Better in their words…

JEFF CHILDERS APR 12, 2026

I am hopeful that Trump’s strategy is good and solid. I’m with Gen. Flynn on this: now is no time to back down and get into endless negotiations. I’m sure there will be many negative consequences for the US as a result of this conflict- consequences we will likely never hear about from Mr. Positive Childers [more for the rest of the world], but not eliminating Iran’s nuclear threat- and likely it’s mullahs -will be the worst.

“Safe and Effective”? I’m not sure how anyone can believe that any more. I trust nothing I get from pharma or the medical industrial complex; it can kill you, literally. mrossol

C&C ARMY BRIEFING — IRAN WAR UPDATE 

🚀 Our theory about President Trump’s war strategy is rapidly gaining mindshare. This high-concept clip making the rounds on Japanese social media illustrated the same big-picture plan we’ve discussed since last year: the still-controversial idea that it’s not “reckless” and “seat-of-pants-driven,” but carefully planned to reorder the entire world economy. He has his pants on.

CLIP: The possible Trump plan with cute map graphics (3:11).

The short, three-minute clip lays out nearly completely our own speculative theories, only differing in that it offers another reason President Trump might want leverage over Europe and Asia (U.S. debt), and doesn’t consider the AI implications. But the rest of it is all there. Granted, everyone is still guessing; we don’t know the plan (nor should we). The point is, despite corporate media’s best efforts to paint everything the President does as chaos and happenstance, others are obviously starting to connect the same dots that we have.

If we’re right and trad-media is wrong, then an incredible package is out for delivery. I will further speculate that Trump’s timeline suggests the endgame will become even more obvious as the midterms approach. Prepare to be amazed.

🚀 It played out exactly as our theory would have predicted. After 21 continuous hours of talks, the Iranian peace summit’s initial round ended with no deal early this morning. The New York Times reported, “U.S. and Iran Fail to Agree on Peace Deal, Vance Says, Leaving Cease-Fire’s Fate Uncertain.”

“They have chosen not to accept our terms,” the Vice-President told reporters at a brief news conference in Islamabad, Pakistan, leaving open the possibility that terms could still be reached.

“We leave here with a very simple proposal: a method of understanding that is our best and final offer,” he added. “We’ll see if the Iranians accept it.”

I’m not sure what “a method of understanding” means, exactly. It’s less than “a proposal,” and more like a strong suggestion. We think you’ll be happier if you agree with us. But “best and final offer” seemed clear. Take the method or leave it.

Either way, it was a face-kick for corporate media and Democrats, who last week gleefully interpreted the cease-fire and pending peace talks as Trump ‘TACOing’ (chickening out) and surrendering under their withering political pressure over gas prices. (In other words, they —the media and Democrats— declared victory.) But Vance’s hard line contradicted the narrative. No tacos.

Cast your mind back to the pandemic era. (Sorry.) Do you remember all the media’s breathless, front-page, play-by-play coverage of Biden’s negotiating teams in the UAE, failing to make a deal to end the Israel-Hamas war? Yeah, me neither. Here’s how I interpret the media’s obvious double standard: back then, everyone expected Biden to catastrophically fail. So why even bother reporting it?

But they’re scribbling down every single second of Trump’s team’s work.

The Times identified two sticking points. First, the U.S. demanded that Iran immediately stop interfering in the Strait, whereas Iran insisted that it should only stop whenever a final deal is made. So the two sides aren’t disagreeing over the merits, just the timing. Second, the U.S. required that Iran hand over some 900 pounds of highly enriched uranium, mainly because we’re tired of hearing about it every ten minutes in intelligence agency briefings about nuclear weapons. For their part, the Iranians insisted they prefer to keep their radioactive material, since they’ve grown fond of it over the years, plus it really ties the room together.

That seems to be the real hangup— the enriched uranium.

🚀 Both sides agreed to keep working toward a deal. The Times and other trad-media sneered that, while JD Vance and his team negotiated, President Trump attended an Ultimate Fighting Championship event in Miami. Obviously, the media considers kickboxing frivolous — “Mr. Trump sat and impassively watched as blood and saliva sprayed out from the fighters beating each other silly in front of him,” the article smirked— but they missed the obvious metaphor: Two kinds of fighting.

The Times admitted that the President “entered the arena to thunderous applause.” Not exactly falling approval ratings. Earlier yesterday, President Trump told reporters he didn’t care whether a peace deal was made. “We win, regardless,” he said. “We’ve defeated them militarily.” Media remained skeptical. But our theory predicts that Trump was telling the truth, and not just blustering— Trump really doesn’t care. He prefers a closed Strait.

Meanwhile, politically, he only needs to show he’s trying to re-open the Strait.

🚀 It reminds me of how skillfully Trump played the Ukraine war games. For the first half of last year, he repeatedly showed heroic efforts to personallynegotiate the war’s end, and you’ll remember how he tweeted every ten minutes about those negotiations. Meanwhile, he slowly and quietly decoupled the US. Now, in 2026, nobody is demanding that he end a war we’re no longer directly involved in. We hardly ever see the Green Goblin anymore.

The war continues, but without us, and without the daily headlines. Now, Kiev is just a throbbing headache for the Europeans.

I can’t see how drawn-out negotiations with Iran could hurt us. JD Vance is winning, because he’s being platformed in a key leadership role. That will be helpful for 2030. America is selling energy products to Europe and Asia faster than ever, like it’s one of those never-ending going-out-of-business sales. (Yesterday, the President happily reported the number of cargo ships headed toward American ports to fill up.) And we are throwing up AI data centers like Starbucks stores, since we have plenty of cheap energy.

The Times ignored all that. It just repeated its constant refrain: “The political reality facing Mr. Trump is grim. Inflation is rising. Gas prices are eating into American paychecks.”

I offer two answers to those complaints. First, all those variables are well under the President’s control. He can end the war in Iran whenever he feels it is appropriate. Second, back during Bidenflation and his “I did that!” gas prices, I can’t remember the Times calling the Cabbage’s “political reality” grim. So how “grim” can inflation and gas prices really be? Plus, Trump isn’t running again. So what, exactly, is his “political reality?”

Trump retains all his options. If he wants to bomb the mullahs more, he can just declare the ceasefire over, and get right back to bunker busting. If he doesn’t want to fight, he can say the talks are difficult, but he remains hopeful— and then just extend the two-week ceasefire. It’s all in his control.

ESSENTIAL NEWS AND COMMENTARY

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A couple fascinating, high-profile posts yesterday proved the covid jabs story isn’t going anywhere. Sooner or later, they’ll have to deal with it. First, yesterday, Elon Musk (237.8 million followers) replied to a tweet about excess death rates following the covid jabs in Germany. Look at what the world’s richest man said:

So.

Next, NewsNation ran a segment with Chris Cuomo, interviewing billionaire cancer researcher Patrick Soon-Shiong (who owns the LA Times). “There’s now evidence when you actually biopsy the tumors, there’s spike protein inside the tumors.” He then cited the tsunami of turbo-cancers. “I’m now seeing 10-year-olds with colon cancer,” Dr. Soon-Shiong said.

CLIP: Dr. Soon-Shiong reports spike protein inside cancer tumors (1:00).

So, in one day, you have the most powerful private citizen on the planet, Musk, damning the covid jabs. Plus, a high-profile billionaire specialist who owns a major newspaper, and whose company develops immune therapies for treating cancer, suggesting a direct causal link between the shots and the explosion of unprecedented cancers in young people.

Corporate media will never make the connection. It would completely destroy them. But now we have X. We don’t need corporate media anymore. This isn’t over by a long shot.

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It’s been less than a month since President Trump started the Anti-Fraud Task Force, and only two weeks from its first meeting on March 27th. Yesterday, Fox News reported, “JD Vance’s task force flags nearly $6.3B in government contracts going to potentially fraudulent businesses.” Andrew Ferguson, the Task Force vice-chair, announced the group identified 400 businesses that received over $6 billion in federal grants and contracts but didn’t even provide a mailing address.

CLIP: Task Force Vice-Chair explains how Biden Administration enabled massive fraud (3:22).

“You’re not supposed to be able to get any money from the United States government unless you put down a physical mailing address,” Ferguson said, “and they just didn’t do it.” How come nobody told the rest of us that getting big money from the federal government was that easy?

Using the pandemic as an excuse, “the prior administration either ignored or turned off existing anti-fraud protections and regulations,” Ferguson said. “We’re now sending out 30-day letters asking for verification of the legitimacy of these businesses. And in the meantime, we’re pausing about $3 billion in remaining payments that haven’t gone out the door yet, to try to recover some of these funds.”

“We’re starting to turn these programs back on,” he said. Prepare for progressive hysteria.

Mr. Ferguson also explained in shocked awe that the federal government provides tens of millions to states to fund anti-fraud programs. But many blue states, like Hawaii, haven’t prosecuted a single fraud case in years. So … what was the money used for? Leis and poi? Junkets to San Francisco? Re-electing democrats?

The politics are astonishingly good. Fraud prosecution isn’t an 80/20 issue. It’s more like a 90/10 issue. And the Task Force isn’t a regular gold-star committee that will spend two years researching the problem then quietly issue a white paper. It is chaired by the Vice-President, and members include nearly half of the entire cabinet. It doesn’t replace other fraud hunts, like Dr. Oz’s Medicare crackdown, or the DOJs wave of arrests, but adds to them. And two weeks in, it is already suspending contracts, reactivating existing fraud programs, and sending out demand letters.

“The Task Force is rippin’ and rollin’ under the president’s leadership,” Ferguson said. “President Trump is the first American president to take this fraud problem seriously.” More records are being set.

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A quiet Fifth Circuit decision almost snuck by us because of its quirky subject matter, but turned out to be a sensational pro-freedom case. Raise your glass. Two days ago, Reuters reported, “US appeals court declares 158-year-old home distilling ban unconstitutional.”

On Thursday, in a case styled McNutt v. US Department of Justice, the Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit struck down an 1868 federal law banning home alcohol distilleries. The plaintiffs were part of a craft whiskey hobbyist group who wanted to “mess around” with admittedly questionable new spirit flavors like “apple pie.” But for over 150 years, a longstanding federal law banned moonshining with a sobering fine and up to five alcohol-free years in the penitentiary.

Not only was the 23-page opinion legally intoxicating, but so was the DOJ’s posture. The DOJ abandoned its strongest argument on appeal. That would have been the Commerce Clause, which traces its modern application from a much-despised old SCOTUS case called Wickard v. Filburn about home-grown wheat to a more recent formula in a case called Raich that allowed the government to ban home-grown marijuana.

Having abandoned the Commerce Clause argument, that left the government claiming the ancient law was valid under the government’s power of the purse— taxation. But the Fifth Circuit laughed. How can a law banning somethingbe considered a tax? What tax? If you forbid the taxed activity, then tax revenues are zero.

So the Fifth Circuit held, quite rationally, that the government can tax, and can regulate taxed articles, but it cannot ban other conduct or products and call it “in aid of” taxation. The bar is back open. Amusingly, and quite ironically, the court cited NFIB v. Sebelius— the case where Justice Roberts joined four Democrats to “save” Obamacare as a tax.

In Sebelius, Justice Roberts famously wrote that the federal taxing power is limited to requiring an individual to pay money into the treasury and “no more.” Thus, he concluded, a tax that leaves citizens with a lawful choice is different from a coercive statute backed by criminal sanctions. The Fifth Circuit pounced on that distinction, finding the 1868 law to be both coercive and backed by criminal sanctions. It’s funny how the law works sometimes.

The outcome astonished the legal glitterati. Banning moonshine has been tolerated and upheld for more than half of the nation’s life. Nobody expected the courts to strike it down now. But ever since the pandemic’s excesses, a potent new spirit has poured into the land, with an exhilarating flavor of freedom. We’d like several more servings, please.

Enjoy a blessed and rewarding Sunday! Thank you, once again, for your continued loyal support. Don’t drive after sampling your home brew, but safely return here tomorrow morning, for more C&C-style craft beverages, essential news, and delightful commentary.

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