"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

#Trump #Hegseth #Iran #war #cruelty #lethality #death #destruction #violence #PerformativeMasculinity
/4

https://geneweingarten.substack.com/p/war-porn

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

"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

#Trump #Hegseth #Iran #war #cruelty #lethality #death #destruction #violence #PerformativeMasculinity
/6

https://joycevance.substack.com/p/thursday-in-america

"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."

#Trump #Hegseth #Iran #war #cruelty #lethality #death #destruction #violence #PerformativeMasculinity
/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

#Trump #Hegseth #Iran #war #cruelty #lethality #death #destruction #violence #PerformativeMasculinity
/4

https://geneweingarten.substack.com/p/war-porn

"Trump and Hegseth seem to be in love with what they think of as their Big Boy Toys. Supreme excellence in their minds seems to be blowing things up better than anyone else can blow things up. We can blow up more things than anyone else. We can blow things into smaller pieces than anyone else can. We can blow up things from a greater distance than anyone else can."

~ Peterr

#Trump #Hegseth #Iran #war #PerformativeMasculinity #violence #arrogance
/38

https://emptywheel.net/2026/03/12/great-tactics-mean-nothing-if-you-have-no-strategy/

"Trump and Hegseth seem to be in love with what they think of as their Big Boy Toys. Supreme excellence in their minds seems to be blowing things up better than anyone else can blow things up. We can blow up more things than anyone else. We can blow things into smaller pieces than anyone else can. We can blow up things from a greater distance than anyone else can."

~ Peterr

#Trump #Hegseth #Iran #war #PerformativeMasculinity #violence #arrogance
/38

https://emptywheel.net/2026/03/12/great-tactics-mean-nothing-if-you-have-no-strategy/

"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

https://www.thenerve.news/p/carole-cadwalladr-trump-war-testosterone-broligarchy-palentir-ai-manosphere-epstein

"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

https://www.thenerve.news/p/carole-cadwalladr-trump-war-testosterone-broligarchy-palentir-ai-manosphere-epstein