And if you are Secretary of Defense, stop calling yourself “Secretary of War.” Stop glorifying it. Don’t revel in killing thousands at the push of a button. Don’t make fun of your enemies, much less your allies, even less the people whose job is to uncover truths in the fog of battle. This is a serious business.

Don’t pretend this is fun, especially if you are then going to pretend that you are pious, that you are doing it all in the name of God.

US News is calling this  “The Meme War.” Anne Applebaum is condemning “the war’s memefication.” What are they responding to?  The series of viral TikTok videos being produced by the White House.

It’s all just a video game to them. In his piece, Olivier Knox of US News demonstrates how they actually “spliced real-world explosions with video game footage to exult over the destruction in the language of Internet memes.”

So one early clip blended images from actual strikes with footage from “Call of Duty,” and another spliced scenes from “Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas,” while another edited “Nintendo Wii Sports” into scenes of explosions.

And then there’s the more-is-more video the White House posted that draws on “Top Gun: Maverick,” “Braveheart,” “Better Call Saul,” the “Halo” games, “John Wick,” “Superman,” “Transformers” and “Deadpool,” among others. It ends with the “Flawless Victory” message players get from the “Mortal Kombat” franchise when they win a round without sustaining any damage.

And then there’s the more-is-more video the White House posted that draws on “Top Gun: Maverick,” “Braveheart,” “Better Call Saul,” the “Halo” games, “John Wick,” “Superman,” “Transformers” and “Deadpool,” among others. It ends with the “Flawless Victory” message players get from the “Mortal Kombat” franchise when they win a round without sustaining any damage.

A reminder: War is not a video game. And – here’s where Jewish tradition comes into play – even our enemies are human beings. While sometimes war is necessary, even when it is, it is a sacrilege not to treat it with the utmost of seriousness.

Trump and his lackeys are simply unserious people. The proposed new ICE-Meister and Homeland Security Secretary Senator Markwayne Mullin told a Senate committee that he........

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