MRFF Exposes and Vehemently Condemns Duffy’s Use of USMMA Midshipmen as MAGA Political Props in Christian Nationalist, Sycophantic Trump-Worshipping Video
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“The use of midshipmen in a training environment as political props in videos is egregious. It violates normative concepts of civil military relations and is a disservice to USMMA’s vital mission of training the next generation of military officers.” — USMMA grad, senior military officer
“As these latest videos incontrovertibly reveal, it is obvious that this federal service academy’s primary mission is to advance the wholly unconstitutional, weaponized Christian nationalist agenda as specifically delineated and propagated in the voluminous, evil document known as ‘Project 2025.’” — MRFF Founder and President Mikey Weinstein
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- January 26, 2026 | 2 comments
When my opponent tells me what they plan on doing (project 2025/26 manifesto for example) I tend to believe them.
What surprised me most is it took MAGA a year to get these videos out. Well, they are the conglomerate of ignorant compounded with inefficiencies. And it’s true that evil never serves its own purpose. The kids are walking away from organized religion so the message here may not be as successful as they hope.
It is my sincere hope (and belief) that as the year gets older we will see more examples of MAGA led rake stepping. Hopefully we might even get some Darwin Award contestants.
The MRFF seems to really enjoy trashing the USMMA with their BEAUTIFUL Jesus painting. Little Mikey even called the cadets pieces of shit and encouraged parents not to send their kids there. HOWEVER, I want to point out some of the great things this academy has done a whale of a lot more then the MRFF EVER did.
-There have been eight alumni that have won the Merchant Marine Distinguished Service Medal in wartime (it is the equal of the Congressional Medal of Honor in other branches.
-The Academy was the first federal service academy to admit women in 1974.
-USMMA alumni Aaron Seeson was killed in Iraq and graduates Francis Toner and William Donnelly were killed in Afghanistan.
-During the attacks of September 11th the Merchant Marine Academy assisted in the evacuation of civilians from lower Manhattan as well as the transportation of first responders and supplies to and from Ground Zero. Midshipman, faculty, and staff from the academy, within hours of the attack, were using boats from the waterfront and sending them to the city. Members of the Merchant Marine Academy participated in the relief efforts for nine days. These efforts were recognized by President George W Bush with the award of the Secretary of Transportation Outstanding Unit Award, the equivalent of the Defense Department’s Presidential Unit Citation.
-Prior to and during the Persian Gulf War in early 1991, academy graduates and midshipmen played important roles in the large sealift of military supplies to the Middle East. Midshipmen training at sea also participated in the humanitarian sealift to Somalia during Operation Restore Hope.
-During World War II there were 6,895 officers who graduated from the Academy and 142 of them gave their lives in the service of our country.
-US Coast Guard Vice Admiral Robert Scarbrough, United States Navy Admiral Thomas McNamara, United States Navy Vice Admiral Albert Herberger, Senator Mark Kelly and actor Jack Lord all graduated from the Academy.
What a great record of achievement. God bless the USMMA and all the midshipmen there. May they serve in peace and not war.
For someone as old as they claim, with as many degrees as they claim it is astounding how the Old soldier misses the target every time.
What do I mean? Well, this post for example. The MRFF and by extension Mikey has yet to slam the USMMA. Of course to read the Old soldier’s post you’d think that both had trashed the USMMA. And you’d be wrong, incorrect, and in need of enrollment and instruction in a class for reading for comprehension.
What the MRFF actually said about the USMMA was to point out the bad behavior exhibited by specific humans in our current administration. Their flouting of USMMA rules and regulations along with trashing the USA Constitution and Bill of Rights is the topic du jour but that’s ok per the Old soldier who claims absolute patriotism for themselves yet uses our legal documents as toilet paper.
Of course it’s OK with them. Rules and regulations are transactional, meaning if you are with the regime aka Nationalist Christians aka Nat-C’s then whatever you do is A-OK, carrots all around! If not, well then, it’s the stick always and never the carrot.
Old soldier has proved themselves to be a Nat-C, those horrible humans who declared war upon the USA decades ago and are enacting their war plan here/now. Well they’ve been slowly enacting their plan since they made the declaration but since gaining secular power here/now they’ve amped up their rollout schedule.
MRFF never has nor is in the business of training the enlisted folks of the USA. Their focus has been and remains holding military personnel from all the military flavors to account for the oaths they swore and the Rules and Regs concerning religion in the workplace that they promised to follow. They hold superior officers who use their religion as a weapon to account. They protect those who cannot speak out against these religious bullies lest their career be ended before it gets started.
Weird how the old solider complains and complains at the window about the MRFF only for the cashier to look at them to say, Sir, this is a Wendy’s.
You know better old soldier. Do better.
The one phrase the Old Schooler mentions that stands out to me is, “142 of them gave their lives in the service of our country.” No they fucking didn’t! They played the lottery and won! Albeit, the one they didn’t want to win!
But, you notice how, from what would be the Christian perspective, it’s never followed up with, “and now they’re in a better place!” Which should be the standard Christian acknowledgment given the foundation of their belief system.
The truth is they didn’t “give their lives in service to the country,” they happened to hit the wrong lottery, the lottery no one wants to hit. And they did it with forethought when they joined that they were playing in a lottery system that statistically, “it’s not going to happen to me.”
The other part that isn’t acknowledged, is that the phrase “they gave their lives” provides cover for those initiating the military action to begin with. It diffuses culpability. Who created the situation that cost those lives?
By the Old Schooler’s standard, with God on our side, it was the creator himself! All according to his plan!
For example, without Colin Powell’s testimony at the UN while holding up a small vial of simulated anthrax, attesting to the destructive power of Saddam Hussein’s conflated current capability and insidious plans (completely wrong or an abject lie), the Iraq war, arguably, would never have happened. The cost was hundreds of thousands of lives to include the 4,500 U.S. military deaths and some 32,000 U.S. military wounded, just counting the U.S. casualties. All for ….. ?
To say our service members died in service to the country is a blatant lie imo. They died in service to an ego, particularly of one man, in the case of OIF, George W. Bush, a fervent born-again evangelical Christian. They died in service to idiocracy. They died in service to lack of intellectual capability on the part of those ordering the action. They died in service to the knuckleheads that won the election. They died by way of Americans that gave the keys to the idiot that initiated the action. But they, service members, chose it (the service), as all of us do that join the military hoping like hell we never hit the grand lottery payout.
The other thing that slips under every radar, notice how presidential leadership has a “right-of-passage” implicitly inherent in the office of the presidency. There are just things that you have to do as president of the United States. It’s a legitimacy thing. One of them is wielding the military power that you’ve been given control of – on someone, somewhere! It’s just something you do as president. Plus, it’s a guy thing. It’s like being given the keys to the ultimate muscle car. You have to try it out. I mean, it’s sitting there waiting to be fired up and driven. At least once! The problem is, most, if not all in the office of the presidency have never driven anything with more than 140 hp, much less a 1500 hp machine that will prove their manhood. Like a school boy, giddy at the thought! So they get in on an adrenaline high, push the gas pedal and find themselves spun around 180 degrees looking the other direction thinking, “what the fuck just happened,” completely unable to control that much power.
Every U.S. president has initiated military action except two. It’s what you do! Of those two, they weren’t in office long enough to get their “right-of-passage” ribbon.
Anyone that dies as a result of their ego building? “They died in service to their country!”
No they didn’t. They hit the wrong fucking lottery. Most by choice in terms of playing the lottery (draftees excluded).
The good news is I don’t believe Donnie Doze will put combat troops in anywhere short of a few special ops actions and a few advisors here and there. The air campaigns a stand-off low risk endeavor. The odds are already very low but even lower given the Orange Man’s aversion to losing power owing to troops coming home in body bags.
The few troops he might lose owing to civil unrest? Part of the plan toward suspension of elections this year.
“Died in service to their country?” Not a thing in my books. That train left the station after the Korean War.
“Died in service to US corporate interest?” Yeah, alive and very well! But not unexpected, culpability covered by platitude.
Old Soldier, while your list of things Merchant Marine Academy grads have done over the decades is impressive — in a very favorable way — it is entirely irrelevant. What these graduates did and what became of them later in life has nothing to do with the propriety of using Midshipmen IN UNIFORM to publicly sing the praises of their superiors. It is an especially egregious violation of regulations, Federal law and the Constitution that this video has them singing those praises in religious terms.
NONE of this has to do with the USMMA’s “BEAUTIFUL Jesus painting.” This post is ALL ABOUT a USMMA graduate and senior officer recognizing that all the posturing by current the Secretary of Transportation is morally, ethically, legally WRONG.
Trumptie Dementia threatening to punish Iran for actions against protestors (Make Iran Great Again) while he murders unarmed civilians here at home, shooting a mother of three in the face at point blank range.
Although, it was a Christian that shot Renee Good in the face, according to his father, so that makes it OK. The part that isn’t OK is Jonathan Ross calling her a “fucking bitch” after he killed her. C’mon Johnathan. Killing her was one thing but calling her a “fucking bitch” after watching her face explode? I get it. She was a terrorist and you did what any good Christian would do to defend against someone dropping their six year old off at school, but the language! Christians don’t talk that way! You should be ashamed of yourself for using that kind of language!
You need to pray Johnathan! Maybe get your ICE brothers to hold a candle light prayer vigil so that you clean up your language.
You can’t be a good Christian and use that kind of language!
You stay at home and take it easy. Convalesce a bit. It’ll give you time to think about your choice of words for next time.
What’s that? You can’t get the image of Renee Good’s face exploding out of your head? Look, do some deep breathing exercises, especially when looking at your own children. Breathe in for four seconds, hold it for four seconds, and use the switch word “Gestapo” when you breathe out for four seconds. Do this about three times. You’ll feel better! But you have to clean up your language!
What’s that? Renee Good’s three children don’t have a mother now? Well, she shouldn’t have been a terrorist. Kristi Noem said she was a terrorist, Tom Homan said she was a terrorist, and so did JD Vance, all of them backed up by the president of the United States. Don’t think about that. Your children have a mother and a good Christian father. Think positive. I think Kristi Noem is putting you in for the “Dear Leader” award with V device for vicissitude.
Find comfort in your children reading about your actions when they’re a bit older. They’ll be proud of your great judgement and character, not to mention what a great shot you are! Go to church. You’ll find comfort in other Christians and MAGA faithful in your congregation. I’m sure they’ll tell you they would have done the exact same thing being the good Christians they are.
Renee was not a good Christian. Well, she was a Good Christian, owing to her last name. But she’s not now, she’s dead. So, one less terrorist on our streets!
Get well soon! We need you back in the screening lines at school drop off points!
Checking in with folks. I’m not dead yet (Monty Python)! Hard to end me but I will say the weather changes are doing a number on the Fibro flair that plagues me these days. At such times people contact is best conducted on the lines.
So many things on my mind. The Trumpstein files: heard someone official is asking for a special master to oversee the files since the DOJ has only released under one percent of what is already known they have. Bondi is slow walking it because I listened to the S. Riley clips. I’m working my way through the full interview and it is not easy listening.
Did you know this man only found out there were movies online about him because another soldier got caught with child SA material on his computer and the investigators came to him and said hey, this looks like you, is it? He was 11 when the film was made.
And it gets worse from there. The dude obviously had done the mental health work. Lots of respect for him. I won’t share what I learn. You’re welcome.
The smears about Renee Good are doing their best to drown out the fact she was murdered for the crime of being a woman who didn’t need a man, was kind, and most importantly, wasn’t afraid of him. The Fucking Nitch at the end is the give away. Lots of talk evaluating the movements of the ICE agent who killed her. No fear in his movements but lots of deliberate stances, postures, and calculated exchanges between where he kept his phone and gun. The release of his phone video was meant to tell women everywhere, comply, be afraid and cowering, and you might live.
Don’t believe me? Agents in several locations have already told other female observers, you saw what happened to Renee so make good choices.
If and when women snap over all this crap it will be epic. I’m not sure of the accuracy of this statistic but the untimely deaths of men went down once no fault divorce was made legal. Accuracy may be iffy but the fact that I’ve been told the narrative by more than one of my female friends is saying something.
Venezuela! Iran! Nigeria! Greenland! Cuba!
All distractions because the Trumpstein files are that bad for many many humans. Heard the names Clarence Thomas and Lyndsey Graham more than once. Epic turning over the tables kind of stuff.
Stay tuned
Guilty of being a woman that doesn’t need a man?
Someone tell Melania. She got one of them talking dildos. Kind of defeats the purpose!