Blue Skies
Well, well, well.
Lady Whistledale votes. Sometimes it's not enough. It wasn't enough in 2016. It wasn't enough in 2024. It was enough in 2026.
This one was For the People, By the People. I speak a sad truth: Democrats aren't so great either, and the national five stages of grief about that was a 10 year learning curve. The sadness is what had to happen along the way, the many lives ever changed: trans people, LatinX people and other immigrants, in the end anyone and anything not part of the plan of the few, the wealth of the few, the self interest of the few.
Once upon a time Lady Whistledale was a worker bee. In the honey comb I learned the concept of "the builders and the climbers," the people who build the ladders inevitably followed by the opportunists who climb them. It would be that era that Meg Whitman, then Republican and now, recently, Democrat, set the record for the most personal funds spent on her ultimately losing race for CA Governor. Somewhere in the whirlwind of campaign sit downs, she was talking about her time at eBay, referring to the same phenomenon as "the missionaries and the mercenaries."
MAGA has many mercenaries, MAGA has all of them. MAGA IS mercenaries 2.0. They lack building skills 101 and climb over each other like cannibalistic ants in frantic search of light. And cameras and desperate, needy fame.
Jordan Henry, Aneta Krpekyan, Maro Yacoubian, Ray Shelton, Alex Balekian and his sister Janet. It's a long list and, coincidentally a tired list of has-beens. Some occasionally show up huffing and puffing to no one at all before sliding back into their oblivion.
Old MAGAs die, new MAGAs are always at the ready. But in 2026 it's no longer the MAGAs who are tired, it's the ladders. Over a decade into the game, the mercenaries are under-equipped to the task, something everyone seems to see but them.
MAGA is afraid of the future. MAGA is people selling a narrative of fear of the word "All" in Liberty and Justice for All. Towards both they are clinging to, like drowning rats to a buoy, a memory of traditional they weren't alive to experience procured through the idealized, sanitized lens and narrative of exclusive voices and media. And one unfortunate tome written by their equally delusional ancestors, minus the pesky parts about love and neighborly things and feeding hungry people. And that really important part about not judging people, hoo-boy that's a goner.
It took The People a decade to see the flaw in the system and build new pathways to it. How long will it take MAGA (the new Democrats 😂)?
In the meantime, the next wave of failed swill is hanging on to their delusion, the only thing in their toolkit.
See MAGA fail? It's our new favorite pastime.
