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Robbie replies:
"Well, you know, I do tend to use those words all together, right? White Christian nationalism, because that really is the only way to understand what it is in our context, right? Now, there is religious nationalism in other parts of the world, but in America—our issue is white Christian nationalism."
#Trump #Hegseth #Iran #war #HolyWar #WhiteChristianNationalism
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" Within Democratic circles, mainstream circles, corporate media circles, they are averse to using the word white Christian nationalism because, number one, they don't want to piss off Christians. And number two, they don't want to piss off white. I say, no, no, no. The data says that this is a white Christian nationalist problem."
#Trump #Hegseth #Iran #war #HolyWar #WhiteChristianNationalism
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The two leading religion reporters at New York Times refuse even to use the term "Christian nationalism." Lots of establishment Democrats want to ignore the religious and racial roots of Trump's support and to suppress this discussion.
Wajahat says:
"Robbie, you know that you and I get backlash. So like, no, no, don't say Christian nationalism, say religious nationalism."
#Trump #Hegseth #Iran #war #HolyWar #WhiteChristianNationalism
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PRRI president Robert P. Jones talks with Wajahat Ali about how we are all "now reaping the consequences of the unwillingness of our senators to recognize the dangers of Hegseth’s Christian nationalism."
Wajahat starts by pointing out how the powers that be want to shut up discussion of white Christian nationalism.
#Trump #Hegseth #Iran #war #HolyWar #WhiteChristianNationalism
/31
redeemingdemocracy.net/p/hegse…
Hegseth the Crusader: The Trump Administration's Holy War
A recording from Robert P. Jones and THE LEFT HOOK with Wajahat Ali's live videoRobert P. Jones (Redeeming Democracy by Robert P. Jones)
"By bombing Iran, America has 'recovered its position as leader of the free world' while Israel 'has rediscovered its biblical warrior identity and has become the regional superpower in the Middle East.'
In support of this new order, messianic Orthodox and secular nationalist Israeli ideologies meet with Christian nationalist views. ...
There is one party that will benefit from the war: Russia."
#Trump #Hegseth #Netanyahu #Iran #Israel #war #HolyWar #ChristianNationalism #zionism #Putin
/30
"In the fantasy of the far right, the United States and Israel are making history and saving civilization. British commentator Melanie Phillips sees the war as 'the likely birth of a new world order pivoted around that alliance between America and Israel.'”
~ Ruth Ben-Ghiat
#Trump #Hegseth #Netanyahu #Iran #Israel #war #HolyWar #ChristianNationalism #zionism
/29
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Who Benefits from the U.S.-Israel War on Iran?
The war will eventually backfire on Trump and Netanyahu, while Putin profitsRuth Ben-Ghiat (Lucid)
"In an interview with the Catholic Standard this week, McElroy said: 'The criterion of just cause is not met because our country was not responding to an existing or imminent and objectively verifiable attack by Iran.'”
#Trump #Iran #war #morality #CardinalMcElroy
/28
"Cardinal Robert W McElroy, the archbishop of Washington DC, has said that the US-Israeli war with Iran is 'not morally legitimate', going further than the pope has done in his more moderate appeals for an end to the war."
~ Anna Betts
#Trump #Iran #war #morality #CardinalMcElroy
/27
theguardian.com/us-news/2026/m…
Washington cardinal says US war on Iran ‘not morally legitimate’
Robert McElroy goes further than pope has done and says conflict fails ‘criterion of right intention’Anna Betts (The Guardian)
"Gaza really more than anything … feels like a preview to what we're seeing now in Iran. And it demonstrated the preference by that government, that regime under Bibi Netanyahu, for just cruelty, the preference for cruelty over restraint in the way that it wages war in order to demoralize the population that they're fighting and demoralize them into being too devastated and too morally devastated to fight back."
~ Joy-Ann Reid
#Trump #Netanyahu #Iran #Gaza
/25
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Regime Lies On Epstein, Iran, Come Home To Roost | The Joy Reid Show LIVE!
A recording from The Joy Reid Show's live videoThe Joy Reid Show (Welcome to Joy's House!)
"Parents who had sent their daughters to school discovered minutes later that classrooms had become mass graves. ...
On Monday, a BBC investigation produced evidence of multiple US Tomahawk missiles fired and landing in the vicinity of the school, hitting, they believe, the school itself, as well as a medical clinic reportedly belonging to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC)."
#Trump #Hegseth #Iran #Minab #school #TomahawkMissile #children
/23
"The killing of a reported 168 people, primarily schoolgirls, in the bombing of the Shajareh Tayyebeh school in Minab in Iran has shaken to its very core the conscience of the world.
The attack, carried out nearly two weeks ago when classes were under way, reduced the school building to rubble."
~ Gordon Brown
#Trump #Hegseth #Iran #Minab #school #TomahawkMissile #children
/22
theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
Children killed, a school turned into a graveyard: even in wartime, we can’t accept this
There are rules and world leaders must insist they be honoured in practice and in spirit. After this atrocity in Iran, a more effective tribunal for crimes against children is essential, says former prime minister Gordon BrownGordon Brown (The Guardian)
"Today, that story collapsed.
Reuters, NPR, CNN, PBS NewsHour, and the New York Times all independently confirmed the same preliminary finding from an internal US military investigation: a US Tomahawk struck the school, likely because the Pentagon was using outdated targeting data."
#Trump #Hegseth #Iran #Minab #school #TomahawkMissile #children #lies #disinformation
/21
"For nearly two weeks, the US said it wasn’t responsible [for the killing of Iranian schoolchildren in Minab]. Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One that it was 'done by Iran' and called Tomahawk missiles 'very generic.' Defense Secretary Hegseth said the US 'never targets civilians.' The White House said anyone claiming otherwise was being 'irresponsible and false.'”
~ Rudy Martinez
#Trump #Hegseth #Iran #Minab #school #TomahawkMissile #children #lies
/20
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The Rest of the World Report | Day 12 Update — Evening Edition
Quick one tonight. I'll be back in the morning with a full rundown.Rudy Martinez (A Chicano In Paris)
"The problem is you remove the regime, however bad, and then you just create a political vacuum. ...So the problem is the impossibility of the mission rather than the value of the mission if we could do it."
#Trump #Iran #RegimeChange
/19
"It would be great if we could replace that regime. The problem with that as a military mission is that it's just very unlikely to work. It's never worked in the past, and we've tried this repeatedly, & we've tried it in different ways with a full-on occupation invasion like in Iraq, or just bombing like in Libya, or arming the opposition in Syria, or international coalition in Afghanistan, there are all sorts of ways."
~ Philip H. Gordon
#Trump #Iran #RegimeChange
/18
"Yesterday, after Reuters reporter Phil Stewart reported that as many as 150 U.S. troops had been wounded so far in the Iran conflict, the Pentagon publicly revised its estimate of fewer than a dozen U.S. service members wounded upward to about 140. The wounds include brain trauma, shrapnel wounds, and burns. Seven service members have died."
~ Heather Cox Richardson
#Trump #Iran #war #death #casualties #destruction
/17
heathercoxrichardson.substack.…
March 11, 2026
In a brief call with Barak Ravid of Axios today, President Donald J.Heather Cox Richardson (Letters from an American)
"In his first public remarks as Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei called for national unity and said that all US bases in the region should close or face attacks.
The strait of Hormuz will remain closed in order to pressure Iran’s enemies, Khamenei said."
~ The Guardian
#Trump #Iran #war #economy #oil #gas #StraitOfHormuz #Khamenei
/16
"Military analysts say reopening the Strait of Hormuz could require a ground operation to seize Iran’s coastline along the strategic waterway, a move that would significantly escalate the conflict and could lead to higher casualties for U.S. and allied forces, according to the Wall Street Journal."
~ Aaron Parnas
"It feels to me, however, that much of the media is preoccupied with how many things the US blows up on any given day and is less focused on the intricate, interconnected, downstream effects of the war. Trump proudly boasted on Wednesday that the US is self-sufficient in oil production. That’s great, but if Taiwan can’t make chips to run our computers, TVs, cars, and precision-guided missiles, having a lot of oil may be irrelevant."
"The media continues to focus on the disruption to oil supplies, but a bigger crisis may be looming in the liquefied natural gas (LNG) market. For technical reasons, it is difficult to stockpile LNG. For example, Taiwan is heavily dependent on LNG to produce semiconductors; LNG accounts for about 50% of Taiwan’s energy generation. Taiwan has a 100-day oil reserve but only an 11-day LNG supply."
~ Robrt Hubbell
"And yet – you guessed it – Donald Trump is going to keep doing it anyway, even in the face of mounting casualties on all sides of the conflict, the world economy on the brink, and gas and fertilizer prices surging, and increasingly disastrous poll numbers at home for this president."
#Trump #Iran #war #economy #EconomicElites #oligarchy #oil #gas
/12
"In recent days, two Trump advisers and two other sources briefed on the situation tell me, US officials have delivered another dire warning to our batshit crazy president: They’ve informed Trump and his lieutenants that, based on American intel, the Iranian regime at this time isn’t breaking, isn’t ready to fold on the war or stop retaliating," (continued in /11)
#Trump #Iran #war #economy #EconomicElites #oligarchy #oil #gas
/10
"In the run-up to launching this regional bloodbath, Trump’s advisers 'fully briefed and prepped' him on how Iran’s government would likely respond by acting to explode oil prices – and damage the markets and our economy – if he went ahead with the war. Trump privately downplayed those warnings. Then he did it anyway."
~ Asawin Suebsaeng
#Trump #Iran #war #economy #EconomicElites #oligarchy #oil #gas
/9
zeteo.com/p/us-intel-trump-ira…
First Draft – 💥 US Intel to Trump: Iran Isn’t Breaking
The president claims we’ve already ‘won’ in Iran, as his officials tell him we most definitely haven’t; Ohioans protest Trump; and a former ICE lawyer (!) wants to replace Rep. Ilhan Omar in Congress.Asawin Suebsaeng (Zeteo)
"I suspect that Trump may realize deep down that his exercise in epic fury is nuts."
~ William Kristol
#Trump #Iran #war #economy #EconomicElites #oligarchy #oil #gas
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Sing, Goddess, of the Fury of Trump!
The wartime president is focused on footwear.William Kristol (The Bulwark)
"He governs the country by a kind of manic coaxing which is at war with short-term memory and thrives on the ability to keep as many people fixated on the super dramatic crisis of the moment without remembering that it was preceded by an endless litany of other crises with similar branding."
~ Josh Marshall
#Trump #Iran #war #economy #EconomicElites #oligarchy #oil #gas
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talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/b…
Borderline Personality Trump and the Uses of Press Myopia
Every president wants favorable press coverage. Most feel a surprising level of grievance when they don’t get it. Donald Trump is singular in using the powers…Josh Marshall (TPM - Talking Points Memo)
"Observers have spent two weeks trying to discern the 'aims' of Trump’s war on Iran, and therefore what might constitute a victory or defeat. His every bizarre utterance about his war 'plans' — including wildly conflicting declarations that Iran has surrendered and the war must be expanded to defeat the regime — immediately move markets."
~ David R. Lurie
#Trump #Iran #war #economy #EconomicElites #oligarchy #oil #gas
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Trump’s military excursion, into an abyss
The evident fact is that the president is nuts.David R. Lurie (Public Notice)
"If the road to Tehran required the sons and daughters of the billionaire & political class to march beside everyone else’s kids, would we still be there?"
~ Thom Hartmann
#Trump #Iran #war #economy #EconomicElites #oligarchy #oil #gas
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What If Every Billionaire's and Senator’s Kid Could Be Sent to Fight in Iran?
If the road to Tehran required the sons and daughters of the billionaire & political class to march beside everyone else’s kids, would we still be there?Thom Hartmann (The Hartmann Report)
"In a puzzling social media post on Thursday, Trump wrote, 'The United States is the largest Oil Producer in the World, by far, so when oil prices go up, we make a lot of money.” Who is the “we?” Yes, he and his billionaire buddies are making out like bandits, but most of the world will suffer mightily.
Here we are, nearly two weeks in, and what Americans know about this war comes down to this:"
#Trump #Iran #war #oil #gas #economy #prices #affordability
/29
"While the White House doesn’t seem to have a coherent plan to fight this war, or how to end it, Iran does: inflict economic, political, and military pain until Trump utters 'uncle.' They are doing a good job of it so far.
The Americans and Israelis continue to bomb Iran with no articulated endgame."
~ Dan Rather
"Trump posted on Truth Social today that Americans shouldn’t be concerned about high gas prices: 'The United States is the largest Oil Producer in the World, by far, so when oil prices go up, we make a lot of money.'
… The multi-national oil companies operating in the US make a lot of money. The average American gets screwed. Which pretty much sums up Trump and the Republican Party’s approach to the economy."
~ Ron Filipkowski
#Trump #Iran #war #oil #gas
/27
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Today in Politics, Bulletin 326. 3/12/26
… Trump posted on Truth Social today that Americans shouldn’t be concerned about high gas prices: “The United States is the largest Oil Producer in the World, by far, so when oil prices go up, we make a lot of money.”Ron Filipkowski (Meidas+)
"Did he threaten an investigation? Did he ask how much responsibility Russia is ready to bear? Did he tell Putin there would be future consequences? Did Trump, you know, stand up to the man who’s helping kill his own people?
Another commander-in-chief would have. With Trump, however, there’s a sense he’s not responsible. When troops die, he seems unmoved by their sacrifice."
#Trump #Putin #Iran #Russia #war #oil #gas #StraitofHormuz
/25
"Around a quarter of the world’s oil passes through the strait. Iran’s new leader vowed to keep it shut. Oil prices are soaring.
With prices soaring, the Russians have taken in $7 billion in oil revenues in the last week and stand to take in more. …
When Trump talked to Putin on Monday, did he ask if intelligence or drones given by Russia to Iran led directly to any of those seven deaths [of US soldiers]?"
#Trump #Putin #Iran #Russia #war #oil #gas #StraitofHormuz
/24
"In addition to helping the Iranians kill American military personnel (seven have died and 140 have been injured since the start of the war, per the AP), the Russians are helping the Iranians choke off the global supply of oil at the Persian Gulf’s Strait of Hormuz.
The Iranians attacked three tankers Wednesday. They attacked three more today. They attacked a port in Oman. They forced ports in Iraq to close."
#Trump #Putin #Iran #Russia #war #oil #gas #StraitofHormuz
/23
"The Russians are now helping the Iranians in their war for survival against the United States, first by providing 'targeting information,' according to the Post, and second by providing 'specific advice on drone tactics,' according to CNN."
~ John Stoehr
#Trump #Putin #Iran #Russia #war #oil #gas #StraitofHormuz
/22
editorialboard.com/while-putin…
While Putin helps Iran kill Americans, Trump shrugs
The material outcome of their chumminess is no longer theoretical.John Stoehr (Editorial Board)
