Tag: Fuck You MAGA

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.”

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.