Political Pistachio
By Douglas V. Gibbs
The Trump Derangement Syndrome phenomenon is a mystery to many because they refuse to admit that he’s actually making the world better. The global world order has been a failure because it was an international version of the idiotic wave of communism and fascism we fought against during the last century. Trump said, “enough’s enough” and closed our borders, stopped the worldwide redistribution of wealth with a brilliant use of tariffs, and has them begging for us to use Greenland for free after crying about it when Trump bid high in the negotiations. The world’s habit of freeloading on America’s Democratic leadership and neo-con idiocy has been slapped back into their faces by a President willing to be their daddy, rather than their whipping boy.
While President Trump was in Davos, Switzerland and ruling the rooms, California Governor Newsom decided to go to Davos as well and instead was crying and spewing the same wrong stupid leftist talking points which, by the way, made him look really stupid, really weak, and really anti-American. California is a mess, and the dude thinks that his California track record will launch him into the presidency in 2028, and that trashing America on foreign soil will somehow be to his benefit.
It amazes me, sometimes, how wrong these people think.
But, then I got to thinking. He went to Davos to appeal to his global counterparts. It was a cry for assistance.
I’ve told people that when it came to the final takeover of America, and the establishment of a one-party communist system tailored to join the globalist scheme, Barack Obama was the set-up man, and Hillary Clinton was supposed to be the closer. And it wasn’t just a United-States-thing. The leftist globalist commie leaders overseas were in on it too, rooting for America to finally abandon being the Land of Liberty and joining them in their naked commie pagan Marxist dance around a bon-fire somewhere on some hidden sacred grounds. Trump was the stick in their spokes, one might say. You know what happens when a stick is stuck in a bicycle’s spokes, right? It crashes.
We know this to be true by their reaction. The Europeans, in particular, have been lashing out at President Trump ever since he first burst upon the scene, and they are especially angry, now. As the U.S. is being guided by Trump away from climate change energy control, demonic gender ideology, and the one-world globalist cabal the European leaders have largely been triggered in such a way that their fangs can be seen all the way across the pond between us. They view American disengagement from their schemes and madness as an existential threat to everything they’ve been working on for the last eighty years.
Germany’s Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier accused the United States of “destroying the world order.” Mind you, this is not language typically used for countries who are technically supposed to be allies. Steinmeier was not shy about it, either, voicing his concern that the globalist project was in danger of “descending into lawlessness.”
That’s what limited government is to these people. Lawlessness. Anarchy. I remember during the October 2013 federal government shutdown, then-Senate majority Leader Harry Reid labeling House Republican supporters of the Tea Party movement as “Tea Party anarchists.” He accused them of trying to dismantle the government, stating they “believe in no government” and that they were causing chaos. That’s the same mentality that led to the Romans considering the “barbarians” to the north to be inferior, uncivilized, lawless and violent. The Saxons, in particular, used a system of limited government that ours largely draws from. To the big-government Romans, that was seen as being, well, barbaric (granted, the term emerged due to language differences, but you get my meaning). The ideas of the Founding Fathers, who created a limited government system that launched America into becoming the prosperous world power it has become, is a threat to collectivism, and is seen by globalist collectivist socialists who seek to plan and administer everything in our lives as lawless anarchy. They view MAGA and constitutionalism the way the Romans viewed the Saxons, and the way Harry Reid viewed the Tea Party Republicans.
It is no surprise that the European globalists fear Trump, fear America leaning into its foundation of liberty and a free market, fear America flexing its power, fear that the President of the United States embraces much of what the Founding Fathers and the U.S. Constitution were all about, and are in fear of all of their work “descending into lawlessness.”
Beneath it all, however, it is more than “control” that they are losing. Trump is dismantling their corrupt system that they have been using to prop themselves up on their high towering thrones and fund their globalist framework of international redistribution of wealth into their own pockets.
The progressive leftist way of doing things produces exceedingly bloated bureaucracies that also encourages and draws from corruption while fueling fraud and exceedingly violent ideological activism – none of which provides any tangible benefit for the average American or their families. In fact, the socialist, collectivist, globalist agenda was never healthy for America’s national interests.
While the stated purpose of international cooperation on the surface seems to be a wonderful thing, and it can be a good thing when it also respects sovereignty and a country’s interests, what it provides is an imbalance designed to take advantage of American funding and military protection while stripping away America’s greatness a little bit at a time in an effort to make the U.S. just another cog in the global machine of collectivism.
President Trump has recognized the game for what it is and has been withdrawing the United States from these globalist schemes, as he battles progressive Marxist leftism on our own shores. What is rising up is a fiery dispute not only internationally, but on our own soil. Trump is revealing who is behind the curtain, and exposing their schemes – and it is getting uglier and uglier because like a cornered animal, the hard left doesn’t know what to do other than lash out violently. What Trump is doing, in their minds, is unforgiveable and they are doing everything they can to stop it. But the harder they fight back, the more the great reveal shows us who they really are, and exactly why President Trump needs to continue what he’s doing.
— Political Pistachio Conservative News and Commentary
By Douglas V. Gibbs
Demonstrations in Iran continue after the collapse of Iran’s currency and long-standing public discontent. Widespread strikes and student protests across Tehran and multiple provincial cities has been met with violent responses by government security forces.
Reports of live fire and tear gas has confirmed the reality that the government is not only cracking down on the protesters, but they are using lethal force that has so far resulted in the deaths of possibly as many as 20,000 people.
Iranian officials publicly defend the government’s approach. Independent analysts indicate the internal structural strains have reached a “critical threshold,” as the country experiences chronic water and energy shortages.
The pressure has been building for years. This is an echo of the Iranian civilian uprising in 2009 that Barack Obama admits his administration made a “mistake’ in not supporting. “Every time we see a flash, a glimmer of hope, of people longing for freedom, I think we have to point it out. We have to shine a spotlight on it. We have to express some solidarity about it,” he said.
President Trump has taken the opposite tact in a robust embrace of everyday Iranians. If Iran “violently kills peaceful protesters, which is their custom, the United States of America will come to their rescue,” Trump wrote in a post. “We are locked and loaded and ready to go.”
While President Trump has not revealed his strategy, Iranian dissidents have cheered his statements. Among the tactics used by the United States, tougher sanctions will likely be one of them, though military forces are in the region and at the ready.
Obama was afraid of offending the Iranian leadership, but Donald Trump believes in using a firm hand internationally, and siding with those seeking liberty, which is why he was quick to make it clear where he stood when it came to the protests against the Iranian regime. President Trump’s actions against Iran have served as key influences on the rising unrest. Back in July of 2025 he sent B2 bombers to strike against Iran’s nuclear-weapons-making facilities, and in 2020 he sent American forces into Iran to successfully kill Qassem Soleimani, the general in charge of Iran’s notorious Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. The Trump administration has also indicated they are willing to augment those actions to embrace Iran’s protesters. A carrier strike group led by the USS Abraham Lincoln has been deployed to the region, and while military action seems to be on the table, President Trump has been engaging Iran’s government through diplomatic channels. President Trump has indicated that the United States would “act accordingly” if repression continued. Iran has denied the execution of protesters, and the administration is monitoring the clashes in Iran closely and has warned allies against economic ties with Iran.
Iranian leadership has warned against the American president “meddling” in the internal political affairs of Iran, while also blaming Trump for the unrest. “Trump should know that intervention by the U.S. in the domestic problem corresponds to chaos in the entire region and the destruction of U.S. interests,” Ali Larijani, a former parliament speaker and current secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council, wrote on X, as reported by CBS. “The people of the U.S. should know that Trump began the adventurism. They should take care of their own soldiers.”
In a discussion with an individual who fled Iran in 1982, I was told that there is very little public support for the Islamic regime in Iran. “Persians hate the Arabs for bringing Islam to the region, and only abide by Islamic law out of fear.” According to my contact, pro-U.S. sentiment is strong in Iran, and Christianity is the fastest growing religion in the Middle Eastern country.
According to Ali Safavi, one of the leaders of the Iranian opposition, “…for 46 years, the Iranian regime and its leaders, including Khamenei, have been engaged in acts of genocide and crimes against humanity, and unfortunately, the inaction of the international community in all these years only emboldened them in these atrocities.” Safavi said he did not believe the United States would need to commit any troops or military power for regime change to occur in Iran. “The overthrow of the ruling dictatorship is only possible at the hands of the people of Iran and the organized resistance, a responsibility that the resistance units and rebellious use are striving to fulfill. And toppling this regime, of course, requires neither foreign troops, nor foreign funding. Instead, the international community, the European Union and the U.S. should recognize the right of the Iranian people to topple this regime and so, in this context, and a decisive statement of support for what is happening in the future of Iran today, is certainly encouraging to the Iranian people.”
Safavi had indicated the rest of the world can help the opposition movement with a few actions. He has called upon Europe to designate the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps as a foreign terrorist group like Trump did in 2019. He has called upon all Western countries to expel all Iranian diplomats. He has urged the United Nation’s National Security Council to express support for the Iranian people and to condemn Tehran’s crackdowns. He has called for the imposition of a ban on all Iranian banking globally, including ending the country’s ability to conduct transactions in the SWIFT banking system. He has called for a worldwide ban on Iranian oil sales.
Former CIA analyst and National Security Chief of Staff Fred Fleitz told Just The News that President Trump needs to quickly revamp the messaging on its foreign-facing radio and TV networks like Voice of America and Radio Liberty so that the Iranian people know of Trump’s support, something that they often can’t see because much of social media and Western news is blocked in the country.
“The Iranian regime does not want the people to know that protesters are being killed. We have to get the message into the country that this is happening, because if the people know that the regime is responding to their peace of protesters by killing protesters, which the regime doesn’t want to know about, these demonstrations could snowball,” he explained.
Fleitz said the current protests may not be strong enough yet to topple the regime, but could rise to that level soon.
“I think it’s a significant threat,” he said. “It has not yet reached critical mass to become a revolution, or something we can say will overturn the regime. But it is getting stronger,” he said.
“Iran is looking at FREEDOM, perhaps like never before,” Trump wrote in a Jan. 10 post on Truth Social. “The USA stands ready to help!!!”
The president’s message has remained consistent since that post, calling the Iranian regime “religious Nazi henchmen,” and stating that the regime’s “brutality against the great people of Iran will not go unchallenged. Make Iran Great Again.” Trump’s rhetoric, according to Senator Lindsey Graham, has become a symbol of solidarity with demonstrators. He urges people to publicly stand with Iranians calling for change.
Protesters have torched government buildings and the Al-Rasul mosque in Tehran, the latter a symbol of the Islamic regime. In a video released of the burning mosque, chants of “death to the dictator” and “death to Khamenei” could be heard. Exiled Iranian crown prince Reza Pahlavi issued a message calling on supporters to continue demonstrations and called for nationwide strikes in key sectors, including transportation and energy. He also appealed to members of Iran’s security forces to slow and disrupt what he called the regime’s “machine of repression.”
The protests were sparked in late December 2025, and continue to evolve becoming the most sustained nationwide challenge to the Islamic Republic since the dawn of the regime nearly fifty years ago.
— Political Pistachio Conservative News and Commentary
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By Douglas V. Gibbs
If you can’t use your guns, you have no defense against tyranny. If you need a background check to buy bullets, they know who has guns. If you can’t conceal carry, it doesn’t matter if you own a gun.
Men are the greatest threat to tyranny, especially the ones who vote in a higher percentage for liberty. That is why there is a war against white men.
The family is the most basic and important building block of a virtuous and free society, which is why attacking parental rights is in full swing.
A redistribution of wealth is one of the most basic tools of communism. Reparations is one of the ways to make it happen, in America, since classic economic class warfare is not an option in a free society. The way the tariffs were before Trump took charge was a global from of a redistribution of wealth, as well.
When corruption runs rampant, fraud becomes a means of moving funds. When their own allies deviate from the narrative, even they become a target. Truth becomes a lie, and lies become the truth – you know, like when they try to convince you that men can get pregnant, and federal law enforcement are the Gestapo.
They are trying to protect their control over our monetary system, preserve their power structure, and they are even willing to go after our sacred right to worship and get as violent as they want to achieve their goal of eliminating the opposition. The end-game is revolution, so there is no limit to how far they are willing to go, nor how many of those who they believe to be their opposition they are willing to eliminate.
And if you catch on – If you believe anything I have told you – If you are willing to realize that there is more going on than what we see on the surface – And you try to do anything about it – Then you will be branded as a conspiracy theorist, and be targeted. But, isn’t liberty worth it?
— Political Pistachio Conservative News and Commentary
By Douglas V. Gibbs
First, we must remember: They only show you what they want you to see. Second, they lie. Whenever someone tells me that they read or heard something about politics or the news, my first question is, “From whom?”
According to the mainstream media, a number of polls are showing that President Trump’s immigration policies are slowly losing public support, including among Republicans. Initially, President Donald Trump’s immigration agenda received great support. His appearance upon the political scene back in 2015 was anchored by his immigration policy that included the deportation of illegal aliens. His opponents have framed his immigration policies as tyrannical, and Hitleric. They figure if they say it often enough, you will begin to believe them.
Except, Trump’s policies regarding immigration are as popular as ever.
If you won’t believe their lies, then they need to convince you that your neighbors believe what they are saying. Perhaps that will wear you down and make you turn against Trump. So, they now offer polls saying that the popularity of President Trump’s immigration policies, particularly regarding the use of ICE, is wavering. The problem is, that also is false.
According to a new poll from CBS News, President Trump’s approval rating among Republicans stands at a solid 90%.
That is interesting. How is it that CNN, and MSNow, and ABC, and NBC all claim Trump’s popularity is wavering, and I’ve even seen some of their polls say his popularity is under 50% among Republicans, yet CBS’s poll says he’s at 90%? And the thing is, it’s much higher than even CBS used to report.
CBS has done something different than their mainstream cousins. The new head of CBS News is Bari Weiss. She’s not a conservative, per se, but she is a straight shooter. When ideology is set aside, the truth can be amazing. When you push away the lies, the reality is, President Donald Trump is the most popular President in U.S. History, aside from perhaps George Washington.
— Political Pistachio Conservative News and Commentary
Drawing Fire
By Douglas V. Gibbs
When my website manager told me that my site was being hit harder than any of the others he oversees, targeted by waves of Russian and Chinese bots, I wasn’t surprised. In fact, my first thought was simple: when you’re over the target, you get the most flak.
And what is the “target” I’m over? It isn’t me. It’s the ideas I champion, ideas that authoritarian systems have always feared.
Christianity proclaims that every human being is created in the image of God, endowed with inherent worth, moral agency, and responsibility. That single truth is incompatible with any system – communist, collectivist, or globalist – that seeks to reduce the individual to a cog in a state-managed machine.
For regimes built on centralized control, these ideas are not merely inconvenient, they are subversive.
My call for a virtuous society is not a nostalgic slogan, and simply a reference to Benjamin Franklin’s critical quote, “Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom.” It is a direct challenge to the modern technocratic worldview that believes human behavior can be manipulated, nudged, or coerced into compliance.
Virtue is voluntary. Virtue is internal. Virtue is incompatible with state dependency.
A people who govern themselves morally do not need to be governed heavily politically. That is why collectivist systems historically work to erode virtue: the more fragmented and morally confused a society becomes, the easier it is to control.
The Constitution, properly understood based on original intent, places strict limits on government power. It decentralizes authority, divides it, binds it with chains of enumerated powers, and provides checks and balances to ensure it remains in its cage. It assumes a moral, self-governing people. It rejects the idea that elites, committees, or international bodies should dictate the lives of free citizens.
To globalists, this is intolerable.
A nation anchored in constitutional limits cannot be absorbed into a global administrative order.
A people who understand their natural rights cannot be easily manipulated. A society grounded in faith and virtue cannot be remade into a collectivist utopia where the people become faceless autonomous animals in the field pulling a plow.
And that is why voices like mine draw fire. Not because I am powerful; but because the ideas I defend are.
If you were an authoritarian regime, what would you fear?
These are the pillars of a free society. They are also the natural enemies of communism and globalist ideology.
So when bots swarm my site, I don’t see it as harassment. I see it as confirmation.
The ideas I teach, Christian virtue, constitutional originalism, and the dignity of the individual, are precisely the ideas that topple tyrannies. They always have.
And that is why they are afraid.
— Political Pistachio Conservative News and Commentary