Mastodawn

William Lindsey

“We have heard with deep sorrow the words coming from Donald Trump warning that an entire civilization—the population of Iran—could face total destruction. These threats are truly unacceptable. The idea that millions of innocent men, women, and children could be condemned to death under the pretext of national security is an affront to human dignity and a blasphemy against the Creator of life."

~ Pope Leo

#PopeLeo #Trump #Iran #war #WarCrimes #genocide #morality
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https://www.threads.com/@political.speech/post/DW13Wp-jtRV

POLITICAL SPEECH (@political.speech) on Threads

BREAKING: 🇻🇦 Pope Leo XIV: “We have heard with deep sorrow the words coming from Donald Trump warning that an entire civilization—the population of Iran—could face total destruction. These threats are truly unacceptable. The idea that millions of innocent men, women, and children could be condemned to death under the pretext of national security is an affront to human dignity and a blasphemy against the Creator of life. No nation has the moral right to erase an entire people from the map.”

Threads

William Lindsey

"No nation has the moral right to erase an entire people from the map.”

#PopeLeo #Trump #Iran #war #WarCrimes #genocide #morality
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William Lindsey

"I don’t know how better to put this than to say Trump’s threat this morning to 'wipe out a whole civilization' of Iran puts America into a new immoral universe.

He is directly threatening a war crime."

~ Robert Reich

#Trump #Iran #war #WarCrimes #genocide #morality
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https://robertreich.substack.com/p/trump-threatens-a-whole-civilization

Trump threatens a “whole civilization will die tonight."

This brings America into a new immoral universe

Robert Reich

William Lindsey

"And every one of us is complicit in it, in the sense that this threat comes from the President of the United States, threatening to utilize our nation’s military power to exterminate an entire people. ...

It is our responsibility as citizens of this nation to say unambiguously that what Trump is now threatening is truly evil. It’s our responsibility as human beings to demand that Trump repudiate this threat to other human beings."

#Trump #Iran #war #WarCrimes #genocide #morality
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William Lindsey

"These are the words of a madman: 'A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again. I don’t want that to happen, but it probably will.”' ...

The stakes could not be higher."

~ Jennifer Rubin

#Trump #Iran #war #WarCrimes #genocide #morality
/5

https://www.contrariannews.org/p/special-alert-americans-must-not

Special Alert Americans Must Not Tolerate War Crimes or Trump's Genocidal Threats

Trump’s insanity brings us to the brink of total war

The Contrarian

William Lindsey

"The president’s actions are so beyond the norm that rational observers are worried he might resort to using a nuclear weapon to subdue an enemy he falsely claimed was 'defeated' weeks ago.

Trump defends his decision to attack Iran because 'you can’t put nuclear weapons in the hands of a lunatic.' But the bitter irony is that Trump’s election is what put nuclear weapons in the hands of a lunatic."

~ Mark Jacob

#Trump #Iran #war #WarCrimes #genocide #morality
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https://www.stopthepresses.news/p/trumps-not-just-pretending-to-be

Trump’s not just pretending to be a madman. He actually is one.

His unhinged behavior may alarm Americans more than it intimidates Iran

Stop the Presses

William Lindsey

“It’s an unthinkable thought that only a megalomaniac madman would utter out loud. If Congress had any balls, they would throw him out today. Impeach him before 8 o’clock tonight because this is not a risk the country should take."

~ Edwin Eisendrath

#Trump #Iran #war #WarCrimes #genocide #morality
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https://www.lincolnsquare.media/p/will-trump-commit-more-war-crimes

Will Trump Commit (More) War Crimes? | Susan Demas & Edwin Eisendrath LIVE

"America will be weaker. America will be isolated. Americans will be heartbroken."

Lincoln Square

William Lindsey

"His Tuesday morning threat that '[a] whole civilization will die tonight,' is not the first unacceptable statement from this man — but it must be his last as president."

~ Chris Geidner

#Trump #Iran #war #WarCrimes #genocide #morality
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https://www.lawdork.com/p/donald-trump-must-be-removed-twenty-five

We have the Twenty-Fifth Amendment. Now is the time to use it.

It's past time for Trump to be removed from office. This is a global crisis. It's time for J.D. Vance and the Cabinet to invoke the Twenty-Fifth Amendment.

Law Dork

William Lindsey

"Vice President J.D. Vance has a moral, ethical, and constitutional obligation to invoke Section 4 of the Twenty-fifth Amendment by securing the support from a majority of the cabinet to 'immediately assume the powers and duties of the office as Acting President.'”

#Trump #Iran #war #WarCrimes #genocide #morality
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William Lindsey

"The Iran war is deeply unpopular with Americans, basically every poll finding a majority opposed since the war began on February 28 — an extraordinary fact that media have largely glossed over. It is virtually unprecedented not to see a spike in popular support when Washington launches a military operation, so much so that political science has a term for it: the 'rally around the flag' effect."

~ Ken Klippenstein

#Trump #Iran #war #WarCrimes #genocide #morality
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https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/trumps-biggest-iran-fear

Trump's Biggest Iran Fear

As tonight’s deadline nears, Trump is desperate for one thing

Ken Klippenstein

William Lindsey

"One month into the Iran War, he is down four points — making him the only president in the modern era to lose ground after launching a war."

#Trump #Iran #war #WarCrimes #genocide #morality
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William Lindsey

"Today is the 443rd day of the American hostage crisis, in which this nation and the entire world have been taken hostage by a crazed cult of nihilists, white nationalist fascists, extreme religious fundamentalists, and assorted criminals and gangsters who have occupied the White House" (continued in /13)

~ Timothy Burke

#Trump #Iran #war #WarCrimes #genocide #morality
/12

https://timothyburke.substack.com/p/443-days

443 Days

Isn't It Ironic?

Eight by Seven

William Lindsey

(continued from /12)

"and have issued an ever-escalating series of demands. The leader of this cult is the almost 80-year old Donald Trump, whose every utterance is treated with reverence by his followers."

#Trump #Iran #war #WarCrimes #genocide #morality
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William Lindsey

"How powerful he must be feeling right now, with the whole world hanging on his every word! What a long way he has come from threatening to stand on Fifth Avenue and 'shoot someone' —one person— to having the means to annihilate 'a whole civilization!"

~ Ruth Ben-Ghiat

#Trump #Iran #war #WarCrimes #genocide #morality #insanity
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https://lucid.substack.com/p/disaster-fascism-one-civilization

Disaster Fascism: One Civilization Must Disappear, So Another Can Prosper

Two Frames for Understanding Trump's Threat to Annihilate Iran; Related Convo with Ibram X. Kendi about Great Replacement Theory

Lucid

William Lindsey

"No more slouching and appearing small around his idol Putin, as he felt compelled to do in 2018 in Helsinki. Now he has his finger on the pulse, deciding who gets to live and who should die on a world-historical scale.

Who now would dare to deny him a Nobel Peace Prize?"

#Trump #Iran #war #WarCrimes #genocide #morality #insanity
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William Lindsey

"These are propitious circumstances for declaring a national emergency when the time is right. The possibilities for a panicked would-be dictator who knows he would likely lose big in a free and fair election are endless. In that case, we would have an American version of the old autocratic trick of exploiting disaster to consolidate power. Disaster Fascism."

#Trump #Iran #war #WarCrimes #genocide #morality #insanity
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William Lindsey

"JD Vance was apparently caught off guard Tuesday when a journalist informed him that Donald Trump had threatened to obliterate the entire Iranian civilization by 8 p.m. Vance was onstage in Budapest at the time, feet away from Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán."

~ Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling

#Trump #JDVance #Iran #war #WarCrimes #genocide #morality #insanity
/17

https://newrepublic.com/post/208724/jd-vance-donald-trump-iran-attack

JD Vance Learns in Real Time Trump Left Him Out of Iran Attack Plans

Two different reporters told Vance to check his phone.

The New Republic

William Lindsey

"As I recently wrote, this is not really about Iran for Trump and his regime; this is a war on civilization itself.

Trump is exhibiting the deepest, most destructive phase of narcissistic collapse—rupture—where the subject desperately tries to repair his self-image by destroying the world around him."

~ Jim Stewartson

#Trump #Iran #war #WarCrimes #genocide #morality #insanity
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https://www.mind-war.com/p/genocide-don-a-whole-civilization

Genocide Don: “A Whole Civilization Will Die Tonight”

The psychology of Trump’s eliminationist threat to Iran

MindWar: The Psychological War on Democracy

William Lindsey

"Trump’s cognitive decline, and his addiction to increasingly violent displays of dominance to cover up for his own failures, is no longer in question. The only question left is whether anyone will stop him before he increases his kill count exponentially."

#Trump #Iran #war #WarCrimes #genocide #morality #insanity
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William Lindsey

"That a sundowning clown who is also the most powerful man in the world threatened the people of Iran with war crimes while standing next to a fretful life-size Easter Bunny would once have been unbelievable, but here we are."

~ Rebecca Solnit

#Trump #Iran #war #WarCrimes #genocide #morality #insanity
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https://www.meditationsinanemergency.com/between-the-impossible-and-the-inevitable-the-case-for-defiance-aka-never-f-king-surrender/

Between the Impossible and the Inevitable: The Case for Defiance (aka Never F**king Surrender)

I have been hesitating to hit send on this one, because across the world we are all under the shadow of Trump's threat to commit war crimes that will "eradicate a whole civilization" in Iran while Iranians bravely surround threatened infrastructure with human chains. But I've decided, in this essay's

Meditations in an Emergency

Michael Gemar 14h ago

@wdlindsy …. His Secret Service detail is armed, right…?

Official Kakistocracy Jester 🪓14h ago

@wdlindsy even the vice president doesn’t follow his bullshit.

Edelruth, PBS Passport Holder 13h ago

Excellent.

@wdlindsy how embarrassing it will be when absolutely nothing happens. for all of us involved lol

clawfulneutral 12h ago

@wdlindsy interesting article on how #EpsteinFury is polling

MacCruiskeen 15h ago

@wdlindsy If we need JD Vance to do something moral or ethical or constitutional, we're fucked.

Ludwig Vielfrass 13h ago

@wdlindsy Unfortunately Vance has no morals, ethics, and doesn't give a shit about the constitution.

obscurestar 6h ago

@wdlindsy Nah. they need to get the dems to pull the trigger on old yeller if they want any hope of getting back into power, they'll need to capitalize on as much incel rage as possible.

SaanichGuy 🇨🇦🇨🇦9h ago

@wdlindsy
Lucky that is was TACO Tuesday! Little donald isn’t fit to be in the WH.

Bet huge market swings

soletan 🇺🇦🐸2h ago

@wdlindsy He is blessing the people of Iran which constitute the civilization he is intending to kill tonight? Is he expecting those people of Iran to agree and to thank him for that? I mean, he's mental. This ain't new. I'm actually curious about the whole military top-level administration staff, which is in clear violation of its oath to the constitution. Are they going to be replaced? I guess that's what you get when taking all the "bright minds" from a dictatorship you once defeated.

bouriquet 16h ago

@wdlindsy Let us question that even if Trump were to be speedily removed from the White House either by the 25th Amendment or by natural causes, its possible that Hegseth will continue the operation in the name of his false god tattooed on his chest. Can this be stopped?

William Lindsey

@bouriquet I don't know the answer, but that's a good question.

Nicole Parsons 14h ago

The GOP won't impeach.
SCOTUS won't get involved.
Trump's cabinet won't invoke the 25th.
MAGA won't vote for democracy & peace.

Why?

The fossil fuel industry paid a lot of money for this second attempt at a fascist coup.

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

https://www.desmog.com/2024/08/14/project-2025-billionaire-donor-heritage-foundation-donald-trump-jd-vance-charles-koch-peter-coors/

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/oct/09/twitter-saudi-arabia-deep-ties-elon-musk-prince-mohammed

https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/01/politics/elon-musk-2024-election-spending-millions

https://www.dw.com/en/what-do-xs-alleged-ties-to-russian-oligarchs-mean-for-musk/a-70088598

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/feb/13/elon-musk-xai-datacenters-air-pollution-mississippi

https://www.saltwire.com/newfoundland-labrador/gwynne-dyer-vought-climate-change

Koch Political Operation Spent Nearly $550 Million During 2024 Cycle

The huge sum shows that while the Koch network may not hold significant power at high levels of the Republican Party, it remains a financial juggernaut.

The New York Times

Madeleine Morris 16h ago

@wdlindsy I think we can all agree that all the mechanisms we might have imagined functioning to stop a madman from being President have turned out to be useless.

This includes the 'free press', and the other two branches of government.

At some point, this will end. And when it does, the list of people who enabled this fucker and then sat back and watched him wreck the world will be very long.

Like the Nazis after WWII, there are just too many to prosecute.

William Lindsey

@Remittancegirl Yes, I think of the challenge facing those who wanted to prosecute all those guilty of war crimes under the Nazis, and how incomplete that process was due to the sheer number of those implicated — and how "normal" they seemed to their neighbors.

Martin Vermeer FCD 15h ago

@wdlindsy @Remittancegirl Not just the number, but also that we suddenly needed their country again as an ally, and so let bygones be bygones. Where did I hear that before.

🇩🇪 🇺🇦 🇨🇦

@wdlindsy No need to worry....

GJ Groothedde 🇪🇺17h ago

@wdlindsy And still, crickets from Congress. Or at least, no conclusive action.