In 1987, Trump predicted this . . .

 Don Surber

"He explained what needed to be done in Iran. Now he is doing it."

"In 1987, Barbara Walters of ABC (then owned by Capital Cities) interviewed Donald and Ivana Trump. He was 41 and they were still married. Walters asked him about Iran, which had a decade earlier had broken international law by seizing the U.S. Embassy and holding all its American employees hostage.

"In so doing, Iran committed an act of war, which Jimmy Carter ignored. We had the military but not the will as we had elected in 1976 a commander-in-chief unfit for the office.

"Nobody outside of Georgia noticed that while Carter was governor, Lieutenant Governor Lester Maddox ran the state as state Senate president. Carter was his Lurleen Wallace—except Carter lacked a beautician’s license.

"Fearing Carter’s replacement in 1981, Ronald Reagan, Iran immediately released its hostages upon his inauguration as president. I don’t think the mullahs pooped from Reagan’s stunning election until he took office.

"In the 1987 Walters interview with Trump, the Iran segment began with him making a speech, in which he said, “Because I’m running for the presidency. I’m here because I’m personally tired of seeing this great country of ours being ripped off.

" 'But as far as Trump is concerned, our allies are only part of [the problem]. The real culprit is Iran. Why couldn’t we go in and take over some of their oil which is along the sea?”

"He was not clairvoyant. His prediction was accurate not because he could see the future but because he could see the present. NATO and Iran haven’t changed much since then but they grew in size and belligerence over the decades.

"Walters asked him, “How would you do that? Would you send in the Marines? Would you take a chance on a war?”

"Trump replied, “Let them have Iran, you’d take their oil. That’s what I [would do].” . . .

"Trump said, “I don’t believe they would. Next time Iran attacks this country, go and grab one of their big oil installations. Grab them and keep [it]. Get back your losses. Because this country has lost plenty because of Iran.'” . . . More...

Eight justices shut down Colorado's 'egregious' censorship of talk therapy in 'conversion' ban

  Just The News 

"Justice Kagan says Jackson's dissent contradicts itself"

"Colorado was cruising for a judicial bruising when it struggled to defend its ban on so-called conversion therapy for minors at the Supreme Court last fall, with several justices skeptical of its last-ditch argument that plaintiff and licensed counselor Kaley Chiles didn't actually violate the law with her talk therapy for kids struggling with gender identity and sexual orientation.

"That bruising came down Tuesday in the form of an 8-1 ruling against the law, with only Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson dissenting, in a worrying sign for similar bans in half the states but also for red states that might try to ban so-called gender affirming counseling.

"The issuance of the majority opinion, a slim 23 pages without the summary, three months before the court typically issues its final decisions of the term, showed how closely aligned the six right-coded and two left-coded justices were on the core issues of the case.

"The court reached the same tally at least twice in high-profile First Amendment cases in the past five years.

"In 2021, over a lone dissent by Chief Justice John Roberts, SCOTUS authorized lawsuits against public officials such as university officials for censorship without measurable economic harm to the victims, in that case student evangelists.

"Months later, with Justice Clarence Thomas in dissent, SCOTUS prohibited K-12 schools from regulating student speech in contexts that are not school-supervised, including social media outside of school hours, based on the speculative threat of disruption on campus." . . .

SCOTUS: Colorado Can’t Ban Counselors from Helping Minors Escape LGBTQ Ideology 

 “Counselors walking alongside these young people shouldn’t be limited to promoting state-approved goals like gender transition, which often leads to harmful drugs and surgeries. The Supreme Court’s ruling is a victory for counselors and, more importantly, kids and families everywhere.”

 Ketanji Brown Jackson Is Not the Idiot You Think She Is – HotAir  

"The reason why KBJ couldn't provide a definition of a woman is not that she has none; it is because the definition literally does not exist until she conjures it in whatever context she needs to. As with her assertion about state power and treating trans kids, it all depends on the context. What she believes about state power depends entirely on whether it gets her the outcome she wants." 

. . . "Now, it is still possible that KBJ is simply a DEI hire without much of a brain in her head, but the fact that she makes no sense to us is not evidence of that. When I was in graduate school ran into perfectly nice and relatively smart people who would argue that physics isn't real; it is a social construct. Gravity exists solely because we believe it does." 

Democrat Kings Want Our Heads

  J.B. Shurk - American Thinker  "American leftists held another “No Kings” rally last weekend.  Democrats and their ideological allies gathered in city parks and town squares to tell the rest of us how awful we are.  They screamed obscenities and called us “fascists” and “Nazis.”  They demanded President Trump’s removal from office.  Some even brazenly wished for his death. 

"To non-leftists, these things are cringeworthy spectacles.  The participants look loony and behave immaturely.  They are not serious people.  Their messages make no sense.  How are they able to protest so vocally if they are living under the yoke of tyranny?  How are they able to call for President Trump’s death if he is truly a malevolent king?  Such riddles are never asked or answered.  We are expected to treat their hurt feelings as reasonable justification for their demands to overthrow the government.  

. . . "Tina Peters sits in jail for fighting election fraud in Colorado.  Social media platforms still censor conservative voices.  A leftist assassinated Charlie Kirk.  Other leftists have repeatedly tried to assassinate President Trump.  And leftists continue to call us “fascists.”  . . . 

. . . "Until leftist criminals who promote violence against the rest of us are held accountable, America will continue to descend into madness.  Until prominent Democrats are prosecuted for serious crimes, two-tiered “justice” will remain.  President Trump takes his constitutional oath seriously.  It is the Democrat Party that is filled with lawless, bloodthirsty kings."   More...

Many worry Hollywood will soon resemble Detroit after the fall of the auto industry

 Revolver News 

"Hollywood forgot the audience was not some captive population, chained to their seats. It was a relationship. They trashed it, and now the breakup will likely destroy them."

Sabrina Fasanella

"Hollywood is in big trouble, and everybody can feel it now. The panic is real, and it’s setting in. Jobs are drying up, and the people inside the Tinsel Town machine are finally having to admit that something really big is going very wrong. Yes, some of this panic is about streaming, economics, COVID fallout, and production fleeing to other states and countries, thanks to Gavin Newsom. But let’s not play dumb here. Hollywood also did this to itself.

"The movie industry made a very deliberate choice to stop entertaining people and start lecturing them. When Trump came down that escalator, Hollywood went bonkers. Actors, studios, late-night bozos, and every other self-important narcissist in the movie galaxy decided they weren’t just actors anymore. They were activists on an unholy mission to “save democracy” by drowning the country in Trump hate, progressive identity sermons, and stale, joyless slop. And normal people, including plenty who don’t even care about politics, eventually reached the same conclusion: enough is enough.

"But in perfect narcissistic form, Hollywood kept ignoring the red flags. They laughed off the sagging box office numbers, the cultural backlash, and the growing hatred toward all the woke messaging because they thought it was too important and big to fail. Hollywood thought they were untouchable and the audience would keep showing up out of habit.

"That didn’t happen.

"Instead, America checked out. Now the days of the “big stars” are gone, the magic disappeared, the loyalty is in the dustbin, and as the whole thing starts to rot from the inside out. And the real kicker is that America isn’t rushing in to save this dying industry. They’re standing on the sidelines and watching it burn.

"The panic got real when the Wall Street Journal published a story on the “nightmare scenario” that’s unfolding." . . . More...