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And the TV networks played on.

I abhor Trump’s attempt to undermine American civil institutions, but there’s no getting around the fact that he and the lawless GOP led by McConnell have now succeeded in laying waste to the Supreme Court. We now see a Supreme Court that is no longer legitimate. We need to face the ugly reality and accept that the Court is too captured and corrupt to be vested with credence or authority.

Brian Williams calls air strikes “beautiful.”

A depraved corporate media behaves true to form.

As Mark Sumner writes at Daily Kos:

“Donald Trump talking about ‘beautiful babies’ in Syria is so sickeningly hypocritical that it demands a new word. These are the same people that Trump condemned over, and over, and over. Some of those children who died in the Idlib attack might have been sitting in kindergartens in Ohio, or pre-schools in Minnesota or at new homes in Pennsylvania, except that Donald Trump sold his voters on the idea that these beautiful babies deserved to be trapped in a war zone.”

who wouldn’t accept Syrian refugees.

Obscene.

Representative Lieu:

“March to war in #Syria without a strategy is both dangerous and ILLEGAL. #Trump cannot go to war against #Assad w/o congressional approval”

Glenn Greenwald:

“Leaders all over the world, of every type of government, know that the easiest way to unite people behind them is a new war.”

Phyllis Bennis at Common Dreams reminds us that: “this is a president, a cabinet, a White House with no military or diplomatic experience, with no understanding of the complications of the roiling Middle East conflicts or the consequences of war, and with a personal eagerness to demonstrate power. This is not a president accountable to a political party, to Congress and its constitutional role in military decision-making, and certainly less accountable to international law. “

Didn’t waste a moment before going to Twitter and insisting on military escalation after defending her support for a No-fly Zone, which is always a prelude to full-scale war.

and that ain’t Trump.

Charles Glass, former ABC News chief Middle East correspondent and author of Syria Burning: A Short History of a Catastrophe:

“The death and suffering caused by poison gas in Syria emphasizes the urgency — not to escalate the war with more bombardment — but to end it through negotiation between the United States and Russia. Only they can impose a solution on their clients.”

Goes off half-cocked against Syria on the day the GOP wrecks the Senate and steals the Supreme Court.

More escalation, more deaths, more blowback, more terrorism, more perpetual war, and more authoritarianism in the United States.