"At a press conference on Monday evening, President Trump said his son-in-law, Jared Kushner, was one of a handful of top advisers who convinced him to launch major combat operations in Iran.
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"Look how the Great Satan is slaughtering our children &laughing about it.
Hegseth’s videos will be useful to Iran as the IRGC exploits nationalistic and religious sentiments among terrorists. Iran will use Hegseth’s hubris against us, and the danger will not be limited to war zones. As we learned on 9-11, jihadist groups are the main perpetrators of suicide attacks worldwide, & Hegseth is goading them into action."
#Trump #Hegseth #Iran #war #Islam #HolyWar #jihad #ChristianNationalism
/13@wdlindsy 9/11 was a great day for American fascists. A credible source of infinite future attacks is of benefit to them.
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"At a press conference on Monday evening, President Trump said his son-in-law, Jared Kushner, was one of a handful of top advisers who convinced him to launch major combat operations in Iran. The disclosure raises additional questions about the role of Kushner, who is being paid tens of millions of dollars annually by Middle Eastern governments that were reportedly lobbying Trump to attack Iran."
~ Judd Legum
Has the look of Trump aiming to spread the blame.
Otherwise, he'd be taking sole credit for such genius, telling the world 'everyone said it couldn't be done.'
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@wdlindsy 9/11 was a great day for American fascists. A credible source of infinite future attacks is of benefit to them.
@gooba42 Yes — an opening to beat an authoritarian drum that has long been there in American culture.
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@wdlindsy Wall St doesn't believe anything. Somebody was dumb enough to put money on the table and Wall St did what it does and consumed that money.
It's not like it's going to disgorge the gains if the bet doesn't pan out.
@gooba42 I agree. To have a moral center, you have to care — about something other than material things and yourself.
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@wdlindsy 9/11 was a great day for American fascists. A credible source of infinite future attacks is of benefit to them.
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@CheapPontoon @wdlindsy It's job was always to stop attacks that would hurt fascists.
The TSA historically failed something like 75% of security audits. They were never a force defending us from terrorism, they were just conformity testing and enforcement.
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"Public opinion will quickly whiplash Trump. The first $100 tank of gas will be a shock. The second may be a financial crisis for many Americans. And the third will have Americans demanding that Trump stop the war now—something easier said than done, and something that Trump failed to consider when he gave the order to start the war."
~ Robert B. Hubbell
https://roberthubbell.substack.com/p/trump-steps-into-a-minefield-with
@wdlindsy
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"Megyn Kelly on Graham: 'This guy is a homicidal maniac with a bloodlust that is insatiable. He should not be allowed 20 feet of the President’s orbit.'"
~ Ron Filipkowski
#Trump #LindseyGraham #Iran #war #Islam #HolyWar #jihad #ChristianNationalism
/14https://www.meidasplus.com/p/today-in-politics-bulletin-325-31026
"In an 1100-word piece weighing the energy shock Trump’s illegal war on Iran has caused in terms of White House worries (and so implicitly, politics), Politico grants anonymity to someone describing what is happening to the oil market as 'little gyrations.' …
There are far more products that are being choked off in Hormuz: fertilizer (and food products coming into the Gulf), aluminum, helium, sulphur."
~ Marcy Wheeler
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"In an 1100-word piece weighing the energy shock Trump’s illegal war on Iran has caused in terms of White House worries (and so implicitly, politics), Politico grants anonymity to someone describing what is happening to the oil market as 'little gyrations.' …
There are far more products that are being choked off in Hormuz: fertilizer (and food products coming into the Gulf), aluminum, helium, sulphur."
~ Marcy Wheeler
"Various kinds of petroleum products, like jet fuel and diesel, are being affected more quickly than others, and both of those create immediate downstream problems in the transportation industry. Then there are the other impacts of Iran lobbing cheap drones at its Arab neighbors, on flights connecting through airports still being targeted, on tourism, on data centers."
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"Various kinds of petroleum products, like jet fuel and diesel, are being affected more quickly than others, and both of those create immediate downstream problems in the transportation industry. Then there are the other impacts of Iran lobbing cheap drones at its Arab neighbors, on flights connecting through airports still being targeted, on tourism, on data centers."
"Plus, for a variety of reasons, the US is less exposed to this crisis than much of the rest of the world, so measuring it in terms of the impact on November’s midterms in the US won’t really measure its full effect.
The longer this crisis goes on, the longer it’ll take to recover from it."
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"Plus, for a variety of reasons, the US is less exposed to this crisis than much of the rest of the world, so measuring it in terms of the impact on November’s midterms in the US won’t really measure its full effect.
The longer this crisis goes on, the longer it’ll take to recover from it."
"Trump and his advisors think this is just about gas prices — that same NYT article even describes him claiming Venezuelan petroleum could replace what is lost in the Gulf! — which may be one reason they seem incapable of understanding the problem they’ve created."
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"We are now getting reporting that Witkoff and Kushner told the President on the day before Trump launched his war that Iran was not serious about negotiating over their nuclear program, and it was time to launch the war."
~ Simon Rosenberg
#Trump #JaredKushner #SteveWitkoff #Iran #war
/19https://www.hopiumchronicles.com/p/inflation-is-still-running-way-too
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"We are now getting reporting that Witkoff and Kushner told the President on the day before Trump launched his war that Iran was not serious about negotiating over their nuclear program, and it was time to launch the war."
~ Simon Rosenberg
#Trump #JaredKushner #SteveWitkoff #Iran #war
/19https://www.hopiumchronicles.com/p/inflation-is-still-running-way-too
"Trump went to war with Iran because Jared Kushner is a fool. Donald Trump’s top two negotiators have no clue what they’re doing."
~ Edith Olmsted
#Trump #JaredKushner #SteveWitkoff #Iran #war
/20https://newrepublic.com/post/207554/donald-trump-iran-war-iran-jared-kushner-steve-witkoff
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"Trump went to war with Iran because Jared Kushner is a fool. Donald Trump’s top two negotiators have no clue what they’re doing."
~ Edith Olmsted
#Trump #JaredKushner #SteveWitkoff #Iran #war
/20https://newrepublic.com/post/207554/donald-trump-iran-war-iran-jared-kushner-steve-witkoff
@wdlindsy go easy on the moron. Bibi is probably the sith lord here
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"Trump went to war with Iran because Jared Kushner is a fool. Donald Trump’s top two negotiators have no clue what they’re doing."
~ Edith Olmsted
#Trump #JaredKushner #SteveWitkoff #Iran #war
/20https://newrepublic.com/post/207554/donald-trump-iran-war-iran-jared-kushner-steve-witkoff
@wdlindsy Trump went to war because he's a fool running a government of fools that hires fools.
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"Trump went to war with Iran because Jared Kushner is a fool. Donald Trump’s top two negotiators have no clue what they’re doing."
~ Edith Olmsted
#Trump #JaredKushner #SteveWitkoff #Iran #war
/20https://newrepublic.com/post/207554/donald-trump-iran-war-iran-jared-kushner-steve-witkoff
@wdlindsy
Sometimes some phrases bother me.
Call me picky but "Trump went" nowhere.
He "declared" war and is sending soldiers to die in an unlawful war.
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@wdlindsy To Trump and his advisors, other people(including us) are not really people, just assets or impediments. So, the human cost of war(whether it’s dead American soldiers or dead little Iranian girls) is not even a matter of interest unless it can be shown to affect their monetary or political interests. Even their loss of popularity is only of interest to the degree that it makes it harder to cheat.
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"Trump went to war with Iran because Jared Kushner is a fool. Donald Trump’s top two negotiators have no clue what they’re doing."
~ Edith Olmsted
#Trump #JaredKushner #SteveWitkoff #Iran #war
/20https://newrepublic.com/post/207554/donald-trump-iran-war-iran-jared-kushner-steve-witkoff
"It should not surprise you that the same team which invited a reporter into a Signal chat about war plans a few months ago have been blindsided by the Iranian regime’s resilience.
After less than two weeks, regime change is off the table and even the Israeli military understands that the Islamic Republic isn’t going away anytime soon."
~ Jonathan V. Last
#Trump #Hegseth #JaredKushner #SteveWitkoff #Netanyahu #Iran #war
/21https://www.thebulwark.com/p/dire-straits-the-iran-war-is-run
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"It should not surprise you that the same team which invited a reporter into a Signal chat about war plans a few months ago have been blindsided by the Iranian regime’s resilience.
After less than two weeks, regime change is off the table and even the Israeli military understands that the Islamic Republic isn’t going away anytime soon."
~ Jonathan V. Last
#Trump #Hegseth #JaredKushner #SteveWitkoff #Netanyahu #Iran #war
/21https://www.thebulwark.com/p/dire-straits-the-iran-war-is-run
"Iran has so far achieved its two most important strategic objectives. The regime has passed its first continuity test, transferring power from one supreme leader to the next. And it has closed the strait, setting in motion a cascade of economic consequences which will sap America’s political will to continue fighting."
#Trump #Hegseth #JaredKushner #SteveWitkoff #Netanyahu #Iran #war
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"Iran has so far achieved its two most important strategic objectives. The regime has passed its first continuity test, transferring power from one supreme leader to the next. And it has closed the strait, setting in motion a cascade of economic consequences which will sap America’s political will to continue fighting."
#Trump #Hegseth #JaredKushner #SteveWitkoff #Netanyahu #Iran #war
/22"Meanwhile, the American military is now telling the New York Times that, far from collapsing, the Iranian regime is adapting to the Israeli–American onslaught and finding our weaknesses."
#Trump #Hegseth #JaredKushner #SteveWitkoff #Netanyahu #Iran #war
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