“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

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"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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"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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"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
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"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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in reply to 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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in reply to 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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in reply to 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.'”

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"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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"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."

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"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
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in reply to 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

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"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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in reply to 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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in reply to 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
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in reply to 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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in reply to 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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"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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Oh yeah. I totally agree. I'm sick to death of the whining non-voters who are screeching, 'The Dems aren't doing anything' Not like they didn't impeach him twice the first time around. With the Guardians of Pedophiles in control of all branches, what exactly are they supposed to do? Leap over the desk and gut him with a letter opener?

It's just also my belief that Trump is a convenient idiot/fallguy for the right and the dems removing him fits their plans.

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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?

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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.

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Yeah it was in reference to this: pbs.org/newshour/nation/peter-…
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@klausfiend Why should Vance be given a bigger bully pulpit than he already owns? And why should we shrug our shoulders at what a religious leader with a worldwide platform says when it pushes against a fascist madman, even if we want to mock that leader by calling him a so-called "Supreme Pontiff"? What's to be gained by wasting our energy on that kind of mockery and superciliousness?
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