Category: Cold Civil War

Getting Mad On Twitter Is Not ‘Resistance’

by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner

I hate to break it to all the earnest, well meaning “Resistance” people on Twitter who seem to be forever stuck in January 2017, but: getting angry on Twitter doesn’t mean jack shit.

Or, to put it another way, a strongly worded Twitter thread is not a law passed or a SCOTUS ruling handed down.

Everything on a macro level continues to point to America having the existential choice of autocracy or civil war starting in late 2024, early 2025. At the moment, I definitely think we’re going to just slip into autocracy. Trump, or some other Republican thug, will seize then consolidate power and that will be that.

If we’re lucky, we’ll stay somewhere around Hungary or Turkey. If we’re not lucky, we’ll become a political clone of Russia or Nazi Germany. People like me will just vanish and that will be that, while at least 1 million liberals will flee the country.

Or we have a civil war when Blue States leave the Union en mass.

And it’s not just one person we have to stop to prevent this dystopian hellscape from happening — it’s an entire party. What’s worse, Trump has served his political and historical purpose. The Republican Party now fully understands how weak our democratic norms are and they will be able to establish white minority rule in the US without much trouble.

All along, of course, “Resisters” will rant on Twitter, thinking if they can just “destroy” the autocrat one more time on Twitter that everything will be fixed and we’ll be saved.

I would prefer not to leave the country because the US has become an autocracy. I would prefer, in such a situation, to stand and fight. And it’s possible that because I’m a broke ass motherfucker that I won’t have any option but to do just that.

All I know is, we are currently in the twilight of America’s 250 year experiment with democratic self-governance. Either we renew it as part of a Second American Civil War where we blow ourselves up and the Good Guys win, or we just give up and become an autocracy.

There is no middle ground.

Red & Blue Talk Past Each Other

by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner

While I love my Traditionalist relatives dearly sometimes it’s very obvious that all their talking points are simply the watered down talking points of American Nazis. They hear about the Great Replacement and the Great Reset and the evils of the “liberal world order’ and then turn around and either yell at me about them or just sulk in silence because they no longer want to me about politics.

One thing I’ve found to be frustrating as someone who’s Twitter echo chamber is center-Left is how so many “Resistance” thought leaders are very, very oblivious to the issues that are important to Traditionalists and MAGA.

To your typical conservatives it’s not “the border” it’s The Border. There is only one border, the national border, and it’s like their political clit — touch it and they get really excited one way or another. Now, for me, the center-Right’s obsession with The Border is patently racist and bigoted.

America is, by definition, a nation of immigrants and what anyone who rants about The Border is really talking about is their fear that scary brown people will change the make up of the United States because white women aren’t haven’t enough babies.

One thing that is interesting is the Traditionalists I know fucking hate liberals and Democrats with such an absolute rage that there is no room for compromise. They often get so wrapped up in their dreams of “putting Hillary Clinton under the prison” that when you say, “Ok, you can have that as long as Trump is right there with her” they don’t even notice the concession you’ve made.

What’s more, not only do my Traditionalists think that the “woke cancel culture mob” is out to ruin their lives on a practical, personal basis, they also think that anyone who isn’t MAGA is either gay, a “groomer” or wants to force everyone to bend a knee to the “homosexual agenda.” This is RIGHT THERE at the very front of their minds whenever you want to talk about politics. In other words, we’re totally fucked. It’s just a short jaunt towards a President DeSantis getting approval to throw people like me in a camp.

Because all of that is very bonkers, it’s very easy for center-Left thought leaders to make fun of what MAGA believes. That serves no purpose. While we’re all laughing at MAGA, they’re quickly taking over not just state governments but the administration of elections.

And, I hate to break it to you, but the Nazis believed some pretty crazy things — comical, even. But that didn’t stop them from taking over Europe and threatening the entire world.

Is there any solution to this clusterfuck?

No. There isn’t. We’re beyond the Even Horizon. Not only that, but we’ve given up as a country. We’re either going to have a civil war or we’re going to turn into a Very American Autocracy. Get out while you can, if you have the means.

The Curious Case Of MAGA Wanting To Start A Civil War

by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner

One of the strangest things going on these days is how MAGA is so interested in a Second American Civil War. This blog is very, very obscure — virtually no one reads it — and yet, there continues to be a regular trickle of obvious MAGA people interested in my speculation about a possible civil war.

It’s all very curious because why would MAGA want to start a civil war when they’re getting everything they want via the courts and regular old politics? They’re ascendant. They have a vested interest in there not being a civil war so they can peacefully consolidate power.

All they have to do is be patient and they will get the fascist autocracy that they apparently want so bad.

And, yet, MAGA definitely seems to be chomping at the bit to have the opportunity to murder people like me in cold political blood. I struggle with this contradiction a great deal these days. What is going on?

Some of it, I guess, comes from MAGA’s self-perception. They are both bullies and crybabies — who are apparently very impatient. As such, they are totally oblivious to how they’re getting everything they want — and more — without firing a shot.

They are so aggrieved, so full of rage because of the all-powerful “woke cancel culture mob” that they keep assuming that if there is a civil war that they’ll be the ones who start it. It just doesn’t make any sense. I suppose some of it comes from the “froth” of some of the major MAGA thought leaders who won’t shut up about the need for a civil war.

But, as I keep saying, if there’s a civil war in the United States, it’s going to happen when Blue States leave the Union at some point between Election Day 2024 and Certification Day 2025. And, yet, I just don’t see that happening. The people who would be leading any effort at secession on the part of Blue States will already have one foot out the door by the time that particular crisis hits.

So, it’s all very dumb.

Yet, that doesn’t stop MAGA people from looking at this blog to see what a civil war would look like. I wish they would just cool it an be happy for once — everything is set for them to peacefully seize control of the United States and never let it go.

It’s up to them if we become a clone of Turkey, Hungary…or Russia or even Nazi Germany.

Yes, Guam Is Worth Fighting For

by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner

Jesus H. Christ. Apparently, some stray MAGA New Right “thought leader” made some dumb quip that implied that Guam wasn’t fighting WW3 for.

Fuck that guy.

Guam is American territory and if China somehow feels it can threaten it, that’s war. This is an example of how I’m far less Leftist than anti-MAGA in my views. The United States is the linchpin of the global order and if, say, China went after Guam because we defended Taiwan then, war it is.

The idea that someone would quibble about defending Guam of all places kind of blows my mind.

Trump’s Fucking ‘Schedule F’ Idea Is Going To Keep Me Up At Night

by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner

Jesus H. Christ. A Very American Autocracy is careening towards us in broad daylight and we’re just going to let it happen. If Trump doesn’t implement “Schedule F,” then it will be a President DeSantis. (Or name a would-be Republican autocrat.)

I suppose the reason why Schedule F weighs on my mind so much is it’s a concrete fascist move on Trump’s (or whomever) part. It’s something I can point to and say, “Yep, that’s fascism. That’s A Very American Autocracy right there.”

Fascism in the United States is no longer an abstract. We now know what it will look like and how, specifically, Trump or someone like Trump will implement it. And, as I keep saying, this is not an abstract to me!

I’m a loudmouth crank who could very well easily cross the autocrat at some point in the future when I get drunk and rant about how much President DeSantis can suck my cock. The shift into autocracy will be so abrupt, so without notice that I’ll just be going about my business being a drunk crank then someone will turn me in and that will be that.

I’ll good poof! and, at best, I might hope to have my name etched in a monument to the disappeared at some point in the future. This is all very concrete for me. At the moment, at least, it doesn’t seem like I’ll have the funds to just leave the country like all the fucking Twitter liberals will do.

Ugh.

And, to think, we all will know about Schedule F waiting to be implemented and we’re not going to do a fucking thing to stop it happening.

‘America hot civil war mid-term elections 2022-2023’

by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner

Ok, I get it. A lot of MAGA New Right people really, really, REALLY want to murder people like me in cold blood for political reasons. But, at the same time, I feel this sentiment is foolish because, lulz, Republicans control the courts and are getting everything they want politically.

It just makes no sense that there would be a “hot civil war,” at all. Why would Reds, of all people, want that to happen? If anything, they have a vested interest in keeping the peace so they can consulate power.

But the question from the aether was — are we going to have a hot civil war because of the passions of the 2022 mid-terms?

I suppose it’s possible. But it’s definitely not probable. I could see Trump, unto himself, starting a civil war if he became Speaker in 2023. He would demand that Red States threaten to leave the Union if the Senate did not convict Biden and Harris.

But other than that….any idea of there being a hot civil war as part of the passions of the 2022 midterms feels like political froth to me. Something truely unexpected would have to happen for there to be a hot, fighting war anytime between now and when it’s most likely to happen — 2024 – 2025.

I could definitely see a hot civil war in late 2024, early 2025, but the only reason why this is the case is because it would be Blue States, not Red States who would be forcing the issue.

But I don’t think that’s going to happen. The center-Left is too busy canceling Dave Chappelle for not towing the center-Left media narrative to have the guts, the balls to leave the Union.

So, we’re fucked.

‘If You’ve Lost Bill Maher…’

by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner

It’s a testament to how God awful stupid American political discourse is these days that the MAGA New Right continues to spooge its pants over the idea that Bill Maher isn’t a liberal anymore.

This is a prime example of confirmation basis if ever there was one. Maher was never a liberal in the traditional sense and it’s a tell that MAGA New Right cocksuckers would get SOOOO FUCKING EXCITED that Maher might stray from the liberal media narrative.

Get a grip, assholes.

It’s not a sign that The Truth is With Fascism that someone like Maher might question the liberal media narrative. He’s always been a media infant terrible and pretty much a libertarian. He’s not liberal and never has been. The MAGA New Right confuses someone with media legitimacy as someone, by definition, being liberal.

It’s all very dumb. But, then, America is very dumb right now.

In a sense, all of this is a very dark commentary on how fucked up America is right now. The Right is chomping at the bit for any “proof” that anyone on the other side is losing faith so they can point to it as a sign that liberalism is corrupt and collapsing in on itself.

(By the way — fuck you, MAGA.)

The great irony of all of this is, of course, that the MAGA New Right is ascendant. They’re getting everything they want politically and through the courts to the point that the issue of Bill Maher being liberal or not is silly.

‘What was Trump going to do if he had gone to the Capitol?’

by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner

Trump is such a dingus that I can’t root around in his mind to figure out what he wanted to do at the Capitol on January 6th. But I do have some educated guesses.

Given what was going on at the time, it seems as though what Trump wanted to do was just to delay, delay, delay. I don’t think he even had a clear idea of what he wanted to do if he actually go to the Capitol that fateful day. Relative to how Trump was thinking at the moment, every minute that Pence was not in a position to certify the vote was a win for him.

It was something akin to magical political thinking.

They had no idea what they were going to do other than just to delay things to the point that something, anything would break their way. Trump and his cronies knew they were playing a losing hand but they were so desperate to win that they felt as long as they hadn’t LOST, then they were winning.

That’s all I got, at least.

Is Trump America’s Hitler?

by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner

So, with the news of Trump’s Schedule F idea for his second term rolling around in my mind these days, I have decided to finish a great political biography of Hitler. It’s the first part of a two book series and deals with Hitler’s ascent. Ironically enough, I’ve just gotten to the part about Hitler’s failed Beerhall Putsch.

I find myself thinking about what I’m learning about the Beerhall Putsch and what happened with the January 6th Insurrection. I was shocked when I learned that if you do a direct comparison between the two events, Trump came a lot closer to getting what he wanted than Hitler did. Which leads me to believe maybe I’m underestimating Trump.

Is it possible that it could actually be Trump and not DeSantis who pushes America into fascist autocracy? Could it be that we’ll look back on Trump not as the idiotic dingus we see him as now but as a 1-to-1 with Hitler? Is Trump America’s Hitler?

Even though Trump definitely has elements of being America’s Hitler in his personality, there are some things that definitely seem to make him more of a bridge between democracy — > anocracy –> autocracy as opposed to the he, himself being the endgame.

First, is Trump’s age. He’s just too old. He definitely has it in him, with ideas like Schedule F, to be the person who completes America’s transition into fascist autocracy. And, yet…

Another element of this clusterfuck is I’m still not convinced that Trump is a Great Man. He continues to play the part of American Autocrat, very poorly. I stand by my belief that Trump is, unlike Hitler, just a vessel, an avatar for white Christian rage generated over the swift changes in American demographics and politics since about 2012.

But, as I keep saying, it’s has hand picked successor who will be America’s Putin — or Hitler. So, Trump’s second term could very well be the final transition to A Very American Autocracy, but it won’t be the complete picture. All the things I keep talking about when it comes to A Very American Autocracy will happen — ICE being weaponized, Schedule F, 1 million liberals leaving the country. All of that will happen in a second Trump Administration, but it will be President DeSantis, or Flynn, or Cotton or Hawley or Pompeo who uses Trump’s establishment of Trumplandia to cruise to a lifetime, autocratic presidential reign.

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)

Of course, there is a chance that if it is Trump who “wins” the 2024 election that he, unto himself, will be enough to provoke a civil war when Blue States get fed up and leave the Union en masse. I continue to be amazed at the minor trickle of people who come to this Website looking for my dystopian hellscape speculation as to what a Second American Civil War would look like.

Anyway, the point is — Trump is a very dangerous historical figure. In fact, we could look back upon Trump has ultimately being worst than Hitler. If we managed to get through the transition into Trumplandia without a civil war breaking out — which would prompt WW3 — the United States could implode into Fortress America which could also…prompt WW3.

Or, put another way, the United States is far, far more politically unstable than we’re willing to admit. So, is Trump America’s Hitler? Only time will tell. But definitely could potentially be America’s Hitler. But he remains way too stupid and lazy for me to think he could pull off the final transformation of the United States into a white Christian ethnostate.

But he definitely might come close.

A Very American Autocracy: The Dread of ‘Schedule F’

by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner

Right before Trump left office, he signed an Executive Order that would allow him to pretty much just fire any civil servant because he wanted to. This was eventually rescinded by President Biden, but Trump is still actively plotting how to bring the idea back when he becomes POTUS again.

I’ve been half-heartedly reading a great book on the rise of Hitler in Germany and when I learned of Trump’s plans for Schedule F, I grabbed it out of my personal library and positioned it in my house so I can remind myself to read it. Because it’s things like Schedule F which are concrete signs of how shitty it will be in the United States once Trump (or whomever happens to be our first autocrat) comes into power.

Remember, it’s unlikely that things will change all that much initially. But they will change. And if we’re lucky, we’ll endup somewhere around Hungary or Turkey politically. If we’re not lucky, we’re going to endup closer to being a Russia — or even Nazi Germany — clone.

The only reason why I dread that we might endup closer to Nazi Germany is race. Once we really accelerate our decline into fascist autocracy, form follows function and it would make a lot of sense for the more extreme elements of the fucking fascist Republican Party to open ICE camps to some sort of “Final Solution” for POC.

But such a nightmarish situation would begin with things like Schedule F.