Tim Chambers
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Benjamin Sonntag-King
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“'They said, "We’re going to shoot them. Is one o’clock OK?" I said it’s fine,' Trump said. 'And everybody was emptied off the base so they couldn’t get hurt, except for the gunners.'”
#Trump #Iran#war #lies #disinformation
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https://morningmemo.talkingpointsmemo.com/p/trump-says-he-gave-iran-permission
"When political scientist Seth Masket shared this story on Bluesky yesterday, I couldn’t believe it was real. The right-wing Washington Times reported that at a press conference at the NATO Summit in the Netherlands on Wednesday, Trump revealed that he had given Iran permission to bomb the U.S.’s Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar in retaliation for the American bombing of their nuclear sites."
~ Sarah Posner
#Trump #Iran#war #lies #disinformation
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https://morningmemo.talkingpointsmemo.com/p/trump-says-he-gave-iran-permission
bhaugen
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"We’re living in a moment where cruelty is not only normalized but celebrated. …
Beware of any Christian movement that acts like the world is filled with enemies to be destroyed rather than full of neighbors to be loved.
Such movements have nothing to do with Jesus."
~ Benjamin Cremer
I usually try to avoid linking to X or Facebook, but this is worth sharing.
#Trump#Republicans #cruelty#war #violence #immigrants#MaskedThugs#ChristianNationalists #evangelicals
Alex Akselrod
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"Yes, I wish this had been the case in 2002, and in 1964, for all that, but, finally, thank God, a president has launched a unilateral war of choice and his popularity has not risen. In fact, it’s tanking as thoroughly as the rest of his numbers have."
~ Charles Pierce
#Trump #Iran#war #disinformation #lies #polls
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https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a65177514/trump-polling-numbers-iran-israel-war/
Noting that Trump's bombing spectacle was a spectacular failure and his approval rating is tanking, Paul Krugman says,
"In 2002 and 2003 I was one of the few people writing for a major media organization willing to say that we were being lied into war in Iraq, which was obvious to anyone willing to face the facts. Management was not happy, but to their credit allowed me to keep writing."
As the latest Gallup polling data show, Trump's approval rating is right now at its lowest ever during his second term: 40% approval to 57% disapproval.
#Trump #Iran#war #disinformation #lies #polls
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https://news.gallup.com/interactives/507569/presidential-job-approval-center.aspx
As the latest Gallup polling data show, Trump's approval rating is right now at its lowest ever during his second term: 40% approval to 57% disapproval.
#Trump #Iran#war #disinformation #lies #polls
/11
https://news.gallup.com/interactives/507569/presidential-job-approval-center.aspx
"If this is the end of presidents making war in places because their policies are unpopular at home, if this emboldens a timid Congress to take back at least some of its war powers back, then it may be best development of all to come out of this Iran mess."
"Yes, I wish this had been the case in 2002, and in 1964, for all that, but, finally, thank God, a president has launched a unilateral war of choice and his popularity has not risen. In fact, it’s tanking as thoroughly as the rest of his numbers have."
~ Charles Pierce
#Trump #Iran#war #disinformation #lies #polls
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https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a65177514/trump-polling-numbers-iran-israel-war/
"If this is the end of presidents making war in places because their policies are unpopular at home, if this emboldens a timid Congress to take back at least some of its war powers back, then it may be best development of all to come out of this Iran mess."
"The silliness of Christofascism doesn’t make it less dangerous. In some ways, it makes it more dangerous."
~ Noah Berlatsky
#Trump #Iran#war #disinformation #lies #evangelicals #ChristianNationalism#Christofascism
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https://www.everythingishorrible.net/p/but-im-a-cheerleader-understood-the
"'I don’t want to use an example of Hiroshima, I don’t want to use an example of Nagasaki, but that was essentially the same thing that ended that war. This ended that, this ended that war. If we didn’t take that out, they would have been they’d be fighting right now.'”
Insane, delusional, self-aggrandizing fantasy much?
[At the NATO summit] "Donald Trump … likened the US strikes on Iran to his country’s decision to drop atomic bombs on Japan in the second world war.
Speaking at The Hague, Trump said,"
~ The Guardian
Mazza reports responses to Trump's music video, including:
Meidas Touch: "This is utterly deranged."
Tennessee Holler: "After many innocent people were killed there — Childish. Indifferent to human suffering. Not leadership."
"Critics called out President Donald Trump after he posted a music video celebrating this weekend’s attack on Iran just hours after he bragged about being nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize for arranging a ceasefire in the Middle East.
The video shows B-2 stealth bombers dropping bombs to the tune of 'Bomb Iran,' a 1980 parody of the 1960s hit 'Barbara Ann.'”
~ Ed Mazza
#Trump #Iran#war #disinformation #lies
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https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-bomb-iran-video_n_685bac82e4b04f1da81ccf74
Alex Akselrod
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ho_grammer
Historically, when Americans suddenly care about women's rights in a Middle Eastern country, those women are about to get bombed.
maryam @maryamful
very strange reading americans tweet how iranian women can’t go to school and need to be liberated. iran has 98.9% female literacy. 70% of STEM grads are women, highest in the world. oh, and without student debt. classic weaponizing feminism to justify bombs.