Mikey Weinstein Interviewed by “The Good Men Project” on MRFF’s Two Decades of Relentless “Activism for a Secular Military”

With over 3 million visitors a month, The Good Men Project, founded by Tom Matlack in 2009, first as a book, then a film, and now a website, describes itself as an “international conversation about what it means to be a good man in the 21st century.”
Mikey Weinstein once again joins that conversation in an illuminating interview about MRFF’s “Activism for a Secular Military.”
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Mikey Weinstein – Secretary of the Air Force?
I’m going to have to one-up that one – Secretary of Defense!
With Hegseth as Trump’s pick, “I only pick the best people (accordion hands).” Let’s see how that one works out. Nuke a hurricane or two? US troops deployed along the border?
Speaking of borders, you know what Canada and Mexico have in common?
They both border on stupidity!
David Barton? A Christian apologist and revisionist self proclaimed historian (revisionist history), also Mike Johnson’s bitch boy, following the example set by Johnson himself of being one of Trump’s many bitch boys.
I’m in! Mikey Weinstein as Secretary of Defense. Let’s enhance combat readiness and availability! Let’s make our secular military aligned with precepts of dignity and respect for all military members.
I’d support a rock before I supported Pete Hegseth for Sec Def! “Hegseth” sounds like the sound of a sneeze — and he’s got about as much high-level management and leadership experience as a sneeze, too!
“Hegseth.” Bless you! Sounds like you’re catching cold. Good one!
I’m guessing the DOD is frantically running around the Pentagon trying to find exigency plans for Panama!
“But Sir, we don’t have any!
“Goddamn it! Get on it! No air strikes, we want to preserve the canal. Troops on the ground. Get them HAMAS fighters that Trump said invaded the Capital four years ago. We can use them! Put the JSOC on high alert, we’re using them! Tell 1st Cav at Fort Cavazos to dust off their Apaches. Get the Chinook Huggy Bears out of Alaska. I want three Combat Aviation Brigades in this – you pick ‘em, but they’d better be ready! Cavazos Apaches take lead to kick this off. Tell 1st Armored out at Ft. Bliss they’re playing – I want two Brigades of heavy armor ready to roll. I want the 160th SOAR at Campbell on alert, and 1st infantry in Kansas backed up by 3rd Infantry at Stewart are providing cannon fo…. Er, I mean, ground support. 82nd at Liberty are dropping asses. Get AMC in Huntsville on the phone, they’ve got the logistics tail. Air Force has got the air trans component, staging at Biggs Field in El Paso. Beaumont has the trans piece for armor. We’re calling this “Operation Goat Fuck! Now get on it people! Who’s got the American Express card?”
Too funny! MAGA chaos – coming to a city near you!
Texas Republican State Rep Talerico says it best, “Christian Nationalists walk around with a mouthful of scripture and a heart full of hate! Don’t tell me what you believe. Show me how you treat other people and I’ll tell you what you believe!”
Powerful words from a devout Republican Christian!
Very succinctly sums it up!
The bigotry of Christian Nationalism has no place in our diverse, secular military!
To not support the MRFF is to not support our military members, America’s sons and daughters, one of our greatest National resources, with careers held hostage to the avarice of bigoted proselytizing Commanders and politicians, readiness detractors in the very serious business of prosecuting a nation’s call to arms!
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Right on que with the nonsense.
“with careers held hostage to the avarice of bigoted proselytizing Commanders and politicians, readiness detractors in the very serious business of prosecuting a nation’s call to arms!”
Careers held hostage to DEI pro-tranny lunatics demanding that we acknowledge their make believe “gender transition” or else face termination…. Yea, well, we kicked that shit right out the fucking doors this last election, and it will NEVER return.
Zero fucks given. MSNBC about to be a thing of the past too.
Miss me: given that you appear to be confusing the word transvestite for the word transgender, you obviously aren’t informed enough to have anything relevant to say on the subject of gender dysphoria and gender transition. You also clearly don’t know what DEI policies are and what they are supposed to accomplish. I have some sympathy for your ignorance, but not for the bigotry you expressed toward people with medical conditions you don’t understand.
I recommend that you go to the websites of professionals who actually know what gender identity and gender dysphoria are, like the American Medical Association and the American Psychiatric Association, and learn some facts about these subjects. After doing that, your comments on the relevant issues might be more informed and intelligent.
Not just MSNBC ‘bout to be a thing of the past, the United States ‘bout to be a thing of the past while the rest of the world leaves the Orange Man crying in his Diet Coke, stuffing his face with KFC.
Mexico’s Sheinbaum already agreed to a meeting with Xi Jingping at the G20 summit. Xi has already reached out to Canada as well for new trade cooperation.
So while Trump throws another tantrum and threatens his allies, China is playing the long game. “The U.S. wants to slap on tariffs, no problem, we’ll trade with you!” Just as they’ve done with Russia and Iran. U.S. sanctions on Russia? “We’ll crush Russia with sanctions,” says the United States. And …… Russia sells its oil and gas to China and India, taking it away from Europe!
WOW, the mother fucker really is a staple genus! :-)
Kind of like how we gave Iran to the Soviet Union in 1979. Fucking brilliant move! And how we gave Iraq to Iran in the 1st Gulf War! Jesus, these mother fuckers, intellectually, are on ….. I dunno, Venus?
In the meantime, Europe’s economy is being decimated – no more cheap energy for Germany, the country in turmoil economically, VW workers on strike, France dissolved its parliament (didn’t work, Macron in trouble), and China stepping in to establish new trade relationships while Trump gets his staff to wipe his ass for him and clean him up after the KFC binge sessions, yet again. The sequel is never better than the first movie.
But MAGATS are so easily distracted with shiny objects, “ they’re eating your dawgs, your son Johnny is being operated on at school to become Jane, Mexicans are taking your lettuce picking jobs, we’re going to ban electric vehicles (which his co-President Musk doesn’t like – Elon building another GIGA factory in China), Panama, Greenland, tariffs, tax cuts (for the rich), you know, shiny objects!
BRICS alliances growing in leaps and bounds, the world trading in currency other than the U.S. dollar (& growing). Iran just signed an agreement to trade Rials for Rupees, no U.S. dollar intermediate exchange.
Trump is handing US prosperity to China on a golden platter! The economic power of the BRICS alliance already having well surpassed the G7.
Warren Buffet, not exactly a holder of cash, just dumped 2/3rds of his biggest portfolio holdings in Apple! For cash! The “Buffet Ratio” exceeding 200% (indication US stocks are significantly overvalued – total U.S. stock value/GDP). He’s sold off other Berkshire holdings as well, seemingly against his own investment advice). Why? Holdings of cash entering a recession/depression = buying power. Just sayin!
So while Donnie’s base worries about DEI, trans issues, and other fabricated “shiny objects,” the rest of the world is getting on with the next many chess moves on a three-dimensional board.
By 2030, 80% of cars sold will be all electric while America puts bigger combustion engines in their 1987 Jeep Comanche pickups, China leading the way.
Trump wants to take over Greenland and …. the Chinese want control of Taiwan. Hmmmm.
While Trump’s base runs to the Jesus closet in their heads and pulls out their most pervasive fear (that of becoming gay – their inner demons on full display), the rest of the world is saying, “See Ya!”
His base already turning on him as Elon is now saying, “Um, yeah, I can’t really cut the budget by $2 Trillion.” The initial $86 Billion Congress has to borrow to begin deportations of brown people, um, yeah, well, uh, you know!
MAGATS already talking about repeal of the 19th amendment to ensure Republican control In perpetuity (and to keep women barefoot and pregnant and in the kitchen where they belong!).
Yeah, I get it! Shiny objects! “Ah ain’t no Goddamn queer!”
Or …. are they? Little Freudian revelation slipping out? Too fucking funny! 😄
Ignorance – the product of mental malingering.
Oh, thanks for the quote – reinforces the thought for those not in the MAGAT Klan.
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MAGATS voted themselves in the “Apprentice Leader,” the sequel to a fictional character dressed up as a business man.
Got themselves a new movie based on apprentice acumen, the protagonist a Chinese influencer, a former Shaolin monk, disciplined in the art of “crouching tiger hidden leader,” that schools the apprentice by redirecting his own ineptitude against him. This one titled, “Con Man Dung!” It doesn’t end well for the apprentice!
Jeff, when MissMeWithThatTrannyShit wrote about, “Careers held hostage to DEI pro-tranny lunatics . . .”, I didn’t quite understand what they were getting at. Do you have any idea what MissMeWithThatTrannyShit has against transmissions? I’ll bet their motor vehicles don’t go much of anywhere without them . . . .
OK, came here to give MissMe an earful only to find my fellow commentators had already handled the situation.
My only contribution is that in my life I’ve discovered a warrior’s soul inhabits humans in all shapes and sizes and that we ignore their spirit at our own peril. Meaning they can fight with/for us or against us, but being a warrior is who they are. I prefer with/for us but then I’m just built that way.
Wondering if MissMe is a new poster with the same old same old message or an old poster with a new name. Guess it doesn’t matter as the sewage they spew stinks all the same.
If you are what you eat, then there’s no surprise that trolls posting here have nothing substantive to say.
Jan 20th just around the corner. Let’s see if Trump does what he said he would. In no specific order:
Begin immediate mass deportations
Stop the Ukraine war in 24 hours
Israel/Palestine solved
Gas under $2 dollars/gal
Pardons for Jan 6 criminals
25% tariffs on Mexico & Canada
60% tariffs on China
Sub 3% interest
No tax on tips
No tax on overtime
No tax on Social Security benefits
Rent prices down
Home prices down
Grocery prices down
Lowered taxes on those making less than $200K
Insurance prices lowered
The list goes on…..
As a bonus, what he didn’t campaign on, taking over Greenland, Panama, and making Canada the 51st state. Wonder what Greenlanders and Canadians think about giving up their free health care. You know, put them on a concept of a plan he has for us after he repeals Obama care!
Seat belts on, gonna be a bumpy ride! Pitch for airspeed, power for altitude!
Forgot to mention the National abortion ban (punishment for women – his 2016 campaign), and repeal of the 19th amendment.
Will Trump defend against mainland China taking over Taiwan? The emphatic answer is NO! Ain’t gonna happen. Does Xi have eyes on Taiwan? Absolutely! Do 70% of the world’s most advanced semiconductor chips come from Taiwan? Yes.
Will Trump impose new tariffs on China? Yes. Do the Chinese care? Yes, however, not as much as Trump thinks they do. In 2007 China received 7% of its GDP from exports to the U.S., a staggering sum. Today it’s about 2.3%. A doable impact in terms of the Chinese economy.
Does China produce things that are critical to the U.S. economy? Absolutely. Could we produce it ourselves? Of course, but not immediately and not at the same lower cost. It would take time and expertise to spool up to replace what China provides, a crippling impact to our economy and national security.
In other words, China is holding the better hand in a trade war. Trump bluffing with a pair of dunces, er, I mean, deuces, against China’s flush. Trump’s hand is gonna get raised and called in his tariff bluff.
Don’t get me wrong, I’m no fan of Xi, an authoritarian ruler following in Mao’s footsteps, a strongman role model for Trump himself. The difference being Xi has a vision. Trump has a flitter, er, I mean, Twitter account and gets his ideas from the last person in the room.
Trump wants to ban EVs in the United States, “Drill Baby Drill.” To be fair, Joe Biden put a 100% ban tariff on Chinese EVs to buy dem votes from auto workers! Trump campaigned on Drill Baby Drill, remember? But market forces are going to slap him around (and the American people). Internal Combustion Engines (ICEs) are all but dead. Global sales of ICEs on the decline worldwide since 2017. Auto making globally, is under strain, the U.S. reliant on the automobile more than any other developed nation (got public transportation anybody)?
With the exception of Electric Vehicles, the batteries for which are predominantly supplied by China and South Korea. China’s CATL is the world’s largest producer of EV batteries, 38% of the world market, followed by BYD, another Chinese auto maker and battery producer.
Incidentally, Warren Buffet just sold off a large share of his Apple stocks. One of the stocks Berkshire just bought – BYD, the Chinese auto maker and battery supplier. Dwell on that one a bit.
Tesla produces its own batteries in Nevada, 40% of the raw materials used in Tesla’s production comes from, you guessed it, China!
So, co-President Elon Musk is financially tied to China. Let’s see how that works out for the Orange Man, and subsequently, the American people! It’s a cage match coming soon!
Batteries produced in the far east are of better technology and far cheaper than anything we can provide. China can produce an electric vehicle cheaper than it can produce an internal combustion engine vehicle.
With more electric vehicles come higher automation in production – less jobs. But to hang onto fossil fuel driven vehicles is a fool’s errand, the path we’re on under Trump! Trump is going to relegate Ford and GM to providing cars here at home, if they survive at all given the global EV competition. But, you know, “America First!” Yeah, right!
The icing on the cake is that EV manufacturers are moving to a 1 million km 80% battery life guarantee (600,000 miles).
When you hear “America First,” the Right’s spoon-fed dogma, know that it’s conflatable with Trump’s “race to the bottom!”
Ever hear of China’s “Delete America” initiative (Document 79)? Or China’s Document 9? Look it up.
I’ve made a short story long, the point being that Trump is NOT your “savior!” He’s going to do more damage to you and this country than you could ever imagine.
The Christian Nats are going to be more emboldened as Trump lets them shine reflective objects in front of your eyes to distract you from your lowered standards of living on the horizon: less healthcare, financial insecurity, food insecurity, fewer manufacturing jobs, inflation, tariffs that you pay for, et. Al.
The shiny objects will be “get God back in our schools, Ten Commandments in our classrooms, prayer in our schools, no LGBTQ+ or trans rights, public education money transferred to private schools, they’re eating your dawgs, …..”
And, a “Christianized military!”
Let’s see how that works out as his base follows him over the cliff. He’ll be alright, he’s got money, lots of it, you don’t!
You think if America were ever attacked that the wealthy would hang around watching you fight? Not on your Nelly. They’d be off to their bunkers in New Zealand where they bought large tracks of doomsday land.
Maybe that’s why Trump wants Greenland! Kind of cold up there Donnie!
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Your Sunday sermon – Praise Be! :-)
Speaking of green energy, Donnie Boy confuses “windfall,” as in tax on North Sea drilling off the coast of England with “windmills,” as in green energy! The UK’s plan to quadruple wind energy output in the North Sea has got his panties all bunched up!
“Oh Donnie Boy, the pipes, the pipes are calling,
From glen to wind, across the Northern Sea.
We’ll catch a gale and leave the blades a spinning,
Platform pipes, no oil they bring to thee …..”
In 2016, due to a BP “technical issue,” 95 tons of oil were discharged into the North Sea! To be fair, BP was fined $8,750 dollars (7,000 Pounds Sterling). Hefty fine for 95 tons of crude oil spillage, amirite?
There’s been over 4,000 spills in the North Sea since 2011. No individual company has ever been fined more than 20,000 quid! Damn, that much?
With 591 oil and gas platforms in the North Sea, a relatively shallow body of water, hydrocarbon pollutants are of great concern to biodiversity and the ecosystem – fish & chips anyone?
But Trump, confused again, diverts attention to wind turbines – you know, they kill birds that we could be eating instead of pet dogs from Springfield!
Of course, Shell and Blackrock, JP Morgan and others, have major investments in North Sea oil.
So put the UK on the list of countries to annex.
His Day 1 list is pretty big, but, alas, Biden “defunded” disaster relief and left him without money – you know, to help with California wildfires he says. If only they’d raked up the leaves in the forest like he said to do last time!
Oh, wait a minute, Biden asked for $94 Billion in disaster relief and the Congress gave him $110 Billion, signed on 21 Dec 2024. Is Donnie not reading daily briefings again?
But here’s one for you. Republicans love to roll out “State’s rights” for everything! Except disaster relief! I mean, if you choose to live in a State that is prone to natural disasters, I mean it isn’t like hurricanes, tornados, ice storms, and wild fires are new phenomena, so isn’t it kind of ON YOU and your State to figure out how you’re gonna recover from it? How you’re gonna pay for it?
Just to make sure I got this, if I choose to live in Key West and my home is destroyed by a hurricane, there’s nothing wrong with me expecting everyone else in the country to help rebuild my house. Did I get that right? Wonder where they got that money from? Did they tap the Chinese for another loan? It WAS borrowed from your grandkids.
I’m glad Trump’s there! He’s going to nuke those damn hurricanes! That’ll show ‘em! Save us some money!
You know, you should have a choice on where you live. Wait a minute. Are they making people live in Florida? Are they hostages? I think I just hit on what’s really going on. They’re being held against their will! I’ll bet Obama did that!
And those poor folks in those, as Trump says, $300 million dollar homes in Los Angeles! Man! I feel so sorry for them with the wildfires! They might have to sleep on one their yachts for awhile! Hope none of their cottages were in harm’s way!
I think Eric Smidt, owner of harbor freight lives in LA. I hope he’s well. Well, it would be a definite hardship to have to hang out on his $300 million dollar Grand Cayman registered yacht. He’d probably have to use his 69 meter yacht tender as well. It has a helipad on it so he can continue to work and get around. But his yacht has a helipad as well so no big deal. His yacht tender has a hospital on board though. You don’t see that everyday! But it just breaks your heart to see folks have to suffer so much! Bless their hearts! I’m praying for them! That’s a lot of stress to have to deal with not to mention the financial impact – especially if he can’t get any taxpayer FEMA money! Thank goodness the Republicans gave FEMA $110 billion in December! My God! What would he do?
It’s interesting. They want Social Security means tested but there’s no means testing for FEMA grants to rebuild a house lost in a natural disaster.
America – Capitalized profits and socialized risk!
Trump’s selling Black MAGA shoes! For half price! Damn, I wished I’d signed up for his Revised Truth channel. Apparently you can only get them if you’re a member.
I can’t afford them anyway till the price of eggs come down and that won’t happen until Jan 20th. Damn it! Another opportunity missed. Hope they still have some left!
Wished he’d just go ahead and drop the price of eggs now! I mean, why wait? Throw us a bone Donnie! Jiminy Cricket!
And what’s up with waiting till Jan 20th for gas prices to be $1.80/gal? C’mon man. Do your thing Donnie. I postponed borrowing some money to buy one of them Teslas waiting for them low gas prices. I’m thinking electric costs around $.05/mile vs gas at $.15/mile. Darn man, that’s still 3 times as much! By the time you add oil, maintenance, etc – c’mon Donnie, can’t you get gas prices about $1.25/gal?
Joe Biden almost got a ceasefire deal worked out for GAZA? Don’t let him do that bro. You gonna let him take credit for all your hard work? You gonna let him get those hostages back before you take office? Man, that ain’t cool. It’s only another week. They’ll be alright!
Damn dems, taking the credit again! And them RINOS in Congress not doing away with the debt ceiling before you take over? How you gonna give Elon the tax break you promised him? Shit, hate when that happens!
Well, it’s good that the war in Ukraine’s gonna stop by Jan 21st. You show ‘em Donnie. Show them Dems you ain’t messin around!
And if the hostages ain’t home before Jan 20th, well, you show them Donnie! Bomb the shit outta them! That’ll show ‘em! Will help recruitment too. Everyone wants to bomb the shit outta people! ‘Specially them A-rabs! I gotta go get some more popcorn!
I like them new houses they’re putting up in the West Bank. Damn, y’all can do some construction! Never seen anything go up that quick!
When you take over Canada, are they going to still get free healthcare? That ain’t right man. They need to pay for it just like we do! Everyone knows we’ve got the best health care, or will have once you get rid of that Obama Care! Damn Dems – insuring people that don’t have any money! Who do they think pays for it?
Oh, are you gonna give those rich folks in LA some FEMA money to fix their homes? Terrible to see a $400 million dollar home go up in flames! Damn!
Before I forget, a $1.2 Trillion budget for National Defense just ain’t gonna cut it. That needs to be like $2 Trilliion/year!
You know, with having to put troops in Greenland, Panama, and Canada, not to mention troops on the border, yeah, $1.2 Trillion ain’t gonna cut it!
Maybe take some money from Social Security? Just thinking out loud.
OK, another week till everything gets fixed. Can’t wait!
Wished I could get some of those shoes though. Hope they have some left when I get some extra money!
P.S. You need to make Lauren Boebert Speaker of the House! I liked what she did with Quinn’s Gallagher at the Buell Theater in Denver! Yeah, I know, there were kids in there but it was dark!
I hear you’re looking for brown people catchers? Is that real? Or just a rumor?
So, update.
President Felon’s campaign of shock and awe is on track, the head of the Coast Guard (a woman) was asked to leave her post. There may have been mumblings about DEI in the letter she received telling her she could either resign or be fired.
I have an observation/question. Why is it that all BIPOC/LGBTQIA+/females who have credentials, work experience, and respect of their peers are called DEI hires (diversity, equity, inclusion) by MAGA, White Supremacists, and Nationalist Christians? I know, I repeat myself.
Remember, Civil Rights laws weren’t enacted for the people they protected for they know they have Rights. They were enacted to ensure White society stopped their prejudicial ways. Literally, it had to be a law otherwise White society was not going to share. Separate but equal never worked. BIPOC made homesteads and townships without the Whites help and succeeded, so much so that White society got their nose bent out of shape and destroyed everything BIPOC created. Three times. Well, more than three times I’m sure as I’m aware of at least five or six settlements being destroyed. I’m sure there are more.
Our history is filled with examples of humans treating others like crap. It is an echo over time of millennia of humans doing the same over and over. Tribalism over all only that’s not a wise survival tactic. Not here, not now.
Many more Executive Orders issued. As I said, shock and awe. Including one declaring all citizens female. LOL
Excellent start President Felon.