Secretary of State Marco Rubio this week: “Imagine an Iran that instead of spending billions of dollars supporting terrorists or weapons, had spent that money helping the people of Iran, you’d have a much different country.”

President Donald Trump (who very clearly needs to arrange some sort of morning meeting with his staff to get their talking points down) this week: “The United States can’t take care of daycare. We’re a big country, we have all these other people, we’re fighting wars! We can’t take care of daycare! You’ve got to let a state take care of daycare and they should pay for it too! They have to raise their taxes. It’s not possible for us to take care of daycare, Medicaid, Medicare, all these individual things. We have to take care of one thing: military protection.”

Which means, by Marco Rubio’s own logic, that since he runs a regime change operation against any country who he claims to choose war spending over its own people, that his next regime change operation MUST BE against: the United States.

It’s only fair, Marco.

Also in this Friday Free-for-All: Aaron returns to Piers Morgan Live to make an Iran argument in front of an international audience that no one else is making, walrus war hawk John Bolton can’t say what Trump’s plan is but loves it anyway (as long as it includes regime change), and Lindsey Graham actually can’t stop grinning as he talks about murdering Iranians.

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Tulsi Gabbard in 2020: To all who voted for Trump bc of his antiwar rhetoric, it’s time to realize he lied to u. Stand with me against Trump’s Iran War!

Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard in March 2025: The Intelligence Community continues to assess that Iran is not building a nuclear weapon and Supreme Leader Khamenei has not authorized the nuclear weapons program he suspended in 2003.

And now in 2026, how does Tulsi Gabbard, who opposed the Iraq War, condemned US regime change wars, and sold “No War With Iran” t-shirts, respond when President Trump starts bombing Iran to prevent the use of nuclear weapons that her own department found to be nonexistent?

Let’s check the tape from her disastrous Senate hearing this week:

Congressman: Last year you testified that Iran was not building a nuclear weapon. Do you stand by statement?

Gabbard: Context matters—

Congressman: You either stand by it or not.

Gabbard: It’s a serious question—

Congressman: Was Iran weeks away from achieving a nuclear weapon?

Gabbard: It would be a disservice to the American people to answer with a mere yes or no.

Congressman: Were you lying or not?

Gabbard: I stand by the IC assessment.

So the once anti-war Tulsi Gabbard, the first guest ever on Useful Idiots back in the Rolling Stone days, refuses to stand up to the administration, officially becoming a key player in the USA WMD Hoax Part Two.

To her credit though, she didn’t outright lie and say Iran was close to having nuclear weapons. That honor goes to the director of the CIA, John Ratcliffe.

Congressman: Was Iran developing a nuclear weapon prior to our military action last June and did Iran remain committed to developing a nuclear weapon in the lead-up to this conflict?

Ratcliffe: Yes.

Congressman: If left unchecked, do you think Iran would have the ability to develop missiles capable of reaching the United States?”

Ratcliffe: Yes.

We’ve got one who lies and another who contradicts those lies in a perfect microcosm of the disastrous discohesion of the Trump administration’s war-of-choice against Iran.

Also in this Friday Free-for-All: antisemitism-whisperer Jake Tapper accuses the recently-resigned Director of Counterterrorism Joe Kent of, you guessed it, antisemitism, for claiming Israel pushed the US into war with Iran, Fox News says Iranians are begging US-Israeli bombs to rain down on their own country, and a weird ADL panel complains that all the “cool kids” are against genocide.

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According to the Financial Times, the US and Israel have launched strikes against more than 17,000 civilian sites in Iran since the beginning of their war of choice, and people are understandably asking: How do Iranians feel about their country being bombed?

Well, who better to tell us how Iranians really feel than an Israeli-American, because that’s who Jake Tapper asked.

“How do Iranians see the future unfolding in Iran?” Tapper asks Israeli-activist Emily Schrader.

“By and large, the responses from Iranians that I have spoken to has been overwhelmingly in favor of the United States’ and Israeli action on the ground. They’re very happy!”

That’s right, the voice of Iranians, according to Jake Tapper, is an Israeli who literally works with Israeli intelligence, who claims that Iranians are happy that we assassinated their leader, murdered over 170 girls during school hours at an elementary school, bombed multiple hospitals, and are targeting countless civilian sites.

This isn’t journalism, Jake, you’re a pro-Israel activist white-washing the war crimes and genocide of an illegal regime.

But he isn’t alone! In this Friday Free-for-All, we’re watching a CNN panel call Megyn Kelly “antisemitic” for claiming that this is “Israel’s war,” Democratic Senator Elissa Slotkin claims the Russians are secretly aiding Iran to destroy America, Palantir CEO is so excited that his AI is killing school children, and Lindsey Graham finally mentions his actual constituents in South Carolina after years of only discussing Israel and Ukraine (but just to tell them to send their children to fight and die for him in the Middle East…)

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