Let me tell you why this meme flopped so hard

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Peter Heck

Jun 24, 2025

Liam McCollum posted it. It was supposed to be a sarcastic jab at Trump calling for peace after he ordered American forces to pound Iranian nuclear facilities with a precise, devastating airstrike.

Get it? No one who orders the obliteration of an enemy, global terror agitator or not, can realistically and legitimately call for peace. It's hypocritical. It's two-faced. Its inconsistent. Really?

Let's test that theory, shall we? Imagine if we did the meme this way:

How much positive traction would a social media post like that earn? How many likes would it generate? How many re-posts?

Peace through strength, peace through force, whatever you may call it, something is off in the calculus that says rendering madmen incapable of waging war is contradictory to the mission of peace. Further, the fact that Liam McCollum and others would never post that second meme, and yet were so impressed with themselves for posting the first, reveals a staggering inability to recognize not just the magnitude of Iranian terror, but the threat that a nuclear bomb-equipped Iran would bring.

For as crazy as Hitler was, he wanted to rule the world, not destroy it. Ayatollahs wanting to obliterate Israel to hasten the return of the Mahdi, thus precipitating the early arrival of Allah's paradise and the end of the world? They aren't likely to be restrained or disciplined.

Here's a helpful guide to all Iran had done during the strategically incompetent Biden years to prepare for its nuclear future:

I'm not privy to the intelligence our national leaders were looking at, but this publicly accessible chart makes Iran's trajectory transparent and its intentions clear. In such a moment, it doesn't take a warmonger to find the most responsible course of action to do, well, this:


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