IRAN AGAIN CALLS TRUMP’S BLUFF ON U.S. CLOWN-CAR FOREIGN POLICY
BY DAN VALENTI
PLANET VALENTI NEWS AND COMMENTARY
(FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE, WEDNESDAY APRIL 8, 2026) — “A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again.”
These were the words of Mr. Bluster, a.k.a. President Donald Trump, Tuesday morning. He was speaking of his latest “deadline” regarding the Islamic Republic of Iran. Again, Iran called Trump’s bluff. THE PLANET has lost count of the number of times the president has done this, set a deadline then back off. He’s called “Wolf” so many times that one late report had Lon Chaney Jr. spotted in the White House situation room.
Who can take Trump seriously at this point when it comes to foreign policy? Iran has made a fool out of him and his boy toy, Benjamin Netanyahu. The two gay militant gay blades, caught in the hysteria of their own back-slapping, thought they would go in on Feb. 28, rain terror from the skies, and watch Iran fold faster than Myron Florian’s accordion. The war would be over in a week, and that would be that.
Only it wasn’t that.
Iran’s deterministic resistance showed that the U.S. had no plan whatsoever beyond the arrogant assumption that pure military force would solve the geopolitical situation that’s been extant for 47 years.
So now the world has a two-week pause in this gigantic US-Israeli blunder, a serious circus where Trump is not the ringmaster but the driver of the clown car.
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From wire reports:
Trump said he was holding off on his threatened attacks on Iranian bridges and power plants, as the U.S. and Iran agreed to a two-week ceasefire that includes the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz. He said Iran has proposed a “workable” 10-point peace plan that could help end the war launched by the U.S. and Israel in February.
Iran’s Supreme National Security Council said it has accepted the ceasefire and that it would negotiate with the United States in Islamabad beginning Friday. Neither Iran nor the United States said when the ceasefire would begin, and attacks took place in Israel, Iran and across the Gulf region early Wednesday.
Israel has also agreed to the ceasefire, according to a White House official who was not authorized to comment publicly and spoke on condition of anonymity. The ceasefire calls for Israel and Hezbollah to halt fighting in Lebanon, according to the prime minister of Pakistan, which has been mediating talks.
Here’s THE PLANET‘s scorecard to date:
WINNERS
- Iran: They stood up to the bullying actions of America and Israel.
- Tactics: Defense always wins when the home team pitches a shutout.
- Abbas Aragachi: Iran’s prime minister remained a calm, resolute presence.
- Russia: Attention was taken off of its aggression in Ukraine, and it cashed in on oil.
- China: Xi Jinping seen by much of the region and the globe as a major influence on stability.
- Oman: Collecting lucrative shipping fees on ships moving through the Straight of Hormuz
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LOSERS
- Trump: How shallow can foreign policy become?
- USA: America, for all its trouble, assumes the role of international bully and hostage to the Israeli lobby.
- Netanyahu: The corrupt Israeli prime minister, already in legal trouble in his own country, revealed as a war monger.
- Humanity: Once again, we have shown ourselves to be a species prone to violence, mayhem, and self sabotage. Only animals and nature are wise.
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And perhaps the world received intervention from a higher realm.
From wire reports:
Hours before President Donald Trump announced a two-week delay in attacking Iran, Pope Leo issued a rare and pointed condemnation, denouncing Trump’s Tuesday morning threat against the country as “truly unacceptable.”
Speaking to journalists outside his residence in Castel Gandolfo, Italy, the leader of the world’s 1.4 billion Catholics spoke out against the escalating war and called for an immediate end to the conflict.
“Today, as we all know, there has also been this threat against the entire people of Iran, and this is truly unacceptable,” the pope said. “There are certainly issues of international law here, but even more so a moral issue for the good of the whole entire population.”
THE PLANET thanks Pope Leo.
“A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again.”
Was Trump inadvertently speaking of America?
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Why is it so black and white?
Iran has an EVIL regime that stands for mass murders, terrorism, and extremism.
Iran’s regime says that they want to destroy Israel forever. Iran’s regime HATES the U.S.A.
The U.S.A. had the tragedy of September 11th, 2001.
Israel had the tragedy of October 07th, 2023. It was the worse mass murder of Jews since the Holocaust.
Where I live in New Hampshire, people who are from Iran and live here support U.S. President Donald Trump’s War against the regime in Iran.
Iran as a country has the right to defend itself like any other country on Earth, but the regime in Iran is morally indefensible.
On another note, Trump’s MAGA and the Catholic Church leader have been in political conflicts for a long time.
Trump’s harsh tactics on illegal immigration, his inequitable policies on poverty compounded by his huge federal tax breaks for billionaires such as himself, his Christian Nationalism views, and now his militancy and Wars are all in opposition to the Catholic Church’s lofty platforms for Social and Economic Justice in the World.
Trump uses Cultural conflicts in politics to push his MAGA Agenda in federal politics. The Catholic Church has their own Cultural views that many Catholics support, while many non-Catholics find difficult to follow.
What are the two subjects that divide us?
Answer: Religion and Politics.
Talk about the weather, sports, friends, music, etc. instead of your views on Church and State. Turn off the news. Do something fun that you can enjoy with others. Life is short. Don’t waste it on conflicts. We are only pawns anyways. You are NOT going to change the World. 100 years from now, nobody is going to know who you were. You are NOT as important as you think you are in the otherwise cruel World.
Dan, for me this is the most profound article you have ever posted.
100% Agree!
This is the kind of writing that actually moves a conversation forward. It gives people something real to stand on instead of something to argue over.
MEAN
Thank you for this.
Credit where it’s due, Sir. Again.
You put the politics aside and focused on the pattern, and that’s not easy to do in a space where most people are more interested in defending a side than telling the truth. That kind of clarity takes discipline.
The point you made about credibility and follow-through isn’t partisan, it’s factual. And more people should be willing to say it out loud, even when it doesn’t benefit their “team.”
Just like when Quid Pro Quo Joe broke the law and of course he wasn’t demented
Shirley, tossing out a nickname and calling it an argument isn’t proof of anything.
If you’re claiming Joe Biden “broke the law,” then point to the actual charge, the evidence, and the outcome. Not a slogan, not a meme, not something that sounds good in a comment section. An actual, verifiable finding.
“Quid pro quo” gets thrown around a lot, but repeating it doesn’t make it true. That’s the difference between rhetoric and reality.
If we’re going to talk credibility, then let’s actually use a standard that requires facts, not just lines people like to repeat.
“Can’t walk, can’t talk” Joe Biden.
You can take your shots at Joe Biden all day. Truly. Go wild. The difference is, you think it lands. You think it wounds. It doesn’t. It just tells us you’ve confused noise for impact.
Some of us are not playing team sports with our morals. “Country over party” is not a slogan we pull out when it’s convenient. It’s the baseline. It means we don’t blindly defend someone just because they wear the right color tie or say the right buzzwords. It means we’re capable of independent thought without needing a permission slip from a party line.
So no, this isn’t about being offended. This is about watching people perform loyalty like it’s a personality trait and calling it what it is.
And while you’re busy tossing out playground insults about “liberals,” it doesn’t change the weight of the accusations, history, and documented behavior surrounding Donald Trump. Rape, Fraud, Pedophilia, Sex Trafficking, War Crimes……
You can mock speech patterns, age, or stumbles all you want. It doesn’t erase patterns of conduct, legal battles, or the long list of controversies that follow him like a shadow he can’t outrun.
So keep going if you need to. Really. Just understand something simple.
Name-calling is not an argument. Loyalty is not integrity.
And volume is not truth. Your loyalty to a pedophile is far more greater an insult.
“WE BEAT MEDICAID” were Biden’s last debating words before the junta yanked him from the ticket and put Kackala Harris in his place.
Couldn’t even read from a teleprompter without also reading the cues (“pause here … look sternly at the center”)
VV: this degradation of the central faculties is the common fate of the lifelong plagiarizer. Beware.
You are in dangerous territory here sir. From what I can tell, any criticism of President Trump results in being labeled a Republican In Name Only (RINO) at best and tarred with being treasonous at worst. Our political system has become so fractured that legitimate concerns about policy are completely marginalized. In my jaded view, policy positions are no longer developed for the purpose of the betterment of this country and its people. Rather, it has become an exercise of making sure that “your team” wins. Each extreme of both the left and right operates in an echo chamber in which different opinions are not only not accepted, but ridiculed. Here is a radical thought: Not everything that President Trump does is correct or perfect. He is not somehow infallible like some sort of Pope (which is a concept for another conversation altogether). He is human and prone to mistakes and errors in judgement just like any other person. To further enflame the sentiments of the extreme right, not everything that the left espouses is necessarily wrong or evil (although I have begun to begrudgingly question that position a bit myself). Without the benefit of vigorous, acceptable and healthy debate, this country is on the road to failure. The lack of acceptance of differing political and policy opinions is simply unhealthy. The result of not allowing different opinions to be heard leads to a form of government that is no longer in keeping with the very foundation of this country. Namely, self-government. I fear that if the current discourse in our country is permitted to continue, we are going to wake up one day only to discover that we have lost the ability as a people to control our own destiny. Put on the flack vest my friend. As they warn in combat upon an imminent enemy attack: “Incoming!”.
B17
“Incoming?” I say, “Bring it on!”
This is profound. You speak to some important and essential truths and the risks facing to what it means to be an American.
You lost your Freedom when the Dems took over Massachusettes
“He counted on America to be passive. He counted wrong.” is a
famous quote from President Ronald Reagan, delivered in his Address to the Nation on April 14, 1986, following U.S. air strikes against Libya
No one except Israel wants this War. So that that were so deep into it the only objective is to remove the Uranium. Which means ground troops.
UAE and Saudi Arabia have impressed upon Trump that he must not end until the Iranian regime is gone and their nuclear assets seized.
If it were them fighting with us, not Israel, of course you would support the war.
Not for any war wars. War munger buffoon.
Not ANY war? That I don’t believe. Sounds fake, because you do not premise a pacifist conviction.
His sentence states Israel STARTED yeah u a e is involved and want continuation. But read again the old boys statement. Buffoon.
Going after straw dogs such as Libya and Venezuela are one thing. Going after a country such as Iran, 4 times the size of Iraq and with a well trained, well armed militia, is another. A blunder only leaves you with the “next best” options, which Trump has chosen.
A blunder in chess is disaster. Can’t call this a disaster as we still have overwhelming force there and all the pieces laid to blow their logistical supplies and seize their coastline. Can’t call where this goes. Maybe we take the metal, police the straits, and let the Iranians reclaim their civilization. Maybe, we just take the metal and go. No way to bet. Maybe the regime faces civil war and goes the way of Assad.
I don’t see Venezuela disconnected from the Iran policy. Two invasive and destructive regimes and finally there’s action that extends beyond containment, which, as seen by the Israeli policy of containment, results in distaster the moment you lift a finger off the lid.
Venezuela was perfect, and Maduro is in an American cell where he belongs.
Dan, it seems you have exited the MAGA highway and have taken the RINO off-ramp and joined the likes of Meanwhile and Vendetta ChatGPT.
Hell, even Jonathan Melle’s posts are more conservative than yours when he posts about the evils of Iran. I actually give JM credit for that.
Not to mention you got your information from “wire reports.” Really?
“Wire reports” from the MSM media and you actually take that for face value and consider it proof. I figured after the democRAT/MSM led J6 Fed-surrection, the COVID plandemic, and Joe is “sharp as a tack” reports, you would come to realize that MSM media is no more reliable than the National Inquirer ever was.
For those who have not read the book, The Art of War, by Sun Tzu, I have included a post/link that spells out what President Trump has done to Iran and the Globalists plan of making Iran a nuclear power.
American Debunk on X: “Trump threatening to “take out the entire country in one night” and bombing Iran’s power plants and bridges was actually one of his greatest plays of all time. I’m not exaggerating. But most people lost their minds over Trump’s recent comments and post. And that’s because they https://t.co/cpoD3gYXPH” / X
I don’t see anyone on here mentioning that President Trump removed China’s geopolitical influence from South America (Venezuela) and now has effectively removed Russia’s geopolitical influence in the Middle East (Iran).
But hey, Lyin’ Lizzie “Pocahontas” Warren thinks “Trump is a threat to democracy” and needs to be impeached……again, for the 3rd time. Pocahontas would never lie about anything.
MARK
Thanks for the pushback. As you know, I call ’em as I see ’em. This means trying to view events–particularly such as this one, with global impact–through objective analysis rather than the echo-chamber of branded politics. My media reviews include official White House and Pentagon information, a wide-range of political slants (Fox, AP, MSN, WSJ), Al Jazeera, Iran’s official sites, Wash. Post, and numerous others. Trump made a mistake going in with Israel during the February talks. He had no choice but to accept the ceasefire after the Iran military didn’t fall for his bluff of total destruction.
More plausible Israel went in with the US. Hard to imagine the IDF commandeering the US Navy, aircraft carriers, and Marines. Don’t think that is at all believable. Can imagine the Pentagon coordinating the IDF though.
China is playing the long game. Word on the street is that they provided their satellite technology for Iran to guide their drones and missiles into Israel and onto American bases in the Gulf. They may have also provided them with missiles. They buy oil from Iran and in fact built a 6000 mile railroad from China to Iran to ship it and “other goods”.
China is not at all removed. They have eyes all over how America is trying to take them down and if Iran is kicking Americas ass just imagine what the Chinese will do.
By the way. Many of the parts the U.S. will need to replenish it missile supply are made only in China and China does not like war mongering nations. So good luck there. China pretty much controls the rare earth processing which is super key to most if not all tech stuff including radars and nose cone targeting devices.
Relying on Fox news is like wearing blinders in a rainstorm. You have no idea where you really are or what you are doing. So, your new word for the day is “diversify”. Get other opinions not sourced from the Neocon thinktanks.
Ask yourself why Marjorie Taylor Green, Tucker Carlson, Candice Owens, Joe Rogan and other diehard Trump folk have changed their minds. Try it and get back to me. Or not.
Crazy Marge who talked about Jewish Lasers? Tucker who claimed the DNC pinched his UPS shipment and stole his thumb drive that proved campaign fraud in 2020?
Was Rogan ever anyone diehard?
10-20% Republicans identify with deep hate (Neo NAZI, racism, antisemitism) and Tucker/Greene courted them. 30% democrats are openly anti-semitic. So, logically, Owens, Carlson, Greene will double down and anti-semetic tropes to get a large bandwidth.
Trump, representing a great degree of decency and 70% of the republican electorate distanced himself from Owens when she denied the Holocaust, Greene (and she’s gone), and Tucker Carlson after his Greta inspired antic in the Israeli airport. He disavow and rebuked them, and today you embrace them. There is no irony there.
The lesson is this: bigotry directed at one group will impact another. The anti-semetic tropes guiding the pro-Iranian front people directly challenges the hopes of the January protesters in Iran, of whom 40,000 were murdered, public hangings ongoing (unconventional hangings where the body is gradually raised off the ground by crane not permitting a broken neck), and countless memories of survivors getting splattered by blood and entrails from IRGC heavy bullets. Because the Israelis are in equal measure supporting the US soldiers, these Iranians, who waited the entire month of January for international support, don’t even have this disaffected peoples’ sympathy now; whereas they are likely to have decorated their homes with the Blue and Yellow Trident flag.
The CCP can only play the short game. In the long game, China is gone. Communism fails.
We might fail too, in their short game. 250 years of Liberty predicated on G-d; trashed by just two generations.
MA: please, if you like what Jon writes, just say do. Don’t qualify towards the negative.
Why, did your feelings get hurt or have you become The Planet’s word and/or thought police?
Sorry, what is this about?
Oh. This is so adorable. A dick measuring contest.
Are you joining in hunny?
I think she should stick to AI.
Wasn’t really criticizing you, just think that if someone makes a good point to give him credit. His first post here also lays out the intervention argument well. Month of January, it was hard to watch what was happening to those people, and no help came their way.
“A million candles burning
For the help that never came
You want it darker, I kill the flame”
Leonard Cohen
Leonard is awesome
There! We agree on the only important thing – art.
Markus, this reads less like analysis and more like a greatest hits album of buzzwords stitched together with confidence.
You’re dismissing “wire reports” like they’re gossip blogs, but wire services are literally where raw reporting comes from before anyone adds opinion. If you don’t trust ANY source outside your own feed, that’s not skepticism, that’s self-curation. LOL
Now let’s hit the substance you THINK you’re making:
You’re claiming Donald Trump “removed China from Venezuela” and “Russia from Iran” like he just unplugged them from the wall. That’s not how geopolitics works.
China is still deeply tied to both regions economically, especially through oil and trade relationships.
Russia and China are still actively aligned with Iran, including recent cooperation agreements and diplomatic coordination.
In fact, China has been actively mediating in the current Iran situation, which is the opposite of “removed.”
So no, they didn’t vanish. They adapted. That’s what global powers do.
As for the “Art of War” reference, quoting The Art of War doesn’t magically turn a theory into reality. Strategy isn’t measured by how it sounds on X, it’s measured by outcomes. And right now, even analysts are split on whether these moves weaken adversaries or actually create openings for China to expand influence.
That’s called complexity. Not betrayal. Not “RINO.” Not whatever label is trending this week.
And the biggest tell in your whole comment?
You attacked the source, the messenger, and the tone… but you never actually disproved the point.
Ok Vendetta ChatGPT, I’m going to let you show your brain power to The Planet and prove to us evil, nasty, white men-the MAGA crowd, that your BA in Gender Studies, is worth more than the toilet paper I flushed this morning.
Without using TDS, name 3 policies your democRAT party is behind that will benefit hard working American citizens.
1.______________
2.______________
3.______________
Here are three.
1. Lower prescription drug costs (especially for seniors).
Policies backed by Democrats have allowed Medicare to negotiate drug prices and cap insulin costs for seniors. That means real, immediate savings for people who were choosing between medication and groceries. That’s not theory. That’s money back in pockets.
2. Infrastructure and job investment.
The bipartisan infrastructure law, pushed and passed with Democratic leadership, is funding roads, bridges, water systems, broadband, and energy upgrades across the country. That translates into jobs, contracts for local businesses, and long overdue repairs in communities that have been ignored for decades.
3. Expanded healthcare access and cost caps.
Strengthening the Affordable Care Act has lowered premiums for millions of Americans and capped out of pocket costs for seniors on Medicare. More people insured. Lower monthly bills. Less financial ruin from getting sick.
You don’t have to like Democrats to acknowledge when a policy benefits working people. That’s the whole point of being “country over party,” right?
If you want to debate whether these policies are effective, efficient, or enough, that’s a real conversation. But pretending there are zero policies that help Americans just because you don’t like the party is not serious.
Can you speak about politics for 7 days without using the term TDS and DemonRAT?
Siman tov u mazel tov
u demonrat u demoncrat.
Siman tov u mazel tov
demonrat u simantov
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(Repeat)
DAN, a cease fire is never capitulation. Evidently, Trump was hobest when he stated that he was not eager to wreck the power infra.
So two weeks and our soldiers are safe if the Iranians can preserve the truce – that’s not a bad thing.
You can count on next advancement after this war, oil will not be shipped through Hormuz, but piped around it.
Hope and pray that the murderers get their rebuke when we finally finish.
Iran just droned Kuwait. Nice deal u s
Or, we so decimated their command structure they have no organization.
It was a cease fire last I read – not a deal.
Dan, the last 2 columns sound like they were authored by a man having a major anxiety attack.
Trump’s bluster is a positive – Iran has NOT (yet) been erased from the face of the earth.
The U.S. & Iran are negotiating as each side has multipoint plans. Global stocks & bonds are soaring and oil prices are dropping like a lead balloon. Israel has suspended bombing. Iran has tentatively planned to open the Strait of Hormuz. Tho far from a real deal…..negotiations are in the works, a positive so far.
Since when do you care what Pope Leo thinks?? He supports open borders and he is a globalist tool who heads up the most corrupt financial enterprise in the world.
Calm down & carry on.
FRITZ
Halting bombing after starting a needless barrage results in a classic one step forward, three steps back as far as the US global standing is concerned. Why would we want to “erase” a sovereign nation “from the face of the earth?”
Trump doesn’t want to erase them just as would never nuke them as the liberal media was screaming he would do all day yesterday. That’s just tough talk because that part of the world understands tough talk and they actually respect it.
Iran understands tough talk and when and if the actual American casualty numbers are ever released it will crush your heart.
And then you will blame Biden , Obama and Hillary.
I won’t blame anyone because war is war. Iran understands and respects people who project strength and power. Anyone who doesn’t speak their language of strength and power is toast. President Trump understands that basic fact very well. Yesterday the liberal media was calling Trump a bully and a Hitler who was guilty of war crimes, but today they are calling him a wimp. The media is hurting our country with their rhetoric. We need to project strength when we are a war. Any country that murders thousands of their own people for protesting the government as Iran has done and continues to do is guilty of crimes against humanity. The American media as usual has everything upside down.
Dan’s last 2 columns show that he is able to engage in objective analysis instead of mindlessly cleaving to the rhetoric of the MAGA cohort. Fritz and Chaz, on the other hand, follow Trumpian wisdom without regard for the quality and accuracy of its content.
Yeah fritz no one’s 100 right all the time. Unless yer Dan or Trump. Buffoon. Lumpy isn’t going to reach out to Dan. And neither is Iran to War Time Prezz.
Iranians were putting crowds of people around targets so they would be spared. Doesn’t get more pathetic than that. Trump just revealed how spineless the European elites are: Iran opposes literally all the “values” (except gun control) that they claim they would protect at any cost yet they side with Iran. Israel and the USA will resupply and finish it off later on their own.
Trumps very first target was a young girls school. He is not shy about bombing the shit out of civilians and it in fact makes him feel more powerful. Talk to the girls from the Epstein files for confirmation.
Bluster?
50,000 airstrikes in 30 days is bluster?
Reagan’s response to 200 murdered marines in Beirut was to launch a seaward shell into an empty field. That was bluster.
50,000 air strikes mostly onto schools, hospitals and civilian housing. And the Iranians just said, “what else ya got?”
You do know that Iran killed thousands of their own people very brutally for protesting their government so you should really stop trying to make heroes out of such a brutal regime. It’s obvious that Iran has very little respect for its own people or they wouldn’t be murdering them and using them as human shields around their power plants.
and trumk has his ICE soldiers killing people in America..not thousands though…YET!!!
You are aware people of your ilk, transgender folks, have killed more people than ICE has.
Most school shooters these days are those tranny weirdos.
Nice Al Jareez quote… continually incorrect as usual
That you believe that our military would do that says a great deal about you. Your thoughts are definitely not with our soldiers.
On the contrary sir, my thoughts are one hundred percent on the soldiers. And Pat, they do die in war. But they do not need to die serving false prophets and absolutely needless causes.
You accuse them of directing fire deliberately at civilian targets. We did that during Vietnam (images of atrocities of shot up villages) that the left used to malign US soldiers. That did a terrible dishonor to those veterans.
You ought to recall your post being that it is completely false.
To understand how American soldiers fire upon civilians, one should read Mike Cunningham’s account of service in Vietnam Walking Point.
The calumny against veterans also contributed to the high rates of substance abuse, suicide, and depression. Don’t wish that on them.
He’s become everything he said he wasn’t.
Call me a RINO all you want. This shit is bananas.
I didn’t vote for this version of Trump. Once my hero and now a clown. We’re an international embarrassment.
Yup. This is the death of Dans blog unfortunately as far as viewers. He has no street cred supporting this a swipe. Someone ought wake sleepy Joe and tell him he has a dope for his replacement.
Or perhaps the overall IQ will improve.
Spot on. I give you a ten thumbs up. Which is a minus three here.
Agree. EmbarrASSment. You got the 15 point plan and the ten pointer,thenyou have the flimsy ceasefire where Lebanon gets bombed in the deal which Israel ignored. Then you got the oil per barrel rising and fuel prices soaring With inflation. The straight remains closed. When will be Irans last plan of defense with all their capabilities being destroyed. Trump has the world in a cluster of no turning back and very few options to succeed. PULL OUT. Buffoon.
If you’re feeling disappointed right now… you’re not crazy, and you’re not alone.
There are people in this thread who supported Donald Trump because they believed in something specific. Strength. Direction. A certain kind of leadership. And when what you’re seeing doesn’t line up with what you believed you were voting for, that disconnect hits hard.
That’s not weakness. That’s awareness.
And instead of being able to talk about it, what happens?
You get labeled. Mocked. Told you’re the problem for even questioning it.
That’s not how thinking works. That’s how control works.
You’re allowed to look at something and say, “this doesn’t feel right to me.”
You’re allowed to change your mind.
You’re allowed to expect consistency from the people you supported.
None of that makes you disloyal. It makes you honest.
Because real conviction isn’t blind. It holds the line even when it’s uncomfortable.
Stay there. Ask the questions. Don’t let anyone shame you out of it.
That’s where actual clarity starts.
I cut and copied part of your post and ran it through an AI detector.
“That’s not weakness. That’s awareness.
And instead of being able to talk about it, what happens?
You get labeled. Mocked. Told you’re the problem for even questioning it.
That’s not how thinking works. That’s how control works.
You’re allowed to look at something and say, “this doesn’t feel right to me.”
You’re allowed to change your mind.
You’re allowed to expect consistency from the people you supported.
None of that makes you disloyal. It makes you honest.
Because real conviction isn’t blind. It holds the line even when it’s uncomfortable.
Stay there. Ask the questions. Don’t let anyone shame you out of it.
That’s where actual clarity starts.”
Guess what the results were Vendetta ChatGPT?
Why it might be flagged as AI
Interesting. I’ve seen near identical posts on different news sites; sounds correct
Plus, she doesn’t really say anything. No arguments, not even opinions can be dug out.
Or perhaps it just went over your heads?
I think it was Confucious who said, “if one has his head in the sand even basic logic will not move the ball forward”.
And he said that in answer to a Fox news question about the Terracotta Army.
chinese buried soldiers – Search
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC12710379/?utm_source=chatgpt.com
To test your hypothesis, you should sample other authors too. Yours, mine, SK, JM, Mean. I’m interested in what you find.
https://mitsloanedtech.mit.edu/ai/teach/ai-detectors-dont-work/?utm_source=chatgpt.com
*laughing hysterically*
Hey Genius,
What I shared was a portion of an article/blog circulating in certain political social media groups. Not my writing. Not my claim to authorship. Just something I found worth reading and sharing.
You, however, skipped right over the content and went straight to playing junior detective with an “AI meter,” like that’s some kind of personality trait.LOL
If that’s the hill you want to die on, by all means, keep scanning posts instead of researching facts.
Who knows, maybe that little detector hobby of yours will turn into employment. You certainly have the free time for it.
I genuinely enjoy watching you all spin yourselves into knots over this.
The guy who can’t stop accusing everyone else of using AI is, without a shred of irony, the only one actually using it.
It’s not investigative skill. It’s projection with a WiFi connection.
Duh.
MA: why not run this fresh sample?
Best method for testing is to run 5 samples of VV and graph results. Then run comparisons.
Probably that’s how college profs verify students’ reports.
Markus, I went back two weeks and copied and pasted many of your posts into AI and the only word that kept coming back repeatedly was SHALLOW. Occasionally it was used in a sentence, i.e., “what a shallow thing to say”, but most often just that one word. SHALLOW.
Funny how when Iran states they will destroy Israel and kill all Jews no one blinks an eye or says anything, but Trump states he will destroy the civilization of Terror and the Dems and Pope go nuts….what does that say? Who are the actual losers?
and what did they say when Israel was turning Gaza into piles of dust?
Should have stuck with the school story as the teachers union rejected the changes to their collective bargaining agreement. Doesn’t matter in bitchfield though as the teachers got the bitchslap as the powers to be stated the vote didn’t matter. Seems some teachers should start finding a good lawyer to sue and to oust the union leaders
Not to generalize the entire district, but most teachers are degenerates who need to stop whining and live within their means. 99% of them wouldn’t go above and beyond for their students without a stipend or compensation. Yes, many do, but the majority don’t. I saw the meeting… lots of liberal, white women whining…. SHOCKER. Some had multi-colored hair which equates to a high chance of mental instability… SHOCKER
The planets overwhelming TDS, has left him immune to facts.
His opinion,is flawed,due to history illiteracy.
The planet fails to recall , Curtis LeMays firebombing of the fanatical Japanese.
50 days , followed by negotiations, which the fanatics didn’t understand. Upon their refusal,it took only 2 more air strikes, to destroy their petulance and resolve.
Facts matter Dan…
While your hopes and dreams of congress, interrupting the excursion, it will be over before 90 days. Leaving Demonrats powerless, Chinas fuel tank empty and Iran declawed , for the foreseeable future.
All your deranged, statements prove is your suffering TDS, at a clinical and dangerous level
Your Agitprop to engage Demonrats and demoralize conservatives,will fail epically,like California .
Stick to the facts Dan, Iran holds no cards, American and Israeli forces, control Irans future,period.
Two weeks is enough time to resupply, munitions,gather intelligence and target next level of leadership.
That China is panicked,after the minimal bombing of Kharg Island, proves my point, they are weak and dependent on Iran, period.
When Trump tells Xi where the Big Dog defecates,it will be obvious china is a toothless tiger..
Odds are their offensive weapons are as useless as defensive equipment munitions , they provided Venezuela.
Perhaps the planets TDS induced psychosis ,leaves him in an alternate dream reality.
The best part is, Trump comes out as a humane pragmatic strong leader of the world.
Nato signs agreement,or withers and dies on the vine , along with liberal Europe.
Astronut mark Kelley, gets his court martial, jail and disgrace,he deserves.
So simple ,even a Yankee farmer gets it.
Midterms get red tidal wave,and America first is new political power.
Tom
4/9/26@10:00am
I really appreciate watching you bully the very people who are most likely to be aligned with you…. The minute they don’t stand by everything Trump dies. You’re in a cult, man. Get help.
-former maga
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/04/irans-leaders-are-dead-its-navy-is-sunk/
Eligible men will be automatically registered into the U.S. military draft pool by December in an effort to streamline the existing self-registration process, according to the agency that oversees the system.
On March 30, the Selective Service System – the federal agency which oversees the database of men eligible for service in the event of a military draft – submitted a proposed rule for automatic registration to the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, according to its website.
The new automatic registration process was approved by Congress under the National Defense Authorization Act for fiscal year 2026, which President Donald Trump signed into law in December 2025.
Automatic US Military Draft Registration in December 2026
Cuz we are winning and the war is all over..love your kids now because for the next ten to fifteen years they will all be going to die in the mid-east
We already have registration that was instituted by Carter when the USSR invaded Afghanistan.
I thought automatic registration was good….
Thought D P W And Lmpyvfixed that problem. NOT.
Do you though wonder why this is becoming automatic in Dec 2026? Just days after the election? Shortly after one more possible forever war has been started needlessly, and recruitment has dropped to the lowest ever levels due to young men and women not wanting to become participants in rampant war crimes which are against every biblical verse and moral value?
Similar to President Carter’s order for registration, it is to signal to aggressive adversaries that we are prepared for them.
Deterrent primarily; prepare for war to keep the peace.
Declining enlistment became a problem under GW Bush when they had to relax standards including criminal history and drug use. There was once a time the army didn’t want an grey smart ass with bad knees, but if I live long enough, I too may one day be able to enlist. Enlistment is not just foreign policy driven – the family structure, educational institutions, and Common Sense moral values have been challenged and deformed.
Accident at DinaWay,…west and Miriam…
Unbelievible. Chaz, Marcus, Pat, Shirly Knutz, Kiterman, Mr. Fritz, and Tom Bitit are all bending 180 degrees over backwards to try and make argument and sense where there are none. Marcus uses AI to think so he thinks the Art of war is Art Garfunkel. Where is Mad Trapper? He knows when the jig is up. He’s off creating a fake MA certificate so he can make some scratch. Let’s be clear. there is ABSOLUTELY NO EVIDENCE that MELANIA TRUMP was one of Ghislaine Maxwells escort madames.
*While still laughing out loud to you post
Let’s take a walk through this little traveling circus, shall we.
Markus isn’t analyzing anything. He’s outsourcing his thinking and calling it intelligence. There’s a difference between using a tool and hiding behind one, and Marcus crossed that line a while ago. At this point, if the machine didn’t hand him a conclusion, he’d be standing there bu..buff…buffering.
Sir Chaz writes like a man convinced history is taking notes on him. Every comment reads like it should be etched into stone, but when you actually look at it, there’s nothing there. No facts, no sources, no substance. Just dramatic fog and self-importance doing all the heavy lifting while the light fades to dark. He would make the perfect replacement for Robert Stack on “Unsolved Mysteries”.
Tom Betit is what happens when every thought demands to be said immediately with no quality control. It’s not strategy, it’s a verbal avalanche. By the time you reach the end, you don’t even remember how it started, only that it never should have.
Shirley Knutz is still stuck in bumper sticker mode. Quick hits, no depth, no follow through. It’s not an argument, it’s branding. And weak branding at that.
Pat treats the word “strength” like she is practicing the Law of Attraction on steriods. Say it enough times and maybe it becomes real. Except it doesn’t. It just exposes how empty the rest of the argument is.
Mr. Fritz is the quiet one in the corner pretending to be above it all. Calm tone, measured delivery, but still planted firmly in the same shaky narrative as the rest. Dressing it up doesn’t make it sturdier.
Pussyinboots just wandered into a room full of noise, dropped one post rooted in reality, and somehow made it look effortless. That’s talent.
Honestly, it’s refreshing. Like finding the one adult in a group project who actually read the assignment.
Thank you VV. Your own missives are also 100% on target and refreshing.
Dan
I’m genuinely curious about how the comment system works.
I’ve noticed shorter, one-line comments post right away, but anything longer or with multiple paragraphs seems to get held for approval. Is there a setting or filter that triggers that?
Just trying to understand the process.
VAL
To my best understanding, there’s no advance-delay function in the comments system. There is, though, a much greater level of complication with maintaining a safe comments feature while keeping it from utterly descending into the gutter, especially with the online advances in speed, sophistication, and so on. I have tried to keep the system up to date, and in today’s tech world, it’s no little thing.
Comment monitoring, filtering, and publishing adds an entire level of enabling and commitment, and I’ve tried my best to stay technologically current. There’s a lot of it that’s technically over my head (click protectors, file managers, log-in security, click security, something called responsive management, optimizers, sweep schedulers … it goes on and on), and that’s why I have a tech team. They handle the tech esoterics.
Not having “real-time” comments would make site maintenance less involved, but I form the start I wanted THE PLANET to be (a) interactive and (b) a site where anyone with a reasonable (and even unreasonable but heartfelt) point of view could publish. As you know, locally and nationally, such sites are disappearing as censorship and ideology take over. I’ve welcome both agreement and disagreement with the content of THE PLANET. If someone has a differing point of view and can support it, I want to hear it, consider it, and learn from it. Thanks for the question. It’s a good one.