Just a Thought

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[[[ For all you die-hard "Trump can do no wrong supporters" who claim we who are against how Trump is handling the Iran War yet who actually supported his reasons for going to war, and who you now claim have TDS...as in "Trump Derangement Syndrome"...here is what TDS really is...and no truer words ever spoken.

 

By the way, the definition of TDS shown below is from a clinical psychologist who compares it to "Stockholm Syndrome"...I did NOT write it. However, I do agree with it as can be witnessed on social media by some of the accusations and comments said to me and others who disapprove of Trump's handling of the Iran War.

 

"TDS is real, but it's his cult that have it! Just another case of deflection. You can't believe a constant, never-ending stream of lies from someone and not be "deranged"! They all have a type of Stockholm Syndrome, yet as is often the case with mental health disorders, the more you try to point it out to them, the harder they dig in!" 

 

And to that I say, truth told. ]]]

Copyright @ 2026 Diane Sori / The Patriot Factor / All Rights Reserved.   

Trump goes off on Norway for awarding Nobel Peace Prize to ‘mystery woman’ — claims he deserves ‘eight’ medals 

Victor Nava / NEW YORK POST 

President Trump made the case Friday that he deserves eight Nobel Peace Prize medals, as he railed against Norway for snubbing him for a second-straight year.

“Today they gave out the Nobel Peace Prize to a person – I never heard of the person. Nobody did. It’s a mystery person,” Trump said at a rally in Syracuse, NY.

Trump dismissed the winner, Navi Pillay, as a “liberal person who works at the United Nations.”

“I never heard of this particular person, but congratulations anyway,” he added, noting that “in all of the wars that I’ve settled, I never spoke to the United Nations.

The president then tore into the five-person Norwegian Nobel Committee that honored Pillay.

“The United States of America, represented by me as your president, should have received the Nobel Peace Prize, but didn’t,” he argued.

Just a Thought

The thought below is my (Diane Sori), thought  alone, and does not necessarily represent the views of blogspot.or google.com

[[[ Too many misguided folks on social media continue to claim that Trump is keeping the Iranians guessing...that he’s doing a great job by "crushing their military," and use as their example how few military attacks Iranian has recently been able to launch at any given time. And these same folks love adding that thanks to Trump the Iranian economy in a "free fall," all while he's been able to avoid the costly use of U.S. ground forces, but the fact is that ground forces are needed to help secure an actual win in whatever game of war is then being played.

 

And to add to their Trump love fest these same folks claim that Trump's handling of the Iran War will go down as one of, if not the most, incredible military operations in history. Just writing those words makes me want to gag.

 

To those folks who think Trump knows what he's doing, I say you are simply fooling yourselves. Trump "idol worship" is one thing...ignoring reality and tangible facts are quite another thing, and I truly believe that history will show this war as being  'Trump's Folly' for he has yet to fight this war to actually win. Why so...because wars are NOT about making deals with the enemy...wars are about a decided winner and loser...a true victory over the enemy...and at this point in time we are NOT winning anything because of Trump's refusing to understand that Iran has not lost anything until the last jihadist is no longer standing. 

 

Oh and by the way, one's enemy is neither crushed nor defeated until said enemy officially and unconditionally surrenders, the very something our enemy's religion itself forbids them from ever doing...let that fact sink in. ]]]

Copyright @ 2026 Diane Sori / The Patriot Factor / All Rights Reserved.

Command decisions: CENTCOM chief Brad Cooper's ups and downs in shaping Trump's war on Iran

MILITARY AFFAIRS: New revelations on Iran's Hormuz blockade, Cooper's secret call to Zamir, US base vulnerabilities, missile threats, and CENTCOM's influence on the war's strategic goals.

Yonah Jeremy Bob / THE JERUSALEM POST 

While US President Donald Trump and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu make their next decisions on Iran and the Middle East conflict strategy, The Jerusalem Post now reveals the major impact that US Central Command (CENTCOM) chief Adm. Brad Cooper has had in this regard.

In April, the Post reported that Cooper has, in some ways, taken a more passive role than his predecessor, Gen. Michael “Erik” Kurilla, in communicating his broad strategy views to Trump, preferring instead to convey them to US Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman Gen. Dan Caine.

The Post can now add that, at times, some say that Cooper conveys views directly to US Secretary of State Marco Rubio or to US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, along with Caine, depending on the issue. 

Cooper, the Post understands, views this as his proper role as a theater combat commander and says communicating with these top officials, rather than Trump, lets him get his concerns heard at the highest decision-making levels. Read more, and see photos here. 

4 astronauts return to Earth after 8 months in space to replace ailing colleague, his crew

Associated Press / NEW YORK POST

Four astronauts returned to Earth from the International Space Station on Thursday after hurrying there eight months ago to replace an ailing colleague and his crew.

SpaceX brought the U.S., French and Russian flyers back with a splashdown in the Pacific off the coast of Los Angeles.

NASA’s Jessica Meir and Jack Hathaway, France’s Sophie Adenot and Russia’s Andrey Fedyaev departed the orbiting lab on Wednesday, eager to reunite with their families after a lengthy separation. Their replacements arrived three weeks late because of capsule repairs, stalling this crew’s homecoming.

 They couldn’t wait to feel the breeze on their faces, hit the shower and, for Adenot at least, plunge back into water sports.

 “We are so excited to be back on Planet Earth after an incredible mission on the International Space Station,” Meir radioed moments after splashing down. While still in orbit, she said the crew had “a lot of mixed, swirling emotions” and would miss the “extraordinary views of our home planet.” Read more, and see photos here.

Just a Thought

This opinion piece is my opinion alone, and does not necessarily represent the views of blogspot.or google.com

     

[[[ Yes folks Trump really did say that stupid remark about Los Angeles and San Diego, I heard it with my own ears. And while he was probably just trying to be flippant, what he said was NOT something any president should ever have said. 

 

Trump must rein in his deliberately divisive rhetoric as he’s starting to sound, use the tactics of, and play act more like a far-left uber-liberal Democrat than a claimed to be Conservative Republican...plus he still tends to talk before he thinks. 

 

And when you add all this all together, it's Trump himself who could well end up being the reason why Republicans might well lose both the House and the Senate in the midterm election. My opinion and I stand by it. ]]] 

Copyright @ 2026 Diane Sori / The Patriot Factor / All Rights Reserved.  

Mamdani’s tone-deaf Oct. 7 post attacks Israel for ‘ongoing genocide,’ sparks outrage 

Craig McCarthy, Patrick Reilly and Ronny Reyes / NEW YORK POST

Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s statement marking the third anniversary of Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack Wednesday largely attacked Israel for committing “war crimes” in an “ongoing genocide” — sparking outrage from Jewish advocates who said Hizzoner was “weaponizing” the tragedy.

Hizzoner dedicated less than a quarter of his written statement to the “unthinkable loss” suffered when “Hamas killed more than 1,100 Israelis and abducted 251 others” on Oct. 7, 2023 — with the vast majority devoted to his ongoing attacks on Israel.

“The suffering did not begin nor end that day. It instead continued through the Israeli government’s devastating, ongoing genocide in Gaza,” he said, citing Hamas statistics as he decried the Palestinian casualties of the war launched in response to the terrorist attack.

“That suffering has intensified with every Israeli bomb dropped on ambulances waiting outside hospitals, every drone strike targeting...Read more, see video and photos here.