The demise of the United States seems to boil down to simple boredom. We’re allowing Trump to destroy the American experiment because, lulz, it’s fun, right?
I think the key thing to remember is the American Right turned fascist while we weren’t watching so as part of the general ebb and flow of a normal democracy….we ended up electing a fucking fascist president. I just don’t see how we ever have another free and fair election.
I hope I’m wrong. And I can’t predict the future, but it’s not looking great, folks.
Looking over 2024, I can’t help but think that we came, really, really close to a civil war in 2024. The we only avoided one because, well, lulz, MAGA won. And now, of course, we have something new to worry about, albeit low-key: Trump could go full tyrant, get deposed then cause a civil war when Red states leave the Union.
I just don’t believe that is going to happen. I struggle to believe that Blues could somehow convince the U.S. Military to do anything like depose Trump. But the thing about Trump is he always tests the boundaries of what is possible.
So, who knows, maybe Trump will go so full tyrant that something really, really, REALLY bad happens.
It’s comical to think that liberals have the wherewithal to do any sort of insurrection in associating with Trump being sworn in. They just don’t have it in them.
But I *could* see, if and this is a big if, Trump went nuts and tried to force the issue of him being an tyrant the possibility — just the possibility — of the U.S. Military deposing him at some point.
And, yet, lulz, who am I kidding? Trump would have to get pretty bad for such a thing to happen. And, what’s more, it’s not like that would be some sort of magical solution to our problems — Red States would promptly leave the Union, causing a civil war.
There are three paths that will lead to America’s first female POTUS:
She ascends to the office.
She is really, really conservative
She’s a Trump
I add the last one because I just don’t ever see us having another free and fair election. The very people who would otherwise be the bedrock of our democracy — Traditionalists — are now all-in for fascism and so, lulz?
So what the person one would assume would be our first female POTUS is someone like Lara Trump. Of course, she probably would be just a figurehead to some OTHER nutjob Trump.
But for how it seems the United States is now Trumplandia, I would propose that Liz Chaney is the type of woman who might be POTUS at some point. But I think anyone who pins their hopes on her is being rather naive.
It’s Trumps (or MAGA) all the way down from here on out, I suspect.
And here I was, thinking it would take Trump a few years to get around to the autocratic idea of annexing Canada to “free” it from the “woke cancel culture mob.”
Man, have I been naive.
Now, obviously, at the moment, Trump’s desire to make Canada — all of fucking Canada — the 51st State is beyond stupid and crazy on a number of different levels.
But history has a force of its own sometimes and lulz, who knows, Trump could be in desperate need for a major distraction at some point in the near future and what starts off as “we’ll force a union with Canada via a pressure campaign” turns into, “let’s bomb those fuckers.”
Will it come to that? I doubt it, but there is a greater than zero chance that Trump might decide to invade Canada at some point over the next eight or so years (I doubt he will ever leave office willingly.)
I still think this part of a broader plan on the part of Putin to destroy the post-WW2 liberal order. Ugh.
The sad thing about modern America — and the thing that too me way too long to realize — is the people who were once the bedrock of American democracy are now the bedrock of American fascism.
It used to be that hard core, traditional conservatives believed in American democracy. Now, they hate democracy and want a white Christian ethnostate, damn the consequences — even if the consequences are things that go against their own fucking self interest!
Racism is a hell of a drug.
I still believe there is a risk that, in the end, Trump will personally cause more deaths around the world than Hitler. It doesn’t take too many nuclear-tipped hotspots around the globe to go off for that to happen.
Tragically, I am beginning to believe that only something REALLY drastic — like Trump, specifically, being the cause of the DPRK blowing up NYC with an H-bomb could possibly cause some MAGA conservatives to ponder their support for that fucking malignant ding-dong.
Anyway. I have no idea what is going to happen going forward. All I know is it’s probably going to be pretty fucking dark.
Trump’s idea to turn all of Canada into the 51st state is so fucking stupid that you couldn’t write a novel or movie with that as a plot point. The idea that ALL of Canada would be ONE FUCKING STATE is so astonishingly stupid that it is like we’re living in a simulation.
But, here we are.
We’ve been so focused on the domestic political hellscape that Trump promises, that we have totally forgotten about how Trump could single handedly destroy the post WW2 liberal order. If he really does go after Canada, Greenland and the Panama Canal…that is like a Russian wet dream.
And remember, all that bullshit comes in the context of Trump planning on rounding up and deporting 20 million people.
All of this is seriously fucked up.
It definitely seems as though MAGA is determined to destroy everything to the point that it can never be rebuilt, even if Blues somehow, magically come to power again at some point in the future.
It could be that something akin to WW3 is going to happen specifically because of Trump and after a few billion people die because of him, personally….maybe the good guys will come back to power?
Maybe we’ll have the Singularity and be able to regulate it as species so we don’t get snuffed out by some sort of Artificial Super Intelligence? Only time will tell, I guess. But I am growing more and more alarmed.
All this tuning out that people are doing politically feeds into our lurch into autocracy. People just giving up and assuming they can’t change anything in their nation’s politics is a very living-in-an-autocracy thing to do.
When people become detached from their politics, then a lot of very dark things can happen because people not only don’t feel connected to their politics they really aren’t prepared to risk their lives and sacred honor in the real world to do anything about it.
And, yet, as I keep saying, Trump is so stupid and lazy that there’s a chance that he could force the issue of the consolidation of his power to the point that people get really, really angry in the real world — rather than the online one — and, I don’t know, he’s deposed in some way then a civil war breaks out.
But that is extremely unlikely and extremely speculative on my part. It definitely seems as though, lulz, Trump is going to turn us into an autocratic white Christian ethnostate without anyone saying anything or noticing and I’ll probably die from a ICE bullet to the head.
Or something ghastly like that. I really do want to get out of the country at some point if things get that bad, but I just don’t have the means at the moment.
Fucking Trump. Ugh. The only thing stopping him from consolidating power in the US the way Putin did in Russia is he’s too dumb and lazy. If Trump wasn’t such a fucking malignant moron, he could easily turn the US over the course of the next four years into something that was drifting towards the legalistic tyranny of modern day Russia.
But I worry that Trump is so stupid and so lazy that he will try to force things in such a way that the country shivers and potentially even buckles into revolution and civil war.
And, yet, as is clearly the case from all my ranting over the years about such things — I can’t predict the future. So, probably what will happen is we’ll drift in fits and starts over the next four years into something closer to Turkey or Hungary.
There may be a Turkey-like coup attempt or something, something that gives Trump an excuse to purge the government in a big way. But, in general, Trumplandia is here — or at least will be in a few days.
I’ve finally — FINALLY — gotten around to the point where I feel up to working on all these novels I’ve paused. It’s going to be a struggle, but I hope to get something, anything done by the end of the year so I can begin the querying process.
It doesn’t help that 1) I’m old 2) my life could be totally upended as a by product of the MAGA Revolution.
I suppose some of you reading this will cheer that second part, but if you do — fuck you, you piece of shit. 🙂
But all I can do is just write and develop as fast as I can, I suppose. It definitely seems as though this rather…unique…situation I’ve found myself in the last few years is going to come to a rather abrupt end because of fucking MAGA cocksuckers.
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