It’s been just over a week since the United States and Israel decapitated the despotic regime in Iran, and while it may seem longer – they have been attacking us for 47 years, almost unanswered – the idea that this will be a “forever war” or even a prolonged event is absurd. If you are inclined to believe that and can actually see the future, slip me some winning lottery numbers, won’t you? Since you aren’t psychic, maybe calm down or stop lying.
I had no idea how endangered strawmen were until I saw Megyn Kelly rolling several out every single day to avoid criticizing her “friend” Candace Owens for accusing her other “friend,” Erika Kirk, of being involved in the murder of her husband, among other things. What some people will do for success…
I get it, I guess. Actually, I don’t. I couldn’t actually flip my opinion on anything, especially significant, for a paycheck. I’ve been paid to give speeches and whatnot on issues I didn’t really care all that much about – and you don’t have to care deeply about something to have an opinion on it – but I’ve never been asked to flip-flop on an issue for an audience or anything else, nor would I do it.
The truth is an easier story to remember, and if you say what you really did or really believe, you don’t have to try to keep a running list of who you told which story to. That’s why I don’t understand these people who claim to be genuinely outraged over the actions against Iran.
Maybe some of them really do believe what they say, I don’t know, but it strikes me as more of an audience play. You can make a lot of money by appealing to a small group of people, if those people really support you. They will subscribe to things, buy your stuff, etc. A hundred thousand people is a speck on the population charts in the US, but if you get them to subscribe for $10 a month (which ain’t all that much), you’re looking at $12 million per year. Half that is nothing to sniff at, and many people have higher subscribers.
All of it is serious money.
But the thing about subscriptions is people’s credit cards expire. Podcast and website memberships are the modern gym memberships: things people forget they have. Auto-renew is only good until those cards expire, so you have to make hay while the sun is shining.
And no one is paying for nuance.
You see the headlines for the videos, you see the titles of the posts – everything is THE WORST or MOST INSANE, UNHINGED whatever the outage of the day is. Why would talk of the fight with Iran be any different?
I don’t get it, I don’t know where it’s coming from with some of these people, and with others they are genuine peaceniks or pacifists. Maybe they all are, and if they are they could just say it. It’d be a lot easier than the twisted attempts to attribute the action to Israel (Read: Jews) manipulating President Donald Trump (usually without coming out and saying that, because they’d lose some audience).
You don’t have to like the idea of bombing Iran, but you should be honest about it.
I like Tucker, I worked for him and he came to my wedding, but I think he’s not only wrong about this issue, he also seems a little crazy. I could speculate as to why, but it would just be speculation. So, I will just point out that he claimed that President Trump’s statement that he wants “unconditional surrender” from Iran meant “Unconditional surrender means foreign troops get to rape your wife and daughter if they want,” I thought it was crazy.
His idea that pursuit of that surrender would mean we’re likely to use nuclear weapons was turning the crazy up to 11.
For the record, the “unconditional surrender” Trump is talking about in terms of his demands that Iran stop developing nuclear anything and end their ballistic missile program. Those are the terms on which compromise is not acceptable, not the ability to rape. While the history of warfare certainly involves awful things like rape in the third and ancient words, does he really think Americans raped their way across Germany and Japan after WWII? Does he not realize the civilized world has changed? I would have thought he did, but now I don’t know.
I can’t assign reasons for what other people are saying, but I can and do question the why. With some, it’s clear they’re opportunists or scammers, with others…your guess is as good as mine as to whether they believe what they’re saying, as they don’t really offer much explanation of how they arrived at their conclusions.
Whatever the case, and whoever you’re hearing from, it’s probably best if you draw your own conclusions from the material available and rely on others only as conduits for information to fact check yourself. If something sounds weird, there’s probably a reason for it.
Derek Hunter is the host of the Derek Hunter Show on WMAL in Washington, DC, and has a free daily podcast (subscribe!) and author of the book, Outrage, INC., which exposes how liberals use fear and hatred to manipulate the masses, and host of the weekly “Week in F*cking Review” podcast where the news is spoken about the way it deserves to be. Follow him on Twitter at @DerekAHunter.