Israeli Strikes Kill Some of Iran’s Most Powerful Men

 The Jews figure out ways to punish their enemies that leave the rest of us saying, “no way!”

Remember when they made the cell phones of Hezbollah explode?  And when they switched to walkie talkies they made them explode too?  And now they figure out a way to take out some really important Iranian leaders all at once.  Read about who they killed below.

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Iran’s highest-ranking military officer, the head of its elite Revolutionary Guards Corps and its air force and a former national security chief have all been killed in Israel’s unprecedented Operation Rising Lion.

Their deaths will send shockwaves through the nation’s military establishment and could seriously hamper the Islamic Republic’s ability to respond to Israel’s attacks. Here’s what you need to know about them.

https://www.cnn.com/2025/06/13/middleeast/israel-iran-strikes-military-deaths-intl-hnk

US Embassy in Israel Boycotts Pride Parade

 We know that Trump isn’t going to save America but it sure feels right to be pushing back against all the woke insanity that has flooded the world these past 4-5 years.  No!  We aren’t going to celebrate perversion.  The fact that two men want to work unseemly actions with each is no cause for anyone to rejoice with an outbreak of pride.  The fact that the reprobates have claimed an entire month is even more reason to reject it.

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The American Embassy in Israel is boycotting both of the nation's pride parades this month, having skipped last week’s event in Jerusalem and confirming it will not take part in the parade in Tel Aviv on Friday.

According to reports, the embassy will not host nor participate in any pride-related events taking place in June.

The Israeli news site Haaretz said it obtained a letter sent by the U.S. Embassy to the Israeli Foreign Ministry notifying it that it had no plans to participate in the events, in line with changes in the Trump administration’s policies. 

Haaretz said the letter referred to the “LGB community,” without the 'T' for Trans which would appear to align with the Trump administration’s shift away from support for transsexual involvement in the military or in the sports world. 

The U.S. Embassy in Tel Aviv is located on Hayarkon Street, close to the gay pride parade route. In past years, embassy staff frequently took part in the march, and the building was decorated with the rainbow flag – a symbol of the LGBTQ+ movement. 

During U.S. President Donald Trump’s first term, the embassy hosted Pride events, which even included the participation of Orthodox Ambassador David Friedman.

The Israel association for LGBT Rights expressed its “disappointment” in an official statement. 

“We are disappointed for the staff of the U.S. Embassy in Israel, who will be forced to stand by this year instead of marching with us, as they have done with pride and fearlessness for years. What starts with the harassment of trans men and women, quickly turns into the exclusion of an entire community,” the statement read. 

Last month, U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth reaffirmed an order requiring active-duty transgender soldiers to self-identify and opt for voluntary early retirement by June 6. National Guard and Reserve troops were given until July 7 to do the same.

The new embassy policy may also have been influenced by Ambassador Mike Huckabee, a conservative Evangelical Christian and vocal critic of the gay rights movement. In 2015, addressing efforts to compel Christians to accept same-sex marriage, Huckabee said that it was “like asking someone Jewish to start serving bacon-wrapped shrimp in their deli.”

https://allisraelnews.com/us-embassy-boycotts-tel-aviv-pride-parade-under-second-trump-administration

Israel Strikes Iran

 It sounds like Israel has just killed a whole bunch of top Iranian military commanders!  Another amazing Israeli military operation!  The enemies of Israel must be saying, “How!!!”  Bible readers say, “Because God says so.”

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 Israel strikes Iran: Israel has launched unprecedented strikes on Iran, targeting its nuclear program and senior military leaders in an attack that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said will last many days. The attack plunges the Middle East into fresh uncertainty, increasing the risk of a regional war as Israel braces for Iran’s retaliation.

• Top commander killed: General Hossein Salami, the commander-in-chief of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard, was among those killed in the attacks. He was among the country’s most powerful and influential figures. The IRGC oversees its ballistic missile development and crushes dissent in the country.

• Nuclear targets: Netanyahu said“Operation Rising Lion” struck Iran’s main enrichment facility in Natanz, nuclear scientists, and what he called “the heart of Iran’s ballistic missiles program.”

• US position: There was no US involvement or US assistance in the strikes, Secretary of State Marco Rubio said. “Tonight, Israel took unilateral action against Iran. We are not involved in strikes against Iran and our top priority is protecting American forces in the region,” he said.

https://www.cnn.com/world/live-news/israel-iran-strikes-news-06-12-25-hnk-intl

What Happens Saturday Could Change America Forever

 This is a pretty ominous headline from Prophecy Watchers.  

What Happens This Saturday Could Change America Forever - 1,800+ Protests

We know that America is already super divided.  We know that families are split over worldviews and we even know of marriages that have split because the wife is Left and the husband is Right.

We also know that there are anarchists out there that want America to fall and show up at any event, Left or Right, and try to instigate violence.  For instance, during the George Floyd riots in MN the police ultimately arrested a Proud Boy for throwing an incendiary device into the 3rd Precinct building and setting it on fire.  So it could have been Leftists who were protesting but the far Right anarchists are who could have pushed it past the point of no return.

So now we have riots, looting and cars aflame in Los Angeles.  And we have Trump deploying the National Guard and the Marines to quell the violence.  Some of the images already look like a war zone.  What happens if the same conditions happen in dozens or hundreds of cities on Saturday?  Is the National Guard going to be deployed all over the country if folks start burning and looting in hundreds of cities?

Could the conditions for Civil War in America being laid out right before our very eyes/

We are on the brink of something we have never seen before in modern American history--more than 1,800 (and counting) simultaneous political protests scheduled to erupt across the country on the very same day. This is not just another angry weekend. This is not just another round of "peaceful protests" spiraling into looting and lawlessness. No, this is coordinated, funded, and staged chaos being unleashed like a match dropped on a national powder keg.

They're calling it the "No Kings" protest, and it's being billed as a "nationwide day of defiance." But make no mistake--this isn't about defending democracy. It's about dismantling it. It's about pushing the limits of public disorder until the system bends or breaks. And the symbolism of staging it all on Flag Day--and on President Trump's birthday--is no coincidence. It's an in-your-face declaration of war on the ideals, the institutions, and yes, even the identity of this country.

The organizers make their agenda clear: "No thrones. No crowns. No kings." But behind that populist slogan is a violent, simmering resentment that sees the Constitution as an outdated relic, law enforcement as an enemy, and national pride as a sickness. The disturbing part? This isn't some fringe underground movement. They have big-name backers, millions in funding, and infrastructure ready to activate unrest at a moment's notice.

The preview has already been terrifying. Los Angeles has been rioting for days. San Francisco has seen thousands flood the streets waving inverted flags and blasting anti-police anthems while committing acts of vandalism. Dallas and Austin are already locking down intersections as tension spikes. Even deep-red Texas isn't immune anymore.

And this is still just the warm-up.

What Happens Saturday?

On June 14, while President Trump holds his birthday parade with military pageantry, the left is planning to turn America's city squares and courthouse steps into the front lines of a cultural and political uprising. This is the kind of flashpoint moment that either fizzles out--or explodes into something unrecognizable.

Trump has already promised a "very heavy force" in response to any disruption in Washington. Sources now say up to 20,000 additional National Guard troops may be activated for border enforcement, riot control, and emergency detention operations across the country.

Let that sink in. We're mobilizing troops on American soil to prevent our cities from tearing themselves apart. That's not politics as usual. That's a state of national emergency.

And the left is poking the bear with glee. They think they're putting pressure on Trump. But nothing rallies Americans more than watching their country descend into disorder. If the left thinks mayhem helps them win the narrative, they're catastrophically wrong. The average voter watching buildings burn and cops get assaulted doesn't want "no kings"--they want law and order, fast.

What Comes Next?

But what's truly chilling is that this could be just the beginning. If the "No Kings" movement gets the spectacle it craves, we may be in for an entire summer of unrest. Think 2020, but with better organization, more tech, more money, and even deeper ideological rage.

By July or August, we could be staring down weekly mass demonstrations, escalated urban riots, and an open challenge to federal authority in sanctuary cities. If illegal immigration enforcement ramps up, or if court rulings come down on key political cases, the left will seize the moment and pour gasoline on the fire.

This isn't just a bad news cycle. This is a well-oiled attempt to break the national spirit, to provoke civil conflict, and to force the country into choosing between cultural submission or confrontation.

And it's no longer confined to blue cities. If you think your small town or conservative enclave is immune, think again. The playbook is to overwhelm with numbers, catch officials flat-footed, and spread viral images of chaos that demoralize the public and make violence feel inevitable.

So Where Does That Leave Us?

It leaves us facing a long, hot, dangerous summer. One where we may not recognize the America we thought we knew. One where the cities burn not from accident, but by design.

But while the left may be plotting revolution, they have vastly underestimated one thing: the patience of everyday Americans is wearing thin. People are fed up. Fed up with lawlessness, with gaslighting, with being told that chaos is courage. The backlash is coming. And when it does, it won't be subtle.

President Trump won't be bullied. And neither will millions of Americans who are watching their country pushed to the brink and thinking, "Enough."

So brace yourself. Because if the No Kings movement gets what it wants on June 14th, what happens next might make this weekend look like a dress rehearsal.

Here;  What Happens This Saturday Could Change America Forever - 1,800+ Protests

We know America won't be here forever.  We continue to pray that the nation stays together and that the lights stay on, the grocery stores and gas stations function, the banking system works and everyone carries on with "business as usual"...until the trumpet blows.

We pray that's what Jesus was talking about when he said conditions before the rapture will be "as it was in the days of Noah."

Is Trump Imploding?

 Watch Pastor Jack Hibbs in this 3 minute clip.  Has Trump distanced himself from Israel?  Has he made deals with Muslim nations at the expense of Israel?  Does God set up Kings and rulers and also tear them down?  Do we have faith in God or faith in Trump?  How come Elon and Trump got into such a war of words?  How many National Guard units will need to be deployed to stop unrest if it spreads to every city in America?

Watch;  https://youtu.be/R1AFiNIn3YU?feature=shared

What Happens When AI Starts Taking All the Jobs?

 What if AI just starts making all the movies and we don't need actors or actresses and expensive set productions?  What if robots can cook your fast food at McDonalds and hand it to you out the window?  How about if AI can write all the computer programs so we don't need human programmers anymore?

The list is very long when you consider the jobs currently done by humans that could be replaced by AI.

And all this could happen VERY fast.

A silent economic earthquake is rumbling beneath our feet - one that may soon reshape the very foundations of how we live, work, and earn. Over the past year, tens of thousands of white-collar professionals - once thought to be secure in a digital economy - have found themselves abruptly unemployed. 

From software developers to legal analysts, from data scientists to marketing coordinators, workers across the corporate spectrum are being replaced not by outsourcing or recession, but by artificial intelligence.

Just two years ago, Elon Musk and a cadre of technologists sounded the alarm: AI would soon "automate away all the jobs." At the time, many dismissed the warning as futuristic paranoia. But recent headlines reveal that the age of AI disruption is no longer theoretical -- it has arrived.

A "Bloodbath" in White-Collar America

So far in 2025, companies like Microsoft, Walmart, Procter & Gamble, and Citigroup have announced mass layoffs, totaling hundreds of thousands of jobs. The striking element? These aren't factory workers or low-wage retail employees being replaced - they're engineers, analysts, administrators, and graduates holding once-coveted white-collar roles.

Patrick Lyons, recently laid off from Microsoft, called it an "emotionless business decision." Another worker at PwC, who had helped build the very AI tools that later replaced him, summed it up grimly: "I built the thing that destroyed me."

While traditional economic headwinds like inflation and global instability have played a role, many CEOs are blunt: they're replacing humans with machines. Klarna, a fintech firm, shrank its headcount by 40% after integrating AI tools. Shopify now evaluates whether a task can be handled by AI before even considering a hire. And Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei predicts up to 50% of all entry-level white-collar jobs could vanish in just a few years.

The Rise of Agentic AI

At the core of this transformation is not just ChatGPT-style chatbots or customer service automations. We're now entering the era of agentic AI - systems that can independently make decisions, plan, adapt, and execute complex tasks without constant human input.

These smart systems are increasingly running logistics, drafting legal documents, coding websites, creating marketing content, and even writing medical reports. A McKinsey report earlier this year noted that AI could perform 60-70% of tasks in jobs traditionally considered "non-automatable."

Meanwhile, AI-powered investment funds are growing 60% per year, as markets begin to bet big on this disruptive shift. As one tech entrepreneur put it, "If AI saves just 10% of each employee's time, companies will eventually ask, why not save 100% and just replace them?"

A Generation Betrayed?

The fallout is being felt most acutely among young professionals. The New York Fed recently reported that job prospects for new graduates have "deteriorated noticeably." Unemployment among degree-holders under 30 is now approaching 6% - higher than the national average - and rising.

This generation was told that education was the path to prosperity. Yet, many are discovering their skills are either obsolete or easily replaceable. Degrees in business administration, journalism, graphic design, even computer science - once reliable tickets to the middle class -- are losing currency in a labor market reshaped by automation.

Many of these young workers feel betrayed. They speak of crushing student debt, evaporating job offers, and career ladders that seem to collapse beneath their feet.

Here;  AI Layoffs Are Spreading Fast – Adapt Or Be Automated

We really don't understand how events are going to continue AS NORMAL for very much longer.

It would appear that humans are coming to the edge of a cliff.  We understand the panic and fear that folks who don't know Jesus and don't read their Bibles are experiencing.

But for those of us who know the REST OF THE STORY, things are all falling into place.

Make no mistake, the Devil himself is going to be IN THE MACHINE of ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE.

Trump Weighs in on "Civil War" Concerns

We have wondered how long America is going to be able to co-exist with Left and Right?  We seem to be at a point where both sides have so little in common that compromise is becoming near impossible.

So here is just one more headline where the words CIVIL WAR appear.

Donald Trump weighs in on 'civil war' concerns

On Monday, President Donald Trump was asked about Democratic California Governor Gavin Newsom's remarks that his Republican administration wants "civil war on the streets" amid ongoing protests against raids by Los Angeles Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).

The president was asked by a reporter, "What do you make of the fact that [Newsom] says you want a civil war?"

Trump responded, "No, it's the opposite. I don't want a civil war. Civil war would happen if you left it to people like him."

Here;  Donald Trump weighs in on 'civil war' concerns

My own experience of having an atheist brother who is now far to the Left has shown me HOW a Civil War would have started 160 years ago in this country.  The last Civil War had brothers shooting at brothers and cousins shooting at cousins.  Just 30 years ago that would have seemed like a complete impossibility to ever happen again.  But now I understand how that situation would have happened.

Why Iran Will Never Give Up It's Nuclear Weapons

 Bible readers know that Iran is going to play a key role in the Ezekiel 38 prophecy.  So we know they aren't going to get wiped off the map anytime soon...not until Jesus returns after the Great Tribulation.  We also know that they have an unholy hatred of their cousins, the Jews.

So no matter how much Trump tries diplomacy with them they aren't going to listen.  There are already reports that they are taking their nuclear program further underground and also building up their defenses all around those sites to make sure they keep their nuclear ambitions.

Iran's ruling elite, bluntly, believes that both its survival and its mission depend on acquiring nuclear weapons. They saw what happened to Libya and Ukraine when their leaders gave up their nuclear weapons, and understood that this was not the way to go. To Iran's rulers, their nuclear program is not just a policy objective to protect the continuation of their regime, but the centerpiece of Iran's ideology and propaganda.

Despite having some of the world's richest oil and gas reserves, the regime has accepted crushing sanctions and economic ruin, all under the excuse of pursuing nuclear power. The regime's goal is the bomb.

Many different groups were involved in the 1979 revolution that overthrew the monarchy of Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, but Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini quickly eliminated his rivals and imposed an Islamist system unlike anything else in modern history: Velayat-e-Faqih, or "the rule of the Islamic jurist." In this vision, drawn from a radical interpretation of Twelver Shiism, political power belongs not to the people, but to Allah, and through Him to the clerical class acting as representatives of the Twelfth Iman, known as the "Hidden Imam." This belief forms the foundation of the Supreme Leader's authority. Iran's Supreme Leader is not just a political figure, but is considered divine, with a legitimacy given not by man but by Allah.

In Iran, the Supreme Leader is the only absolute ruler. He appoints the judiciary, controls the military, dictates foreign policy, and approves or rejects all applicants for election candidacy. Elections exist, but are meaningless ceremonies. Presidents and parliaments do not govern, they obey. What is absent from the Islamic Republic of Iran is a "republic."

The West still fails to grasp this regime's worldview. It is not just authoritarian, it is theological. It sees the world in binary terms: believers and infidels, Shiites and non-Shiites. It also believes that history is heading toward a final confrontation, in which Iran will be prepared militarily and spiritually to lead. That is why the Iranian nuclear program is not negotiable. It is holy, sacred.

Iran's private militia, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), embodies the most radical interpretation of the Quran. For example, Surah al-Anfal, verse 8:60, which commands Muslims:

"And prepare against them whatever you are able of power and of steeds of war by which you may terrify the enemy of Allah and your enemy and others besides them whom you do not know [but] whom Allah knows. And whatever you spend in the cause of Allah will be fully repaid to you, and you will not be wronged." (Sahih International Translation)

This verse is used by the IRGC not just as a call for defense, but as a religious endorsement of nuclear armament. In this view, nuclear weapons are not only permitted, but also necessary. They are both a shield against the regime's many enemies and a divine tool for the end-times struggle they believe is coming.

Iran's leadership sees deception not as dishonorable, but as strategic. The Islamic doctrine of taqiyya, or religiously sanctioned deception, allows lying to infidels in the name of survival or victory. Combine this with their reading of Islamic sources such as the Islamic Prophet Mohammed's saying that "war is deceit", therefore, any agreement, verbal or written, is ultimately meaningless to a regime that views deception as doctrine.

Western diplomats still behave as if they're dealing with a conventional authoritarian state. They're not. They're dealing with an absolutist religious movement that uses treaties as cover and smiles as strategy. The Obama Administration's 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) agreement with Iran never involved real concessions from the Islamic Republic. It was an Iranian delay tactic, a calibrated pause to outlast and outmaneuver naive Western governments.

The silence of then US President Barack Obama during Iran's 2009 Green Movement protests betrayed millions of Iranians fighting for freedom. Instead of supporting the people, he chose to preserve nuclear negotiations, a decision that allowed the regime to survive and rebuild.

By contrast, President Donald J. Trump's withdrawal from the JCPOA in 2018 and his killing of IRGC Quds Force commander Lieutenant General Qassem Soleimani represented a break from this pattern of appeasement. The regime's lack of response to Soleimani's killing revealed something essential: the mullahs understand only strength.

The Biden administration revived the failed engagement policies, and Iran became bolder than ever. From backing Russia's invasion of Ukraine and the Hamas invasion of Israel on October 7, 2023, to direct launching ballistic missiles and drones at Israel in 2024, the Iranian regime acted without fear. If these events did not convince the West of the consequences of compromise with Tehran, what will?

When Iran released a video simulating the assassination of Trump, it clearly never expected him to return to power. But now, Iran's goal is simple: survive the next four years by dragging out talks and buying time to acquire nuclear bombs and rebuild the air defenses that Israel destroyed.

Here;  Why Iran Will Never Give Up Its Nuclear Weapons :: Gatestone Institute

Yes, Satan has them in his palm as they worship a false god and prepare for THEIR understanding of what will transpire during the Last Days.  There is nothing that anyone will do to convince them otherwise.

This is just one more sign that prophecy is being fulfilled right before our very eyes.

Most Jew Hatred Ever

The world is turning on Jews and Israel at such a pace that one has to realize that something supernatural is happening.  Bible readers may recognize that it’s just one more sign that we are approaching the very end of days.

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As antisemitism reaches record highs in the United States and around the world, ALL ISRAEL NEWS Editor-in-Chief Joel Rosenberg dedicated the latest episode of THE ROSENBERG REPORT on TBN to putting recent violent attacks into prophetic context.

“We are seeing an explosion of hatred against Jewish people. A tsunami of hatred against Israel. Almost unprecedented, certainly in the United States' history,” Rosenberg said in the opening remarks of his weekly program.

Rosenberg cited a new Anti-Defamation League report showing that antisemitic incidents in the U.S. rose for the fourth consecutive year in 2024, reaching a record 9,354 cases – the highest number ever recorded in the ADL’s 46-year history of tracking such incidents.

Two particularly brutal attacks in recent weeks underscore the crisis.

In Boulder, Colorado, an illegal Egyptian immigrant injured a dozen people attending a rally calling for the release of Israeli hostages from Hamas in Gaza. According to the FBI, the attacker had been planning the assault for over a year and expressed a desire to “kill all Zionist people.”

Just one week earlier, two staff members of the Israeli embassy in Washington, D.C., were murdered at close range while attending an event hosted by the American Jewish Committee at the Capital Jewish Museum.

“A 30-year-old left-wing radical from Chicago got on a plane, packed on a loaded weapon and came to Washington and gunned down Yaron Lischinsky and his girlfriend Sarah Milgrim at this event. He shot more than 20 bullets. Yaron was killed almost instantly, but Sarah was not killed instantly. And he kept firing, reloaded, as she was trying to crawl away and murdered her,” Rosenberg described.

 https://allisraelnews.com/what-does-ancient-bible-prophecy-reveal-about-global-rise-in-jew-hatred-and-whats-coming-next

Don’t be Surprised

We will never know the day or the hour when Jesus returns to call us into the clouds.  But scripture does make a promise for those who are watching…you won’t be surprised.

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In the Old Testament,

• God said the Messiah would be a descendant of Abraham, then Isaac, then Jacob (whose name was changed to Israel), and He was.
• God said the Messiah would be a descendant of David, and He was.
• God said the Messiah would come from the Israeli tribe of Judah, and He did.
• God said the Jews would be put off the Promised Land one year for every year they did not let the land rest when they were on it (70 years), and Babylon put the Jews off the Promised Land for 70 years.
• God said Babylon would be destroyed 70 years after Babylon destroyed Israel, and the Medes and Persians conquered Babylon exactly 70 years after Babylon destroyed Israel.
• God said the Messiah would enter into Jerusalem riding on a donkey and the foal of a donkey, and He did.
• God said the Messiah’s hands and feet would be pierced hundreds of years before crucifixion was invented, and His hands and feet were nailed to a cross.
• God said the Jews would reject the Messiah, and they did.
• God said Jerusalem and the Temple would be destroyed, and the Romans did that in 70 A.D.

This list could continue on for several pages and hundreds of prophecies, but it clearly shows that what God says will happen actually does happen.

And this is the point: We should not be surprised by what is happening today.

• God said Israel would come back into being in one day, and it happened.
• God said Jerusalem would be rebuilt and be a problem for the world, and it is.
• God said Israel would become a great army, and it is.
• God said Israel would possess Jerusalem; Israel captured Jerusalem in 1967, and Pres. Trump recognized Jerusalem as the undivided capital of Israel in 2017.
• God said the Temple will be rebuilt, and Hamas said they started the war in Gaza to stop the Jews from rebuilding the Temple.
• God said the Roman Empire would be destroyed (and revived at the end of the age), and 27 nations have formed the EU.
• God said the Euphrates River would dry up during the Tribulation Period. Turkey and Syria have built 7 dams on the river, and because of that and drought, Iraq’s water supply from the Tigris and Euphrates rivers is lower than it has been in more than 80 years.
• God said there will be a world government after the Restrainer is removed (I believe that means the Rapture), and the UN and many globalists are trying to create a world government (New World Order; Great Reset, etc.), by 2030 or sooner, if possible.
• God said the Tribulation Period will begin with a worthless peace treaty with many for 7 years in the Middle East, and many nations will soon gather to try to force one on Israel.
• God said the coming world government will track all buying and selling during the Tribulation Period, and the technology to do that is being developed right now.
• God said Russia, Iran, and others will join forces and attack Israel in the latter days and latter years. Iran is threatening to attack Israel now, and Russia and Iran have just signed a military cooperation agreement.

This list is like the first list above.

Much more could be added, but God’s Word is clearly being fulfilled, and we should not be surprised.

 https://www.raptureready.com/2025/06/07/we-should-not-be-surprised-by-daymond-duck/