After reading this article, I can’t tell if Rubio is talking about Iran or the US:
“That entire regime is led by radical clerics who don’t make geopolitical decisions,” Secretary of State Marco Rubio adds. “They make decisions on the basis of theology, their view of theology, which is an apocalyptic one that has to be taken very seriously.”
Yep. It's pretty confusing, isn't it? when our MAGA right wing 'Christians' start talking about Armageddon and final rapture, those are the words of religious fanatics.
Mike Huckabee has long commercials about Jews needing money; Commercials that border on sermons.
It took me a little bit to figure it out, but he was referring to Iran I believe. What's terrifying is that he could have been referring to the US and we wouldn't question it.
Absolute reactionary kook. Yeah, me and my comrades deserve to be slaughtered in America because our government we have zero control over does horrific things.
Indeed, right now, we do not have much power. We need to unite. This catastrophe has been a long time in coming: I live in Wisconsin and I tried to get Scott (the weasel) Walker recalled, along with many, many other teachers, but in the end, we could not, and our unions were destroyed. I'm convinced that the rise of the extreme right wing in this country is at least partly due to the loss of Unions. Blue collar workers felt abandoned by the Democratic Party (they were) and they chose the other option. We are also suffering from a very lopsided media: Most radio stations are controlled by the right wing. There are very few Progressive radio stations. Blue collar workers often work with the radio on, and this propaganda is pumped in their ears at work, in the car. It's like you can't escape it.
Not fucking Trump you psycho. I live in Alabama though, and the state is so captured by reactionaries like you, but right-wing, that my vote doesn't matter a hill of beans. You know how American democracy works? It doesn't. You're out of your mind dude. I'm a union man, DSA chapter Co-Chair, I organize and do the best I can, but there's always some moron like you online hating everyone in a population regardless of the details.
Keep up the good work, Jacob. Trump is hemorrhaging support. his polls are way down, even on the issues that brought him into power. I'm only supporting Progressives at this point
Please, Jenny: do not make generalizations like these :"You people". Do you understand the system of the Electoral College? You no longer have it in France, but it skews very Republican in this country by giving folks in the country a very exaggerated, very skewed edge. If we had just the popular vote, Trump would not have a trifecta.
I was extremely disappointed when he was elected: a Felon, pedophile, crook and worse, somehow got into power. The guy is almost 80 and has tapped into a vein of racism, misogyny and xenophobia that most of us though was gone from this country in the 60s and after a black President. Trump allied himself with business and consolidated his power that way. (Note that so too did Mussolini and Hitler, because if you want power, you have to go where the money is). Money is not speech, but it is POWER.
Like you, I deplore our blind support for Israel. But that land to create the State of Israel in 1948, was stolen from Palestinians and nomadic people.
Israel also has the idea that they now have found their "promised land", so there is a strong religious structure to their beliefs, and we would have been better off to stay the hell out of it.
After WWII, They had all my sympathy for all they had suffered. I was hoping that their suffering (and the ideas in our Constitution), would make them "reasonable", and that they might live in peace by allowing Palestinians in their midst with equal rights, but no.
And now, to our shame, we have elected a 34 times Felon. But the original sin was to have taken these lands from someone.
Now we are at war, and because it is a religious war, it will be a doozie. Not since the Crusades have we had a conflict as wide as this.
In those days, we fought it with the weapons of the times. Now, we have missiles, the atomic bomb and those drones that can be dropped on anyone, from a very long distance.
Chris. I could come out with a diatribe against the US but I am more intelligent than that.
I have LIVED in 4 countries during my 77yrs.
Why did you even bring up France? Scapegoating which Americans do very well.
I loathe this country now....it was great when we first came here after USA where we were bankrupted because of medical expenses for our daughter.
Since the EU decided to back the US in everything ......our Social Services are dying/schooling is not nearly as bad as the US but it's getting there. Propaganda rules the airwaves.
SO you don't make the rules Chris but you have a vote??????????
My advice is this:
Check out who you are voting for: how much money does a candidate have and from where is this coming from.
You do not vote for R and D. They are the same.
Luckily we do not have this 1 party system in France.
Hey, Jenny, I come from France too and I'm 77. Apparently, you don't like the fact that the EU has been "backing the US in everything".
I could be unfair too and ask you who you voted for in France. Apparently, 'they' are not listening to you there either.
The guy I would give my eye teeth for is Bernie Sanders. Pro Union all the way. You have a point when you say that R & D are the same. The distinction is getting pretty blurry. The real division, more and more seems to be The Rich who have all the power and The Poor who have none of it
I too miss the 90s. I also miss the fact that we didn't have to have a cell on us at all times. There still always be downsides to every decade, but the 90s were by far the best!
If we’re taking requests, can we go back to 1980? Or even better, can someone do some time travel to make sure Hitler, Stalin, and any other would-be dictators don’t live into adulthood? That should cover it.
So televangelists are panting for the end of the world and Iranian leadership issues a fatwa. The differences among them are slim. Apparently, they are not happy living on a peaceful earth. I grew up in the American South with people who couldn't wait for the Apocalypse. I knew an engineer who took a job in Saudi Arabia at an oil field in the 70's who was convinced that being there as an American could hasten the End. What happened to these people, that life is such a terrible thing to them?
Venezuela was a piece of cake: Their system, as crooked as it may have been is not a theocracy.
A theocracy is a whole different animal: It is based on Faith. And what is faith? It is a belief system which is beyond reasoning, BY DEFINITION.
These are beliefs so strong, (whether or not they are valid), that those who hold them will die rather than make a "deal", Trump style, (in other words respond to an extortion).
No amount of money can placate them, no threat can push them into submission.
I suspect Pete Hegseth is seriously attempting to develop on our soldiers and in us the same sort of religious Faith.
We have people of faith, in this country, but nothing approaching the fanaticism of these clerics
Yet another prediction of mine is coming true. Years ago, I said that Christian Nationalism would be the end of the country. I highly recommend this book:
“American Evangelicals for Trump: Dominion, Spiritual Warfare and the End Times”, by André Gagné.
!950? IYAM, the agricultural revolution has a lot to answer for, giving rise to the psychopaths who have not taken over. That is a whole lot farther back than 1950.
I chose this year for purely selfish reasons. Life for my friends and me was simple. Everyone I knew owned a house, at least one car, and took a summer vacation on one salary. I contrast this with life for kids today.
I just watched an Iranian produced Lego cartoon that all should see. I couldn't find a way to share it but it is on Lisa Savage's substack today.
Hurry the midterms, phase one of getting Trump and his bizarre collection of mean and aggressive cabinet members out of power. Phase two will be in 2028, an eternity from now, when a political wipeout never seen before will clean house, the White House.
Where is the American POPE? Is he hiding in a bunker filled with treasures in the Vatican.
I very much doubt that Iran is hiding treasures that could feed their people.
These Evangelists in the USA? Who are they?
They believe they will be teleported up to heaven..........on an Atlas please tell me you morons, where is HEAVEN?
I have always talked From (knowledge) about the importance of education in the USA. but their is NO education and I believe this stated after JFK died.
Are Americans really so stupid........YES they are.
When young Bush was about to be elected we moved to France.
I thought the education was very good here.........until I found out that Middle class French people were sending their kids to Private schools.
In my Town here on the edge of the Rhone delta the Front National (Marine Le Pen and her Nazi acolytes) won the election. Since they arrived:
Tried to stop school food to the Muslims. We on the left won that one.
Then they started cutting down trees to build more car parks. (They did this at night)!
The fist FN Mayor Mr Sanchez ran on a ticket for Animal welfare!
We have had more bullfights here than at any other time in the History of our Town
I am happy to say. that I am a 'thorn in the side' of this man.
Now we have the French sending an aircraft carrier to support the USA............I hope it gets sunk.
This threat, real or supposed, will be the pretext for greatly increased domestic "security," (a.k.a. denial of civil rights, surveillance, and political repression) which most Democrats will likely support. Thanks for the heads up.
There were eight or nine major, numbered Crusades to the Holy Land between 1096 and 1291, officially sanctioned by the Papacy to recapture Jerusalem and the Holy Land from Muslim control. While the first four (1096–1204) are the most significant, historians generally recognize a series of eight major expeditions, with a ninth often included to conclude the era. The crusades basically failed, as the Holy Land, today’s Israel and the Palestinian Territories are not in Christian hands. I have personally been to Israel. I visited Tel-Aviv, Jerusalem, and the West Bank. I had lunch overlooking the Jordan River, a muddy stream that is not very wide, looking across the international border into Jordan. There was nothing built on the Jordanian side. Israel is a paranoid society with about one half of the population subjugated to the other half, with both halves hating each other. I was brusquely interrogated by Israeli Security at JFK Airport in New York before I boarded my EL AL (Israel’s airline) flight. Most of the other passengers were Orthodox Jews. I did not really enjoy my visit, although the history of the place is impressive. The Iraq War lasted from 2003 to 2011. It too was a failure, as Iraq is just as messed up now as it was during Saddam Hussein’s murderous rule. Bush got us in. Obama got us out. Trump’s Iran War, and yes, it is a war, despite no congressional approval, will also fail. If Trump and Hegseth think of framing this as a modern Crusade, good luck with that. We all know what this is. A desperate attempt by a sinking would be tyrant and his pathetic sycophants to prop up the nationalistic urges of rightwing Americans trying to inject God into the coming mid-term elections. This will not work either. The memory of the Iraq War is too strong. It will be up to the next Dem POTUS in 2029, or maybe sooner, to get us out of this mess. The old saying goes “Fool me once, shame on YOU. Fool me twice, shame on ME!”
Full on hypocrisy…these people are so f-ing brainwashed by religious ideologies that they have literally drawn us into an apocalyptic scenario for absolutely no reason at all.
The problem is not a Persian Shia uprising, Hamas or Hezbollah, who would blame them? The problem is the pastey faced phoney European semites who have infested the Middle East over the last 140 years, infested our Congress, trafficked our young girls and have rotted out our political system.
After reading this article, I can’t tell if Rubio is talking about Iran or the US:
“That entire regime is led by radical clerics who don’t make geopolitical decisions,” Secretary of State Marco Rubio adds. “They make decisions on the basis of theology, their view of theology, which is an apocalyptic one that has to be taken very seriously.”
Yep. It's pretty confusing, isn't it? when our MAGA right wing 'Christians' start talking about Armageddon and final rapture, those are the words of religious fanatics.
Mike Huckabee has long commercials about Jews needing money; Commercials that border on sermons.
Little Marco is talking out of his a$$ as usual
Always...And with intense grandiosity.
It took me a little bit to figure it out, but he was referring to Iran I believe. What's terrifying is that he could have been referring to the US and we wouldn't question it.
This is very dangerous.
You elect 1 Lisan Al Gaib, the spice stops flowing and now you have a holy war.
A false flag operation draped under the guise of religion. The fun just doesn’t stop in 2026.
All these people are fucking nuts. Can someone just take me back to 1990 please?
NO. You people in the USA did not care who was being killed in the name of the US/Israhell.
It's coming back on you.
Absolute reactionary kook. Yeah, me and my comrades deserve to be slaughtered in America because our government we have zero control over does horrific things.
Indeed, right now, we do not have much power. We need to unite. This catastrophe has been a long time in coming: I live in Wisconsin and I tried to get Scott (the weasel) Walker recalled, along with many, many other teachers, but in the end, we could not, and our unions were destroyed. I'm convinced that the rise of the extreme right wing in this country is at least partly due to the loss of Unions. Blue collar workers felt abandoned by the Democratic Party (they were) and they chose the other option. We are also suffering from a very lopsided media: Most radio stations are controlled by the right wing. There are very few Progressive radio stations. Blue collar workers often work with the radio on, and this propaganda is pumped in their ears at work, in the car. It's like you can't escape it.
Who did you vote for?
Not fucking Trump you psycho. I live in Alabama though, and the state is so captured by reactionaries like you, but right-wing, that my vote doesn't matter a hill of beans. You know how American democracy works? It doesn't. You're out of your mind dude. I'm a union man, DSA chapter Co-Chair, I organize and do the best I can, but there's always some moron like you online hating everyone in a population regardless of the details.
Keep up the good work, Jacob. Trump is hemorrhaging support. his polls are way down, even on the issues that brought him into power. I'm only supporting Progressives at this point
Please, Jenny: do not make generalizations like these :"You people". Do you understand the system of the Electoral College? You no longer have it in France, but it skews very Republican in this country by giving folks in the country a very exaggerated, very skewed edge. If we had just the popular vote, Trump would not have a trifecta.
I was extremely disappointed when he was elected: a Felon, pedophile, crook and worse, somehow got into power. The guy is almost 80 and has tapped into a vein of racism, misogyny and xenophobia that most of us though was gone from this country in the 60s and after a black President. Trump allied himself with business and consolidated his power that way. (Note that so too did Mussolini and Hitler, because if you want power, you have to go where the money is). Money is not speech, but it is POWER.
Like you, I deplore our blind support for Israel. But that land to create the State of Israel in 1948, was stolen from Palestinians and nomadic people.
Israel also has the idea that they now have found their "promised land", so there is a strong religious structure to their beliefs, and we would have been better off to stay the hell out of it.
After WWII, They had all my sympathy for all they had suffered. I was hoping that their suffering (and the ideas in our Constitution), would make them "reasonable", and that they might live in peace by allowing Palestinians in their midst with equal rights, but no.
And now, to our shame, we have elected a 34 times Felon. But the original sin was to have taken these lands from someone.
Now we are at war, and because it is a religious war, it will be a doozie. Not since the Crusades have we had a conflict as wide as this.
In those days, we fought it with the weapons of the times. Now, we have missiles, the atomic bomb and those drones that can be dropped on anyone, from a very long distance.
We are in a hell of a pickle.
You don’t speak for me, Jenny. And don’t think you’re so safe in France. If we go, everyone goes. I don’t make the rules. 🤷🏻♂️
Chris. I could come out with a diatribe against the US but I am more intelligent than that.
I have LIVED in 4 countries during my 77yrs.
Why did you even bring up France? Scapegoating which Americans do very well.
I loathe this country now....it was great when we first came here after USA where we were bankrupted because of medical expenses for our daughter.
Since the EU decided to back the US in everything ......our Social Services are dying/schooling is not nearly as bad as the US but it's getting there. Propaganda rules the airwaves.
SO you don't make the rules Chris but you have a vote??????????
My advice is this:
Check out who you are voting for: how much money does a candidate have and from where is this coming from.
You do not vote for R and D. They are the same.
Luckily we do not have this 1 party system in France.
Hey, Jenny, I come from France too and I'm 77. Apparently, you don't like the fact that the EU has been "backing the US in everything".
I could be unfair too and ask you who you voted for in France. Apparently, 'they' are not listening to you there either.
The guy I would give my eye teeth for is Bernie Sanders. Pro Union all the way. You have a point when you say that R & D are the same. The distinction is getting pretty blurry. The real division, more and more seems to be The Rich who have all the power and The Poor who have none of it
Agreed, but 1990???
Haha.. well I had to pick a year and the 90’s were the best decade in my life, so I figured I’d start at year one of it. 🤷🏻♂️
Haha, fair enough. The 90's will always be my best decade for music.
Oh hands down! And I would argue movies, too.. I feel like pop culture, in general, peeked in the 90’s.
I too miss the 90s. I also miss the fact that we didn't have to have a cell on us at all times. There still always be downsides to every decade, but the 90s were by far the best!
100% Annie!
If we’re taking requests, can we go back to 1980? Or even better, can someone do some time travel to make sure Hitler, Stalin, and any other would-be dictators don’t live into adulthood? That should cover it.
I would settle for the early "60s.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9788516/
1980 ain't far enough...
https://youtu.be/kjvFlSLK_FQ?si=nFldYUiYG-8PjRTP
So televangelists are panting for the end of the world and Iranian leadership issues a fatwa. The differences among them are slim. Apparently, they are not happy living on a peaceful earth. I grew up in the American South with people who couldn't wait for the Apocalypse. I knew an engineer who took a job in Saudi Arabia at an oil field in the 70's who was convinced that being there as an American could hasten the End. What happened to these people, that life is such a terrible thing to them?
Excellent question.
First you have to look at American Education. I was there with myn kid in school. She learned NOTHING.
I remember when GOP was trying to scare us about Sharia law and here they are revealing themselves as the religious fanatics they warned us about
The only person who reminds me of what I thought the anti-christ would be like lives at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.
God botherers.
https://youtu.be/kjvFlSLK_FQ?si=nFldYUiYG-8PjRTP
(Religion isn’t the cause of wars, it’s the excuse.)
Venezuela was a piece of cake: Their system, as crooked as it may have been is not a theocracy.
A theocracy is a whole different animal: It is based on Faith. And what is faith? It is a belief system which is beyond reasoning, BY DEFINITION.
These are beliefs so strong, (whether or not they are valid), that those who hold them will die rather than make a "deal", Trump style, (in other words respond to an extortion).
No amount of money can placate them, no threat can push them into submission.
I suspect Pete Hegseth is seriously attempting to develop on our soldiers and in us the same sort of religious Faith.
We have people of faith, in this country, but nothing approaching the fanaticism of these clerics
Yet another prediction of mine is coming true. Years ago, I said that Christian Nationalism would be the end of the country. I highly recommend this book:
“American Evangelicals for Trump: Dominion, Spiritual Warfare and the End Times”, by André Gagné.
If I could, I’d turn the clock back to 1950!
!950? IYAM, the agricultural revolution has a lot to answer for, giving rise to the psychopaths who have not taken over. That is a whole lot farther back than 1950.
I chose this year for purely selfish reasons. Life for my friends and me was simple. Everyone I knew owned a house, at least one car, and took a summer vacation on one salary. I contrast this with life for kids today.
I just watched an Iranian produced Lego cartoon that all should see. I couldn't find a way to share it but it is on Lisa Savage's substack today.
Hurry the midterms, phase one of getting Trump and his bizarre collection of mean and aggressive cabinet members out of power. Phase two will be in 2028, an eternity from now, when a political wipeout never seen before will clean house, the White House.
Where is the American POPE? Is he hiding in a bunker filled with treasures in the Vatican.
I very much doubt that Iran is hiding treasures that could feed their people.
These Evangelists in the USA? Who are they?
They believe they will be teleported up to heaven..........on an Atlas please tell me you morons, where is HEAVEN?
I have always talked From (knowledge) about the importance of education in the USA. but their is NO education and I believe this stated after JFK died.
Are Americans really so stupid........YES they are.
When young Bush was about to be elected we moved to France.
I thought the education was very good here.........until I found out that Middle class French people were sending their kids to Private schools.
In my Town here on the edge of the Rhone delta the Front National (Marine Le Pen and her Nazi acolytes) won the election. Since they arrived:
Tried to stop school food to the Muslims. We on the left won that one.
Then they started cutting down trees to build more car parks. (They did this at night)!
The fist FN Mayor Mr Sanchez ran on a ticket for Animal welfare!
We have had more bullfights here than at any other time in the History of our Town
I am happy to say. that I am a 'thorn in the side' of this man.
Now we have the French sending an aircraft carrier to support the USA............I hope it gets sunk.
I thought I was coming to a Socialist Country!
This threat, real or supposed, will be the pretext for greatly increased domestic "security," (a.k.a. denial of civil rights, surveillance, and political repression) which most Democrats will likely support. Thanks for the heads up.
There were eight or nine major, numbered Crusades to the Holy Land between 1096 and 1291, officially sanctioned by the Papacy to recapture Jerusalem and the Holy Land from Muslim control. While the first four (1096–1204) are the most significant, historians generally recognize a series of eight major expeditions, with a ninth often included to conclude the era. The crusades basically failed, as the Holy Land, today’s Israel and the Palestinian Territories are not in Christian hands. I have personally been to Israel. I visited Tel-Aviv, Jerusalem, and the West Bank. I had lunch overlooking the Jordan River, a muddy stream that is not very wide, looking across the international border into Jordan. There was nothing built on the Jordanian side. Israel is a paranoid society with about one half of the population subjugated to the other half, with both halves hating each other. I was brusquely interrogated by Israeli Security at JFK Airport in New York before I boarded my EL AL (Israel’s airline) flight. Most of the other passengers were Orthodox Jews. I did not really enjoy my visit, although the history of the place is impressive. The Iraq War lasted from 2003 to 2011. It too was a failure, as Iraq is just as messed up now as it was during Saddam Hussein’s murderous rule. Bush got us in. Obama got us out. Trump’s Iran War, and yes, it is a war, despite no congressional approval, will also fail. If Trump and Hegseth think of framing this as a modern Crusade, good luck with that. We all know what this is. A desperate attempt by a sinking would be tyrant and his pathetic sycophants to prop up the nationalistic urges of rightwing Americans trying to inject God into the coming mid-term elections. This will not work either. The memory of the Iraq War is too strong. It will be up to the next Dem POTUS in 2029, or maybe sooner, to get us out of this mess. The old saying goes “Fool me once, shame on YOU. Fool me twice, shame on ME!”
Full on hypocrisy…these people are so f-ing brainwashed by religious ideologies that they have literally drawn us into an apocalyptic scenario for absolutely no reason at all.
The problem is not a Persian Shia uprising, Hamas or Hezbollah, who would blame them? The problem is the pastey faced phoney European semites who have infested the Middle East over the last 140 years, infested our Congress, trafficked our young girls and have rotted out our political system.