Mastodawn

William Lindsey

"An absolute insane person. My god."

~ Sarah Longwell quoted by Greg Dworkin

P.S. Are we really going to play the purist CW labeling games — US Pol — when the fate of the WHOLE WORLD is at stake as a madman with his hand on the nuclear button threatens to rain down destruction on a nation he's targeting?

Do we really have the luxury of that kind of purism right now?

#Trump #Iran #war #death #violence #destruction #NuclearWeapons #WarCrimes
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https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2026/4/6/2376433/-Abbreviated-Pundit-Roundup-Trump-s-unqalification-to-lead-is-on-full-display

Abbreviated Pundit Roundup: Trump's unqalification to lead is on full display

G Elliott Morris/Strength in Numbers: Why Democrats are suddenly winning back the left — and the "double-haters" Plus, the share of Americans calling themselves Republicans just hit a decade low. Your weekly political data roundup for April 5, 2026....

Daily Kos

William Lindsey

“I know all of you [fellow Republican leaders] and him and he has gone insane, and all of you are complicit."

~ Marjorie Taylor Greene quoted by Lucy Campbell

#Trump #Republicans #Iran #war #death #violence #destruction #NuclearWeapons #WarCrimes
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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/05/trump-iran-threats-politician-reactions

‘Unhinged madman’: US politicians react to Trump’s expletive-laden threat to Iran

Marjorie Taylor Greene and Bernie Sanders among those responding with alarm to Trump writing ‘open the fuckin’ strait, you crazy bastards’

The Guardian

William Lindsey

"This is an actual post. This is not funny. This is beyond desperate. This is a deeply unwell man who doesn't belong anywhere near the levers of power. Every member of his cabinet and Congress is complicit in not demanding his removal now."

~ Steven Beschloss

#Trump #Republicans #Iran #war #death #violence #destruction #NuclearWeapons #WarCrimes
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https://www.americaamerica.news/p/donald-trump-needs-to-be-removed

Donald Trump Needs to Be Removed

He is becoming increasingly dangerous and unable to perform the duties of his office, requiring the invocation of the 25th Amendment

America, America

William Lindsey

"President Donald John Trump, madman constrained by only the morality of his own mind, TruthSocialed his genocidal intentions towards Iran on the most holy day of the Christian calendar."

~ Marcie Jones

#Trump #Republicans #Iran #war #death #violence #destruction #NuclearWeapons #WarCrimes
/4

https://www.wonkette.com/p/but-at-what-pentecost-tabs-mon-april

At What Pentecost? Tabs, Mon. April 6, 2026

News and things to read and watch!

Wonkette

William Lindsey

"The reality is that this president is mentally ill. The expletive-filled outrage shows a puerile, uncontrolled and vulgar behavior that will alienate many Americans and do nothing to affect the Iranian strategy, which is to tough it out.

There is no plan but bluster and hope."

~ Mark Mansour

#Trump #Republicans #Iran #war #death #violence #destruction #NuclearWeapons #WarCrimes
/5

https://mmansour.substack.com/p/bombast-as-war-policy-it-wont-work

Bombast As War Policy: It Won’t Work

nothing is being learned and the war drags on

America’s Fractured Politics

William Lindsey

"He's seriously out of his mind. And the Iranians know it ...

The easiest explanation is the simplest: Trump is cornered, and he’s going stark-raving mad."

~ Robert Reich

#Trump #Republicans #Iran #war #death #violence #destruction #NuclearWeapons #WarCrimes
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https://robertreich.substack.com/p/final-thought-hes-seriously-out-of

Final Thought: He's Seriously Out of His Mind

And the Iranians Know it

Robert Reich

William Lindsey

"Regardless of the inspiration for Trump’s post, by itself it tells a very clear story. The Federal Bureau of Investigation’s former assistant director for counterintelligence Frank Figliuzzi posted: 'The American president has lost his mind.'”

~ Heather Cox Richardson

#Trump #Republicans #Iran #war #death #violence #destruction #NuclearWeapons #WarCrimes
/7

https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/april-5-2026

April 5, 2026

At 8:03 this morning, Easter Sunday, President Donald J.

Letters from an American

William Lindsey

"Imagine Joe Biden, or worse still, Barack Obama, saying that [i.e., praise be to Allah] 'in jest' and how Republicans would have responded. Trump is completely off the rails and Republicans are turning a blind eye, pretending it’s not happening."

~ Joyce Vance

#Trump #Republicans #Iran #war #death #violence #destruction #NuclearWeapons #WarCrimes
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https://joycevance.substack.com/p/the-week-ahead-0b4

The Week Ahead

The president of the United States greeted the country with this Truth Social post about his intentions in Iran on Easter Sunday: “Tuesday will be Power Plant Day, and Bridge Day, all wrapped up in one, in Iran.

Civil Discourse with Joyce Vance

William Lindsey

"Earlier this week, Trump’s 'spiritual advisor' Paula White-Cain compared him to Jesus. Trump, too, was 'betrayed and arrested and falsely accused,' she said. No one in the Republican Party seems to have believed they need to strenuously resist that characterization.

And so, we enter the new week with an unstable president at the helm in wartime."

#Trump #Republicans #Iran #war #death #violence #destruction #NuclearWeapons #WarCrimes
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William Lindsey

"For the moment we are all waiting to see just how mad Donald Trump is. Not how angry — we know that — but whether he is actually mentally deranged enough not only to announce he is going to commit war crimes, which he has done, but to then commit them, in a war of his own impulse against a country with which we were negotiating peace."

~ Gene Weingarten

#Trump #Republicans #Iran #war #death #violence #destruction #NuclearWeapons #WarCrimes
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https://geneweingarten.substack.com/p/but-what-if-its-a-tie

But What If It's a Tie?

For the moment we are all waiting to see just how mad Donald Trump is.

The Gene Pool

William Lindsey

"Also, he seems to be hinting at the use of tactical nuclear weapons.

That is what we do now in the United States: Wait to see how bad it will be."

#Trump #Republicans #Iran #war #death #violence #destruction #NuclearWeapons #WarCrimes
/11

William Lindsey

"The horrible but undeniable fact right now is that America has a terrorist president. And the whole world knows it. But we still have a chance to show the world that he is an aberration, that we are not a terrorist nation. And we can do that by standing up for the values that have always defined us."

~ Paul Krugman

#Trump #Republicans #Iran #war #death #violence #destruction #NuclearWeapons #WarCrimes
/12

https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/the-terrorist-in-chief

The Terrorist in Chief

It’s time for us to face up to the ugly reality

Paul Krugman

William Lindsey

"In a healthy democracy, Trump would be impeached by the House and convicted and removed by the Senate, or replaced under the procedures of the 25th Amendment.

Will either remedy happen? Not likely, but that does not mean we should refrain from stating the obvious:"

~ Robert B. Hubbell

#Trump #Republicans #Iran #war #death #violence #destruction #NuclearWeapons #WarCrimes #impeachment
/13

https://roberthubbell.substack.com/p/trump-is-unfit-for-office-he-should

Trump is unfit for office. He should be removed ASAP.

April 6, 2026

Today's Edition Newsletter

William Lindsey

"No other president would remain in office for a week after issuing such lunatic, reckless statements. ...

Trump is unfit to hold the office of president, dangerously so. We should say so, preferably in words of one syllable."

#Trump #Republicans #Iran #war #death #violence #destruction #NuclearWeapons #WarCrimes #impeachment
/14

William Lindsey

"The media is covering his social media threats as if he is simply moving a perfunctory deadline back 24 hours, from Monday to Tuesday, but what Trump is discussing is his own pledge to pointlessly commit war crimes against Iran’s civilians – who knows how many? Millions? Tens of millions? – by a certain time."

~ Dean Obeidallah

#Trump #Republicans #Iran #war #death #violence #destruction #NuclearWeapons #WarCrimes #media
/15

https://zeteo.com/p/trump-threatens-war-crimes-iran

First Draft: 🇺🇸 🇮🇷 US Supreme Leader Threatens Death to Iran

‘We're blowing up the whole country,’ Trump says, if Iran doesn’t roll over and stop choking off the flow of oil, and Graham Platner's Dem rival Janet Mills is busy during Maine’s first Senate debate.

Zeteo

William Lindsey

"That the American commander-in-chief is doing this in broad daylight is a scandal of monumental proportions."

#Trump #Republicans #Iran #war #death #violence #destruction #NuclearWeapons #WarCrimes #media
/16

William Lindsey

"Donald Trump spent today threatening and bullying and blaspheming the Iranians, trying to get them to give him an ending to his war that he can call a victory. The Iranians know something that Donald Trump does not know."

~ Lucian K. Truscott

#Trump #Iran #war #death #violence #destruction #NuclearWeapons #WarCrimes
/17

https://luciantruscott.substack.com/p/im-going-to-punch-you-in-the-nose

I’m going to punch you in the nose

You don’t forget the first time a bully tries to push you around.

Lucian Truscott Newsletter

William Lindsey

"They have been smugglers and traders and storytellers which has given them a rich tradition that has carried them through centuries of invaders and bullies who killed far more of them than Trump’s missiles and bombers have. The Iranians know from their own very, very long history that they can outtalk and outwit and outwait him."

#Trump #Iran #war #death #violence #destruction #NuclearWeapons #WarCrimes
/18

William Lindsey

"That is how you get to this madness, a group of bored, bloodthirsty, boisterous men who mistake firepower for strength, and bluster for wisdom. They do not understand how force and diplomacy can work in tandem to serve our national interests."

~ Elliot Kirschner

#Trump #Iran #war #death #violence #destruction #NuclearWeapons #WarCrimes #WarriorEthos #PerformativeMasculinity
/19

https://elliotkirschner.substack.com/p/the-warrior-ethos

The "Warrior Ethos"?

Can we please redefine strength?

Through the Fog, by Elliot Kirschner

William Lindsey

"They are slavish to the allure of simplistic stereotypes, where the ideal warrior is a man, usually of European descent, with bulging biceps and a sneering grin. That is why they continue to purge women and minorities from positions of leadership, why they disdain expertise in anything more complex than an explosion, why they ignore the obvious need for nuance or complexity."

#Trump #Iran #war #death #violence #destruction #NuclearWeapons #WarCrimes #WarriorEthos #PerformativeMasculinity
/20

William Lindsey

"Theirs is a simple, mythical world where whoever has the most and the biggest bombs is destined to win. As we are now seeing, reality does not bend to their delusions."

#Trump #Iran #war #death #violence #destruction #NuclearWeapons #WarCrimes #WarriorEthos #PerformativeMasculinity
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Edelruth, PBS Passport Holder 17h ago

It's too late to impeach him. We are out of time. But, you know, the fluff is all out of our navels.

yuhasz01 20h ago

@wdlindsy Trumpy is a convicted felon and documented liar and financial conman( he bankrupts casinos). Trump Inc is /has been a criminal enterprise.

Add international and domestic terrorist to the list....

Stargeezer Smith 12h ago

@wdlindsy
Hear ye. We won't be trusted for a very long time unless Congress steps up and handles this problem as the Constitution allows, and we demand.

RainbowFrog 19h ago

Is waiting really an option? He should be put in a strait jacket (yes, pun intended) *before he tries* 🤔

Tim Ward ⭐🇪🇺🔶 #FBPE 20h ago

@wdlindsy He *still* can't commit war crimes all by himself.

All he can do is order the military to commit them.

And the the military are required to refuse illegal orders.

RainbowFrog 20h ago

RainbowFrog 19h ago

Ok, soooo, if the anti-christ really is to exist, I think we have found the #1 candidate to the title 😏

Jason Bowen 🇺🇦21h ago

@wdlindsy
They would have started the impeachment process with Obama over that tweet.

Steve Woods 20h ago

@wdlindsy Re mind loss.

That reminds me of a Reagan era sketch on the Spitting image satirical puppet show Spitting Image, The President's brain is missing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6p8cuN9Cv64

Ronald Reagan on Classic Spitting Image - The President's Brain Is Missing !

Classic Spitting Image starring US President Donald Trump with Nancy Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev.Please subscribe to my channel for further comedy video upl...

YouTube

Nicole Parsons 17h ago

Trump acts like a toddler who is having a tantrum until he's given candy. It is a psychological manipulation tactic beloved by narcissists.
https://medium.com/@gemmamiddleton/the-rage-fits-of-a-narcissist-the-most-dangerous-weapon-in-their-toolkit-1f64fc87250f

https://psychcentral.com/pro/exhausted-woman/2017/01/five-ways-a-narcissist-comes-unglued

https://www.verywellmind.com/what-is-narcissistic-rage-5183744

https://psychcentral.com/blog/recovering-narcissist/2019/02/11-manipulation-and-sabotage-tactics-of-narcissists-sociopaths-psychopaths-part-2

Trump is having meltdowns because the money is drying up from his fascist billionaires.

The Moneyed should know that they face serious investigation. They bought an election for a Qrazie that has the nuclear football.

The rage fits of a narcissist — the most dangerous weapon in their toolkit.

The toddler-like temper tantrums displayed by a narcissist are even more damaging than the physical abuse they can be prone to dish out.

Medium

Dan Neuman 🇨🇦20h ago

@wdlindsy Good thing he's building himself a bunker.

J.L. 1285 20h ago

@dan613 Not that he’s worthy, but ‘mausoleum’ has a better ring to it.

Dan Neuman 🇨🇦20h ago

@CAWguy I'm wondering if he owns a pistol

J.L. 1285 20h ago

@dan613 😂 I’m patient enough - just keep those burgers coming, non-stop!

Dan Neuman 🇨🇦20h ago

@CAWguy Yeah, that would be faster than waiting for the bunker to be finished and the prophesy fulfilled.

Nicole Parsons 17h ago

The highest skill Trump has is the "Art of the Grift".

His insanity is intended to bring in the bribes, the only thing known to calm him down is grift.

The fossil fuel industry paid Trump to wreck the planet & get higher oil prices

https://www.commondreams.org/news/trump-oil-industry-donations

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/20/us/politics/koch-network-2024-election-trump.html

Putin has his higher oil revenue to fight his wars
https://www.lemonde.fr/en/opinion/article/2026/03/23/the-oil-shock-in-the-middle-east-is-a-godsend-for-russia_6751715_23.html

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-04-01/commodity-windfalls-are-rolling-into-russia-from-war-in-iran

#PrinceBonesaw gets his consolidation of oil supply into fewer & fewer hands
https://popular.info/p/update-after-sending-billions-to

Trump to Big Oil Execs: Give Me $1 Billion and I'll Help You Wreck the Planet | Common Dreams

"You won't read a more important story today," said one commentator. "Trump is willing to literally destroy the planet for $1 billion."

Common Dreams

Dagnabbit, Pascaline! 💥17h ago

Watching his downfall will be delicious.
May this come soon! We need fun entertainment and an outlook on better times.

GJ Groothedde 🇪🇺17h ago

@pascaline
I very seriously hope he'll be guillotined. And I'm past the point of feeling I need to apologize for that.
@wdlindsy

Dagnabbit, Pascaline! 💥16h ago

Same!
Watching his head roll would be a terrific moment.

Darwin Woodka 20h ago

There’s the known knowns, the known unknowns, and the we refuse to know knowns and will fire anyone who tries to tell us..

🥑 Yours Truly! Unruly 🇨🇦🇪🇺🇺🇦🌻16h ago

Now there's a scary deep void thought. Trump's own morality, his I, me, my morality, the morality of the unfettered narcissist, twisted by psychotic episodes of completely unhinged madness. America's man.

bouriquet 21h ago

@wdlindsy As apparently insane as Trump is, his Cabinet, the Republican leadership and the corporate billionaires that are all addicted to the absolute power he gave them just cannot bear to let go in order to keep the nation from self-destruction. It is the very definition of selfishness, letting millions suffer or die in order to save yourself.
They are all complicit.
And to think it was expressed by Trump on Easter Sunday.

Darwin Woodka 20h ago

Well MTG is complicit, too

William Lindsey

@darwinwoodka I suspect that any of us taking note of what she said to push back against fascism is well aware of that fact — and many of us are well aware that a politics of purism won't get us far in the pushback process. It helped get us into this mess in the first place.

Ω 🌍 Gus Posey 20h ago

@wdlindsy He's a goddamn lunatic and everyone should be screaming it from the rooftops.