"Republicans and the Supreme Court have put basically no guardrails on Trump, so he started a global war that is costing taxpayers $1 billion a day. He shrugs about soldiers dying, and he lies about the school full of children that Americans likely killed."
~ Tim Miller
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https://www.thebulwark.com/p/neera-tanden-absolute-power-corrupts
"If we cannot feel the death of a child in Iran with the same moral clarity as the death of a child in the United States, then something in us has been deformed. …
Because the measure of our moral community is not how fiercely we protect our own children. It is whether we recognize that they are all our children."
~ Omar Suleiman
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"I do fear that grotesque boast that the USA no longer needed to worry about 'stupid rules of engagement', will haunt the country for years to come."
~ Phillips O'Brien
#Trump #Hegseth #Iran #war #Republicans #death #destruction #children
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https://bsky.app/profile/phillipspobrien.bsky.social/post/3mgffm5ziec2h
I do fear that grotesque boast that the USA no longer needed to worry about "stupid rules of engagement", will haunt the country for years to come. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/05/world/middleeast/iran-school-us-strikes-naval-base.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share
"Trump is not well schooled, or even schooled at all, in military history, but he is smart enough to know that he will not be able to get what he wants from Iran unless that country agrees to 'UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER,' as he demanded on Truth Social today, because of course, that’s how you get an enemy to give up. You do it on social media."
~ Lucian K. Truscott
#Trump #Iran #war #Republicans
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https://luciantruscott.substack.com/p/how-does-this-end-it-ends-when-iran
"In ten years of war in Vietnam, the U.S. dropped about seven to eight million tons of bombs on North and South Vietnam.
That war ended 51 years ago. We have had plenty of time to learn that Vietnam won. Our soldiers went home. Our ships left Vietnam’s waters. Our jets took off and flew to American bases on Guam and Hawaii and other islands."
"Dominating another nation using military means is impossible in our modern age. It doesn’t matter how tough Pete Hegseth thinks he is, or how bothered Donald Trump is by Iran and its mullahs. Iran and its people will not give in or give up to Trump and Netanyahu, no matter how many bombs they drop, or how many airborne divisions we move from the U.S. to the Middle East."
"Aerial bombing has never fostered a successful revolution. No matter ifit'ss a color revolution such asUkraine'ss Revolution of Dignity, which harnesses the strength of people power, or a bloody revolution such as the one that brought about the popular (at the time) Iranian Islamic Revolution in 1979, it requires people on the ground to do the day-to-day activism, terrorism, or offer a vision."
~ Malcolm Nance
"The US-Israeli War on Iran offers none of these."
"This is Trump's great understanding of American politics, which is that formal restraints are few. And if you don't have any shame or dignity, you can simply blow past them. And we saw him do that time and again during his first term. And then he had four years to stew while Joe Biden was in the White House. And as soon as Trump came back into office, he turbocharged that attitude."
~ David Nir
We need to recognize that a crazy man is doing crazy things.
"What Trump has done a hundred times since coming back into the White House is engage in impeachable offenses. And the Iran war absolutely is impeachable. And I want to emphasize, whether or not he gets impeached, and I don't think he will, but whether or not he gets impeached, he should be. This is unquestionably a crime, and he should immediately be removed from office."
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"And I say that to emphasize, Republicans could stop this if they wanted. That this is entirely on them. That if they wanted to remove Trump from office, they easily could. And that they refuse to is a massive indictment of them. And for all the fecklessness that Democrats have shown on so many fronts so often in Trump 2.0. We have to remember where the blame for this one lies. It lies on Trump and the GOP. "
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"And even if the media insists on [sanewashing him], it's really important that we not do that because we have to understand him not as some extremist right wing fascist, though he is, but as a crazy person, a genuinely crazy person who's wakes up every day and you never know what he's going to do. And you never know what he wants because he doesn't know what he wants and he doesn't know what he's going to do."
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"A couple [of] months ago, I said that we were starting to see a pattern. As Trump grew less popular and less powerful at home, he would need to compensate to maintain his psychic equilibrium. He’d lean more and more into the presidency’s prerogative powers that are untrammeled and unrestrained regardless of what’s going on at home or how much support he has."
~ Josh Marshall
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"He’ll be increasingly aggressive and violent in those realms of power as he becomes more constrained and limited in others. In Trump’s world, there is dominating and there is being dominated. For him, the latter is a psychic death. So leaning hard into these prerogative powers where a president is, in effect, all powerful amounts to a kind of grand and bloody self-care."
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"There’s less logic to it than most imagine. ...
All of this is is rooted in Trump’s psyche, which is as transparent as he is malevolent. His need to compensate for ebbing power is inevitable and unstoppable."
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"This has not been subtle. Across multiple decades, Israel, and Benjamin Netanyahu in particular (he has been Israel’s premier for almost 20 of the last 30 years), have tried to pull America into a war against Iran.
The idea that this is a war to serve American rather than Israeli interests resonates primarily in three spaces:"
~ Daniel Levy
#Netanyahu #Trump #Iran #war #Israel
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"the gullible, the true believers (especially of end times religious eschatology), or those who are paid-up members of Israel’s echo chamber."
#Netanyahu #Trump #Iran #war #Israel
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"Throughout history, war has always been part of the authoritarian playbook. That's because war takes over the news. War blotss out criticism. War divides a nation's people, subjecting those against it to being called unpatriotic. War enables authoritarian leaders to take emergency powers that they use to stifle dissent at home while they falsely claim to bring freedom to others abroad."
~ Robert Reich
#Trump #Iran #war #Republicans #fascism #authoritarianism
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"Donald Trump cannot be trusted to lead us during this pivotal time in our nation's history. He's unaccountable to America. He is lawless. He seeks conflict to cover up for his failures. He wants to consolidate more power into his hands no matter what the collateral damage. He's launched a war in the Middle East that's already killing and wounding."
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