Where to begin with this one. I guess a lot of what I’m about to write comes from how I’m not a Leftist. I’m anti-MAGA. And, as such, sometimes the more Leftist members of the broad anti-MAGA coalition that I’m a member of attack me from the Left and I don’t quite know how to respond because I’m on their side!
But that’s not really what is bothering me at the moment.
What is bothering me right now is how preening and dumb so many “resistance” Twitter accounts are on Twitter. I mean, come the fuck on. Just shut up. What really, really bothers me is so many people — especially otherwise well meaning retired busybody liberal Boomers — seem stuck in a spring 2017 mentality when we thought it was possible that we could actually do anything about Trump just by collectively being really angry about him on Twitter.
Jesus, were we naive.
Trump is above the law and always will be. It won’t be until we have a Second American Civil War were real people get hurt because of their politics will Trump ever face any accountability.
I’m not saying I want that, but any liberal Boomer who thinks just by getting really mad about Trump on afternoon on Twitter is going to do anything…well, they have another thing coming. They need to start thinking about the real world implications of the rise of MAGA fascism.
They won’t, of course, because that would mean leaving their comfort zone where they talk about this or that person being a “resistor.” It’s not about how many followers you have, or how active someone is on Twitter — it’s about realizing how totally fucked we are as a nation in late 2024, early 2025.
IN THE REAL WORLD.
But no one listens to me, which is probably a good thing. If I had the means, I would already be back in South Korea teaching English. But I’m flat broke, so I’m stuck in America as we careen towards a very, very dark future.
I suppose it was inevitable that Trump would be let back on Twitter. But it was still something of a shock when I saw it was happening. I suppose the only thing we don’t know at the moment is if Trump will tweet something memorable and faux profound for his first tweet, or if he will just go back to his usual hate and rage without skipping a beat.
I suppose that will be answered any moment now, huh.
But bringing back Trump to Twitter is a double edged sword for everyone involved. It’s a double edged sword for Trump because he will just remind everyone why they didn’t like him to begin with. Meanwhile, it will hurt everyone else because Trump will go back to his usual asshole behavior that got him banned in the first place.
He claims that he will stay on Truth Social,but that’s a lie. He’s going to ditch that like a wife.
The big question is, of course, will he be able to control the “attention economy” like he did before from 2015 to 2021. Or has that moment passed? Is Trump a low energy political hasbeen? And the real issue is, will reality catch up in time to allow DeSantis be the 2024 Republican POTUS nominee?
That, at the moment, is something of a mystery.
We’ll see, I guess. Fuck Trump. Fuck MAGA. And fuck you if you support either one of them. Wink.
I feel a personal distaste for Mike Pompeo because I know, just know, that should he ever become POTUS that I am exactly the type of person he would sick ICE on. He hates the press and is the worst of the various would-be autocrats America faces in that regard.
You’ll always be a fat fuck in my heart, Mike.
One thing about him I’ve always found both hilarious and sad is how he clung on to Trump to the very, very end, to the point that he embarrassed himself — and America — by having to turn around his airplane in the middle of the skys of the Atlantic when it became clear that even if he did not want to face reality that the rest of the world was. They just wouldn’t meet with him anymore because, lulz, Trump fucking loss.
Flash forward a few years and who should be sniping at Trump on Twitter but his old Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo. A lot of people dismiss Pompeo as not having a chance to be POTUS, but I’m not so sure. I could see Trump picking him as his veep for 2024 and then becoming president that way.
Regardless, I have no personal vendetta against him. Whatever. To me, he’s just one of a dozen other would-be autocrats I have to worry about. But just strikes me as a big old dickhead who hates democracy and would put me — and people like me — in a camp if he had the power to do so.
Jesus Christ, are these times that try men’s souls. Instead of doing the obvious thing and fucking indiciting ding-dong Trump, Attorney General Merrick Garland named the apparently VERY well qualified Jack Smith to be a Special Counsel.
Not funny!
I fear poor old Jack Smith has no fucking idea how much he is going to be in the middle of a huge maelstrom as each side engages in a pitch battle to frame every twitch that happens to come out of his office over the course of what will probably be a few years.
“That guy doesn’t know jack shit,” is probably going to be a running gag on the fucking boring, unfunny Gutfeld! TV show that somehow, strangely enough gets really good numbers from all those Boomers wanting to “own the libs” by watching something extremely bad and unfunny.
Anyway, the whole point of naming Jack Smith is to slow walk any action against Trump. By the time Smith finally gets around to doing anything, we’re either going to have a civil war, be a military junta or have transitioned into a MAGA-themed autocracy.
In other words, lulz.
And even if Trump does, somehow, face some accountability, such an event will turn him into a MAGA martyr and, well, there you go. That particular political dystopian hellscape writes itself.
Americans like their modern presidents tall. And so I wanted to know how tall Ron DeSantis is — and I couldn’t find a straight answer. I finally found an answer, of sorts, on Twitter. But, even then, the answer was up in the air, with some people saying he’s 6’1″ and others saying he’s 5’9″.
How tall is would-be American Putin, Ron DeSantis? It’s a mystery!
Hmmm.
If he’s 5’9″, there’s no chance he’s going to become president unless he somehow manages to break the tradition — or he’s running against a woman who might be shorter. (The question of if modern TV audiences mind that a woman is probably going to be shorter than any male political opponent is still up in the air.)
But, I just don’t know. DeSantis is a very, very strong candidate because he hides his innate fascism behind a smoother image. Even if that image is boring as hell. He’s such a compelling “moderate” fascist candidate that I have one Traditionalist relative who is eager to vote for him “three times” given the chance.
Update — mystery solved?
Ugh.
Remember, by definition, to be a modern Republican in good standing is to be a fascist, moderate or otherwise. So, really, the only difference between Trump and DeSantis is if DeSantis becomes president, there’s a lot less chance that we’re going to have a civil war. DeSantis is so fucking smooth that he’ll strangle what’s left of American democracy in broad daylight with a shit eating grin on his face and no one will do anything about it.
Meanwhile, Trump is such an idiot that he could, unto himself, cause a civil war simply because he would gloat so much after winning, or stealing, the 2024 election. Blue States may leave the Union in late 2024, early 2025 out of spite towards Trump if he wins, if nothing else.
But we just can’t count DeSantis out yet. He may look like the old SNL sketch Unfrozen Caveman Lawyer, but he’s primed and ready to be America’s first autocrat — but for ding-dong Trump standing in his way.
Anyone who doesn’t think House Republicans are going to wallow in some pretty stupid shit for the next two years is a fool. They don’t care that they’re going to massively self-own by overreaching. That’s not the point. The point is to suck their own cocks in an effort to stroke the MAGA base.
The MAGA base lives in its own la la land to the point that some pretty stupid shit is going to be investigated to such an extent that Republicans are going to do serious political damage to themselves — and the country as a whole. But the United States isn’t a democracy anymore, but rather an “anocracy” so, this is it — the final countdown.
It’s at least possible that Trump will win the 2024 nomination and in 2024 the administration of elections will be corrupted by MAGA cocksuckers AND there could be real political violence.
So, lulz, it doesn’t matter, in real terms, what House Republicans do. They are going to impeach a lot — A LOT — of people in the Biden Administration and they’re just going to wallow in Hunter Biden to the point that it will be lodged in the average voter’s mind like BENGHAZI! (Which is the point.)
It will be a testament to the absolute stranglehold that Trump has over the Republican MAGA base that he can be as low energy and boring as he is at the moment and STILL be the 2024 frontrunner for the Republican POTUS nomination.
So, we are going into a situation where Trump is under any normal condition would be a big old dud of a nominee like Jeb! And, yet, Trump could very well be the next president of the United States despite how dull, low energy and boring he is.
And, remember, if Trump is the 2024 Republican nominee, the possibility of a Second American Civil War increases dramatically. Not only could Trump brazenly steal the 2024 election prompting Blue States to think seriously about leaving the Union, it could be that once it’s clear that Trump’s second term agenda is cold hard fascism, the same thing might happen.
It could happen even though Trump is very, very low energy and should be pushed aside by someone like Ron DeSantis who would do the exact same thing only with a bit more pep in his step.
So, pretty much, we’re totally completely fucked. I’m always wrong, however, so it’s possible that something will happen between now and Election Day 2024 that makes all my alarm look very hysterical and foolish.
While I’m always, always wrong, I think I’m safe in saying that it’s now an immutable force of history that House Republicans are going to impeach a number of people in the Biden Administration.
And, what’s more, it seems pretty clear to me that there is a real chance that Biden himself will be impeached as many as three times. The first time will happen just because it can happen, while the other two impeachments will happen because Republicans wait to take away the “Trump is the only president impeached twice” talking point away from Democrats.
Here’s a back-of-the-envelope prediction about all the potential impeachments we should expect in 2023 if Republicans do, in fact, take the House.
President Biden It’s pretty clear to me that a Republican House will be so full of spite and rage and bloodlust for revenge that it’s very possible they may accidently on purpose impeach Biden for no apparent reason in the early days of 2023. It will be so transparent as to what is going on that House Republicans are going to do severe political damage to themselves. But it won’t matter — that political damage would only matter if we were a functioning democracy. But we’re no longer a functioning democracy, we’re in between autocracy and democracy — in other words, an “anocracy.”
There are at least two reasons why Biden will be impeached. One is, of course, his wastrel son Hunter Biden. The other is the “border crisis.” The big issue is will these be two seperate impeachments so Democrats will not longer have Trump being impeached twice as a talking point, or if these two issues will be fused together into one event.
At the moment, I honestly don’t know. There’s always a chance that MAGA Republicans will impeach Biden THREE times, for two reasons. They both scream at the top of their lungs that Biden is the only president to be impeached three times and at the same time they can, expo facto say it’s no big deal that Trump was impeached twice.
Veep Harris I have no idea why House Republicans will impeach Harris, but they’ll think of something. Just the idea that they could somehow impeach and convict Biden and Harris in quick succession is enough to give them all a boner and they have no self control so they’re going to do it at some point between 2023 and 2025.
DHS Secretary Mayorkas As I understand it, there’s already a move afoot by House Republicans to hit the ground running impeaching Mayorkas for his handling of the “border crisis.” So, there’s every reason to believe that he’s going to be impeached at some point between 2023 and 2025.
HHS Secretary Becerra This is a bit more speculative, but I could see that once the impeachment counter-revolution gets going that House Republicans will set their sights on Becerra for something connected to “gender affirming” care of minors. That seems like just the type of culture war edge issue that MAGA House Republicans would want to wallow in for a few months to prove a point. I could also see a potential impeachment article surrounding the Biden Administration’s handling of COVID — even though it was Trump who fucked that particular situation up. Who cares about facts when you have lies?
Education Secretary Cardona This is also rather speculative, but once the monster of impeachment is unleashed, House Republicans may go after Cordona on the nebulous charge of encouraging “critical race theory” in schools — even if this is total bullshit. They just want to be able to hold hearings where they rant about CRT for hours on end. It will juice the base while “owning” the libs.
FBI Director Wray If this happens, it will be a prime example of how wrapped up in their own bullshit MAGA House Republicans will be once they have power. Wray is ON THEIR SIDE and they will still come after him because something something Deep State.
Attorney General Garland This is obvious — MAGA Republicans are so blinded by their anger over the Mar-a-Lago raid that they want to impeach Garland for approving it, despite it being totally justified given what Trump did.
There could be a few Federal judges that spark MAGA ire that will be impeached as well.
I say this because the base continues to love Trump with such an absolute love that they are willing to put the country through THREE impeachments in a very short amount of time for a very, very petty reason. But here we are.
Remember, Republicans crammed through a massive plutocrat taxcut just because they could. And I think at the moment that the only thing that united Republicans is the need to impeach Biden a few times. The base is out for political blood and, as such, no matter how much impeaching Biden a few times will hurt the Republican Party in 2024….it’s going to happen.
It seems as though the United States faces a fork in the road. Either we go down the path of Trump and a potential civil war, or we don’t. We either succumb to the siren call of dingus Trump and destroy ourselves with our eyes wide open, we go down a far more gradual path to fascism in the guise of Ron DeSantis.
Because there is one thing that is for sure — America has a fascism problem that isn’t going away. The only difference between Trump being the person to strangle our democracy and, say, Ron DeSantis is one would be a lot more chaotic than the other.
If you wanted to get all technical about it on a macro historical basis, you could make the argument that Trump being the 2024 Republican nominee is the best of a variety of bad endgames because the likelihood of a “National Divorce” and a Second American Civil War grows as does the possibility that at least a part of America might not live under the yoke of fascism.
But that’s a very risky. And might only result in things getting way, way, worse than they might otherwise. I guess what I’m saying is — when your best case scenario is a horrific civil war…maybe things aren’t going so great for your nation on a macro level?
Anyway. I still don’t know which direction we’ll go. Are we going to gradually turn into a fascist state, or are we going to go the bumpy — but same — route via Trump. Only time will tell.
When I was growing up, I wanted to be black or Jewish. But, alas, I’m just a regular old white boy. Anyway, I continue to read up on the rise of the Nazis in Germany and, as they say, form follows function.
Where there’s fascism, antisemitism is soon show up. And I think it’s pretty clear that the United States is suffering from a bad case of fascism at the moment. At the center of this fascist problem is dingus Trump — who has to family members who are Jewish.
And, I think, we need to keep an eye what happens to Javanka. If those two are pulled into the rise of antisemitism within MAGA then we’re all in for a lot of trouble because it means not even the relatives of the Dear Leader are not safe.
But it will be interesting to see what happens one way or another. And, remember, Qanon is nothing more than updated old school antisemitism because the venn diagram of people who think “liberals” are destroying America and those who think “Jews are destroying America” is a single circle.
It makes you wonder why now. Why now, of all times, has casual antisemitism begun to drift into the mainstream. I can only assume that something about the rise of fascism in the guise of MAGA is awakening a monster we thought was long dead.
Or you could say that the astrology for dudes The Fourth Turning predicted this and lulz. Anyway. Watch this space. Hopefully when we finally turning to a MAGA fascist state we won’t have to worry about American Killing Fields in update New York.
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