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The #US & #Israel now really have a friend in #Tehran.
In strikes #Mojtaba was wounded, while his father, wife and other family members were likely killed.
This new #Ayatollah guy is going to be super sympathetic to them!
They truly must have achieved their #war goal...
In case you haven't heard it, there is that old saying in #Iran:
"Kill somebody's family and (only) wife,
make a friend for life"
"Hearts and minds" eh?
#IranWar #News #middleeast #uspol #politics #military #Humor #Sarcasm
Great, here come the sleeper cells. 🙄 Tell me again why Trump decided to start a war in the first place? Last I heard he was on the "affordability!" bandwagon. Instead we're staring down a 1973-style oil shock but with bonus terrorism!
#news #thoughts #terrorism #war #politics #USpolitics #MiddleEast
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Iran may be activating sleeper cells outside the country, alert says
The encrypted transmission was intercepted by the U.S.Aaron Katersky (ABC News)
"With new evidence emerging that the United States was responsible for the strike on a school in southern Iran than killed scores of children, President Trump baselessly blamed Iran for the attack."
~ David Kurtz
#Trump #Hegseth #Iran #war #death #destruction #violence #WarriorEthos #PerformativeMasculinity #lies #disinformation #propaganda
/17
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Inside the DHS Campaign Against US Citizens
INSIDE: Abrego Garcia ... Kari Lake ... Enrique TarrioDavid Kurtz (Morning Memo)
"He’s even stated explicitly that this should be going how it did in Venezuela, where the next in command steps forward and agrees to an indefinite period of vassalhood under not so much the U.S. but Donald Trump himself. What remains of the Iranian state leadership does not seem interested in that."
#Trump #Hegseth #Iran #war #death #destruction #violence #WarriorEthos #PerformativeMasculinity
/16
"Trump started this war as part of the international acting-out he’s been at for the last few months, a way of compensating for reverses at home. If we look at his statements and U.S. actions leading up to the beginning of the war, the impulse or the goal seems simply to be in charge, for Iran to do what Trump says."
~ Josh Marshall
#Trump #Hegseth #Iran #war #death #destruction #violence #WarriorEthos #PerformativeMasculinity
/15
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Iran: It’s Hard to Know How to Exit When You Don’t Know Why You’re There
In discussions of modern wars, Americans obsess about “exit strategies”. How do you avoid getting “bogged down?” How do you know when the mission is finished?Josh Marshall (TPM - Talking Points Memo)
"House Intelligence Committee Chair Rick Crawford on Fox: 'We have been at war with Iran since 1947.'
… The Republican talking point is to claim that Iran has been at war with us for 47 years, so Trump’s bombings are just a continuation of that and are being done in self defense. But Crawford got it a little confused trying to follow the script."
~ Ron Filipkowski
#Trump #Hegseth #Iran #war #death #destruction #violence #WarriorEthos #PerformativeMasculinity
/14
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This Weekend in Politics, Bulletin 323.
… Trump was widely criticized for wearing a campaign hat he’s selling on his website for $55 during the dignified transfer ceremony for the soldiers killed during his Iran War.Ron Filipkowski (Meidas+)
"In just over a week, Trump and top administration officials have given at least 17 different responses about why the war began. ...
Hegseth has described the war’s mission as 'very very clear' and 'laser-focused.' Rubio said the war had 'a very clear goal' and he didn’t understand why there was any 'confusion.' Leavitt said that Trump had laid out 'achievable objectives.'”
~ Judd Legum
#Trump #Hegseth #Iran #war #death #destruction #violence #WarriorEthos
/13
"The situation is scary. And what’s even scarier is that the 'warrior ethos' gang in the Trump administration seem to have been caught completely off-guard by the fallout from their adventure, even though the military and the intelligence community tried to warn them about the risks."
~ Paul Krugman
#Trump #Hegseth #Iran #war #death #destruction #violence #PerformativeMasculinity #WarriorEthos
/12
"Trump sees war as 'blowing things up.' Dealing with the bodies of soldiers he sent to war is—for Trump—an annoyance that delayed his weekend golf by a day, to Sunday, when he wore the same golf hat that he wore during the dignified transfer."
~ Robert B. Hubbell
#Trump #Iran #war #death #destruction #violence #PerformativeMasculinity
/11
"Hundreds of thousands displaced, and many millions more are terrified across the Middle East. …
The longer we remain blind to the terrible consequences of war, the more we are risking the most precious gift God gave us: our humanity."
#Trump #CardinalCupich #Iran #war #death #destruction #violence
/10
"A real war with real death and real suffering being treated like it’s a video game — it’s sickening. Hundreds of people are dead, mothers and fathers, daughters and sons, including scores of children who made the fatal mistake of going to school that day. Six U.S. soldiers have been killed. They are also dishonored by that social media post."
#Trump #CardinalCupich #Iran #war #death #destruction #violence
/9
"As more than 1,000 Iranian men, women and children lay dead after days of bombardment from U.S. and Israeli missiles, the official White House X account on Thursday evening posted a video of scenes from popular action movies spliced with actual strike footage from their war on Iran. The clip was captioned: 'JUSTICE THE AMERICAN WAY.'"
~ Cardinal Blaise Cupich, Catholic archdiocese of Chicago
#Trump #CardinalCupich #Iran #war #death #destruction #violence
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Statement of Cardinal Blase J. Cupich, archbishop of Chicago, “A Call to Conscience”
As more than 1,000 Iranian men, women and children lay dead after days of bombardment from U.S. and Israeli missiles, the official White House X account on Thursday evening posted a video of scenes from popular action movies spliced with actual strik…Archdiocese of Chicago
"Cardinal Blase Cupich of Chicago excoriated the clip, pointing out that
a real war with real death and real suffering [is] being treated like it's a video game … It's sickening.'”
#Trump #CardinalCupich #Iran #war #death #destruction #violence #PerformativeMasculinity
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"The Trump regime certainly frames the war in Iran as a particularly boneheaded and un-nuanced Hollywood film along the lines of 'Rambo' (1985). ... Perhaps even more tellingly, the White House X account posted a video collage of clips from the war intercut with footage from Hollywood action, war, and superhero films."
#Trump #Iran #war #death #destruction #violence #PerformativeMasculinity
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"The US has a longstanding tendency to see wars as one-sided affairs, with American protagonists, American victims, and a cast of disreputable and/or sympathetic non-American side characters. This is perhaps most obvious in the mass of Hollywod Vietnam war films, of which only rare exceptions include a non-American main character."
~ Noah Berlatsky
#Trump #Iran #war #death #destruction #violence #PerformativeMasculinity
/5
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The bombing of Iranian children is an unforgivable crime
America has blood on its hands.Noah Berlatsky (Public Notice)
"On Friday, Trump promised Latin American soccer players that he was going to overthrow Cuba in 'a couple of weeks.'”
~ Marcie Jones
#Trump #LindseyGraham #Iran #Cuba #war #death #destruction #violence #PerformativeMasculinity
/4
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The Finest Funerary Trucker Cap: Tabs, Mon., March 9, 2026
News and things to read and watch!Marcie Jones (Wonkette)
“'Cuba is gonna fall pretty soon, by the way,' Trump told CNN Friday. 'I’m going to put Marco over there and we’ll see how that works out. We’re really focused on this one right now.'”
~ Andrew Egger
#Trump #LindseyGraham #Iran #Cuba #war #death #destruction #violence #PerformativeMasculinity
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"Karl answered that 'nobody questions the success of the military operation, the concern is what happens next.'
'Forget about next,' Trump answered. 'They are decimated for a 10-year period before they could build it back.'
'We’re marching through the world,' Senator Lindsay Graham (R-SC) told a laughing Maria Bartiromo of the Fox News Channel this morning."
#Trump #LindseyGraham #Iran #war #death #destruction #violence #PerformativeMasculinity
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"WE'RE" MARCHING THROUGH THE WORLD! HOW DO YOU LIKE THE PERFORMANCE?
"Last Thursday, March 5, Trump talked to ABC News chief Washington correspondent Jonathan Karl about the war. 'I hope you are impressed,' he said. 'How do you like the performance? I mean, Venezuela is obvious. This might be even better. How do you like the performance?'"
~ Heather Cox Richardson
#Trump #LindseyGraham #Iran #war #death #destruction #violence #PerformativeMasculinity
/1
President Trump defies U.S. analysis, blames Iran for airstrike on girls’ school that killed at least 175 people. @Independent has more:
#News #WorldNews #War #USA #Iran #Trump
Trump blames Iran for strike that killed school girls - as US investigators point to American bomb
Michael Waltz, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, declined to fully endorse the president’s assertion that Iran had been to blame for the strike when asked SundayMike Bedigan (The Independent)
"It feels patently ridiculous, but we have, you know, white Christian nationalists running the Pentagon. … They clearly haven't read the Bible because in Revelation, the people who start the war are the bad guys in that book. So it really does make you think a little bit how deeply they've thought this through."
~ Sam Osterhout
#Trump #Hegseth #MikeHuckabee #Iran #war #ChristianNationalism #armageddon #rapture #patriarchy
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A War To Spark Armageddon?! | It's The End! ... of the Week with Sam Osterhout & Max Burns
It may very well be the end with the ways things are going in Iran.Sam Osterhout (Lincoln Square)
"In the context of the broader Christian tradition, however, other expressions of Christianity would consider it an idol. And an idol is whatever Christians place their hope and trust in rather than God."
#Trump #Hegseth #Iran #war #ChristianNationalism #armageddon #rapture #violence
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"Do Christian nations rain down death and destruction all day long? Which part of Jesus’ ministry signals this sort of behavior is in line with his goals for his followers?
Violence, and the glorification of it, is a central cultural element of the Christianity of Christian nationalism."
~ Andrew Whitehead
#Trump #Hegseth #Iran #war #ChristianNationalism #armageddon #rapture #patriarchy
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Would Jesus Condone "Death and Destruction from the Sky All Day Long"?
I guess this is a question we are being forced to ask in the current context.Andrew Whitehead (American Idolatry)
"The right to live that life freely and safely gets swallowed by the fundamentalist state religion and its function as an arbiter of the nation’s will to power."
#Trump #Hegseth #DouglasWilson #Iran #war #ChristianNationalism #armageddon #rapture #patriarchy #misogyny #MaleEntitlement #MaleDomination
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"The rest of us, our rights, our lives, become collateral damage in this gruesome fantasy.
Christian nationalism and the Christian patriarchy that comes built in are direct threats to our basic freedoms: freedom of religion, freedom (for women) to vote, freedom for all of us to make basic choices about our own lives."
#Trump #Hegseth #DouglasWilson #Iran #war #ChristianNationalism #armageddon #rapture #misogyny #MaleEntitlement #MaleDomination
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"As [Hegseth's pastor Douglas] Wilson said in the lead-in to his [Tucker] Carlson interview, 'there is no salvation without the shedding of blood. There must be a sacrifice. There must be a scapegoat.' ...
This is what Christian nationalism requires: a morality that is comfortable ending the world as we know it, so their sort of Christians get their day."
~ Sarah Stankorb
#Trump #Hegseth #DouglasWilson #Iran #war #ChristianNationalism #armageddon #rapture
/1
Evidence from the deadly blast at an elementary school in Iran likely points to a U.S. airstrike. @AssociatedPress reports:
😡 #iran #usa #uspol #war #news #trump #maga #gop #Israel
Hundreds of people are dead. Little girls are dead. Six Americans are dead. Others are risking their lives. Millions across the Middle East are terrified,” liberal podcaster Jon Favreau commented. “It’s not a video game. It’s not a meme. It’s not another chance to troll the libs. It’s fucking war.”
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WTF Are These Videos the White House Is Posting on the Iran War?
The White House is posting deranged, hypermasculine hype videos making light of a war.The New Republic
"Here’s the inconvenient truth that American politicians and pundits choose to ignore: The most influential religious zealots driving the current conflict with Iran are not in Tehran. They’re in Washington."
~ Mehdi Hasan
#Trump #Hegseth #ChristianNationalism #war #Iran #armageddon #theocracy #HolyWar #rapture
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✝️ A Holy War Against Iran?
Mehdi on the Republican religious nutjobs pining for Armageddon in the Middle East. Plus: the latest on the Iran school bombing and, for once, a disgraced Republican is shamed into quitting politics.Mehdi Hasan (Zeteo)
"This is happening as there is a report that the United States military, that military leaders are telling troops that that the Iran war was anointed by Jesus to bring about Armageddon. This is a real report. A watchdog agency, a religious freedom, a military religious freedom organization called the Military Religious Freedom Foundation, says it has received widespread complaints" (continued in /10)
#Trump #Hegseth #Iran #Israel #war #ChristianNationalism #armageddon #rapture #HolyWar
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"We also have video from Reuters. that shows the graves that are being dug for the nearly 200 victims of an airstrike that for sure, for sure, will be deemed a war crime. … So, that is your tax dollars at work. Bombing a school for girls. Killing nearly 200 little kids. Is that not a war crime?"
#Netanyahu #Trump #Republicans #Hegseth #Iran #Israel #war
/9
"We now have the faces and some of the names of the Iranian children who were killed in what apparently were double tap airstrikes by the U.S. and Israel. A clear war crime. Double tap means they hit it once and then as people tried to flee, they hit it again. And these are just six of the nearly 200 children who were killed as a result."
~ Joy-Ann Reid
#Netanyahu #Trump #Republicans #Hegseth #Iran #Israel #war
/8
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WTFUS: Jasmine & Al Green OUT: World War III IN | The Joy Reid Show Live!
A recording from The Joy Reid Show's live videoThe Joy Reid Show (Welcome to Joy's House!)
"We have to begin with the war of choice that Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu launched against Iran. The conflict has now entered its fifth day and is rapidly spreading across the region, something anyone with even a minimal understanding of the Middle East could have predicted."
~ Mary Trump
#Netanyahu #Trump #Republicans #Hegseth #Iran #Israel #war
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"Trump and Israel’s disastrous decision to start an illegal war with Iran is now reverberating across the globe, spiking escalation, religious extremism, and threatening to embroil Europe and the Middle East."
~ Wajahat Ali
#Netanyahu #Trump #Republicans #Hegseth #Iran #Israel #war
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World War Iran: How Trump and Israel Threaten Global Security
Trump and Israel's war has no exit strategy, no end game, no plan, so the world must burn and head towards a global conflict to satiate the desires of religious extremists, war hawks, and morons.THE LEFT HOOK with Wajahat Ali (The Left Hook with Wajahat Ali)
"Hegseth wants maximum lethality with minimum legality or no legality That’s a recipe for disaster. I don’t know if he’s too stupid. or too reckless to understand any of that. But Hegseth comes across like a 14-year-old punk trying to be a strong man.”
~ Glenn Kirschner
#Trump #Republicans #Hegseth #Iran #Israel #war #wargasm #PerformativeMasculinity #masculinity
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Glenn Kirschner on Trump's illegal war and war crimes!!
A recording from Dean Obeidallah's live videoDean Obeidallah (The Dean's Report by Dean Obeidallah)
"And somebody called it on social media because I don't want to claim it. Somebody said, Like, look at the wargasms that these men are having right now. Called it a wargasm. And it's a thousand percent correct.
The hype that they have around murdering children, around turning cities into rubble is absolutely depraved. We need another word for depraved. It is sick and twisted."
~ Danielle Moodie
#Trump #Republicans #Hegseth #Iran #Israel #war #wargasm
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DEMOCRACY-ISH: The Texas Primaries, The War on Iran, and Kristi Noem Of It All
From Texas Precincts to Tehran’s Borders—How a Governance of Greed and Extremism is Igniting a Global Powder KegTHE LEFT HOOK with Wajahat Ali (The Left Hook with Wajahat Ali)
