Be The Power
by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner
I’ve started to “live tweet” Papa Bear Steve K. Bannon’s podcast. Here’s the latest thread if you’re interested.
Ok, here goes. I’m going to live tweet this episode of Steve Bannon’s piece of shit podcast. https://t.co/JpCpZsIe0V
— Shelt Garner (@sheltgarner) October 2, 2021
by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner
Jesus H. Christ. This Website gets, at most, about 100 unique views in one day. Ever since I posted about fucking “Red October” about 20% of my hits have been from fucking cocksucker idiot Qanon fucktards apparently giddy at the prospect of….what?
There is something deeply wrong with American politics if that many people all over the country actually believe some sort of Qanon bullshit about a “Red October” happening. And all because of a confusion over why the White House was bathed in red light!
You just can’t make this bullshit up.
And, yet, here we are. There is a small, but passionate, group of people who apparently think some sort of bonkers Qanon prophecy about Red October has now come to pass and, I don’t know…it’s just so much bullshit that my poor old globalist cuck mind can’t process it.
One way of looking at it is Qanon is the type of secret society bullshit that a nation on the cusp of civil war or revolution usually experiences. But oh my God would a civil war suck. It would be truly horrific.
by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner
I continue to grow more and more impressed with how passionate and articulate the #NeverTrump members are. They’re not perfect. In fact, some of those associated with The Lincoln Project have done some pretty sketchy things.
But, the thing about the prominent #NeverTrumpers is they have principles and guts. And a lot of them are born leaders who will definitely rise to the occasion should the dead hand of history decides to give them the opportunity to do so.
They could very well save the Union.
Now, given the radical forces — both Leftist and fascist — that any actual civil war would unleash, the fact that rock solid conservatives would be in charge of saving the Union (or at least the Blue State part of it) will probably lead to some pretty surreal political events.
So, in a sense, it would be if instead of Lincoln during the Civil War, it was a War Democrat.
Anyway, for #NeverTrumpers to be given the opportunity to lead Blue States, things would have gotten pretty fucking bad. The most logical way this would happen would be Blue States leave the Union when Red States simply nullify a Biden re-election in Congress and the country buckles.
If something like that happened, then be prepared for some pretty dramatic, and radical, events to take place in the United States very, very quickly. The moment the inevitable happens and WMD are used domestically, ooooh by.
If we slip peacefully into autocracy, then all the #NeverTrumpers will gradually be exiled, imprisoned or worse. Far Worse.
by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner
I’ve talked a lot about the existential choice of autocracy or civil war that America faces around 2025 as part of the so-called “Fourth Turning.” But there is a third option — military junta.
In a sense, this option makes a lot more sense than either autocracy or civil war because it could be just the temporary fix to our problems. The scenario I’m thinking of is rather than what the Reds want, which is autocracy or what the Blues might want out of desperation, which is civil war, we would simply turn the reigns of power over to the military.
Once we did that, it’s easy to imagine the whole point of the exercise would be a convening of a Constitutional Convention that would address the concerns of both sides. This would be a way to take the existential issues of 2025 out of the hands of our undead politics and turn it over to a hopefully objective existential body that would help us become a more perfect Union.
There, unfortunately, so many problems with this on-paper ideal solution that it’s highly unlikely it would happen. What’s more likely to happen is either we slip peacefully into a MAGA New Right autocracy or Blue States grow so enraged that they leave the Union and all hell breaks loose.
The biggest problem is, of course, the U.S. Military on a systemic basis will do everything in its power to avoid this very solution, even to the point that the whole country collapses into anarchy. This would happen when the military simply refuses to pick a side when Trump fucks everything up like he always does and we just don’t know who the “real” POTUS is and Blue and Red States go for each others throats.
Another problem might be, that the not even the military will be able to withstand the forces tearing the country apart and the largely MAGA enlisted men pick the opposite side as the brass. So, instead of a unified military being able to step in for a few crucial months, everything collapses in on itself and we bomb ourselves into oblivion using illicitly seized caches of WMD.
If MAGA gets its way and we turn into an autocracy then, well, lulz.
The point of all of this is we need to start preparing ourselves for some pretty astonishing choices in the 2024 -2025 timeframe. And it’s going to suck so, so bad. It’s going to be horrible.
But the current autocracy without an autocrat status quo can not stand. We have a short-term solution to a long-term problem.
by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner
In just the last few days, I’ve sensed that things have changed America. I don’t quite know what’s going on, but it’s there. It seems as though we are now, after much delay, officially in the Biden Era and, as such, it seems the MAGA New Right has become re-invigorated.
Now, let me put that in context.
The Republican Establishment is ready to move on from Trump himself. They got everything they could possibly ever imagine because of his chaos and, in a sense, they’re sated. They’re ready to find a Trump Without Trump who will do the same thing but without all the headaches.
As such, there is tension between the MAGA New Right base that remains all-in with Trump and the Establishment that really, really would rather DeSantis be the nominee in 2024. That’s why DeSantis is beginning to rise so rapidly within Republican circles — he is a viable candidate that a lot of traditional conservatives can support without the embarrassing extensive permission structure required with Trump.
The only problem is, Trump wants to be the next Trump and screwing up the best laid plans of the Republican Establishment is his thing. So Trump in the next year or so will have to make a decision — co-op DeSantis by making him is veep or destroy him. Trump is so difficult to predict at times that at the moment I can’t tell you which one he’s going to do.
But I do know that the shift I’m feeling probably has something to do with the beginning of the extended 2022 mid-term cycle. That cycle will officially be kicked off the moment we know who Virginia’s next governor is. I would go so far as to say it’s possible that if Republican Glenn Youngkin wins (which I think he has a fair chance of doing) that is will we will lurch into a real New Era because we’re all going to be thinking about what that means for the 2022 mid-terms themselves.
All I can say is, batten down the hatches because things are dark in the United States an only going to get worse as the months and years progress. We’re going to be facing more and more existential situations as we careen towards a massive, historic clusterfuck in 2024 – 2025.
by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner
I really hate violence. I’m a man of peace. I’m a man of ideas. So, I would rather we slip peacefully into autocracy than have a the clusterfuck that would be a Second Civil War. Having said that, given how the MAGA New Right is chomping at the bit to murder people like me under the guise of civil war, the consequences of such a high risk, high reward situation are something we need to think about if only in the abstract.
The thing about the United States right now is there’s no accountability for Trump. He’s above the law, even not being president. He’s a king without a kingdom. And, but for fuck old and deranged he is, he would be the guy who turned the United States into something akin to Nazi Germany. He really is that bad, if so amazingly incompetent that he could never pull it off without a lot of help.
The only way there will ever be any accountability for Trumplandia is a civil war where Blue States are victorious. That’s it. Otherwise, either Trump and his toadies are a linger existential crisis that just won’t go away, or we slip into some form of autocracy.
I really — and I mean — REALLY don’t want a civil war of any sort.
But the macro tends at the moment in the United States definitely seem to indicate that a civil war is one of two existential choices we’re going to have no later than late 2024 – early 2025.
If we had a Second Civil War and Blue States won — and that’s the critical aspect of it all — then there might be some sort of Truth & Reconciliation Commission that would, at last, give us some accountability for Trumplandia.
But talk about high risk, high reward.
by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner
My hot take on a majority of MAGA New Right voters wanting to secede from the the Union is that it’s solely the result of the quirk in history we’re now living through. If either Trump had been the autocrat people voted for in 2016 or had COVID not hit and Biden not been the nominee, those very same people would be the bedrock of a United America Party.
They would be the people who were thrilled that we’d just had a MAGA-themed Constitutional Convention and liberals were, at last, owned.
But neither one of those things happened. Trump could not live up to his reputation as the “You’re Fired” Guy and the stars of politics and history aligned in just the right way so deny Trump the ability to rant his way into a stolen second term.
So here we are.
What should be happening – Trump, or someone like Trump, working swiftly to consolidate autocratic power — isn’t happening. This leaves people who want Trumplandia, the MAGA New Right cocksuckers, upset that they can’t turn the United States into a Russian clone immediately.
Also, I think some of what’s going on is that usual MAGA New Right bullshit where they take some ridiculous political position just to own the libs in the mainstream media. They like seeing talking heads on TV freaking out, so they say things they don’t really mean to get that result.
But I will say that the poll in question leans credence to my view that one, the United States is an autocracy without an autocrat and two, the country is far more politically unstable than you might believe.
All that would have to happen is something unexpected to put undue pressure on our political system and some pretty dramatic, unexpected things. Another thing — I still think it’s going to be Blue States that are pushed into a corner to such an extent that they decide to leave the Union in the late 2024 – early 2025 timeframe.
So, it will be Blue States who ultimately leave the Union, not Red States. I say this because all the macro trends favor Red States and when the time comes for some sort of civil war, I will be shocked if it’s not the Red States who get the USA “brand name.”
And even then, that’s really the absolute worst case scenario.
More likely than not, we’re just going to slip peacefully into autocracy, without people like me an Norm Ornstein getting all that upset about the change in our basic political system.
Or, put another way, for the time being, everything is still up in the air. It could go either way — autocracy or civil war.
by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner
Oh my God, I learned the reason the White House was bathed in red light was it’s Breast Cancer awareness month. Jesus Christ is the MAGA New Right a bunch of paranoid idiots.
Well, that certainly is one way to wake on up October 1st.
I have to give the fucking cocksucker MAGA New Right credit, they make the foolish online “Resistance” of the Trump Era look like good. Just because the White House lights looked red in the middle of the night, they literally think it’s the End of The World.
But apparently human potato head Dan Scavino got into the action as well when he tweeted this picture out:
Given that the mid-terms are a year away and it would be Red NOVEMBER we would be talking about, I’m at a loss as to what this all means. But, apparently, it means something because the MAGA New Right is freaking the fuck out. They’re going nuts over the idea of a “Red October.”
Hopefully, this is just more nutty MAGA New Right froth and we can all just roll over and go back to bed. Idiots.
by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner
At the moment, the only way I can tolerate listening to fucking human tumor Steve K. Bannon’s podcast is if I drink a huge amount of rye. And, yet, I find something about it interesting. And there’s something missing: me.
He and I are in some ways so similar that I think it would be amusing to have us play off each other. Having someone who, like, uh, disagrees with him, is the element that’s missing to his hate-filled, rage-filled podcast. He and Peter Navarro get way too overheated with their self-generated bullshit that it would be quite entertaining to have me in the mix.
People would download the podcast specifically to hear me get “owned.”
I think what I see with his podcast is has a lot of potential from a surreal, over-the-top entertainment level, more than any kind of serious podcast. It pretty much like listening to Howard Beale rant on a podcast.
Adding me to the mix would be very interesting and entertaining. I know I like to rant a lot on this blog, but I can also be quite measured in my conversations when need be.
by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner
Short Answer: Yes. Very
Long Answer: It depends. I find Colbert consistently funny night after night. And, yet, you continue to hear within fucking cocksucker MAGA New Right circles that he’s not funny. He’s a part of “the system” and he’s just another portion of the liberal propaganda machine.
I struggle to sort such thinking out because I really like what Colbert has done with his show since Trump took office. But, I think what I’m having difficulty understanding is there are people within the MAGA New Right personality death cult who actually like fucking cocksucker Donald Trump and get very upset if you pick on him.
It just boggles my mind.
The crux of the issue, I think is two fold. One, generally to be funny is to be center-Left. By definition. It’s extremely difficult to be funny and conservative because telling a joke is meant to be a somewhat Leftist act unto itself. Second, fascists are not know for having the greatest senses of humor. I don’t think I’ve ever heard Trump laugh once in his public life.
Also, I think Colbert has established himself as the most newsy of the late night talk shows and so he’s willing to play it straight — not be funny on purpose — to convey some not-so-great news to his audience. As such, the cry babies of the MAGA New Right watch Colbert and get upset.
I just don’t take myself that seriously in general. And it’s self-evident that Trump is an humorless piece of shit. So, you have to forego humor if you support him.
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