1. You have to give Ann Althouse credit, as annoying as she often is. She lives in Madison, her blog readers once were predictably progressive, but she is relentlessly mocking the Axis’s inability to show the integrity and common sense to admit that President Trump finally taking action against Iran is praiseworthy.
- Here, she favorably cites Philip Klein in “Donald Trump Wasn’t Bluffing on Iran” (National Review), and notes,
“From the comments over there: “How Barack Obama must feel now, having tried sucking up to the Ayatollah, then bribing him (as did Biden later), and now finally realizing, after mocking Trump and denouncing Trump and lying about Trump, that the president who will be remembered as being truly consequential, is Trump. Sleep well, President Obama. Trump got him.”
- Here, she quotes “Fear turns to joy as ordinary Iranians see off Ayatollah Khamenei/There was smoke and a sound. We looked up. Did they kill Khamenei, they asked”
- Here, she reminds us that Trump-hater Sen. John McCain joked about bombing Iran nearly 20 years ago, wondering when we would “send them an airmail message. ” “Question answered: February 28, 2026,” she writes.
- Here, she notes that Glenn Greenwald appeals to the authority of Charlie Kirk to condemn the attack, a cheap shot by Greenwald.
- Here, she salutes (in her own, Ann-ish back-handed way), Sen. John Fetterman for being the only Democrat to openly support the President.
- Here, she points out how absurd and dishonest the Trump Deranged voices are claiming Trump attacked Iran to distract from the Left’s Epstein files obsession. I would add that if you want a Trump Derangement test, making that argument is as clear a positive for the malady as one could find.
- Here, she posts a TikTok video in which an Iranian schoolboy declares, “I Love Trump.”
- Here, she mock comedian Mike Benz, who tweeted that Trump had started WWIII, and then withdrew the dumb comment saying that he didn’t mean that literally but only figuratively because he didn’t know how to describe “what this is.” Ann: If you “don’t know of a 280 character way of describing whatever this is,” there is always the option of saying nothing…”
Meanwhile, her few remaining knee-jerk progressives are largely silent, as are the progressives, troll and non-trolls alike, who frequent Ethics Alarms. I think that is cowardly.
2. Over at MSNOW, the talking heads that routinely attack capitalism are warning that the Iran conflict might adversely affect the stock market.
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Regarding your point #5:
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/2027943807698829621.html
Very, very good read. I’d suggest all here read it.
I’ll point out a different ally though: Israel. They’re doing much of the heavy lifting. They’re more aggressive than us on ROE. The counter, though, is they use our money for their defense too.
I would also question how Japan, S. Korea and Taiwan would stack up? I hope the answer is favorable, and if we ever do all have to go up against China, it is more like a partner with Israel and not like Europe.
Re: No. 6: What do these people want?
Meanwhile, Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib have raised The squad’s red flag of revenge.
I love how the media reported the red flag of revenge being raised as if it’s a gesture we’re supposed to be aware of and terrified of. Didn’t someone snark that given how compromised Iran’s security operation is, he suspected the red flag of revenge had been raised by Mossad.
Reminds me of the media talking about “the vaunted Republican Guard” as if they knew all about Iraqi troop strength. Journalists beclown themselves in time of war when, all of a sudden, they change from anti-military know-it-alls to military strategy, tactics and armaments experts vastly superior to anyone actually in the military.
#5: According to the Washington Post, both Israel and Saudi Arabia argued in favor of the attack, and (obviously) Israel is conducting military operations. So the NYT can’t claim that the US is doing this without “international partners”! #6: “I got that right?” “Why, yes, you do have that right. And your point is…? Are you perhaps trying to imply that a country which massacres protesters by the thousands is in some way equal to a country in which two protesters armed with deadly weapons got killed while physically assaulting law officers? Have you no shame, sir? No sense of proportion? Please, be more specific, rather than emitting a cloud of innuendo!”