"The news cycle hasn’t just moved on [from Epstein]: we are now deep into the testosterone zone, the fizzing, almost sexual excitement of war. This is what the early stages of all wars look like. …
AI, like war, is a hyper-masculine fantasy of God-like power."
~ Carole Cadwalladr
#Trump #LindseyGraham #PeteHegseth #Iran #war #AI #broligarchy #PerformativeMasculinity
/23
Seattle Opera made a discount code TIMOTHEE for 14% off 💃😅👏
https://operawire.com/seattle-opera-announces-timothee-chalamet-discount-code-for-carmen/
#misogyny #manosphere #ballet #opera #ToxicMasculinity #conservative #femininity #TimothéeChalamet #masculinity #TheArts #PerformativeMasculinity #SeattleOpera
"With new evidence emerging that the United States was responsible for the strike on a school in southern Iran than killed scores of children, President Trump baselessly blamed Iran for the attack."
~ David Kurtz
#Trump #Hegseth #Iran #war #death #destruction #violence #WarriorEthos #PerformativeMasculinity #lies #disinformation #propaganda
/17
https://morningmemo.talkingpointsmemo.com/p/inside-the-dhs-campaign-against-us
"He’s even stated explicitly that this should be going how it did in Venezuela, where the next in command steps forward and agrees to an indefinite period of vassalhood under not so much the U.S. but Donald Trump himself. What remains of the Iranian state leadership does not seem interested in that."
#Trump #Hegseth #Iran #war #death #destruction #violence #WarriorEthos #PerformativeMasculinity
/16
"Trump started this war as part of the international acting-out he’s been at for the last few months, a way of compensating for reverses at home. If we look at his statements and U.S. actions leading up to the beginning of the war, the impulse or the goal seems simply to be in charge, for Iran to do what Trump says."
~ Josh Marshall
#Trump #Hegseth #Iran #war #death #destruction #violence #WarriorEthos #PerformativeMasculinity
/15
"House Intelligence Committee Chair Rick Crawford on Fox: 'We have been at war with Iran since 1947.'
… The Republican talking point is to claim that Iran has been at war with us for 47 years, so Trump’s bombings are just a continuation of that and are being done in self defense. But Crawford got it a little confused trying to follow the script."
~ Ron Filipkowski
#Trump #Hegseth #Iran #war #death #destruction #violence #WarriorEthos #PerformativeMasculinity
/14
https://www.meidasplus.com/p/this-weekend-in-politics-bulletin-9b3
"The situation is scary. And what’s even scarier is that the 'warrior ethos' gang in the Trump administration seem to have been caught completely off-guard by the fallout from their adventure, even though the military and the intelligence community tried to warn them about the risks."
~ Paul Krugman
#Trump #Hegseth #Iran #war #death #destruction #violence #PerformativeMasculinity #WarriorEthos
/12
"Trump sees war as 'blowing things up.' Dealing with the bodies of soldiers he sent to war is—for Trump—an annoyance that delayed his weekend golf by a day, to Sunday, when he wore the same golf hat that he wore during the dignified transfer."
~ Robert B. Hubbell
#Trump #Iran #war #death #destruction #violence #PerformativeMasculinity
/11
https://roberthubbell.substack.com/p/nine-days-of-war-take-their-toll
"Cardinal Blase Cupich of Chicago excoriated the clip, pointing out that
a real war with real death and real suffering [is] being treated like it's a video game … It's sickening.'”
#Trump #CardinalCupich #Iran #war #death #destruction #violence #PerformativeMasculinity
/7
"The Trump regime certainly frames the war in Iran as a particularly boneheaded and un-nuanced Hollywood film along the lines of 'Rambo' (1985). ... Perhaps even more tellingly, the White House X account posted a video collage of clips from the war intercut with footage from Hollywood action, war, and superhero films."
#Trump #Iran #war #death #destruction #violence #PerformativeMasculinity
/6
"The US has a longstanding tendency to see wars as one-sided affairs, with American protagonists, American victims, and a cast of disreputable and/or sympathetic non-American side characters. This is perhaps most obvious in the mass of Hollywod Vietnam war films, of which only rare exceptions include a non-American main character."
~ Noah Berlatsky
#Trump #Iran #war #death #destruction #violence #PerformativeMasculinity
/5
https://www.publicnotice.co/p/iran-elementary-school-bombing
"On Friday, Trump promised Latin American soccer players that he was going to overthrow Cuba in 'a couple of weeks.'”
~ Marcie Jones
#Trump #LindseyGraham #Iran #Cuba #war #death #destruction #violence #PerformativeMasculinity
/4
https://www.wonkette.com/p/the-finest-funerary-trucker-cap-tabs
“'Cuba is gonna fall pretty soon, by the way,' Trump told CNN Friday. 'I’m going to put Marco over there and we’ll see how that works out. We’re really focused on this one right now.'”
~ Andrew Egger
#Trump #LindseyGraham #Iran #Cuba #war #death #destruction #violence #PerformativeMasculinity
/3
"Karl answered that 'nobody questions the success of the military operation, the concern is what happens next.'
'Forget about next,' Trump answered. 'They are decimated for a 10-year period before they could build it back.'
'We’re marching through the world,' Senator Lindsay Graham (R-SC) told a laughing Maria Bartiromo of the Fox News Channel this morning."
#Trump #LindseyGraham #Iran #war #death #destruction #violence #PerformativeMasculinity
/2
"WE'RE" MARCHING THROUGH THE WORLD! HOW DO YOU LIKE THE PERFORMANCE?
"Last Thursday, March 5, Trump talked to ABC News chief Washington correspondent Jonathan Karl about the war. 'I hope you are impressed,' he said. 'How do you like the performance? I mean, Venezuela is obvious. This might be even better. How do you like the performance?'"
~ Heather Cox Richardson
#Trump #LindseyGraham #Iran #war #death #destruction #violence #PerformativeMasculinity
/1
"Wilson recently led a worship service at the Pentagon at Hegseth’s invitation."
#Trump #Hegseth #Iran #war #HolyWar #ChristianNationalism #patriarchy #misogyny #PerformativeMasculinity #MaleEntitlement #MaleDomination #armageddon #rapture #zionism #Islamophobia
/10
"The defence secretary attends Pilgrim Hill Reformed Fellowship, a church linked to the Communion of Reformed Evangelical Churches, a denomination co-founded by the pastor Doug Wilson, who has openly advocated a theocratic vision of society in which wives should submit to their husbands and women should be denied the vote."
#Trump #Hegseth #Iran #war #HolyWar #ChristianNationalism #patriarchy #misogyny #PerformativeMasculinity #MaleEntitlement #MaleDomination
/9
"Hegseth has previously endorsed the doctrine of 'sphere sovereignty', a worldview derived from the extremist beliefs of Christian reconstructionism (CR). The philosophy calls for capital punishment for homosexuality and strictly patriarchal families and churches."
#Trump #Hegseth #Iran #war #HolyWar #ChristianNationalism #patriarchy #misogyny #PerformativeMasculinity #MaleEntitlement #MaleDomination
/8
"The book suggests that democratic politics alone may not suffice to achieve the goals of his political allies, declaring: 'Voting is a weapon, but it’s not enough. We don’t want to fight, but, like our fellow Christians one thousand years ago, we must.'"
#Trump #Hegseth #Iran #war #HolyWar #ChristianNationalism #patriarchy #misogyny #PerformativeMasculinity #MaleEntitlement #MaleDomination
/7
"Now, faced with a geopolitical crisis that demands nuance and strategic foresight, he appears to many to be out of his depth. ...
In his 2020 book, American Crusade, Hegseth wrote that those who benefit from 'western civilisation' should 'thank a crusader'."
#Trump #Hegseth #Iran #war #HolyWar #ChristianNationalism #patriarchy #misogyny #PerformativeMasculinity #MaleEntitlement #MaleDomination
/6
