"Each passing day will bring mounting death and destruction, with the likelihood of more instability, unpredictability and havoc to come.

These dangers are compounded by the reality that no president is less equipped to comprehend nor account for the consequences of his actions than the current one, nor are the feckless men he’s surrounded himself with."

#Trump #Iran #war
/2

"The death of the liberal order has been coming for awhile now and to watch it explode like this is both unsurprising and outrageous. There’s not a day now where I don’t think of the innocent people who have been killed as this barbarism has worsened and as the wealth and oligarchical classes continue the transfer of power over to the machines they have programmed."

~ Jared Yates Sexton

#Trump #Iran #war #broligarchy #TechBros #SiliconValley
/3

https://jaredyatessexton.substack.com/p/now-the-chaos-the-death-of-the-liberal

"At this point, as liberalism transforms into authoritarianism, just as capitalism requires, it appears that we are speeding toward the fiery horizon."

#Trump #Iran #war #broligarchy #TechBros #SiliconValley
/4

"This is the real manosphere. One whose edges we can’t even see because we’re living inside it. Our world is controlled by these men, their platforms, their alliances with nation states, technology-fuelled political power which is only accelerating and gathering strength. When I coined the word 'broligarchy' it wasn’t as a cutesy pun:"

~ Carole Cadwalladr

#Trump #Iran #war #broligarchy #TechBros #SiliconValley #manosphere
/5

https://broligarchy.substack.com/p/is-this-the-broligarchys-first-world

"I used it to describe the confluence of Silicon Valley technologies and US state authoritarianism, and a warped toxic pseudo-masculinity that’s at its heart."

#Trump #Iran #war #broligarchy #TechBros #SiliconValley #manosphere
/6

"A new report from The Wall Street Journal reveals that Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump are backing a drone company called Powerus that hopes to sell military drones to the Pentagon. The company reportedly plans to incorporate Ukrainian drone technology, the same technology developed during Ukraine’s war with Russia."

~ Ben Meiselas

#Trump #Iran #war #broligarchy #TechBros #SiliconValley #EconomicElites #profiteering
/7

https://www.meidasplus.com/p/monday-afternoon-updates-markets

"So while American troops are deployed and taxpayers fund the war effort, the president’s sons are investing in companies positioned to profit from that military spending."

#Trump #Iran #war #broligarchy #TechBros #SiliconValley #EconomicElites #profiteering
/8

"On Sunday, Hegseth told 60 Minutes correspondent Major Garrett that the 'providence of our Almighty God is there protecting those troops' in the Iran war.

When asked directly if he saw the war in religious terms, Hegseth basically said yes, preaching at length his own version of a militarized Christian doctrine."

~ Ken Klippenstein and Jason Paladino

#Trump #Iran #war #Hegseth #ChristianNationalism #HolyWar
/9

https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/document-homeland-security-warns

"It’s pretty rich of Graham to call any other country a 'religious Nazi regime' while we have a Secretary of War Defense with white nationalist Crusades tattoos all over his body, and Graham is on the Sunday shows talking about 'marching through the world' like he’s performing 'Springtime For Hitler' from The Producers."

~ Michael Mora

#Trump #Iran #war #LindseyGraham #ChristianNationalism #HolyWar
/10

https://www.wonkette.com/p/a-tale-of-two-gop-senators-on-the

"This Wall Street Journal piece from last week took a deeper look at Graham’s lobbying. The paper makes it pretty clear Graham might have gotten played by Israel, although Lord knows he wanted to be played so badly, he was all but begging for, at a minimum, some hand stuff:"

~ Gary Legum

#Netanyahu #LindseyGraham #Trump #Iran #war
/11

https://www.wonkette.com/p/lindsey-graham-loses-mind-demands

"'Graham traveled several times to Israel in recent weeks, meeting with members of the country’s intelligence agency. "They’ll tell me things our own government won’t tell me," he said. He spoke with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, coaching him on how to lobby the president for action.'"

#Netanyahu #LindseyGraham #Trump #Iran #war
/12

Sam Osterhout and Andra Watkins discussion how white Christian nationalists actually want the suffering we're seeing with Trump's Iran war, because "they crave chaos and death because it tells them their Bibles are coming true, even if they're the agents of that chaos and death."

And, unfortunately, we all pay a price for what they choose to believe.

#Trump #Iran #war #Hegseth #ChristianNationalism #HolyWar #armageddon #rapture
/13

https://www.lincolnsquare.media/p/armageddon-in-iran-the-white-christian

"Whether he’s demented or not, the outcome of Donald Trump’s war is the same – someone else will be responsible for it, not him."

~ John Stoehr

#Trump #Iran #war
/14

https://www.editorialboard.com/iran-is-winning-the-war/?ref=the-editorial-board-newsletter