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"Donald Trump didn’t surprise anyone by welcoming the death of Robert Mueller, an American hero who exemplified all the admirable qualities he does not possess.
But the president’s fresh demonstration of depravity underscored a defining characteristic of his presidency. I do not mean corruption, or dishonesty, or ignorance, though Trump is thoroughly corrupt, dishonest, and ignorant."
~ John Harwood
#Trump #Hegseth #violence #PerformativeMasculinity
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Trump’s Angry, Stumbling Presidency
Donald Trump stoked populist rage to win the White House twice. Now, he faces it himself.John Harwood (Zeteo)
"Never before has an administration so openly glorified outright killing as the current White House propaganda machine does with its obscene snuff videos of the Iran war and the destruction of small boats.
Unlike with fascism in the 20th century, there is no attempt to promote or symbolically reward self-sacrifice –" (continued in /3)
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"it is just video game-style killing at a distance, justified not with strategic objectives, but with seemingly uncontrollable emotions ('fury' and a thirst for vengeance). And all accompanied by open admissions that basic laws of warfare will be broken."
"It seems that Hegseth and company are also promoting an ultimately nihilist cult of death. But it celebrates killing by pressing a button thousands of miles away; meanwhile, America’s own dead are dishonored, as Trump has used their repatriation to display his Maga merch and fundraise off the victims of war."
As Brian Kaylor reports, "Pete Hegseth’s Bible, like his body, is stamped with two Crusader tattoos."
The bible Hegseth used when he was sworn in has the same Crusader cross with which he's tattooed stamped on it, and has the stamp "Deus vult," also tatoooed on Hegseth's body.
As Kaylor notes,
"White supremacists have appropriated Crusader imagery to cast themselves as Christian warriors fighting to drive out Muslims and others in the name of God."
#Trump #Hegseth #violence #WhiteChristianNationalism #war #HolyWar #Iran #zionism #Islamophobia
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"The death toll in the lawless U.S. campaign against alleged drug-smuggling boats rose to at least 159 on Thursday after a strike in the eastern Pacific killed two people and left one survivor, who was turned over to the Costa Rican Coast Guard, according to the Pentagon. It was the 46th such strike on the high seas."
~ David Kurtz
#Trump #Hegseth #violence #WhiteChristianNationalism
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Trump DOJ Keeps Charging First and Investigating Later
INSIDE: Kilmar Abrego Garcia ... Robert Mueller ... Elon MuskDavid Kurtz (Morning Memo)
Kurtz notes — and this is not beside the point of this thread:
"Elon Musk gave a 💯 to a tweet on his X platform that concluded: 'White solidarity is the only way to survive.'"
#Trump #Hegseth #ElonMusk #violence #WhiteChristianNationalism #WhiteSupremacy
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"It appears that members of Trump’s cabinet get chosen not despite their endorsements of violence, but because of them. Pete Hegseth was primarily known as a dapper TV host willing to defend war crimes. Markwayne Mullin is apparently still proud of challenging a witness to a fistfight at a Senate hearing; he also refuses to apologize for 'understanding' an assault on fellow senator Rand Paul."
~ Jan-Werner Müller
#Trump #Hegseth #violence #WhiteChristianNationalism
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Pete Hegseth is promoting a nihilist cult of death
The Trump administration is embracing violence for the sake of violenceJan-Werner Müller (The Guardian)
Russian #psyop targets #Hungarians in western #Ukraine as #Budapest-Kyiv tensions rise
Russia has launched a major #HybridWar operation targeting the Hungarian ethnic community in western Ukraine to stoke local and international tensions, the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) said on March 18.
Posing as #Ukrainian law enforcement officers or members of #nationalist groups, Russian operatives have been making calls to ethnic Hungarians in Zakarpattia Oblast, demanding they leave the country and threatening #violence, the SBU said.
The calls were made from Russia but used number spoofing to appear as Ukrainian phone numbers, according to Ukraine's authorities.
The campaign is aimed at #destabilizing the situation in #Zakarpattia Oblast and escalating tensions between Ukraine and Hungary
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#RussianAggression #RussianThreats #terrorism
Russian psyop allegedly targets Hungarians in western Ukraine as Budapest-Kyiv tensions rise
Posing as Ukrainian law enforcement officers or members of nationalist groups, Russian operatives called ethnic Hungarians in Zakarpattia, demanding they leave the country and threatening violence, the SBU said.Martin Fornusek (The Kyiv Independent)
"The Christian Taliban isn't hiding its religious fanaticism anymore."
~ Andra Watkins
#WhiteChristianNationalism #bible #misogyny #homophobia #patriarchy #MaleDomination #MaleEntitlement #war #violence
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How Do Christian Nationalists Spell Fatwa?
The Christian Taliban isn't hiding its religious fanaticism anymore (Recording at the end)Andra Watkins (For Such a Time as This)
"Wilson's remarks at the Pentagon assured the audience that their battles were God’s battles, that God would be their protector just as he was for figures from scripture like Noah and David. He suggested that God’s people, having searched for the enemy, now realize they are surrounded—the implication presumably being that the real enemy is other Americans."
#WhiteChristianNationalism #DouglasWilson #Hegseth #bible #misogyny #homophobia #patriarchy #MaleDomination #war #violence
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"They would limit the ability of believers of other faiths—including non-Protestant Christians—to publicly practice their faith; Wilson recently said on a podcast that the theocratic society he envisions would ban mosques from broadcasting calls to prayer and prohibit Catholic parades honoring the Virgin Mary."
#WhiteChristianNationalism #DouglasWilson #Hegseth #bible #misogyny #homophobia #patriarchy #MaleEntitlement #MaleDomination #war #violence
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"not merely condoning a form of women’s submission in marriage that has been common in evangelicalism, but also severely limiting leadership roles in the church and in government and society to men only. …
Wilson & his followers would deny not only women but also non-Christians the franchise and the right to pursue public office."
#WhiteChristianNationalism #DouglasWilson #Hegseth #bible #misogyny #homophobia #patriarchy #MaleEntitlement #MaleDomination #war #violence
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"Wilson and other Christian nationalists draw on a framework known as 'sphere sovereignty' to interpret and apply the Bible to every area of modern life. ...
The government would advance a view of the world that is deeply patriarchal—" (continued in /5)
#WhiteChristianNationalism #DouglasWilson #Hegseth #bible #misogyny #homophobia #patriarchy #MaleEntitlement #MaleDomination #war #violence
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"For them, a Christian nation would be governed directly by biblical law, and in every area of of its common life and culture it would be shaped by a comprehensive 'biblical world and life view.'
A Christian nation, in his account, is a nation in which there is no area of life and culture where the Bible is not the ultimate authority."
#WhiteChristianNationalism #DouglasWilson #Hegseth #bible #misogyny #homophobia #patriarchy #MaleEntitlement #MaleDomination #war #violence
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"Proponents of America as a Christian nation are often somewhat hazy about what the end state of a 'Christian nation' would look like specifically, but Wilson and his followers have carefully laid out a detailed vision."
#WhiteChristianNationalism #DouglasWilson #Hegseth #bible #misogyny #homophobia #patriarchy #MaleEntitlement #MaleDomination #war #violence
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Julie Ingersoll provides an instructive rundown of what white Christian nationalism of the ilk of Douglas Wilson, Pete Hegseth's pastor, intends to impose on the US (and the entire world).
#WhiteChristianNationalism #DouglasWilson #Hegseth #bible #misogyny #homophobia #patriarchy #MaleEntitlement #MaleDomination #war #violence
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What Pete Hegseth’s Spiritual Mentor Wants for America
Pastor-theologian Douglas Wilson advocates theocracy, the restriction of the franchise from women and nonbelievers, and much else—and he is closer than ever to real power.Julie Ingersoll (The Bulwark)
"The Trump regime is seeking to deflect blame and avoid responsibility for the largest civilian massacre by the U.S. military [at a girls' school in Minab, Iran] since the My Lai massacre in Vietnam. It’s vitally important to understand what has actually happened and how the White House is now seeking to shift the narrative and evade accountability."
~ Jay Kuo
#Trump #Iran #war #death #destruction #violence #children
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Gaslighting Over Atrocities
The Trump White House’s deflections and false claims around a massacre of children cannot be allowed to stand.Jay Kuo (The Status Kuo)
"Trump blundered his way into a war in which one of the first acts was the killing of more than 160 innocent schoolgirls. Neither he nor the senior US military comm and has the decency or humanity to admit that they killed hundreds of Iranian children through their recklessness."
#Trump #Iran #war #death #destruction #violence #children
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"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
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Inside the DHS Campaign Against US Citizens
INSIDE: Abrego Garcia ... Kari Lake ... Enrique TarrioDavid Kurtz (Morning Memo)
"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
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"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
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Iran: It’s Hard to Know How to Exit When You Don’t Know Why You’re There
In discussions of modern wars, Americans obsess about “exit strategies”. How do you avoid getting “bogged down?” How do you know when the mission is finished?Josh Marshall (TPM - Talking Points Memo)
"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
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This Weekend in Politics, Bulletin 323.
… Trump was widely criticized for wearing a campaign hat he’s selling on his website for $55 during the dignified transfer ceremony for the soldiers killed during his Iran War.Ron Filipkowski (Meidas+)
"In just over a week, Trump and top administration officials have given at least 17 different responses about why the war began. ...
Hegseth has described the war’s mission as 'very very clear' and 'laser-focused.' Rubio said the war had 'a very clear goal' and he didn’t understand why there was any 'confusion.' Leavitt said that Trump had laid out 'achievable objectives.'”
~ Judd Legum
#Trump #Hegseth #Iran #war #death #destruction #violence #WarriorEthos
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"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
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"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
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"Hundreds of thousands displaced, and many millions more are terrified across the Middle East. …
The longer we remain blind to the terrible consequences of war, the more we are risking the most precious gift God gave us: our humanity."
#Trump #CardinalCupich #Iran #war #death #destruction #violence
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"A real war with real death and real suffering being treated like it’s a video game — it’s sickening. Hundreds of people are dead, mothers and fathers, daughters and sons, including scores of children who made the fatal mistake of going to school that day. Six U.S. soldiers have been killed. They are also dishonored by that social media post."
#Trump #CardinalCupich #Iran #war #death #destruction #violence
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"As more than 1,000 Iranian men, women and children lay dead after days of bombardment from U.S. and Israeli missiles, the official White House X account on Thursday evening posted a video of scenes from popular action movies spliced with actual strike footage from their war on Iran. The clip was captioned: 'JUSTICE THE AMERICAN WAY.'"
~ Cardinal Blaise Cupich, Catholic archdiocese of Chicago
#Trump #CardinalCupich #Iran #war #death #destruction #violence
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Statement of Cardinal Blase J. Cupich, archbishop of Chicago, “A Call to Conscience”
As more than 1,000 Iranian men, women and children lay dead after days of bombardment from U.S. and Israeli missiles, the official White House X account on Thursday evening posted a video of scenes from popular action movies spliced with actual strik…Archdiocese of Chicago
"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
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"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
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"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
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The bombing of Iranian children is an unforgivable crime
America has blood on its hands.Noah Berlatsky (Public Notice)
"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
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The Finest Funerary Trucker Cap: Tabs, Mon., March 9, 2026
News and things to read and watch!Marcie Jones (Wonkette)
“'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
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"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
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"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
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"In the context of the broader Christian tradition, however, other expressions of Christianity would consider it an idol. And an idol is whatever Christians place their hope and trust in rather than God."
#Trump #Hegseth #Iran #war #ChristianNationalism #armageddon #rapture #violence
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