"The Epstein Class is laughing all the way to the bank, drinking our tears as sugar for their expensive coffee. ... As we die and suffer, they laugh and make money off of AI, Crypto, and war."

~ Wajahat Ali

W. Ali points to recent statements of Palantir CEO (and Peter Thiel best bud) featured in the image below.

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https://thelefthook.substack.com/p/the-epstein-class-is-creating-world

"The evident fact, though, is that Trump is completely nuts, and that he’s 'governing' the country — and has now taken the US to war — based on his impulses alone, without even the pretense of a strategy or goal."

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"And yet – you guessed it – Donald Trump is going to keep doing it anyway, even in the face of mounting casualties on all sides of the conflict, the world economy on the brink, and gas and fertilizer prices surging, and increasingly disastrous poll numbers at home for this president."

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(continued from /10)

"and that there are signs the war is causing significant rally-around-the-flag effects on the ground in Iran, including among some groups that hate the government in Tehran."

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"In recent days, two Trump advisers and two other sources briefed on the situation tell me, US officials have delivered another dire warning to our batshit crazy president: They’ve informed Trump and his lieutenants that, based on American intel, the Iranian regime at this time isn’t breaking, isn’t ready to fold on the war or stop retaliating," (continued in /11)

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"In the run-up to launching this regional bloodbath, Trump’s advisers 'fully briefed and prepped' him on how Iran’s government would likely respond by acting to explode oil prices – and damage the markets and our economy – if he went ahead with the war. Trump privately downplayed those warnings. Then he did it anyway."

~ Asawin Suebsaeng

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https://zeteo.com/p/us-intel-trump-iran-regime-first-draft

"I suspect that Trump may realize deep down that his exercise in epic fury is nuts."

~ William Kristol

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https://www.thebulwark.com/p/sing-goddess-of-the-fury-of-trump-iran-war-name-epic-fury-trump-florsheim-shoes-too-big-rubio-vance

"He governs the country by a kind of manic coaxing which is at war with short-term memory and thrives on the ability to keep as many people fixated on the super dramatic crisis of the moment without remembering that it was preceded by an endless litany of other crises with similar branding."

~ Josh Marshall

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https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/borderline-personality-trump-and-the-uses-of-press-myopia

"The evident fact, though, is that Trump is completely nuts, and that he’s 'governing' the country — and has now taken the US to war — based on his impulses alone, without even the pretense of a strategy or goal."

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"Observers have spent two weeks trying to discern the 'aims' of Trump’s war on Iran, and therefore what might constitute a victory or defeat. His every bizarre utterance about his war 'plans' — including wildly conflicting declarations that Iran has surrendered and the war must be expanded to defeat the regime — immediately move markets."

~ David R. Lurie

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https://www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-excursion

"If the road to Tehran required the sons and daughters of the billionaire & political class to march beside everyone else’s kids, would we still be there?"

~ Thom Hartmann

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https://hartmannreport.com/p/what-if-every-billionaires-and-senators-b21

"This is a billionaire’s war, waged at everyone else’s expense."

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"If you want to understand how this country has degenerated to such a state, how we can be spending nearly $2 billion a day attacking Iran without a clear endgame in sight, while children go without healthcare, nursing homes are understaffed because their workers have been deported, home electricity bills skyrocket due to data centers, consider who benefits and who isn’t hurt."

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"It becomes clearer with each passing day that the people who took us to war with Iran had and have no idea what they’re doing — that they’re adolescents who think they’re playing video games while thousands die and the world careens toward economic crisis. The New York Times reports that Trump officials dismissed warnings that attacking Iran could disrupt world oil supplies."

~ Paul Krugman

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https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/the-billionaires-war