{"id":18023,"date":"2024-04-16T12:47:31","date_gmt":"2024-04-16T12:47:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/2024\/04\/16\/greg-gutfeld-weve-never-seemed-weaker-and-the-bad-guys-can-see-it\/"},"modified":"2024-04-16T12:47:31","modified_gmt":"2024-04-16T12:47:31","slug":"greg-gutfeld-weve-never-seemed-weaker-and-the-bad-guys-can-see-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/2024\/04\/16\/greg-gutfeld-weve-never-seemed-weaker-and-the-bad-guys-can-see-it\/","title":{"rendered":"GREG GUTFELD: We\u2019ve never seemed weaker, and the bad guys can see it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"speakable\">All right, to the news. Like I said, over the weekend, Iran launched an all-out attack on Israel, shooting as many as 300 drones and rockets at the Jewish state. And I don\u2019t mean Florida. The result? One injury. One. By that metric, it was far more dangerous to be on the New York subway this weekend than strolling around Tel Aviv. Seriously, you have a better chance of getting hurt trying to take a burrito from Whoopi Goldberg.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">Give credit to Israel\u2019s air defense system, Iron Dome, which is the same nickname we gave Jesse Watters\u2019 head. Now, however, give the Iranians their due. It\u2019s an accomplishment to send hundreds of projectiles and kill no one. Nobody has bombed this badly since Jimmy Failla got his own show. When he gets preempted by disaster coverage, viewers can\u2019t tell the difference.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But it\u2019s all a reminder that Iran typically prefers to do its dirty work by proxies, grimy organizations like Hamas, Hezbollah and the University of California, Berkeley. But this was an escalation and any time an enemy nation does something it hasn\u2019t done before, you got to ask why. What\u2019s changed? Iran certainly hasn\u2019t. The mullahs are the same charming gents they\u2019ve been since \u201979. And that\u2019s 979, in case you\u2019re counting.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"embed-media fn-video\">\n<div class=\"video-container\">\n<div class=\"m video-player\"> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>So then what\u2019s changed? Well, America. Namely, a president who\u2019s weaker than Jimmy Carter in \u201979. Hell, he\u2019s weaker than Jimmy is now. Remember the old phrase, speak softly and carry a big stick? Now it\u2019s mumble incoherently and use a walker. On top of that, we\u2019ve got a broken southern border, disgraceful Afghanistan retreat, and a military that\u2019s more concerned with trans than torpedoes. Our best hope is that our enemies die laughing. If you don\u2019t believe me, consider the difference between October 7th and April 13th.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Iran\u2019s doctrine has always been \u2018let the people we supply and train have the literal blood on their hands,\u2019 [and] we\u2019ll stay back like the craven cowards we are. Except for this Saturday. Sure, the Iron Dome works, but come on, Iran couldn\u2019t kill a single person. Obama\u2019s drone strikes killed more than that accidentally. The lesson is when Iran has to do the dirty work themselves, they don\u2019t. They farm it out. Like when I have interns deep clean my jacuzzi. So why did they bother with this? Maybe to see if Biden would answer the 3 a.m. call or a 3 p.m. call, or if he\u2019d respond to his home health aide trying to shake him awake.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"embed-media fn-video\">\n<div class=\"video-container\">\n<div class=\"m video-player\"> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Remember Obama\u2019s red line when he threatened Syria but did nothing when they crossed it? That showed the Middle East that America\u2019s resolve was softer than Bill Clinton seeing Hillary step out of the shower. Now, say what you want about Trump but one of the things the media hated about him was his unpredictability, which kept stuff like this from happening. It\u2019s funny when academics or the State Department use that strategy, they give it a fancy term like \u2018strategic ambiguity.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Strategic ambiguity. I guess it applies here. But with Trump, it\u2019s called unstable, erratic. But it\u2019s the same thing. Make the enemy wonder what you\u2019re capable of and keep them worried. You know, like a good football coach would do. Just ask friends of Suleimani, the Iranian major general who was a major problem until Trump\u2019s airstrike turned him into a carpet stain.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Do you think anyone in Iran is afraid of Biden\u2019s national security team? The team that brought us Afghanistan? Let\u2019s see. You got a president who could barely walk, a veep that can barely talk, a secretary of defense who disappears for weeks at a time. A secretary of state who looks like he\u2019s seen a ghost and a national security adviser who looks like that ghost. I haven\u2019t seen a less impressive group of five people since I let that Menudo cover band sleep on my couch. So we\u2019re in the red zone now, and Biden\u2019s attempt to neutralize the mullahs by burying them under piles of money? That flopped. Things are changing faster than a girls swim team with Lia Thomas in their locker room. We\u2019re in a dangerous place, and that\u2019s not me talking. Here\u2019s FBI Director Chris Wray:<\/p>\n<p><strong>FBI DIRECTOR CHRIS WRAY:<\/strong> Our most immediate concern has been that individuals or small groups will draw some kind of twisted inspiration from the events in the Middle East to carry out attacks here at home. Increasingly concerning is the potential for a coordinated attack here in the homeland, akin to the ISIS-K attack we saw at the Russia concert hall just a couple weeks ago.<\/p>\n<p>Sounds serious. Too bad our so-called leaders aren\u2019t. In the old days, the battle of the three-letter agencies, the CIA and FBI versus KGB. Now the CIA and FBI worry more about DEI. And we have a DHS that\u2019s M.I.A. on the border. It\u2019s time to put out an S.O.S. We\u2019ve never seemed weaker, and the bad guys can see it. And what they\u2019re seeing is a president who thought this would work.<\/p>\n<p><strong>PRESIDENT BIDEN:<\/strong> I have one word: Don\u2019t. Don\u2019t don\u2019t don\u2019t don\u2019t don\u2019t, don\u2019t.<\/p>\n<div class=\"embed-media fn-video\">\n<div class=\"video-container\">\n<div class=\"m video-player\"> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Maybe that was Joe reacting to Dr. Jill approaching him with an anal thermometer. Now, laughing over the old poop joke. Now, Iran could also be looking to further draw from the \u2018Bank of Holocaust Goodwill.\u2019 By baiting Israel into doing something out of proportion to the attack. That\u2019s one thing Iran and other antisemites will never forgive Israel for. The fact that 6 million of them were murdered must be part of that Jewish plan for world domination. If that\u2019s what Iran is up to, that\u2019s also something new.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>And that could normalize more direct attacks on Israel. And while John Kirby blames Trump for all this, the White House has been busy enriching Iran by waiving sanctions against Iran selling oil. **** PayPal would have been a lot easier, Joe.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>So, really, the big day wasn\u2019t Saturday, it was Sunday. And all the other days after the attack. Please, someone explain that to Joe, even if you have to use flash cards.<\/p>\n\n<div>This post appeared first on FOX NEWS<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All right, to the news. Like I said, over the weekend, Iran launched an all-out attack on Israel, shooting as many as 300 drones and rockets at the Jewish state. And I don\u2019t mean Florida. The result? One injury. One. 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