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.
I have often joked that if The End came, I would either be the first person to die as darkness fell or I would survive and be the guy who brought civilization back. And I still think that as it definitely seems the possibility of an epic collapse is now greater than zero.
But what would the collapse look like?
It seems to me that there are a number of different ways I might find myself being a lonely figure walking down the middle of an abandoned highway, looking for sustenance. At the moment, we have nuclear war, civil war and maybe another pandemic as possible reasons while modern human civilization might collapse in a rather abrupt manner.
With all the talk of a “dirty bomb” being used as a false flag by the Russians against the Ukrainians, that particular apocalyptic scenario writes itself. Things go boom, things escalate and the next thing you know I’m grateful that I live in a rural area. A nuclear war of some sort is probably the nastiest of how the world might end because it would take a lot longer for humanity to bounce back if you take into account Nuclear Winter.
Meanwhile, there is the possibility of a Second American Civil War. This is by far, the most likely of the scenarios I can think of. If I had the means, I would already be living as an expat somewhere, never to return to America. But I’m a Poor, so I’m stuck here while we careen towards the existential choice of autocracy, civil war or military junta. Given that if the United States implodes that WW3 is probably going to happen along with it, things are probably going to get pretty messy globally in late 2024 – early 2025 if the United States has some sort of secession crisis when Blues attempt to leave the Union.
The last way I can think of that I might find myself fending for my life in a post-apocalyptic America would be another pandemic, but this time one that was far, far worse. The Big One, if you will. If I managed to survive, then I would have to search for food and shelter while I looked for others like me. This is the most speculative of the three possible scenarios.
Regardless, I definitely find myself thinking about shit like this these days. I would prefer not to have to go through any of it. I have six novels I’d like to write and get published.
As I often say, politically, I’m the red headed stepchild of my family. Everyone else in my family is a bedrock Traditional conservative. Even though I hate talking politics with them now, I still find myself doing it and, as such, I use them as an impromptu focus group.
They key takeaway is — Traditionalists no longer believe in democracy. They’re primed and ready for the United States to transition into an autocratic, illiberal democracy like they have in Hungary or Turkey. And, as long as the transition is peacefully, they probably wouldn’t mind all that much if we ended up somewhere closer to Russia or Nazi Germany.
That’s because, from what I can tell, my relatives have only two red lines — violence and the personal. So, yeah, if MAGA freaked out and there was violence in the streets on their part, my relatives might have some pause for thought as our democracy was strangled. But as long as the transition is peaceful — lulz.
The other red line is, well, me.
So, my relatives — whom I love dearly — are looking forward to living an autocratic white Christian ethnostate because then, at last, they won’t have to worry about having their life ruined — canceled — simply because they’re conservative. They think my personal fears about fascists using hard power against me once we’re an autocracy are hysterical and ridiculous.
But we do turn into an autocracy, all bets are off. None of our rights — even freedom of speech — will be off the table. And, given my tendency to get drunk and rant in bars, it’s within the realm of possibility that at some point after 2025 I could very well get drunk, start to rant about how I think our Very American Autocrat can suck my dick and before you know it…my relative’s red line will be crossed.
Of course, it could be too late — I could be dead in a ditch somewhere at the hand of an ICE agent who was tipped off about my rant.
But at least my relatives won’t have to worry about being canceled, huh?
I can tell from my Webstats that MAGA Republicans who want a National Divorce search for the term and endup at this Website, only to find me arguing that it should be Blues, not Reds who leave the Union.
This is so fucking bonkers.
MAGA is politically ascendant. They are on the cusp of seizing control of the United States and turning the country I love into a fascist, theocratic, autocratic ethnostate. And, yet, they still feel aggrieved and disenfranchised to the point that they think Reds states should leave the Union! It is a testament to what happens when you start taking your own bullshit at face value.
I keep telling the traditionalists that I know all they have to do is be patient and they’re going to get everything, and I mean EVERYTHING that they want politically and then some. But this doesn’t stop them from perceiving any and every slight as oppression.
MAGA Republicans, apparently, feel completely overwhelmed by the oppression of the “woke cancel culture mob” to the point that they are totally oblivious to how they are just a few short months from probably taking control of Congress and being well on their way to establishing a white, autocratic Christian ethno state in 2025 when a Republican — any Republican — is sworn in as POTUS.
It’s all very curious. It’s a testament to the power of Fox News and Right wing podcasts that the Right lives in some sort of la la land where they are the scrapy underdogs who have to fuck their guns to prevent the evil “woke cancel culture mob” from ruining their lives just for being conservative. They think this to the point that they totally and completely miss they are on the cusp of getting exactly what they want.
Around late 2024, early 2025, a least a million “libtards” are going to leave the United States, never to be seen again. Then the country begins to circle the drain and we grow more and more fascist. No need for Red states to leave the Union.
But for the fact that any National Divorce would mean a Second American Civil War, I would now say let’s do this — Blue States need to prepare seriously for secession. I never thought I would get this point, but here we are. MAGA Republicans are ascendant and their dream is my nightmare.
In the end, fascist MAGA Republicans are going to turn the United States into an autocracy, a Russia clone and maybe even a clone of Nazi Germany (if we’re really unlucky.) So, on paper, all things being equal, it’s time for Blue States to bounce, leave the Union and start their own nation where there is equal protection under the law.
And, yet, I don’t really want this. There is no practical way for Blue States to leave the Union without violence. What’s more, just because Blues left the Union with the idea of starting their own center-Left nation, doesn’t mean that ultimately their war aims wouldn’t change and we would endup with a massive battle to find who controls all of the current political territory of the United States.
What’s worse, WW3 would begin during any National Divorce / Second American Civil War — and there is always the risk that the DPRK might lob a few H-bombs our way simply out of spite.
So, we’re back to square one. Blues have to accept that the United States is going to turn into an autocracy in 2025 — baring something I really simply have no way of predicting. As such, I would suggest that if you’re a Blue that you get your affairs in order and begin to game out voting with your feet — leaving the country and never coming back.
At the moment, there is a dog that hasn’t barked when it comes to MAGA and that is Trump demanding a Constitutional Convention. It’s my impression that his “brain,” Steve Bannon is on board with the idea and, as such, it would make a lot of sense that at some point Trump is going to start ranting about the need for one.
I would suggest that the issue is now just a matter of timing.
Either Trump makes a Constitutional Convention the focal point of his 2024 campaign, or he waits until he’s in office to demand one for various idiotic reasons. But given how dark America’s future is, I could totally see one being called a lot sooner than even that — maybe even in the 2023 – 2024 timeframe. That’s definitely something that would juice the base.
The fact that Trump is a lazy idiot has spared us a lot of pain. If Trump was a “Great Man” of history, then he would now be an autocratic president for life. But Trump’s abstract thinking ability is so limited that he just can’t process something like the benefits to MAGA of calling a Constitutional Convention.
It may eventually come around to the idea, but if Trump was anything like Hitler, he would have already stolen the 2020 election and demanded MAGA “enabling acts” be enshrined in a new, MAGA-themed Constitution.
I see the term “constitutional republic” is trending again on Twitter so let’s talk about what that means in the context of the United States continuing to careen towards the existential choice of autocracy, civil war or military junta. Being so absolute in your belief that the United States is a “constitutional republic” is a tell.
What you’re really saying is you’re tired of the constant hand wringing on the part of Twitter liberals about the imminent demise of America’s democracy to the point that you want to nullify the debate altogether. You generally have a series of talking points that have been fed to you by Right wing podcasts to the point that you don’t even listen to anyone who disagrees with you.
The idea that the United States can be both a constitutional republic AND a democracy at the same time simply does not enter your mind. You dismiss all the democratic traditions and norms that have developed around our constitutional republic over the years and focus on the least democratic elements of it in hopes that you can get your dream of a white autocratic Christian ethnostate.
First of all — fuck you, you autocratic peice of shit.
Second, all this talk on the part of Reds about the United States being a constitutional republic is dangerous because Blues still believe we’re a democracy and, as such, when the final Red power grab happens and they finally extinguish American democracy, there is a greater-than-zero sum possibility of a National Divorce with Blue states being the ones serving the papers. This will, in turn cause a civil war that probably will not only bomb the United States into oblivion but start WW3 along the way, too.
I don’t think that will happen — Blues just don’t have it in them. I think the United States is going to become an illiberal democracy as Reds lean into the idea that our government is a constitutional republic not a democracy to the point that we’re not even a republic anymore, but rather an autocracy.
And that will be that. Wealthy Blues who still believe in American democracy will flee the country en masse, voting with their feet. And for all the glee that Reds will have for finally winning the idiotic argument about constitutional republic versus democracy, there is going to come a moment at some point in the future when they’re going to regret it.
It’s the nature of autocracy to go to extremes. Anyway, good luck, I guess. And fuck MAGA.
Here’s how a National Divorce — a civil war — might play out, staring in late 2024, early 2025.
So, here goes. Here’s how the individual states would handle A Second American Civil War, probably starting in late 2024 when it becomes clear that Reds are going to brazenly steal the election. I don’t think this is going to happen — I think we’re just going to slip peacefully into autocracy — but it is at least possible. I’m NOT going to do every state because, lulz, I don’t know the internal politics of each state well enough to do it right.
California If Blues really decide to have a National Divorce, it will be California that probably is at the forefront serving the papers. And the key issue is — war aims. I think at first the war aims of the Blues will be to simply start, say, the United States of Canada. It will only be much later in any conflict that Blues get sucked into fighting the longer-term goal of maybe establishing the United States of North America. And that would happen because Trumplandia could possible begin a Final Solution for POC within its territory and, as such, the second phase of the civil war would be one of liberation. But that’s extremely speculative on my part.
Everything will hinge on what California wants to do. If it simply wants independence for itself, that’s a lot different war than if it joins with other Blue States to establish a new, larger state. But whatever happens once the 2ACW starts, California will be the “Arsenal of Democracy.” If they want to establish a Blue Union, then California would put itself on a war footing. It would call up a few million young men and women into a new Blue Army and away we go. A lot would depend on the state of the US Military, but the case could be made that it might implode, leaving the individual states with the ability to fend for themselves.
California would quickly secure Oregon and Washington then swoop through the plains states to link up with major Blue States in the old Upper Midwest. They would crash into Texas in the south and that would be a Battle Royale, though it’s possible because Texas is shifting blue that Texas might simply implode into an intra-state civil war and Blues could secure the state a lot easier than one might otherwise expect.
But the point is — as goes California, so goes the Blue Union cause.
Texas Texas is a state that is really difficult to game out because while MAGA has turned into a Red stronghold, on the ground, the state is shifting Blue long term. As such, when our national politics finally collapses and we’re dealing with the existential it’s possible that Texas will simply implode. There could be a massive intra-state civil war that leaves it open to Blue Union forces from the West to swoop in and take it over. Or, at least, a lot of it over. But between when the civil war starts and when Blue Union troops come to the rescue, we could all be talking about the Siege of Austin as MAGA surrounds that particular blue dot in a purple state and want to wipe it off the face of the earth.
In a sense, Texas probably has the most to loose from a 2ACW. Texas would probably be the site of a huge amount of fighting as the difference between the Blue shift in the state’s practical politics slams up against the autocratic state government. Or, put another way, Texas is a lot less stable than you might think. It will likely be the source of a huge amount of domestic political refugees who will either endup in camps, or simply flee the state altogether, only to return when (hopefully) Blues win the civil war and there’s a Second Reconstruction.
Oregon The thing about this state is it’s ripe for a huge clusterfuck. Of all the places in the Union in the lead up to any potential 2ACW, Oregon is the state I could most likely see some sort of “Troubles” taking place. There could be a pretty bloody Battle of Portland as all the crazed Far Right Militia’s swoop down on the city and decide to end the “Antifa Problem” once and for all. Then, of course, there’s pretty good chance that all of that will be for naught when California troops come from the south and consolidate Blue control over the state. Not that it won’t come at a very, very blood cost. But California is just too powerful not to be able to seize both Oregon and Washington in the early stages of any 2ACW. Even if California simply wants to go it alone, the mass chaos of Oregon might pull them into the state for some sort of peacekeeping mission.
The Plains States Outside of Texas, the Plaines states may see their fates during a 2ACW largly out of their hands. They could shift from Blue to Red and back again as the two sides fight it out. They have small populations and economies and if California wants to link up with Blue States in the old Upper Midwest, then, they may see their extremely Red politics change in a rather abrupt, violent manner. These states are an example of why it would be so dumb for Red States to want a civil war — the values of small plains states are being forced upon Blue States and Blues aren’t really doing anything about it. But if there was a civil war, the Red Plains States would be forced to change their ways rather quickly.
The Old CSA (At least some of it.) At first, a number of states of the old CSA would explode into joy if there was a 2ACW. States like Mississippi, Alabama and South Carolina would have you believe they are already half way out of the Union as it is because of the evil libtard “groomers” and, as such, if Blue States left the Union the populations of the old CSA states would be very, very happy. But. And this is a big but, as the war progressed and everything went to shit there would be a natural inclination on the part of white Christians in these states to make POC scape goats. There would be a rapid radicalization of the politics of these states to the point that something akin to a race war might break out. Or, if not that, then at least Nazi-style concentration camps would be established with the aim of enacting a Final Solution once and for all. This would, in turn freak the Blue States out to the point that even if they were free of the United States, they might rejoin the battle simply to stop the Final Solution from happening. This is all extremely speculative, of course, but I’m simply gaming out what already exists and then assume the worse.
Florida I used to think that Florida would break up into about three states, given how diverse it is, but no more. I think it would be a fully autocratic state under DeSantis — even if he was POTUS at this point — and a lot of young men from Florida would face up against young men (and women) from California as the war progressed and got worse and worse for everyone concerned. The already fucked up politics of Florida would grow significantly more radical to the point that it was a one party fascist state.
Georgia The thing about Georgia is Atlanta. If there was a 2ACW, then it’s possible that within the state it would be Atlanta versus everyone else. Atlanta would be a very Blue stronghold and the rest of the state would be so Red that it could all get very bloody. Of course, Blue forces from outside the state could swoop in at some point and help take stabilize the situation.
Virginia As I’ve said the last time I wrote this scenario up, Virginia is two states that hate each other. Of all the states of the Union that might find destruction as part of a 2ACW, Virginia is at the top of the list — even more so than Texas. The state would collapse into coups and counter coups. The rural Red parts of the state would go all Pol Pot on the Blue parts of the state and there would be a lot of political scores settled by extremely radicalized rural Reds who wanted to make sure drag queens of the woke cancel culture mob could never teach their kids critical race theory again. I wish I was joking or exaggerating, but I’m not.
Heartland The so-called “American Heartland” is where the worst fighting of any 2ACW would take place. States like Ohio and Indiana would be diehard supporters of Trumplandia and they just would not go down without a fight. It would be the type of fighting not seen since the end of WW2. And it would be happening in what was once the most stable country in the world. As I’ve mentioned, a lot would depend on what Blue war aims were. If they just wanted to start the USoC, then my dark fears probably won’t happen. But if, for some reason, those war aims change and the issue becomes bringing the US back together again (probably with Canada by this point) then, well, all bets are off. It would be a very bloody pitched battle.
New York City
A 2ACW might be a tale of two cities for NYC. On one hand, there’s a chance NYC could become something akin to a Free City and on the other it could get nuked by Trumplandia. Any 2ACW would probably see the city flooded with refugees, maybe even including yours truly. But one thing is for sure — the long term tension between Upstate New York and NYC will grow in the event of a 2ACW to the point that NYC may break away politically in some way. Update New York has a lot of room for political refugees and, as such, you could see the population of some of the Update New York cities might balloon as a result.
New England I think in the even of a 2ACW that New England would be flooded with political refugees to an unprecedented extent. People fleeing all parts of Trumplandia would go to New England, potentially in hopes of getting across the border to Canada. Should the Blue Union unite with Canada, then, of course, that dynamic would change.
In closing, I would note three things. There’s not going to be a 2ACW if Blues don’t have any leadership. They currently have no effective leadership, so a lot of abrupt heroes would have to bubble up to the surface once it became clear that Blues had to leave the Union. Also, all of what I’ve described above has to be taken into the context of very real possibility that WMD would be used by both sides as the war progressed. And, remember, if the United States is too busy bombing itself into oblivion, then the prospect of a “Great Reset” in the guise of WW3 is a very, very real possibility.
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