A firestorm of infighting in MAGA media over the war in Iran; Also, some pundits try to bridge the divide by pushing Trump to deport Muslim Americans. This week's Media Matters newsletter: www.mediamatters.org/media-matter...

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Golden age!!!!

In every Republican presidency of my lifetime there's been a recession and a new war in the Middle East.

"As last month's jobs report was just released moments ago, with the economy adding 92,000 jobs in February" "Actually, we lost 92,000 jobs" "OK, so that was wrong in the script"

Newsmax host: "I don't even brush my teeth every single day"

If you're at the airport and Kristi Noem is doing the ominous little message from the TSA screens, you no longer have to do anything she says. Leave your laptop in the case, whatever.

Kristi Noem misattributing a paraphrase of Rudyard Kipling to George Orwell really does sum it all up huh

The nature of human rights is that they apply to, you know, all humans

Ten goddamn years of the US right insisting it hates Middle East military adventures just to snap back cheering for the next step in the “Axis of Evil”

Reacting to public disapproval of the Iran war, Newsmax host says “it's a good thing that nobody knows what we're doing”

When a 12 year-old playground bully suddenly becomes Secretary of Defense

Newsmax host says Fox News "has just been ridiculous all day cheerleading this war"

Ben Shapiro on Megyn Kelly: “She is such an unbelievable coward. You don't like President Trump? You don't like what he's saying? Just say his name, you coward.”

Benny Johnson: “Whatever you think about the Iran war, this moment should be the absolute and total initiation point for mass deportations”

for the youths who werent around for the iraq installment - dont believe anything the govt says about progress - no the democrats dont have to say getting rid of the baddie was good and therefore they have to support the war - the war needs to be ended - the media is not your ally and they love war

A man pardoned by Donald Trump for January 6th was just charged with threatening a cop at a January 6th memorial event. www.nbcnews.com/politics/pol...

JD VANCE: "There's just no way Trump is gonna about this country to get into a multiyear conflict with no end in sight" TRUMP HOURS LATER: "Wars can be fought 'forever,' and very successfully"

They are literally running with “we have always been at war with Eurasia.” Unreal.

Not going to see this kind of thing from CNN much longer

A war by any other name

Pete Hegseth really is an astounding idiot who truly does seem to believe that the way to win wars is just to war crime harder than the other guy. Just an endless 'taking the gloves off' until your hands are reduced to bloody stumps because it turns out taking the gloves off usually doesn't help.

we reached the “no WMDs” phase in two days.

Michael Knowles: "It seems crazy that the president who ran specifically against the Bush era regime change wars is now launching perhaps the biggest Middle East regime change war that we've ever seen...The craziest part of all of it is that this time it might actually work"

Relatedly www.mediamatters.org/pete-hegseth...

Here's a Jan. 6 rioter posing with a press pass before Pete Hegseth's press conference, just to give you a sense of the type of "journalists" who were in the Pentagon briefing room this morning.

murderer of children

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Daily Wire's Michael Knowles: "President Trump is putting himself in a similar position to Bush. However, what I guess his argument is we're gonna do it well."

Benny Johnson: “I was promised that this wouldn't turn into a larger regional conflict. It's hard to believe that at this point. And it wouldn't turn into American boots on the ground. It's hard to believe that.”

Israel, immediately after vaporizing a bunch of little girls:

Bush spent a year lying to get us into an illegal war; Trump just did it at 3 am in his beach house

“If Kamala wins, only death and destruction await because she is the candidate of endless wars. I am the candidate of peace. I am peace.” - Trump, 11/1/24 “I’m not going to start a war, I’m going to stop wars.” - Trump, 11/5/24

Just want to note that 3am in Washington is like 11:30am in Tehran. The American people are the ones he snuck up on in the dead of night to conduct this illegal attack, not the purported enemy.

Wouldn't want a little war to get in the way of a golf weekend.

Hegseth’s “warrior spirit”

there are a lot of people working in the government right now who want to intentionally trigger an apocalypse to create the conditions for the return of jesus christ and I know how crazy that sounds but its absolutely true

I love that we all know 90 percent of them will flip on a dime now, from “trump won’t send your sons to war” (like it’s only sons) to “trump is sending your sons to war and that’s good.”

Hegseth has a long history of not only calling for war with Iran, but for thirsting over destroying cultural heritage sites. He sees the US military as a flaming sword for Jesus…and now he’s in charge of it. www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/fox...

MAGA pundits are going to pretend they were always in favor of this war. www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/rig...

You can just say things.

I promise you that the government that murdered Alex Pretti and Renee Good does not give a flying fuck about the protests in Iran.

the current position of the US government is that NVIDIA should be allowed to sell chips directly to China but banned from using Claude, because the latter is a larger national security risk. that is the level of absolute insanity coming out of the White House & Pentagon nowadays

Looking forward to watching all the MAGA pundits who broke from Gonzales this week start praising him next week