Gavin Newsom slammed for talking out of both sides of his mouth in bizarre response to Trump's Iran attack

  Daily Mail Online

Gavin Newsom wants to APPEASE his WOKE Base, but at the same time he’s running for PRESIDENT so he’s PRETENDING to be a “MODERATE Democrat” to get VOTES. Same GAME that Biden played to get elected, then he suddenly turned 100% WOKE the Day he was elected.

"California Gov. Gavin Newsom is facing a fierce backlash after critics accused him of 'talking out of both sides of his mouth' in a blistering response to President Donald Trump's unprecedented strike on Iran.

"Newsom's statement both called for the end of Tehran's regime while condemning the military operation targeting it as 'illegal' and 'dangerous.'

"Newsom posted a sharply worded message on X in the hours following the coordinated US-Israeli assault on Iranian targets.

" 'The corrupt and repressive Iranian regime must never have nuclear weapons. The leadership of Iran must go,' Newsom wrote. 

" 'But that does not justify the President of the United States engaging in an illegal, dangerous war that will risk the lives of our American service members and our friends without justification to the American people." . . .

 

Iran’s huge mistake, Newsom's contempt for the press and other commentary

“For decades, Iran managed to bluff American presidents,” explains Gen. Kenneth F. McKenzie Jr. (USMC, ret.) at The New York Times but US action starting Saturday show “that this long-term strategy of negotiating in bad faith is bankrupt.”

That is: “This time, they misjudged the president.”

That is: “For the first time in decades, American military power in the Middle East deployed against Iran is coupled with a commander in chief who isn’t afraid to use it.” . . .  More...

Why Iranians Have Unified Around Reza Pahlavi

  The American Spectator  

"Beginning in the 1960s, sweeping reforms dismantled feudal landholding, expanded women’s rights, and fueled the growth of a substantial middle class. By the 1970s, Iran had entered the ranks of the world’s top 20 economies." . . .

"On the morning of Oct. 31, 1978, Iran’s 19-year-old crown prince, Reza Pahlavi, stood beside President Jimmy Carter in the Oval Office. Officially, he was the heir to one of America’s closest allies in the Middle East. Unofficially, the Carter administration was already preparing for his father’s possible downfall.

"Thousands of miles away, Iran was unraveling. Protesters flooded the streets, chanting “Death to the Shah!” Nationwide strikes shut down factories, schools, and oil fields, threatening vital Western interests. Before the cameras, Carter projected calm and reaffirmed the U.S.–Iran alliance. Behind the scenes, the White House was quietly planning for the collapse of the Pahlavi monarchy.

"In the weeks that followed, contingency planning gave way to quiet disengagement. Carter urged the Shah toward exile while opening secret channels to Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, hoping to reach an accommodation with the exiled cleric. The double game backfired. The United States lost Iran, endured the longest hostage crisis in its history, and would go on to spend trillions of dollars fighting wars across the Middle East to protect oil routes and strategic interests. (RELATED: Jimmy Carter’s Iran)

"As Iranians unwittingly traded progress for a brutal theocracy, Crown Prince Reza faded from view, seemingly consigned to history. (RELATED: The Prince and the Protests)

"But now, to the frustration of the Islamic Republic, Pahlavi has reemerged as the most prominent opposition figure in exile. Regime mouthpieces in the West continue to criticize him, but developments inside the country tell a different story. (RELATED: Time to Stand With the People of Iran)

"Reza Pahlavi’s name is being chanted across Iran, alongside the names and images of his father and grandfather, and other pre-Islamic Iranian symbols, including the Pahlavi-era flag. They are spray-painted on walls, raised at protests, and even tattooed onto bodies. Protesters chant “Javid Shah” (long live the Shah) and “This is the final battle, Pahlavi will return.” No other individual or faction commands a comparable level of visible support. (RELATED: It’s Now or Never in Iran) . . . 

Reza Pahlavi may never sit on the Peacock Throne, as he has said he does not seek it, but he has inherited something more durable: a name that, for tens of millions of Iranians, still signifies order, dignity, and the hope of a better future.

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Kambiz Fattahi is a former BBC journalist and Managing Director of Iran Open Data (IOD). He is the author of the forthcoming book The Betrayal: Jimmy Carter, Khomeini, and America’s Secret Surrender in Iran.

Trump’s Axing Of Evil Ends Both Neocon And Mad MAGA Ideology

 Issues & Insights  "Saturday, Feb. 28, 2026, will be commemorated as the date the ghosts of Jimmy Carter’s debacle at Desert One in 1980 – the worst military humiliation in U.S. history – were finally exorcised.

"It took more than four and a half decades for a president of the United States to be willing to conduct the unfinished business of overthrowing the Ayatollah Khomeini’s Islamist regime in Iran, which began its long reign of terror by seizing 53 American hostages and keeping them in harsh conditions for 444 days from 1979 to 1981.

"The feckless President Carter, who had already suffered the Soviet Union’s Christmas Eve invasion of Afghanistan a few months after a summit meeting with premier Leonid Brezhnev,  appeared before the press a few days after the Operation Eagle Claw rescue mission’s bloody failure during a refueling stop in a remote location hundreds of miles southeast of Tehran, killing five U.S. Air Force and three Marines. He remarked that “the ghoulish action of the terrorists and some of the government officials in Iran,” which included displaying the charred body parts of the U.S. personnel killed, “indicates quite clearly the kinds of people with whom we have been dealing in a peaceful effort to secure a resolution of this crisis.”

"Yet until last weekend, America has continued to deal with and refused to remove these ghouls, playing them off Saddam Hussein during the Iran-Iraq War of the 1980s, in which we hoped that somehow, as Henry Kissinger quipped, both sides could lose; letting pass the golden opportunity in 2009 to help liberate the brave Iranians who were shot and imprisoned for taking to the streets by the tens of thousands to overthrow Khomeini’s successor, the Ayatollah Khamenei . . ."

Democrat Jane Fonda naturally hates all war, including - and perhaps especially - this latest. This picture and the others should show us that she may say she hates killing; but only killing of America's adversaries. American deaths she joked about.

Fonda by an NVA antiaircraft gun

Eric Swalwell Tries Picking a Fight With Dave Portnoy Over Operation Epic Fury and Was THAT Ever STOOOPID

"I always laugh at yo-yo’s who don’t have the 1st clue what information the President had that forced this decision. Even politicians who despise him but were briefed on the situation seem to agree with this operation. I guess lotta podcasters know better. 😂. Gotta keep the lights on somehow. Borderline traitors if you ask me. Iran is a terror nation with a long history of some of the worst human rights atrocities in the world. Nobody disputes that fact. They hate Americans. They hate Israel. They hate all Jews. They hate the West. They would kill us all if given the chance. They just murdered tens of thousands of their own people. The rest of the Middle East is on our side. The Iranian people are on our side. It isn’t that complicated to support our Troops and our country this morning. We are on the right side here. God Bless America . — Dave Portnoy (@stoolpresidente) February 28, 2026

Read on: The conversation deteriorates as Swalwell's inner high-schooler kicks in:

 Iranian Women Celebrating FREEDOM Take Nasty, 'Antisemitic Karen' Slut-Shaming Them As HOOKERS Apart

Trump Makes It Painful to Be a Liberal, Blue-Haired Gorgon — But Stains Gonna Stain (UPDATED)

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According to the Associated Press, with Khamenei now dead, Iran’s constitution provides a process for selecting a new Supreme Leader. On Sunday, Iran formed a three-man leadership council to handle the supreme leader’s powers temporarily. 

. . . "Under Iranian law, an 88-member Assembly of Experts must hustle to name Khamenei's successor. Top names floated include former President Hassan Rouhani, the founder’s grandson, Hassan Khomeini, Khamenei’s own son, Mojtaba, Ayatollah Ali Reza Arafi, and Qom hardliner Mohammad Mehdi Mirbagheri. Mojtaba lurks as the family insider pick. Hassan Khomeini offers a softer face. Rouhani brings negotiation cred. But the assembly holds the real cards.

"Or it did.

"Fox News Chief Foreign Correspondent Trey Yingst dropped a bombshell. Israel "just struck" the "gathering where the Iranians were meeting to choose a new supreme leader."

“ 'But I'm told by a senior Israeli official that the Israelis just struck the Supreme Council gathering where the Iranians were meeting to choose a new supreme leader,” Yingst reported. “This is a significant development and again, speaks to the Israeli intelligence about this war. They just targeted the meeting in Tehran where what's left of the leadership was gathering to choose a new supreme leader.”

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Kevin Downey Jr. is a comedian, columnist, and radio show host. When he isn't writing or performing, he is collecting surf records and practicing his mixologist skills at his tiki bar. His apartment—the Atomic Bunker—looks like it was furnished from George Jetson's garage sale. You can listen to KDJ clown-slap the commies every Monday-Friday, 9:00-11:00 am EST on the New World Order's Public Enemy #1 radio program, "The Kevin Downey, Jr. Show." Click here: www.LINEWSRADIO.com

UPDATE:  Democrats attending and boycotting SOTUS embarrass themselves - The Punching Bag Post

"There seems to be bipartisan agreement that the democrat members of Congress in attendance for the State of the Union Speech looked bad. They were criticized by Democrat strategists. James Carville had cautioned his colleagues to behave. Democrat congressional leaders advised their members to be respectful – and not engage in the kind of theatrics that hurt their image in President Trump’s 2025 address to Congress. But the radical left was unpersuaded.

"Texas Congressman Al Green reprised his 2025 ejection from the chamber for disruptive behavior. Showboating of the worst kind. (Who votes for these folks?) A few Democrats walked out during the speech. Congresswomen Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib shouted at the President during his remarks – without the response from Trump they hoped for.

"It was especially shameful, however, when the applause was for non-controversial tributes to those who suffered at the hands of illegal aliens or were national heroes. It was obsessive obstinance – failing to respectfully stand for wounded warriors and police, parents of dead children and even a little girl in a car accident with a drunk illegal alien." . . .More at The Punching Bag Post

Pete Hegseth Proclaims 'We Didn't Start This War, But We Will Finish It' And Reveals Shocking Nuclear Threat To America

Inquisitr  

"With the world watching closely, the Donald Trump administration is signaling that it believes decisive action now may prevent a far more dangerous confrontation later."

"War Secretary Pete Hegseth delivers stark warning about Iran’s underground nuclear ambitions while standing firmly behind Trump’s decisive military action. He delivered a forceful and unflinching message to the nation this week, declaring that the United States “didn’t start this war, but we will finish it” as he revealed what he described as a deeply troubling nuclear threat developing under the Iranian regime.

"Pete Hegseth spoke as the Pentagon confirmed that a fourth U.S. service member had died following Iranian strikes on an American base in Kuwait, a sobering development that underscored the gravity of the moment.

“ 'War is hell and it always will be,” Secretary Pete Hegseth said, acknowledging the painful cost as American troops continue operating in a volatile region. His remarks came as officials confirmed the additional casualty, marking another tragic loss in the escalating confrontation.

"Speaking during a Pentagon briefing following U.S. strikes on Iranian targets, Pete Hegseth made clear that the military action authorized by President Donald Trump was not the beginning of hostilities, but rather a response to years of aggression and escalating danger.

"The War Secretary laid out what he described as mounting intelligence showing Iran had continued advancing elements of its nuclear capabilities, including infrastructure buried deep beneath mountainous terrain. Pete Hegseth stressed that such secretive construction is inconsistent with peaceful nuclear energy.

“ 'Peaceful nuclear programs are not hidden under mountains,” Donald Trump’s War Secretary said, pointing to hardened underground facilities that U.S. officials believe were designed to shield critical components from airstrikes." . . .