Tag: Autocrats Never Lose

My ‘Revolutionary’ Agenda

by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner

I’m a nobody. But I do like to make abstract concepts concrete and here is what my “revolutionary” agenda would be if I had the power, should Blues have a revolution starting in late 2024 – early 2025. Remember, I’m assuming this happens after Blues have won a Blue Revolution. So, these would be taken care of via Constitutional Amendments.

SCOTUS Reform
I would increase the size of SCOTUS to 13 to match the number of Federal circuits. I would also require retirement ages for Justices. I would also have a very strict code of ethics for the court too.

Mandatory Financial Disclosure
This is specific so someone like Trump would have to release his taxes.

Sitting Presidents Would No Longer Be Above The Law
I would make it clear in the Constitution that someone like Trump could be criminally charged, even if they were in office.

Mandatory Mental Evaluation
This would be specifically so someone bonkers like Trump could not allowed to run for POTUS or be POTUS.

End to Gerrymandering
This would really help make political life in the United States better.

Increase the size of the House
This is a simple reform that would have a huge change in our politics for a number of reasons.

Public financing of elections
I would have very strict public financing laws built into the Constitution so a lot of the problems we currently have would no longer exist.

Limit the length of Election cycles
I would figure out a way to limit how long the election cycle was allowed to last.

Eliminate the Electoral College
This would really help fix a lot of problem in modern American politics.

Limited Second Reconstruction
Red States that fought — and lost — the Second American Revolution would be reconstructed to be more democratic — I’m looking at YOU fucking Texas.

Constitutional Convention
I would see this as an option only if there were safeguards in place to prevent it from going rouge.

The Real Calendar

by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner

Here is the real calendar:

January 1 – February: a blank, slack void
March – July 4th — The actual year.
July 5 – Labor Day — the nadir of the year
September – Halloween — People are thinking about the coming holidays
November – December –events zoom past.

So, it definitely seems as though, lulz, the year is just about over now. Barring aliens landing on the front lawn of the White House, I think we should officially begin to worry about What The Fuck Is Going To Happen To America In 2024 – 2025.

I still don’t know. It could go either way. It really could.

For all my talk about a potential civil war / revolution, I just don’t think America has it in her to do such a thing (which is good.) I think we’re going to re-elect Trump, turn into an autocracy that that will be that. Trump will destroy what’s left of our democracy, pull us out of NATO — and probably South Korea — and America will become an autocracy like Russia.

That is what I predict as of summer, 2023.

We Have To Accept That If America Collapses As Part of a Revolution / Civil War Starting in Late 2024 That The DPRK Will Lob Nukes At Us

by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner

I’m always, always wrong. And I can’t predict the future. But it definitely seems possible that the conditions are there for a revolution (Blues) or a civil war (Reds) starting in late 2024, early 2025. If this happens, it will be because the country is just too unstable to handle another election cycle.

If we do have a civil war or revolution, our enemies are going to take advantage of this particular crisis. The one country with the means, motive and opportunity to really fuck us over is the DPRK. I could totally see them lobbing a few H-bombs our way if we collapse into chaos.

Anyway. I hope I’m wrong. I really do. I don’t want any violence at all to the point that I’m will to accept autocracy in the US if that’s the only way to avoid it on the macro level. If we’re an autocracy then, of course, ICE will come after me and put me in a camp but, lulz, I’ll think of something.

We’re All Going To Cook Because The Libs Have To Be Owned

by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner

The weather continues to be very strange not just where I live, but all over the world. The world’s climate continues to grow hotter and hotter…and yet because American conservatives have to “own the libs” we’re just going to cook. All of humanity will end because 38% of the Republican electorate simply can not, will not work in a bipartisan way to save the planet.

That’s kind of deep.

In fact, I would go so far as to say the ONLY WAY humanity survives long-term at this point is if we have a civil war / revolution in the United States, WW3 happens, about 1 billion people die and THEN after THE GOOD GUYS WIN, humanity is so crestfallen that we have some sort of collective effort on a global scale to save ourselves from ourselves.

If that doesn’t happen, we’re fucked. It’s the end.

I don’t want that to happen, I mean, Jesus Christ, what kind of monster would what THAT? But if we peacefully slip into autocracy into the United States, soon enough, places like Florida will sink into the ocean. Something has to happen to get us all on the same page.

And it definitely seems as though that’s just not going to happen unless 1) more white Christian babies are born so angry white conservatives have some reason to not to hate liberals so much or 2) we blow ourselves up on a global basis and as we rebuild we see ourselves as humans rather than anything else.

Forgive me, I’m in a fucking bad mood about all of this because reality is important to me and I fucking hate how white Christian conservatives would rather have all 8 billion of us die than work with the other side to help save humanity. UGH.

Anyway. Fuck it all to hell.

…You Can Count Me Out (In)

by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner

The thing about a Big Event like, say, a center-Left “revolution” starting in late 2024 when Trump wins the election and goes full tyrant on us is…I hate violence. And, by definition, you can’t have a revolution without breaking a few eggs. Even England’s Glorious Revolution was less that 100% peaceful.

So, I find myself stuck wanting us to just slip peacefully into autocracy, if it comes to that. I hate violence and, I don’t know, I’ll think of something I guess. I’ll figure out some way to survive once we’re no longer a Western-style democracy.

But as I’ve said before, at least in the abstract, it would be…exciting? if we had a good old fashion center-Left revolution to overthrow a tyrannical thug like Trump. And, yet…that’s just the abstract. No matter how much “fun” it might be, we are talking about real people and real lives and I don’t want anyone to get hurt.

AND, what’s MORE, there are no assurances that any such revolution would actually work. It probably would only have a 50-50 change of working and, as such, there’s just as much chance of it failing and Trump then consolidating power as a result, as there is we might have the founding of A Third American Republic.

It’s all very sad. Autocracy, I suppose, here we come.

What Am I Missing?

by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner

It definitely seems as though Something Bad is going to happen starting in late 2024, early 2025. And, yet, I said pretty much the same thing in 2019 and, in the end, we managed to punt America’s problems down the road another election cycle — with the help of Mike Pence.

With that in mind, I keep wondering if I’m missing something. Is it possible, just possible, that something really unexpected might happen so we yet again thread the needle and go a third way whereby we don’t have a civil war / revolution and we don’t turn into an autocracy?

At the moment, I just don’t see any such third way happening.

It seems to me that this what is going to happen — Trump becomes the nominee, wins and we either have a revolution or turn into a full-blown autocracy. Or Trump loses and we have a civil war. Those SEEM to be all the options we have at the moment.

And, really, I think the thing we have to understand is we’re going to probably turn into Magadonia / Trumplandia and that will be that. We will do so peacefully and without any struggle. About 1 million (at least) smug, wealthy liberals will flee the country and we’ll not-so-slowly begin to drift towards being Russia on a political basis.

At the moment, that seems what is going to happen.

But I suppose it’s possible that we might go the revolution / civil war route — not that I want such a thing to happen. But it is, in fact, possible. Very possible. The conditions are there, at least, for it to happen.

Why, Yes, ‘Sound of Freedom’ Is A Qanon Movie

by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner

The thing about “Sound of Freedom” is the venn diagram of people who are Qanon and people who are honestly interested in the subject it deals with is just one circle. Two things can be right at the same time — the movie is popular with fucking bonkers cocksucker Qanon cult people AND it’s popular with Christians who are interested in the subject of human trafficking.

But because you can have an opinion about this without having seen the movie, the first thing that Qanon people will say is, — “Well, you haven’t seen the movie, so shut up.”

These people can suck my cock.

It is clear, given who produced the movie, what is going on — the movie is MEANT to be Qanon propaganda, even if it’s presented in a way that might obscure that fact. The only reason why I even bring this up is the movie is apparently VERY FUCKING POPULAR within Southern religious circles, to the point that when I went to see Asteroid City, there was overflow of people who wanted to see Sound of Freedom but couldn’t get in.

Anyway, I stand by my original tweet on the subject yesterday — if there is a civil war or revolution starting in 2024, Virginia is going to impolode.

Is Kari Lake Having An Affair With Donald Trump? Would It Matter If She Was?

by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner

There is chatter floating around the blind item “community” that Kari Lake is banging Donald Trump. There was a point, a number of years ago, when I would have thought if this was true it would matter to Trump’s political prospects.

Sadly, this is no longer the case.

There really is nothing that Trump could do at this point — other than shuffle off this mortal coil — that would prevent him from being the 2024 Republican nominee and probably the next president of the United States. On a macro basis, it definitely seems as though the United States as just given up.

Something Bad, one way or another, is going to happen to the United States starting in late 2024, going into 2025. I can’t predict the future, so, lulz, I suppose it’s possible that we’ll manage to punt our problems down the road another four years. But we have to admit that Blue and Red are now receding from each other at an alarming rate.

As such, we’re going to either turn into an autocracy, have a civil war (Reds) or have a revolution (Blues.)

Anyway, the point is — Trump is now beyond the event horizon when it comes to something as prosaic as an affair. Pretty much, the only thing Trump hasn’t admitted to doing is eating someone.

Give him time, I suppose Trump will do that, too, soon enough.

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