Iran outcome June 2026

 

Glenn Beck

@glennbeck

I get why so many people are frustrated or skeptical about this Iran MOU. On paper, it looks like a massive compromise: $300 billion in unfrozen assets, a fixed schedule to lift sanctions, and immediate oil export waivers for Tehran. But what were we expecting when on one side, Trump is facing an apocalyptic regime that wants the world to burn and on the other, an American public that has no stomach for war? He played the cards that were actually on the table. I’m sick and tired of the politicians and podcasters who bitch and complain no matter what Trump does. They scream that the war has to stop, but the second he stops it, they turn around and yell, "what kind of deal is this?!" If the goal is to actually end Iran’s regime, history shows there's only one model that works: total WWII-style defeat, occupation, and denazification. That requires American boots on the ground and an Iranian people ready to build a free country from the rubble. But NO ONE, myself included, wants boots on the ground. Is this MOU what Trump wanted? I doubt it. But he did exactly what a leader of a Republic should do: he listened to the people and found a way to end this. A dictator would have kept on going. At the end of the day, a president can only go as far as the people will carry him. Right now, our appetite for war stops at the gas pump.

KanekoaTheGreat

@KanekoaTheGreat

JD Vance just gave the clearest breakdown of the Trump vs. Obama Iran deal distinction I've heard. Here it is — the Gulf State test: The Gulf Coast Coalition loves this deal. They hated the Obama deal. Why? They thought Obama made Iran stronger. They think Trump makes Iran weaker. Vance: "They know more about this, and they have more to lose than anybody, including the USA. So I trust their judgment." The negotiating position: Obama in 2015: Iran has a sophisticated nuclear program. Let's bribe them with American money to stop it. Trump in 2026: We already destroyed your nuclear program. Promise not to rebuild it, and you get some sanctions relief. One is negotiating from fear. The other is negotiating from rubble. The substance: "The Obama nuclear deal allowed enrichment, ours will not." "The Obama deal allowed the accumulation of stockpiled weapons-grade material, ours is actually leading to the destruction of that stockpile of enriched material." "The Obama deal gave them over a billion dollars of American money. This deal gives them $0 of American money." Bottom line from

@JDVance

: "We're coming at it from a position of strength, and the fact that our gulf coast partners love this deal."

Eric Daugherty

@EricLDaugh

WOW! An "AVALANCHE" of oil is about to surge into the global markets, tankers are RUSHING through the Strait of Hormuz, and oil is now $74 per barrel Keep going, President Trump is about to be proven right about oil going WAY down after the Iran war ends

Systemic racism in 2026

 

Wall Street Apes

@WallStreetApes

I hear literally nothing but facts “If systemic racism exists now, the 2 groups that it's against are white people and Asians. It's not happening to Black people” “Being Black in America in 2026 is one of the greatest things to ever happen to me. Jobs have diversity quotas, affirmative action in college — There's so much bending over backwards for the Black community and for the feelings of Black people. And during campaigns, it's all about how can we cater to the Black community. You are privileged to be Black in America now. But then when you look over at white people, it's like white people are constantly demonized. Constantly like, "Oh my gosh, I can't believe you said that. I'm not allowed to say that." If we're in such a racist country, why is it that Black people are able to say and do what they want, but white people feel like they can't? It's so hypocritical. But the Asians, the Asians are the ones that I'm surprised don't speak out on it more. 'Cause when you look at something like the SAT, the average Asian to go to the same school, the same program as a Black person has to score like 250 points higher on the SAT than a Black person” Everything is so true but it’s actually worse than he’s describing. Blacks actually get a 450 point advantage on SAT scores which is INSANE This is real and well documented According to the key school data the effective admissions advantage for Black applicants could reach around 450 SAT points relative to Asian applicants at selective private institutions

Dan Holbrook

@DanHolbrook

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Race grifters built an entire industry telling America that rigging the rules was justice. Asians got punished, white people got demonized, and everyone else was supposed to shut up while they called it equality. That lie is wearing thin.

Men in Church

Key excerpt: The culture has noticed men’s absence and rushed to profit from it: the podcast strongmen, the testosterone clinics, the influencers peddling discipline and dominance—all selling at a markup the claim that they can restore a place for masculinity. That’s something the church offered and then abandoned. Men never stopped craving greatness. They stopped expecting it at the altar.

Fatherhood and the Church

The remedy for the empty pews isn’t a softer faith but a harder one.

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By

Will Thibeau

June 18, 2026

https://www.wsj.com/opinion/fatherhood-and-the-church-8e5b36ed?mod=opinion_lead_pos6

The central demographic fact of many modern American congregations is this: Men in church on an ordinary Sunday are outnumbered and aging. The American church has been stripped of much of its male presence.

The culture has noticed men’s absence and rushed to profit from it: the podcast strongmen, the testosterone clinics, the influencers peddling discipline and dominance—all selling at a markup the claim that they can restore a place for masculinity. That’s something the church offered and then abandoned. Men never stopped craving greatness. They stopped expecting it at the altar.

The expectation of finding manliness in faith died for a reason. The church kept one half of its inheritance and shelved the other half. Sermons and homilies still preach charity and mercy toward the weak, and rightly so; strip those out and nothing Christian survives. But contemporary Christianity has muffled the martial half that built it. Tertullian, an early Christian writer, taught that the blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church. For centuries the sacrament of confirmation told boys that they were enrolled as soldiers of Christ, and the faithful called themselves the Church Militant. Men met God as a captain who demanded much of them.

That tradition channeled male impulses into service of God and the weak, but the modern demasculinizing of the faith demanded therapeutic reassurance instead. The Church Militant devolved into something closer to the Church Impotent (to borrow from the Catholic historian Leon Podles). Parishes became a circuit of women’s clubs that invited a man to picture himself a bride rather than a soldier.

The men understood the invitation and declined. The consequences fall on the next generation, and the figures are grim. A much-cited Swiss study from the 1990s asked how faith passes between generations, and the answer upset every assumption about gentle piety: The father decides. When a father practices, most of his children keep the faith; when he stays home, a devout mother rescues almost no one, about 1 child in 50. A mother instills devotion, while a practicing father supplies the harder lesson that faith isn’t a feminine refinement but a masculine obligation.

Remove the father, and the structure gives way. About 1 in 4 American children, some 18 million, live without their biological father, the Census Bureau reports, and they grow up poor at four times the rate of their peers. The sociologists Sara McLanahan and Gary Sandefur showed that having two parents in the home produces better social outcomes in every race and income bracket.

About 40% of American babies were born outside marriage in 2025, nearly four times the rate in 1970. This wasn’t a private failure of fathers but the result of a public project. Law and politics, having declared themselves neutral toward family, stopped encouraging stable families. Politics is upstream of culture, and a regime that won’t prefer married-couple households will cease to produce them.

The same pattern occurs with believing fathers. Couples who worship together divorce roughly 30% to 50% less often, the University of Virginia sociologist Brad Wilcox finds, and a 2018 Harvard study linked regular attendance among tens of thousands of women to a 50% lower divorce rate.

The church should stop apologizing for the man the faith demands and stop offering comfort where it should offer command. Consider the patron saint of fathers. St. Joseph was no mild domestic ornament. The litany hails him as the renowned offspring of David, who handed Christ a king’s lineage and a contested throne, and calls him the terror of demons and the model of artisans. When the angel warned him of danger, St. Joseph didn’t deliberate. He took the child across a hostile border into Egypt. No wonder Pope Francis called that “creatively courageous.”

This is the manhood the faith could forge. Thomas Aquinas named it magnanimity, the stretching of the soul toward great things. Pope Benedict XVI pressed the point in his 2007 encyclical “Spe Salvi”: God made man “for greatness,” but the heart runs too small and has to be stretched to hold it. We should aim past money and applause toward something worth the cost: a mission beyond the household, in the public world it exists to shape.

The remedy for the empty pews isn’t a softer faith but a harder one, summoning men not to endure the world but to conquer it for Christ. Martyrdom is faith’s final argument, held in reserve. Its daily work is marriages that last and politics that stops pretending faith is irrelevant.

Scripture says every fatherhood in heaven and on earth is named from the Father, so that a man’s own fatherhood is never merely his. It is a share in a paternity older than the world. St. Joseph proves it, a father by vocation rather than blood, who raised the Son of an eternal Father.

This is what Father’s Day honors: not sentiment and not biology, but a man’s place in a relationship beyond time. Men aren’t gone from the modern world. They are waiting to be told that their ambition, aimed greatly enough, was never a sin, and that to win the world for Christ is to win their children to a love that outlasts it.

Mr. Thibeau is founder of Escoreal Solutions and a director at the Claremont Institute.