William Lindsey :toad:

Simon Rosenberg gathers newspaper headlines today. #Trump #Iran #war #economy #oil #gas /40 https://www.hopiumchronicles.com/p/trump-is-a-titanic-vai…

"Screw negotiations. Screw soft power like USAID and VOA. Screw partnering with allies. What matters most to them is making the biggest booms. ... If you can’t answer 'What is my ultimate goal?' and estimate the cost of achieving it, then all the big booms are useless if not counterproductive." #Trump #Hegseth #Iran #war #PerformativeMasculinity #violence #arrogance #hubris /39

"Trump and Hegseth seem to be in love with what they think of as their Big Boy Toys. Supreme excellence in their minds seems to be blowing things up better than anyone else can blow things up. We can blow up more things than anyone else. We can blow things into smaller pieces than anyone else can. We can blow up things from a greater distance than anyone else can." ~ Peterr #Trump #Hegseth #Iran #war #PerformativeMasculinity #violence #arrogance /38 https://emptywheel.net/2026/03/12/great-tactics-mean-noth…

(continued from /36) "Do you support internment camps for undocumented immigrants where they should be rounded up until they can be deported? Even when we put that language into a question, we've got a majority of Republicans [and white evangelicals] now saying, yeah, I'm down with that." #Trump #Hegseth #Iran #war #HolyWar #WhiteChristianNationalism #WhiteEvangelicals #ICE #immigrants #EthnicCleansing #ConcentrationCamps /37

"And this is the America that we're living in, that we literally are having internment camps. And we've polled on this. And what we're finding is that, again, it's a majority of Republicans and a super majority of white evangelical Christians who actually, even when we say to them, internment camps," (continued in /37 #Trump #Hegseth #Iran #war #HolyWar #WhiteChristianNationalism #WhiteEvangelicals #ICE #immigrants #EthnicCleansing #ConcentrationCamps /36

Then Robbie adds: "The big, beautiful bill, let's just make sure everybody remembers, has got money already in it for like $50,000 plus beds at internment camps that they're already trying to open all over the country, probably one coming to an abandoned warehouse near you." #Trump #Hegseth #Iran #war #HolyWar #WhiteChristianNationalism #WhiteEvangelicals #ICE #immigrants #EthnicCleansing #ConcentrationCamps /35

Robbie replies: "Well, you know, I do tend to use those words altogether, right? White Christian nationalism, because that really is the only way to understand what it is in our context, right? Now, there is religious nationalism in other parts of the world, but in America—our issue is white Christian nationalism." #Trump #Hegseth #Iran #war #HolyWar #WhiteChristianNationalism /34

" Within Democratic circles, mainstream circles, corporate media circles, they are averse to using the word white Christian nationalism because, number one, they don't want to piss off Christians. And number two, they don't want to piss off white. I say, no, no, no. The data says that this is a white Christian nationalist problem." #Trump #Hegseth #Iran #war #HolyWar #WhiteChristianNationalism /33

The two leading religion reporters at New York Times refuse even to use the term "Christian nationalism." Lots of establishment Democrats want to ignore the religious and racial roots of Trump's support and to suppress this discussion. Wajahat says: "Robbie, you know that you and I get backlash. So like, no, no, don't say Christian nationalism, say religious nationalism." #Trump #Hegseth #Iran #war #HolyWar #WhiteChristianNationalism /32

PRRI president Robert P. Jones talks with Wajahat Ali about how we are all "now reaping the consequences of the unwillingness of our senators to recognize the dangers of Hegseth’s Christian nationalism." Wajahat starts by pointing out how the powers that be want to shut up discussion of white Christian nationalism. #Trump #Hegseth #Iran #war #HolyWar #WhiteChristianNationalism /31 https://www.redeemingdemocracy.net/p/hegseth-the-crusader…

"By bombing Iran, America has 'recovered its position as leader of the free world' while Israel 'has rediscovered its biblical warrior identity and has become the regional superpower in the Middle East.' In support of this new order, messianic Orthodox and secular nationalist Israeli ideologies meet with Christian nationalist views. ... There is one party that will benefit from the war: Russia." #Trump #Hegseth #Netanyahu #Iran #Israel #war #HolyWar #ChristianNationalism #zionism #Putin /30

"In the fantasy of the far right, the United States and Israel are making history and saving civilization. British commentator Melanie Phillips sees the war as 'the likely birth of a new world order pivoted around that alliance between America and Israel.'” ~ Ruth Ben-Ghiat #Trump #Hegseth #Netanyahu #Iran #Israel #war #HolyWar #ChristianNationalism #zionism /29 https://lucid.substack.com/p/who-benefits-from-the-us-isr…