US/Israel conduct airstrikes on Iran again

How on earth am I saying that?

I am saying that Carlson is using and will further use anti-Semitism as a mobilising force against Israel - and use anti-Israelism as a mobilising force for anti-semitism. He will claim that Israel "corrupted" the "pure" MAGA. He knows he can do this as there is very fertile ground within MAGA to use traditional anti-semitism as a mobilising force because it's a fascist movement, and there is always fertile ground within fascist movements to mobilise anti-semitism. Trump himself did it but he was massively pro-Israel.

Meanwhile in the non-fascist sphere of society, the widespread (non-anti-semitic) justified opposition to genocide and this war as well as Israel's colonisation of part of Lebanon is relentlessly and falsely demonised as "anti-semitic" by the useless, reactionary cabal of Zionists who control the Democratic party and associated media and social media - hello Chuck Schumer, Nancy Pelosi, Hillary Clinton, Hakeem Jeffries, Bill Maher and their ilk. Because of this relentless demonisation of the non-anti-semitic opposition to genocide by this Zionist establishment cabal, that anger has nowhere to go politically, it has basically no outlet it can mobilise around because the Demcorastic establishment keeps cutting any potential outlet at the root.

If and when somebody like Carlson comes along on the right - and again to be clear Carlson is a fascist - millions of people who are not anti-semitic but oppose genocide and colonisation and insane war by Israel will turn to Carlson because i) he'll say he opposes Israel and its wars and genocide and ii) they don't understand he's a wolf in sheep's clothing who would unleash horrific anti-semitic forces and also iii) because they will have nowhere else to go politically because the Democrats will likely continue with a Zionist stooge candidate who is an apologist for genocide and war.

I think he's a equal opportunities conspiracy theorist BS artist. Not particularly anti anyone.

It just seems he was not called antisemitic before he started criticising Israel.

Vance is absolute toast whenever his involvement with this regime comes to an end. It doesn't matter what his private views are. He's stood there with Trump and he's now a war on Iran guy.

As well as that he's a horrific public speaker with a stratospheric cringe factor. He will crash and burn in any prospective Republican primary in 2027/28.

Evaluating prospective presidential candidates is not hard. You can do it in basically seconds. It's like evaluating who's likely to be a good football manager. You knew looking at Klopp that this guy had it to be a Superman style manager, a sort of Obama of football. You knew at the start looking at Mourinho that this guy had what it took to be football's arch troll, a Trump of football. And you kne looking at trump that he had what it took to be a Mourinho of US politics.

Looking at Vance is worse than looking at Stephen Kenny and his stuttering silences after losing 1-0 at home to Luxembourg. The guy is an all round calamity who will disintegrate under the first weight of scrutiny. He'll become a meme, a joke.

The anti semitism card is a canard. Those opposed to American politics and policy being dictated by what is in Israel’s best interests are labeled far right or fascist deliberately and for a reason. Even though the opinion is shared by people from throughout the political spectrum.
The genie is out of the bottle when it comes to US citizens perception of Israel.
Is there any powerful country in history who was so beholden to a small country with few resources and little strategic value?
I can’t think of any.

Israel generally only goes after non-fascist critics of Israel to (overwhelmingly) falsely accuse them of anti-semitism. A key element of this is that pro-Israel "centrist" media wholeheartedly joins in with the smears.

Meanwhile they offer support to real anti-semites like Trump and Orban because they're fascists who support Israel.

The same rules wouldn't apply to Carlson. Israel could and likely would try and smear Carlson as an anti-semite but Carlson would likely turn it to his advantage in the same way Trump was able to turn everything that was aimed at him in his favour. He's more than skilled enough to do so and he would win a lot of independent and indeed traditionally Democratic voters because whatever you think of him, he's a superb communicator.

You expect losses in a war but I don't see a strategy for those losses to be counted against.

If they cannot enable the opposition(and ,presumably still the majority?) in Iran to have a voice in their own country and neither can you guarantee freedom of shipping in the region,then have you not just lost the war?

I thought regimes like Iran thrived on misery .Isn't this just like a magnified version of Gaza?(Hamas still in power)

.Is the American plan to make life so miserable for the general population that they have no alternative but bloody and possibly suicidal revolution?

Have they consulted them first if that is their plan?

If i was an employee at an Iranian power station/desalination plant I'd be doing some serious thinking right now about whether i should show up for work Monday morning…

"Glory be to God"?

Who is in the Stone Ages now?

Also 'all hell will reign down'

Freudian slip from Definitely-Not-King Trump? Or maybe he just doesn't know how to spell 'rain'…

It 's just words with Trump himself. Whatever is driving him it's certainly not sincere religious conviction.

What is “a fascist space” and why is it inevitably anti semitic? Zionism shares many characteristics with fascism. Is Israeli militarism, nationalism and expansionism anti semitic?

No, he approaches it from the 'how much are these grifters and Bozos going to cost American taxpayers?' perspective.

I don't agree with him on really anything, and he's a grifter himself, but in that respect, the anti-Israel cohort on the American far-right are correct.

Anything within the broad MAGA space is fascist. Anything within the so called "populist right" in Europe is fascist. Anything within their online support is fascist.

I would consider Zionism itself a form of fascism, a bastard form of fascism but certainly a form of it nonetheless. It cannot exist without the jackboot because it is inherently a colonial enterprise based on total ethnic supremacy and bible nonsense. The idea of "the chosen people" is perilously close to the idea of "the master race", so close as to be almost indivisible. The Zionism that has existed since the end of the Holocaust is in so many ways a very big backhanded tribute to the methods of the Nazis. Zionism's biggest support base within Europe comes from the far right and the "anti-woke" (anti-woke is itself a euphemism for fascist), primarily because the far right in Europe will always harbour dreams of genocide, and Israel is living it out for them by targetting a group of people, Muslim Arabs, who the white European fascists deem lower again than Jews. White European fascists admire the unapologetic genocidal nature of the modern state of Israel.

And yet within fascism in Europe, the USA and some other places, there will always be a deep residual admiration for the Nazis and their methods, and a residual hankering to make Jews the targets once again. That exists within MAGA and it certainly exists within entities like Reform UK, the AFD in Germany and Orban's party in Hungary.

It doesn't take a whole lot to unlock all that and bring it to life again, it really only takes one gifted demagogue, which could easily be somebody like Carlson.

You have to look at the currents which drive things. Some things are inevitable. When Peadar Toibin left Sinn Fein because he was anti-abortion and set up Aontú, he claimed it would it be a left wing party, just that it would be anti-abortion. And yet it was obvious from the start that Aontú would inevitably become a right wing populist party, first fascist adjacent, before eventually settling on full on Reform UK style fascist, anti-immigrant, "anti-woke", anti-anything decent, anti-reality, motivated pretty much entirely by hate. It's just so blindingly obvious that a left wing "anti-abortion" party is a complete oxymoron.

The exact same was true of Renua, again set up over the issue of abortion and ostensibly advertised as a centrist party. Who's in Renua now? Racists, cranks, headbangers, fascists.

Anything set up as an anti-abortion movement will always end up this way.

There will be a similar dynamic with any anti-Israel movement which emanates from a fascist space. It will inevitably become consumed by anti-semitism because the anti-semitic DNA is just too hard wired into fascism by history, and because fascists in a general sense are bone headed idiots to whom facts, truth, context and reason are the enemy. It will start with "we're against Israel's influence over US policy and budget" and within a short time become "Jews will not replace us".

There are western fascists and Nazis active online with considerable profiles, who have tried to attach themselves to the pro-Palestine movement but who in reality are just Nazis. Jackson Hinkle for instance, a Russia propagandist and a Nazi who uses the pro-Palestinian cause for his own twisted ends . He's just cosplaying at being "pro-human rights" when in reality he just hates Jews.

This is the game Carlson is now playing and any such movement he may start over the coming years will inevitably have anti-semitism consume it.

Trump is like a toddler temper tantruming when he doesn't get his way.

Can he and his Israel buddies just stop attacking Iran. Threatening to do more attacks isn't going to open the strait considering attacking Iran was the act that got it closed to begin with.