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evergreen's avatar

You act as though he was just standing on the corner and they threw him under the bus.

Quite, not.

He undermined the CinC in the midst of what even you term a most egregious war.

Would you accept your heart surgeon quitting in the midst of surgery because the assistant told him of your position on vaccines during surgery, causing him a crisis of conscience? No. Do your flipping job, professional!

His job was counterterrorism advisor to the president! It wasn't bombing Iranian civilians. There is no crisis in such a role. This was a stunt.

Liberty Liz's avatar

Big difference between a heart surgeon and an administration member being tasked with just supporting whatever narrative and agenda is put forth by a captured administration. That's not what people who serve the country do. They serve the best interests of the people and the country. He's also tasked with intelligence that needs to be truth, not propaganda foisted upon NPC citizens; and who also must possess the dignity and integrity of a moral compass when sending citizens off to die for a foreign interest instead of the good of the nation. He serves THE PEOPLE, which no one cares about anymore because derangement has become the preferred method of operation by brainwashed, Stockholm Syndromed, cowardly "citizens" who think every BS propaganda story is true.

evergreen's avatar

He doesn't do any service when he leaves his powerful post. Sure, he stirs the hornet's nest and makes his CinC's job harder, making the war effort more difficult, giving a jolt of hope to the IRGC in the midst of a psychological pressure campaign to get the functionaries of IRGC to capitulate out of fear and uncertainty. Guy's lucky this isn't 1940's.

Liberty Liz's avatar

NEWSFLASH: leaving a position because you have a moral compass and because heinous acts of treason are being committed doesn't make you a quitter. Quite the opposite. It means you refuse to aid and abet. It means you have principles and serve the people & what's right instead of the cartel babylon D S globalist cabal that's taking down this country. But, hey, you wouldn't understand that, would you, since you seem to justify the Lansky mob mentality that's taking this country down for the NWO and B00mB00mBibi's agenda. The real irony here is that if CommieAla or PedoJoe had done what Trump is doing, you' be clutching your pearls with your hair on fire; but since you have no moral compass and even less discernment, and because it's "your team" committing the crimes & treason, it's all good. That's the absolute worst scum of the earth hypocrisy imaginable; and indicative of a sociopath.

John's avatar

So should Tulsi have lied under oath and said that Iran actually WAS an imminent threat?

evergreen's avatar

Why lie?

IRGC with ballistic missiles, drones, and nuke ambitions (with materials) was a known danger. It was not likely to be able to employ a nuke imminently, but pehaps a dirty one, and designs ultimately on a real one.

Trump made the right move.

Liberty Liz's avatar

Known danger to whom? Who has Iran b0mbed, unprovoked, in recent history? Exactly zero countries. !srael, on the other hand, has b0mbed too many to count. And lest you forget, Iran was "zero threat" to the US, contrary to the propaganda you allowed yourself to be brainwashed with over the last 40 years... until Trump pulled this incredibly dangerous, globally-devastating stunt -- which will have repercussions, like famine, economic devastation, supply chain collapses, etc worldwide. Those repercussions and hardships will include devastation for you. So who's the culprit here.

John's avatar

On March 18th, 2026, in sworn testimony before Senate lawmakers, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard spelled the end of those responsible for the crime of dragging us into this disastrous war with Iran.

First, she said it is the U.S. intelligence community’s assessment that Iran’s nuclear enrichment program was “obliterated” in the Twelve-Day War of June 2025.

Second, it is the intelligence community’s assessment that, in her words, “There has been no effort since then to try to rebuild their enrichment capability.”

Finally she testified that it is not the intelligence community’s assessment that Iran posed an “imminent nuclear threat” to the U.S. “The only person who can determine what is and is not an imminent threat is the president, and he made that determination,” she said, adding with even greater clarity moments later: “It is not the intelligence community’s responsibility to determine what is and is not an imminent threat. That is up to the president, based on a volume of information that he receives” – in this case clearly not from the U.S. intelligence community, but from other actors.

Overtheblues's avatar

You appear to have entirely lost your moral compass. You are acting as though this war was inevitable and necessary. It was a whim of the most deranged 2 presidents the USA has ever had - (yes both of them DJT and 'Yahu') are deranged with hatred and greed and being crazed by power. And they don't have the right to be doing what they are doing.

evergreen's avatar

Moral compass? Didn't know the IRGC was the true north of morality on earth. Talk about declination.

Medical Truth Podcast's avatar

1000% Very well said Liz!! Trump pontificates one lie after another!! Mr. Operation Warp Speed, still pushes vaccines, lies about the Epstein list, so decides to go bomb a country out of distraction!!

Liberty Liz's avatar

Exactly. Well said as well

Kudos.

LaliLand's avatar

Kent is being destroyed by this administration bc he dared to investigate the potential involvement of a foreign power in the assassination of Kirk, based on online chatter which seemed to predict it. He was called to attend a meeting at the White House, where he was told he must stop. I knew then that they would destroy this hero, and they are. https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/justice/4496957/joe-kent-charlie-kirk-assassination-investigation/

Joan esclamado's avatar

He follows Grey Stone which is anti west and pro Iran. He changed drastically after he remarried and she is very anti west

Liberty Liz's avatar

Grey zone isn't anti-west or pro Iran. The problem with NPCs is their low-IQ prevents them from having any discernment. It's like when someone says they're against gen0cide in gaza, that makes them an "anti-semite" or "pro palestine". Nope. Not true. It means they're opposed to murder and gen0cide, regardless of whose doing it. Period. But matrix-dwelling NPCs spin the narrative to justify their own lack of morality and protect their Stockholm Syndromed retardation.

LaliLand's avatar

You mean Greyzone? What makes them anti-west? Could it be the fact that they identify who is flooding the west with migrants and uncovered that it is the very same people who genocided Gaza? Is that anti-west?

Allie's avatar

His new wife had worked for Grayzone. I think she is largely responsible for his shifting position.

Liberty Liz's avatar

Odd that you push BS propaganda. He said his position shifted when he was on the battlefield years ago and realized what these wars were about. But you go ahead with pushing the propaganda, cuz that's all you know and wish to defend, given you're allergic to the truth.

CherylBray's avatar

She co wrote ONE article for Grey Zone. One article.

Enna's avatar

… can u blame her? America’s credibility and standing has been seriously damaged.

Lorraine Thomas's avatar

Thank you! Truth….Joan!

Jack Bergeron's avatar

Kirk warned of the dangers of starting a war with Iran. He pissed off a certain group of foreigners we give tremendous amounts of unwarranted aid to.

CherylBray's avatar

Agree 100%. There are two things you cannot question in the United States of America, vaccine safety and Israel. Kent crossed over when he started questioning what happened to Charlie Kirk.

alexei's avatar

Seems like he wasn't quite the straightforward guy John believes -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BOyQoNExzHQ

Why did he line up an interview with Tucker before he resigned?

Liberty Liz's avatar

He probably lined up the interview since the U S and B00mB00mBibi love ass@assinating people. It's called insurance. How bereft of an IQ can people actually be to buy into the propaganda and narratives? Stockholm Syndromed NPCs polluting the comments with tid bits of BS to pretend they figured something out. Instead, it's cult mentality. All you need to realize is that this g0vt protects (and always has) the real criminals and traitors, they don't expose them. If they're exposing someone, it's because they're protecting a narrative and the agenda and are taking someone down at the behest of the billionaire class' puppetmasters whose agenda is to harm THIS nation. Where are the arrests of PedoJoe, Hunter, MayorkASS, Blinken, everyone in the Epstein Files, GatesOfHell, Bourla, Leticia James, Comey, and thousands of others? WHERE ARE THOSE ARRESTS? Oh, yeah. They're protected, aren't they. So when this g0vt tells you someone's a bad guy, you know the opposite is true. When this g0vt tells you a biotechnological weapon injection is "safe & effective", it's not. Just like it was this g0vt who called J6ers, parents at school board meetings, Christians praying in front of abortion clinics, etc criminals and t€rrorists. They weren't. But, by all means, believe Kent is the bad guy. Oh. And "trust the plan"... the one that's k!lled millions worldwide because MORE would've been k!lled of they didn't k!ll those millions upon millions of people. 🤦‍♀️ Sometimes one wonders if the people pushing the BS & drivel even hear themselves and how utterly deranged they are.

CherylBray's avatar

Who cares when he decided to do an interview with Tucker.

Richard's avatar

The C-in-C is guilty of treason regarding his loyalty to our enemy Israel. Most all of Congress is too. 50+ standing ovations for the war criminal Netanyahu. Donald is a war criminal too.

Liberty Liz's avatar

Not to mention a traitor who puts other country's interests first. Pretty contradictory to those campaign "promises"; but then, just look at his whole administration and where their loyalties lie. Tells you all you need to know. But "promethean" justifies and spins it in a very convoluted way so the NPCs stay committed to the cult.

John Day MD's avatar

Joe Kent laid down his career for his honor, to do what he KNEW to be right for this country.

evergreen's avatar

That's certainly his right.

However, by walking away from his role as a shaper of policy, organizations, and events, he removes the citizens' ability to get the good things done. If you agree with his principles, wouldn't you want to him to stand firm in his role and argue his points and make directive decisions supporting your common goals? Or, is it better to quit and become a slogan? Could be either. Just understand that there are those who think the slogan method is secondary to the stay and work method. No one has to get vindictive about it, or do they?

John Day MD's avatar

You askme to make an assessment of the power of his action from a distance, but he made the decision from the point of knowing as much of the picture as anybody could, and he acted thoughtfully and honorably.

I am currently worried about Tulsi Gabbard, but I am not judging, just concerned. I respect her integrity.

I accepted firing after 18 years at the clinic, setting up adult and Pediatric COVID testing, testing more patients than any doctor, and being the only early treating doctor with HCQ (Zelenko) and ivermectin (Borody) protocols, for "vaccine refusal", at the strongest moral and spiritual stand I could take, "standing naked with the Jews", as I put it.

There was no stronger moral or spiritual action that I could take than to place myself in the underclass, for which concentration camps were being openly prepared in Australia, and quietly prepared in the US.

You will be faced with such a decision at some point. This is human life.

evergreen's avatar

You were fired, but you resisted up to that point and did what you saw to be correct. Within the law, what else could you do?

Covid made clear (if it wasn't already) that people turn inward for self interest and outward to herd behavior when the chips are down. Call it DNA programming or the lack of diversity of human cognition, but that's where the 80/20 sits in humans.

In this narrow instance, Trump is defeating the IRGC equivalent of the covid regime--the totalitarians who sit atop power and push people around at their whim. Once divested of their war machine, and if events continue, their Corps altogether, out the other side comes something else hopefully compatible with Iranian citizen liberty. That's on them, though. Projection of danger goes away at the hands of Trump.

Trump is a mixed bag. He's dumb as an ox on covid/vaxx. He's sharp as a tack on despots. He's mushy on illegals. He's right on with tariffs and trade and domestic industry. What more to say?

John Day MD's avatar

I see your perspective, and do not fully agree. Trump is inherently bright and insightful as to negotiations and power dynamics. I never liked him since the mid 1970s when I became aware of him, but that's beside the point.

He seems to be owned by Zionist interests, not acting in the best-interests of any group or real human citizens anywhere, now that he has been manipulated into war mode. Max Blumenthal wrote a recent article about Trump being Truman-showed into a conviction that Iran kept trying to assassinate him.

I suspect that there are completely secret means by which Zionist-Israeli interests control American policy makers, but cannot prove it.

I don't like the IRGC, and I have had Iranian friends since the late 1970s. They have as many different views as do Americans, as do my Cuban friends, for that matter.

Any person who follows concience follows an intimate form of Divine Guidance, though that is not proof in a debate; I just state that, knowing it to be the case in my life.

evergreen's avatar

If Trump were counseled that Iran was behind the attempt on him, given that he escaped the end by a mere fraction of an inch--talk about dodging a bullet--would one expect him to mentally affected from that point on?

Who wouldn't be?

Christy's avatar

I doubt it was a stunt, he probably knows a lot more than we ever will, as if the public actually is privy to any "news" that is real or counts.

evergreen's avatar

Lotta good it does to make such a tidal wave and then keep the public in the dark. Points again to stay and work.

John's avatar

So if you strongly felt this was a needless war, and you had the knowledge that Trump's claim on March 1 that Iran was an "imminent threat", you would just go along with it. How about if a democrat was president? Or would you go along with any lie, if the lie agreed with your political opinion? Tulsi testified that Iran was NOT an imminent threat. Kent had more principles than you have.

evergreen's avatar

Iran was not an imminent danger. It was a growing danger.

Taking out the IRGC weapons capability is Trump's decision and the timing was in all likelihood not all his. Doesn't make it a bad move.

John's avatar

Actually, our attack on Iran was illegal.

And Trump lied about Iran being an "imminent threat." So I'll ask you again, would you just go along with it? How about if a democrat was president? Or would you go along with any lie, if the lie agreed with your political opinion? Tulsi testified that Iran was NOT an imminent threat. Kent had more principles than you have.

evergreen's avatar

Know of anyone who lost his life at the hands of the Iranian regime?

Trump didn't start anything that wasn't already hot. Just because there wasn't a full, roiling boil does not mean that all had gone peaceful and cold.

John's avatar

Wake the f___ up. it should be obvious to anyone by now that this war was orchestrated and caused solely by Benjamin Netanyahu. It has been his dream for 40 years to destroy Iran, and he came right out and admitted it

evergreen's avatar

Wasn't it a popular song around 1980? That makes the USA desire longer than his.

sibyl gardner's avatar

Nope. He's in big trouble for leaking. And he's wrong about Iran.

sibyl gardner's avatar

I suppose you believe FDR should have ignored Churchill and let Hitler continue taking over the world. If you have an open mind (that would be a large assumption), check out what Ben Shapiro says on X about Joe Kent (unless you're one of the Jew haters)... and then do a little research on EMPs and how Iran was developing them.

Phil Davis's avatar

Haha. Look, ww2 is propaganda too. FDR created a false flag operation with Pearl Harbor. That's right, ww2 was a Neocon con job. Look, the first casualty of war is the Truth. If you really have an open mind, you'll understand. Nothing about war is true; they are ALL manufactured lies. FDR had all the new aircraft carriers put out of Pearl Harbor beforehand; he knew about the attack. British intelligence had broken the Japanese code many months beforehand. The sailors in Pearl were sacrificed to get Americans behind the war. It's documented, but few know what happened because the truth is always suppressed. I can recommend a few books, one written by a Navy officer who did a fantastic research project. It's not your fault that you aren't aware of the truth; so much effort has been made to suppress any true information.

sibyl gardner's avatar

Sure. Tell me the book. I'm a huge reader. With an open mind. But I am still supportive of the Iran operation, if nothing else because I believe the regime is evil, especially to women and children, and would love to annihilate us - they've said so for 47 years (Death to America). I've never before in my 67 years supported a war... aside from this one. As long as we don't put boots on the ground. And it's over soon - and of course, doesn't turn into WWIII. In that case I'll be wrong, and also dead.

Phil Davis's avatar

Okay, great. Most would not ask for more info; their opinions are made up.

First: It's somewhat hard to get; it's dated, but available.

"The final secret of Pearl Harbor"

by: Rear Admiral Robert A Theobald, USN

1954

Second:

"Day of Deceit, the Truth about FDR

by: Robert B Stinnett

You'll find that a plan was made to anger Japan into attacking the US.

sibyl gardner's avatar

Thanks! I'll look for it. I'll always admit when I'm wrong - like voting for Obama twice. What a mistake!

Phil Davis's avatar

And you believe this shit. When are you, Neocon-loving citizens, going to learn that you are conned every single time? Every war or conflict is a lie, remember WMD?

The Neocon propaganda puts a disinformation worm on the hook, and within minutes, you guys bit. Every single time. You are part of the greatest fishing hole in the world. Neocons are guaranteed to reach their fishing limits in minutes. The fish that are caught are called suckers.

Hank's avatar

Indeed, Joe Kent served honorably for many years. It is sad how he is now, by his own hand, tarnished his image with a resignation letter saturated with profound inaccuracies and, sadly, falsehoods and misrepresentations about both Israel and Trump.

Roger Kimber, MD's avatar

And Benedict Arnold was a Revolutionary War hero before he was a traitor. You can always tell when a Democrat is posting: lies.

Liberty Liz's avatar

If speaking truth is tarnishing one's image, than a "tarnished image" is a superior, admirable trait. Too bad your brainwashed low-IQ chooses zero moral compass and even less regard for life. Pathetic creature.

Brandy's avatar

During Covid, when all the covidians were telling us to trust the experts and to go along with the dictates of the government, I knew it would not end until the doctors and other experts started speaking out. And then doctors and other experts did speak out and they suddenly became the public enemy. And thus we are still under Covid emergency powers. But those who spoke out are very heroic and people of high character and they were and are fighting for truth.

We are seeing the same psychological tactics to keep the masses bought into the official narrative of this horrible war.

Thank you Joe Kent for speaking truth to the evil powers that control the US government. He is a true American hero who loves his country enough to fight for what’s right. The shedding of innocent blood in the Middle East at the hands (and funds) of the American Government must end.

Desiree's avatar

Yes the Iranian regime shed the blood of 40,000 civilians.

Brandy's avatar

Israel just wiped out the Palestinian men, women, and children that lived in Gaza. Estimates range from 70,000 to 250,000 deaths. Are you advocating that we bomb Israel? How about other repressive regimes around the world? We going to bomb every country that causes deaths in their own country?

No one in the US government is claiming that we went to war and offensively bombed Iran because they killed 40,000 people in their own country. In order for our country to go to war with another country, because of a humanitarian crisis, Congress would constitutionally have to vote for that war. The Republicans do not want to vote for this war, because they know the evidence is weak and the American people don’t support it and they know that Iran was not an eminent threat.

If we went to war with every country that caused humanitarian crisis in their own country, we would have to go to war with countries all over the world. Notice we are not doing that. It is propaganda that we are at war because “40,000 civilians” have died and people are believing it without thinking it through. Make Congress vote for the war if it’s a humanitarian crisis like you believe it to be. They won’t because that has nothing to do with why we dropped bombs.

Marco Rubio explained why we went to war. He said that Israel was planning to bomb Iran and so that meant that the Iranians were going to strike back to defend themselves and therefore we were preemptively attacking them. What utter nonsense. If Israel was going to attack Iran, we should have focused our efforts in stopping Israel’s attack, obviously, instead of joining in and acting like it was defensive.

We cannot solve the humanitarian crisis in Iran by dropping bombs on them. Now way more than 40,000 people are going to die because of the US actions, which are unconstitutional.

DBC's avatar

Iran threatened the U.S. with "11 nukes in a few weeks"

With their history, there is no more discussion -- unless we want to witness, once again, the lying bastards trash us and their neighbors.... all of their neighbors, btw.

Brandy's avatar

Please watch the Tucker Carlson - Joe Kent interview. I believe that Joe Kent can give you more reliable information about Iran’s nuclear weapons than what you are stating.

https://youtu.be/1cbw1utqzHg?si=1t-pW6yaxr-Mx_OT

DBC's avatar

The public shouldn't be hearing classified info. Sounds like Kent has loose lips.

Iran threatened WItkoff on day one of the negotiations... Huge mistake on their part.

The Iranian public loves the fight against the regime. Iran could very well be a new ally in the ME, when we're done.

Brandy's avatar

Kent was not sharing classified info. He is a conscientious objector in a war that was contrived out of pro-war propaganda and immoral allegiance to foreign interests.

Witkoff is a real estate developer. Joe Kent is a vetran who was deployed many, many times and lost his wife to the war in Syria.

You know who else is a real estate developer? Trump. And Trump has already been talking about his future hotels in Gaza. It's so disgusting.

Jack Bergeron's avatar

We have such short memories. In June of 2025 in a military mission known as “Midnight Hammer” we were told by our government the operation destroyed Iran’s ability to make nukes. There appears to be more than one “lying bastard.” BTW after the Covid debacle does anyone here really trust our government to tell us the truth?

Brandy's avatar

Right? It's almost comical. It would be funny if people weren't dying over this.

Like yeah, the government has lied to us for the past... basically our entire lives, but this time they are telling the truth! We have to go to war because (enter one of the 5 or 6 reasons we have been told we need to go to war)!

DBC's avatar

Shallow memories as well. Remember who their allies are? Very (very) possible Russia and/or China could be getting them the uranium and the equipment to make the bomb(s).... or just giving them finished nuke products.

Jack Bergeron's avatar

Both their allies understand the gravity of using nuclear weapons and their long-term effects upon the entire world. I haven’t heard or read any evidence of China and Russia coming to the aid of Iran. But I fear we have just given them more reason to do so. This will not end well.

Desiree's avatar

They've chanted Death to America for decades. It was only a matter of time before they acted on this way of thinking. They've killed thousands of our troops. Believe it or not, things don't continue on as they've always been. I don't see the problem here.

Brandy's avatar

Hm, I wonder why they might not like Americans... Could it be that we have been at war with Middle East countries for over 40+ years? Killing Muslims in their own countries? Have you ever tallied up the number of Americans killed by Muslims and compared that number to the number of Muslims killed by Americans? You can even count the 911 victims if you believe the US government narrative about 911 and America still looks very bad from a death count perspective. The US has killed waaaaay more of them than they have killed of us. For 50 years we have funded terrorists and radical Islamist groups to create chaos and to disrupt their governments, we have dropped bombs, invaded, occupies, regime changed... And leaked documents have shown American soldiers torturing muslims, so we like to think of those as isolated incidences but guess what, other countries see those leaked documents and probably don't think it's isolated incidences, especially when the journalists who leak the documents get put into jail for exposing things that actually happened. So, I think this might be why they don't like Americans. And of course, we recently funded the Palestinian genocide carried out by the IDF. And we bombed Iran last year and said that we had taken out their n nuclear weapons capacity. And we funded the bombs that Israel and the US dropped on Iran a few weeks ago.

Bibi said that he has been dreaming of a war with Iran for 40 years. Is Iran supposed to know that and pretend like that's not a thing?

AIPAC is one of the most influential lobbies in the US government. They pour millions of dollars into influencing our government leaders to making sure the US sends billions of dollars to Israel and to make sure we support any military action that Israel desires us to carry out. Perhaps this is one of the reasons that Iran doesn't really love us and our all our "freedom" that we spread in the Middle East.

Iran may have been chanting 'death to America' but America IS the country who is bringing death to the Middle East countries, except for Israel, who literally committed a genocide. And our people are essentially wishing death on Iranians so how is it morally worse when they do it? I think it's morally wrong on either side. But I don't support bombing a country because they chant something horrible. Just like I wouldn't want our country bombed for our death wishes on Iran. I do support any country defending itself, which is what Iran is now forced into doing, thanks to the US dropping bombs on them.

Did you believe all the propaganda that lead us to invade Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan? I did. I am ashamed that I allowed my bigotry to cloud my critical thinking skills and I supported those invasions. I know better now. But honestly, until alternative media was widely available, we were all propagandized to basically the same degree so I do not think it was the American public's fault for falling for pro-war propaganda. Now people have a choice of the media that they take in and they can choose to listen to a variety of voices in order to make a more informed decision.

Michael Lewis Kahn's avatar

A little wordy but everything you said is true. Good work.

Brandy's avatar

"a little wordy" ... guilty

Michael Lewis Kahn's avatar

Iran is a creation of the CIA. This is all staged theater for world war 3 to be initiated. Division and hatred between two sides- the west against BRICS and friends. Winning the war is not the objective, depopulation on a huge scale is. The CIA dominates the news media, and is where policies are executed and sourced, as well as in the COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS. Politicians, including trump, are all puppets, chosen for their acting and deceiving abilities. Ballots have been fixed for at least two decades, the CIA hacks them. Trump was bought by Rothschild four decades ago. Operation Warp Speed was a DOD operation.

https://off-guardian.org/2026/03/06/a-history-in-4-psy-ops-has-iran-has-always-been-a-member-of-the-club/

https://silview.media/2021/05/30/the-trump-rothschild-rockefeller-connections/

sign up for a free newsletter with free books attached. Names dates documents quotes sources

https://truthforce.work

Lorraine Thomas's avatar

Michael…you’re not living in reality if you don’t understand the Shia mindset! They fully intend to pull off what they believe…and that’s the destruction of the west and the bringing in Sharia law! Our leaders are now beginning to wake up a bit….and see the threat!

Michael Lewis Kahn's avatar

Sunnis are who the terrorists are. Iran, who is shia, supported Hezbollah, who are the only ones who regularly defeated ISIS, whose leader Al BAghdadi was really MOSSAD agent Simon Elliot. Iran had no intention of building nuclear weapons. They have not attacked foreign nation for centuries, except in defense in the 12 day war. Iran are liberal and if you look at scenes in Iran, you will see that they look much like the US- CIA dominates the news media.. I do research, I am an independent journalist who does not get paid, I live off a small social security check and have embraced poverty so that I cannot be bought, I have no loyalties except to truth and righteousness. Every religion is empire, the Vatican, which is secretly over every Christian denomination and over the US. Israel wants us to have Noahide laws. And the Vatican new world order religion plan is Chrislam. I serve no god, man, or woman, and have saved millions of lives by exposing the covid hoax and the allopathic medical system. Religion is not the solution, it is the problem. Satan is the god of this world. And you cannot believe what the CIA tells you in the news, even in so-called alternative news. They tell you what tickles your ears, what information others provide, are CIA operatives, or are plain stupid.

https://truthforce.work

Brandy's avatar

I believe what you are saying (editing to add: is accurate about this being a war to begin WWIII. I do not know about Iran being a CIA invention). There was never any strategy to this war that made any sense. There was no concrete reason for going that held up to any sort of scrutiny and there is no exit strategy.

We know that the globalists and technocrats want to implement digital IDs and digital currencies. We also know that the economy has to get a lot worse before people in the US will accept those things. This presidency has been a train wreck, even compared to Biden's, which was historically terrible.

Trump was elected by people who think that he was going to make things better but he has made a huge mess out of the economy during both terms (while pretending that he had no choice. He is literally an ACTOR people!).

I have been a lifelong republican and I have been trying to warn republicans that Trump is a bad actor since his first run. I tried really hard. But the Psy-Ops are too powerful.

Make people afraid and you can get them to support anything, even to their own detriment. It happens over and over again.

Thanks for the links. I will check them out when I can.

Jack Bergeron's avatar

There’s many sides to every story. Europeans and Asians have been fighting amongst themselves for millennia. Iran has great reserves of oil. The British with the assistance of the United States had essentially controlled the oil production industry in Iran at the expense or the Iranian people. We even went so far as to overthrow the democratically elected leadership of Iran and replaced it with a Shah, a dictator who was no kinder to his people than the Mullahs. And now we just did it again by murdering the entire leadership in Iran. We have no business meddling in other countries’ internal affairs. Decades of meddling has fomented ill will and aggression toward us. It’s no wonder 40,000 civilians have died. Numbers of our military service members have been placed in harms way and have been killed. Why do we still have troops in the Middle East and whose real interest do they serve? Is this the path to making America great again? We have lost our way. The people who believe Trump can do no wrong are as brainwashed as those with Trump derangement syndrome.

sibyl gardner's avatar

Have you been asleep for 47 years? Have you no Iranian friends? Do you not believe that evil exists?

Victor Davis Hanson: With all due respect to Joe Kent, what in Iran’s 47 years of fostering terror around the world doesn’t constitute an “imminent threat” to the U.S.?

The Iranian regime has spent decades killing and injuring Americans through terror proxies and building up its nuclear program, yet some still insist Iran poses no imminent threat. So what exactly counts as an imminent threat?

Here are just a few.

@VDHanson

@jackfowler

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kofze3vzVb0

Brandy's avatar

*edited to use the correct term imminent*

You typed out, "What in Iranian's 47 years of fostering terror around the world doesn't constitute an "imminent threat" to the US?"

Please read your sentence a few times, over and over until you see the answer to your own question.

Do you understand what the word "imminent threat" means? If it's an "imminent threat", it can't last for 47 years. That's a literal impossibility. You could maybe make the case for an on-going threat... maybe.

Imminent threat that justifies the President going to war without congressional approval means it's immediately urgent and the threat IS LIKELY going to destroy America within moments, or days at the most, if actions are not taken. We know that this was not the case with our military going to war with Iran recently. The reason we went to war with Iran, articulated by Marco Rubio, is because Israel was going to bomb Iran and we knew that Iran would then commence with counter attacks after being bombed by Israel. So instead of trying to talk Israel out of bombing Iran, we just decided to join Israel in starting a war and pretend like it's a war of defense. (thus the use of the word "preemptive" - it's very effective war propaganda)

Also, if it's been an imminent threat for 47 years, why has no president gone to war with Iran before this year? Why didn't Trump go to war with Iran his first term?

Also, if it's such an imminent threat, why didn't congress vote to go to war in these past 47 years?

If the president of our country felt like Iran was an imminent threat because for 47 years Iran has been sponsoring terrorism, he could have called for a vote by congress to go to war with them. That is what our constitution requires. He didn't. Our constitution is one of the things that sets our country apart from rouge regimes. But our leaders are not following our constitution. The US bombing other countries without a true eminent threat, and without congressional approval goes against our constitution and is illegal.

I would submit that a good case for going to war against Iran would not be able to be made so we are getting a lot of random fear mongering reasons instead. No politicians want to vote for this war because It's essentially a proxy war that Israel wants the US to fight on their behalf.

"Short term pain for long term gain"... yeah right

sibyl gardner's avatar

I said "Imminent" not "eminent," which means highly respected. I have never before supported a war, but have done enough research to believe that this one is justified, in spite of your misgivings and claims about its legality (Obama would be guilty using the same standards). I certainly hope it's over quickly, that we never put boots on the ground, that the Iranian people gain their freedom, and that the evil regime lands in hell. I have a college friend who lives there and has told me about the horrors for decades. All that said, I do respect your opinion, though I don't agree with you.

Brandy's avatar

The president is not allowed to unilaterally go to war for "imminent threats" that have been going on for 47 years as Trump has done by bombing Iran. That is unconstitutional. The president is only allowed to go to war without a vote from congress for an actual "imminent threat". They (the media and the politicians) are busy propagandizing people into being afraid of Iran, or thinking that *this* regime change will work, because otherwise no one would support this illegal war. It's the same playbook for my entire lifetime, and I'm sure, before I was born.

And yes, we have been involved in illegal wars under all the presidents during my lifetime including Obama, Clinton, Both Bushes, and now Trump. And for the record, I think funding the Ukraine war after playing a roll in instigating it was immoral, although I'm not sure it would be considered illegal. But there was a lot of fraud and corruption involved so I did not support it and we still fund that war today.

Thanks for sharing your opinion in a respectful way, even though we don't agree.

Brandy's avatar

I had time to watch the video you shared the link to and I just wanted to say that while I agreed with some of the things that Hanson was saying, I disagreed with him much more than I agreed with him. I agree with his dislike for the MAID system in Canada, his dislike for universal health care in general, his advocating for boarders, and a few other things.

I really, really disagreed with his assertion that the shift of people towards sympathizing with Palestinians is at its base antisemitic sentiments. This is untrue for myself and hundreds of thousands of other people. I have been a republican my whole life. I have never once voted for a democrat. The reason so many people have woken up to what is happening in the Middle East, particularly in Gaza, is that we literally watched the IDF kill at least 70,000 and up to 250,000 Palestinians indiscriminately. They were not even close to being majority Hamas and no one believes that all those people were killed because the IDF accidentally killed civilians. Cutting off food water and other supplies to areas where civilians lived was just absolutely barbaric. And US tax payer money went to carry out those horrible acts. It's not antisemitic to want civillians not to be shot or starved or bombed.

The reason the republicans are going to overwhelmingly loose in elections moving forward is because Trump has broken, and done the exact opposite of, nearly everything that he promised voters. 1. He has refused to release the Epstein files and is still refusing to release them all, and his administration has not prosecuted anyone. Pam Bonds is a total joke. Or worse. 2. Trump has not brought any justice to those involved in the Covid fraud and covid response damages. Instead he has awarded Fauci and he has given lucrative contracts to Pfizer, and met with Gates etc. People can still get covid injections 3. He promised to end the Ukrainian-Russa war and to stop funding it. 4. He also promised to not start any more Middle East proxy wars. He has been passing anti-free speech laws for certain religious/ethnic groups. He has destroyed the economy with this new war and it's just starting.

So, Republicans are going to get slammed at the voting booths. I don't vote anymore in national elections because I can see that voting is fake. There is really only one party. It's the republicrat party of corruption, debt/inflation, and endless wars.

Hazel's avatar

U are a Dem. Glad y don’t vote

Brandy's avatar

Nope. Registered Republican my entire life.The first president that I voted for was George W. Bush. But I am now ashamed of what the Republican Party is doing. There are only a few Republicans that are doing their best to actually fight for the American people and one of them is Thomas Massey, whom Trump is currently trying to get rid of in the primary.

Bon Kwi Kwi's avatar

Another $200 billion following the $1.4 trillion? The Epstein crowd is definitely still in charge.

Joe Kent, thank you for standing up.

Kal Commodore's avatar

Hello John,

After reviewing all the data, I cannot help but reach an unfortunate conclusion.

Even though he is a brilliant, dedicated fighter, he has openly been two-faced. He is not reliable in a sensitive area, despite his service.

Therefore, the decision to keep him in a sensitive area is ultimately up to those responsible for security.

cg's avatar
Mar 19Edited

We’re just waiting now to see if Joe leaked classified information to Tucker and thence to Iran. What a mistake to stray from the MAGA path, even the seemingly good are enemies. And they will pay.

VeraOmua's avatar

may have leaked to candace owens too, as we’re now learning.

but we thank him for his service.

however, service does not absolve leakers

cg's avatar

Correct. There are distinctions here many people just cannot handle.

Like Joe Kent may be a badass and a hero, but that he still may have failed himself and his country.

Another is that we may fight alongside Israel for the same good cause, it does not mean Trump is a goy golem.

DBC's avatar

Link to the Tucker interview - I haven't watched it yet. Tucker is blind to the threat(s) put to us, by Iran.... thinks Israel hood winked us into the war.

https://tuckercarlson.com/live-show-march-18-2026?utm_campaign=20260319_march19dailybriefsubs&utm_medium=email&utm_source=iterable&utm_content=joekent

Liberty Liz's avatar

Spoken like a true cultist (straying from the MAGA path) instead of someone with discernment and more than a single-digit IQ. The straying from the MAGA path came from Trump. That you don't see that is quite astonishing, yet not surprising, given your absence of a moral compass and being out of touch with reality.

cg's avatar

Liz, I don’t think you understand what is about to happen.

This is nothing. This is housekeeping, good hygiene. This is the calm before the storm.

Once Trump wraps this up (by EOQ), he then moves to domestic enemies. 2020. Congress. He will cross the rubicon, because he must. And nothing will be able to distract the world from it, with Iran taken off the table. The real crisis is ahead.

You need to expand your outlook, and lose the weak bants.

Liberty Liz's avatar

And you may have to rethink the hopium you're bathing in. Hope you haven't stocked up on popcorn to go with white hat psy0p narrative because things are much different than you'd like to believe. Sometimes the taking down of cartel-babylon DS globalists is because a different faction of the demons wants to control the top of the pyramid -- not to actually "save the children" or anyone else, including humanity. You may want to critically think about ALL the other things that have been put into place and have escalated that prove the opposite is happening of what you're inclined to believe.

cg's avatar

When it all goes down, as it must, I bet you bitch about it because it will crash equities, beyond what most bears even expect. But it is overdue and necessary to save the Republic.

You’re so strung-out and anxious you’ll probably anhero before it’s all over. Relax. Try to understand Trump.

Jack Bergeron's avatar

This sounds all too much like how the Democrats tried to silence objections to the 2020 presidential election. Now the Trumpocrats want to silence all dissent by trumping up charges against his dissenters.

cg's avatar

We can judge the charges if/when they are brought.

Tucker’s going to have a rough time in ADX Florence.

Jack Bergeron's avatar

Does Tucker have a high level security clearance? Is the First Amendment still in force in this country or did the Biden era completely kill it off?

DBC's avatar

The JFK period killed it off.

cg's avatar

As a journalist? Nah

If charges are filed, it’s because they have got him. And that’s too bad, I like Tucker.

Tracy's avatar

Benedict Arnold was also a great patriot. By all accounts, Kent is quite a liar and leaker. No one‘s discounting his service to the country, but that was then, and this is now.. You should listen to the Dan Bongino podcast from today, March 19, so you can understand how bad this guy is. I just find it interesting that all the people that are replacement theologists and Jew haters find it so easy to believe this drivel.

Liberty Liz's avatar

🤣 That's some really convoluted mental gymnastics. Good thing you threw in the "j€w hater" to pretend that somehow means anything toward making a point you don't have.

LaliLand's avatar

Kent will be destroyed by this administration bc he dared to investigate the potential involvement of a foreign power in the assassination of Kirk, based on online chatter which seemed to predict it. He was called to attend a meeting at the White House, where he was told he must stop. I knew then that they would destroy this hero, and they are. https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/justice/4496957/joe-kent-charlie-kirk-assassination-investigation/

Summit Male Medical's avatar

You listen to Bongino? He's the anti American criminal traitor. He had a chance to make a difference, and did zip. Natta. All talk, and it's misdirection talk. F Bongino.

Kim Hayes's avatar

This means there is still Integrity, Ethics, Character, Morals & Scruples still on Planet.

evergreen's avatar

There's a lot of that still around.

But, it doesn't act in that way. Quitting your chief of public safety job because you don't like your boss' decisions outside of your swim lane doesn't add up.

Kim Hayes's avatar

Not arguing with you, as you point out, things are not as they always appear. Much hidden and behind the scenes. yet does staying and being a hypocrite , working for a check and a power trip might eat your insides out.

We already know from the Steve Bannon days.....Trump is a megalomaniac and usually does what the last person he talked to tells him. Probably because that's all he can remember. (For the record, I always Vote for Myself on the big ticket items yet do vote properly on all local stuff since I'm of the belief we will restore the Planet from the bottom up, as long as we remember everyones local is different. The world of one size fits all doesn't work.....even in the clothes store)

I'm sure you are more informed here, I truly stay on the periphery on purpose since I think just getting into these higher positions requires massive compromise. I never followed or watched the Bongino guy. Felt the appointment was way out in left field to begin with and was a made up thing to thank him for his support in campaign. I think he found out quickly getting behind the scenes that the whole shooting match was a giant baloney sandwich and quickly wanted out. They convinced him to stay on for optics and then let him go after a nice honeymoon/mourning period was over. He most likely signed a giant NDA to keep from revealing how this particular sausage is being made.

Joe Kent maybe couldn't tolerate another day of watching the same sausage being made. The Charade is over!

evergreen's avatar

If you are correct, then his resignation letter would state that the role, and his occupancy of it, was ineffective for the public safety purpose. Instead, he griped about things outside his charter.

He can be wrapped around the axle--many are. But, a professional sets aside emotional baggage and performs his job for the citizens. This apparently was not that.

Kim Hayes's avatar

You are 100% correct, professionals should set aside their personal feelings and emotional baggage, do their job and as the British say.....Carry On! Till they can't any longer and that is when they resign. Gosh just watching Trump waffle and always blame everyone but himself for stupid decisions would make it tough to stomach everyday. Yet all those folks in that boat, knew what sort of chameleon they were signing up to work under. Makes you wonder what they have on Tulsi, did to her or offered her to change her dance step from a Walz to a Tango????

evergreen's avatar

Then submit a message to your boss and resign quietly.

Terry Wears's avatar

Joe Kent is hope. Hope for release from parasitical control of our institutions.

DBC's avatar

I'd rather not guess, if Iran would send nukes around the ME and the potential for reaching the U.S.

They threatened us, we're reacting.

TruthMonster - by John Anthony's avatar

If this "greatest warrior" had a solid case he should have taken it to the administration, not the press. If the info that he had already been under investigation for leaking classified documents proves true, he had plenty of motive for heading for the door.

David Hilger's avatar

Certainly appreciate his service, but disagree and question his resignation reason. He (and others) are missing the big picture if they think that Iran is/was not an imminent threat to the U.S. and many other countries. Troubling that he was/is under investigation for leaking classified information…before the current Iranian operation began🤔

Carl Enroth's avatar

He’s a pos traitor! Leaker! I’m done with your Substack. You are wrong on basically everything!!

evergreen's avatar

Stick around. Leake has potential. He's historically informed, pensive, moral, creative. He just needs to steep in raw reality as an outspoken columnist for a while and take the counterarguments along with the drippy praise. Over time, he will evolve.

He is a self described bohemian, flitting around without anchor. When he takes a stand and attempts to drop anchor on a philosophy and discovers that currents can be VERY strong, he will begin to realize that his drifting all these years was ON the currents. Takes strength to be committed and attached to one soil or anchorage and fight to stay there.

Ah, key word: fight. You learn to fight when what you care for is being ripped away. Maybe Leake will develop into a fighter and move on from being a complainer.

Christopher Quick's avatar

I agree. Our Republic is being ripped away, and truth is becoming more and more elusive. All of us have been deceived by something over the last six+ years of lies beyond imagination. Leake searches for truth, unlike most journalists. No one will get it right every time in this age of lies, but humility is essential.

evergreen's avatar

Well, if he's going to get it right, he's got to step back from the hype vortex.

Lorraine Thomas's avatar

Thank you Carl! I’m joining you!

William's avatar

There should not be condemnation of Joe Kent for resigning in protest of the action against Iran. If he said it is my opinion this was the wrong decision. He did not say that. He said Trump was deceived and tricked into this action. He needs to give us proof of this type of allegation otherwise it is just another opinion. Statements of fact have to be verifiable.

evergreen's avatar

Claiming Trump was deceived means bad actors are at play.

As head of counterterrorism, one would think his job just got even more important--so, he quits.

Paving the Way's avatar

He realized the enemy is within, a captured government. The fight must go outside - in.

evergreen's avatar

Hardly. In such a case, it means your role is now doubly more important. You stick around and give it your all.

Paving the Way's avatar

Seems like you want to diminish the message by diminishing the messenger. It will not work. The dam broke already.

evergreen's avatar

Diminish the messenger?

He's a National Director, not a media reporter. Who is doing the diminishing?

Lorraine Thomas's avatar

Yes…the dam of leaking and betrayal! If he joins Tucker and Candace he’s not for America for sure! He’s joined the destroyers!

Paving the Way's avatar

What America? Which America? Jewish America? Consumer America? Multicultural America? Criminal America? Trump has betrayed the American Nation. He sold out to the people that pay him. Have you seen his cool gold sneakers? And you can get access to his intelligence briefings for a quick 20.

John Howard's avatar

Once again you have a one-way agenda. Anyone who blatantly attacks Joe Kent and does not acknowledge his almost unparalleled service to this country, I agree, is worthy of consternation. But to shield himself from criticism based on his position and what he has done is ridiculous for you to think that that's appropriate. Someone in his position, if he disagreed, should have most likely sucked it up, just like there's likely soldiers that don't agree, and done his job. At the very most he could have resigned in protest but during the middle of a war he should stay quiet.

What did Joe Kent do? He goes and runs to the most two outlandish podcasters around, particularly Candace Owens, who is psychotic. I'm sorry, Joe Kent deserves massive criticism for these actions and praise for his prior service. Again you can't see that with your one-way narrow agenda and I don't expect you to but hopefully people will see more and more what your angle is.

evergreen's avatar

Would like to see Leake's response to your comment.

Melody Rich's avatar

Three months ago, Kent is on record denouncing Iran as a threat to global peace. Three months ago. What changed?!