"What is there to say, really? More full blown Mad Kingism. No clear rationale, no consultation or approval from Congress, no discussion with the American people, no Coalition of the Willing (meaning no allies). Like with the tariffs, there is no version of what Trump is doing in Iran that can be considered faithful to the Constitution, US Law, or International Law."
~ Simon Rosenberg
https://www.hopiumchronicles.com/p/our-addled-failing-desperate-leader
"The point is creating a made-for-TV war that makes Trump look like a big, tough war president. He’s doing this for obvious reasons: things are going badly for him, very badly, at home. Freedoms are being violated. The middle class is being immiserated."
~ John Stoehr
"There’s a sense that the rich – the Epstein class – can act with impunity while everyone else pays the price. If Donald Trump doesn’t change the subject, his presidency, and perhaps more than his presidency, will cease to be as it is once the Congress is turned over to the Democrats."
"What is there to say, really? More full blown Mad Kingism. No clear rationale, no consultation or approval from Congress, no discussion with the American people, no Coalition of the Willing (meaning no allies). Like with the tariffs, there is no version of what Trump is doing in Iran that can be considered faithful to the Constitution, US Law, or International Law."
~ Simon Rosenberg
https://www.hopiumchronicles.com/p/our-addled-failing-desperate-leader
"The strikes on Iran that began Friday were initiated unilaterally by the Trump administration, but are not unilateral internationally: Israel is also participating in the action. It's not surprising, given Trump's relationship with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, but it comes in the immediate aftermath of new Gallup polling showing how much more skeptical Americans are of Netanyahu's nation."
~ Philip Bump
"Donald Trump, reeling from the Epstein pedophile scandal, soaring inflation, and rotten poll numbers, launched an unprovoked regional war without congressional authorization — let alone a coherent rationale for the strikes across Iran."
~ Jennifer Rubin
https://contrarian.substack.com/p/trump-launches-another-illegal-war
"Fascism is the moment where the concentration of wealth and power becomes so strong that they don't even have to hide their anti-human, anti-democratic aspirations. They can simply say the quiet part loud. People are going to die. We're going to revel in the cruelty of things."
~ Jared Yates Sexton
https://jaredyatessexton.substack.com/p/trump-starts-war-with-iran
