"While Trump’s goal at the beginning of the war was unclear and ever-changing, it is no such thing now, as the Iranians have now determined what Trump’s goal must be: sending America’s sons and daughters to sacrifice their lives in the name of cheap gas."
~ John Stoehr
#Trump #Iran #war #death #destruction #violence #megalomania #MalignantNarcissism #stupidity #economy #consumers #affordability #oil #gas
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https://www.editorialboard.com/will-trump-sacrifice-us-troops-in-the-name-of-cheap-gas/
"As long as Trump believes he can do whatever he wants whenever he wants, however, the Iranians have him over a barrel. And with oil prices currently at their highest since 2023, the American middle class is going to burn up as long as he’s over it."
#Trump #Iran #war #death #destruction #violence #megalomania #MalignantNarcissism #stupidity #economy #consumers #affordability #oil #gas
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Before the war, 35% to 40% of Republicans supported military action against Iran per polls. So what is that number a few weeks into the war after Americans have been killed, gasoline prices have shot up and inflation is rising?
Are you ready? Ninety percent of people who are self-described as MAGA now say they support Trump’s war per an NBC News poll."
~ Dean Obeidallah
#Trump #MAGA #Iran #war #stupidity #economy #consumers #affordability #oil #gas #fascism
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https://deanobeidallah.substack.com/p/magas-support-of-trumps-iran-war
"Only nine percent of MAGA opposes it. In addition, beyond MAGA, the broader GOP base is overwhelmingly on board with this war. For example, while a new Quinnipiac Poll found only 40% of Americans support Trump’s iran war--among the GOP that number shoots up to 85%. ...
What you are seeing is a reminder that MAGA is fascist movement that is a danger to our democratic Republic."
#Trump #MAGA #Iran #war #stupidity #economy #consumers #affordability #oil #gas #fascism
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"Joe Kent’s resignation shows that Trump’s illegal war in Iran is creating a fissure within the MAGA upper ranks, but don’t expect many others to quit soon."
~ Minnah Arshad, Andrew Perez, and Asawin Suebsaeng
#Trump #JoeKent #MAGA #Iran #war #stupidity #economy #consumers #affordability #oil #gas
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"Discord in MAGA-world and resignations from this administration are indeed good. But Kent's letter blames Israel in a she-made-him-do-it way: 'It's clear that we started this war due to pressure from Israel and its powerful American lobby.'"
~ Rebecca Solnit
#Trump #JoeKent #MAGA #Iran #war #stupidity #economy #consumers #affordability #oil #gas #antisemitism
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Two stories erupted in the last twenty-four hours that have to do with antisemitism. One is deeply positive. It's a letter signed by 132 Jewish faculty and staff at UCLA rejecting the Trump Administration's definition of antisemitism while pointing out what's dangerous about this right-wing definition of antisemitism: it's an
"Kent’s letter, for all its patriotic rhetoric, seems a lot like an insider coup against a declining president; and an attempt to capture the leadership of an increasingly unhappy MAGA. …
When Kent says this war isn’t serving America, he’s echoing the view of a clear majority of the country."
~ Ken Klippenstein
#Trump #JoeKent #MAGA #Iran #war #stupidity #economy #consumers #affordability #oil #gas #antisemitism
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https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/joe-kent-isnt-the-hero-you-are
"A majority so clear that politicians like Kent want to tap into it. And that’s a good thing.
But there’s a cynicism to his letter and its insistence that the president of the United States is some defenseless lamb being led astray by Israel. …
Kent has a tone that speaks directly to Trump and MAGA, assuring them that their blameless leader has been hoodwinked. Israel is to blame…"
#Trump #JoeKent #MAGA #Iran #war #stupidity #economy #consumers #affordability #oil #gas #antisemitism
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"For the past two and a half years, the corporate media has failed us on Gaza, and now they're failing us on Iran too. Instead of holding power to account and challenging the myriad lies being told by Trump and Netanyahu, leading media outlets are just happily manufacturing consent for this devastating and illegal war."
~ Mehdi Hasan
Watch Mehdi’s video calling out mainstream media – and reminding you why being a part of Zeteo is so important.
"The man sitting behind the Resolute Desk is out of his mind. This person possesses the title of Commander-in-Chief. This person is 'deciding' how to conduct a war against Iran that he started. He does not know what he’s doing."
~ Steven Beschloss
#Trump #Iran #war #death #destruction #violence #megalomania #MalignantNarcissism #stupidity
/10
https://www.americaamerica.news/p/snapshot-he-is-out-of-his-mind
"It s not in British or allied interests to get dragged into Trump’s war. This is the moment for what Prime Minister Carney of Canada calls the 'middle powers' to come together to pool their ideas and resources to find a way to reopen the strait of Hormuz. Above all, though, they must keep America at arm’s length and not get sucked into what could well become a disaster."
~ Richard Shirreff
When you say "failing us" you mean you in the US, right?
Judging by your avatar I assume you can remember the 80s when GE Westinghouse and other DoD contractors went on a spree buying TV stations around the US.
Did you expect the outcome being someone like AOC or Bernie getting elected and disarm the military and police? Work for true peace around the globe and abide by international law and agreements?
By the time Clinton got elected the entire show was in the hands of the defense and oil/coal industries, they really tried hard to fabricate a reason to go to war.
"Wag the Dog"
#Dixocrats and neonazis
@wdlindsy
#Serbia #Afghanistan #Iraq #Venezuela #Cuba #Armenia #DPRK #Russia #Iran #Gaza
They are both pro-capitalist and nobody has been more neo-liberal than #Biden and it is #neoliberalism that lead to legitimizing #fascism (its closet identity).
I know it wasn't your statement, I was commenting on the content not your person. Quoting someone without commenting/criticizing the content to most of us appears as an endorsement.
Very naive assumptions by this Hasan, and the age of innocence has long gone by. Real bombs kill real people under real passive tolerance of the murderers.
The US as audience and as participants are a very small minority of the internet. Enough with "US-centrism" ..
#Biden was as much of a warmonger as the best of them, the Ukraine front costed more than some of the direct US wars, and his support on #Genocide elsewhere was not negotiable.
Yes what happens inside of US and especially what the US does outside is an interest to all, this is a separate issue from what I was referring to.
The term us/we without being named should be used with more caution.
"... media has failed us on Gaza, and now they're failing us on Iran.."
US mass media have failed most of us outside the US from being taken seriously, like the zionist NYtimes, FoX (Fascist-fiXion) but even the drowning WP can't be taken seriously anymore. Only as a gauge of which lobby is pushing government to which direction will anyone seriously look at US media.
@JonChevreau @wdlindsy You damn right it is. People are too afraid to say one thing against their bosstator because he literally ran off of that happening to him.
Getting millions of people to vote for doing whatever your boss wants, is a really, really, dangerous and stupid idea.
I'd like to think we're more conscious than that. to respect someone at the individual level, for being who they really want to become, and not targeting them for things about them you aren't. Isn't that how civil society is supposed to go, without stirring up chaos based on other beliefs people might have?
Free Speech should mean at the workplace, you can have your say without running the risk, accept for when giving harmful/lawsuit prone advice to somebody, that you can still keep your job for having an opinion and expressing your voice in that capacity.
Should Americans even keep free speech if this is what comes of it? People can and will abuse the limits because it gives them the attention they'd otherwise not get for being a fringe group of people too afraid to speak what they think is obvious censorship, but what we think is not censored at all because they're not put in prison for being as organized as they already are.
But it's never enough right? And on both sides of the #political isle, this is going on.
Bosstator culture has destroyed more lives than ever before. And that is why I am the boss of me and me alone.
Yes, I pay for the privilege. But that's also why I'm on Mastodon using self hosting out of a necessity to know what I want, and why I want to be respected and embraced for it without fear.
I can't say the same for the entity that is a politician once they get into bed with the utter idea, that ignoring a budget will set you free.
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