Dave MandlMost of these headlines don't mention the crucial fact that this guy is a conspiracy nut and Trump devotee using the standard far-right antisemitic tropes for opposing the war. This will end in more red-brown ugliness. (I 100% oppose the war, but not because the Jews tricked Trump into it.) https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/17/world/middleeast/joe-kent-counterterrorism-resigns-iran-war.html
Lauren Weinstein@dmandl However, it is clear that Bibi has Trump by that ring attached to his ...
@lauren Maybe, but Trump wouldn't do it if he didn't want to. Why does he obey Israel but not his NATO allies? And what role does Jared play in this?
@dmandl The NATO allies aren't the source of billions of dollars of personal income for the Trump family. It's that simple.
@lauren Anyway, this will bring segments of the left even closer to the far right, and it's gonna be bad, mostly (but not exclusively) for Jews.
@dmandl Off-topic, but I view organized religion as the bane of civilization. Doesn't matter which religion.
@lauren No argument there. But knowing as much as I do about human nature at my advanced age, I figure people would find some other dumb thing to justify bad behavior.
@dmandl Religion was originally about explaining night and day and the sun and lightning and wind and all the rest, and it (relatively) quickly grew into a means of social control, where it has largely remained ever since. But you know all that.