TAQIYYA: Trump Says Iranians Aren’t Dealing ‘in Good Faith,’ Even After He Left Out Our Ally Israel.
More and more, I’m convinced Trump has turned the Mullahs’ rug-merchant negotiating ploy against them.
Author Archive: Stephen Green
June 12, 2026
YET EVEN MORE ON THAT GLOBE & MAIL HIT PIECE:
Canada’s chief export is seething resentment https://t.co/BfshNo7hyY
— Enguerrand VII de Coucy (@ingelramdecoucy) June 12, 2026
Checks out.
THE INTELLIGENCE IS FAKE BUT APPARENTLY THE SPYWARE IS REAL: OpenAI Admits To Spying On Its Own Users. “The AI giant published a report Wednesday outlining their suspicions that ‘clusters’ of CCP-linked ChatGPT users were a part of an influence campaign to spread anti-AI propaganda. Earlier in June, House Republicans had called on the Trump administration to investigate alleged Chinese influence on the growing, bipartisan backlash to data centers across the U.S.”
THE NUMBERS ARE TOO GOOD TO CHECK:
Elon Musk is about to become a trillionaire
If he agreed to pay just 80% of that as a wealth tax to the EU, the EU government could use its efficient operating experience to fund bicycles with solar panels attached to them for over 40 residents of the Netherlands
Elon is being…
— Henrick Johansson (@compliantvc) June 12, 2026
DAVID MANNEY: The Washington Post’s Credibility Crisis Hits the Checkout Page. “The complaint, filed in Superior Court of the District of Columbia, seeks class-action status for current and former subscribers, claiming the Post used reader behavior, engagement, and personal information to estimate how much subscribers would tolerate paying at renewal.”
OVERDUE: Defense industry leaders preparing to meet with Trump as worries over missile supply grow, sources say. “The president has expressed anger to aides and allies over thinning American stockpiles, the people said. Trump is considering whether to restart major combat operations in Iran, which downed a U.S. Army helicopter Tuesday. The crew was rescued and the U.S. launched new attacks in Iran in response.”
‘TIS THE SEASON: Eight Teams, One Omaha Dream: It’s the College World Series, Baby!
SCHLICHTER: Don’t Panic About Trump’s Iran Strategy Just Yet.
Let’s examine his strategy with an open mind, putting aside our prejudices and preconceptions. Trump is taking a different approach. A lot of people who agree with me that the best course of action is to simply kill them until they surrender are extremely upset with him. But here’s the thing: he may be wrong, but he’s not crazy. He comes at this strategic problem from a different perspective. He’s a guy who makes deals. He uses all his advantages. He is a guy who is not a hammer. I’m a hammer. I’m a soldier. Everything looks like a nail, and I want to pound it.
But Trump looks at things differently. He sees pressure points beyond the target list. You might argue that Donald Trump is using the elements of national power as levers to obtain the ultimate strategic objective more comprehensively than anyone has waged war against the Iranian regime in the past. What are the elements of national power? Well, that gets a little convoluted because people keep adding letters to the applicable acronym, but let’s keep it simple because I was in the infantry, and I like simple. And I will get grief from strategists about how I’m simplifying things, but that’s OK because anybody who calls himself a “strategist” is probably a dork anyway.
The applicable acronym for the elements of national power is DIME, and it stands for “Diplomacy, Information, Military, and Economic” power. These are the ways a nation-state exercises power.
Read the whole thing.
MORE ON THAT GLOBE & MAIL HIT-PIECE ON MUSK:
When Canada's house organ has to issue instructions on how to hate you, you must be doing something right.
The richest man in history has devoted his life to making this world a better place. Useful things, making people freer. And getting us onto other worlds. (The Tesla thing,… https://t.co/pKJJQiuNc2
— Northern Barbarian (@xnoesbueno) June 12, 2026
“My browser let me bypass the paywall, maintaining my principle of not subsidizing Canadian bigotry. Once you get past the clickbait headline, it turns out the way to properly hate Elon Musk is with poorly argued warmed-over lefty billionaire bashing, Trump bashing, plus repeating the USAID blood libel, the theoretical deaths caused ‘according to one study,’ with no mention of the billions in taxpayer dollars siphoned off by political NGOs.”
KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Feds Keep Racking Up Law Enforcement Wins, Dems Hardest Hit. “The picture is a very clear one: our side is trying to get rid of the evil criminals, their side is trying to get rid of the people who are getting rid of the evil criminals. Sure, that could be more pithy, but that’s the essential message for Republicans.”
YES, IT’S INCITEMENT:
It’s basically incitement at this point, right? I’m sure the journalists have been very careful with language to avoid crossing the legal line (I’m not paying to read this crap) but it’s clear what their intentions are. https://t.co/daKcntkl0c
— Peter Hague (@peterrhague) June 12, 2026
HMM:
Riddle me this LA:
If it’s illegal for non-citizens to vote, why the Hell does the West LA Library have a display for non citizens that includes a VOTER REGISTRATION specifically for non citizens that allows them to “preregister” to vote.
They even have a special section on the… pic.twitter.com/8TLr0Maut5
— Stella X (@Stellaaa) June 11, 2026
CONRAD BLACK: Trump will get what he wants in Iran by negotiation or by force.
The US president has clearly from time to time restrained the Israeli government of Benjamin Netanyahu from returning to full-scale hostilities. There has been exaggerated emphasis on the partial Congressional elections in the United States in November. It is not at all clear that the administration will suffer a setback in those elections, but it does not much matter if it does. Except for Franklin D. Roosevelt, every two-term president in American history since Theodore Roosevelt, who retired in 1909, has had to deal with a Congress in the hands of his opponents in the last two years. None of them had a veto overridden in that time and the consequences of the Democrats regaining control of either or even both houses of Congress will not be significant, especially given their propensity for utterly absurd policy options, including a return to open borders, higher taxes, massive regulation of business, and the imposition of hysterical concerns about the impact on climate of the use of fossil fuels.
Trump has just successfully purged his party of malcontents in the Senate and House of Representatives and not more than four or five presidents in the country’s history have been as preeminent as he is in the politics of the country at this stage in his administration. He has a blank cheque to return to combat and pummel Iran into submission, or to receive Iran’s submission without a return to war. He will not make a bad peace and is in a position to extract a satisfactory one. The time has come.
But the road along the way sure is bumpy. I wrote two columns on this yesterday. The first one (here) was overtaken by events four minutes after it went live. And the second one (here) was a virtual laundry list of conflicting claims.
IF AN IMMIGRANT ISN’T A NET TAX CONTRIBUTOR, THEY HAVE NO BUSINESS BEING ALLOWED TO STAY:
Somalis rank among the most welfare-dependent groups in the United States, Denmark, the Netherlands, Norway, Finland, and Sweden.
Six countries. Same result. Every single time.
This is a pattern, and American taxpayers are paying for it.
81% of Somali immigrant households… pic.twitter.com/cBNgkLDoId
— Congressman Brandon Gill (@RepBrandonGill) June 11, 2026
June 11, 2026
YET STARMER HANGS ON: Armed forces minister quits hours after defence secretary steps down over military spending plans.. In his resignation letter, Carns says “we are asking our Armed Forces to operate in a more dangerous world on a budget written for a calmer one.” Earlier, Healey told the prime minister the upcoming defence investment plan “falls well short of what is required for defence and the country at this dangerous time.”
What the UK really needs is a massive deportation budget…:
An illegal immigrant who arrives by dinghy admits that he's been working for the Taliban since he was 10.
He is put in to a hotel where he kidnaps and sexually assaults a 7 year old child.
British Justice gives him 2.5 years, he will serve about 18 months.https://t.co/XbgkxsezHg— Frank Stephens (@justrightFrank) June 11, 2026
…and to bring back the hangman.
SOME SMALL MEASURE OF ACCOUNTABILITY:
USA 🇺🇸
The FBI has FIRED five analysts linked to the infamous targeting of Catholics under the Biden administration pic.twitter.com/kKuZZbAs9H
— Catholic Arena (@CatholicArena) June 11, 2026
HANG ON THERE, PARDNER: ‘We Just Made a Great Settlement of the War With Iran.’ “Do you have whiplash yet? Because I do.”
ICYMI: Britain Goes Full Airstrip One.
Nobunaga adds: “Britain’s basically North Korea at this point, ain’t it?”
Yep.
HEH:
Europeans enjoying the World Cup: “Futbol is the greatest sport in the world.”
Americans enjoying the World Cup: “Wonder what fast food the German guy eats next.”
— The Drunk Republican (@DrunkRepub) June 11, 2026
I mean, at least we’re getting something out of the World Cup.
THE LEFT IS INCENSED BECAUSE PRATT EXPOSED THEIR GRIFT AND INCOMPETENCE:
His entire platform as far as I could tell was:
1) No one wants to live in a vagrant toilet, gross
2) Corruption and waste is wrong
We don’t all agree that these are good things? What even were his Republican policies? Why were libs so incensed by the guy?
— Michael Choi, MD (@swdhldr) June 10, 2026