The United States will work closely with Iran, which we have determined has gone through what will be a very productive Regime Change! There will be no enrichment of Uranium, and the United States will, working with Iran, dig up and remove all of the deeply buried (B-2 Bombers) Nuclear “Dust.” It is now, and has been, under very exacting Satellite Surveillance (Space Force!). Nothing has been touched from the date of attack. We are, and will be, talking Tariff and Sanctions relief with Iran. Many of the 15 points have already been been agreed to. Thank you for your attention to this matter. President DONALD J. TRUMP
So the regime change has already happened — or the declaration that it has happened has been made — past tense. But there's a switch to the future tense, declaring something to be true in the future: great productiveness. I presume Trump's adversaries will call this wishful thinking... at best. But who knows? They'll embrace good results if they become obvious or if they perceive that the people are repelled by their pessimism.
Trump also posted this a few minutes ago:
A Country supplying Military Weapons to Iran will be immediately tariffed, on any and all goods sold to the United States of America, 50%, effective immediately. There will be no exclusions or exemptions! President DJT
Trump would like to get back to managing everyone with the device of tariffs.
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Beirut is being bombed as you boast of peace.
This war was a cover for Israel to attack and land grab on Lebanon. Israel is killing civilians and committing war crimes as you type...
If this blog were a porno, it would be shot from trump's point of view, looking down as ann and meade both attempt to suck trump's cock, competing as to who can take more of him deeper in their throat and bring him to ejaculating in their faces... messy and snobbery.
You must be getting a lot of tips of late from the old jew Mike's who support Israel and post here. Begley too... if we need someone to gum trump's balls as you two pass his snobbery cock between you.
Regime change
or
Regime changes its mind
either one is fine
Destruction of the uranium program and the removal of all the nuclear material from Iran is huge. Very happy.
I hope the Iranian people uprise and get free elections. But the big thing was to make Iran a nuclear-free zone. That's pennies on the dollar.
NYT story by Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan purporting to be the inside story about how we went to war. During my reading of it, I was so impressed by the Cabinet. NYT reader, however, wrote, “ We've seen better cabinets at IKEA.”
Story clearly lays out the justification: Better to do it now rather than wait especially with the opportunity to take out the Supreme Leader and other top people.
"The United States will work closely with Iran, which we have determined has gone through what will be a very productive Regime Change!"
This may be what Trump believes or more likely what he wants to believe. I'd put my money on Islam (Sunni or Shia, it doesn't matter) and its 1400 year history of consistency.
Ah, so China and Russia have been warned. Yesterday the unconfirmed news was that China's lack of oil (and internal disruptions) led them to pressure Iran to make the deal last night to open the Strait. The faux defiance shown in some regime statements tends to support that theory, of them acting against their own self-interest.
In support of Begley I'll point out that we did in fact negotiate with NK right up until the point the displayed finished nukes and shot off "test" rockets to prove their reach. THAT outcome is the other (rejected) path and why we hit Iran NOW, before it is too late.
Hegseth is currently declaring victory in the face of an embarrassing loss.
And now I understand how one can bankrupt a casino.
The big victory here is the stripping of the bark off some of our NATO members. We should immediately remove all our presence, including economic, from Spain, France and Italy. The economic impact on their local communities will be enormous. Move the remaining bases to Poland, Romania, etc. and let the remnant NATO deal with the Ukraine. It will save us billions.
We'll see.
“If a man is acquainted with what other people have experienced at his desk, it will be easier for him to go through a similar experience. It is ignorance that causes most mistakes. The man who sits here ought to know his American history, at least.” ~ Harry Truman
Yay! New mullahs to replace the dead ones.
Per MS NOW, we have been defeated as Iran has more control over the Strait than it used to.
Vance/Trump 2028
Very interesting who's upset over this.
It needs to be easier to strip people of citizenship
The Easter Bunny on the balcony next to Trump made the difference. It's lifeless, shark's eyes bored into the souls of the frightened, superstitious, 3rd tier mullahs, the barely-a-mullahs, the tea-makers, the mullahs who weren't worth killing. After all they'd been through in previous weeks, that Bunny on the balcony was just too much.
TAW
Putin must be pissed, leftists love Ukraine and hate Russia but love Iran and hate the US. Putin says, don’t lump me in with the US, the media hates the US.
As usual, the Althouse lefties are desperately hoping for an Iranian victory. Of course, whatever happens will be spun as an Iranian victory because these people are insane with TDS.
Mike (MJB Wolf) said...
Ah, so China and Russia have been warned. Yesterday the unconfirmed news was that China's lack of oil (and internal disruptions) led them to pressure Iran to make the deal last night to open the Strait. The faux defiance shown in some regime statements tends to support that theory, of them acting against their own self-interest.
It was hilarious watching the democrat traitors pretend shutting down the straight of Hormuz would hurt the US compared to other countries.
Anyone who was actually watching the news knew that China was melting down and its economy was collapsing. People and tanks are in the streets right now.
Trump is just smarter than the retards who have been bitching and moaning over the last several days.
Your globalist masters have been knelt. Trump just made a change on the global stage that is just as historically significant as the WWII conclusion and the fall of the Soviet Union.
He did it in about a year and with millions fewer casualties. The fact it was done so bloodlessly will make it so people do not understand the significance of what just happened.
You little democrat retards and jew haters can't even comprehend what is happening right now.
It is like watching slugs cry.
Jim Cramer must read the Althouse blog. The turning point was when Trump wrote that we were going to wipe out a civilization. As someone here wrote: We are crazier than you.
Truth.
"It needs to be easier to strip people of citizenship"
I think that once somebody acquires a passport from any other country, they should lose their US citizenship. and if they accept a US passport, they should be required to abandon their former citizenship. But if you are suggesting that in a democracy where free speech and freedom of religion is one of our founders' primary gifts to succeeding generations, well, sorry, I stand with George Washington on that one. Foreign entanglements should be avoided and we should rely on our position between the oceans for our security, as he said in his farewell address.
A (somewhat) confusing miasma.
IRC, the Iranians had already agreed to no enriched uranium on Feb 28th. As for weapons for Iran, NK and Russia are already being sanctioned up the wazoo, and China cannot be tarriffed by 50 percent. It'd be absurd for Russia to stop selling weapons to Iran unless Trump can stop the Euros from giving Ukraine weapons.
Slugs cry.
People must be really dumb today, the gears and jack shafts of the media are plainly out in the open spinning away. The intent is known. But no one acknowledges it, they just believe.
Iran was already letting China get oil through the strait.
This is the advantage of [TDS tantrum deleted]
You're a clown.
Little Excursion™️ said...
“If a man is acquainted with what other people have experienced at his desk, it will be easier for him to go through a similar experience. It is ignorance that causes most mistakes. The man who sits here ought to know his American history, at least.” ~ Harry Truman
4/8/26, 7:46 AM
Inga said...
Yay! New mullahs to replace the dead ones.
These people are little slugs with zero awareness of what is going on in the world and less intelligence.
It is sad to watch such pathetic hateful little creatures slither around and leave slime on the ground.
Lets not forget there is no deal - yet. And Israel can start bombing at any moment, given they control us - we don't control them. Right now, its all just talk. I hope its true, but maybe its just another one of Trump's fake negotiations. And the final deal has to be approved by everyone.
RCOCEAN II said...
IRC, the Iranians had already agreed to no enriched uranium on Feb 28th. As for weapons for Iran, NK and Russia are already being sanctioned up the wazoo, and China cannot be tarriffed by 50 percent. It'd be absurd for Russia to stop selling weapons to Iran unless Trump can stop the Euros from giving Ukraine weapons.
If you didn't hate the jooos so much you could see what Trump actually accomplished here.
You and Tim are just wedded to your own emotional neurosis.
Alexisa - On blogger for 7.5 years. Total page views? 219. No wonder I don't recognize the name.
He is not going to keep Russia and China from re-arming Iran during this ceasefire, tariffs or no tariffs. And any sanctions like this that Trump can impose on Iran pale in comparison to Iran's closing of the Strait a second time.
My bet is that the cease-fire doesn't last, that either Trump will simply welch on this "deal" too, or Israel will continue to assassinate Iranians until it becomes intolerable for Iran.
“ I stand with George Washington on that one. Foreign entanglements should be avoided and we should rely on our position between the oceans for our security, as he said in his farewell address.”
George was correct in the days of sailing ships, and yet the British burned Washington DC a bit later trying to show us they were still the boss. Isolationism is just another path to slavery.
RCOCEAN II said...
Lets not forget there is no deal - yet. And Israel can start bombing at any moment, given they control us - we don't control them. Right now, its all just talk. I hope its true, but maybe its just another one of Trump's fake negotiations. And the final deal has to be approved by everyone.
Keep your hopes alive.
If you pray to your idol enough the US may still fail.
"But if you are suggesting that in a democracy -"
LOL you don't even care enough to learn we are a Republic.
Thanks for making my point.
We should have a pop quiz brigade. With the Prof leading the unit. Anyone testing below 70 gets their citizenship revoked and their ass dumped in Gaza.
A solid win if we are going in and getting the enriched U out.
Hate to break it to you, but you lefties are Trump’s MVPs - his magician’s assistants. All that loud outrage is perfect misdirection. Thanks for keeping the spotlight on your theatrics while he reshapes the world.
imTay said...
He is not going to keep Russia and China from re-arming Iran during this ceasefire, tariffs or no tariffs. And any sanctions like this that Trump can impose on Iran pale in comparison to Iran's closing of the Strait a second time.
My bet is that the cease-fire doesn't last, that either Trump will simply welch on this "deal" too, or Israel will continue to assassinate Iranians until it becomes intolerable for Iran.
LOL! Watching Tim pray for failure is amusing.
China is fucked right now. There are riots and tanks in the streets. China is who is really surrendering right now, not Iran.
You really are ideologically captured.
Sasha Stone, “ This is what it’s like inside the Doomsday Cult. Every day is the end of the world. They really did believe Trump meant it, just as they believed he would send in the National Guard in the Summer of 2020 because he is a fascist, and as they believed he colluded with Putin to win, and that he’s all over the Epstein Files. Their delusions are all they have.”
Their delusions are all they have.
The Left are like the Greens. Delusional.
RCOCEAN II said...
"Alexisa - On blogger for 7.5 years. Total page views? 219. No wonder I don't recognize the name."
Ha. RC reaching for the ad hom. I thought you were smarter. You're profile digging and you still can't figure out who I am. Maybe you should take a closer look at those breasts, dummy.
Even more entertaining than watching China get knelt is watching the Euroweeny rulers get embarrassed on the world stage.
Not only did they betray the people of their countries they were outed in their betrayal and their irrelevance for all to see.
Starmer and Macron and Meloni and Merz are all going to have a rough spot in the history books after this one. Just sad weak lame politicians who let their countries become muslim.
"China is who is really surrendering right now, not Iran."
Then Cuba. Bring on New Vegas!
Then Soros - he's what cruise missiles are made for. There should be lethal consequences for meddling with America.
Then Vance/Trump 2028
Then we "help" the Left start a civil war that will be over inside of two weeks when truckers stop delivering food and water. But we're going to need a lot mental wards for the survivors.
I'm liking this timeline.
Donald Rumsfeld once said you go to war with the army you have. Trump looked around, saw a shitload of disloyal but reliably hysterical lefties, and thought: “Perfect. Let’s make these idiots useful.” And here we are.
China was not on the verge of collapse. They only need to import about 15% of their total energy needs. The world economy was not about to collapse either, but nobody wants to pay 40% more for a barrel of oil. And 100% more for a gallon of diesel fuel.
I think this is more about a Pakistan flex. The heavy losses suffered by the Iranian military has greatly weakened their ability to project power in the region and to defend itself. Pakistan sharing a 500 mile border with Iran is now in a much more powerful position Visa vee Iran. In addition, Pakistan stands to gain further economic benefits from a stronger relationship with the United States.
@ Begley: The Haberman piece in the NYT is well-sourced, worth reading, and strangely ungated. One takeaway: if Milley is still CJCoS, no Midnight Hammer, no Maduro extraction, no Epic Fury. He saw his job as stopping the US military from doing anything. Assume Hegseth's purge rooted out this attitude more deeply.
"A solid win if we are going in and getting the enriched U out."
That's what Grok and I were hoping for. Devil is in the details, but without regime change Grok estimated 2-3 years to replace their 60% enriched Uranium. I'll be surprised if we can pull it off but Trump is the one to do it.
We now return to the wailing of liberal transwomen LOL
This is like watching election return meltdowns all over again.
Howard: "Pakistan sharing a 500 mile border with Iran is now in a much more powerful position Visa vee Iran"
I agree with your analysis. There's something huge going on here that's being overlooked. I guess because we are so accustomed to pairing Pakistan V India.
China? Russia, perhaps. Get on board the Trump train.
Alexisa is sounding like a ibogaine smoking right-wing version of the pipe dreaming. Aaron Sorkin. Oh wait, Taylor Sheridan already has that gig 😀
Tell us, Gerda. How has Iran won?
Thinking back to yesterday’s post: Why do people dressed as the Easter Bunny always look so creepy?
Then why did China cave, Howard?
Most of China is TofuDreg anyway.
Unnoticed in all the hoopla is that the USA has more or less withdrawn all troops from Iraq, and the Iraqis were neutral in the war. So, the great dream of building a USA-friendly "Democracy" in Iraq is over, after trillions lost and thousands of dead.
Of course all of Mark Levin's audience were no doubt telling us in 2000-2010 that Iraq was the mostest important thing in the whole wide world, and everyone who opposed the Iraq war was a "Traitor". And now in 2026, they cant even remember it.
Remember Vietnam? What did we get out of that? Its been 50 years since Korea, how many Americans even know we fought a war there. Six months from now, if the peace deal goes through, almost no one will care about Iran. Yeehaw 'muricans just love war. Hey, now that we're done with Iran, lets take on China. Yeehaw!
Destruction of the uranium program and the removal of all the nuclear material from Iran is huge. Very happy.
Says who? There have been zero official announcements by either side on the terms of this cease fire. You are simply hoping, wishing and celebrating way too early.
I think it would be smart of the US to provide security guarantees to Pakistan versus India. Let's face it, every other Muslim country in the region besides Turkey couldn't fight their way out of a wet paper grocery bag. Pakistan is the obvious player in the region to become ultimately our on the ground enforcer.
Last Comment. This conflict has shown the aircraft carrier is finished as a game changer. They've now become billion dollar white elephants, having to stand off hundreds of miles least they get hit by a hyper-sonic missile.
Howard: "Alexisa is sounding like a ibogaine smoking right-wing version of the pipe dreaming. Aaron Sorkin."
Haha well played. Although I am a bit nervous about Trump pulling on any Paki-India thread. Here be dragons.
Iranians had already agreed to no enriched uranium on Feb 28th.
Who believes that bullshit.
Facing collapse is one thing, facing a severe haircut is another. China help broker this deal because they want to avoid the continued economic loss of 15% of their energy needs the Iranian supplied at a discounted rate to some of their marginal industries.
China isn't close to collapsing and they still hold a lot of strategic economic cards in the world economy. It's much more in the US interest to slowly bleed China rather than to instigate an acute instability.
Yeah, no doubt our history of being bamboozled by Pakistani intelligence is a cautionary tale as we go forward.
"Hey, now that we're done with Iran, lets take on China. Yeehaw!"
Cuba is next. Try to keep up.
And LOL that's not the way you wear one of those
https://youtube.com/shorts/oUQ7B2uxIyc?si=nZiKPBQoXzTIdbfA
Trump negotiated a productive deal between India and Pakistan. They would be good partners with the Persian people (no pun intended) in reconstruction.
Recall when prominent democrats used to agree that Iran was the number one state sponsor of terror.
We should roll the footage.
Freder would probably be happier if he went back to Metropolis to help Maria overthrow his Dad.
They were lying then, by their behavior
Bullshit Howard. China gets 14% from Saudi Arabia alone and imports another 20% from Russia. Also 40% of their natural gas is imported, and 90% of the above moves by sea. You are a bigger propagandist than usual today.
Look it up:
https://www.energypolicy.columbia.edu/where-china-gets-its-oil-crude-imports-in-2025-reveal-stockpiling-and-changing-fortunes-of-certain-suppliers-including-those-sanctioned/#:~:text=China's%20crude%20imports%20grew%20from,China%20to%20increase%20its%20stockpiles.
Shem Horne
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The reason all of President Trumps opponents have mental issues is because they spend all day crashing out about what he says, to all their friends and family, to their followers on the internet, and then when they are inevitably proven wrong about him they crash out again.
https://x.com/Shem_Infinite/status/2041857474156748935?s=20
"Hey, now that we're done with Iran, lets take on China. Yeehaw!"
Not necessary. Google, "Tofu Dreg".
Hey! Anybody seen Tim?
I'd like to point and laugh.
Dutch boy will pop up
I didn't say oil. I said energy.
Oil and gas makes up 30% of China's total energy consumption
Is that tractor rupar, shem was referring to
China's Current Energy Mix (2024)
Coal: 58% of total primary energy.
Petroleum/Oil: 20%.
Natural Gas: 10%.
Carbon-Free Sources: 12%
China is killing the Planet with its coal consumption!
say: Congress = US equivalent to Hormuz strait shut down
what resource for Trump to open that?
Dave, you are more correct than you probably realize
The massive amount of particulate matter, along with the excesses of nitrogen and sulfur pollutants is raining down on the Northern hemisphere permafrost glaciers and sea ice, causing much more melting than the carbon dioxide increases in the atmosphere.
Of course they rely on coal for electricity but oil and natural gas are the lifeblood of manufacturing, needed for plastics and polymers and lubricants etc. Perhaps you did not notice manufacturing shrinking YoY there. This is related to the drop in price of gold and bitcoin as China liquidates reserves for US dollars to use for trade.
Trump is a very stable genius!
"A 50 percent tariff on Russian goods costs America nothing. North Korea’s trade with the US is zero. The only country where a 50 percent blanket tariff on all goods sold to the United States inflicts catastrophic economic damage is China, which trades over $500 billion annually with the US and has been proven to be shipping military-grade chemicals to Iran during this war.
Five Iranian-flagged vessels departed Gaolan Port in Zhuhai, China between late February and early April carrying sodium perchlorate, the critical oxidiser precursor for solid rocket propellant used in every Iranian ballistic missile. The ships are the Hamouna, Barzin, Shabdis, Rayen, and Zardis. The cargo is sufficient to reconstitute hundreds of ballistic missiles. The same missiles that hit Israel, the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Kuwait, and Qatar after the ceasefire was signed. The gCaptain shipping report, the Telegraph investigation, and the Institute for the Study of War all confirmed the shipments. Trump’s intelligence briefings contain the same data.
The tariff post is not about Iran. It is about Beijing.
This is the card Bessent carries to the mid-May summit. The architecture is now visible. At Islamabad on Friday, Vance and Witkoff negotiate the Iran ceasefire terms: nuclear dismantlement, proxy cutoff, sanctions relief. On April 19, the Treasury waiver on 140 million barrels of Chinese-bound Iranian crude expires. If Trump lets it lapse, every Iranian barrel afloat becomes sanctioned cargo and Chinese teapot refineries face secondary sanctions. Now, on top of the waiver, comes the 50 percent tariff threat on military supplies. China is squeezed from three directions simultaneously: its ghost fleet faces the waiver, its arms pipeline faces the tariff, and its rare earth monopoly faces the Bessent negotiation."
Howard: As an obvious joke, I wrote in an AMZN book review that we should bomb China's coal-fired power plants. Someone complained. I was banned for life.
As someone wrote here, for the Left everything is the end of the world.
"A Country supplying Military Weapons to Iran will be immediately tariffed,"
Wait, what? I thought Iran was one of the Good Guys now.
China is in a pickle. At their current rate of consumption. They only have 50 years of coal left
https://nypost.com/2026/04/07/us-news/ghost-murmur-a-never-used-secret-tool-deployed-to-find-lost-airman-in-iran-in-daring-mission/
Meanwhile. Comments from the left on X.
One more out-of-character thing...last night's election results were wild, unbelievably bad for Republicans. And the war probably played a big roll. I don't see how the GOP can look at it and not be concerned. A lot of reasons for Trump to end or pretend to end or whatever things in Iran.
The other specials and such since 2024 have been good but not "wow" (similar to 2017/18) and the generic ballot is pretty meh (consistent with winning back the House but lagging behind 2018). But last night the swings were huge.
I was one of those people in 2016 who thought (both during most of the primary and the general) "Trump can never win." It's a mistake to be one of those people who now says "the country will never turn on Trump politically." No reason to think we couldn't see historic GOP losses in '26 and '28.
https://x.com/grey4626/status/2041902195273040363
While the current news is good ish, the truce is temporary and the hard bits still haven't been resolved. No reason to be excited or depressed. Playoff predictions at this point of the season are useless.
Even though I'm a Trump fan for various reasons, I pretty much ignore Trump commentary beyond a depth of 'entertainment value only'. He says some good things, but the results are what counts.
On the whole, the results are good.
The only people who really hang on his every word and extrapolate to Nuclear War are those with TDS.
“No reason to be excited or depressed”
Hang in there, Howard!
https://www.mass.gov/info-details/suicide-prevention-crisis-hotlines
I appreciate the love
China’s military technology in Venezuela & Iran couldn’t protect their Leaders. Trump embarrassed Xi, Obama, and W.
LOL so much for freedom of speech
Still better, by a lot, than what any Democrat over the last 50 years has done for America and the World. You just don't like the person doing it. Because your ways are from a time that no longer exists. You think Obama was trans formative, but it was negative and very Marxist at the core. A negative right.
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