Here are two interesting autocratic moves on the part of the Trump Regime.
Rummaging Through Mortgages Just like Nixon sicked the IRS on people back in the day, I think Trump is going to rifle through people’s mortgages in search of “irregularities” he can put them in jail for. It definitely seems as though Trump is working his way towards, say Obama or Hillary Clinton so he can finally spooge that particular wet dream out.
Seizing of D.C.’s Union Station This is a good chokepoint for people coming in the area from outside to protest. So, when Trump finally drops the next autocratic shoe, he will be able to prevent people from coming into D.C. to protest — or more — his autocratic behavior.
The curious thing about everything happening politically in the United States is for the most part it’s happening in broad daylight. MAGA cocksuckers haven’t come directly for free speech — yet — so we know damn well about how Trump is consolidating power at a rapid rate.
But I think the last few weeks is when we crossed over into a “zombie” or “managed” democracy. We’re never going to have free-and-fair Federal elections again and this is it — democracy in America is finally dead.
Yes, we’ll continue to have elections and they may even be free-and-fair on a state and local level, but on a Federal basis, MAGA is well on it way to consolidating power to the point that this is it — we’re always going to have a MAGA Federal government, at least for the rest of my life.
I have a fuzzy idea for a short story about a dystopian near future where the only free speech is porn and the only political speech is delivered by the pizza guy in the porn’s setup.
That’s how I feel about the Taylor Swift engagement news. Here we are, careening towards a zombie democracy bordering on an actual dictatorship and…lulz? It is going to be interesting to see how long it takes for MAGA to stop pussy footing around cracking down on free speech and actually do it.
At the moment, they are mostly using intimidation, but that is going to inevitably change. At some point, MAGA is going to come directly for free speech in a big way and it will be interesting to see what the reaction to that will be.
One thing is for sure, I just don’t see us having another free-and-fair Federal election. Somehow, someway, Republicans are going to cheat in 2026 and definitely 2028 and that will be that.
The only thing that is up in the air is Trump’s fate. But, even then, no one and nothing is going to save us. Trump is just a symptom. So, he could magically disappear at any moment and JD Vance (or someone else) would just keep doing exactly what Trump has been doing.
Yes, the exact persona the tyranny we would live under would be different
I keep having to recalculate my “hysterical doom shit” about the future of what’s left of America’s democracy. Trump said in the last few days that “A lot of people are saying we need a dictator,” and that leads me to believe we definitely won’t have free-and-fair Federal elections in 2026, much less 2028.
So, this is it.
We’re now a dictatorship and that just happens to have zombie elections on a regular basis. We’re now no better than Hungary or even Russia. The key question is, of course, do we go full Russia or do we linger around Hungary?
At the moment, that’s something of an open question.
I think a lot of it depends on who replaces Trump. If it’s JD Vance, then I think we might, just might linger in the Hungary zone. But if it’s someone who is far more craven and focused on absolute power, then, lulz, we zoom towards the Russia model and I endup in some sort of gulag.
For a variety of macro political reasons, the MAGA Right simply can not, will not be placated. They want to turn the USA into a white Christian autocratic ethnostate as fast as possible.
And, really, at the moment, there doesn’t seem to be anything that is going to stop them. I suppose if there was some sort of civil war or revolution that might give the MAGA Right at least pause for thought.
But, in general, that isn’t going to happen — I hope — and so we have to accept that the USA is transforming into a very dark zombie version of itself. We will be — or are — an autocratic state in all but name at this point and it’s only going to get far, far worse.
There just doesn’t seem to be any way to stop it, baring significant upheaval in a way not seen since the Civil War.
In fact, the only thing I could possible see causing the type of reaction against the MAGA Right that is needed is if Trump, like, started to seize or brazenly purge the major broadcast networks. And not in the round about way he’s been doing — it would have to be at his express direction.
Or if Trump started to round up people — like me! — for what I said online, then, yeah, that would catch people’s attention because freedom of speech is so native to the American experience.
Some dark things are bubbling deep inside the American psyche and I just don’t know where it will all lead. It seems on one hand we’re doomed to a fucking MAGA autocratic state and on the other — gulp — political violence equal to a civil war / revolution.
At the moment, it seems if we’re lucky we’ll be something of a zombie democracy like they have in Hungary. If we’re not lucky, then we turn into a carbon copy clone of Russia — a very legalistic autocracy with a thin veener of democracy to it.
What makes all of this worse is there is a sold 37% of the electorate that wants this type of white Christian ethnostate. They’re very twichy about this or that thing being “woke,” but they’re also very much in the driver’s seat when it comes to the political fate of the country.
I think at the moment what happens is we slide into a MAGA autocracy that — at least initially — doesn’t touch freedom of speech. As such, people still get to vent powerlessly about how we’re not longer a democracy, but…we’re still no longer a democracy.
But, eventually, I think MAGA will seize enough control of the country that they will come after even freedom of speech and that will be that. ICE will be our SS or FSB and people like me will be randomly snatched off the street simply for telling MAGA to suck it online.
How long it will take us to get to that point, I don’t know. Maybe 10 years? Maybe sooner?
As for the civil war / revolution option. That is very much touch-and-go. It could go either way, really, but I think if we did go that direction it would probably be because Trump or his successor screwed up and misjudged Blues in a pretty fundimental way and all hell breaks loose.
Hopefully, of course, that won’t happen. I’ve resigned myself to living in a white Christian autocratic ethnostate and I would prefer not to become a refugee because the United States implodes.
At the moment, there is a lot — a LOT — of slack in our political system. Most people are too busy enjoying the last, final days of summer to care about politics. But I fear that at some point in the next few years all that will change in a rather dramatic and possibly tragic fashion.
One scenario — but not the only one — is sometime around the 2026 midterms someone throws a Molotov Cocktail at a cop at just the wrong place and time and the whole country explodes into chaos. Or, specifically, Blue Cities do. And that’s when the fucking cocksuckers of the MAGA Trump regime and ICE will pounce.
They will throw everything they have at Blue Cities — ICE, National Guard troops from Red States — all with the intent of making sure that the 2026 midterms are not free and fair.
And, really, all that doesn’t have to happen for all elections from here on out — at least in my life time — not to be free and fair. The devotion to Trump on the part of MAGA is so absolute for macro reasons that, lulz, we’re going to be a political clone of autocratic Hungary before too long.
Of course, there is the very, very small possibility that Blue states and cities will finally have had enough and some sort of civil war or revolution will break out. I have my doubts that that will ever happen, but it is, if nothing else, at least *possible*.
I don’t want that to happen, but it’s something to mull going forward.
All the signs are there that we’re all going to have to grab the metaphorical bug out bag and head safety within my lifetime. I don’t know exactly when it will happen or why, but it’s going to happen.
I am well aware that I’ve been pontification about this possibility for a long, long, long time and absolutely nothing happens. And I’m not really saying that “this time is different.”
I’m just saying that the centrifugal political forces are gaining in speed and power and soon there is going to be a revolution and / or a civil war. And probably WMD will be lobbed by either side against each other.
Think of it as a “slow implosion” rather than a “slow civil war.” The two sides are growing more and more extreme, even though it’s really just the MAGA cocksuckers going nuts and then Blues in a half-assed kind of way *trying* to “resist.”
I think the slack in the system will tighten up should Trump run for a third term, or clamp down on freedom of speech in a more direct way than he’s been doing. Besides suing anyone he doesn’t like, Trump really hasn’t in a ham-handed way been a real dictator against the press.
When he goes full dictator against the media, then all bets are off.
Political darkness continues to fall here in the United States. I say this in the context of that punk ass little bitch “Big Balls” being beat up in D.C. and, in turn, causing Trump to send in the military into a city that has seen its crime rate actually go down in recent years.
As such, Trump continues to dabble in direct authoritarianism by sending troops into Blue States for no damn reason. This is only going to get worse because we’re all too busy doing Tik-Tok dances to notice.
We’re going to wake up in a few years to a Max Headroom-like version of Trump as an ASI that demands we worship him as a god. Ugh. I wish I was joking. That definitely seems a real possibility at the moment.
For the moment, I seem safe. I’m just a loudmouth crank in the middle of nowhere. But as the vise begins to tighten on the lives of everyday people, ICE is going to come for me eventually — it’s inevitable.
ICE by that moment will have morphed from bothering undocumented immigrants to be a general purpose Gestapo or even SS, depending on how bad things get.
I figure I have a few more years before ICE comes for me. Right now, I’m just a kooky, loudmouth crank. But once we dive directly into Russian-style autocracy, all bets are off.
As much as I struggle to believe it, cocksucker Trump is mortal and will one day shuffle off this mortal coil. (I just never see him willingly leaving office as long as he has air in his lungs.)
Which leads us to the question of what happens After Trump.
My gut reaction is if it happens sooner rather than later, J.D. Vance will become our autocrat and 20, 30, 40 years from now he’ll still be in office — somehow — and that will be that. We’ll be a clone of Russia, but for the fact that the Pod Save America people will STILL be telling people on YouTube that the latest South Park “destroyed” MAGA.
Meanwhile, there is the possibility that either the our new autocrat has to be a Trump or a woman — maybe even a Trump woman? If this is the case, then Lara Trump as our autocrat would make the most sense.
And, yet, it’s her husband Eric Trump that I think probably would pick up the mantle of MAGA. He is so absolutely loyal to his dad that I could even see Trump potentially leaving office (!) as long as Eric Trump took over for him.
Regardless, we’re totally, utterly fucked folks. This is it, the end. We’re doomed. This is the twilight of our democracy and well before 20 years from now we’ll be a full-on Russia clone.
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