It’s MARBWA, Not MAGA

Read this from the Guardian UK.

Its headline:

‘Really scary’: rightwing watchlist found of mostly Black federal health workers;
Federal workers alarmed at Heritage Foundation-backed watchdog’s list of civil servants in health equity roles

But of course. These ultra-white-wing fanatics are white supremacists. They’re not even hiding it or using dog whistles any more. MAGA doesn’t really hate DEI, per se; It hates black people, more to the point black people in positions of power and authority in our federal government. DEI to them is code word for n****. They use DEI hate to “prove” every black employee in our Federal bureaucracy was hired and promoted not for their ability, but because of their color. Jim Crow, meet Elon Musk.

Musk and his merry band of little Nazi pukes are enacting a simple agenda, Making America Run by Whitey Again. Let’s call it MARBWA. Of course it’s being headlined by a white South African who comes from a resolutely and unapologetically racist family back there. There’s more to it, of course. Gutting our Federal bureaucracy will of course make hundreds of billions–trillions–available to steal. Just like Putin and his oligarch pals, after the fall of Yeltsin, stole Russian natural resources and enriched themselves like Julius Caesar gutting Gaul to become, like Caesar and his adopted son Augustus, some of the most fabulously wealthy human beings in history holding all the power over a helpless and subservient people. Except this time the American people voted for their own subservience and subjugation.

Moreover, cutting all federal regulations and the agencies that enforce them–which Musk has clearly stated he is doing–means the oligarchs can run wild with no labor, environmental, and occupational safety regulatory overwatch. They are also gutting federal law enforcement agencies that protect the people from rapacious corporations and oligarchs. Then they can fuck their employees every which way they want, pollute our communities with impunity, and steal everything not bolted down from the American people, all while hiding out, free from prosecution, and far from the aftereffects on the streets of America in their secret billionaire lairs.

Am I wrong? How many of you actually READ Project 2025 when it was publicly available last summer? The playbook was out there. Did you think these maniacs were kidding?

A World of Shit Awaits

Dexter Filkins in The New Yorker presents an alarming report on the state of our military and its inability to recruit sufficient young people to keep our military strong and ready. Kids don’t want to serve their country any more, and why not after two wasteful wars that led to nothing except death, horrible mutilation, and deep psychological distress for so many patriotic young people who were thrown into the wars.

Our great victories against Nazi Germany and warmongering Imperial Japan gave our military great esteem as conquering heroes, men like my Dad and Uncle Don Scheck. Then in wasteful wars in Korea, Vietnam, Iraq, and Afghanistan, we squandered the goodness of our cause with horrible civilian and military leadership in conducting these wars badly and without any real strategy for victory, which led to zero gain for our national security, let alone victory, and which killed tens of thousands of good young people and destroyed so many who survived. Korea was a tie at best, and we lost the wars in Vietnam, Iraq, and Afghanistan. LOST. Men and women served honorably, of course, and there were many heroes, but our leaders were war criminals and villains who tainted the great honor our military earned in World War II.

And here we are. We face serious threats from Russia and China, both of whom have nefarious imperial ambitions against our allies in Europe and Taiwan. And our military, once designed to be able to fight and win one great war while also waging a second to at least a standstill, at least until we can rally the American like we did in WW II to unite the country to do what it takes to win the second, is now weakened and undermanned.

Our enemies know this. We face a world of shit.