Choose your crowd..

 First there is this crowd..

GunShyMartyr  It was only about an hour after the initial strike when the Neville Singham and Lee Siu Hin placed a call to do nationwide protests and to organize at designated times. All bought and paid for. Here's the email that went out:

"Grass roots"?

The Iran protests in New York City are bought and paid for, here it all is with proof. Watch how they load the signs into the car and at 3:10 the leader confronts me and I expose her salary. She celebrated october 7th, and got paid to do it. Best of luck     @LaynaLazar. pic.twitter.com/QajvwfTY7j

— Nate Friedman (@NateFriedman97) March 4, 2026

Then there are these crowds: 

WOW! The streets of Washington, DC are absolutely FLOODED with people cheering for President Trump’s kiIIing of Khamenei

This crowd.   

Left wing media forced to report overwhelming support for Trump following attacks on Iran

Iran once had a traditional symphony orchestra until....

. . . The Ayatollahs failed to appreciate the music culture in Iran.

Tehran Symphony Orchestra founded in 1933, is Iran's oldest and largest symphony orchestra. It was founded as the Municipality Symphony Orchestra by Gholamhossein Minbashian, before entering its modern form under Parviz Mahmoud in 1946. In the years that followed, conductors such as Rubik (Ruben) Gregorian, Morteza Hannaneh, Haymo Taeuber, Heshmat Sanjari, and Farhad Meshkat took over as the conductors of the orchestra.^[1]

After the 1979 Revolution, many musicians of the TSO emigrated to Europe and the US. For some years Heshmat Sanjari and then Fereydoun Nasseri were the conductors. The current conductor of TSO is Nassir Heidarian-Rasty.

1933–1979

Yehudi Menuhin plays with Tehran Symphony Orchestra with Heshmat Sanjari as the conductor 1967

In the golden age of the orchestra, many notable musicians like Yehudi Menuhin and Isaac Stern played with the orchestra.^[2]

1979–present

After the 1979 Iranian revolution, clerics outlawed all pre-revolutionary music, hardline clerics say music comes between the faithful and God, and leads to an impure mind.^[3] As a result, the orchestra faced its darkest age, playing only a few concerts in the decade following the revolution. The pressure caused the conductor Heshmat Sanjari a serious sickness, he died in 1995.^[4]

The orchestra still plays concerts once in a while.

That was then: When Hijab Was Not in Force, Vintage Photographs Show How Iranian Women Dressed in the 1960s and 1970s ~ Vintage Everyday

Primary Season Gives Conservatives The Chance To Oust RINOs

 The Federalist   Republican voters’ routine apathy to the primary process has permitted RINOs to hijack the party and stonewall conservative priorities.   

"But continued neglect of primaries has shown there are consequences to abandoning this important feature of American citizenship."

"Conservatives are about to have the chance to oust some of the Republican Party’s worst elected officials. The question is: Will they take it?

Primary elections to decide which Republicans will run in the 2026 midterms are now officially underway, with the states of Arkansas, North Carolina, and Texas each holding such elections on Tuesday. The states are the nation’s first primary contests for the 2026 cycle and will hold subsequent runoff elections later this spring for races in which no candidate garners the required percentage of the vote to secure the nomination.

Among the most notable is Texas’ Republican Senate primary, where incumbent Sen. John Cornyn is facing challenges from Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton and Rep. Wesley Hunt. While polls aren’t always predictive of how a race turns out, many surveys compiled by RealClearPolitics have consistently shown Paxton leading the pack.

According to the RCP average, Paxton leads with 39.2 percent of the vote, while Cornyn and Hunt trail with 35.4 and 15.8 percent, respectively. Should no candidate receive more than 50 percent during Tuesday’s race, the top two vote-getters will face each other in the May 26 runoff to determine who will be the Republican nominee for the general election.

Other noteworthy races include North Carolina’s Senate GOP primary to see who will compete for outgoing Republican Sen. Thom Tillis’ seat and the Republican primary for Paxton’s soon-to-be-former seat for Texas attorney general.

The primary process is an avenue for conservative voters to ensure that the individual seeking to represent them in public office is actually willing to fight for their beliefs and preferred policies on the issues that matter, when they matter. Unfortunately, too many GOP voters have long neglected it.

What’s become apparent in recent years is Republican electors’ routine apathy to the primary process has permitted RINOs (Republicans In Name Only) to hijack the party and stonewall conservative priorities.

The battle to pass the SAVE America Act encapsulates this problem perfectly." . . .

Which GOP senators were labeled RINOs by conservative activist groups since 2010? ...

Comer: Walz Enabled Fraud, Betrayed Whistleblowers

The Political Insider

We know Ellison can pull the old "Racism!" trope and MSNOW's Jen Psaki will do a special on that, but poor Walz will be on his own. TD

Tony Branco

"House Oversight Chairman James Comer blasts Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and AG Keith Ellison for enabling billions in welfare fraud while ignoring whistleblowers who risked everything to expose it. A bombshell 53-page report reveals Walz knew about massive scams in child care, Medicaid, and food aid programs as early as 2019, yet chose political cover over taxpayer protection, fearing backlash from the Somali community. Read more about this..."

House Report Alleges Walz Knew of Welfare Fraud 'for Years'

“Testimony obtained by the committee reveals that Governor Tim Walz and Attorney General Keith Ellison were aware of widespread fraud in social service programs, lied about their knowledge of the fraud, and retaliated against employees who dared to raise concerns,” House Oversight Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., said in a statement.   More...

Are Democrats on the Trump Payroll? The Democrat’s State of the Union clown show.

 The American Spectator 

"The 2026 election is on the horizon. And these Democrat refuseniks have given the nation a close-up look at just how irresponsible and immature they can be." 

The question? Are Democrats secretly on the Trump payroll?

"The question occurs after watching the performance of Democrat party leaders and their multiple “responses” — aka clown shows — before, during, and after President Trump’s State of the Union. 

"If one is of a certain age (ahem!), there is a distinct memory of what the proper response of the opposition party to a president’s State of the Union address once was. Here’s a sample as listed from a U.S. Senate site titled: “Opposition Responses to the State of the Union Address (1966-Present).” . . .  

Read the text here.

"Notice anything? These are but a handful of similar examples. In those bygone days, the party out-of-power simply selected one or a handful of elected officials to have a very organized, dignified, televised response to the president-of-the-moment’s State of the Union."

. . . 

"President Trump could not ask for better help in winning in 2026 and exemplifying exactly why Democrats should not be allowed anywhere near having voting control of the House and Senate. It’s almost as if Democrats have a secret wish to do as much damage to their own credibility as possible."

Gavin Newsom’s Cowardly Foreign Policy

The American Spectator | USA News and Politics   

"But, according to Newsom, California is the shining beacon of affordability, and Trump’s strikes against Iran are the real problem here. "

"As the Trump administration bombs Iran at will, doing much to eliminate the threat to the world posed by the evil Islamic Republic’s terroristic military apparatus, Gavin Newsom has responded to the U.S.’s attack with simpering cowardice. He has issued an automatic denouncement of the war, describing it as “illegal” and “dangerous.” (RELATED: The Democrats’ Epic Fury Over Iran Strikes)

"He gave no thought to the decades of terror and violence that have issued from Tehran, or to the murderous regime’s absolute dedication to developing nuclear weapons and even intercontinental ballistic missiles, no matter the devastating sanctions that mission put on Iran’s people. He also spared no thought to the operation’s immediate success, including the ease with which the U.S. and Israel have gained air superiority over Iran, the 40 Iranian officials wiped out in a single act, and the extent to which the Iranian military has been extraordinarily damaged after just a few days of bombing. 

"Instead of, as a leading presidential candidate should do, considering the merits of the U.S.’s action to help the Iranian people (who just had 36,000 of their own slaughtered by the regime), contemplating how weakening Tehran could do much to promote freedom in the Middle East, and examining what actions are in the best interest of the security and prosperity of the United States, Newsom quickly settled on Trump did it, so it’s bad. (RELATED: The Women Who Would Not Kneel)

"Newsom gave only a cursory comment that the Iranian regime is no good: “The corrupt and repressive Iranian regime must never have nuclear weapons. The leadership of Iran must go.”

"But he quickly gave a strong caveat: “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.” . . .

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

'Which one is it Gavin? They can't have nuclear weapons and need to be removed? Or the operation is not justified?' one X user shot back. 'Pick one stance please. If you want to run for President, you should get comfortable making bold statements on where you stand.'

Just Days After Condemning Operation Epic Fury, Zohran Mamdani's Flip-Flopped on Iran

The Memory Hole

Iranian Journalist Masih Alinejad Just Destroyed Zohran Mamdani's Duplicity on Iran   "If you don't know the name Masih Alinejad, you should. She's an Iranian activist and journalist, and part of the diaspora living in New York City because the Iranian government wants her dead."

This is the moment when @CBSNews anchor told me the news about the elimination of @khamenei_ir. This is what it looks like when a survivor hears that her oppressor is gone.
And you Zohran Mamdani keep quiet and listen to Iranians.

pic.twitter.com/TmJGmnxsMV

— Masih Alinejad 🏳️ (@AlinejadMasih) February 28, 2026

Just Days After Condemning Operation Epic Fury, Zohran Mamdani's Flip-Flopped on Iran  "When Operation Epic Fury got underway on Saturday, New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani, who loves international law, condemned the strikes. "Today’s military strikes on Iran — carried out by the United States and Israel — mark a catastrophic escalation in an illegal war of aggression. Bombing cities. Killing civilians. Opening a new theater of war.  Americans do not want this. They do not want another war in pursuit of regime change. They want relief from the affordability crisis. They want peace," Zohran wrote on X, before reminding the Iranian diaspora in NYC that they were "art of the fabric of this city — you are our neighbors, small business owners, students, artists, workers, and community leaders. You will be safe here."

"Yeah, they were in New York because it wasn't safe for them to live in Iran thanks to the violent, repressive regime of the now-deceased Ayatollah Khamenei. The vast majority of Iranians in the West are thrilled with the strikes and the opportunity to liberate Iran from tyranny, in fact, and 

"Someone in Mamdani's administration must have passed that memo along to him, because Mamdani is singing a different tune and finally acknowledging the horrors the Iranian people have endured." . . .  More...

Mindful tweeted: "So Mamdani has just noticed after 2 months that the Mullah’s regime have killed their own people? That more than 35,000 have been murdered? Don’t be fooled by his appearance. He is a leftist socialist Muslim and a devout pro-Palestinian. He is also anti-Israel and has vowed to arrest Netanyahu repeatedly if Netanyahu ever visited NYC. His words mean nothing. Too little, too late!" . . .

 NYC Mayor Mamdani splits with police after officers were pelted with snowballs during snowball fight | AP News 

What Mamdani is doing to NYC | CARTOONS | Drawing Board | Opinion

. . . "The reactions over this week’s snowball fight were similar to those that followed a 2019 episode during a heat wave, when boisterous young people engaged in water fights were recorded on video tossing water at police officers.

"Those dousings also prompted outrage from police leaders — who decried it as an inexcusable sign of disrespect, and even suggested that officers willing to walk away from that kind of horseplay should consider another line of work.

IRAN JUST ACTIVATED ARTICLE 111 OF ITS CONSTITUTION

Mindful posted:

IRAN JUST ACTIVATED ARTICLE 111 OF ITS CONSTITUTION | Panda Traders on Binance Square

"For the first time in 36 years, Iran has a new face at the top.

Ayatollah Alireza Arafi. 67 years old. And most people have never heard his name.

Here’s everything you need to know about the man now running Iran:

He’s not doing it alone. Iran formed a 3-person leadership council: Arafi, President Pezeshkian, and Chief Justice Mohseni-Eje’i.

They’re splitting Khamenei’s powers between them until the Assembly of Experts picks a permanent Supreme Leader.

But Arafi is the one everyone’s watching.

This guy has been quietly stacking power for DECADES.

Born in 1959 in the small town of Meybod. His father was reportedly close with Khomeini himself, the original Supreme Leader. He was sent to Qom for religious training at age 11.

By 33, Khamenei personally made him Friday prayer leader. That doesn’t happen unless you’re trusted at the highest levels.

He simultaneously held THREE of the most powerful positions in the country:

– Director of Iran’s entire seminary system

– Member of the Guardian Council (the body that vets every law and every candidate)

– Member of the Assembly of Experts (the body that literally picks the Supreme Leader)

The man who now temporarily IS the Supreme Leader was already on the committee that CHOOSES the Supreme Leader.

He’s what makes him different.

He speaks fluent English and Arabic. He met Pope Francis at the Vatican in 2022. And he’s been openly pushing for Iran to adopt artificial intelligence to spread its message globally.

He’s being described by Reuters as a “completely trusted loyalist” of the regime. The IRGC sees him as a safe pair of hands.

Some analysts had him on the shortlist to replace Khamenei for YEARS. Now he’s effectively filling that role, at least temporarily." . . .    More...

Tom Stiglich

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.

More...

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