And the madness continues. Blessed are the truth-tellers like Stacey Patton who shine bright light on all this darkness, exposing the larger picture that is so important to understand and act to intervene and stop in any way that we can. And especially this means stopping our young people from enlisting in the American Empire's military machine and becoming one of those who are "on the “leading edge of lethality.” Sickens me. This is so insane. — Molly
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Hey Y’all.
I’d like to announce that we have officially reached the stage of American collapse where the secretary of war is gonna start checking soldiers’ soldiers’ ball-sac output before sending them out to defend the Empire. Never mind that this country’s president can’t even stay awake during meetings, while this country can’t even keep its bridges standing, its hospitals open, its children fed, or its people housed.
So now I guess if your neck ain’t thicker than your head, or if your resting face doesn’t tell folks you drink a dozen raw eggs and eat drywall for breakfast, then you’re ’bout to get referred to the Pentagon’s new Reich-certified Masculinity Laboratory for Hormonal Correction and Alpha Verification.
Y’all think I’m being funny, but according to the news, this week Pete Hegseth announced that military service members age 30 and older will be screened annually for testosterone deficiency. Younger troops can volunteer for testing and hormone replacement therapy if military doctors recommend it.
Hegseth sat in front of the camera lookin’ like a man selling tactical Nugenix, and said the goal is to make sure America’s “warfighters” have “the right testosterone levels to operate at your absolute best.” He insisted that this new program is not about “artificial enhancement,” but about “optimizing your natural capability,” creating “maximum psychological and mental readiness” and keeping American troops on the “leading edge of lethality.”
The leading edge of lethality?
Y’all hear that? He really fixed his lips to say that as if what this country is sorely lacking is state-sponsored killing efficiency.
Now, as usual, our dear mainstream outlets are treating Hegseth’s announcement like it’s just another ridiculous episode in his ongoing macho fuckery. Reporters have asked the obvious questions about mass testosterone screening and whether it is medically necessary, and a few pundits have linked Hegseth’s fixation to the broader manosphere’s crisis of masculinity.
But this is bigger than a middle-aged white man’s obsession with masculinity and his desperate need to perform alpha-male dominance every time he gets in front of a camera.
We’ve can’t look at this announcement in isolation. It is part of a deeper racialized and dystopian project to decide which bodies can represent American military strength, which bodies will be classified as defective, and which ones the state is authorized to medically optimize to wage violence in defense and preservation of a white supremacist future.
This same man who wants to check troops’ hormones for combat readiness has been blocking the advancement of Black and female officers with exemplary records by removing them from promotion lists, engineering combat standards around an explicitly male ideal to could drive women out of combat roles, and driving transgender troops out of the military, with some facing loss of retirement benefits they already earned. Also, remember back in May he told military graduates at West Point that “diversity is not our strength.” He has purged DEI programs and publicly sneered at “fat generals and admirals.” And his Pentagon disbanded its advisory committee on women, accusing it of advancing a “divisive feminist agenda.”
Look at who he has removed from leadership. Look at who he has humiliated as physically deficient. Look at who he has portrayed as some kind of ideological contamination. And now look at him expanding the state’s authority to measure hormonal fitness and offer biological correction in the name of “lethality.”
Y’all, this ain’t ordinary healthcare. This is some Nazi body sorting boolshit that authoritarian regimes do when they want to decide who is worthy of being perfected for state violence.
We already know that white supremacists love to say that white people are superior. But it doesn’t just stop at rhetoric. White supremacy tries to create an ideal human specimen that’s white, male, heterosexual, able-bodied, disciplined, aggressive, emotionally hardened and prepared to dominate. Just look at all them Aryan fever-dream images that have circulated across the Department of Labor’s social media pages. Look at the white-nationalist slogans and almost exclusively white recruitment imagery pushed by the Department of Homeland Security. These agencies are not simply advertising jobs or military service. No. They’re teaching the public what an “American” body is supposed to look like, and who must be erased, expelled, or treated as biological failure.
Why does all this matter?
Because powerful white men cannot simply age, weaken and die because white supremacy has never presented them as ordinary human beings. It presents them as civilization’s natural rulers who are vigorous, commanding, biologically destined to dominate and entitled to remain in power long after their bodies begin failing them. And so their deterioration becomes a political crisis that must be hidden, medicalized, blamed on an enemy or technologically reversed. Trump’s decline must be concealed beneath makeup and mythology. McConnell’s absence must be managed with proof-of-life photographs. Graham’s death must become an international assassination plot. And now Hegseth arrives with the promise that the state can screen, supplement and repair insufficiently masculine bodies before sending them back out to defend the empire.
This is unfolding against a much larger atmosphere of white demographic panic: a shrinking white share of the population, an aging ruling class, historically low national fertility, communities devastated by suicide and drug deaths, and a younger America that is increasingly multiracial. Census projections show that non-Hispanic white people are on course to fall below half of the population, while the national fertility rate has declined by roughly 23 percent since 2007. White supremacy reads those changes not as ordinary demographic transformation or the consequence of political and economic abandonment, but as biological defeat.
That is why this pathetic testosterone campaign is more than one fool’s macho obsession. It is a fantasy of racial and imperial resuscitation. When the old patriarchs are visibly deteriorating, the white birthrate is falling, the population is becoming less white and the Empire itself looks exhausted AF, Hegseth offers the regime a syringe and calls it readiness. In his demented mind, American dominance can be restored by identifying the correct bodies, purging the supposedly defective ones and chemically juicing up the ones selected to carry white power into the future without end.
Ohhh, and where does this new “testosterone therapy” fit in Hegseth’s war on gender-affirming care? Apparently, hormones are dangerous social engineering when trans people receive them, but sacred military medicine when white men need help feeling sufficiently lethal. Ain’t it funny how “biology” always bends toward the political desires of white men.
Ohhh, and never mind that actual medical experts have questioned routinely screening people who have no symptoms. Testosterone levels can bounce around depending on stress, illness, sleep, weight and intense physical training, which, last I checked, describes the basic operating conditions of military life.
Now, I’m not a medical doctor, but still I know how to interpret clinical guidelines. And from my understanding, you’re supposed to have actual symptoms and repeatedly show low test results before you can be diagnosed with this kind of hormonal deficiency.
Am I right?
But Hegseth is basically out here trying to say that you can simply be a 30-year-old holding a government-issued weapon and look like you’re insufficiently homicidal.
Ohhh . . . ohhh . . . OHHHH! And not to mention Y’all, giving people unnecessary testosterone treatment can suppress sperm production and create other health complications. Which is mighty fucking ironic for a political movement that spends half its time screaming about collapsing birthrates, white demographic decline, and women not popping out enough babies. So the Pentagon’s new strategy for preserving Western civilization is apparently to juice up the troops, shrink their sperm counts and hope nobody notices that the so-called “master race” forgot to read the side-effects label.
But apparently the Pentagon’s new medical standard is: if a white man is tired, irritable, overworked and serving inside a collapsing empire, don’t improve his living conditions, just check his balls and prescribe national renewal.
Pete Hegseth is not merely trying to make the military stronger. He wants to purge, rank, and rebuild the U.S. military around a white-masculinist ideal that will keep America’s racist war machine running for as long as chemically possible.
Please go here for the original article: https://drstaceypatton1865.substack.com/p/secretary-of-war-pete-hegseth-is
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