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It had been my hope that those of you too young to remember Mike Huckabee as Governor of Arkansas, would be spared from having to come to grips with the insane bullshit this sociopathic fundie fascist believes in any meaningful way. Unfortunately, because Trump makes everything shitty about American politics infinitely worse, Huckabee is now the US Ambassador to Israel at the exact time we're kinda maybe sorta already joining them in a war against Iran. This gives him a position of outsized importance right now, and provides him with an opportunity to advise President Trump at what may well be the most critical moment in American politics since Bush (disastrously) declared war on Iraq. What sage words of stately wisdom is Mike providing the Swine Emperor at this volatile moment? As it turns out flattery, messianic end times nonsense, and encouragement to fucking nuke Iran. No, really.

truthout.org/articles/huckabee

Huckabee Suggests Trump Should Nuke Iran, Follow Guidance From “Heaven”

"US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee has suggested to President Donald Trump that he should use a nuclear bomb against Iran, urging Trump to listen to the voice he will “hear from heaven” and follow its guidance in making decisions about Israel’s war on Iran.

In a post on Truth Social on Tuesday, Trump posted a screenshot of the lengthy text he says was sent to him by Huckabee, an evangelical and Christian Zionist who Trump praises as a “Great Person!”

In the text, Huckabee says Trump’s current decision on whether or not to involve the U.S. further in attacks on Iran is akin to the decision President Harry Truman faced in 1945 — when Truman dropped two atomic bombs in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, killing hundreds of thousands of innocent people in Japan and decimating the cities."

Folks, I don't want to be accused of being a foot solider in the (totally made up) "War on Christianity" but perhaps it's not a great idea to put people who believe we need to herd all the Jewish People into Israel, and then blow it up so Jesus can come back and save white Christian nazis from eternal hellfire, in charge of anything important. And you're going to tell me that I'm being ridiculous because Huckabee is only the Ambassador to Israel, but I will respond by reminding you that this is what virtually all evangelical Christian Zionists believe and that includes powerful folks like Senator Ted Cruz, House Speaker Mike Johnson, and US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, among many other influential fundie nutjobs in and around the Trump administration. All of which of course is to say nothing of Huckabee's apocalyptic vision of the future, or his attempts to cast Trump in the role of a literal messianic figure. I'm listening to folks on my TV talk about the evils of "fundamentalist clerics running Iran" and the US Ambassador to Israel is out here telling Trump that God himself is gonna tell him to turn Iran to glass at any moment. Are you people fucking kidding me? We're gonna take foreign policy advice from people who're big worried about Satanic possession and witchcraft in the year 2025?

Regardless of whether or not you accept my premise that Christian Zionism itself should be disqualifying for all government service, you have to admit that this is an absolutely fucking insane thing for an American diplomat to say while we're on the verge of a war with Iran that the Trump regime seems to actively preparing for; and for Lindsey Graham, a US Senator, to agree with him that we should fucking nuke Iran, is mind-numbing, War on Terror-level, xenophobic, imperial bullshit. All of these people should be removed from office fucking immediately; and that goes double for Mike Huckabee.

Why? Well I have some news for Mike. His job? Is to represent the UNITED STATES of fucking AMERICA in Israel. His job is not to represent Benjamin Netanyahu's case for making his war, our war, on the international stage. There are fucking governments that would consider what Huckabee just said here treasonous; and they would not be entirely wrong to do so. I do not give one flying fuck about American national security, but if my news is any indication, a great number of Very Serious People TM in our society do, and if that's the case our Ambassador to Israel needs to be reminded who he actually works for.

Of course, none of that is going to happen; indeed it barely even registered in mainstream Western media that Huckabee just called on Trump to literally nuke Iran at all. A bipartisan, mainstream American establishment that has wanted a regime change war in Iran every waking moment since 1979, is so close to what they desire that they can literally taste it - and if they have to put up with fundie end times prophecy, a little fascism, and some light treason to get it, so be it.

Truthout · Huckabee Suggests Trump Should Nuke Iran, Follow Guidance From “Heaven”The evangelical pastor and ambassador to Iran told Trump he “will hear from heaven” with guidance about the war.

‘All of his guns will do nothing for him’: lefty preppers are taking a different approach to doomsday

'Liberals in the US make up about 15% of the prepping scene and their numbers are growing'

Relevant worldwide.

#Preppers #GlobalWarming #politics #EndTimes

theguardian.com/us-news/ng-int

The Guardian · ‘All of his guns will do nothing for him’: lefty preppers are taking a different approach to doomsdayBy Guardian staff reporter

The rise of end times fascism | Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor

excerpts:

An unspeakably dismal choice is being made before our eyes and without our consent: machines over humans, inanimate over animate, profits over all else. With stunning speed, the big tech megalomaniacs have quietly rolled back their net-zero pledges and lined up by Trump’s side, hellbent on sacrificing this world’s real and precious resources and creativity at the altar of a vampiric, virtual realm. This is the last great heist, and they are getting ready to ride out the storms they themselves are summoning – and they will try to defame and destroy anyone who gets in their way....

How do we break this apocalyptic fever? First, we help each other face the depth of the depravity that has gripped the hard right in all of our countries. To move forward with focus, we must first understand this simple fact: we are up against an ideology that has given up not only on the premise and promise of liberal democracy but on the livability of our shared world – on its beauty, on its people, on our children, on other species. The forces we are up against have made peace with mass death. They are treasonous to this world and its human and non-human inhabitants.

Second, we counter their apocalyptic narratives with a far better story about how to survive the hard times ahead without leaving anyone behind. A story capable of draining end times fascism of its gothic power and galvanizing a movement ready to put it all on the line for our collective survival. A story not of end times, but of better times; not of separation and supremacy, but of interdependence and belonging; not of escaping, but staying put and staying faithful to the troubled earthly reality in which we are enmeshed and bound....

We have reached a choice point, not about whether we are facing apocalypse but what form it will take....

To have a hope of combating the end times fascists, with their ever-constricting and asphyxiating concentric circles of “ordered love”, we will need to build an unruly open-hearted movement of the Earth-loving faithful: faithful to this planet, its people, its creatures and to the possibility of a livable future for us all. Faithful to here.

#EndTimes #Fascism #Here

theguardian.com/us-news/ng-int

The Guardian · The rise of end times fascismBy Naomi Klein
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"End times fascism is a darkly festive fatalism – a final refuge for those who find it easier to celebrate destruction than imagine living without supremacy. ...

This is where the tech bros merge with the TheoBros, a real group of hyper-patriarchal Christian supremacists with ties to Hegseth and others in the Trump administration."

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"You don’t need to be a biblical literalist, or even religious, to be an end times fascist. Today, plenty of powerful secular people have embraced a vision of the future that follows a nearly identical script, one in which the world as we know it collapses under its weight and a chosen few survive and thrive in various kinds of arks, bunkers and gated 'freedom cities'."

~ Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor

#EndTimes #fascism #TechBros #apocalypticism #Trump
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theguardian.com/us-news/ng-int

The Guardian · The rise of end times fascismBy Naomi Klein