Victor Davis Hanson: The Iran War: Collapse, Chaos, and What Comes Next

Victor Davis Hanson: With No Clear Leader, Iran Is in Chaos - Victor Davis Hanson
Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of today’s video from Daily Signal Senior Contributor Victor Davis Hanson.
We’re in the eighth week of the Iran war, and things are starting to heat up even though there’s not kinetic action. 

What do I mean by heating up? 

The Iranian government has ceased to exist. 

We don’t know, and the Iranians don’t know who holds power.

• There is the Islamic Revolutionary Guard. 
• There is the theocracy, 
• there is the elected people in Parliament, and
• there is a regular military. 

And those four groups operate in schizophrenic fashion...

AM Fruitcake

 

History for May 2

History for May 2 - On-This-Day.com 

Dr. Benjamin Spock 1903 - Baby doctor, author ("The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care")

• 1885 - The magazine "Good Housekeeping" was first published.
• 1926 - U.S. Marines landed in Nicaragua to put down a revolt and to protect U.S. interests. They did not depart until 1933.
• 1927 - The U.S. Supreme Court upheld 8-1 a Virginia law that allowed the forced sterilization of people to promote the "health of the patient and the welfare of society." (Buck v. Bell)
• 1933 - Hitler banned trade unions in Germany.
• 1970 - Student anti-war protesters at Ohio's Kent State University burn down the campus ROTC building. The National Guard took control of the campus.
• 1974 - The filming of "Jaws" began in Martha's Vineyard, MA.
• 2018 - The Boys Scouts of America announced their flagship program would be renamed Scouts BSA. The program was known simply as the Boy Scouts for 108 years.

Texas AG Paxton sues Chinese 'birth tourism' center for allegedly orchestrating abuse of birthright citizenship | Blaze Media

Texas AG Paxton sues Chinese 'birth tourism' center for allegedly orchestrating abuse of birthright citizenship | Blaze Media: 

Apregnancy center is accused of facilitating the birth of children to Chinese nationals in order to take advantage of current birthright citizenship laws, according to Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton.

Paxton said the De’Ai Postpartum Care Center was violating Texas law by "unlawfully facilitating the invasion of Chinese nationals into Texas for the sole purpose of birthing children."

The way we were-----How was The Kingdom of Great Britain Formed? - YouTube

(22) How was The Kingdom of Great Britain Formed? - YouTube:

Ferry FIASCO! Battery electric ship MAROONED in Tasmania! | MGUY Australia - YouTube

(21) Ferry FIASCO! Battery electric ship MAROONED in Tasmania! | MGUY Australia - YouTube

For those overly captured by political propaganda, just know you can easily talk yourself into this.

This man threw his whole life away because he was told to be scared - Officer Deon Joseph

Fear causes humans to do three things: run, we have literally had people buy so much into fear porn that they 

• have fled the country; 
• hide, we have people who avoid turning on the news, figuratively fearing the big bad orange man is going to come through the TV and is actually causing them personal harm, or 
• hide from family members fearing they will try to convert you into some MAGA cult...

Take a second to sit down, breathe...

Mamdani finally admits what people knew about his candidacy from the start | Blaze Media

Mamdani finally admits what people knew about his candidacy from the start | Blaze Media: 

Voters in New York City just got a reality check after the fountain of socialist campaign promises from Mayor Zohran Mamdani has apparently run dry in just a few months. Standing with New York City Council Speaker Julie Menin, Mayor Mamdani was forced to announce some unexpected hang-ups that will likely interfere with delivering on many of his campaign promises of free stuff.

Workers Could Be Jailed for Refusing Overtime - YouTube

(21) Workers Could Be Jailed for Refusing Overtime - YouTube

Lunch video-----Nicotine Pouch Panic: How Government Keeps People Smoking - YouTube

(21) Nicotine Pouch Panic: How Government Keeps People Smoking - YouTube:

Noon-toon

 

Lunch video-----Seattle's Socialist Mayor LAUGHED At Millionaires Fleeing — Now She Can't Fund Her Own City

Seattle's Socialist Mayor LAUGHED At Millionaires Fleeing — Now She Can't Fund Her Own City: 

Watchdog Report: Teachers' Unions Pour $1 Billion into Left-Wing Causes

Watchdog Report: Teachers' Unions Pour $1 Billion into Left-Wing Causes: 

Research from Defending Education reveals that national teachers’ unions alone appear to have poured approximately $669 million toward left-wing causes, PACs, organizations, and campaigns since 2015, Fox News first reported. When including state and local affiliates, the figure skyrockets to more than $1 billion in total political spending. 

Why is the left OK with this??!!

 

Actually one of the most insane things you’ll ever watch.

He juggles three Rubik’s Cubes and solves them while they’re still in the air. - Dudes Posting Their W’s@DudespostingWs

AS the gods of the left tumble!

 

Read it!-----The Moral Malaise: The New York Times Makes the Case for “Microlooting” to Murder - Jonathan Turley

Below is my column in The Hill on the recent New York Times podcast exploring the justifications for crimes ranging from theft to murder.

The podcast with radical Hasan Piker, the New York Times Opinion Culture Editor Nadja Spiegelman, and New Yorker writer Jia Tolentino captured the moral relativism that has taken hold of the left in American society. 

• Reading the manifesto of the accused White House Correspondents Association Dinner shooter Cole Tomas Allen shows the ultimate expression of a society where rage has replaced morality and decency.

Here is the column...

#1 This day 1971----- Three Dog Night - Joy To The World (1971) - YouTube

(15) Three Dog Night - Joy To The World (1971) - YouTube:

How they "think". The best they can up with??!!-----Donald Trump does not just excuse political violence. He celebrates it when it serves him.

Facebook - Joe Walsh

• When Robert Mueller died, Trump posted: “Good, I’m glad he’s dead.”
• When Rob Reiner was brutally murdered, Trump said: “I bet he died because he had Trump derangement syndrome.”
• After Paul Pelosi was hit in the head with a hammer, Trump mocked the attack: “The wall around their house didn’t work so well, did it?”
• In 2023, he suggested General Mark Milley’s actions were so treasonous they should be punishable by death.
• He posted an image of himself holding a baseball bat, ready to bludgeon NYC DA Alvin Bragg.
• He has branded Democrats and former allies as guilty of “treason” and suggested they “could be put to death.”
• And on January 6, while police were being beaten and his mob chanted “hang Mike Pence,” Trump watched for 187 minutes.

This is not politics as usual. This is a monster.

The point isn't that she's a cheat. The point is how EASY it is to cheat! AND to get away with the cheat!

 

Democrats Openly Cheer on Iran in Stunning Display of Anti-Americanism

Democrats Openly Cheer on Iran in Stunning Display of Anti-Americanism: 

Shock and outrage didn’t begin to describe people’s reactions. “It takes an insane level of Trump Derangement Syndrome to cheer for a terrorist regime that chants ‘Death to America,’” White House Spokesperson Olivia Wales shook her head. “Chris Murphy is an America-last, radical left lunatic who stands for illegal aliens and Iranian terrorists over the American people. The only thing ‘awesome’ will be when he is out of office,” she told Fox.

“Was Sen. Murphy’s account hacked?” the Washington Examiner’s Byron York wondered, trying to understand how even the president’s fiercest political rivals could justify such a disgusting comment. “I love when Iran wins, it’s awesome…’ 

Trump looked at the post-World War II arrangement, decided America had been played for a sucker for eighty years, and set out to burn the whole thing down and build something different in its place.

But instead of engaging in endless wars, he’s employing strategies so interconnected that you can't see the shape of it unless you step back far enough. - Glenn Beck

• Start with energy. Trump made the U.S. a net exporter in his first term. In the second, he went further with record production and deregulation...Energy is leverage. Russia and China are losing pricing power as America becomes the dominant supplier of the century without getting dragged into another desert war. Finally, the U.S. can stop playing global babysitter.
• For eighty years, America carried NATO and the Middle East on its back...
• In Greenland, the U.S. secured rare earth minerals and locked in Arctic trade routes, breaking China's grip on the critical minerals that the next century's technology runs on...

AM Fruitcake

 

History for May 1

History for May 1 - On-This-Day.com 

Kate Smith 1909 - Singer

• 1707 - England, Wales and Scotland were united to form Great Britain.
• 1927 - Adolf Hitler held his first Nazi meeting in Berlin.
• 1937 - U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt signed an act of neutrality, keeping the United States out of World War II.
• 1952 - Production of Mr. Potato Head began.
• 1961 - Fidel Castro announced there would be no more elections in Cuba.
• 1992 - On the third day of the Los Angeles riots resulting from the Rodney King beating trial. King appeared in public to appeal for calm, he asked, "Can we all get along?"