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Tuesday, April 7, 2026 12:41 PM

Donald Trump Warns a ‘Whole Civilization Will Die Tonight’ if a Deal With Iran Isn’t Reached

https://news.wttw.com/2026/04/07/donald-trump-warns-whole-civilization
-will-die-tonight-if-deal-iran-isn-t-reached

Any of you idiots here or in the media telling everybody that Iran was winning the war can shut right the fuck up now.

"Winners" don't tell their youth to commit suicide and go form circles around the only targets that are keeping the entire country from being sent back to the middle ages.

They're only doing that because they know we have cunts like Ted living in America who will scream about it.

Fuck Iran. Fuck Iranians.

Blow it all up and finish this.

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Tuesday, April 7, 2026 3:55 PM

6IXSTRINGJACK

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https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2026/04/07/bret_baier_trump_ju
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Tuesday, April 7, 2026 4:09 PM

SIGNYM

I believe in solving problems, not sharing them.

Fuck Israel, and fuck Trump.

Iran was never a threat, until now.

Iran is not a terrorist state, but Israel and the USA are.

I hope Iran blows Israel and the corrupt, terrorist-loving, death-cult gulf monarchies off the map.

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"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal."- Henry Kissinger

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Tuesday, April 7, 2026 4:49 PM

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The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

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Donald Trump Warns a ‘Whole Civilization Will Die Tonight’ if a Deal With Iran Isn’t Reached . . .

Fuck Iran. Fuck Iranians.

Blow it all up and finish this.

Trump’s latest rant confirmed what we all know about America

By Pablo O'Hana | April 6, 2026 3:24pm

https://metro.co.uk/2026/04/06/trumps-latest-rant-confirmed-know-ameri
ca-27873632/

Trump’s Republican Party is dead.

Not only in its soul, but in the essential qualities that once defined it. While it may still win seats in the Midterms and retain the loyalty of millions, what truly matters has been lost.

The capacity for independent judgment, for institutional self-respect, for the basic reflex of saying ‘No, not this’, is gone.

Donald Trump’s Easter Sunday post, in which he threatened to bomb Iranian power plants, dropped the f-word into the public record, and signed off with ‘Praise be to Allah’, is not an opportunity to wake up Republican Party officials, members and voters.

It is simply more evidence that they may be breathing, but in reality they’re dead inside.

We have been here so many times before that Trump reaction commentary has become its own genre, with its own predictable arc. Something happens. Jaws drop. A Republican or two issue carefully worded statements expressing concern. The news cycle moves on. Nothing changes.

The ‘Grab ’em by the pussy’ Access Hollywood tape, which arguably kicked all this off, feels like a lifetime ago.

Then we had a wave of ‘very fine people on both sides’, of children torn from their parents and put in cages, Russian interference and his references to Haiti and African nations as shithole countries leading to his first impeachment.

Not to mention the second impeachment, attempts to overturn an election, and facing 34 felony counts.

There has always been a fresh wave asking whether this, finally, is the moment that takes him down. It never is.

Yesterday was no exception.

At some point, we need to stop asking where the accountability is and consider why there is none.

The answer is not flattering.

What we’re witnessing now is true compliant devotion and the collapse of any structure in which resistance might be possible.

Tim Scott, the only Black Republican in the Senate, called a racist video depicting the Obamas as apes ‘the most racist thing I’ve seen out of this White House’ and then carried on as normal.

When the line is crossed and then simply redrawn further back, eventually, there is nowhere left to go.

Trump’s Easter post is a useful illustration precisely because of its particular combination of ingredients.

Profanity from a sitting president, directed at a foreign government, on the holiest morning of the Christian calendar, ending with an invocation of Allah.

I don’t think it’s unreasonable to suggest that any one of those elements, if attributed to a Democrat, would have prompted weeks of hearings and a hymn of outrage from every evangelical pastor with a television slot.

But when it comes from Trump, it generates a shrug and, from his more devoted supporters, unapologetic delight.

The real, harder question is how a party can lose its soul and yet remain electorally successful, and what that means for America.

Trump’s Republicans will be on the ballot in November, and many of them will likely still win. In a damning insight into the soul of America, the moral decay and decomposition of Trump’s administration are not translating into disaster for the party.

American democracy does not yet have a mechanism for automatically disqualifying the morally bankrupt and broken.

So the issue that needs to be grappled with is not really whether the Republican Party is dead. It is whether America wants to revive it – and if so, how it would be done, and who would do the work.

It’s an issue that belongs, uncomfortably, to the Democrats, as much as anyone.

There is a version of the next few years in which the party simply runs out the clock, waits for the exhaustion to set in, and inherits whatever is left. That is a strategy of sorts, but it’s not a vision.

They need to be presented with something worth voting for, rather than simply something to vote against.

That is the reality of the situation for the Democrats – and it’s a reality that’s a lot harder and less satisfying for them than they would like.

So their task will not be to blame everything on the monstrosity of Trump, though monstrous he undoubtedly is. It is to prove that the Republic is recoverable, that institutions can be rebuilt, that the extraordinary can be made ordinary again – in the right direction this time.

Trump signed off his Easter message with ‘Praise be to Allah’.

The Republican Party was ineffectual, and thereby complicit, in its response. It’s what we’ve come to expect, and what we should expect going forward too.

We have established, beyond any remaining doubt, that there is nothing he could say or do that would change that.

For a long time now, America has been at risk of losing itself, facing a fundamental battle for the soul of its country.

We have now reached the natural conclusion of that battle.

The Republican Party – once the party of giants Abraham Lincoln, Ronald Reagan and John McCain – is not sleeping. It is not lost.

It is dead. And in the void where its soul used to be now stands something deeper and darker: an aggressive, erratic, vengeful movement that is isolationist in its instincts, authoritarian in its appetites, and answerable to no one but the man at the top.

Americans must now decide. They can either take the necessary steps to bury the Republican Party as it stands, or do nothing, and accept that what has replaced it is all they have left.

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

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Tuesday, April 7, 2026 4:57 PM

6IXSTRINGJACK

Fuck you, Pablo.

Go back to whatever shithole country you hail from.

Your presence in America is no longer necessary.

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Tuesday, April 7, 2026 4:57 PM

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The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

Our Darkest Hour

The civilization we destroy may be our own

Paul Krugman

Apr 07, 2026

https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/our-darkest-hour

This is America’s darkest hour.

Hi, Paul Krugman with an update Tuesday morning. Earlier today, Donald Trump posted on Truth Social,

"A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again."

Not going to be a problem if we ever do get the war crimes trial that all of this deserves. A statement of motive and intent is completely clear.

I don’t need to say how vile it is. It is shocking, although at some level, if you didn’t see this as a real possibility, then you weren’t paying attention. Not much to say here except to talk about how those of us who are not Donald Trump should behave.

First of all, any military commander given orders to start destroying civilian infrastructure in Iran should disobey that order, should say it, should not even quietly resign. This is a time to stand up and make it clear that this is totally unacceptable. This is a violation of everything that the military stands for. It’s a violation of everything that America stands for.

Second, any member of the Trump administration: to continue in your position doing your job as Trump takes America on the course of becoming a criminal nation, a criminal terrorist nation, you cannot continue in good conscience.

Particularly, if you play any role in making this happen, then you are a war criminal too. Then you ought to be brought up someday before an international tribunal. But even if you’re in a peripheral role, even just putting your head down and saying, well, I’m an assistant secretary at the agriculture department or something like that, that’s not good enough. This is not a regime that you can serve in good conscience.

Republican politicians, any Republican, I mean, there are people already saying, “oh, you know, I don’t approve of destroying civilizations, but” — that “but” makes you an accessory to the crime, if you are failing to stand up against it.

And I really don’t like this notion that only Democrats have agency. This is a very common thing. All of this is made possible by the lockstep slavish obedience of Republicans. Nonetheless, Democrats have a role here, too. And this is not a time to attack Trump’s war because it costs too much money or to attack it because it’s bad for energy markets or raises the price of groceries. I mean, it does do all of that. All of that is true. But we’re way past that point now. We’re at the point where you need to unambiguously condemn the immorality and criminality of what’s going on. No mincing of words.

Damned if I know what’s going to happen. I mean, at some level, I think that the civilization that may be destroyed tonight is our own. I mean, are we civilized if we do this kind of thing? If America as a nation doesn’t stand up against this, what are we?

So, God help us. Normal life will continue. It’s going to be a really weird thing to be out there, you know, grocery shopping and taking the subway and all of those things. But this is, in a way, the defining moment. The fate of the whole American idea is on the line.

I have no idea how this ends.

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

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Tuesday, April 7, 2026 5:50 PM

6IXSTRINGJACK

Paul should get on a plane himself and go wherever it is that Pablo needs to go.

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Tuesday, April 7, 2026 6:01 PM

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The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

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Paul should get on a plane himself and go wherever it is that Pablo needs to go.

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“It’s really difficult to cover him in a way that conveys how unhinged he is,” journalist Aaron Rupar of Public Notice told George Grylls of The Times about President Donald J. Trump. Rupar explained that political journalists are trained to think, “‘OK, what did he say that was newsworthy?’ So you…convey that to your audience. But in reality, when you actually watch his rallies, you see that they’re full of hatred, he’s lying constantly, and a lot of it is incoherent.”

Rupar spends as many as eighty hours a week watching Trump and members of his administration, clipping videos of their noteworthy statements into a few minutes at a time. His work is indispensable for translating Trump’s long, meandering speeches to people who need shorter versions of them. In this quotation, he nails the real problem of this moment in which the president of the United States is threatening “obliteration” if another nation doesn’t do as he demands: the noteworthy story is not what the president says; the story is the president himself and his obvious mental deterioration.

Today was another surreal day in the second Trump administration.

https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/april-6-2026-monday

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

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