Category: Cold Civil War

My Hot Take On The ‘Prince Of Pegging’ Kerfuffle

by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner

It’s times like these when I struggle to understand why Great Britain continues to, well, exist. Great Britain is the last multi-ethnic nation is Europe and, lulz, still has a monarchy to boot.

It would make a lot of sense to do away with the royal family, break the country up and maybe start thinking about making England the 51st state of the United States. There is so much untapped potential in the component parts of the UK that would be unlocked through its dissolution.

That is all very, very fantastical and fanciful, but stranger things have happened. Of course, the way things are going, the USA is going to be too busy either becoming an autocracy or imploding into civil war to worry about taking a newly republic England into the fold.

But let’s get to the point — what the fuck is going on with the royal family these days? The latest kerfuffle is the “Prince of Pegging” scandal. I knew the limies were freaks in the sack, but having an heir to the throne into pegging with someone other than his wife is enough to make your eyes bug out of your head.

It does make you wonder, however, how the US press would handle such an accusation against a fictional JFK-like modern president. What would happen — unless there was absolute proof — is what’s going on in the UK right now. Twitter would talk about it like crazy but, over all, the mainstream press wouldn’t touch it with a ten foot poll.

It happened — at first, at least — with the Clinton scandal’s “Blue Dress” and it’s happening here with what’s going on in Great Britain. Anyway, for the time being, it’s all a lulz. So what?

It’s a summer nadir diversion for people on Twitter. Let’s just hope the Queen doesn’t keel over unexpectedly in the next few days.

CPAC Is Hungary Like The Orban

by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner

The thing about America’s drift into autocratic fascism is it’s all happening in broad daylight. It’s not like the American Right is hiding its infatuation with people like Hungary’s Viktor Orbán. In fact, CPAC, one of the major organizations for fucking American cocksucker fascists keeps wanting to have a mass fuck session with him, it appears.

Viktor Orbán

In short, people like CPAC are very vocal in how much they want the United States to turn into a Hungary-style autocratic state. As I understand it, Hungary’s style of authoritarianism is bad, but not Russia bad. It’s essentially a one party state but, on the surface at least, it’s a functioning democracy. But it’s an “illiberal” democracy.

The exact term is “managed democracy.”

So, back to the United States. There are two major things to consider going forward as the United States drifts into autocracy. One is, because of the natural ebb and flow of what’s left of our democracy, it’s inevitable that a fascist Republican will become president again and that will be that — Trump, or someone like Trump, will enact the “Schedule F” idea and purge 50,000 civil servants.

These civil servants will be replaced with MAGA toadies and we will find ourselves with an actual Deep State — in this case, a MAGA Deep State. The very idea of a “Deep State” comes from Middle Eastern countries with a history of autocracy that can’t get anything done when the autocrat is toppled because of the “Deep State” that is still loyal to the autocrat. It’s this Schedule F bullshit that will be the thing that causes the average person to notice a change in their relationship to the Federal government.

For fucking MAGA cocksuckers, they will get a boner from this change in practical administration of the “administrative state” until, of course, things get personal and they have to figure out how to get their drunk relative out of an ICE camp because they call President DeSantis a fucking cocksucker. (That would be me, by the way.)

Matt Schlapp, head of CPAC

The other thing to consider is America isn’t Hungary. America is very diverse in a variety of ways that Hungary isn’t. As such, it’s pretty easy to imagine once CPAC gets that white Christian ethno state they want so bad that things are going to get A LOT more severely autocratic than just Hungary. Especially in the South, there will be a natural inclination on the part of autocratic state governments to go after African Americans.

Once the connection between the governed and the government doesn’t exist anymore, then some pretty dark shit can start to happen. I still believe that there is a real chance that, in the end, MAGA will result in more deaths that the Nazis.

Let that sink in. And those of us who survive are going to be left wondering how it happened to a nation like the USA, just like they do now with Germany. Good luck. Get out if you can.

My Hot Take On Why America Is So Fucked Up Right Now

by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner

America, we have a problem. With the news of Trump’s “Schedule F” concept where he is going to fire as many as 50,000 civil servants and replace them with his fascist cronies, I find myself dwelling a lot more on the implications of how fucked up America is right now.

But how did we get this way in the first place?

A number of different things are rushing to an endgame around 2025. The “Fourth Turning” if you believe in such stuff. (I don’t, the authors of that pseudoscience book were just lucky.)

But if you really think back when everything started to change in the United States, something about the general last few years of the Obama Administration drove the Right completely batshit insane. They’re all a bunch of fucking racists and I think they assumed, at first, that Obama being elected at all was something of a lark that they could forgive.

When he was re-elected, however, it sank into their racist cocksucker minds that not only was America Changing, but they had at last lost the soft power culture wars. As such, a lot of Traditionalists — the bedrock of any stable democracy — decided to become Good Germans in Waiting. They no longer believe in democracy and actively want white Christian minority rule, damn the consequences.

But wait, there’s more.

Another thing that happened starting around 2012 was smartphone ownership probably reached a critical mass to the point that one might say both that we experienced a “Petite Singularity” and the “Modern World” as we know it officially began.

And, last of all, there was a generational shift starting around 2012. A lot of young people took it for granted that being gay was a good thing and adopted the basics of what the Right would come to call “the woke cancel culture mob” mentality.

A lot of good has come from the generational shift in perception — #MeToo being among them — but there have also been a great deal of excesses that have led to Reds getting Redder and Blues getting Bluer. America is tearing itself apart and either we become all Red (Trumplandia) or we have a “National Divorce” with Blues serving the papers….and have a civil war.

Anyway, what’s going on is Reds are so enraged by the soft power of Blues that they conflate that power with the real hard power of passing laws. At least two things are at the very forefront of my Traditionalist relatives’ minds — an abstract fear of being “canceled” for being conservative and the idea that the Left literally wants to turn everyone gay.

They won’t shut the fuck up about either one of these two things. It’s really grown rather ridiculous.

Which path are we going to take? I honestly don’t know. All I know is the next few years will be very, very historic and bumpy. And I also know you probably need a passport.

Democracy Is America’s Birthright

by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner

This talking point within the Right Wing echo chamber — that the United States is a “constitutional republic” — enrages me because it’s simply an effort to negate any debate about how MAGA wants to end American democracy. It seems to me that MAGA New Right conservatives are so intent on making us believe we’re not a democracy because then all the rest of their racist, fascist bullshit fits behind it quite well.

Now, some context.

Yes, under the most technical of definitions, the United States is, in fact a “constitutional republic,” but that definition misses a very important element of American history — Americans believe we’re a democracy and, as such, when we strive to make a “more perfect Union,” we strive to make our democracy stronger.

Once you are able to establish in people’s minds that “democracy is mob rule” and all that fucking fascist bullshit, then it’s easy to justify white minority rule. I mean, isn’t that what the whole debate about what our form of government is, is all about?

MAGA wants white minority rule by using the least democratic elements of an overall democratic document — the Constitution. MAGA hates voting because they want fascist, autocratic rule. And, of course, despite this being quite obvious, most MAGA people get QUITE upset whenever you point out how fucking racist they are.

Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) gestures toward a crowd of supporters of President Donald Trump gathered outside the U.S. Capitol to protest the certification of President-elect Joe Biden’s electoral college victory Jan. 6, 2021 at the US Capitol in Washington, DC. Some demonstrators later breached security and stormed the Capitol. (Francis Chung/E&E News and Politico via AP Images)

I think a lot — maybe too much — about the origins of MAGA fascism in the United States and all I can come up with is racism. The decline in white babies — the so-called “Birth Dearth” — is the origin of all the troubles we have. And either you don’t mind that this is happening, or it’s the demographic end times and you want white minority rule.

The ultimate irony of all of this bullshit flung off by MAGA fascists is once we really are not a democracy anymore, they’re such fucking crybabies that they’ll be the first to freak out when the autocrat shoots a loved one in the back of the head using ICE for calling him a cocksucker drunk at a bar. Or the moment their 15-year-old granddaughter can’t get an abortion after getting raped THEN, THEN suddenly they will whine about the Good Old Days when we were a democracy.

That’s because the only red line that MAGA Republicans have is the personal. They are so busy burning everything to the ground because they had the “woke cancel culture mob” that wants to ruin their life “just for being conservative” that they don’t notice that overall everyone is served by us living in a Western democracy — even them.

But, I hate to tell you folks, we’re fucking doomed. This is it. Either we have a civil war or we implode into a fascist, autocratic state. If we’re lucky, we’ll look like Turkey or Hungary. If we’re not, we’ll be a lot more like Russia or Nazi Germany.

Get out while you still can.

I Don’t Know What To Make Of Vice President Harris

by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner

I struggle to understand how someone like Kamala Harris, who showed such promise in the Democratic primaries would turn out to be such a meh veep once in office. It’s all very curious.

It makes you wonder how much of her tough-as-nails persona was just an act. She keeps making unforced errors to the point that it’s a little embarrassing. The thing with the clarification about her “pronouns” that happened recently is part of all of this.

It seems like she was pandering to what MAGA would call the “woke cancel culture mob.” But I suppose it’s good politics for her. Shrug. But it definitely only makes matters worse with the bonkers Right wing nut jobs who are blinded by their racism towards her.

I suppose there’s not much she could do with them, anyway.

I think some of all of this is just that I’m an Old. The Youngs have established this woke orthodoxy and if you don’t abide by it, you literally risk being “canceled.” But all I know is, I’m more than happy being canceled if it means I get to live in an otherwise traditional Western democracy.

Fuck fascists.

America’s ‘Bogus’ Problem

by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner

About once a month, I have a conversation with one of my Traditionalists relatives about politics. I’ve grown more and more reluctant to have these conversations because they’re Red and I’m Blue and anytime there’s any type of dispute over the facts, we can’t agree on what the fucking facts are!

Call it the “Bogus” Problem.

Whenever I point out cold hard facts — like Trump lied at least 30,000 times as POTUS and maybe Obama’s 1 (!) line about being able to keep your health insurance if you liked it wasn’t quite as bad as is being made out I get the “bogus” response.

The idea that Trump is a fucking liar, someone who lies far, far, far more than Obama is something that doesn’t work with the context of the Traditionalist media narrative, so, it’s “bogus.” When you can’t agree on facts with someone you disagree with politically, you go a serious fucking problem on your hands.

Such inability to agree on facts if they don’t fit your media narrative is extremely corrosive to the point that you either turn into a fascist autocracy or you have a civil war. At the moment, at least, it seems as if we’re just going to slouch into autocracy.

I will truly be flabbergasted if there is any sort of civil war in the United States. The center-Left just doesn’t have it in them to put up such a fight. But time will tell, I suppose.

Blue States Face A Choice: Bend A Knee To Red States — Or Leave The Union

by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner

It is easy to fall into the trap of thinking because, as CNN recently noted Red States are building a “nation within a nation” that if push came to shove they would be the ones to start a Second American Civil War.

But this is just silly. It’s for more logical to believe that making a Red State “nation within a nation” is nothing more than a middle step to taking over the entire country by forcing Blue States to “bend a knee” to Trumplandia. And that’s when Blue States face the choice of autocracy or civil war.

And, at the moment, I think all 50 states are going to live under the yoke of Trumplandia. Rather than putting up any sort of fight, or serving divorce papers on Red States and leaving the Union, Blue States will simply shrug. Now, of course, just like in Russia, there might be pretty big protests, but, lulz, the protests don’t really work there and they won’t work here, either.

Republicans are going to get everything they want and then some. Voting will be so ineffectual as to be rendered moot. And that will be that. About a million wealthy, well educated liberals — think typical Crooked Media audience — will leave the country until the autocrat makes it damn near impossible for that to happy anymore.

Form follows function.

I suppose there are any number of ways such hysterical, dystopian “terribly negative” scenarios might be punted down the road, but the macro trends definitely seem to indicate that is not going to be the case.

Or we have a civil war.

And some pretty shocking twists will have to happen for Blues to show the courage to do such a thing. So, get out the country. America is just about on her knees to MAGA tyranny.

Dr. Tony Fauci — Lightening Rod

by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner

Man, do my Traditionalist relatives fucking hate Dr. Tony Fauci. The only person they loath more is Hillary Clinton. They have come to imbue him with everything they hate about the modern world and how if they could only make liberals go away we could all accept Jesus Christ as our Lord and Savior.

They fucking hate the man’s guts.

But why? What about him has made Dr. Fauci such a political hot potato?

Well, I think some of it comes from his refusal to bend a knee to ding Donald Trump. And, then, smelling blood in the water, the fucking cocksuckers of the Right wing echo chamber decided to throw everything they could at Fauci in hopes that he might resign so he could be replaced with some MAGA toady who would suck Trump’s cock instead of making sure Americans were safe.

Remember, it was difficult for Trump to fire Fauci outright because he’s a civil servant and, as such, is protected. But Trump, in his second term, plans to use his “Schedule F” idea to clear the way to firing as many as 50,000 civil servants because, fuck you lib.

I keep telling my Traditionalist relatives to calm the fuck down. I tell them to put the pitchforks away, they’re going to get everything they want if they just wait. Republicans and, as such, fascists, are ascendant and we’re all going to have to start making some pretty big choices about what it means to live in A Very American Autocracy.

Proving my point, Dr. Fauci has announced his retirement pretty soon and that STILL isn’t enough for Republicans. I’m beginning to worry that the fucking cocksuckers of Fox News want physical harm to happen to Dr. Fauci. Fuck, those fuckers — especially Jesse Waters — can eat shit.

Excuse me. I’m in a bad mood.

Anyway, pour one out for Dr. Fauci. Things are bleak in the US at the moment, an only getting worse by the moment. The moment Republicans gain control of any sort again we’re going to lurch into autocratic fascism. If you have the means, leave the country.

Fascism Is Popular

by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner

One of the many things that Blue Check liberals on Twitter are oblivious about is how popular fascism is in the United States. I would estimate that about 48% of the American population wants fascism. There’s a spectrum to that support, of course. Some people don’t really know what it is that they want, but they are white and Christian and they think the “woke cancel culture mob” is trying to force everyone to be gay.

So, they vote Republican like their life depended on it.

And, while I’m well aware that all this sounds hysterical to Republicans who note people like me have been calling Republicans “fascists” since at least Barry Goldwater, it’s not people like me who are so sure that the United States “isn’t a democracy, it’s a constitutional republic.”

Now, America’s shift into autocratic fascism is complicated by a number of things. One is, the whole thing is the result of pretty prosaic macro trends that are difficult for the average person who isn’t a political junky to get a clear grasp on or to even care about. Also, there is the issue of race, which will effect how close to Nazi Germany we get. And, lastly, the United States is so big and diverse that it’s a least possible that when the transition to fascism is at its weakest — probably around late 2024, early 2025 — that we will have a civil war when Blue States serve divorce papers on Red States.

But for that to happen, a lot of things would have to go wrong for MAGA New Right fascists. One, Trump would have to run again and be such an idiot that he says “the quiet part out loud” the point that Blue States decide they have no choice but to leave the Union. And, at the same time, some sort of Blue leadership would have to suddenly pop out of the woodwork. All I can think of at the moment is Liz Cheney, but she’ not even a Blue.

So, it definitely seems as though the United States will become an autocratic, fascist state the moment a Republican is POTUS again. Nothing will change at first, then, gradually a panoply of extremely unpopular Republican policies will be inacted…and the general public will suddenly realize that voting is moot, meaningless.

But at least we won’t have the woke cancel culture mob to worry about? Is that something we’re supposed to be happy about when I’m in an ICE camp twiddling my thumbs while I wait to get shot in the head for calling President DeSantis a cocksucker?

MAGA Really Wants To Turn Ashli Babbitt In To A Fucking Martyr

by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner

Oh, Jesus Christ. If ever there was a clear delineation between the bonkers world of MAGA and, well, everyone else, it is the deification of Ashli Babbitt as some sort of right wing martyr.

To make her some sort of fascist John Brown requires some significant mental gymnastics given everything else MAGA wants us to believe about Jan 6th. So, here’s what we’re supposed to believe. The whole thing was a Deep State operation by a combination of Antifa and the FBI and yet somehow, at the same time, all the parts that MAGA likes were done by patriots who just wanted to Stop The Steal. These patriots were just on a tour of the capitol. They just wanted to remind Mike Pence of the right thing to do — never mind the whole “Hang Mike Pence” chant.

As such, it’s not biggie that had Ashli Babbitt NOT been shot, there’s a good chance there would have been significant bloodshed on January 6th. But I know people who are all-in on the idea that Babbitt Did Nothing Wrong and the evil Deep State people who shot her should be hung.

OH MY FUCKING GOD.

Fuck Ashli Babbitt. Play deranged mob games, get deranged mob prizes. She was no martyr. She was a seditious goon who wanted to murder Mike Pence and other members of Congress.