This is so dumb. Just get it over with, you idiots. But I guess they just want to slow walk any impeachment of Biden so they can make the whole thing conflated in the minds of low information voters.
MAGA House Republicans Are Such Idiots
Tag: Autocrats Never Lose
The Absence Of A MAGA SA is a Fatal Flaw In The Project 2025 & Agenda47 Plot Against American Democracy
by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner
It is clear to me that while it’s not impossible for MAGA to transition us from an anocracy to an autocracy starting in early 2025, the absence of a modern day SA certainly does complicate matters for them. There are a lot of small paramilitary groups, but no single group at the direction of Trump that could bash heads in like the SA did in the first 100 days of Nazi rule in 1933.
As it stands, both Agenda47 and Project 2025 simply assume that they can use corrupt the administration of justice and the executive to the point that, lulz, “vermin” like me will get what we deserve. I have my doubts. Even though nattering nabob of negativism Tom Nichols politely told me I was full of shit on Twitter when I suggested that maybe the U.S. Military might balk at being goons for MAGA, I still believe it’s at least *possible.*
I think it’s at least possible that the U.S. Military might depose Trump in some way, maybe using the 14th Amendment as the legal cover to make themselves feel better. But let me be clear — if that happens, things really will be very, very bad in the United States. I could only see it happening in the context of a successful General Strike.
And for a General Strike to be successful, otherwise generally complacent American will have truly become “woke.”
Remember, the U.S. of 2025 is significantly different than the Germany of 1933. You couldn’t just build out a paramilitary group in secret and then sucker punch the American population with it. The one paramilitary group I’m actually afraid of — the Patriot Front — is passionate and well organized, but small as far as I can tell.
A successful MAGA SA would need hundreds of thousand of members willing to use unprecedented violence and intimidation to browbeat a lot of freedom loving American into submission. THAT, not the Insurrection Act, is what the fucking MAGA Nazis need if they’re going to us in to an autocratic white Christian ethnostate.
Some context. All of this hysterical doom shit assumes it’s Trump doing this. This is all sort of inevitable and if a sane Republican was in charge of it, then we really would just sort of slouch towards autocracy. But Trump and his dingus Agenda47 people are not only lazy but bonkers so they seem to think simply invoking the Insurrection Act will solve all their problems.
So, I don’t know. It will definitely be interesting to see how things work out going forward. If I had the means, I guess I would flee the country in late 2024, early 2025 like all the fucking smug Twitter liberals with their circle jerk podcasts.
The Curious Case Of MAGA & The Jews
by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner
One of the more fucked up situations in modern politics is the situation with the fucking MAGA Nazis and Jewish people. What the fuck is up with that? MAGA is clearly careening towards some sort of American Nazism but because of a quirk of Trump’s personal life that trend is hampered.
And that doesn’t even begin to address how fucked it is that Stephen Miller is Jewish and yet he clearly wants to be MAGA’s Joseph Goebbels — he even looks like him! So, in a sense Ivanka Trump, Jared Kushner and Stephen Miller are the canaries in coalmine.
Most likely what will happen is Trump gets re-elected, goes full tyrant and it’s not until his demise at some point in the future that the more Nazi elements of MAGA finally begin to bubble up to the surface.
But that doesn’t address other issues. Once we become an antisemitic autocratic MAGA Nazi state, how will that influence our relationship to Israel? It’s all very curious and difficult to game out. Yet I do believe that it is inevitable that once we’re a MAGA Nazi state that because form follows function that while the camps will at first be opened for undocumented people, soon enough, Jews — and freaky weirdos like me — will end up there, too.
I Fucking Hate MAGA Nazis
by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner
There are two things I fucking hate in this world with a fucking white hot rage — MAGA Nazis and guns. It boggles my mind both that anyone could be a MAGA Nazi and that anyone would love guns so much they want to fuck them.
But let’s talk MAGA Nazis.
The issue is that I’m just the type of person that malignant ding-dong Trump claims is “vermin.” While MAGA Nazis are going to start by putting undocumented people in camps, soon enough, they will make their way from Jewish people to freaky weirdos like me.
Ugh.
Though, I will note again that MAGA is missing a very important part of consolidating power — they don’t have an SA. They seem to think that invoking the Insurrection Act is some sort of magic pixie dust that will make all their problems go away.
I still contend that there is a pretty good chance that the U.S. Military will balk at being use reduce to simply MAGA Nazi goons. Hence, it’s possible that MAGA Nazis will, at some point in their first few days of power consolidation, realize they need something akin to the Nazi SA. If we’re lucky, by the time they manage to organize something like that, the Good Guys will have managed to use a combination of the 14th Amendment, a General Strike and the U.S. Military to topple Tyrant Trump.
Of course that would probably cause a Secession Crisis, but I don’t like to think about that.
And, remember — I can’t predict the future. It’s just all the conditions are there for late 2024, early 2025 to be a massive, historic clusterfuck. Hopefully, though, not only will Biden win re-election, but Trump will just slink into the darkness when he loses. We can thus punt our problems down the road another four years.
🙂
Mulling Late 2024, Early 2025
Well, At Least The First Scene Of This Third Draft is Rock-Solid
by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner
If nothing else, I know how this novel opens. I have one scene — the first — that is where I want it to be. Everything else is totally fluid to an absurd level. I don’t know how much of all of this is I still have a lot of learning to do about storytelling and how much of it is I’m too much of a perfectionist.
Regardless, I’ve kind of given myself a half-deadline of early next week to kind of get things locked down one way or another.
Rage Against The Machine: Plotting A Glorious Revolution In Early 2025
by Ender
To My Fellow New Lincolnites
I love scenarios. So, let’s game how out Radical Moderates might topple Tyrant Trump when it becomes clear that he’s going full tyrant. This is just for fun. I mean no harm. And, besides, no one takes me seriously or listens to me, anyway. Lulz!
General Strike
If New Lincolnites and Radical Moderates of all political stripes could organize some sort of General Strike that would be the first indication that Tyrant Trump was in trouble. I would appeal to women. I would make it clear to women that Tyrant Trump wanted to ban abortion — and contraception of any sort — and if they just didn’t show up to work then maybe malignant ding-dong Tyrant Trump might sit up and taken notice.
Take Trump Tower
I hate violence, so this is just me spit-balling. But if you could organize the “taking of Trump Tower” that would be way to fucking rattle Tyrant Trump’s cage. Burn the shithole to the ground. Hopefully without anyone getting hurt.
Seize New York City
If you could somehow have a general uprising in New York City to the point that you had something along the lines of a “Free City” that, too, would be a way to hobble Tyrant Trump’s attempts to size control. Again, I don’t want anyone to get hurt! This is just a daydream!
Co-opt The U.S. Military
Our best best to topple ding-dong Tyrant Trump is to co-opt the U.S. Military. Get all the talking heads on TV to beg the U.S. Military to ignore Tyrant Trump’s orders. Given that the U.S. Military on an institutional basis just doesn’t want to get involved….you invoke your secret weapon.
Invoke The 14th Amendment
It is clear that Trump can’t even *be* president because of his involvement in the January 6th Insurrection. So, while you’re crippling the country with a Women’s Strike, you appeal to the U.S. Military by saying, “You’re still acting legally by toppling Trump because he can’t even be POTUS because of the 14th Amendment.”
Demand A Constitutional Convention
Another goal of the General Strike (Women’s Strike) would be a Constitutional Convention. And it would be organized in a way not to give MAGA the ability to fuck things up. (Having the U.S. Military on your side is pretty cool.)
The Absence of A MAGA SA Is Curious
by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner
I kind of have this on the brain because I’m reading about the first 100 days of Nazi rule, but it’s very, very curious that for all their hateful plotting that both Agenda47 and Project 2025 have pretty big hole in their autocratic designs — no SA.
See, it was the Nazi paramilitary group the SA that was crucial to browbeating the 48% of the German population that didn’t support the Nazis. And, yet, as far as I can tell, there is no one central paramilitary arm of MAGA that Tyrant Trump can turn to in early 2025.
It seems as though Tyrant Trump believes that what the Nazis used the SA for he can use the regular old U.S. Military to do. And…I have my doubts on that front. If things get REALLY FUCKING BAD, I could totally see the U.S. Military either slow walking things are turning around and deposing Tyrant Trump outright. (Maybe under the guise of the 14the Amendment?)
It is the lack of an organized national American SA that gives me…hope? If MAGA just assumes that they can rely on the U.S. Military to be their goons, then, well, I think the Good Guys have a fighting chance.
What Is To Be Done: Tyrant Trump’s Plot Against America
To My Fellow New Lincolnites,
It is a little known fact that the right of revolution is enshrined in the U.S. Constitution. I’m a man of peace and of ideas. I hate violence of any sort. And yet these are times that try men’s souls, as Thomas Paine would tell us. It is clear that concentrations camps will be to Trump’s vengeful second term what “the wall” was to his first.
This is of personal interest to me because the same infrastructure used to put “millions” of undocumented people in concentration camps could be used against “vermin” like…me. The thing that gives me a growing sense of frustration is how oblivious the usual suspect nattering nabobs of negativism are to the fact that maybe there are *no* institutions that will step up to save us.
We will have to save ourselves.
The problem we face is there is a certain political momentum to the MAGA Nazi movement that is difficult to defeat using traditional methods. It’s like we’ve all just collectively given up, much like the Roman Empire did in its last few decades. Or, to put a more modern spin on things — freedom loving people are going to appease themselves into a corner.
“What is to be done,” was the question Lenin asked in the years leading up to the Russian Revolution. And I ask that question now, “What is to be done?” I just don’t have a ready answer for you because it seems — as of late 2023 — that it is a historical inevitability that Trump will win a second term and we’re just going to have to sort things out after that.
My fear is that Trump will attempt to use the legal magic pixie dust of the Insurrection Act to knock heads and the U.S. Military will balk at playing the part of some sort of later day SA. There is some sort of “Glorious Revolution” that deposes malignant ding-dong Trump, which, in turn provokes a Secession Crisis as Red States — who want a MAGA Nazi state — get upset and demand a National Divorce.
Before you know it, not only are WMD being used by both sides on U.S. soil, but fucking WW3 has broken out and about 1 billion people die as a number of nuclear-tipped regional conflicts turn hot. If we’re lucky, after a lot of tragic, needless death and destruction “the Good Guys” — people who believe in liberal democracy — win and we have some sort of Second Reconstruction in the context of a complete realignment of the global order — a New World Order, if you will.
But all of that is extremely speculative.
Remember, major historical events are value free while you’re living through them. There is no narrative. I mean, in 1942, your average American had no idea how WW2 was going to end. And, really, all things considered, WW2 ended in a very clean cut way — for the most part — such that The Good Guys won and the Bad Guys lost.
So, predicting what will happen starting in late 2024, early 2025 is impossible. We could very well just punt our problems down the road another four years and all my “hysterical doom shit” will be just that — hysterical doom shit. But I do think we need to think seriously about what the fuck we’re going to do when Trump makes good on his pledge to mass deport people.
And that doesn’t even begin to address what we’re going to do if Trump goes full tyrant and attempts to establish an actual military dictatorship. AND, Trump is fucking old, so it might not even be him who ultimately transitions us from an anocracy into a full Russian-style autocracy.
I dunno. I just dunno.
Keep the faith.
Yours in freedom,
Ender.
I’m Growing Worried About Trump’s Potential Second Term
by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner
The thing I’m beginning to worry about is what are we going to do if Trump goes full tyrant? Anything? If Trump opens concentration camps for “illegal immigrants” it’s easy to imagine him flipping a switch and deciding to put people like ME in a camp.
Once you have that infrastructure built out, you can do anything with it.
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