Category: The Resistance

Charlie Kirk Is A MAGA Martyr — Now What

by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner

I don’t know what to tell you folks. Form follows function and MAGA, like Nazism, apparently craves a martyr and now it has one in the guise of Charlie Kirk.

The issue for me is I wish we wouldn’t do so much “who shot John” in regards to the motives of the shooter and just follow wherever the facts took us. But the MAGA Right has an established orthodoxy, an established narrative, and they have the political and media clout to make it the official story.

Ugh.

As I keep saying, the great irony of all of this is MAGA is ascendant. All they have to do is just be fucking patient and they will get the white, autocratic Christian ethnostate they are rabidly desiring.

If they don’t cool their heels for just a few short years, they really risk letting loose centrifugal forces that will tear the country apart. Or, if noting else, cause the two sides to actually go to war to figure out which vision of America will be used going forward.

I still have my doubts about Blues states wanting to leave the Union. That’s not their vibe. But a revolution on the other hand, yeah, maybe. That’s a possibility.

And that’s the crux of the crucial thing that MAGA is obvious to. The USA is not Germany in 1933 and it is not going to be nearly as easy to make America a Nazi state. The country is too diverse, has too strong a tradition of democracy and too decentralized for that to happen very easily.

MAGA is going to have to fight for it.

I’m Worried: ‘Blue Revolution’

by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner

I like to make my abstract fears concrete and after giving it some thought it seems as though here’s one possible scenario for Something Bad happening in the United States in the next few years.

Here’s what could happen — at some point around the 2026 or 2028 Federal elections Trump throws as many Red state National Guard members as he can at Blue state to fuck with free and fair elections. And this would happen in the context of general fuckery against Blue states on Trump’s part.

Someone gets a little too excited and a Molotov Cocktail gets thrown at National Guard unit and they live fire back. This causes a huge rush of uprisings in Blue states and a revolution — not a civil war — starts. I call it a revolution because the point would not be to leave the Union, but to topple Trump’s regime.

Weird propaganda from Twitter.

I do not want this to happen — I hate violence of any sorts, but it’s something to take into consideration. In some respects, our politics are so taunt at the moment, that one instance of Trump really fucking with Blues could be enough to ignite something akin to a revolution in Blue states.

Of course, the issue of what would happen to the U.S. Military is something to think about. A lot would depend on how big the attempted revolution was. If the U.S. Military found itself in the position of attacking a united front of Blue states in open rebellion, it could just collapse itself rather than having to do that.

Once that happened, then, of course, WW3 happens and about 1 billion people would die from the effects of a few limited nuclear exchanges — those would be deaths that would happen specifically because of Trump.

Anyway, I don’t really think any of this is going to happen. I think despite all the radical talk on the part of MAGA Republicans that, in the end, they know they’re politically ascendant and that they will get everything they want just by being patient.

No need for a National Divorce, or massive suppression of Blues.

Trans Rights: A Political Firebreak For Kook Rights

by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner

I long said before Roe was overturned that abortion was a political firebreak for birth control in general and I’ve been proven right — the MAGA Right is itching to ban The Pill using any means necessary.

And, so, here we are, after the tragic murder of Charlie Kirk, talking about the place of Trans people in American society. While I have in the past made it clear that I thought the Left was a little bit too touchy about Trans rights, I now have re-evaluated that because, well, once they round up Trans people for being “terrorists” it’s just a brief jaunt to saying all kooks should be round up “for their own safety.”

That’s how tyrannical systems work. They don’t start with camps, but they sure do end with camps.

I just struggle to understand how far things have to go before Blues wake from their slumber and start to go mano-to-mano with the bloodthirsty cocksuckers of MAGA.

Now, this is the point where I say, I’m going to use my right to call MAGA “cocksuckers” as long as I can. I’m well aware that in this new, post Charlie Kirk as martyr era that I’m supposed to keep my head down and nod pleasantly when MAGA people tell me to go to hell.

But, fuck that. I’ve been a loudmouth crank my entire life, why stop now?

Anyway, can’t we all just get along? Can’t we stop going after Trans people just for being different and especially don’t lick our chops about putting kooks like me in a camp for being different as well.

And Now, We Argue Over Facts

by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner

I have at least one MAGA Facebook friend I keep around for various reasons, one of them being to keep tabs on what the current MAGA orthodoxy is. Well, it seems as though the narrative now when it comes to Charlie Kirk’s murderer is that he was a leftist and had a Trans partner.

While I’ve definitely heard those things suggested, I also know that a lot of evidence suggests that the murderer was a “groyper” (far Right) and that the “Trans” person involved not only could be just his roommate, there’s no definitive proof that he’s Trans at all.

But the MAGA Right has it’s “evidence” for what it wants to believe and so, lulz, here we are now, arguing over facts. And I really do fear that Trump is going to do something really weird and dumb because of what he *believes* is true, not what is actually going on.

As I keep saying — I have a vested interest in what happens with Trans people. They’re a firebreak for regular old kooks like me. Once ICE starts to round up Trans people and put them in camps…it doesn’t take much to see that kooks like me will soon join them.

And, as I keep saying, the MAGA Right is ascendant. They are growing in power while Blues continue to be rather blasé about the significance of this. And, again, if Trump was some sort of “great man of history” he would have already used the Kirk murder to send Enabling Acts to Congress to turn us into a full-on tyrannical state.

But Trump is such a lazy doofus that he just rides history and only rarely, like January 6th, actually directly influences it.

I Still Worry MAGA Is Going To Catch The Car When It Comes To Trans People

by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner

I have a very serious vested interest when it comes to the macro safety of Trans people. I think of them as something of a political firebreak between myself and MAGA coming after, well, kooky people like me.

As it stands, MAGA seems to want to blame every fucking thing wrong with the entire world on Trans people. I am the first to admit that the center-Left has done itself no favors by being so touchy about “Trans rights.” But since Charlie Kirk’s murder, I have been feeling a whole lot more empathy for Trans people because of how fucked up MAGA is about them.

What is the goal of MAGA by demonizing Trans people? What’s the endgame? Is it just form follows function and fascists gotta have some group of people to have their 2 minutes of hate dedicated to? The absolute white hot hatred that MAGA has for the tiny sliver of America known as Trans people is just fucking bizarre, surreal.

But, here we are, with MAGA’s hatred for Trans people growing and growing and growing. At some point, ding-dong Trump is going to do something really dumb, which is thing, and THEN things grow dark. I could see him either declaring all Trans people terrorists or putting them in camps “for their own safety.”

Something dumb and ultimately ill-advised like that.

And THEN, gradually, all kooks — including me — will be rounded up by ICE and thrown into the campus with the Trans people and then they put us gas chambers or shoot us in the back of the head.

I really need to sell a novel so I can escape America. Sigh.

Fascism All The Way Down

by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner

The tragic murder of Charlie Kirk may, in future history, be seen as a significant bolt popping off the side of the U.S.S. USA. There will be a before and after and the after could be us heading towards significant, lingering political violence.

At the moment, MAGA is kind of crazed. They have been radicalized by Kirk’s death and the question is, will this radicalization subside or is it the new normal? at the moment, I just don’t know.

One thing I’m really worried about is Trans people. I worry about them because I know once MAGA gets what it wants — to put the poor people in camps and murder them in cold blood — it won’t be too long before MAGA’s attention will turn to regular old kooks like me.

And therein lies something of a historical conundrum.

How far can MAGA push before Blues wake up and fight back? This, I honestly don’t know. Blue leadership is so wane and feckless that it could be that the populace itself has to rise up and take care of matters should Trump go full tyrant. (Not that I’m advocating such a thing.)

The great irony is that, for the time being, we’re being saved by what a fucking lazy doofus Trump is. If Trump really was a Hitler-like character, he definitely would have used Charlie Kirk’s death to strike in a direct way by this point. But, Trump as I keep saying isn’t a “Great Man of History,” but rather simply a symptom of some fucked up macro historical shit going on in the United States at the moment.

I mean, if you think back to 2016, the people who voted for Trump WANTED an autocrat. They wanted him to turn the United States into Russia. That was the whole point! But here we are, in Trump’s second term, and he continues to consolidate power in only dribs and drabs.

Not that Trump hasn’t pretty much ruined the United States for generations to come. He has. He’s like a macro-historical vandal. It will take a generation of things working out just right for us to recover from just these first few months of Trump’s second term.

By the time Trump’s term is over, the USA will probably be unrecognizable. And it’s only going to get worse. I suspect the plan is to turn ICE into the SS and the FBI into the Gestapo. I’m kind of waiting for mission creep to take over ICE and their powers grow significantly. Maybe that will be one of the last signposts before we go full Russia — that something will happen whereby ICE is given significantly more authority to crack skulls than it has now.

Anyway, we’re all fucked. Good luck. You’ll need it.

I Continue To Be Amazed That The Politically Ascendant MAGA Agitates For Civil War

by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner

Of all the completely nonsensical political ideas floating around at the moment, the idea that there would be a civil war started by MAGA has got to be up there. I understand and validate their rage and anger at the murder of Charlie Kirk.

Ok, I get it, your mad and hurt.

But to work yourself up into such a lather that you want to fuck up your political ascendancy by turning to political violence in the form of a civil war makes no sense whatsoever. All MAGA has to do is just cool their heels for a few years and they will get everything they want through politics — and then some.

Talk about a political circle jerk! I can’t even fathom the logic of anyone on the MAGA Right who wants a civil war. What it really sounds like is MAGA doesn’t really want a civil war, they just want an excuse to murder people like me in cold blood and not risk any consequences.

The whole idea of a MAGA – induced civil war just makes no sense! None. Zip. Nada. It seems like in their pain and anger over what happened to Charlie Kirk, they grasp at the worse possible thing they can think of doing and that turns out to be a civil war. The whole thing seems ill conceived.

Meanwhile, the it’s the center-Left that we have to worry about long-term when it comes to a civil war or revolution. If, say, Trump really tries to fuck with the 2026 and or 2028 elections in a really ham-handed manner, in a way that just can’t be spun…then, we got ourselves a problem.

Add to this the astonishing income inequality found in the American socio-economic system and holy shit are we primed and ready for a traditional center-Left revolution.

I generally find MAGA to be crybaby wussies who are all talk, so I think once they calm down a little bit they may grumbled about murdering people like me but hopefully — hopefully — they won’t get around to doing it.

Stephen Colbert Should Probably Run For President, But He Probably Won’t

by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner

The center-Left needs its Trump and I think Stephen Colbert would be perfect to be such a figure. I would prefer if he would, say, run for governor or Senator in an South Carolina election, but, lulz, he just wouldn’t win in a post-Charlie Kirk murder era.

Stephen Colbert

But I do find myself, occasionally daydreaming about Colbert being president. I can’t promise you he could get anything done, given how fucked up our politics are at the moment. Yet, it would be nice to have a president that the majority of the nation wasn’t embarrassed by.

Anyway, we’re all fucking doomed. MAGA — despite being politically ascendant — has civil war on the brain and they will do everything in their power to ensure that neither the 2026 nor 2028 election is free and fair. And it will be all down hill from there, I’m afraid.

You Just Can’t Please Anyone

by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner

Usually, the two media bubbles rarely come into direct contact. MAGA has their safe space and Blues have theirs. But, occasionally, because of events like the Charlie Kirk murder, the two media bubbles do overlap some.

And that’s when we get to directly yell at each other, usually fighting over the facts or just talking past each other in general.

This happened to me recently when some MAGA cocksucker looked at my Twitter account and said nasty things about me simply retweeting a lot of photos of beautiful women. What can I say, I love women and the female form.

We all know that if it wasn’t that, it would have been something else. If I didn’t have retweeted photos of beautiful women, they probably would have accused me of being Trans or some shit.

But all of this does get me thinking about my social media presence as I work my way towards writing a novel that is query worthy. Maybe those MAGA cocksuckers have a point — maybe I should lay off on the beautiful women. I don’t want to alarm skittish the liberal white women that make up the majority of literary agents (at least in my imagination.)

We’ll see. I always talk like this, then something happens and I think to myself, “Wait, why am I not retweeting imagines of beautiful women again?” then do it again.

The Cancel Culture Is Coming From The MAGA Right…

by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner

Wouldn’t you know it, because history loves irony, the MAGA Right is doing exactly what it has so worried about happening to itself — it’s trying to “cancel” anyone who doesn’t follow the party orthodoxy about MAGA martyr Charlie Kirk.

Now, this is of note to me for several different reasons. One, I have direct people in my life who are MAGA in no small part to their personal fear of being “canceled” by the woke cancel culture mob. So…lulz?

Also, we all know how this is going to play out. The infrastructure built to go after people “celebrating” Charlie Kirk’s murder will inevitably drift into a way to come after well, people like me.

People that fucking hate MAGA and aren’t afraid to say so. So, yeah, now the site may be devoted to people with the ill advised decision to celebrate Charlie Kirk’s murder, but, soon enough, anyone that MAGA doesn’t like for any reason could find themselves on those rolls.

And then, well, form follows function, we find ourselves in a camp. Ta-da!