Tag: Autocrats Never Lose

Taking The Prospect Of A ‘Resistance Revolution’ in Late 2024 – Early 2025 Seriously

by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner

Let me be clear — I hate violence! So, think of this as just some mental masturbation that is toying with the abstract idea of there being some sort of “Glorious Revolution” in the United States in late 2024, early 2025 in reaction to the ding-dong thug and tyrant Trump becoming POTUS again.

First, the reason why I’ve latched on to the idea of a “revolution” rather than a “civil war” is, lulz, I don’t want to leave the US. I love America and what I want is an opportunity found a Third American Republic, not build a new, separate one from scratch.

It’s take me a loooooong time to realize what it was I wanted. It took so long because I was confused and distracted by all the talk about a “National Divorce.” It took me a long time to realize that I don’t want a National Divorce! I just want the opportunity to force through some much-needed political reforms.

So, in my mind a “Resistance Revolution” would begin not with a lot of Blue States deciding to leave the Union, but something far more broad in scope. The issue would not be state level objection to the establishment of “Trumplandia” but, rather millions of individuals across the country take a stand and refusing to allow a tyrant ding-dong like Trump from seizing and consolidating power in the first place.

But as I keep saying, I just don’t think that’s even going to come anywhere near happening. At the moment, at least, it just doesn’t seem viable. Trump is going to win in 2024 and we turn into a MAGA Nazi-themed autocracy soon there after.

I just hope my Trump-branded concentration camp has Wifi.

‘Magadonia:’ We Have To Take The Prospect of American Autocracy Starting in 2025 Seriously

by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner

The key thing to mull whenever the idea of “American Autocracy” is broached is how quickly and peaceful the transition might be. That would be when the autocracy is at its weakest — when the consolidation of power occurs. It’s as our long-term political infection finally goes septic that there is a put up or shut up moment.

The issue is, the United States is at the moment a huge nation that has a strong democratic tradition and is pretty decentralized. Many — many — people have some pretty basic assumptions about their relationship to the government and if as we transition into an autocracy that were to change in a quick, dramatic fashion….holy shit.

It could be, however, that I’m over thinking things. The core group of people who would otherwise be the ideological tip of the spear against autocratic “Magdonia” will slip out of the country and move to the south of France where they will continue to the smug liberal celebrity podcast grift without blinking an eye. Those “Smartless” episodes aren’t going to produce themselves, you know.

So, at the moment, I think Trump wins re-election and that’s that — America begins its transition into an autocracy. And, in the end, it will be not Trump but his successor who is our “Augustus.”

In fact, I will be quite stunned if Blues can get their act together enough to really try to put a stake through the heart of the autocracy that is beginning to grow within the American political system. In short, we’re fucked.

Get out while you still can.

I Don’t Think People Realize How Serious The Stakes of The 2024 Election Are

by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner

The thing about the 2016 election is people voted for an autocrat and what they got was a dumb, lazy, ding-dong who had no idea what he was doing. He just thrashed around, yelling to the point that he could not do something as simple as steal the 2020 election.

F

With that in mind, he and his toadies, according to The New York Times, have decided to do all kinds of things in 2025 once they’re in power again. Apparently, they’re going to purge the government of the “deep state” and pretty much turn us into Russia.

As such, late 2024, early 2025 is probably going to be lit. The issue is, what are we going to do about it? At the moment, I think nothing is going to happen. Smug, wealthy liberals will use their second passport they got through their refugee grandparents and simply flee the country — probably Europe. So, there will be a massive America diaspora that could radically change world culture. I just don’t think the people who would lead any “Blue Revolution” or “Resistance Revolution” have it in them to do it.

But I suppose there is a greater-than-zero-sum possibility that something like that might happen. I hate violence to much to support any such thing, but on a purely abstract basis, it is an intriguing possibility. I continue to worry about Mike Flynn’s brother, who in charge of U.S. Pacific Command. If there was any sort of “Resistance Revolution” he would be in a position to help squash it. UGH.

The crazy part of all of this is even if The Good Guys win in 2024, there is a good chance that rather than a revolution, we’ll have a civil war as Reds decide to leave the Union.

The point is — my long-held prediction that late 2024, early 2025 is going to be a shitshow is holding up.

2024: The Year of Put Up Or Shut The Fuck Up

by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner

Jesus Christ am I tired of all this mealy mouthed, half-assed things that are going on in American politics at the moment. Smug wealthy liberals with all their fucking suck-your-own-cock podcasts already have one foot out the door with a second passport they got through their refugee grandparents.

UGH.

I would rather, in a way, we just give up and allow the fucking fascist MAGA Nazis take over than do this weird political kabuki dance whereby the absolutists on both sides get more and more angry. I hate violence, that I almost — almost — would rather we just slip peacefully into MAGA Nazi autocracy in 2024 and get it over with.

And, yet, there is also a part of me that wants to stand my political ground on a greater political sense. If MAGA Nazis want civil war, how about we have a Blue Revolution instead? And if the Second American Revolution happened in just the right way, it wouldn’t even be that violent.

You would have to knock SOME heads, obviously, but if your revolution aims were low-key enough that MIGHT be kept to a minimum. Hopefully. But I’m not advocating anything, I’m just frustrated and annoyed about how half-assed our politics are at the moment.

We have fucking MAGA Nazi fascists running roughshod over our democracy and we’re just shrugging. Donald Fucking Trump continues to be 60,000 votes in 5 swing states away from being POTUS again. And if he becomes president, that’s it, the end of American democracy as we’ve known it.

So 2024 is it — put up or fucking shut up.

Why The Hollywood Strikes May Last A Long Time

by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner

It seems clear to me that at some point the Hollywood suits will face an existential choice — either give up and provide concrete assurances regarding AI to the various creative labor unions, or simply wait until the whole issue is moot by technological advances.

As such, either what some people assume will happen, will happen — the strike wraps up around the middle of September or it lasts much, much longer. If the suits get the sense that they can leapfrog directly into something akin to a “Her” future by simply sitting on their hands and suffering a little bit upfront….oh boy.

It could be — maybe — that Hollywood is about to be “Moneyballed” to a point that your head will spin. We will wake up in about 18 months and some pretty basic assumptions about Hollywood will be seen as rather quaint. Everything will be AI generated in the extreme to the point that there won’t even be this thing we now call “mass media.”

Now, remember, all of this is happening in the context of a massive fucking clusterfuck may be about to happen in late 2024, early 2025 on the political front. It could be that America is going to destroy itself for a few years — gulp — and THEN, THAT will be when the “Her” future we all (hope for?) (dread?) will come about.

Or not. I have no idea. I can’t predict the future.

I could totally see things get wrapped up in a rather snap manner out of the blue and the issue of AI will be punted down the road another three years. And, yet, there is a greater-than-zero chance that ALL creatives in Hollywood are totally and completely fucked.

A Variety of Monologues About Various Things

Enjoy.

Don’t Be A Scab!

by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner

The older I get the more mental energy it takes to refrain from telling people to fuck off on Twitter when they give dumb hot takes. So, I posted a video about how movie “influencers” shouldn’t be scabs. And some dumbass said, “Derp, I only make $19, I’d be an acting scab in a heartbeat.”

Union!

UGH. So stupid.

I didn’t respond because it wasn’t worth it.

But just imagine you were able to leave your $19 an hour job to be a high paid scab actor. First of all, you would have to take acting classes. And if you didn’t you would, yes, maybe make a few $100,000 in “quick money” but you fucking idiot then what? Fucking cocksucker dumbass. Ugh. I’m so angry.

The next thing happens is the strike ends and not only does EVERYONE IN HOLLYWOOD HATE YOU, you never get another acting gig and you go down in history and the fucking dumbass to was a scab.

So, yeah, you fucking idiot, leave your $19 an hour day job to be a scab actor. I look forward to it.

Thinking about this has put me in a very bad mood.

But the whole reason why I even mentioned scabs in the first place wasn’t even acting scabs! It was “influencers” who suck on the teet of the movie studios on Tik-Tok who are in a gray area when it comes to movie promotion. They make some money but not THAT much money.

Anyway. Don’t be a scab.

I’m writing a novel, so lulz, I can keep writing. I do hope, however, that one day my novel will be adapted into a movie! Grin.

The Conflated, Convoluted Politics Of The Latest Mission:Impossible Movie

by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner

I’m at a loss to describe the political goals of the “Entity” that is the bad guy in the latest Mission:Impossible movie. And I think that’s the point. The point is for the movie to be so convoluted and conflated in its political good and evil that both sides think the other side is the bad guy.

They talk about “patriots” in what is essentially the deep state of the government. So…are they talking about the Entity wanting to purge MAGA people from the government or are they talking about the Entity purging the “deep state” from the government?

It’s all very unclear.

It really could mean either one. Which, like I said, is the point.

They want everything to be so convoluted that neither side has any reason to hate the aims of the movie one way or another. It’s very noticable if you’ve paid any attention to politics in the last, I don’t know, decade.

Anyway. It’s a good movie.

Is Trump About To Be Charged Under the Insurrection Act or Nah?

by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner

So, ding-dong “truthed” this today.

And, yet, a little while later, he deleted it and replaced it with a new version that mentioned the Espionage Act instead of the Insurrection Act. So, which is it? Is he admitting to something new or just ranting about the usual old shit?

It’s all very curious.

I will note that we’ve entered the period of the year where Big Things happen. Between now and Labor Day, HUGE EVENTS are probably going to happen because, lulz, all the Elites are on vacation.

Anyway. It’s all something of a mystery at the moment.

The Myth That Joe Biden Missed An Opportunity To Be A ‘Statesman’

by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner

With the news that the U.S. economy is doing exceptionally well, despite the “vibes” telling us everything sucks, I’m reminded by how people on the Right have complained that Biden has been to partisan.

People who talk like this obviously pretty much just want Biden to be something he’s not — “statesman” is code for “Joe Manchin.” Given how divided the country is, and how 38% of the Republican electorate is all-in on the idea of fascism…I just don’t see how Biden becoming some darling of the non-existent Center would have worked.

Yes, he could have said he wasn’t going to run again. And, yes, he could have muted some of his more center-Left policy movies…but who would have that placated? You have an entire MAGA bullshit echochamber designed specifically to juice the MAGA base at any perceived “woke” slight.

As such, Biden would be pretty much only making the Green Room at Face The Nation happy if he tried to “statesman” route. The country is tearing itself apart and we’re either going to become a MAGA-themed autocracy or we’re going to start blowing shit up.

I think and hope we just become an MAGA autocracy. I hate violence too much to think otherwise. But there is a real risk that the most powerful nation in the world is going to destroy itself over “vibes.”