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." . . .

You Don’t Hate Media Enough: NYT, WaPo Remember Ayatollah As ‘Cleric’ With ‘Easy Smile’

 Brianna Lyman 

"You don’t have to hate the media to notice the absurdity of these obituaries, but if you didn’t hate them before, you probably do now." 

"If you thought The Washington Post’s infamous decision to describe ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi as an “austere religious scholar” was a once in a lifetime lapse in editorial judgement, you were mistaken. With the death of Iran’s brutal dictatorial supreme leader, both The New York Times and The Post are back to remind you that legacy media still has no shame.

"Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran’s longtime supreme leader responsible for executions, censorship, repression, and sponsoring terrorist groups worldwide, was killed in an airstrike on Saturday. His death comes weeks after his regime oversaw the execution of tens of thousands of Iranians who took to the streets to protest his very rule.

"But rather than recount the misery and destruction of his reign, the propaganda press has set out to humanize him. In a Washington Post obituary by William Branigin, readers are introduced to the Ayatollah not as the brutal dictator he was, but simply as “Iran’s supreme leader,” who “is dead at 86.” . . .

Brianna Lyman is an elections correspondent at The Federalist. Brianna graduated from Fordham University with a degree in International Political Economy. Her work has been featured on Newsmax, Fox News, Fox Business and RealClearPolitics.

Iranian woman slams Muslim Mayor of NYC and the useful idiot Democrats for their disgusting hypocrisy   "Elica Le Bon says the Democrat mask is off! “It’s the first time these people have spoken up on Iran, the Mayor of NYC, Congress people, they spoke up not to defend the Iranian people, but to defend the Islamic terrorists who are massacring them.'”

‘Disgrace of a human’: Whoopi Goldberg ‘minimizes’ the struggles of Iranian women    “Let me be clear, the Iranian regime will hang you from a crane in the public square for crimes like blasphemy, witchcraft, homosexuality and of course, if you dare show any dissent, if you challenge the brutal regime. Whoopi thinks that's pretty much how black folk are treated in America,” Ms Panahi said.

“You absolute disgrace of a human being, Whoopi Goldberg, to show absolutely no regard for the Iranian women who risk their lives to challenge the Islamist government, to minimize their struggle and compare it to your fever dreams about oppression in America in 2025.”

Savannah Guthrie lays flowers outside missing mother Nancy's home and embraces sister and brother-in-law

  Daily Mail Online  

"Savannah also plans to return home to New York City soon, the Daily Mail previously revealed. "The mother of two young children, who is married to former Democratic political adviser Michael Feldman, has decided she must get her other life back on track as the search for her mother continues." 

"Savannah Guthrie was seen placing flowers outside her missing mother Nancy's home as the search for her marks a month. 

"The Today show host looked visibly heartbroken as she united with her older sister Annie and her brother-in-law Tommaso Cioni on Monday, a video obtained by NewsNation correspondent Brian Entin showed. 

"The three of them were seen locked arm in arm, laying flowers down as Annie wept and held onto her husband and sister for support. 

"Savannah leaned on her family members as they joined for a group hug in front of the many flowers and messages left for their missing 84-year-old mother. 

"The emotional moment comes a month after Nancy was abducted from her home on the morning of February 1, after she failed to show up for her church service. 

"Nancy was last seen on January 31, after being dropped off by Cioni, following a dinner and game night at Annie's home. 

"The Pima County Sheriff's Department and the FBI have been on the case ever since, but the few leads they have received have been fruitless, as Nancy's whereabouts still remain unknown. 

"The FBI recently announced that the agency would be scaling back its search for Nancy, with agents moving to a new command post more than 100 miles away from Phoenix. 

"Some agents will also stay behind in Tucson, sources with knowledge of the investigation told ABC News. Agents in Phoenix, meanwhile, will work the case from there". . . . More...

Kuwait 'mistakenly' shot down three $31M US fighter jets . . .

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 . . . "all crew safely ejected: military  

"With “friends” like this, who needs enemies. Thankfully the pilots all were able to eject safefully(sp), but Kuwait needs to reimburse the U.S. for their “mistake” either with cash or oil. We’ve saved their derrières in the past when they were invaded at no charge, but this time they need to pay up." Reader comment.

"Three US F-15s involved in the attack on Iran were shot down by Kuwaiti air defenses in a case of friendly fire, the American military’s Central Command (CENTCOM) said in a statement early Monday.

"All six crew members on board the F-15E Strike Eagles were able to eject safely and are in stable condition.

"“Kuwait has acknowledged this incident, and we are grateful for the efforts of the Kuwaiti defense forces and their support in this ongoing operation,” Tampa, Fla.-based CENTCOM went on.

"The jet crashes, captured in dramatic video footage, were reported shortly after an apparent Iranian missile and drone barrage struck the US Embassy compound in Kuwait City — which had earlier issued a blunt warning to Americans, telling them to remain indoors, take cover, and “Do not come to the Embassy.”

"Fire and smoke were seen rising from inside the compound, though there were no immediate reports of any casualties.

"Explosions could be heard as one of the planes fell from the sky in flames, said witness Ahmed al-Asar, who rushed to the scene with about a dozen others as an airman parachuted to the ground.

"Al-Asar initially thought the pilot was Iranian, but recognized he was American before rescuers whisked him away." . . .  More...

Iranians flood social media with videos of them 'doing the Trump dance' to thank president for eliminating Khamenei

 Daily Mail Online

Lefties Losing It: Iranians celebrate imminent liberation as Lefties fume

"Iranians have taken to social media to share videos of them doing the famous 'Trump dance' after a joint US-Israel military operation killed Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Khamenei on Saturday.

President Donald Trump announced on Saturday evening that the US had killed Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei.

'Khamenei, one of the most evil people in History, is dead,' the president wrote on Truth Social.

Khamenei, the chief Islamic cleric and ruler of Iran for over 36 years since 1989, has long been an adversary of the US for decades throughout multiple presidential administrations.

His rule saw the increased Islamification of Iran and the growth of its proxy forces in Yemen, Lebanon, Gaza and beyond. 

His strong religious views long unsettled the Middle East and placed Iran opposite its more western-embracing neighbors like Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar and Bahrain.  

The president also used his announcement to call on Iranian citizens to stand up to the Islamic regime, saying it is 'the single greatest chance for the Iranian people to take back their Country.'

Now, Iranians celebrating all over the world are publicly thanking the US president by copying his signature dance set to the song 'YMCA' performed at many of his rallies." . . .

. . . "In London, members of the Persian community took to North Finchley on Saturday night, with footage showing residents of the London borough blaring music from their cars and cheering, while some were seen handing out roses.

Local resident Jessica came out of her house to find a scene of literally thousands descending on Ballards Lane.

She told The Daily Mail: 'It's absolute mayhem, it's pandemonium. It's a scene of absolute jubilation." . . .

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Insanities of the Left

Why the left’s serial insanities keep becoming the law of the land - Victor Davis Hanson

"In sum, just five years ago, when Joe Biden and his masters took control of the government, the orthodoxy was that we were to restructure the entire economy along failed European lines in order to save the planet."

More scary than funny

. . . "Yesterday’s radical new policy becomes today’s wishy-washy cop-out, as tomorrow’s once-unthinkable radical idea becomes commonplace and institutionalized.

"So it was that a few years ago, the public was told of a new and huge victimized group in the shadows, suffering from “gender dysphoria” — an age-old malady known to the ancients and, according to modern researchers before the millennium, affecting about one in 10,000 to 30,000 people.

"No matter — almost overnight, transgenderism joined the gay and lesbian community to become the new LGBT oppressed.

"Drag shows, once confined to enclaves in San Francisco or New York, were suddenly mainstreamed into military bases, children’s libraries and cruise ships.

"On some campuses, 30% of students polled said that they might consider “transitioning.”

"Abruptly, professors and students began reading emails appearing from their finger-in-the-wind administrators with strange new runes under their titles and names, identifying their “preferred pronouns” — sometimes the standard “she/her/hers” or “he/him/his,” and sometimes the unfathomable, such as “Ze/hir/hirs” or the plural “they/them.” . . .

The Growing Threat of Political Violence From the Left - Newsweek

"We're witnessing the alarming rise of what the NCRI calls an 'assassination culture,'" said Max Horder of the NCRI, in an interview with Newsweek. "Violence targeting figures like Donald Trump or Elon Musk has gone beyond normalization—it's being sanctified as resistance by parts of the political left."

Who Really Are the Lawless and the Dictatorial? - Victor Davis Hanson  " . . .In Trump’s first 120 days, I don’t recall FBI Director Kash Patel leaking confidential presidential conversations to the New York Times, or ordering the FBI to collect dirt on Democratic candidates, or hiring a fraudulent ex-British spy to compile a lurid dossier on AOC or Bernie Sanders. Has Patel lied four times to federal investigators following the prompt of Andrew McCabe?

"Nor has Patel ordered his agents to work with Facebook and Twitter to suppress embarrassing press coverage about the Trump family.

"The Trump Secret Service is not a private retrieval service that hunts down his children’s missing, lurid diaries or incriminating lost laptops or illegally acquired lost handguns.

"Is there now a White House-conservative media cabal covering up a Trump cancer diagnosis or demonstrable senility?

"So far, the Trump CIA Director John Ratcliffe and Tulsi Gabbard, Director of National Intelligence, have not repeatedly lied under oath to Congress, following the precedents of the Obama-era CIA Director John Brennan and DNI James Clapper.

"So please, spare us the sanctimonious lectures on “tyranny” and “dictatorship” from the very ideologues who have done and are doing more to wreck the Constitution and destroy the confidence of the American people in the rule of law than any generation in modern memory."

Newsom’s ‘play dumb’ routine is not new — in fact, it has a clinical name

 The Hill

 "A genuine ally does not walk into your community and lead with what they assume you have failed at. They speak to your aspirations, your excellence, and your future"... 

"When California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) took the stage before a predominantly Black audience in Georgia recently, something revealing happened. He leaned into the microphone and offered his credentials for relatability: a 960 SAT score, a confession that he can’t read well, and a childhood sustained by frozen lasagna and mac and cheese.

"Newsom’s intention was for the crowd to feel seen. But that he actually exposed was a pattern that has been hiding in plain sight for thirty years — a pattern so well-documented that researchers at Yale and Princeton have given it a clinical name.

"In 2019, social psychologists Cydney Dupree of Yale and Susan Fiske of Princeton published a peer-reviewed study in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology with a striking conclusion: White liberals systematically present themselves as less competent when speaking to Black audiences than when speaking to white ones.

"They called it “competence downshift.”

"Analyzing 25 years of presidential campaign speeches — 74 speeches delivered to mostly white or mostly minority audiences — they found that Democratic candidates consistently used fewer words associated with intelligence, ability, and status when addressing Black crowds. Republican candidates showed no such pattern. The difference was not random. It was consistent, measurable, and unique to white liberals." . . . More...

Let's Take a Trip Down Memory Lane With Iran's Mullahs

 PJ Media

First this update: Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Iran’s ex-president who said ‘Israel must be wiped off the map,’ killed in Israeli airstrikes

"Before all the signs, bricks, and whistles are placed in the hands of malign actors at NGO-sponsored “protests” planned in Seattle, New York, and elsewhere over the joint Israel–America strikes on Iran, we need to have a talk. Before the sounds of drum circles, whistles, and "Orange Man Bad" dozens take hold in the media, you take a seat for a minute. We've got 47 years to cover in our short window, but I'll make it quick. 

""The important point about Iran's mullahs is that no one has to use hyperbolic language to convey the acts of pure evil leveled against the U.S. and others in the 47 years since Jimmy Carter let them sack Iran. 

"Iran's Islamic Nazis are the worst progenitors of state-sponsored terrorism this side of Genghis Khan, except old Genghis was more tolerant than the mullahs of others' religious beliefs.

" 'We begin in 1979 because that’s the most logical spot for our purposes. That year, the so‑called "college students" raped, ransacked, and stole the wealth of Iran — bankrolling the mullahs’ conversion of one of the most successful, wealthy, and modern nations in the region into an Islamic hellscape and weapons‑grade nut farm.

"When someone asks, show them these reasons why the U.S. has beef with Iran." . . .

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1988 - Colonel William R. Higgins was kidnapped tortured for months. An autopsy found that he had been starved, the skin on his face had been partially removed along with his tongue and he had also been castrated.
Finally his body was dumped near a mosque.
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— Daniel Greenfield - "Hang Together or Separately" (@Sultanknish) June 18, 2025