is hyperinflating at a faster and faster rate.

Posted by: Ian S. at January 20, 2026 04:32 PM (2ocoG)

212 [Tangentially-Related -- @ JackStraw and others interested, ICYMI from InsurrectionBarbie:]

(1) "The Fourth Branch: $14.1 Trillion. Zero Votes. How America Lost Its Republic to an Unelected Empire."

https://is.gd/jDEJF7

[Pull Quote:] "According to the Federal Reserve's own data, nonprofit organizations in the United States now control $14.1 trillion in total assets.
Let that number wash over you.
$14.1 trillion.
That's $4.0 trillion in real estate. $3.1 trillion in corporate equities. And here's the part that should make your blood run cold: $3.6 trillion in assets that the Federal Reserve doesn't even categorize. Three-point-six trillion dollars in something, and nobody is required to tell you what."

(2)"Soros, 2004 and The Meeting That Changed America"

https://is.gd/Vq0IN0

Posted by: ShainS -- 'The Warmth Of Collectivism' Is Code For 'Hell On Earth' at January 20, 2026 04:33 PM (ULFrs)

213 184 The mullah's are a true death cult, and this could be how they want to go down.

Except that they've been sending the national wealth of Iran off into a variety of accounts. That's not something one does if one anticipates imminent death.
Posted by: Archimedes at January 20, 2026 04:26 PM (Riz8t)

THAT is ironically the most hopeful data point in this whole affair. I can see Iran going into nationwide starvation soon as their food distribution systems break down, and that could trigger a lot of opportunities.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 20, 2026 04:33 PM (giMmT)

214 Amanda is a hottie

It's a measure of people who don't understand,
The pleasures of life in a hillbilly band.
I got my first guitar when I was fourteen,
Well I finally made forty, still wearing jeans.

Amanda, light of my life.
Fate should have made you a gentleman's wife.
Amanda, light of my life.
Fate should have made you a gentleman's wife.

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at January 20, 2026 04:33 PM (NtVYv)

215 One wonders just how many black pills are required for a fatal overdose. What are the symptoms? Ennui?
Posted by: Archimedes at January 20, 2026 04:31 PM (Riz8t)

Languor.

Langeweilich (sp?)

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 20, 2026 04:33 PM (zZu0s)

216 Now this black pile of shit is basically saying, "no the real victims are not the kids killed just a few miles away when someone broke in their church or the people we terrorized on Sunday--no the real victims are blacks because their churches in the South were bombed 50 years ago.
So you white people don't have a right to fear our terrorism."

Lord, give me serenity, these demons are testing my Christianity.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at January 20, 2026 04:33 PM (HXT0k)

217
May I suggest Ulysses?
Posted by: wth

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Ulysses S. Vance

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 20, 2026 04:34 PM (tkcii)

218 > But word is that the muleasses have soured the Persians on Islam. Zoroastrianism and Christianity are reportedly on the rise.
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That's apparently the word coming out of Iran... from the public there. They say Islam was more or less "forced upon them" by the mullahs.

Yet, there are many Iranians who've grown up knowing nothing but the Iranian flavor of Islam. Many of those people still embrace it. If we topple the existing government I'm not convinced another, equally virulent strain of Islamic rule won't just take its place.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 20, 2026 04:34 PM (U2OZr)

219 @192. A hysterical Back woman is running her mouth?
What else is new?

Posted by: Case at January 20, 2026 04:34 PM (4rWc3)

220 we do not have a good statistic about Islamic Republic's religious affiliations - the mullahs are saying 99% are Shia muslim; ask 10-15 million Iranians abroad and they tell you 5-10% , maybe 20% are muslim believers

Posted by: runner at January 20, 2026 04:34 PM (g47mK)

221 134 Has there ever been a previous case of a President or Vice President's wife giving birth while her husband was in office?
Posted by: Bulg at January 20, 2026 04:17 PM (77rzZ)

Jackie Kennedy, just weeks before JFK was assassinated. Unfortunately, the baby came early and died 39 hours after he was born.

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at January 20, 2026 04:35 PM (SRRAx)

222 If the Iranian people want to be free they are going to have to start killing Mullahs.

I do not want American boots on the ground, but if possible we should be arming the resistance and giving them intel and training.

I am ok with air/sea support if we think the resistance can take advantage of it but this is something Trump, Hegseth and the rest need to be sure of before they go forward with it

Posted by: 18-1 at January 20, 2026 04:35 PM (sKqQm)

223 187 Friday there were 3 large explosions across Iran. There are 31 regions in Iran and many aren't being held by the IRGC or security forces but by the Iranians themselves.
The IRGC is not getting paid and defections are growing by the day
The Iranians are not standing around waiting to be saved, they are in the fight to the end.
Posted by: Ben Had at January 20, 2026 04:28 PM (0KSrI)

A calm voice of reason. Thank you.

I think a lot is happening and we'll get a peek at some things soon. I can wait.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at January 20, 2026 04:35 PM (WONhk)

224 "Okay, but apart from the lower gas prices, lower egg prices, lower inflation, greater GDP growth, lower border crossings, stopping 8 wars, the sanitation, medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh water system and public health, what has Trump ever done for us?
Posted by: Reg, PFJ Leader"

Nothing. He hasn't even cured cancer yet.

Posted by: Ripley at January 20, 2026 04:35 PM (GUOwU)

225 209
Dunno, Gollum was on FOX this week and said the Dems would sweep the midterms and the walls were closing in on Trump.

Important Cable Journalists furrowed their brows in agreement.

Posted by: Auspex at January 20, 2026 04:32 PM (Y8DZL)

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Senate races create presidential levels of turnout in the states they happen. So, those states are going to see near 2024 levels that prevents surprising upsets.

Collins is going to win ME easily. Whomever wins the TX GOP primary is going to win the race by about 10 points.

NC probably trends towards the GOP now because the PVI trend in the state has gone so Republican over the last decade. Just ask Hogan in MD how being a "popular" former governor of a state with a different PVI than you loves you for a federal race.

GA could go GOP depending on how much Atlanta keeps shrinking relative to the rest of the state, but I'm not sure I'd put money on that.

In terms of the House...gerrymandering from 20 is so baked in that a wave election is like 20 seats, and the generic ballot right now is nothing like 2018.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 20, 2026 04:35 PM (GBKbO)

226
Calling Tucker pro-Iran or “pro-nukes” is lazy smears. He’s against sending U.S. boots to die for a regime that hates us while we foot the bill. Bombing would kill thousands of our guys, spike gas prices, tank the economy, and ignite chaos—stuff neocons ignore from safety while demanding others pay the price.
Posted by: AoS Neocons are girly men... or just girls. at January 20, 2026 04:27 PM (FmzM3)

Tucker's principle sin is that he did an interview with some guest who quoted a book that suggested that aligning with the UK and Russia against Germany was probably not the smartest move ever, and that it would have been about the same or better outcome if we had aligned with a UK that had joined Germany in defeating the USSR instead.

All of which is alternative history fiction unless you want to start questioning the neocon stance on international politics.

Posted by: Kindltot at January 20, 2026 04:35 PM (rbvCR)

227 Lord, give me serenity, these demons are testing my Christianity.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at January 20, 2026 04:33 PM (HXT0k)

Not mine. They're evil fucking commie jerkwads.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 20, 2026 04:35 PM (zZu0s)

228 Feather,B, millions of Iranians are standing in the street calling for Pahlavi to return. Pahlavi has an economic plan laid out and a referendum for elections

Posted by: Ben Had at January 20, 2026 04:36 PM (0KSrI)

229 215 One wonders just how many black pills are required for a fatal overdose. What are the symptoms? Ennui?
Posted by: Archimedes at January 20, 2026 04:31 PM (Riz8t)

Languor.

Langeweilich (sp?)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 20, 2026 04:33 PM (zZu0s)

Wounds your heart with a monotonous?

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at January 20, 2026 04:37 PM (xcxpd)

230 217.
Ulysses Simpson Tecumseh Sherman Vance

Posted by: sifty boones at January 20, 2026 04:37 PM (bCMb8)

231 BREAKING: Millions of liberals plan to walk out of their work at 2pm tomorrow
9:45 PM · Jan 19, 2026

... anybody notice this any where ?

Posted by: SMOD at January 20, 2026 04:37 PM (RHGPo)

232 Victor Van Vance

Posted by: Opinion fact at January 20, 2026 04:37 PM (KDPiq)

233
Trump went enough.

He fucked it up.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

==============

He sure did. The dude gets emotional, he's too easily spooked.

He also fucked up on George Floyd. Watched the video and mouthed off about it. "It looks bad," or whatever it was he said.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 20, 2026 04:37 PM (tkcii)

234 224 "Okay, but apart from the lower gas prices, lower egg prices, lower inflation, greater GDP growth, lower border crossings, stopping 8 wars, the sanitation, medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh water system and public health, what has Trump ever done for us?
Posted by: Reg, PFJ Leader"

Nothing. He hasn't even cured cancer yet.

I have it on good authority that he has built not a single aqueduct.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 20, 2026 04:37 PM (Riz8t)

235 How is Pookette these days?

Posted by: Bulg at January 20, 2026 04:22 PM (77rzZ)

A teenage girl with ADHD! But she's doing well in school, mostly due to the teachers' patience.

Posted by: pookysgirl's house is filled with music at January 20, 2026 04:37 PM (Wt5PA)

236 The Big Push is to rid America of Tampon Tim, Keith Ellison and that fag mayor and squash the Samolians.

Posted by: pudinhead at January 20, 2026 04:38 PM (pLaQB)

237 I don't think there are many Zoros or Christian in Iran - Islam has been oppressing them for more then a millennia now.

There are maybe 60K Zoros in India and I wouldn't be surprised if a lower number in Iran.

Posted by: 18-1 at January 20, 2026 04:38 PM (sKqQm)

238 For those of you keeping score at home, I'm still not tired of winning.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at January 20, 2026 04:38 PM (2Ez/1)

239 192 Now a black bitch is on a presser, blaming the church members for the terroristic takeover and protest.

Says "we need to investigate how many other members are ICE agents."
___

Why? Is being an ICE agent against the law or something?

Posted by: Chuck Martel at January 20, 2026 04:39 PM (Dv3i1)

240 they dragged his ass to the WH when Vance was not there and had a "chat" with him. then posted a pic , so his "friends" (handlers) could see.
Posted by: runner at January 20, 2026 04:31 PM (g47mK)

Relax, Trust the Plan

Hope you are feeling better.

Posted by: Kindltot at January 20, 2026 04:39 PM (rbvCR)

241 What we need are a few more irons in the fire. Utterly confusing times we are in now.

Posted by: tubal at January 20, 2026 04:39 PM (pDt9x)

242

Posted by: Mitch McConnell expresses his view of our concerns at January 20, 2026 04:39 PM (jc0TO)

243 Waylon Jennings Van Helsing Vance

Posted by: sifty boones at January 20, 2026 04:39 PM (bCMb8)

244 Not sure about Iran.

Again, Trump and the team arranged to go after drug boats in the Caribbean. They went through a whole elaborate farce, for three months. Meanwhile they constructed a replica of Maderno's palace and trained relentlessly. When they were ready, after denying they were ever going to invade, they swooped in and took Madurno.

If you look at the last year, there has been a systemic dismantling of the threat Iran poses. Their nuclear capability and most of their missiles are gone. Houthis Hezbollah and Hamas are on the ropes. I don't *think* Trump is going to let this chance go to waste.

There is also China, who desperately needs Iranian oils, and is one of the only buyers. Trump also badly embarrassed them in Venezuela. Maybe they are trying to wave him off.

I just don't know - Trump has shown that long term strategic planning, including multiple fake-outs, is part of his repertoire.

Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at January 20, 2026 04:40 PM (tV890)

245 Now a black bitch is on a presser, blaming the church members for the terroristic takeover and protest.

This is the way the left works.

The church member's private speech is violence

Their invading the church is free speech.

Posted by: 18-1 at January 20, 2026 04:40 PM (sKqQm)

246 BabylonBee: Minnesota Changes Official State Bird To Screaming Lesbian

Posted by: SMOD at January 20, 2026 04:40 PM (RHGPo)

247 >>> Nothing. He hasn't even cured cancer yet.

If he gets RFK JR to federally allow Ivermectin OTC in all states, we can do the largest national test group to see if it cures cancer, like the rumors say.

Oh, and I did find potato chips and crackers that have been MAHA'd at the grocery store!

Posted by: LizLem at January 20, 2026 04:41 PM (Eng1Z)

248 Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Vance

Posted by: Obligatory at January 20, 2026 04:41 PM (jc0TO)

249 High Lord Ming the Merciless Vance

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 20, 2026 04:41 PM (zZu0s)

250 What we need are a few more irons in the fire. Utterly confusing times we are in now.

I remember under Shrub we were constantly told that the president can only handle one major issue at a time and since he was busy intentionally losing the WoT he had no time to deal with any other issues.

Posted by: 18-1 at January 20, 2026 04:41 PM (sKqQm)

251 So many successes the best successes incredible success. You’ve never seen such success. Yuuuuge.

Posted by: Really?? at January 20, 2026 04:42 PM (d4dD2)

252 One thing that is hanging over Trump's agenda is the Supreme Court tariff decision. That should be interesting.

Posted by: runner at January 20, 2026 04:42 PM (g47mK)

253 Trump keeps hammering away at whatever goals will make things better for Americans and freedom-loving people everywhere. He meets obstructions at every turn. Sometimes he successfully surmounts the obstruction and sometimes he can't on his first try, but he is always looking for his next opportunity. I love his heart and appreciate his efforts and I'm grateful for his successes.

Keep praying for him -- he needs wisdom and perseverance and probably a lot of supernatural help since he is battling demons who are trying to destroy this nation. God is greater.

Posted by: Emmie -- be strong and courageous! at January 20, 2026 04:42 PM (FMtrg)

254 247.

Gerson's coffee enemas sure aint working. I keep burning my ass on the coffee pot.

Posted by: sifty boones at January 20, 2026 04:42 PM (bCMb8)

255 I think part of the problem in Iran is there is no national organized resistance within the country with leaders able to take control should the mullahs flee. They have all been ruthlessly killed or left the country. The Shah in exile would only be a figure head. Who would actually run the govt? The military, largely loyal to the mullahs?

Posted by: Ripley at January 20, 2026 04:42 PM (GUOwU)

256 220 we do not have a good statistic about Islamic Republic's religious affiliations - the mullahs are saying 99% are Shia muslim; ask 10-15 million Iranians abroad and they tell you 5-10% , maybe 20% are muslim believers
Posted by: runner at January 20, 2026 04:34 PM (g47mK)

Cenk Uyghur got community noted on X the other day when he was pushing that 99% muslim number; a number of Iranian nationals replied and said "do you know everyone there is subject to the death penalty if you don't respond that you're a muslim? Of course government surveys say 99%!!!!
(apparently the 1% is for some who live way out in Azeri areas or something)

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 20, 2026 04:42 PM (giMmT)

257 If you're publicly against a USA military action once it starts you are supporting our opponent whether you intend to or not .

Posted by: Opinion fact at January 20, 2026 04:42 PM (KDPiq)

258 BeckoningChasm: re the percentage of actual muslims in Iran, the resistance folks are saying it's only 1/3, and even many of those are fed up to the back teeth with living under strict sharia law.

About 70% of the Iranians, they say, are secular, and some are actual Zoroastrians. Christianity is growing apace. And thousands of the mosques were closed over these 47 years because of waning attendance.

Nothing like getting sharia good and hard to wake people the hell up to the real nature of Islam.

Posted by: Beverly at January 20, 2026 04:42 PM (reMys)

259 A teenage girl with ADHD! But she's doing well in school, mostly due to the teachers' patience.
Posted by: pookysgirl's

She's a musician, correct? I don't know anything about ADHD, but it seems to me that music might help that?

Posted by: Bulg at January 20, 2026 04:42 PM (77rzZ)

260 If a crowd of people run up and demand you prove you are not an ICE agent, ask them for their badges.

Seriously - what possible right do they have to ask anyone for anything on the street? Other than a threat of street violence?

Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at January 20, 2026 04:42 PM (tV890)

261 The amusing part of how much the FNM hates Vance is he is the most all America, pull yourself up by your bootstraps, salt of the earth guy we've seen in American politics in my lifetime.

Posted by: 18-1 at January 20, 2026 04:43 PM (sKqQm)

262 No word on Cuba. This is the tell.

Posted by: pudinhead at January 20, 2026 04:43 PM (pLaQB)

263 254 247.

Gerson's coffee enemas sure aint working. I keep burning my ass on the coffee pot.
Posted by: sifty boones at January 20, 2026 04:42 PM (bCMb

Fucking lol.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 20, 2026 04:43 PM (zZu0s)

264 I remember under Shrub we were constantly told that the president can only handle one major issue at a time....

Trump isn't Shrub.

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at January 20, 2026 04:43 PM (SRRAx)

265 Charles Adam Baldwin Bronson Vance

Posted by: sifty boones at January 20, 2026 04:44 PM (bCMb8)

266 Tucker is somebody's pet American. When the master has a party or mistress, he will be brought into their room for just a minute. They like their curly human poddle.

Posted by: thug dolphin at January 20, 2026 04:44 PM (EyfuW)

267 Seriously - what possible right do they have to ask anyone for anything on the street? Other than a threat of street violence?

The game they are playing is to cow people into submission. The next step will be beating people that won't play along and Ellison will claim there was no crime.

Posted by: 18-1 at January 20, 2026 04:44 PM (sKqQm)

268 250 What we need are a few more irons in the fire. Utterly confusing times we are in now.

I remember under Shrub we were constantly told that the president can only handle one major issue at a time and since he was busy intentionally losing the WoT he had no time to deal with any other issues.

Posted by: 18-1 at January 20, 2026 04:41 PM (sKqQm)

Speaking only as a small time observer, like all of us here. Enough going on now to baffle me. Maybe just too damned much info swirling around. Does not help that most of it is suspect to me.

Posted by: tubal at January 20, 2026 04:44 PM (pDt9x)

269 250 mosques have been burned down in Iran .

Posted by: Ben Had at January 20, 2026 04:44 PM (0KSrI)

270 264 I remember under Shrub we were constantly told that the president can only handle one major issue at a time....

Trump isn't Shrub.

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at January 20, 2026 04:43 PM (SRRAx)

=======

"How can I take this policy in front of me and execute it in a way that screws over my most loyal voters most?" is a taxing exercise.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 20, 2026 04:44 PM (GBKbO)

271 Trump went enough.

He fucked it up.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 20, 2026 04:20 PM (GBKbO)

I was responding to what Tucker said. I don't think Tucker is bragging that he got Trump to fuck up covid.

Posted by: ... at January 20, 2026 04:44 PM (E0p3T)

272 You've been punked by a Nazi!
Posted by: Kindltot at January 20, 2026 04:23 PM (rbvCR)
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Yeah, some punking. Like I said if everyone suddenly ignored his dumbass all at once he would probably wither up and blow away in the wind.

Posted by: ballistic at January 20, 2026 04:45 PM (5aZAZ)

273 Speaking only as a small time observer, like all of us here. Enough going on now to baffle me. Maybe just too damned much info swirling around. Does not help that most of it is suspect to me.

I like it.

Trump and the right are only guaranteed 4 years. They need to use them. And there are many, many problems they can and should address.

Posted by: 18-1 at January 20, 2026 04:45 PM (sKqQm)

274 BREAKING: Millions of liberals plan to walk out of their work at 2pm tomorrow
9:45 PM · Jan 19, 2026

... anybody notice this any where ?
Posted by: SMOD at January 20, 2026 04:37 PM (RHGPo)
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I guess I technically did this today. I work from home and took a brief stroll around my block earlier this afternoon. No one noticed or cared.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 20, 2026 04:45 PM (ESVrU)

275
Jimmy Jim Bob Vance

Posted by: Auspex at January 20, 2026 04:45 PM (Y8DZL)

276 After all he’s accomplished, I’m inclined to give Trump the benefit of the doubt. He’s earned it.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at January 20, 2026 04:45 PM (u73oe)

277 Lord, give me serenity, these demons are testing my Christianity.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at January 20, 2026 04:33 PM (HXT0k)

Not mine. They're evil fucking commie jerkwads.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 20, 2026 04:35 PM (zZu0s)

yeah I'll put mine on hold if it means having a beer and not praying for their souls when the men who just wanted to be left alone decides to chop them down with heavy caliber weapons.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 20, 2026 04:46 PM (snZF9)

278 Remember when you used to be against troops on foreign soil? Good times.

Also, I love that Tucker is under your skin. Makes me smile.

Posted by: Kitty litter box at January 20, 2026 04:46 PM (i7py/)

279 Jabba The Vance.

Am I doing this right?

Posted by: fd at January 20, 2026 04:46 PM (vFG9F)

280 When I was a teenager, and into the BBC version of I, Claudius, I decided that I was gonna name my first son Tiberius Claudius Drusus Nero Germanicus, after Claudius.

Just add "Vance" to the end of that, and JD and Usha are good to go.

Posted by: Bulg at January 20, 2026 04:46 PM (77rzZ)

281 Cenk Uyghur got community noted on X the other day when he was pushing that 99% muslim number; a number of Iranian nationals replied and said "do you know everyone there is subject to the death penalty if you don't respond that you're a muslim? Of course government surveys say 99%!!!!
(apparently the 1% is for some who live way out in Azeri areas or something)
Posted by: Tom Servo at January 20, 2026 04:42 PM (giMmT)

Chunky Yogurt and Cucker Tralson are the two "western" Islamic mouthpieces heavily promoted on Mullah TV in Iran. While everything else is going on there. OF course, makes sense, their propaganda aligns perfectly with mulah's propaganda.

Posted by: runner at January 20, 2026 04:46 PM (g47mK)

282 250 mosques have been burned down in Iran .

I wonder if the political alignment of those mosques is known?

Unlike when we deal with the middle east, Muslims have no problem in destroying the mosques of their enemies.

So is it 250 ones that support the regime? 250 that oppose it?

Posted by: 18-1 at January 20, 2026 04:46 PM (sKqQm)

283

Vance the Impaler !

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at January 20, 2026 04:46 PM (NtVYv)

284 remember under Shrub we were constantly told that the president can only handle one major issue at a time and since he was busy intentionally losing the WoT he had no time to deal with any other issues.
____

Mission Accomplished! I still think the "surge" was the correct thing to do. But that was after many wrong decisions that I admittedly though were correct at the time (weapons of mass deception).

The worst thing about the whole sorry business was the "we have to fight them over there, so we don't have to fight them here", meanwhile those feckers are importing hundreds of thousands of them. And now we have Dearborn, and Dallas, and Somalia-land.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at January 20, 2026 04:46 PM (Dv3i1)

285 One of my offspring recently finished nursing school.
Then a job found him - case manager for a home health company.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at January 20, 2026 04:47 PM (2Ez/1)

286 250 mosques have been burned down in Iran .

I wonder if the political alignment of those mosques is known?

Unlike when we deal with the middle east, Muslims have no problem in destroying the mosques of their enemies.

So is it 250 ones that support the regime? 250 that oppose it?
Posted by: 18-1 at January 20, 2026 04:46 PM (sKqQm)

It's a good start

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at January 20, 2026 04:47 PM (NtVYv)

287 >>> The amusing part of how much the FNM hates Vance is he is the most all America, pull yourself up by your bootstraps, salt of the earth guy we've seen in American politics in my lifetime.
Posted by: 18-1 at January 20, 2026 04:43 PM (sKqQm)

They feel like he played them. They made his book a bestseller (be our redneck whisperer, JD), and got Opie to direct a movie on his life where glenn close plays his meemaw, and then he stabbed them in the back by voting for Trump and being his VP.

I will say, Freida Pinto was a luminous Usha in Hillbilly Elegy! And it was the rare casting where the real lady is on par with the prettiness of the actress.

Posted by: LizLem at January 20, 2026 04:47 PM (Eng1Z)

288 Posted by: Kitty litter box at January 20, 2026 04:46 PM (i7py/)

I like this guy. This is a funny guy.

Posted by: toby928(c) at January 20, 2026 04:47 PM (jc0TO)

289 I'm really excited about the new Veep baby!

it's super nice

happy news!

Posted by: BlackOrchid at January 20, 2026 04:47 PM (emBoF)

290 278.

Still against Americans on foreign soil.

More in favor of glass on foreign soil.

Posted by: sifty boones at January 20, 2026 04:47 PM (bCMb8)

291 "250 mosques have been burned down in Iran ."

I thought those things were made of mud bricks and stone. What is there to burn?

Posted by: fd at January 20, 2026 04:47 PM (vFG9F)

292 One of my offspring recently finished nursing school.
Then a job found him - case manager for a home health company.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at January 20, 2026 04:47 PM (2Ez/1)

Congratulations

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at January 20, 2026 04:48 PM (NtVYv)

293 Here in Florida, gas is currently at 2.65/gal. The price of a dozen large eggs is 1.98 at the local Aldi's. I so voted for this...

Posted by: Joe Kidd at January 20, 2026 04:48 PM (nbLIj)

294 Trump and the right are only guaranteed 4 years. They need to use them. And there are many, many problems they can and should address.
Posted by: 18-1

With the GOPe sitting on their thumbs, everything could be swept away with a Dem president. Congress failed this year entirely.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 20, 2026 04:48 PM (mlg/3)

295 Mission Accomplished! I still think the "surge" was the correct thing to do. But that was after many wrong decisions that I admittedly though were correct at the time (weapons of mass deception).

Ironically he was pushed into that by McVain.

Honestly the problem was earlier when our responses to Iran and Syria creating "the resistance" were meager.

Posted by: 18-1 at January 20, 2026 04:48 PM (sKqQm)

296 @231. Millions of liberals are planning to walk out of work tomorrow.
And when they get fired they are not eligible for unemployment checks. Walk off the job, you quit.

Posted by: Case at January 20, 2026 04:48 PM (4rWc3)

297 John Wick Vance

Posted by: wth at January 20, 2026 04:48 PM (UjdFS)

298 269 250 mosques have been burned down in Iran .
Posted by: Ben Had at January 20, 2026 04:44 PM (0KSrI)

It's a start

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at January 20, 2026 04:48 PM (xcxpd)

299 Ronald Cletus "Snowman" Snow Vance

Posted by: sifty boones at January 20, 2026 04:48 PM (bCMb8)

300 I remember under Shrub we were constantly told that the president can only handle one major issue at a time and since he was busy intentionally losing the WoT he had no time to deal with any other issues.

Posted by: 18-1 at January 20, 2026 04:41 PM (sKqQm)

I don't remember that at all.

Posted by: Opinion fact at January 20, 2026 04:49 PM (KDPiq)

301 18-1, great question. They were burned down by the protestors so I might guess they were the ones supporting the regime.

Posted by: Ben Had at January 20, 2026 04:49 PM (0KSrI)

302 Promethius Vance

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at January 20, 2026 04:49 PM (Kt19C)

303 262 No word on Cuba. This is the tell.
Posted by: pudinhead at January 20, 2026 04:43 PM (pLaQB)

The great part there is that we won't even need to invade it - we just have to stand back and let them fall. Don't know how long that will take, doesn't matter. It's inevitable.

A thought about Delcy Rodriquez, who is now running Venezuela for us. Sure, she's evil - but she's probably glad to be out from under the thumb of the Cubans, they never did her or anyone else in Venezuela any favors.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 20, 2026 04:49 PM (giMmT)

304 Fernando Vance

Posted by: BlackOrchid at January 20, 2026 04:49 PM (emBoF)

305 The internet says there are about 25,000 active mosques in Iran

1% of them being burned isn't nothing

Posted by: 18-1 at January 20, 2026 04:49 PM (sKqQm)

306 One of my offspring recently finished nursing school.
Then a job found him - case manager for a home health company.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty

Pozdravlyayu! ("Congratulations!" in Russian)

Posted by: Bulg at January 20, 2026 04:49 PM (77rzZ)

307 Geddy Lee Vance

Posted by: sifty boones at January 20, 2026 04:50 PM (bCMb8)

308 Vancealot!

Posted by: fd at January 20, 2026 04:50 PM (vFG9F)

309 I must admit that having Tucker Carlson anywhere near the White House is deeply dispiriting.

I have also noticed that nobody mentions his audience numbers any longer. Could it be that every sane person has abandoned him?

Posted by: Decaf at January 20, 2026 04:50 PM (Z8jzG)

310 Still against Americans on foreign soil.

More in favor of glass on foreign soil.

Posted by: sifty boones at January 20, 2026 04:47 PM (bCMb

Right? A true super power just deals with shit from space.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 20, 2026 04:50 PM (snZF9)

311 May I suggest Ulysses?
Posted by: wth

==============

Ulysses S. Vance
Posted by: Blonde Morticia
====

James Tiberius Vance

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at January 20, 2026 04:50 PM (kpS4V)

312 Vlad Dracul Vance

Augusto Pinochet Vance

and if a girl...

Ayn Rand Vance

Posted by: 18-1 at January 20, 2026 04:50 PM (sKqQm)

313 I will bet that 1% of mainline churches in this country shut down last year.

Posted by: toby928(c) at January 20, 2026 04:50 PM (jc0TO)

314 LOL, the UK government funded and created a video game called Pathways that was propaganda to teach kids about extremism. Amelia is one of the extremists who is anti-immigration.

Here's a short video on the topic:
https://youtu.be/K6da1rF6zcU

Trolls have taken the character and made her a hero, producing videos like this one:
http://tiny.cc/lwwx001

It's an AI produced video that inserts Amelia into beloved UK intellectual properties like Harry Potter, Wallace and Gromit, and Paddington Bear. It's very well done.

Posted by: bonhomme at January 20, 2026 04:50 PM (Yp6az)

315 Maximus Decimus Vance

Posted by: ballistic at January 20, 2026 04:50 PM (5aZAZ)

316 I've been saying since Trump started insinuating himself in this that he shouldn't have done it.

Just standing back, and perhaps lending some covert assistance to the protesters had no downside. If the protests succeed, the mullahs fall, great. Everybody's better off. If they fail, WGAF? The status quo of an Iran without nukes persists, with an even further weakened regime.

Now, we have no good options. Trump can intervene militarily as he promised, and piss off a ton of his voters, and initiate a lengthy, ugly power struggle for control of west/central Asia - one that we will probably lose under some future President.

That sucks, but the VERY WORST option - the one we're talking about here - is a negotiation that ends up preserving the regime. It would be an open betrayal of the insurgents he told to flood the streets. The reprisals will be far worse than if he'd said nothing. And the world will look on and see a paper tiger. Trump's leverage over the world's leaders he loves to challenge will be greatly reduced.

Anyone advising that needs to be fitted for a dunce cap.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 20, 2026 04:51 PM (BI5O2)

317 How funny would it be if Usha gave birth to a boy on July 4, on the 250th anniversary of the signing of the declaration? The left would pass out.

Posted by: LizLem at January 20, 2026 04:51 PM (Eng1Z)

318 Nood MN

Posted by: Formerly Virginian [/q] at January 20, 2026 04:51 PM (zjgNU)

319 I just don't know - Trump has shown that long term strategic planning, including multiple fake-outs, is part of his repertoire.
Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at January 20, 2026 04:40 PM (tV890)
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Trump is stalling for time. He's playing a delaying game so that Iran stops shooting while he gets more forces in theater.

It's kind of obvious, and he's only run this play many, many times.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 20, 2026 04:51 PM (ZOv7s)

320 Has there ever been a previous case of a President or Vice President's wife giving birth while her husband was in office?

Jacqueline Kennedy delivered a son, Patrick, who died, 1963.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at January 20, 2026 04:51 PM (zdLoL)

321 Promethius Vance
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats

Uh oh. What was TJM doing in DC a few months ago?

Posted by: Bulg at January 20, 2026 04:51 PM (77rzZ)

322 Nood Ellison

Posted by: bonhomme at January 20, 2026 04:51 PM (Yp6az)

323 Geddy Lee Vance
Posted by: sifty boones at January 20, 2026 04:50 PM (bCMb

HAHHAHA

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at January 20, 2026 04:51 PM (NtVYv)

324 Charles Kirk Vance.

just to get Candace O'Crazy to say that Charlie time travelled to the present to knock up Usha.

Posted by: Kevin in ABQ at January 20, 2026 04:52 PM (Dz0WF)

325 >"North Korea's nuclearization has undeniably stabilized the Korean Peninsula. The region has seen no wars, coups, or interventionist-forced regime changes since 2006."

Well, there it is. Everyone can go home, the dumbest statement of the year has already been locked in and it is only January.
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at January 20, 2026 04:05 PM (5XW27)

Yeah, more like 1953 or whatever.

Posted by: Oldcat at January 20, 2026 04:53 PM (8avO+)

326
Mosques are easy to burn down, them being stuffed with ammo and explosives.

Posted by: Auspex at January 20, 2026 04:53 PM (Y8DZL)

327
Trolls have taken the character and made her a hero, producing videos like this one:/i]

I'm impressed that right leaning people have been using AI effectively as these Amelia AI videos are all over the place.

I also like this AI video from Leaflit covering political vtubers (with a pretty good song behind it) https://tinyurl.com/yc8n38dv

Posted by: 18-1 at January 20, 2026 04:53 PM (sKqQm)

328 Cenk Uyghur got community noted on X the other day when he was pushing that 99% muslim number; a number of Iranian nationals replied and said "do you know everyone there is subject to the death penalty if you don't respond that you're a muslim? Of course government surveys say 99%!!!!
(apparently the 1% is for some who live way out in Azeri areas or something)
Posted by: Tom Servo

Chunk believes North Korean elections results too.

Posted by: Really?? at January 20, 2026 04:58 PM (d4dD2)

329 Honestly Trump 2.0 is a fucking triumph so far.

The article list some accomplishments, yet there are hundreds of things that don't even make the top 10 list that are just staggering:

Cutting green new deal BS
Dropping taxes.
Reduced trade deficit.
Reduced budget deficit
Changing the narrative on the Mideast.
5% growth!!!
Cutting useless agencies
Pulling out of useless international agreements.
Reducing drug costs.
DEI destroyed as federal policy
Colleges being reformed

Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at January 20, 2026 05:08 PM (tV890)

330

Usha and JD Vance are expecting their fourth child.

Congratulations and best wishes for your family.

Posted by: four seasons at January 20, 2026 05:14 PM (3ek7K)

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