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"A stupid war started by a stupid man for stupid reasons not even he can figure out.
This war will go down in history. So will the man who started it, as the biggest loser of this century."
~ Lucian K. Truscott
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Iran’s war of pinpricks that bleed gallons
The wars carried out by the United States against Iraq and Afghanistan are not perfectly analogous to Trump’s war on Iran, but they are close enough.Lucian K. Truscott IV (Lucian Truscott Newsletter)
Then:
"In a second incident, a terror suspect entered a Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) class at Old Dominion University and opened fire, killing Lt. Col. Brandon Shah, an ROTC instructor.
And:
"Finally, a hacker group linked to Iran infiltrated the computer systems of a US-based medical company."
#Trump #Hegseth #Iran #war #antisemitism #islamophobia
/12
"The reverberations of Trump’s illegal war reached America’s shores on Thursday in three separate attacks. Although the facts are still developing, it appears that the attacks were carried out by terrorists responding to the US war on Iran." Number one:
"The first attack targeted a Jewish synagogue, Temple Israel, in Detroit (West Bloomfield), Michigan."
Robert B. Hubbell
#Trump #Hegseth #Iran #war #antisemitism #islamophobia
/11
Greg Olear notes that David Ignatius says Trump has now taken us over the waterfall:
"I think up until this point, all of the stuff that Trump has done, while horrifying and awful, is also reversible, with the right leadership in place, over time. This is not."
#Trump #Hegseth #Iran #war #Russia #Putin
/9
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Ramble On: Over the Waterfall
Morning thoughts on the Iran war, the Iraq war, and the end of American empire.Greg Olear (PREVAIL by Greg Olear)
As Aaron Rupar says, Peter Thiel's pal Alex Karp, Palantir CEO, loves the macho bluster of Trump's war, as he proclaims:
"What makes America special right now is our lethal capacities. Our ability to fight war."
The techbros, the broligarchy, are all in on the brutality, lethality, cruelty, and want credit for its technological base.
#Trump #Hegseth #Iran #war #cruelty #lethality #death #destruction #violence #PerformativeMasculinity
/8
As Aaron Parnas notes, Trump just posted the following on his Truth Social outfit:
"I, as the 47th President of the United States of America, am killing them. What a great honor it is to do so."
War, wielding weapons, killing others with big booms, makes tiny men imagine they're big ones.
#Trump #Hegseth #Iran #war #cruelty #lethality #death #destruction #violence #PerformativeMasculinity
/7
"Now that Trump has his war, he doesn’t seem to know what to do with it. He appears to have had no plans in place for either the future or Iran or protection for the straits of Hormuz. Instead, the White House account on Twitter is posting videos that equate war with video games or football."
~ Joyce Vance
#Trump #Hegseth #Iran #war #cruelty #lethality #death #destruction #violence #PerformativeMasculinity
/6
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Thursday in America
Justice Amy Coney Barrett was in conversation with the Chief Justice’s Counselor, Judge Robert M.Joyce Vance (Civil Discourse with Joyce Vance)
"War is BOOM BOOM, death raining from the sky, hell wrought on others from thousands of miles away by American soldiers with joysticks. The mangled bodies are not seen. They must be presumed."
#Trump #Hegseth #Iran #war #cruelty #lethality #death #destruction #violence #PerformativeMasculinity
/5
"Never has any party in power shown such gloating bloodlust as Trump and his dimwitted amoral ideologues are, with their infernal infotainment.
On TikTok and X they are peddling short videos romanticizing the war, glorifying cruelty."
~ Gene Weingarten
#Trump #Hegseth #Iran #war #cruelty #lethality #death #destruction #violence #PerformativeMasculinity
/4
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War Porn
In the 1960s, there was no shortage of pro-war propaganda in the United States aimed at young men, even in comic books — but not the image above or anything quite so nakedly and revoltingly … political.gene weingarten (The Gene Pool)
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"caused the military to lose focus on its main task, killing the enemy, and led to costly defeats in both wars.
In his view, the U.S. military’s strength is not rooted in its high ideals, humanity or moral purpose, but rather its ability to punish adversaries. Anything that distracts from that singular mission, he has said, is weakness."
#Trump #Hegseth #Iran #war #cruelty #lethality #death #destruction #violence #PerformativeMasculinity
/3
"Even though the truth was often more complicated, they cast U.S. troops as liberators bringing democracy and freedom to those living under tyranny and oppression.
Mr. Hegseth has largely dispensed with that talk. His bellicose, at times vengeful, rhetoric reflects his belief that the United States’ lofty goals in Iraq and Afghanistan" (continued in /3)
#Trump #Hegseth #Iran #war #cruelty #lethality #death #destruction #violence #PerformativeMasculinity
/2
Greg Jaffe reports on how the choice of “'Epic Fury,' a name that connotes retribution and rage," to name Trump's war captures its deliberate intent to maximize brutality and lethality.
"For decades, presidents and their secretaries of defense have framed American military interventions in altruistic terms."
#Trump #Hegseth #Iran #war #cruelty #lethality #death #destruction #violence #PerformativeMasculinity
/1
"And so now nearly all tanker traffic there is at an indefinite standstill and there’s a line of about 3,000 boats with some 20,000 crew members stuck."
#Trump #Iran #war #oil #gas #StraitofHormuz #prices #groceries #affordability #economy
/8
"Bad news, weirdos! The Gas prices have surged 20 percent over the past two weeks, after the Strait of Hormuz — which connects the Persian Gulf with the Gulf of Oman and through which 30 percent of the world’s boat-shipped oil and 20 percent of its natural gas flows — was deemed by insurance companies to be too dangerous to allow tankers to go through after the US attack on Feb. 28."
#Trump #Iran #war #oil #gas #StraitofHormuz #prices #groceries #affordability #economy
/7
"Remember how a bunch of low-information voters — that inexplicable some 4 to 6-ish percent of people who also voted for Barack Obama and also Joe Biden, or who previously didn’t vote at all — came out for Trump in ‘24 because of The Groceries and The Gas and The Inflation and the Masculine Penis Insecurities or whatever?"
~ Marcie Jones
#Trump #Iran #war #oil #gas #StraitofHormuz #prices #groceries #affordability #economy
/6
"The idea that 'we' all benefit prompted intense criticism and underscores his chaotic approach to this fiasco. Meanwhile, CNN reports that Trump officials have started to 'panic' and are in a state of 'alarm' about the situation, even as its global impact is rapidly worsening."
~ Greg Sargent
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Trump Outbursts Over Oil Shock Go Off Rails as His Aides Quietly Panic
As Trump’s handling of soaring oil prices due to his war grows shakier, an international relations expert explains why this saga will likely get worse—and what it reveals about Trump’s deeper failings.The New Republic
"The only major American news outlet that I’ve seen calling for an end to war in its editorials is… actually British. It’s the Guardian. And even they were pretty meek about it."
~Dan Froomkin
#Trump #Hegseth #Iran #war #media
/4
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STOP THE WAR! How hard is that for an editorial board to say?
A survey of what editorials are saying, and a plea for them to say moreDan Froomkin (Press Watch)
"And you have Mark Zuckerberg who is a conservative mega-billionaire. And Meta is, you know, with Facebook and Instagram, one of the most important information platforms. And Elon Musk owns Twitter. And all of the kind of biggest information channels are now controlled by conservative billionaires."
#Trump #Hegseth #Iran #war #media #LarryEllison #DavidEllison #JeffBezos #MarkZuckerberg #billionaires
/3
"But now you have this takeover by a bunch of conservative billionaires of all of the key major institutions. So David Ellison, who is a big friend of Trump's and his father, Larry Ellison, they're going to control TikTok and CNN and all kinds of other media properties. And you have Jeff Bezos, who owns the Washington Post and has turned it much more conservative than it used to be."
#Trump #Hegseth #Iran #war #media #LarryEllison #DavidEllison #JeffBezos #billionaires
/2
Noting that Pete Hegseth has just attacked CNN and said that Larry Ellison should take it over, Paul Waldman says,
"What we're seeing now, and I think that comment that Hegseth made is really revealing, is that just in the last few years, there was always corporate media and there are ways in which it was very conservative, despite what conservatives say about it."
#Trump #Hegseth #Iran #war #media #billionaires
/1
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Nir & Rupar: Paul Waldman on Trump's Iran debacle
We unpack why the war is the least popular in history.Aaron Rupar (Public Notice)
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"the latter seeks to impose that faith, by law and policy, on the rest of us. ...
religious nationalism has no interest in civility. Its nature is authoritarian; it does not learn from civil debate."
"It’s that goal of privileging Christianity in law and government that I think marks the line between personal politics (potentially based in faith-informed values) and religious nationalism. The former is an individual value set that may or may not influence particular policies, but still allows for freedom for others to move religiously within the subsequent law;" (continued in /5)
~ Sarah Stankorb
"They came out and just said that directly because it does not come anywhere near meeting the preconditionsfor anything that could be called a just war that Christians can endorse. … That's a big deal."
"We have two cardinals in the US actually this week calling out the administration for violating those conditions [of Catholic teachings about the morality of war] — Cardinal Robert McEkroy of Washington DC and Cardinal Blaise Kubic of Chicago saying this war is not morally legitimate."
~ Robert P. Jones
#Trump #Iran #war #WhiteChristianNationalism #morality
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Normalcy and Resistance Amid an Unjust War
This week, we open the conversation with reflections on the challenges of living daily life amid the onslaught of horrific news, so often these days instigat...YouTube
"When Christianity becomes publicly associated with nationalist aggression and eagerness for war, it presents a face to the world that is, by any honest reading of the New Testament, a misrepresentation of the faith."
~ Michael Mellette
"Donald Trump’s brutal ICE detention facilities have been blasted as 'concentration camps.' This is a freighted term — summoning more than a century of deplorable history. But experts in the field have no hesitation in using these words to describe the network of facilities that the federal government is using to literally warehouse tens of thousands of immigrants —" (continued in /2)
~ Tim Dickinson
#Trump #ICE #ConcentrationCamps #immigrants
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Is Trump Building ‘Concentration Camps’? These Experts Have No Doubts
Trump’s detainee warehouses fit the definition of concentration camps, experts sayTim Dickinson (The Contrarian)
"Seven in 10 Americans say Donald Trump’s tariffs have led to them paying higher prices, according to an exclusive new poll for the Guardian."
~ Lauren Aratani and Andrew Witherspoon
#Trump #Republicans #economy #prices #affordability #tariffs #billionaires #TaxCuts #BigBeautifulBill
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Seven in 10 Americans say Trump tariffs have cost them more money
Exclusive survey finds negative economic impacts felt across party lines as White House doubles down on tariffsLauren Aratani (The Guardian)
"They want to be told 'you’re better than other people just by being you.' For all the talk of 'merit' on the Right, this is what they’re most thirsty for. The men want to be told they’re inherently superior to women — as well as people of color, Jewish people, LGBTQ+ people, etc. depending on their personal identity — and the women wanted to be told they’re 'not like the other girls!' or 'so based!'”
"The Right has fallen in love with the narrative of 'the woke scolds were too much and we were all rebels who would never be any good, so we had to become Nazis' but that is, and always has been, absolute bullshit. ...
The fact is, both the men and the women who participate in this bullshit are looking for the same thing — validation and self-esteem."
~ Robyn Pennacchia
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Right-Wing Women Discover Misogyny Not As Fun As They Thought Part 378,272,347,230,326
The red pill, it turns out, is filled with rat poison.Robyn Pennacchia (Wonkette)
◽ What is Trump’s endgame in Iran as the US-Israel war escalates?! 🇺🇸 🇮🇱 👀
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🚀 As the missile strikes on Iran mount, so do the shifting and at times contradictory positions articulated by US «President» Donald Trump on what the US is truly after? — leading to a central question: What is Washington’s endgame? 💭 🇺🇸 💀
#ukraine #europe #eu #canada #uk #france #trump #usa #latvia #politics
What is Trump’s endgame in Iran as the US-Israel war escalates?
As strikes continue across Iran, US President Trump has articulated shifting goals. But how likely are they?Abid Hussain (Al Jazeera)
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The most infuriating thing about the #Trump era is the ability for politicians to knowingly lie and there are zero consequences for it and everyone just shrugs and moves on.
There is literally more evidence that Trump raped children, than there is that Iran has a working nuclear enrichment program.
And yet he’s allowed to run the country and get us into another never-ending war that will destabilize the entire region and cost us trillions of dollars without any kind of check or balance on those decisions.
Randahl Fink (@randahl@mastodon.social)
Attached: 1 video Speaking in Kentucky, Trump claims that China does not use windmills, because they kill all the birds.Randahl Fink (Mastodon)
"A deadly Iranian drone attack in Kuwait that killed six U.S. service members early in the war with Iran caused significantly more casualties than the government initially disclosed.
Multiple sources told CBS News that dozens of U.S. personnel were injured in the strike. The injuries include traumatic brain injuries, shrapnel wounds, severe burns, and at least one amputation."
~ Aaron Parnas
"He is cornered, failing, and lashing out.
Because he is incapable of calculating anything clearly, as we discussed up front, he will do what he does best and scream and moan. His problems will be everybody else’s problems. He is capable of anything, because he is an incapable president."
~ D. Earl Stephens
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EPIC FAIL
How Trump has managed to take himself hostage, and is trying to use our military to gain his release ...D. Earl Stephens ✍️ (Enough Already)
"Iran is not Gaza. The theater of this new war could expand to consume the whole world. We are on the brink of nuclear calamity and economic collapse. …
Our celluloid heroes strut on, winning phantom war after war, dumb and over-muscled. Fueling our insatiable bloodlust with their gratuitous violence and their shit for brains.:
~ Arundhati Roy
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'Iran Is Not Gaza': Read Arundhati Roy's Scathing Speech on the US-Israeli War
Exclusive: The award-winning Indian novelist warns that the world is on the brink of nuclear calamity and economic collapse, and laments her own government's gutlessness.Arundhati Roy (Zeteo)
"Trump has always operated as if someone will give him the money to get out of bankruptcy, but this time, there’s no bank big enough to make a difference. He has created a situation where there is no simple way out and no long-term way to stay in."
~ Timothy Burke
