Just as a matter of historical fact, ever since the Cold War ended, Americans haven’t spent that much time thinking about day-to-day life in other countries. But not too long ago, our leaders would encourage us to compare the quality of life in the United States with the quality of life in foreign nations. It happened all the time.
That was the idea behind the “Kitchen Debate,” which Nixon attended in Moscow. Americans had nicer kitchens, well-stocked supermarkets, air conditioning, independent furnaces, and thermostats. Meanwhile the Soviets had breadlines. Commissars determined the precise level of heating they were entitled to, on any given day. Anyone who simply looked at day-to-day life in the Soviet Union, and then looked at the United States, would correctly conclude that we were on the right track, and the Soviets were not.
It’s interesting that we don’t see many comparisons like this anymore. You never see any of the big broadcasters telling you to zoom out, and consider what daily life is like in, say, South Africa. Instead, they’ll bombard you with endless stories about a celebrity kidnapping, or routine immigration enforcement, or dumb podcast drama. And that’s too bad, because serious comparisons to other countries would be very illuminating right about now. Spend a few minutes doing it, and you’ll quickly discover just how third-world and dysfunctional we’re becoming, thanks to major Democrat-run cities.
Consider this recent report from South Africa. This is just a random news report I found from a couple of months ago.
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Credit: Newzroom Afrika/YouTube.com
Credit: News24/YouTube.com
This is why they have a big cholera and E.Coli problem over there. In addition to South Africa’s many other issues — including having the worst unemployment rate in the world, collapsing buildings on every street, a failing electric grid, mass violence against white people, and so on — they now have poop in the water. And indeed, that’s a defining characteristic of virtually every third-world nation, including many nations in Africa.
It wasn’t always like this in South Africa. Before they kicked the white people out of positions of power — and then stole their farmland and shot them — the infrastructure was a lot more stable. But now that racial equity has been achieved in South Africa, the residents are noticing that it’s not safe to fish, or drink the water, or go for a swim.
So then you have to ask the million-dollar question: Could those two developments — the racial equity, and the poop in the water — possibly be connected? One way to answer this challenging question is to compare South Africa’s headlines to our own headlines in the United States.
This is from NBC News the other day.
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Credit: NBCNews/YouTube.com
More than 240 million gallons of sewage have entered the Potomac River. And counting. That’s by far the largest sewage spill in American history. And although the pipe burst in Maryland, the D.C. Water Department owns the pipe that’s affected, and they’re responsible for containing it.
Screenshot: DC Water
So how big of a disaster is this? For comparison, during the Deepwater Horizon disaster, around 140 million gallons of oil were released into the Gulf. So the scale of Deepwater Horizon was a lot smaller. And they had movies and congressional hearings about that one.
🚨 NOW: DC and Maryland Democrats are STILL pumping raw sewage DIRECTLY into waterways leading to the Potomac River, with NO end in sight
— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) February 16, 2026
Where the hell are the environmentalists??!
Oh that’s right — they don’t care, b/c this isn’t politically expedient pic.twitter.com/761u6BYRMS
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By contrast, the situation in D.C. isn’t attracting very much attention at all. And local officials aren’t doing much, either. The sewage is just flowing directly into the water, as you can see. And although it’s too early to know exactly what happened here, there’s reason to believe — if you can imagine — that government incompetence is the direct cause of the disaster that’s unfolding.
What’s going unreported is that the Potomac Interceptor sewage spill - largest in US history - is happening just 1,000 ft down from where @dcwater has been rehabilitating the sewer line since September 8, 2025 via Sliplining process
— NOVA Campaigns (@NoVA_Campaigns) February 16, 2026
DC Water has begun an eight-month construction… https://t.co/ZQzsURagnA pic.twitter.com/IJrM2KpneR
What’s going unreported is that the Potomac Interceptor sewage spill – largest in US history – is happening just 1,000 ft down from where [contractors for the DC Water Department] have been rehabilitating the sewer line since September 8, 2025 via the Sliplining process. … The work, which started September 8th, focuses on restoring an 800-foot segment of the sanitary sewer system.
June 2025 @7NewsDC: DC Gov’t sued Fort Myer Construction Corp for knowingly contaminating DC waterways for years. It earned billion+ in DC contracts & still hired
— NOVA Campaigns (@NoVA_Campaigns) February 19, 2026
Myer is prime contractor on @dcwater’s Potomac Interceptor repair that began Sep ‘25, just 1,000 ft from sewage leak https://t.co/UuJLqYIP9j pic.twitter.com/jfUIQanzfZ
Could this be why a large section of the Potomac Interceptor sewer line, which takes sewage to a water treatment plant, just collapsed? Did the D.C. government hire an incompetent contractor — who the D.C. government knew was incompetent — which, in turn, messed up this “sliplining” procedure? Did the pressure, after the new pipe was installed, get too high? Was there some other failure that was involved?
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In case you’re not familiar, “sliplining”, according to the D.C. government’s website, involves excavating two holes and inserting large pipe segments into them, which are then pushed into the Potomac interceptor, forming a new pipe. It’s a high-risk procedure that could cause the pipe to fail. And right now, it looks like that’s exactly what happened.
The latest estimates are that the problem won’t be fixed for around six weeks — all because of the incompetence of the D.C. government.
Remember last summer when DC wanted to open up the river for a community swim TWICE and Both days it got cancelled due to too much SEWAGE in the river?
— DMV Adventures (@DMVAdventures) February 17, 2026
That was BEFORE the pipe that is pouring gallons of sewage into the river burst... pic.twitter.com/FdwvG3nq2L
Some context on the recent D.C. Water pipe break, which led to an estimated 243 million gallons of sewage going into the Potomac River.
— Martin Austermuhle (@maustermuhle) February 17, 2026
I'm told 600 million gallons of sewage and runoff flow into the Potomac every year, largely when heavy storms overwhelm D.C.'s aging sewers.
But the good news is that, as you just heard, according to local officials, the drinking water is definitely, 100% still safe. And you can totally trust the officials in D.C. on that point. After all, from the moment these officials took control of the water department, they were laser-focused on their mission.
And to prove that point, here’s a recent clip from one of those officials, “D.C. Water” manager and CEO David Gadis:
DC Water's Manager David Gadis:
— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) February 18, 2026
"We had too many white men in charge"
"The executives should reflect the city"
DC just had the largest sewage spill in US history: 240 𝙢𝙞𝙡𝙡𝙞𝙤𝙣 gallons in one month FLOODING the Potomac pic.twitter.com/shQ9rZfWJV
Credit: @EndWokeness/X.com
Well, there you have it. When you’re hiring personnel at “D.C. Water,” it’s vitally important to have a lot of people who aren’t white. The executives need to “look like” the employees. Because when you’re drinking water out of the tap, or taking a shower, the thing you care about is whether the people who ensured the cleanliness and safety of your water “look like you” or not. And if you get e-coli or some other exotic disease or parasite from the water, you will take solace in the fact that, while you’re puking your guts out, at least there was a sufficient level of diversity over in the water management department.
David Gadis never explains why this is so important to him. But he really doesn’t have to. At this point, it’s common knowledge that, in many cases, government employment functions like a jobs program for people who aren’t white. This is one of those things that sounds “offensive” but it’s clearly true, and even Democrats will admit it. If you’ve ever walked into a DMV office, you may have noticed that they typically aren’t very “diverse.” Neither are transit jobs or most administrative jobs in government. And that’s no accident. By and large, non-white people get these jobs, and then they hire other non-white people. And once they get the jobs, they’re basically impossible to fire. This has led to the creation of the so-called “Black middle class.”
Again, Democrats themselves have admitted all of this. To give just one example, USA Today published a headline a year ago that read:
“Federal jobs were seen as a gateway to the middle class for Black America, then came DOGE.”
In other words, taxpayer-funded jobs allowed black people to make a lot of money. But if you try to audit those jobs, and see if these people are actually earning their salaries, then it all falls apart.
One of the reasons this is so unethical — aside from the racial discrimination against whites and Asians — is that it makes society far more unpleasant and much more dangerous. When incompetent people are running major city departments simply because they’re not white, things start to break. That’s what South Africa has been experiencing since they achieved racial equity. And it’s what D.C. is experiencing now.
All of this was predictable.
This is the really incredible part. The guy we just showed you — the Water Department CEO, David Gadis — used to be the executive vice president of a company called “Veolia North America” and the CEO of “Veolia Water Indianapolis.” He was the first black CEO of the utility. And in that capacity, according to a class-action lawsuit, Gadis and his company promised to employ their “technical expertise” to “ensure water quality for the people of the city of Flint, Michigan.”
Yes, the guy in charge of D.C.’s water system was also involved in the Flint water crisis. So how did his stint in Flint turn out?
As The Daily Caller reports:
Veolia told the public that Flint’s discolored drinking water resulted from an old unlined cast iron pipe — when it actually contained dangerous levels of lead. … Emails later revealed Veolia officials knew problems extended beyond discoloration and foul odors, noting that “lead seems to be a problem.” … Gadis was copied on emails discussing potential lead issues before attending a public meeting where Veolia officials repeatedly assured residents the water was safe. … By February 2025, Veolia had contributed $79.3 million to settlements with Michigan and roughly 26,000 individual claimants. The company maintains it ‘stands behind its good work in Flint..’ Gadis joined DC Water before the settlement was reached.
So to recap, the D.C. Water Department hired an executive whose previous work experience, in Flint Michigan, led to a settlement of around $80 million. Apparently under his guidance — or at least, with his knowledge — the people of Flint were told that it was safe to drink the water, use it to mix baby formula, whatever — even though the residents were saying that the water was green and brown, smelled weird, gave people rashes, and caused hair loss.
Let’s stop here for a second, just to zoom out a bit. Think about how many times you were told that the Flint water crisis was evidence of systemic white supremacy. That was Barack Obama’s argument. It was the argument that the entire corporate media went with. Every NGO said the same thing as well.
To give just one example, George Soros’ foundation wrote,
The environmental crisis brewing in Flint, Michigan, offers a powerful example of the problems that lie at the heart of our nation’s struggle for environmental, economic, and racial justice. Flint is the latest manifestation of a problem that some civil rights advocates have long described as “environmental racism”—a problem that gained new focus in the late ’80s and early ’90s, when a series of studies revealed that state and local governments routinely make decisions about pollution that disproportionately harm low-income communities of color.
That’s how the entire Left has always talked about Flint’s water problems. Somehow, completely lost in this explanation, was the news that an incompetent black executive was named in a massive class action lawsuit — which later yielded a payout of nearly $100 million — because his company signed off on the safety of Flint’s water supply. No one, anywhere, ever talks about that.
And of course, all of the black government officials in Michigan got a pass too — including this guy.
Mark Wilson/Getty Images
That’s the former Emergency Manager for the City of Flint, Darnell Earley. He oversaw the transition of the city of Flint from Detroit water to Flint River water. Actually, he didn’t simply “oversee” the transition. He celebrated it.
In April of 2014, he went on camera and drank from the water, to demonstrate how safe it was.
Screenshot: television
Nevermind the fact that the water smelled funny, or gave you rashes, or looked brown. Darnell Earley thought it was good enough to drink on camera! Is this the “environmental racism” that George Soros was talking about?
It’s all so absurd. So why exactly is the Flint water crisis, in the popular telling, an example of “white supremacy” and racial injustice? It shouldn’t be. If anything, it’s an example of what happens when incompetent officials get into positions of authority because of their skin color. In every single case, they ruin the water supply. It happened in South Africa. It happened in Flint. And guess what? A couple of years ago, it happened in Jackson Mississippi too.
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Got that? Even though the entire city is black, and all the leaders are black, and even though this keeps happening in black-run cities, you aren’t allowed to criticize any of the city’s leaders. You have to understand that it’s a “system of racism” that’s caused constant problems for Jackson’s water supply, for over a decade. And if you don’t believe that, you’re a horrible person.
Here’s what that woman is trying to run cover for.
This is from the Associated Press.
The Mississippi State Department of Health did not consistently document deficiencies in the Jackson water system or notify city officials about significant problems after the department conducted sanitary surveys and annual inspections from 2015 through 2021, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Office of Inspector General said. … The EPA’s National Enforcement Investigations Center found that Jackson’s system issued more than 750 boil-water notices from 2016 through 2020. Customers are told to boil water because bacteria or other contaminants can enter the system after pipes break or the distribution system fails. The center also found that Jackson had more than 7,300 breaks in water distribution pipes from 2017 through 2021. The report said those occurred at an average annual rate of 55 breaks per 100 miles of pipe, significantly higher than the industry benchmark of no more than 15 breaks per 100 miles of line per year.
Whenever this happens — and it happens a lot — no one is allowed to criticize the black officials who are responsible. So those black officials get promotions. They move around. That’s why David Gadis is now running the water supply in Washington, D.C. That’s why they went out and hired a guy who was involved in the worst water crisis in modern American history. And then as soon as he takes over, he doesn’t say a word about water. Instead he’s only talking about getting rid of all the white people.
And here we are, just a few years later. We have Deepwater Horizon 2.0, except with human feces. The water supply in D.C. is currently overrun with poop. But on the bright side, there’s a lot of “racial equity” going on in the D.C. Water Department. They’re serious about getting rid of white people.
Check this out:
The worst sewage spill in U.S. history, but at least DC Water's staff is 82% "BIPOC" pic.twitter.com/Y1vr4imjY1
— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) February 19, 2026
Credit: @EndWokeness/X.com
This is from the D.C. Water Department’s website. It says, “WATER EQUITY FOR ALL.” And then below that, it says that they have 82% “BIPOC REPRESENTATION.”
And that’s a lot of “BIPOC REPRESENTATION,” by any measure. Certainly, it means that white people in Washington D.C. — which supposedly account for 40% of the population of the city — aren’t getting jobs at the Water Department. Is that because they aren’t applying? Or is it because they’re being discriminated against? We’ll have to look into that. (And hopefully, the DOJ will look into it, as well).
One of these 82% BIPOC employees is the “DC Water Chair” — a woman named “Doctor Unique N. Morris-Hughes.” Yes, that’s her name. “Doctor Unique.” Because if there’s one thing you want from a doctor, it’s that they are “unique.”
Credit: DOES.DC.GOV.
Credit: DOES.DC.GOV
Doctor Unique makes more than $230,000 a year. And yet, Doctor Unique, as you’ve probably guessed, is not an actual doctor. Nor is she an engineer, or an expert in anything at all. Her “PHD” is from something called the “University of Maryland Eastern Shore,” and it’s in Philosophy. By the way, in the US News and World Report ranking of American universities, the University of Maryland Eastern Shore is ranked number 395, so it can boast of being in the top 400. It also has a 90% acceptance rate. So she got a meaningless philosophy degree from a bottom tier college because she wrote a meaningless paper that no one has ever read — solely so that she can call herself a “Doctor.” This is otherwise known as the Jill Biden strategy. And it’s clearly paid off for Doctor Unique.
If you look through her resume — which lists her pronouns as “she/her,” in case you were curious — you’ll find plenty of evidence that she’s skilled at spending other people’s money. She hands out grants to nonprofits. She once served as an “Acting Assistant Superintendent for Wellness and Nutrition” at the local Department of Education. She was a teacher. But she doesn’t seem to know anything about water, which is odd, since she’s the water chair. You’d think that would be a basic qualification. But it’s not.
So what does Doctor Unique talk about, when she appears in public and does interviews?
Let’s see:
DC Water Chair Unique Morris Hughes:
— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) February 18, 2026
"The disruption work that I'm doing is I am on a mission to make sure black & brown kids" get careers
They just had a historic sewage spill pic.twitter.com/NhEaI6ud4A
Credit: EndWokeness/X.com
It could not be any more obvious that the D.C. water department, like so many other dysfunctional government agencies, is nothing more than a hiring program for black people. They don’t actually care about making sure the drinking water is safe. They aren’t concerned with removing the poop from the water. Instead, all they talk about is racial equity. They have dozens of different programs and directors, and sub-programs and sub-directors, who spend all of their time trying to advance “racial equity” — by which they mean, discriminating against white people, and putting unqualified black people in very important jobs.
As the Daily Caller reports, under Gadis, the D.C. Water Department transferred hundreds of millions of dollars towards DEI initiatives. So we’re not talking about one or two race-based hires here. This is a full-on scam.
Under Gadis, DC Water also pursued ‘Fair Share Objectives’ to boost participation from disadvantaged, minority, and women-owned business enterprises. … To reinforce those goals, DC Water created the Business Diversity and Inclusion Advisory Council and established bidding preferences for disadvantaged and women-owned contractors on projects over $1 million. … In fiscal year 2024, disadvantaged and women-owned enterprises received 38.65% of total awards — roughly $520 million of nearly $1.33 billion, according to January 2025 board minutes.
Chair of @dcwater board Violated Several Spending Regulations for DC Staff Events With Go-Go Bands, DJs, and Acrobats, Inspector General Finds
— NOVA Campaigns (@NoVA_Campaigns) February 18, 2026
Unique Morris-Hughes approved ,000 in questionable expenses for all-staff events that cost hundreds of thousands of dollars, while…
The Chair of DC Water board Violated Several Spending Regulations for DC Staff Events With Go-Go Bands, DJs, and Acrobats, Inspector General Finds. Doctor Unique approved $69,000 in questionable expenses for all-staff events that cost hundreds of thousands of dollars, while certificates for Las Vegas hotel accommodations that were donated by a property management company are unaccounted for.
Doctor Unique strikes again. It’s almost as if none of these people actually care about their jobs, or the environment in general. Instead, they’ve created a racial spoils system. That system exists to defraud white people, and to enrich non-white people. And that system is functioning as intended.
Among many other groups, the climate cult has a lot of responsibility for this. They hijacked the environmental movement in this country. They’ve spent the last few generations obsessing over “global warming,” then “climate change.” They told everyone that humans were making the planet dangerously cold. Then they said we were making the planet dangerously hot. They ignored the fact that, long before humans existed, the climate was “changing” much, much more than it is today. They manufactured data in service of a socialist ideology. And in the process, they completely drowned out the concerns of genuine environmentalists.
Of course, most of the time, genuine environmentalists aren’t socialists. They’re conservatives. They want to “conserve” the environment — including the water, and the fish that live there. True environmentalists aren’t interested in making your life worse — by charging you more money for paper bags or whatever — in order to appease the climate gods.
A fisherman in Maryland went on a podcast the other day, called Pop and Politics, where he made a similar point.
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Credit: Pop & Politics/YouTube.com
He’s trashing Maryland’s governor, Wes Moore, another history-making black official with a lot of power he shouldn’t have. (Wes Moore still hasn’t rebuilt the Key Bridge two years after it was destroyed, but he has plenty of time to complain about ICE and white people.) And the fisherman makes a good point: Democrats like Wes Moore can find hundreds of millions of dollars for windmills and DEI and solar panels and so on. But apparently, there’s no money for “infrastructure” to make sure the pipes don’t burst.
We are well past the point where the people who are making these decisions — whatever their skin color may be — should be held accountable for them. In the case of Washington D.C., that should mean the end of “home rule.” Washington D.C. — like post-apartheid South Africa, Flint and Jackson — is incapable of self-governance. Through sheer incompetence and anti-white discrimination, D.C.’s Water Department has managed to create a metaphor that’s almost too on-the-nose to be real. Under total Democrat rule, they have officially drowned the nation’s capital in human excrement.
“Crappy” does not begin to describe their performance. They have wasted hundreds of millions of dollars, and allowed an incomprehensible quantity of human excrement to pile up in the water supply. They have taken a major step towards transforming this country into South Africa. Compare Washington D.C. to, say, Johannesburg, and that will become abundantly clear. Once again, competent white people have been exiled simply because they’re white. And once again, incompetent black people, who selected one another simply because they’re black, have driven the infrastructure they inherited into the ground. And for that reason — even if it means being called “racist” — competent people need to step in, and prevent this familiar story from playing out once again, on a much larger scale.
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