Flotsam and Jetsam - Iran Deal? Not So Fast!

News Wax, Trump: No Rush as Details Emerge of Potential Iran Deal. As always Althouse reaches for the NYT perspective, "The United States and Iran have agreed in principle to a deal that would wind down the war in the Middle East by reopening the Strait of Hormuz and by committing Iran...", ""... to dispose of its highly enriched uranium, a senior U.S. official told reporters on Sunday.... News of a possible deal came after a roller-coaster few weeks, with Mr. Trump at times threatening to restart attacks on Iran, and at others saying there was progress in last-ditch negotiations to stave off a return to full-scale war — all while offering few details. Then, on Saturday, the president announced on social media that the two countries had 'largely negotiated' a memorandum of understanding 'pertaining to PEACE.' On Sunday, however, he said he had ordered his negotiators 'not to rush into a deal.'..." The NYT reports." Hat Hair's Capt. Ed reads Axios: Iran Agreed to Discuss Surrendering Its Uranium Stocks; UPDATE: Trump Responds. "This may not be the Bridge and Power Day outcome that hawks had hoped to see. If this is accurate and it holds, it's not TACO Tuesday either. It leaves Trump with all of his options in place while keeping pressure on the regime to comply with the biggest and most dangerous threat it poses – the development of nuclear weapons. That is the true existential threat to Israel, not to mention other Gulf states that are now aligning with Israel and the US, and it would head off a nuclear arms race in one of the most unstable regions of the world." Sundance at CTH, President Trump Notes the Outlines of a Negotiated Deal with Iran – Some Details Emerge. Ward Clark at RedState says Carrot, Meet Stick: New US-Iran Deal Lifts Sanctions, Troops Stay 30 Days. Breccan Thies at Da Fed, White House: Iran Gets Nothing Unless It Gets Rid Of Its Nuclear Stockpile. Roger Kimball at Am Great, Out on a Limb, but Unmoved: Trump Will Finish the Job in Iran. "Trump may delay, Congress may posture, and Iran may stall—but the endgame remains the same: finish the job or repeat the failures of Obama and Biden." At PJM Cathy Salgado cites Netanyahu: Trump Agreed Iran Deal Will Not Stop Israel Defending Its Borders and Dave Manney cites Scott Jennings Explaining Trump’s Patient Iran Strategy: Scott Jennings @ScottJenningsKY, "After receiving a briefing from a Senior TRUMP Administration Official on the status of the Iran negotiations (someone in the know & not just speculating), I can tell you the following: -USA IS NOT GIVING IRANIANS MONEY FOR NOTHING. All speculation and propaganda to the contrary is false. Some hardline elements of Iran’s govt (IRGC) have pushed fake stories & propaganda to try to kill this negotiation. -Iran deal is NOT done (95%, but still haggling over some language). No deal being signed today. May be a few more days before this is done. -Iran will NOT get any money or sanctions relief up front. -Iran must turn over nuclear stockpile to get anything. USA position is that failure to meet deal commitments means Iran gets nothing. -Long term USA objective is preventing Iran from having nuclear weapon. -Initial deal point is to re-establish free flow of commerce by reopening Strait of Hormuz. Deal should have 2 phases: Step 1 - Open Strait of Hormuz. Give world economy breathing room. Iran agrees to give up enriched uranium. Step 2 - Get the nuclear material turned over. Only then can Iran get sanctions relief. Bottom line: goal is to make a deal that lowers costs for Americans, calms world energy markets, and guarantees that Iranians cannot have a nuclear weapon over the long term. We aren’t there yet. Iran takes forever to get you a response on even small things. But we are close although it still could be a few days..." Driscoll at Insty, PAST PERFORMANCE IS NO GUARANTEE OF FUTURE RESULTS: MAZE @mazemoore, "The adversarial media in all of its glory. Margaret Brennan apparently didn't remember what she said eight months earlier." Selective amnesia is an important journolistic tool. Joe Chalfant at TownHall likes how Marco Rubio Just Torched the Panicans Crying Over the Iran Peace Deal. 

At RCW, Why Constitutional Monarchy Is Gaining Support in Iran. Well, if that's what they really want, so be it, but I'm concerned that a 3d generation monarch may suffer too much from "regression to the mean."

Matt Boose at the Chronic, The GOP Is Better Off Without Massie. Scott McKay at Am Spec expound on Grifters, Activism, and Thomas Massie. "Massie did this to himself." At some point libertarianism becomes a vice unsupported by reality. One of sundance's Sunday Talks – Defeated Thomas Massie Promises to Keep Shouting at Trees Until MAGA is Defeated. At Twitchy, WATCH: Shabbos Kestenbaum Humiliates Ana Kasparian On Air — She Blocks Him Immediately After. Shabbos Kestenbaum @ShabbosK, "Great debunking Anna Kasparian's deranged conspiracies straight to her face. She's now blocked me on X. Thomas Massie took money from billionaires, Iranians, and PACs while implying Trump was a pedophile. As usual, she had no response other than to yell, interrupt, and insult." Josh Hammer at Hat Hair, King Trump and the Looming MAGA Challenge. 

Joe Chalfant at  TownHall thinks The RNC Just Scored a Major Election Security Victory in North Carolina . Libs of TikTok @libsoftiktok, "BREAKING: North Carolina State Board of Elections has found over 34,000 DECEASED people on their voter roles. But Democrats told me this is a conspiracy and never happens?!"

At Lawrence Person's BattleSwarm Blog, Please Reset The “Days Since Last Trump Assassination Attempt” Sign Back To Zero.

From Fox, US Army hits 2026 recruiting goals four months early, Pete Hegseth announces at West Point commencement. "War Secretary Pete Hegseth touted the removal of DEI in the US military, saying 'you can't throw your pronouns at the enemy'" Da Caller hears European Officials Warn Trump Against Leaving NATO As US Weighs Its Own Priorities. I don't want the US to leave NATO, but I think the whole concept of NATO needs to be reevaluated.

At the Chronic, Warsh Tasked To Make Fed Sterling Again, with a little too much info on what "sterling" is. 

NYPo, Outrage as Jimmy Kimmel’s sister-in-law accused of threatening LA bakery over ‘Vote Pratt’ cookies. Right Angle News Network @Rightanglenews, "Spencer Pratt has launched a campaign where filthy Los Angeles streets are power washed using a stencil reading “imagine if the streets were this clean.” Imagine letting the streets get so dirty under your leadership that your opponent can use them as a billboard." Bonchie @bonchieredstate, "It’s like you guys learned absolutely nothing from Trump’s rise. Want Spencer Pratt to not be a serious candidate? Don’t turn significant parts of your city into a zombie horror show covered in trash and feces while sipping cocktails in Ghana as peoples’ houses burn down." Quote Jemele Hill @jemelehill "Spencer Pratt being considered a serious political candidate says more about us than it does about him. x.com/mouvement33/st…" Wall Street Apes @WallStreetApes, "It’s very clear Los Angeles wants Spencer Pratt as their next mayor Spencer is greeting with big smiles and dancing in South LA South LA is a big area with over 800,000+ people 67% are Mexican 24% are Black Only 3.4% are White Even with this Demographic they welcome Spencer!" I still doubt Pratt can win, if only because the Democrat machine will pull out all the stops to stop him, including having the "homeless" vote. 

From Fox, California mayors revolt over Newsom bullet train plan they warn could ‘raid’ local tax bases. "The project was approved in 2008 with a $33B price tag before ballooning to an expected $126B in costs this year." Leslie Eastman at LI, Chevron Launches New Sign Campaign Targeting Sacramento as California Gas Prices Hit New Highs. Mike LaChance at Gateway Pundit sees Billionaire Democrat Tom Steyer Does Campaign Stop in Rough Part of LA – Gets Violent Threats, Man Pulls Knife on Staffer (VIDEO). New York Post @nypost, "California congressional candidate refuses to say Pledge of Allegiance, turns back on US flag https://trib.al/0DVZTBp" Joe Chalfant at TownHall, Wait, This Democrat Candidate Refuses To Say the Pledge? May "Vang, who is running in California’s Seventh District and currently resides on the Sacramento City Council, has been seen refusing to place her hand over her heart during the pledge and has turned her back to the American flag on numerous occasions while attending council meetings." How about the Chinese flag?

Rusty Weiss at RedState likes how Portnoy Absolutely Wrecks Platner’s Campaign After They Asked Him to Play Footsy With Nazi-Tattooed Dem "Now this is the Nazi guy, right?" he replied. "Yeah, I'd be happy to talk to him about that tattoo and him (being) a Nazi. I'm not as interested in his baseball takes. Let me know when we can set up some time." At Twitchy, Bernie Sanders Proves Dave Portnoy Right — Stumps for Maine’s Nazi Sympathizer. The Babylon Bee @TheBabylonBee, "Platner Smooths Things Over With Democrats By Covering Nazi Tattoo With Hammer & Sickle https://buff.ly/EyWtYGi"

Jonathan Turley is astonished that House Democrats Unanimously Vote Down Women’s History Museum Over Limit to Biological Women. MatrixMysteries @MatrixMysteries, "“White milk in schools is undoubtedly White supremacy.” She says RFK Jr wanting regular Milk in schools is 'racist'. This is the Democrat Party."

Tim O'Brien at PJM, Candace Owens Interviews Hunter Biden, and It’s the Train Wreck You Thought It Would Be.

Stacy McCain wonders Why Would Two Jew-Hating Teenage Incels Shoot Up a Mosque in San Diego? "Well, what else do we expect of murderous weirdos, huh? If what you’re looking for is logic and rationality, homicidal adolescents probably aren’t the first place you’d look." At Shooting News Week, Why Did the San Diego Mosque Shooting Story Disappear So Quickly? They Hated Everyone. Flopping Aces @FloppingAces, "Man, you could practically hear the collective groan in every newsroom across America. For about 12 glorious hours, the San Diego mosque shooting was absolute catnip for cable news. Two teenage white boys attack a mosque, three innocent people dead ... the “right-wing domestic terrorism” script wrote itself. Chyrons blazing, panels booked, every anti-MAGA hack already sharpening their knives. Then the manifesto dropped. And everything went dead quiet. Turns out Cain Clark and Caleb Vazquez weren’t exactly card-carrying conservatives. These two pathetic Jew-obsessed incel weirdos titled their murder diary “Sons of Tarrant” and filled it with deranged pages of “IT’S THE JEWS” on endless repeat. They weren’t right-wing, weren’t MAGA, weren’t Trump fans ... nah, they proudly called themselves Third Positionists who worshipped Nationalist Socialism and Eco Fascism..."

Sundance explains The Intelligence System and Why Tulsi Gabbard Was Essentially the First DNI. "Throughout 2024 you may even remember CTH outlining how the DNI position had power that was never fully understood, because it was never activated. All of the IC silos fall under the ODNI, yet none of the prior Directors used the power of this office. CTH made the case of the DNI position being a great possibility for change. The DNI can reach into any IC sub-silo, extract any intelligence product, review it and declassify it with the support of the President. That’s exactly what Tulsi Gabbard started doing."

At Twitchy, 'SICK of It': Taxpayer Confronting Local Gov for Putting Illegals First Will Take Your Breath Away (Vid).

Joe Chalfant sees The Trump Administration Just Handed This Commie a Subpoena. Insider Wire @InsiderWire, "#BREAKING: Hasan Piker and leftist extremist group Codepink cofounder Medea Benjamin subpoenaed by federal officials over probe into support for Cuban regime." Lots of people support the Cuban regime, that's free speech (unless they send guns or money), but his incitement to murder conservatives is iffy. Northern Barbarian @xnoesbueno, "And he's being a whiny bitch about it, which is precious, after all that murder enthusiasm." Quote Kaguya’s Top Gal @hayasaka_aryan, ">Be Hasan >Promote the jailing and murder of right wingers for years >Get subpoenaed for being performative Justice is so delicious x.com/foxnews/status…"

Stacy McCain looks at ‘Crash Out Kylie’: How a Queer Feminist Became Famous (Not in a Good Way). "She got embarrassed in front of an audience of millions, and it completely freaked her out. She had an episode of Bell’s palsy — partial paralysis of her facial muscles, almost certainly a stress response — and threatened a lawsuit against the “Whatever” podcast. That’s how she became notorious as “Crash Out Kylie,” and she’s been living with that notoriety ever since." Cernovich @Cernovich, "IBM’s CEO created hiring policies to fire white men, and keep them from being promoted. This disgusting bigot will never been condemned by Tech and VC’s on this site." Johannes M. Koenraadt @johannesmkx, "I always said diversity & LGBT are a Chinese psyop meant to weaken the West from within. It was McKinsey that pushed the myth of diversity being a strength. New research says: NOPE, IT'S BAD. "Studies increasingly link diversity quotas to weaker performance, lower morale, and operational decline.""