"The White House’s videos mixing football hits with bombing footage tell us: We have some twisted people running this country."
~ Michael Tomasky
#Trump #Hegseth #Iran #war #cruelty #lethality #death #destruction #violence #PerformativeMasculinity
/23
As Aaron Rupar says, Peter Thiel's pal Alex Karp, Palantir CEO, loves the macho bluster of Trump's war, as he proclaims:
"What makes America special right now is our lethal capacities. Our ability to fight war."
The techbros, the broligarchy, are all in on the brutality, lethality, cruelty, and want credit for its technological base.
#Trump #Hegseth #Iran #war #cruelty #lethality #death #destruction #violence #PerformativeMasculinity
/8
https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:4llrhdclvdlmmynkwsmg5tdc/post/3mguiup62lt2j
As Aaron Parnas notes, Trump just posted the following on his Truth Social outfit:
"I, as the 47th President of the United States of America, am killing them. What a great honor it is to do so."
War, wielding weapons, killing others with big booms, makes tiny men imagine they're big ones.
#Trump #Hegseth #Iran #war #cruelty #lethality #death #destruction #violence #PerformativeMasculinity
/7
https://aaronparnas.substack.com/p/news-trump-underestimated-irans-willingness
Good morning everyone.
"Now that Trump has his war, he doesn’t seem to know what to do with it. He appears to have had no plans in place for either the future or Iran or protection for the straits of Hormuz. Instead, the White House account on Twitter is posting videos that equate war with video games or football."
~ Joyce Vance
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/6
"War is BOOM BOOM, death raining from the sky, hell wrought on others from thousands of miles away by American soldiers with joysticks. The mangled bodies are not seen. They must be presumed."
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/5
"Never has any party in power shown such gloating bloodlust as Trump and his dimwitted amoral ideologues are, with their infernal infotainment.
On TikTok and X they are peddling short videos romanticizing the war, glorifying cruelty."
~ Gene Weingarten
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/4
(continued from /2)
"caused the military to lose focus on its main task, killing the enemy, and led to costly defeats in both wars.
In his view, the U.S. military’s strength is not rooted in its high ideals, humanity or moral purpose, but rather its ability to punish adversaries. Anything that distracts from that singular mission, he has said, is weakness."
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/3
"Even though the truth was often more complicated, they cast U.S. troops as liberators bringing democracy and freedom to those living under tyranny and oppression.
Mr. Hegseth has largely dispensed with that talk. His bellicose, at times vengeful, rhetoric reflects his belief that the United States’ lofty goals in Iraq and Afghanistan" (continued in /3)
#Trump #Hegseth #Iran #war #cruelty #lethality #death #destruction #violence #PerformativeMasculinity
/2
Greg Jaffe reports on how the choice of “'Epic Fury,' a name that connotes retribution and rage," to name Trump's war captures its deliberate intent to maximize brutality and lethality.
"For decades, presidents and their secretaries of defense have framed American military interventions in altruistic terms."
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/1
"Screw negotiations. Screw soft power like USAID and VOA. Screw partnering with allies. What matters most to them is making the biggest booms. ...
If you can’t answer 'What is my ultimate goal?' and estimate the cost of achieving it, then all the big booms are useless if not counterproductive."
#Trump #Hegseth #Iran #war #PerformativeMasculinity #violence #arrogance #hubris
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William Lindsey 
