If you want a sign of how America is careening towards the existential choice of autocracy, civil war or military junta in late 2024, early 2025, look no further than how Reds are so fucking adamant that the United State is a Constitutional Republic.
This is such a big fucking deal to them because they want to engage in “debate nullification” over the issue of MAGA’s rise being a threat to democracy in the eyes of, like, 60% of the population. They want us all to lulz the rise of a Very American Autocracy because — surprise! — we’re not even a democracy to begin with.
But, as I keep saying — just because the United States is a Constitutional Republic doesn’t mean that it isn’t a democracy, too. In fact, if anything, the history of the United States since its conception has been to grow more and more democratic within the context of, you guessed it…being a Constitutional Republic.
As such, if you get really worked up about the United States not being a democracy, but rather a Constitutional Republic, you’re telling on yourself, you fucking fascist piece of shit. All your talk about America being a Constitutional Republic is just an ham-handed attempt to disguise how much you want a fascist autocracy established in the United States.
I feel like trolling my Traditionalist relatives about the fact that the Speaker of the House was in danger of being attacked in the middle of the night by a hammer welding MAGA psychopath, but it would be a waste of time and energy. There might be a small window of opportunity for me to score some points before they get their talking points handed down to them from Fox News and Right wing podcasts, but, lulz, what’s the point.
I assume that soon enough, the Right wing talking points will be a mixture of “thoughts and prayers” and “America has a mental health crisis.” And maybe throw in, “America has a crime crisis….that is the fault of Democrats” to boot, as well.
My conservative relatives have made their decision — they want A Very American Autocracy.
And, in the end, they’re going to come to me in private and demand that I, “for the sake of the family” shut the fuck up about how much I think our MAGA Republican autocrat is a cocksucker. I don’t plan to listen to them, however, because I am absolutely determined to prove a point — things wouldn’t have gotten so bad if they had joined forces with me to stop the rise of fascism in America in the first place.
But such concerns are too abstract for them at the moment. All they know is the “woke cancel culture mob” wants everyone to turn gay and if they don’t, then conservatives risk having their life ruined by being “canceled.” THAT, rather than saving American democracy, is at the forefront of their minds at the moment.
So, we’re back to square one. Fox News and Right wing podcasts will push out the talking points about this horrific incident and we’ll go back to fighting about if Catturd is “shadow banned” on Twitter or not. The core issue –that fucking MAGA fascists are ascendant and are probably going to at some point post-2025 order an ICE agent to murder me in cold blood will go unaddressed. For my conservative relatives — whom I love dearly — I’m being hysterical and ridiculous to even propose such a thing.
But in the end, of course, I’ll be dead in a ditch somewhere and they will be alive as Good Germans. How do we fix that problem?
Something about the idea that Right wing cocksuckers are so enamored with a “humorous” Twitter account called Catturd tells you everything you need to know about America as we circle the drain.
All I know about Catturd is he’s really, really good at getting things trending — usually on Sunday mornings — and I have a serious amount of angst about how he might weaponize this knack at some crucial point between now and, say, January 2025.
It’s easy to imagine him spewing some MAGA fascist disinformation at just the right moment, which would serve as the tipping point to the final collapse of American democracy. I know that sounds ridiculous and hysterical, but from my personal study of history, typically the specifics of Big Historical Events are both odd and very prosaic.
So, I could totally imagine Catturd tweeting a MAGA fascist “joke” at just the right moment during the 2024 – 2025 Certification Crisis that is the tipping point in the collapse of 240 odd years of American democracy. That’s how history really works, I’m afraid.
What’s more, Catturd is bitching a moaning to Elon Musk about how he continues to be “shadow banned” and his follower count is falling. Ugh. What an bad faith idiot. But, here we are — the fate of 335 million Americans could be determined by a Twitter account named “Catturd.”
At the moment, at least, the key crux of what’s going on with Elon Musk buying Twitter is a vibe shift. MAGA Republican fascists believe they have the wind against their backs now and they will finally no longer be “shadow banned.” They dream of finally getting the high engagement they believe their spicy fascist hot takes deserve from Twitter as a whole.
How embarrassing.
The fact that they’re, well, just boring given how racist and misogynistic they are with their tweets doesn’t seem to cross their minds. But they bitch a moan SO MUCH about being “shadowbanned” that now even Musk himself is getting in on the action.
All things considered, though, the MAGA Republican obsession with being “shadow banned” is just embarrassing. They believe that any slight — perceived or otherwise — is oppression in the extreme. Like any good little fascist they want leniency for themselves and strict control for speech they don’t like.
And, of course, in the end, that’s what’s going to happen if Musk abides by the wishes for the Far Right. I’m going to have to wade through a deluge of fascist speech while they won’t have to see my tweets saying they suck. No good will come of this, of course.
I think what might ultimately happen is someone from the center-Left might come up with a better social media mouse trap and Twitter will be another victim of the United States tearing itself into Blue and Red nations. Not even Twitter will survive as everyone picks a hostile camp to hide behind.
Or maybe not. Maybe, just like the country as a whole, Blues online will bend a knee to the fascists of Twitter and that will be that. For all their talk about leaving Twitter for something else, Twitter liberals may just grit their teeth and suffer the jackboot of Catturd and others.
We may look back and see 2018 as America’s last peaceful election. There is growing chatter that Trump is going to pull some sort of stunt after the 2022 midterms in the general Philadelphia area. I’ve been too lazy to actually read the articles that mention this, but the headline is definitely alarming.
Add to this that America definitely has Civil War 2 on the brain and you find yourself coming up with any number of dystopian scenarios where things spiral out of control.
One is, there is some sort of Brooks Brothers Riot and somehow that is how Republicans gain control of the House and or Senate. This would, of course, only make Republicans more power hungry and blood thirsty and they would be hell bent on taking things to the next level in 2024. But there would be, of course, alarm within center-Left ranks if this happened, which would maybe cause a lot of Twitter liberals to at least weigh the idea of a Blue Secession in late 2024, early 2025 when Republicans steal the 2024 election in a rather brazen manner.
The OTHER nightmare scenario is, of course, that Reds don’t get all the power they want and they freak out, probably at the behest of Trump. As such we might face some rolling political violence between November and January — and beyond. I am doubtful of this scenario, however. If there is going to be a civil war, it’s going to happen when Red or Blue states attempt to secede. Anyone who thinks America is primed for Troubles-like violence is oblivious to what’s really going on in American politics. They say such shit because they think the idea of states leaving the Union in the modern era is too fantastical to take seriously.
Anyway, I don’t think it’s fantastical at all. There are some tectonic forces at work in American politics at the moment and if we’re going to have A Second American Civil War — which I don’t think we are — it’s going to happen at the state level just like the first civil war did. What happen is people get really distracted by how vocal and insane Reds are and assume that it will be THEY who start a civil war, when they have no reason to start one. Reds are politically ascendant and if there is a civil war, it will be because Blues — at the state level — refuse to bend a knee to autocratic MAGA fascism.
Buckle up, is all I gotta say. The months between Election Day 2022 and when Congress members are sworn in in 2023 could be bumpy — and violent.
I continue to grow more and more aggravated by how the “woke” elements of the center-Left do the cause of democracy no favors by wallowing in how many genders can dance on the head of a pin. I see it in my own family, where the Traditionalist relatives are officially all-in with the rise of fascism within the GOP ranks.
They don’t really think in those terms, but that’s what they want — A Very American Autocracy. As long as America’s transition into fascist autocracy is peaceful, my relatives — whom I love dearly — will be quite pleased that, at last, they don’t risk having their lives ruined simply because they’re conservative and, as such, don’t fit the media agenda of the “woke cancel culture mob.” UGH.
I have long thought that if we had National Service between the last year of high school and college that many, many problems would be solved in our very divided American culture. If you forced good old boys from West Virginia to bunk in the same room with woke, fey libtards from New York City or Los Angeles, then they would be forced to confront that on a basic level, they weren’t so different after all.
But there is a grave, existential flaw in this plan — it could only have been successfully implemented when it was first proposed by the Clinton Administration in 1993. Now, if you tried to do it, there would be a battle royale over what the agenda and purpose of this hypothetical National Service would be, with the center-Left seeing it as a way to make a new generation of Woke Shock Troops, while the center-Right would see it as something akin to an updated Hitler Youth.
As such, it seem to me there is a simple solution staring us in the face: bring back the draft. But make it unisex. I don’t know how much you would have to actually use it because just the fear of being drafted would be enough to force a lot of center-Left people to sit up and take notice as to what’s really important in life. Maybe they wouldn’t be so busy trying to destroy the heteronormative world — and, as such, stoking the rise of American fascism — and maybe they would cool it with “trigger warnings” and “microagressions” and any number of other dumb concepts that only divide America even more than it already is.
I continue to be vehemently anti-MAGA, but it’s tough to get my Traditionalist relatives to support democracy when they think that Democrats are little more than the tools of Satan because of all the talking points handed down by Fox News and Right wing podcasts. Maybe, if we had the fear of the Draft to focus the minds of the “woke cancel culture mob” we might be able to save American democracy through something other than a civil war or military junta.
But this spicy hot take is just a daydream. It’s never going to happen. We’re past the event horizon for autocracy, civil war or military junta around late 2024, early 2025. Good luck. You’re going to need it.
Absolutely no one has any faith in my ability to pull of a six novel project. Pretty much everyone would prefer that I just shut up about anything creative and never be seen again. It definitely seems as though everyone I know would prefer I lie in bed in a dark bedroom and twiddle my thumbs while I stare at the ceiling. Even though that would probably make a lot of people happy — that’s just not my style.
So, here I am, determined to flesh out the second novel in a proposed six novel project before I’ve even finished the first draft of the first book. But my literary hero finished — and sold — three novels (before dropping dead), so I’m self-assured enough to believe I can top him by not only writing and selling six novels but somehow managing not to drop dead as part of the process.
I am now mulling the plot of the second novel. At the moment, all I know for sure is the plot is based on the conceit that someone has abducted a baby. That’s it. Everything else is up in the air. But the fun of being at this point of the process — development — is being forced to be creative, to think up plot points to fill up a lot of blank space.
And the key thing of all of this is hopefully, in the macro scheme of things, the reader will be even more endered to the baby that will ultimately grow up to be my American homage to Lisbeth Salander. That, at least, is the dream. It is going to be interesting to see if I can pull this off. I’m pretty sure I can, but the uncertainty and the creative challenge associated with it is something to keep me moving forward.
A huge amount could go wrong — with the biggest issue looming in my mind is the idea that the United States may, gulp, have a civil war of some sort in late 2024, early 2025.
As for this second novel itself, one of the biggest things I’ve learned about development is how fluid things can be. I have a real problem with word count and I’ve come up with what is at the moment a very tight timeframe for when events in this second novel take place. But, like I said, everything is very much up in the air and who knows what they will look like once I’m finished.
But a lot is going to hinge on selling the first novel in the series. That is going to open a lot of doors for me should it happen, even though everyone thinks I’m a drunk crank that they refuse to take seriously.
I have long wanted a “second creative tract” that I could turn to while I work on this first novel. I keep seeing the collection of paperwork associated with the other five novels in this proposed six novel series and now that I’m well on my way to wrapping up the first novel, I think I’m going to take a serious look at the second novel.
Now, obviously there is a huge risk — if I invest all my energy in this six novel project and I can’t even sell the first book, then, well, I’m kind of fucked. But I am reminded that Stieg Larsson sold three novels (right before he dropped dead, natch) so I definitely am interested in seeing if I can replicate his success without the dropping dead part.
I continue to be interested in a number of other possible creative second tracts, from screenwriting to fashion photography. But I also like the idea of being able to work within an existing universe without having to think up new characters, canon, etc.
And, as my father likes to say — no one ever got anywhere in this world without taking a risk. I feel I have a really, really strong concept with the first novel in the project, to the point that I’m comfortable working on the next book in the series before I finish and sell the first book.
Besides, I have six proposed books, if something happens and I find my self stymied with the second book, I can always bounce to a different book in the other parts of the series and flesh them out, instead. But I really do like the idea that I have a lot of creative wiggle room to go to a different point in the overarching story as my mood directs me.
At least, that’s the plan.
I still have a lot of work to do on this first novel, including doing a lot of additional reading to take things to the next level. But the general infrastructure exists.
I’m finally feeling pretty good that after all my hard work the last few years that I’m at least getting to the end of the beginning and can now start to enter the process of working on the other five imagined novels.
Many moons ago, I briefly used the would-be Twitter alternative Mastodon, which features “toots” instead of ‘tweets.” It went into the my use of the service with a lot of enthusiasm because the service is distributed, using a concept much like the UUCP of Usenet back in the day.
I quickly soured on Mastodon for a number of reasons. One is, at that point, at least, it was literally impossible to delete your account if the mood so struck you. Also, I found the services “trigger warning” feature was abused by “woke” people who seemed determined make your life hell if you didn’t hide ANYTHING that THEY found objectionable.
It was all so subjective, that you just couldn’t please everyone and yet you also made all the woke people mad because you didn’t know whatever the orthodox they had in their mind about whatever thing you “tooted” that they didn’t like for some personal, obscure reason.
I eventually left the service after just a few days, never to be seen again. It should not be this hard to come up with at Twitter alternative. If I can think up a really strong candidate, I’m sure some Tech Bro can, too.
Here you go. I’m drunk enough that I find myself writing lyrics as a form of mental masturbation.
I Drink Whiskey lyrics by @sheltgarner Please give credit if you produce or perform
don’t know what to tell you when the mood strikes me it can be sublime I don’t drink wine nor whine if I drink beer but in a pinch no matter what I always drink whiskey
whiskey has a kick that I feel in my gut I drink whiskey it’s true what else am I going to do but drink whiskey, drink whiskey drink whiskey
my mind is racing thinking of you naked maybe if you drink with me we’ll have a tumble between the sheets something we’ll both regret who knows though a baby may come of it
whiskey has a kick that I feel in my gut I drink whiskey it’s true what else am I going to do but drink whiskey, drink whiskey drink whiskey
(bridge) I try to stay sober I really do no matter what but when you leer at me and say you’re feeling saucy I know what will cause some audacity
whiskey has a kick that I feel in my gut I drink whiskey it’s true what else am I going to do but drink whiskey, drink whiskey drink whiskey
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