MAGA poison: Federal government collapse; Training the US military to kill civilians in US cities

The AZ Express reports that ~100,000 federal workers plan to resign today because they're in a snit or something. A FEMA employee said that after months of pressure and vilification by MAGA thugs, “Federal workers stay for the mission. When that mission is taken away, when they’re scapegoated, when their job security is uncertain, and when their tiny semblance of work-life balance is stripped away, they leave.”

Djt's MAGA spin on this is what one would expect. This is integral to his promise to “drain the swamp.” He has made his hostility to government clear and undeniable: “The bureaucracy is the enemy of the people. They’ve blocked us every step of the way. On Tuesday, we’re taking our country back.”

Today is that Tuesday.

MAGA's unjustifiable, immoral unpleasantness, pressure and vilification of federal employees is intentional. Project 2025 and rhetoric from MAGA elites have made it crystal clear that getting rid of federal agency presence and power was and still is a central authoritarian-kleptocrat goal. News that ~100,000 federal employees plan to resign is cause for the elite MAGA crowd to pop champaign corks, do lots of back slapping and guffawing, and unleashing loud cries of HUZZAH!! Wealthy and/or powerful Trump and MAGA allies are cheering their black, morally rotted little hearts out. If there was such a thing as hell, that's where MAGA elites would be destined to go.

MAGA elites want two big things. First, they want most of the executive agencies to collapse and melt away (but not all, e.g, the FBI, DoJ, ICE, and the military). Second, they want almost all of the rest of what power and wealth remains with us and the public interest to be redirected to themselves. They want a lot more wealth and power than they already have.

Folks, believe it or like it or not, this is what the end game for our democracy, rule of law and civil liberties looks like. 

Yup, she is right --- the rules have changed

The rank & file are gonna get 

what they asked for good and hard

Unfortunately, so are we

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The NYT is doing real time reporting (not paywalled) and updates on the ongoing meeting at Quantico, VA with ~800 high level US military generals and admirals. Trump and Pete Hegseth are in attendance and speaking. Here is a description of some of it while it is still ongoing:

• The president just said he told Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth that “we should use some of these dangerous cities as training grounds for our military,” referring to urban areas within the United States. He’s now talking about the deployment of National Guard troops to Chicago and Portland, Ore.

• There does not seem to be a clear point or purpose in President Trump’s address to military generals today. It’s a garden variety tear; he’s talking about tariffs, Joe Biden and the autopen, the southern border, CNN, his personal feelings about President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia and his anxieties that he won’t be given a Nobel Peace Prize he feels he deserves. .... “I think we should maybe start thinking about battleships by the way” he said at one point in the middle of a riff about tariffs. “I used to watch Victory at Sea. I love Victory at Sea.”

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• Trump says he expected more fury from the left when he changed the name of the Defense Department to the “Department of War.”** But, he said, in his view, he has so worn out his critics over these last 10 years that they’re just rolling over. (Though Trump renamed the department, Congress has not yet approved the change.)

** Maybe there was no fury because Senate Democrats knew the name change could not be made into law without their votes. There was nothing to be furious about. Trump is just trolling the Dems.

So there we have it. Dictatorship fans must love this stuff. Trump wants to train the US military to commit mass murder of US citizens using US cities as training grounds. And even though they are obsolete and expensive but useless, he loves big, fat battleships. What fun!! 

That's what Trump thinks war looks like

neat and tidy cannon blasts from a neat and tidy distance

He looks at the delivery end of the horror

This is just a tiny glimpse of what real war looks like from the receiving end of the horror, you know, the messy part of war that Trump, the idiot monster that he really is, cannot see or doesn't have the guts to look at:

What Trump voters voted for is what we are going to get good and hard, whether we want it or not. 

Q: Do you support using US cities to train the US military to commit mass murder of US citizens, or does that mischaracterize what Trump really does want to do to US citizens that he hates?