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cg's avatar
Mar 10Edited

Au contraire, yours is the mask that has slipped.

We patriots trust Trump and see the larger logic here. He is our stable genius, and we are committed to him until covfefe.

John Day MD's avatar

It serves demonic interests to be cold, callous and dismissive, while causing human death, suffering and anguish. This provides "loosh", the energy of anguished souls, the demonic food.

;-(

Disabling one's conscience and compassion serves the demonic entities this way.

Sam's avatar

I was telling someone only yesterday; to have any chance at conquering the evil in this world (that seems to be winning), we must live in truth, beauty and compassion

John Day MD's avatar

I seek Divine Guidance, which feels like wisdom & compassion upon arrival.

One must be patient and attentive, and then follow it.

Grace Travesser's avatar

Looking at history, biblical and otherwise, it doesn't take a psychologist or historian to see the historical patterns overlay themselves. According to the Bible, the way a person, a country, a government gets in a mess like the world is in is to NOT follow God. Cause and effect has unerring certainty. One will reap what one sows.

Joewrite's avatar

So how should Israel and the US respond to the horror of Islamic violence? And how should we treat Iran?

John Day MD's avatar

I am not The Divine, but Wisdom and Compassion are important.

Removing the beam in your own eye is a good first t=step to being able to see the moat in your brother's eye, in order to help your brother, no?

Treat Iran with respect.

Stop funding terrorism "ourselves", including Israeli genocide.

Joewrite's avatar

I don't "respect" Islamic terrorism. I think Israel should attack their enemies as hard as they can.

Joewrite's avatar

I think we should respond with power that destroys our enemies. But don't laugh about it.

Noel's avatar

How has that worked so far?

cg's avatar

Read the idiocy you just coughed up. Embarrassing.

Taming the Wolf Institute's avatar

So you do not have the view that Islamists are demonic entities? One just bows before such demons and says, "Have a good day with all those missiles you are toting"?

John Day MD's avatar

Do you think demonic entities only try to infect the souls of one team in a conflict?

Taming the Wolf Institute's avatar

Absolutely not. But, I believe, that over time certain groups do become demon infested to the extent that their agenda is demonic. In contrast, within any group there exists a constant challenge to identify and address demonic influences. In Taming the Wolf I speak about the role of the Destructive Hidden Influence in conflicts. That captures the nature of demons.

Jo Blow's avatar

And you also buy the "fact" them Muslims are all the same and them geniuses got together planed and carried out 911!

Taming the Wolf Institute's avatar

No. Have never said that. You are off base.

Martha's avatar

Psalm 91 “A thousand may fall at your side and 10 thousand at your right hand, but it shall not approach you. You will only look on with your eyes and see the recompense of the wicked.”

I feel nothing with regard to the death of the wicked. My neighbors who abused me as a child were satanists. I forgave them by releasing them into the hands of the One they sinned against - Jesus. I witnessed to one of them and maybe she received Jesus and went to heaven. I hope so. I feel nothing about the rest of them and that includes the IRGC whose father is the devil.

Rich Becker's avatar

This is profound. Where can I read or otherwise learn more about this?

John Day MD's avatar

Start with theis article by The Ethical Skeptic, "What Is Loosh?" https://theethicalskeptic.com/2023/11/25/what-is-loosh/

He has a Gnostic Christian perspective.

When you really seek, things will arise for your investigation.

Dr. Quatermass's avatar

I understand your interest in the subject, but the care and feeding of 4d entities is not something anyone needs to PAY interest to.

John Day MD's avatar

To be aware of is not to "Pay". There is evil in the world. There are forms to it. Some aspects can be recognized. Seek Divine Guidance, and be attentive to those communications, and do your best to follow them.

"Oh,baby, baby it's a wild world..." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jta56wBl7SM

grahamlyons's avatar

Trio of Shabbos Goys.

Matrix2008's avatar

He's unstable demonic con man who serves Israel first.

suannee's avatar

A comment I can agree with.

Matrix2008's avatar

hundreds of millions are finding common ground on the subject of Israel nationwide and worldwide

suannee's avatar

One would wish. What I see in sub stacks in which I agreed with the comments re covid and transgender insanity is more and more blood thirst and unthinking support of the bloodthirsty "leaders".

mejbcart's avatar

let's hope your DEMONIC lead-er will send you out into the one way and no return battle field...

Btw. it seems clear AI is pulling the strings here, exactly like in covid deceptive criminal times.

Noel's avatar

Dont even begin to compare the Iranian response to the Covid deception. Not even in the same ballpark. NOT EVEN IN PROXIMITY. It is a statement of ignorance.

suannee's avatar

So sorry. The covid insanity turned me into NOT A LIBERAL. Although, I must admit I was never a slavering fool who supported the insanity visited on us by the Dems. Now I have to say that Trump is turning me into not an unthinking supporter of him and his murderous colleagues, especially Bibi. I am a person without a country and certainly without a leader.

Noel's avatar

Oh, you have a leader, like no other President has done for DECADES. You just need to really search your soul for what you want out of life. I think if you look at Bibi, you will actually see a person with great restraint. Put yourself in his place. What would you do in his spot? Our country is facing the extinction of our Constitution. Trump is defending it, has given up a GREAT retirement and is truly leading us where we want to be...even though sometimes the journey is dangerous, and we may not understand each step. Re-evaluate your perception of what a true leader is and does...I think you might reconsider the wisdom of what Trump is doing for America, and Bibi is doing for Israel.

suannee's avatar

I am not a Christian, but my innate humanity restrains me from responding beyond saying "Oh dear".

Noel's avatar

What does that even mean? What would being a Christian have to do with your response or feelings?

BRIAN L MEGA's avatar

I do NOT want a stinking butthead political "leader" {republican OR democrat} - especially one like POS Donald Trump.

cg's avatar

Why? B-52s are carpet-bombing the enemy 24-7. It’s beautiful!

John Day MD's avatar

They are using stand-off weapons still; point of fact.

cg's avatar

Their caution is your cope. I’m actually excited to see the Iranian people liberated.

suannee's avatar

Just like the Iraqis were liberated. Yeah, right.

Noel's avatar

Again, comparing the Iraq/Afghanistan fiasco to this surgical strike at the heart of radical Islam is like comparing apples to oranges. Bush and Cheney were Deep State operatives. We didn't go to Iraq for any other reason than to support a corrupt CIA, and provide cover for the Federal Reserve. Who was responsible for bringing down the towers? Hmmm!!

cg's avatar

You don’t think we have a JDAM for every single one of these IRGC bastards? Regular Iranians will tear them to shreds. These assholes have offshore accounts, billions abroad.

John Day MD's avatar

I merely made a factual correction. The Iranians have seemingly held their S-300 and S-400 radars and batteries in reserve, while USraeli stand-off weapons remain in play.

I suspect they intend to use them when piloted planes are needed for strikes.

Jersey Prophet's avatar

Are you saying no piloted aircraft have been flying over Iran for the last 11 days? You seriously need to examine your information sources, sir!

Dr. Quatermass's avatar

This is so dangerously wrong. AI isn't doing anything. AI is an oversold grift.

Phil Davis's avatar

That is pure Neocon propaganda. They say it in every war.

BRIAN L MEGA's avatar

Donald Trump is an evil POS garbage human being.

DawnieR's avatar

cg is the perfect example of a PSYCHOPATH!

Probably a demon, also!

The HUMAN RACE is sick and tired of 'your type' (aka demons)!

We humans want 'your type' OFF OF THIS PLANET!

#DemonSlayers

Steven Hines's avatar

cg hasn't learned that one of the best things Americans can do is to operate under the assumption that anything our government says about a foreign leader or government or people is a lie, until proven true. George Carlin was right about not trusting anything the government says. Too many Americans default to trusting what their goverment says.

BassGod's avatar

Dude wipe your nose - a true patriot knows to follow and protect the Constitution not any politician who is way too busy promoting a tyrannical and terrorist regime The Wizards of Ozrael.

salience's avatar

Just what could he do to create some doubt for you... Nuke Tehran? Make Iran into yet another Iraq and Libya? D&D..., Democratic but Destroyed

Zach Birchall's avatar

What is truly unfathomable is that you claim to be a Christian and are seemingly on the side of Islam, John.

mejbcart's avatar

looks like you have NO CLUE what Christianity means, namely among Ten Commandments, there is this one: DO NOT KILL, and that includes ALL HUMANS, no matter what religion.

Wendi Nitti's avatar

Islam is not a religion, it’s an ideology. And an evil one at that.

SaHiB's avatar

James 1:27 describes pure religion.

Wendi Nitti's avatar

Yes. It describes the exact opposite of Islam.

SaHiB's avatar

Your definition of "Islam"?

Zach Birchall's avatar

Submission. That’s what the word Islam means in Arabic, submission to Allah who gave revelations to Muhammad that sound much more like the devil in his ear than God. Islam is a heresy, a very obvious one if you actually read any of the doctrine

Wendi Nitti's avatar

Any ideology that diminishes women physically, intellectually and spiritually- equating them to livestock- is evil.

Taming the Wolf Institute's avatar

Not sure that is accurate. I believe it says "You shall not murder." This is not the same as Do Not Kill. In a just war one is not committing murder when one stops those carrying lethal missiles.

Henry Balfour's avatar

If you are referring to the loss of an Iranian navy vessel, then you need to fist navigate the legal position of 'acts of aggression' without the establishment of a Declaration Of War. I see a lot of American denial over this, but bottom line, if you attack anyone but are not in a Declared State Of War, then you are the terrorist. End of.

Anne McKinney's avatar

The Ten Commandments

I am the Lord thy God. ...

Thou shall not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain.

Remember to keep holy the Lord's day.

Honor thy father and mother.

Thou shall not kill.

Thou shall not commit adultery.

Thou shall not steal.

Thou shall not bear false witness against thy neighbor.

I have seen this version since 1950 in SJV -- what r u quoting??

Taming the Wolf Institute's avatar

IT IS LATE; I'M LAZY. HERE IS A ONE PART OF A GROK RESPONSE TO THE ISSUE WHICH HAS BEEN DISCUSSED AND DEBATED AD NAUSEUM UNDER THE JUST WAR THEORY:

The biblical commandment in Exodus 20:13 (part of the Ten Commandments) is rendered in the King James Version as “Thou shalt not kill.” However, the original Hebrew verb (ratsach or ratzach) is more accurately translated in modern scholarship and versions (such as the NIV or ESV) as “You shall not murder.” This is not a prohibition on all killing whatsoever, but specifically on the unlawful, premeditated, or unjust taking of innocent human life.

apholt.com +1

The distinction matters enormously in ethics and theology. The Old Testament itself records numerous divinely sanctioned or commanded instances of killing—such as in legitimate warfare, capital punishment for crimes like murder, or self-defense against a thief breaking in at night (Exodus 22:2–3)—that are explicitly not treated as violations of the commandment. “Murder” implies malice, injustice, or the targeting of the innocent; other forms of killing can be lawful when they serve justice, protect life, or fulfill public authority. A broad “do not kill” reading would create internal contradictions in Scripture (e.g., Ecclesiastes 3:3 speaks of “a time to kill” alongside “a time to heal”).

catholic.com

Just War theory (developed by early Christian thinkers like St. Augustine and systematized by St. Thomas Aquinas in the 13th century) directly engages this distinction to reconcile the commandment with the realities of conflict. It argues that not all killing in war is murder. Killing can be morally permissible—and therefore not a violation of “Thou shalt not murder”—when it meets strict criteria and is carried out with the right disposition.

Thom's avatar

It's Thou Shalt Not Kill! Jesus...

Zach Birchall's avatar

Do you think that Christianity would have survived if Christians had never fought a war? Should a "good Christian" tolerate a muslim who is intolerant of his Christianity? Tolerance of intolerance is cowardice, not virtue. Jesus told the vast majority of those he healed that they needed to repent their sins, what did he say to the Roman Centurion who came to him for help with his servant? When soldiers came to John the Baptist and asked what they could do to repent and be saved, what did he tell them? "Be happy with your wages." Thou shalt not murder is the commandment, meaning unlawful killing, not meaning all killing is unlawful. If a man attempts to murder you, will you just let it happen?

LJ's avatar

“Do you think that Christianity would have survived if Christians had never fought a war?” Yes. Absolutely I do.

Zach Birchall's avatar

What do you know of the Islamic conquests? Within 100 years of Muhammad’s death, the caliphs had advanced as far as Constantinople in the east and Tours, France in the west. The MENA areas today which we think of as the heart of Islam were the heart of Christianity prior to Muhammad’s heretic religion of conquest. How did the Christians retake half of France and all of Spain and Portugal? Was it through peaceful preaching and changing the minds of muslims? I like your confidence in the religion but I think you’re naive if you think the muslims wouldn’t have taken all of Europe and eventually the world without Christian wars to defend themselves and take back historically Christian lands. Furthermore, do you claim to know more about Christianity than Saint Augustine of Hippo? The originator of Just War theory? If you are a greater Christian than he, I’d love to learn from you.

Thom's avatar

Furthermore, do you claim to know more about Christianity than Saint Augustine of Hippo?

Did Augustine of Hippo and of Just Kill theory, know more about Christianity than J. Christ?

Zach Birchall's avatar

No, of course not, I don’t know more than Saint Augustine, and of course he doesn’t know more than Jesus. The claim I was making was that you don’t fully understand your own religion, like many modern Christians. There were many great warriors in the past who were also pious Christians, like Richard Lionheart and Saint Ferdinand who took back Spain from the invading Moors. You look down upon great men because you have a misconception of your own religion. You advocate turning the other cheek to those who would murder you simply for being Christian. Your version of Christianity gets trampled by Islam. Your version of Christianity is why America and the West are not as great as they once were

Taming the Wolf Institute's avatar

No, but he knew more than Scofield et al...

LJ's avatar

I truly hope Jesus gets a hold of your heart. Jesus is not a religion. He is God and Sovereign. He lives and has no end. My confidence lies in Him alone.

Zach Birchall's avatar

I pray that true evil never finds you, for you are not prepared to deal with it.

Zach Birchall's avatar

Did what? You responded to multiple points I made with two words, you need to be more specific

Suzy Cue's avatar

Did you mean to write ‘commandments’, rather than ‘commitments’?

mejbcart's avatar

yes, thank you, fixed it...

Noel's avatar

That should be translated not to murder. The same God who handed the tablets to Moses, also commanded Joshua to kill every man, woman, child, ox and ass in their enemy's countries. Strength and annihilation of the future threat is just reasonable battlefield strategy. The globalist elite have run America for decades and killed or destroyed everyone who stood in their way. I dont fully disagree with John about dancing on the graves of our enemies, especially since many of them were probably forced into service, BUT they would have destroyed and sung praises to Allah for any future target they would have been given, don't kid yourself about that.

suannee's avatar

mejbcart thank you

Bobby's avatar

Really read your Bible again there is death and killing. Gods is our Judge not you

Noel's avatar

Well, and the Ten Commandments were written for the Israelites, they weren't a tenant of Christianity. Jesus (a Jew), sacrificed his life to free us from the legalistic relationship that man had with God.

John Day MD's avatar

It serves demonic interests to be cold, callous and dismissive, while causing human death, suffering and anguish. This provides "loosh", the energy of anguished souls, the demonic food.

;-(

Disabling one's conscience and compassion serves the demonic entities this way.

Dennis Sullivan's avatar

A few years ago I read a book Demonic Foes by Dr. Richard Gallagher MD (psychiatrist). It is a very good book. What Gallagher learned over 20 years and more changed his way of looking at the world. i believe he is around 80 years of age . Many of us have studied topics like the demonic and we have come to deeply understand what Dr. Day writes here.

Inisfad's avatar

I wonder how the Iranian people feel about that, considering that they have been oppressed and murdered by the IRGC for 47 years. Or perhaps I wonder how those affected by global terrorism feel about that, considering that the main sponsor of this terrorism is being defeated. There is no such thing as ‘Kumbaya’ with Islamic radicals, who vow to kill all the Jews, and then the Christians afterward. Let’s see how your conscience and compassion deals with this if you are ever confronted with it, first hand.

John Day MD's avatar

Iranians have different and mixed feelings. I have had numerous Iranian friends since 1977, when I lived in college co-ops. I am in frequent communication, often in person.

Do you not think that the US and Israel are the major supporters of "terrorists" in the world, followed by the Saudis, Qataris and Emirates, whose interests sometimes align and are sometimes at odds with each other?

The Mullah regime in Iran did not give up all of the control mechanisms of the Shah and the Savak. Thuggish gangs of religious enforcers on the streets cause great harm and sometimes kill, including for not wearing a head covering.

CIA and Israeli color-revolution attempts have caused slaughters, but not brought benefits.

You can see there that defeating one evil regime did not fix the whole problem, but there was a transfer of evil methods into a new political entity. That is a chain.

You are ptojecting "the shadow" onto "the other" and would kill it, but "the shadow" exists within all of us, and must be seen where it is.

"The Shadow" is not easily vanquished in violent combat, upon which you may reflect.

Reality is complex and often frustrating.

Inisfad's avatar

I suggest you take a few minutes to watch TousiTV on Youtube. He is Iranian and has been covering this conflict since the beginning. The Iranian people in Iran and thought the world, are celebrating and calling President Trump a hero. Reality may be complex, but at the moment, the current reality of Iranian’s hope for freedom is quite simple.

John Day MD's avatar

I am aware of those channels, and they are funded and supported by certain interests that want Iran back as an economic colony, like the good old days, no?

I am aware of the various interests and views. Iran is likely more politically complicated than even the US.

The CIA overthrew Mossadegh to install the Shah, who was basically a boy, mostly a figurehead, and they instructed the Savak in methods of population control.

There are still currents in the country that favor those interests, and business with Israel, as well as most people who just want to live more freely, without the oppression, which has not gone away, because war has been waged upon their country, now 5th generation war, since 1979.

The people of any country at existential war will have a hard life. Cubans go through this, but all they see is the Castros, not the ongoing military blockade as much.

The US regime continues to make people suffer to get what it wants, which is not what it advertises to them.

This is inherently difficult all around, not clear cut in many ways, but the raw aggression of this series of attacks to force Iran back under the boot of financial neo-colonialism is more straightforward of an aspect.

I cannot support the people who are murdering the children and blaming their victims.

Do you?

Inisfad's avatar

I suggest that you research what it’s like for a non-Muslim to live under a radical Islamic regime. The people in Iran, and yes, they are multi-ethnic. Are celebrating and thanking Trump and Israel. Whether you agree with their emotions or not. And I do not support people who train their children to be terrorists, nor do I support the people who hide behind those children, hide their military weapons in schools or hospitals, etc. Which apparently, you do support.

John Day MD's avatar

Some people in Iran support some factions and other people in Iran support other factions. Israel blew up oil tanks which have flooded the sewrs of Tehran with foul burning oil.

The people of Tehran are dying and smothering, not celebrating.

This is not simple, and there is not a quick solution, which all of us would like.

You may have heard that:

"For every complex and thorny problem, there is a simple and direct solution, which is wrong."

It is the Israelis who are famous for hiding their military installations under hospitals and apartment blocks.

Is that your intended inference?

Noel's avatar

Are you a psychiatrist?

John Day MD's avatar

Family Medicine, but worked in psych hospitals 4 years, did OB and c-sections and taught residents, rural and urban settings, including Navajo Reservation, rural Texas and rural Hawaii.

Lorna Paisley's avatar

I think they must be demonically possessed. They get great pleasure out of killing and bombing and maiming people and stealing resources. These things are all against Christian values

cg's avatar

The Iranian people will be liberated from the true-fascist IRGC. Once again, Don deserves the Nobel Peace Prize.

Lorna Paisley's avatar

The Fascists in this case is the US and Israel. They start the wars and lie in their everyday actions. The Nobel Peace Prize is already a joke. If Trump gets it it will be an even bigger one if that is possible.

DKBLESSED's avatar

lol!!! You are obviously so deceived. I’m so sorry. Please wake up, for your own sake. But hurry. Time is short! God wants no one to perish, but we make our own choices. 🙏🙌✝️❤️🕊️💯

Sam's avatar

You get it. So many still don't :-(

Martha's avatar

Have you watched any of the coverage of the Iranian people in Iran out in the streets protesting the evil oppressive Islamic Republic? Check out Tousi TV. You do know that the IRGC was murdering them, particularly young people and children by shooting them in the face and eyes. Could be as many as 100,000. Have you heard or seen any of this? You know that Trump said to them “help is on the way,” right? You know that they started protesting in 2009 and that both Obama who I voted for and Biden (also voted for him) gave them billions which went to fund terrorism around the world. You realize since 1979 that the Ayatollah and the Islamists have cried Death to America and Death to Israel. We’re not starting a war, we’re ending one. It’s about time. Please listen to the Iranian people. Then thank God we came to their aid. They are very thankful.

cg's avatar

I ordered an IRGC t-shirt for you.

SteelJ's avatar

Lorna, I'm afraid you're trying to argue with right wingers as hive-minded as any libtard. It's pointless, Trump nu-thuggers can't be reasoned with. Some may be bots, but there are plenty of people on both sides of the political aisle who are NPCs.

Zach Birchall's avatar

You do not understand fascism.

freelearner's avatar

Right. Like the Iraqis were liberated from Saddam so they could live in civil strife with destroyed infrastructure and stolen oil fields. Like Libya was liberated so they could be cast into chaos leading to literal modern day slave auctions. Like Syria was liberated so it could be led by a terrorist who once commanded a $10 million bounty offered by the US for anyone contributing to his capture. Like the Kurds of Iraq were "liberated" only to be utterly abandoned and betrayed and left to the wolves. Like Afghani women were "liberated" by leaving them in a failed state run by the Taliban and regressed by, what shall we say, 200 years? I'm sure they will end up very "liberated". Already they have chosen a new religious leader who is more strict than the last. Liberation indeed.

cg's avatar

But it’s Trump.

freelearner's avatar

Ah, I think I missed your sarcasm.

DKBLESSED's avatar

You spread lies and try to turn the truth around to sound completely opposite of what is happening. Shame on you! You know nothing and it would behoove you to stop spreading slander and untruths. In simple terms that everyone can understand, just stop being a troublemaker in order to cause more chaos in the world. It won’t work for you. It’s not working for the evil ones like Obama and George Soros, and so many others that are behind the scenes, names unknown to most of the public, but still just as evil and devious…so-called “elites”.

Almighty God is cleaning house! Watch and see! Maybe you should wake up and change your ways! But do it soon. Time is short! 🙏🙌✝️❤️🕊️💯🎉🎉🎉

Noel's avatar

I really wish we could just have a reasonable discussion and forget about what is supposedly God inspired and what is demonic. God stands for what is good and the devil is deceptive and destructive. Iran's ideological (NOT logical) goal is ultimately to destroy ALL THINGS (including other Muslims) that stand in the way of world Islam dominance and world Sharia law. If you think this sounds good, then join them and let them continue to build an arsenal that will choke the WORLD ECONOMIES to death....OR when you have a President who sees the threat and surgically strikes to end that threat, you back him/her 100%. It does unfortunately mean death to many young people who may be "prisoners" of the regime. I think it's disrespectful to call them collateral damage, we should also consider them to have made the ultimate sacrifice for the freedom of Iran, just like the multi-thousands of protesters that were tortured and murdered by the regime. It's time to STAND, not cower in the shadows while this regime continues to plan the destruction of Western civilization.

SteelJ's avatar

While true it's against Christian values, I prefer to keep religion out of it. Rejoicing in killing Iranians is sick on a basic human level. Like Lindsay Graham cheering on killing as many Russians as possible. If Iranians or Russians came over here unprovoked and killed someone I care about, I'd want to kill them back. I think that's normal. Now, we've put the Iranians in exactly that position.

Kathy Sloan's avatar

What's even more telling - and more damning - is the laughter of the audience.

This quote from Marcos Paulo Candeloro, a brilliant Portuguese intellectual, is apropos: "There is something profoundly unsettling about discovering that barbarity, when practiced by men in tailored suits and framed diplomas, ceases to be called barbarity. It acquires elegant nomenclature. It gains institutional backing. It gets published in prestigious journals and applauded at international conferences where the hors d'oeuvres are exquisite and the moral sensibility, vestigial." I would correct that to say, "the moral sensibility, nonexistent."

freelearner's avatar

This is such an excellent quote, thank you.

Taming the Wolf Institute's avatar

What was the nature of the ship that was hit?

Grok says, "As a guided-missile frigate, it was equipped for anti-surface, anti-air, and anti-submarine warfare, featuring systems like the Asr 3D PESA radar, various missiles (e.g., Noor or Qader anti-ship missiles), torpedoes, naval guns, and helicopter facilities."

It was a WAR ship. It would have been safe if it had not been a party in a war. When you go out to war and the enemy says - Stop Halt Surrender - and you fail to stand down, you can expect to get blown out of the water.

Not sure what that has to do with masks or evil intentions. When you are part of an Islamist regime that wantonly murders citizens in the street, I think you can expect to be killed. Nothing hidden or covert about this.

Alan's avatar

Says the nation that has killed 38 million people since WW2 and currently funding at least 2 genocides.🤡

annademo's avatar

Why don't you get us a head count for how many were murdered by Communists like Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot and the like (hint: hundreds of millions)? Or the hundreds of millions murdered by Moose Limbs since that ideology was created?

Anne McKinney's avatar

Grok didn't get the message that there was reportedly no weaponry aboard & it was given sanctuary by Modi, President of India, for 3 days. "The sinking of the Iris Dena, with 130 sailors on board, in international waters off Sri Lanka's southern coast on 4 March marked a dramatic widening of the war - and raised questions about India's authority in its backyard."

Taming the Wolf Institute's avatar

Really? Did the ship stop and surrender as it was not really a warship armed with lethal weapons? Was the U.S. Navy not under a blanket threat, a declaration by the Ayatollah and the IRGC, that its ships would be attacked and would be dispatched by Iranian forces?

Anne McKinney's avatar

🤷🏼‍♀️ as usual, two narratives: It was "returning from a peaceful, Indian-hosted maritime exercise (MILAN). The vessel was reported as unarmed and defenseless at the time of the attack, not on a war footing.

The Dena had just participated in a multinational naval exercise with over 70 countries to promote maritime cooperation.

The U.S. Navy struck the ship in international waters, marking a major, rare escalation. The attack resulted in significant loss of life, with reports indicating at least 84 to 87 crew members killed.

The attack has been described as a "political mess" and a "defenceless" target engagement by officials and analysts." NYT

"... while India maintained a cautious silence, "Iran’s foreign minister called the Dena “a guest of India’s Navy,” and wrote that the American sub had “perpetrated an atrocity” against its crew members." Delhi Times

Taming the Wolf Institute's avatar

It was a warship, a ship built to engage in war, under the flag of a nation engaged in a war, a nation that had issued threats to U.S. maritime interests. The base facts are the base facts. One can dress it up in all manner of silly journalistic talk, but that does not alter the facts.

Anne McKinney's avatar

Thanks again -- certainly a lot to consider here! I would like to have been a fly on the wall at CENTCOM or after action discussion among Jt Chiefs staff ... or live long enough to see how history treats it. It reminds me of the USS Liberty follow up...perhaps Valhalla will discuss the pros & cons. 👋🏻

freelearner's avatar

It was engaging in a ceremonial joint naval exercise with India and was barely armed. Hardly "going out to war". It was nowhere near the action. Your comment is silly.

Taming the Wolf Institute's avatar

Now that is funny. It was simply a party boat with missiles. A warship out being all ceremonial. Just a harmless trip to Gilligan's Island on the part of a belligerent regime. Was Mr. Rogers aboard?

Ruth Gordon's avatar

I thought the same thing when I heard Trump yesterday making jokes about sinking 46 "Iranian" ships. "They're all...at the bottom of the ocean now. I said to the commanders, 'Why did you sink them? Why not capture them?' and they said they really liked blowing them up. They like blowing them up!" hahaha

He's totally lost it. This is not the same Trump we had in 2016 who wanted to drain the swamp. I'd love to see 2016 Trump debating 2026 Trump. He would shred him to pieces. "Because you'd be in jail" version 2.0 would apply directly to current Trump.

They think this is how populism is destroyed. Elect a "populist" candidate - a PINO - and then have him go totally off the rails and then blame populism. It also seems to be how to destroy liberalism. Call the left "liberals" and then have them go full satanist death-cult on society. Blame it on "liberals".

Takes a while but people are learning. The mistake this time around is that there is a universal lynch pin that is uniting society and it keeps re-centering and refocusing people back to the core causes and mechanisms of how the world's disturbed leaders operate: Epstein. Everyone needs to keep bringing it up, naming names and demanding justice. The wars aren't going to distract people, they are going to remind people that the Epstein class is behind them all.

Marjorie rodd's avatar

I very much appreciate your honesty in speaking from your heart. To not see others as a human beings- as Mothers, Fathers, Daughters, Sons, Brothers and Sisters is beyond sad and tragic, it is frightening. So many lost souls.

Joe Silvestrini's avatar

For 47 years they chant Death to America, they killed over 1000 Americans, gave money that our previous idiot presidents gave them and funded terrorism around the world and you want me to feel sorry for them because of trumps boasting? Are you offended by my use of "idiots" in referring to previous presidents or am I just telling the unvarnished truth? You must then want Iran to have a nuclear weapon to use on us or the truly innocent citizens of Israel. Put your crying towel away, there will be rejoicing when the crazies are finally out of Iran.

freelearner's avatar

You really need to settle down. America's own public health establishment killed at a minimum 480,000 people via the covid disaster. Are you as up in arms about that?

Anne McKinney's avatar

The informed are: A recent Rasmussen survey found that 56% of Americans believe the COVID-19 vaccines have caused large numbers of deaths.

Florida Prophet's avatar

Does that event - as evil as it is - somehow mitigate the globe's most arrogant, evil, dedicated fundamentalist regime's aggressions against the US over the past 48 years to which I referred four comments above?

A regime, if given the space to complete the development of a nuclear warhead core and the means to deliver it 5000 miles, would sooner nuke the US than kill 40,000 of its own citizens IN COLD BLOOD for peacefully demonstrating.

Oh dear, I got the sequence of events switched. They already did that!

Jersey Prophet's avatar

Are you blind to the rhetoric that for 46 years these bloodthirsty savages used towards the US and Israel?

Does the fact this Iranian warship was not at that very moment involved in attacking coalition forces matter to you? Then why no outrage when Iran blew up 241 Marines in Beirut; when Iran attacked the USA Cole; when Iran kidnapped an unarmed US Navy patrol boat in the Persian Gulf; or going back 48 years, when the revolutionaries held 52 American Embassy workers hostage for 444 days? Were any of these US citizens in the process of attacking Iran when Iran attacked them??

Trump was quoting others, if that makes any difference in your own quite acidic selective outrage towards our President.

SHAMEFUL!

Alan's avatar

He is Israel's president's maid. Sad fact. Look at all the " dual citizens" with legally obligated 1st allgiance to Shitreal genociders. Are you really that blind?

Jersey Prophet's avatar

Interesting that your ‘maid’ received frequent visits from his master at the White House.

Seems Alan has a strange sense of who’s the maid and who’s the master!

Alan's avatar

He was just checking in on his maid to make sure he was doing the job dictated and reminding him he has the pedo tapes.

Jersey Prophet's avatar

Also curious how it is that the fact that your perceived ‘maid’ is not paid by his employer, rather your ‘maid’ pays its employer billions yearly.

It soon becomes quite clear Alan persists in engaging in wishful ROLE REVERSAL!

Incidentally, these “pedo tapes” were never a topic of discussion during the 12 years the obama/biden team ran things. I’m sure Alan found no reason to raise such questions at that time.

One final point of order: Bibi Netanyahu is not Israel’s President. Isaac Herzog is.

Alan's avatar

History, Bud. Prove otherwise.

Jersey Prophet's avatar

Selective history, buster! Prove otherwise!

Anne McKinney's avatar

Horrible events ... as was the USS Liberty!

Patrick's avatar

I see a case of full on TDS. Destroying EVIL is not a bad thing.

Paving the Way's avatar

Evil? You mean our Epstein empire? Our debased culture. Our narcissism, consumerism, greed, imperialism?

David Pfaff's avatar

Thank you John Leake! I too have for a long time now collected in my mind little snippets of comments from all who you have mentioned and for some time came to the same opinion as yourself. We are all in trouble with these people masquerading as "leaders."

Bonnie J. Toomey's avatar

Is it not true that this regime has brutally, unjustly executed its own citizens? Will you address the women’s team who cannot return home to Iran under threat of jail and death?

freelearner's avatar

So should we go to war against Saudi Arabia? Because there it is far worse for women, and they also routinely execute their own citizens.

Joan Hurlock's avatar

I have come to believe that you are indeed correct- these men are demonically possessed. They have sold their souls to our greatest ally.

Alan's avatar

Don't wonder. It's only too obvious. They ARE absolutely demonically possessed!

DKBLESSED's avatar

Maybe you should look a bit closer at who is really demonically possessed. God is in control and he is taking out the evil ones. You should get on board and quit lying to yourself and others.

Health Matters's avatar

In 1 Samuel 15:3, God tells King Saul: "Now go and smite Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and spare them not; but slay both man and woman, infant and suckling..." This was due to the Amalekites’ opposition to Israel during the Exodus.

After the battle with Midian, Moses, following God’s directive, commands the Israelites to kill all male children and non-virgin women, sparing only the young girls (Numbers 31:17–18), to prevent idolatry and corruption.

These actions were not acts of unprovoked aggression but were framed as executions of divine justice against nations deemed deeply corrupt—particularly for practices like child sacrifice, idolatry, and sexual immorality (Deuteronomy 9:4–5; Leviticus 18:24–25).

M. N. Mead's avatar

Thanks for this article. The quote about mask slippage seems spot on, and the facade is indeed cracking. Many years ago I adopted the saying, "the bigger the front, the bigger the back". Trump's persona has so artfully woven the illusion of "goodness" and "doing the right thing" that many seem incapable of seeing his dark side or shadow self. There is no justification for taking pleasure in death and suffering.