“No war with Iran,” Senator Elizabeth Warren tweeted on Tuesday. “The American people want President Trump to focus on making life more affordable for working families here at home, not sending our military into another endless war in the Middle East.”

The resistance lives! No more forever wars! No more regime change! Help struggling Americans! No more suffering! Go Elizabeth Warren!

So later that night, we hoped, at Trump’s State of the Union Speech, surely Senator Warren would stand by these antiwar values and protest Trump’s warmongering against Iran, right? Right?

“These are horrible people,” Trump says. “After Midnight Hammer” (the illegal operation in which the US and Israel attacked Iran in the middle of peace negotiations, “they were warned to make no future attempt to rebuild their weapons program,” which, according to the Trump administration’s own report, they haven’t, “and are at this moment again pursuing their sinister ambitions.” Not true.

He continues with the lie: “We haven’t heard those secret words that we will never again pursue a nuclear weapon.”

And she’s up! Not protesting or booing but applauding, a standing ovation from the Massachusetts senator, alongside other Democrats Chuck Schumer, Amy Klobuchar, Chris Coons, John Fetterman, and more.

Trump continues. “One thing is certain. I will never allow the world’s number one sponsor of terror, which they are, by far, to have a nuclear weapon.”

And they’re up again! Democrats and Republicans alike, cheering on the president’s lies, no different than the WMD hoax of the Iraq War.

Luckily Katie and Aaron are here to mock the warmongering senators as they cheer.

Also in this week’s Friday Free-for-All: JD Vance is still blaming Joe Biden for Americans suffering in poverty, Dr. Oz announces new sweeping cuts to Medicaid, and Bill Maher rolls around in a big pot of slime while talking about Ilhan Omar.

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“Could our soldiers be hit in the region? Absolutely they could. Can Iran respond if we have an all-out attack? Absolutely, they can.”

In what sounds like the beginning of the worst inspirational speech in history (‘Will tens of thousands of people needlessly die? Sure! But will this increase the possibility of world-ending nuclear war? Yes!’ and so forth), Senator Lindsey Graham gave a saber-rattling rant in Tel Aviv this week to echo Hillary Clinton in begging President Trump to bomb Iran.

He continues: “I think the risk associated with that is far less than the risk associated with blinking, pulling the plug, and not helping the people as you promised.”

So… it’s more risky NOT to go to war with Iran than blinking, taking a breath, and considering diplomacy? Terribly enough, this viewpoint has become the norm among our politicians across the political spectrum.

Joining Graham and the aforementioned Clinton in warmongering bomb-pushing are Democratic Senator Mark Warner, former top Biden official Brett McGurk, and the nation’s son-in-law Jared Kushner. We watch clips of each of them as they parade their missiles on the world stage.

Plus, Mike Huckabee’s getting nervous that the ICC might arrest him, actor Ethan Hawke joins the list of artists who now claim that art isn’t political, and Trump’s got a crush on a new boy from Paraguay.

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What do a mentally-impaired fake-Democrat Senator and the inhuman AI Claude have in common? They both just threatened to kill.

“Let’s get back to killing,” Fetterman said in response to Israel’s sham ceasefire, which, while already violated countless times by the IDF resulting in the deaths of thousands more Palestinians, was not good enough for Senator Fetterman. “Kill them all,” he said.

This statement comes as the increasingly-far-right Fetterman is now cozying up to Kristi Noem and the murderous ICE, insisting he wants even more round-up deportations.

Statements like these could only be made by a psychopathic human. Or… a robot

 

“It was ready to kill someone, wasn’t it?”

“Yes.”

During a panel this week, Daisy McGregor, UK policy chief at Anthropic, the company that created Claude AI, said it's "massively concerning" that Claude has shown in testing that it's willing to blackmail and kill in order to avoid being shut down.

That comes after an engineer at Anthropic resigned, claiming that “the world is in peril.”

Which is why we think Claude would agree with John Fetterman’s desire to “kill them all.”

Also in this Friday Free-For-All: famed film director Wim Wenders, who said in 1988 that “every film is political,” was asked by a journalist at the Berlinale Film Festival if the jury panel would condemn Germany’s support for Israel’s genocide in Gaza.

“We have to stay out of politics,” Wenders responded, “because if we make movies that are political, we enter the field of politics. But we are the opposite of politics.” What a shame.

Plus, Republican Congressman Jason Smith STEALS our line about Trump’s policy on immigration. And we’re NOT happy about it.

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