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7 thoughts on “Goodness: It’s Only Wednesday!”

1. Amazona January 22, 2025 / 3:22 pm

   I understand the rationale of affirmative action, and in a perfect world it would have gone a long way to correct a bad situation. But that would still have been a stopgap measure, for only one generation, giving that generation the educational background it needed for those in school and the jobs needed to advance economically, so that generation could then provide its children the benefits that had once been denied.

   I think the biggest speed bump that affirmative action hit was the fact that the people who came up with the idea didn’t really understand the demographic it was supposed to help. What the concept ran into was deep-seated, carefully nurtured, racism and resentment from blacks. We offered black people a way to start to fit into our culture, and they said F your culture. So it did no good to get black kids into better schools if the black culture deemed studying and and good grades as being “too white”. It was hard for black men to work hard at jobs and be good fathers and husbands when their own people ridiculed them and called them Uncle Toms and worse.

   Clueless white people (for the most part) assumed that pathways into what made us successful would be appreciated by black people, but too many black people had chosen to adopt a very different culture that clashed with ours in significant ways. The first time I became aware of this was when the Reverend Wright’s church came into public view, when Obama started his presidential run. We clueless whites saw all these very prosperous black people, middle class and upper middle class, as proof that the system works, and were astounded to hear that these people who were, on the surface, examples of the success of moving away from racial discrimination, were actually examples of racist hatred of and rejection of us easily as virulent as most white-to-black racism had been. At least that was my first understanding of this.

   Affirmative action never stood a chance at undermining or eroding primitive tribalism, and that is really what drives the refusal of black people to assimilate into what is, at heart, white culture, although it has expanded to include all races and has always been happy to expand to include more black people. Michael Brown’s black community knew he was a vicious and dangerous man, but they stood together and defended him when it became a black/white conflict instead of simply arresting a criminal regardless of his skin color. Affirmative action not only can’t bridge this divide, it makes it wider by sending the message that black people are inferior and therefore unable to function on “our” level without the condescending lowering of standards for them.
   • Mark Noonan January 22, 2025 / 8:51 pm

     It seems pretty clear to me that Michelle Obama holds deep racial resentments – perhaps all the way up to being overtly racist in view. She was born into a middle class family – her mom was stay-at-home, her dad a Democrat Party operative who worked in Chicago’s water works – meaning he was connected and absolutely bullet-proof as far as holding his job until he retired. So, middle class family in a nice area of town with absolute job security. And, of course, she was born in 1964 – in Chicago. She has no personal memory or experience of Jim Crow. Sure, her southern ancestors did…but she didn’t.

     She was a hard working student and so managed to get into prestige schools in Chicago…which placed her on a fast-track to a highly prosperous life. Keep in mind: she earned her positions in these schools, but once in them she was also assured – as long as she didn’t slack off – that the best colleges and careers were going to be available to her. She was living the American dream – grandpa was a poor farmer who moved north. Dad was a blue collar worker. She was going to go to college and move into the professions. She had nothing to complain about and a huge amount to be grateful for…to her family, of course, but also to her country which had set the great-granddaughter of a man born a slave onto the path to the heights.

     So, what happened – she went to Princeton and got into African-American studies. That’s what happened. She learned racial grievance-mongering. And learned that it was the way to go. Remember, Obama, himself, grew up upper middle-class and had no reason to complain about life in America…half white, his father African so there was no ancestral gripe for him to have. But he also learned how to gripe…because it was perfect. Nobody could call you out on it! And they just threw money and power at you! It just worked out amazingly well that they got to the White House but suppose they hadn’t gone that route or failed in the attempt…they’d still be sitting on a pile of cash handed to them just because they are black.

     And worst part is that they imparted social destruction to black Americans…rely on it, Barry and Michelle made sure their kids did their homework. But they saddled everyone else’s black kids with schools that don’t even teach basic literacy…and those two smug, arrogant sons-of-bitches go day by day preening themselves on their moral excellence.
     • Amazona January 22, 2025 / 9:17 pm

       his father African so there was no ancestral gripe for him to have…..but the father, if the father was really Barack Obama Sr. was Kenyan, and there was a big gripe against England. The grandfather openly loathed England. Remember, Obama removed the bust of Churchill as soon as he got into the Oval Office. And the man thought to be his real, biological, father, Frank Davis Marshall, was a committed Communist who loathed America and was the pivotal father figure in Obama’s life. So he grew up marinated in hatred of whites and the United States
     • Amazona January 22, 2025 / 9:21 pm

       But they saddled everyone else’s black kids with schools that don’t even teach basic literacy

       The first time I went to CPAC, in 2009, a black woman broke down in tears talking about how the black people thought Obama was such a savior, but then he ended the program she had been working on for so many years that took so many black children out of the ghetto schools in DC and made it possible for them to get into private schools. This program changed lives, albeit only a few at a time, by making a real education possible for at least some black children—and Obama ended it.
     • Mark Noonan January 22, 2025 / 11:21 pm

       That is the sort of thing that just burns me up…they won’t even let poor kids have a chance. It is worst against minority kids but, these days, it just hits bad against all poorer kids. I recall that my step-daughter’s kids went to a gold-plated public school system…in northern New Jersey. And everyone there made sure they paid massive property taxes and flooded the schools with money (these people are desperate to get their kids the golden ticket – admission into an Ivy League school)…and all fine and dandy…but they also kept voting overwhelmingly Democrat … while over in Newark the schools have 39% of the kids proficient in reading English.

       That is the thing about Liberals – they are so amazingly selfish and cruel.
2. Retired Spook January 23, 2025 / 12:04 pm

   This segment of today’s Coffee & Covid is so good, I’m just going to copy the whole thing.

   In a sign, perhaps, of how badly Trump has discombobulated the corporate media, the major platforms finally began reporting the profound challenged to the federal workforce—two lazy days after the fact. Yesterday, CNN ran its story, headlined “Trump targets DEI and civil service protections, striking fear in some federal workers.” It was even more swamp draining.

   

   This term, Trump 2.0 appears laser-focused on draining the swamp, possibly recognizing that a dried-out swamp will create a pathway to all the other goals on his agenda. Yesterday, I reported at length about Trump’s anti-DEI fusillade, which required federal DEI staff not already smuggled out of their departments to be placed on administrative leave as of 5pm yesterday afternoon.

   But maybe even more significantly, on Monday, Trump signed another employment order creating a whole new category of federal employees called “Schedule F.”

   It’s an idea he came up with too late in 2020, when he first signed the new schedule into existance. But he just couldn’t get it into the end zone past all the defensive litigation before his first term expired. Then, Joe Biden immediately reversed the order. For reasons incomprehensible to normal people, federal workers enjoy job protection far beyond anything available to workers in the private sector.

   Most of us in the private sector are considered “at will” employees who can be fired for any reason or no reason at all.

   Manager doesn’t like you? Fired. Too many customers complaining about your nose ring? Fired. Asked too many stupid questions? Fired. Won’t work weekends? Fired. Talk too much? Also fired. In fact, the right to fire employees is so broad that the exceptions prove the rule. The only things employers can’t fire at-will workers for are their race, sex, age, and a small handful of other protected characteristics. Anything else is fair game.

   

   But federal employees, who apparently occupy a higher, better tier of employment than we do, can’t be fired until a slow-moving termination review committee double-checks their supervisor’s decision to fire them. If the committee disagrees, then tough noogies. But Schedule F creates a special “at will” category, a first in the federal workforce, and that terrifies some federal employees.

   For some, meaning the partisans, the thought of working under the same rules as the rest of Americans is just too much.

   I’ll explain how it works, since corporate media stories ignore this part, even though it is straightforward. The new category, Schedule F, would apply only to federal employees in “confidential, policy-determining, policy-making, or policy-advocating” positions. Agencies must identify those politically-sensitive positions —positions, not employees— and reclassify those positions as Schedule F.

   Then, employees occupying those positions would slide down to our employment tier, enjoying the same rules and protections as all other Americans who work at-will, which as I said, is most of us.

   But that’s not good enough for one political party in particular. You guessed it: Democrats. Lawsuits, prepared long in advance, have already been filed. Democrats could care less about worker’s rights when it involves mandatory experimental vaccines. Vaccinate or terminate! But supposedly, they are now suddenly champions of workers’ rights. Uh huh.

   Hilariously, CNN’s story, as with the rest of corporate media, repeatedly refers to the entrenched bureaucracy as “apolitical.” This old canard, long used to defend insane federal job protections, conjured an image of a purified class of hardworking civil servants who stayed so far out of politics they refused to even watch CNN, lest they accidentally give some taxpayer somewhere the wrong idea.

   Paging Lois Lerner.

   That used to work. But then Trump came, and we saw the rise of The Resistance. We witnessed FBI officials Peter Strzok and Lisa Page, two adulterers tweeting about anti-Trump insurance policies — 🎼like a good neighbor, Peter is there. We witnessed all-federal-worker juries in the January 6th trials accomplishing a historic, never-seen-before 100% conviction rate. We watched Alexander Vindman arrogantly leaking parts of a confidential Trump call with Zelensky, leading to Trump’s first impeachment and no consequences for Vindman.

   We have learned the “apolitical workforce” line is a laughable fantasy, a mere convenient fiction. Before Trump 1.0, the “apolitical” argument was liberally applied to safeguard federal workers’ “rights.” But we’re not buying it anymore. There are probably some good federal workers who keep their heads down and stay out of politics —probably many— but the bad ones have proven the president needs a way to prune the rotten branches more quickly than the current glacial process, where most challenged employees comfortably retire long before their review and appeal options expire.

   But today the federal workforce is reeling. So far this week, Trump has hit them six ways from Sunday, to quote Chuck Schumer. He’s ordered them back to full-time, in-person office work. He’s reinstated his 2020 Schedule F scheme. And he’s pulled the plug on DEI.

   To say the deep state is playing on defense is a terrific understatement. He’s coming at them from every direction. They’re surrounded.

   And it’s not just federal workers in a general sense, or even specifically DEI teams. Yesterday, the President aimed his pruning laser at the big health agencies. They’re screaming for sympathy, but: We. Don’t. Care.

   I’m glad I’m still around to see this. I’ve been waiting my entire adult life to witness something like this.
   • Mark Noonan January 23, 2025 / 2:33 pm

     In the upcoming Homeworld entry of the Mirrors series, as you might have guessed, our heroes are back here for a bit of fun and adventure…and one of the characters introduced is a lady who is FBI (or, so her ID says; but Fred suspects she’s not really…the Deep State seems to be involved here) and this passage happens:

     “So, what’s the story with this Daniel?”
     “He’s not suited for this operation.”
     “In what way?”
     “He’s political, first off. Placed with us by leverage from oversight.”
     “Ok, so he’s a line to Congress.”
     “He’s a spy for Congress.”
     “I thought you were supposed to work for them?”
     Hannah looked at me and gave me a little smile.
     “Of course we do, but we’ve also learned over the years that some people think we work for a particular party in the Congress.”
     “And I’m guessing you think Daniel is one of them?”
     “He is. Don’t get me wrong: I think he means well. But I also think he’s got his eye on a prize and hopes that by stroking egos he’ll get it.”

     That is the problem – too many of our “apolitical” officials are actually totally loyal to one party. This is the natural bent of things…human nature, as it were. One party is in favor of maximized government power, maximized number of government employees and maximized pay/benefits for government employees. Guess which party the government employees are going to favor? This was the unintended consequence of Civil Service Reform in the 19th century…the charge led, by the way, by none other than a young Theodore Roosevelt as head of the US Civil Service Commission in the Harrison and Cleveland Administrations (part of the reason Cleveland won was because Roosevelt was taking massive shots at Harrison’s Postmaster over political appointees). The old “spoils” system was condemned because it allowed a President to provide jobs for political cronies…the idea of civil service reform was to obtain people who were just qualified for the job…but the long term effect has been to create and entrench the Deep State…it would be better if every 4 to 8 years just about everyone gets fired. Term limits for political power of any type are the best defense against tyranny.

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