Category: The Resistance

Things Are Dark(er)

by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner

We have to prepare ourselves for things to get even darker very, very soon. I think we’re going to be surprised in a few days when Trump actually really does, effectively, snatch people off the street.

All the signs point to Trump slowly — and maybe not so slowly — beginning to consolidate power in some pretty unprecedented ways. We haven’t reached the “push people out of windows” stage of things, but we’re getting there.

It could be — at least for now — done in a little less dramatic fashion — TV regulars just go “poof!” never to be seen again. The person I’m must worried about is Stephen Colbert. I watch his show now, on edge, wondering what joke is finally going to get Trump to pull the trigger on purging him from the airwaves.

Because you know that’s coming. I think American late night TV is probably going to be radically changed by the end of the year. Even to the point that SNL is either revamped or ended altogether.

And, of course, I have to worry about myself. I’m growing more and more nervous about my own fate. I’m just a nobody in the middle of nowhere. And, yet, who knows, maybe the regime would want to make an example out of me.

Beyond The Ides Of Trump

by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner

In a sign yet again that I can’t predict the future, it’s clear — at least at the moment — that Trump isn’t going anywhere. In fact, until something really big and bad happens, he will, in his own way, thrive.

Remember, though, any “big and bad” event that happened would most likely be seen by Trump as an excuse to consolidate power — a Reichstag Fire moment. So, again, lulz.

All I got is Trump is so stupid and lazy that he crashes the economy at some point this year and THEN, MAYBE Blue leadership will get their act together. But I have my doubts.

It seems like we’re stuck with Trump and MAGA from here on out because the only way to get rid of Trump and MAGA is extra-political and I don’t like to think about that. Yikes!

So, I guess I just bide my time until maybe, just maybe, something happens that gives me the funs to get the fuck out of this collapsing into autocracy country.

Just Wait Until Trump Goes To Moscow In May For Victory Day

by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner

Trump is supposed to be set to go to Moscow in May to celebrate the anniversary of the Soviets over the Nazis. Oh boy. Trump is such a stooge for the Russians at this point that I assume he’s going to use the occasion to destroy NATO and align the USA with Russia.

That seems to be the logical conclusion to all of this. That seems to be what we’re heading towards. We need to be prepared for that eventuality.

Given Trump’s near-absolute power in the USA these days, I have my doubts that anything will happen. There may be some protests and a few Republicans in the Senate may, just may get upset….but the talking points will be sent out and then that will be that.

Lulz, nothing matters.

The old age will end an a new world order will be established where the USA no longer leads the free world, but is very much autocratic and does its best to make everyone else that way, too.

Good luck, folks, you’re going to need it.

The United States is Falling Apart

by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner

I can tell you from person experience that the wheels are beginning to fly off the United States government. Things that should be perfunctory are just not happening the way they should be. It’s enough to give one pause for thought.

The thing I keep thinking is — is Trump a Russian agent?

All the bullshit that Trump and his toadies are doing are just the type of things that a Russian agent POTUS would do. Wreck the economy. Wreak the post-WW2 liberal order. Abolish American soft power. You name it, Trump (and Must) it’s being done.

And, yet, here we are. Even if could *prove* Trump was a traitor, he would still have a rock solid approval rating of about 37%. That’s why there are a few ways this goes — Blue revolution then civil war, autocracy, or something on the spectrum between the two.

But…I just don’t see Blues having the guts to depose Trump. He’s proven that there are no guard rails and, lulz, nothing matters. We’re totally fuck, folks.

‘May You Live In Interesting Times’

by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner

But for the fact that we will never have another free-and-fair Federal election in my lifetime, I would say that Trump’s clusterfuck the last few weeks might mean something.

But, fun fact, nope.

Trump is going to run for — and win — a third term and we’ll all be sitting around wondering who will be his successor. The chief reason for all of this is the Republican Party, on an existential basis, is corrupt, autocratic and craven to the point that only burning it to the ground would change anything.

And that, my friends, is just not going to happen.

So, we’re stuck with one of our two major parties not believing in any form of democracy that doesn’t help them. As such, while there may be the occasional flair up, in general we’re heading into a New Age where the US is probably going to align with Russia and other autocratic states just as the social safety net is gutted for huge tax breaks for plutocrats.

Lulz, nothing matters.

The United States Will Never Have Free-And-Fair Federal Elections Again

by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner

This is it, folks, the end. It’s clear now that our democracy was far less stable than we realized. But, here we are, at the end of the road. We will never have free and fair Federal elections again.

For the time being, we’ll*probably* have something akin to free and fair state and local elections, but that’s it. And that doesn’t even begin to address the idea that something might go wrong and we’ll swerve into a militarized police state of some sort.

Anyway. Trump is going to ruin the United States and we’re now a fascist state. I really need to get out of this country at some point, but that’s just not practical for the time being. I just hope I don’t get pushed out a window.

The Quiet Before The Storm?

by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner

Things are pretty quiet at the moment, in relative terms. There is the usual Trump chaos, but, in general, things are kind of meh. And it’s not like I want anything big to happen — unless it’s cool.

My lingering fear is that whatever “event” happens is Trump’s Reichstag Fire moment that he uses as an excuse to seize control of the country in a big way. We can only hope *nothing* happens and we’ll just slink into our autocratic future without too much horrible things going on in the process.

Now What Is That Malignant Ding-Dong Talking About?

by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner

Whenever Trump talks like this, it could be anything. I *think* he’s going to talk about the huge tariffs that he’s going to place on Mexican and Canadian goods tomorrow (relative to this writing.)

But, as is always the case with Trump, it could be anything. It could be that Trump is going to pull us out of NATO and the UN and align us with Russia. Or something as dumb and dire as that.

Or, it could be that…he’s releasing a new memcoin?

Contemplating The Possible Collapse Of The Social Security Administration

by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner

As is always the case with Trumplandia, a lot is going on at the same time. The economy — apparently according to forecasting data — is just about to tank in a way not seen in decades. Meanwhile, there is growing chatter among those in-the-know that the skullfucking that Trump is doing to the Social Security Administration…might…actually cause some disruption in the ability of the service to cut checks on time.

Now, before you get too excited, Americans are extremely docile folks. Not even a Great Depression got them to do anything of note. And the Civil War was, in real terms, something of a fluke and in some ways only happened because Abraham Lincoln, personally, was a badass.

And remember, even if somehow, magically, people took to the streets en masse in an effort to bring down Tyrant Trump one of two things would happen — one it works and there’s a civil war because MAGA Reds would pop a gasket or two it doesn’t work and Tyrant Trump uses it as an excuse to consolidate power and we become a military police state.

So, lulz?

Americans love to just “muddle through” things, but I Trump, personally, is a a cocksucker who loves to make it impossible to do just that, so….we’ll see. It’s at least possible that, by the end of the year, the USA will not only pull out of NATO and the UN, but become a full-fledged tyrannical state under the MAGA Nazi jackboot.

Sigh.

This Is Not Your Father’s Autocratic America

by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner

The case could be made that the United States has, essentially, been an autocracy without an autocrat for sometime now. But, finally, we have our autocrat in the guise of Trump and…lulz?

People are making some basic assumptions about our future that just aren’t accurate. We’re never going to have free-and-fair Federal elections again and Republicans just don’t give a shit what you, the voter, thinks. So, getting mad at them on Twitter doesn’t mean jack shit.

Now, this raises the obvious issue of — what is to be done?

All the obvious ideas are not ones I really want to entertain at the moment because I hate what it would involve. But I just want people to realize that the United States is now Trumplandia. We are no longer a democracy and we’re just one tweet away by Trump from aligning ourselves with other autocratic states like Russia, Turkey and Hungary.

And all of this is happening in the context of the Singularity rushing towards us. So, I don’t know what to tell you, folks. I don’t think Americans, in general, are prepared to do what they would have to do to get rid of the Trump regime and MAGA so we just have to get used to all of America becoming Pottersville from It’s A Wonderful Life.

Good luck.