Things Are Politically Spinning Out Of Control In The USA

by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner

For a variety of macro political reasons, the MAGA Right simply can not, will not be placated. They want to turn the USA into a white Christian autocratic ethnostate as fast as possible.

And, really, at the moment, there doesn’t seem to be anything that is going to stop them. I suppose if there was some sort of civil war or revolution that might give the MAGA Right at least pause for thought.

But, in general, that isn’t going to happen — I hope — and so we have to accept that the USA is transforming into a very dark zombie version of itself. We will be — or are — an autocratic state in all but name at this point and it’s only going to get far, far worse.

There just doesn’t seem to be any way to stop it, baring significant upheaval in a way not seen since the Civil War.

In fact, the only thing I could possible see causing the type of reaction against the MAGA Right that is needed is if Trump, like, started to seize or brazenly purge the major broadcast networks. And not in the round about way he’s been doing — it would have to be at his express direction.

Or if Trump started to round up people — like me! — for what I said online, then, yeah, that would catch people’s attention because freedom of speech is so native to the American experience.

But…who knows. Who knows what is going to happen.

The MAGA Right’s Fixation On Sydney Sweeney

by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner

Not since the worst of the 2016 campaign slugfest silly season have I seen the MAGA Right go nuts. These days, two things have them completely consumed — Sydney Sweeney’s ass and the Cracker Barrel rebrand.

Let’s talk about Sweeney. Unlike Taylor Swift who was aghast that the Nazi MAGA Right tried to claim her as their “own,” Sweeney seems ok with that to a degree. She stays silent, at least.

A lot of why the MAGA Right loves her so much is they’re fucking Nazis and they like that she’s blonde. It also helps that she is all T&A as well. But the case could be made that it’s more about her being blonde than anything else.

MAGA Nazis sure do hate black and brown people. Someone on Twitter said that there were two reasons for MAGA: rich people did not want to pay taxes and conservative men couldn’t get laid.

I would suggest a third issue — racism and bigotry, pure and simple.

And that all comes about because of race insecurity. (Conservative) white people are freaking out that the USA will be minority majority soon and they would rather burn the country — and our democracy — to the ground than accept it. They really, really want a white Christian ethnostate.

I just have no solution to this problem, folks. These are macro issues we’re dealing with and there’s just no easy solution. Either we slide into autocracy or we have a revolution / civil war.

MAGA Republicans Are Strange Motherfuckers

by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner

I can not believe that a whole political party is totally consumed by a restaurant’s rebrand. Obviously, it gives the MAGA Republicans something to talk about other than the Epstein files, but, still.

Some MAGA influencers have totally and completely lost their fucking minds when it comes to the issue of the Cracker Barrel rebrand. I mean well what any sane person might do.

But, here we are. We have to deal with a bunch of insane MAGA motherfuckers with way, way, way more power than they should fixating on something stupid.

Ugh. What The Fuck Is Going On With John Bolton?

by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner


John Bolton is a guy neither side likes and yet now here we are, all waiting to find out why his home was raided. I fear it will be for some dumb, trumped up charge and it will be just the beginning of such things.

Who will be next? AOC? The South Park guys? Stephen Colbert? The list goes on. But we have to accept that we’re becoming an autocratic white Christian ethnostate and we seemingly just don’t care.

Sometimes, I Think The USA Is Just Doomed, No Matter What

by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner

Some dark things are bubbling deep inside the American psyche and I just don’t know where it will all lead. It seems on one hand we’re doomed to a fucking MAGA autocratic state and on the other — gulp — political violence equal to a civil war / revolution.

At the moment, it seems if we’re lucky we’ll be something of a zombie democracy like they have in Hungary. If we’re not lucky, then we turn into a carbon copy clone of Russia — a very legalistic autocracy with a thin veener of democracy to it.

What makes all of this worse is there is a sold 37% of the electorate that wants this type of white Christian ethnostate. They’re very twichy about this or that thing being “woke,” but they’re also very much in the driver’s seat when it comes to the political fate of the country.

I think at the moment what happens is we slide into a MAGA autocracy that — at least initially — doesn’t touch freedom of speech. As such, people still get to vent powerlessly about how we’re not longer a democracy, but…we’re still no longer a democracy.

But, eventually, I think MAGA will seize enough control of the country that they will come after even freedom of speech and that will be that. ICE will be our SS or FSB and people like me will be randomly snatched off the street simply for telling MAGA to suck it online.

How long it will take us to get to that point, I don’t know. Maybe 10 years? Maybe sooner?

As for the civil war / revolution option. That is very much touch-and-go. It could go either way, really, but I think if we did go that direction it would probably be because Trump or his successor screwed up and misjudged Blues in a pretty fundimental way and all hell breaks loose.

Hopefully, of course, that won’t happen. I’ve resigned myself to living in a white Christian autocratic ethnostate and I would prefer not to become a refugee because the United States implodes.

‘The Spark’

by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner

At the moment, there is a lot — a LOT — of slack in our political system. Most people are too busy enjoying the last, final days of summer to care about politics. But I fear that at some point in the next few years all that will change in a rather dramatic and possibly tragic fashion.

One scenario — but not the only one — is sometime around the 2026 midterms someone throws a Molotov Cocktail at a cop at just the wrong place and time and the whole country explodes into chaos. Or, specifically, Blue Cities do. And that’s when the fucking cocksuckers of the MAGA Trump regime and ICE will pounce.

They will throw everything they have at Blue Cities — ICE, National Guard troops from Red States — all with the intent of making sure that the 2026 midterms are not free and fair.

And, really, all that doesn’t have to happen for all elections from here on out — at least in my life time — not to be free and fair. The devotion to Trump on the part of MAGA is so absolute for macro reasons that, lulz, we’re going to be a political clone of autocratic Hungary before too long.

Of course, there is the very, very small possibility that Blue states and cities will finally have had enough and some sort of civil war or revolution will break out. I have my doubts that that will ever happen, but it is, if nothing else, at least *possible*.

I don’t want that to happen, but it’s something to mull going forward.

After Trump

by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner

As much as I struggle to believe it, cocksucker Trump is mortal and will one day shuffle off this mortal coil. (I just never see him willingly leaving office as long as he has air in his lungs.)

Which leads us to the question of what happens After Trump.

My gut reaction is if it happens sooner rather than later, J.D. Vance will become our autocrat and 20, 30, 40 years from now he’ll still be in office — somehow — and that will be that. We’ll be a clone of Russia, but for the fact that the Pod Save America people will STILL be telling people on YouTube that the latest South Park “destroyed” MAGA.

Meanwhile, there is the possibility that either the our new autocrat has to be a Trump or a woman — maybe even a Trump woman? If this is the case, then Lara Trump as our autocrat would make the most sense.

And, yet, it’s her husband Eric Trump that I think probably would pick up the mantle of MAGA. He is so absolutely loyal to his dad that I could even see Trump potentially leaving office (!) as long as Eric Trump took over for him.

Regardless, we’re totally, utterly fucked folks. This is it, the end. We’re doomed. This is the twilight of our democracy and well before 20 years from now we’ll be a full-on Russia clone.

Good luck.

Gradually….Then All At Once…Is Still Possible

by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner

I have written a lot — A LOT –about the possibility of a civil war or revolution in the United States over the years and all I can say besides, welp, I was wrong, is we were very, very “lucky” that Trump won in 2024.

I say this because all the signs pointed towards a civil war if the winy crybabies of MAGA didn’t get their way in 2024.

But now that Trump is in power again — ugh — a lot of things are going on at the same time. On one hand, there’s a huge amount of slack in the political system when it comes to people attacking Trump. I say this in the context of South Park going after Trump viciously and people not getting upset at all. In fact, a lot of people were quite happy with the situation.

Meanwhile, Trump keeps putting pressure on our Constitutional system to see if he can break it beyond repair. It is inevitable that he defies SCOTUS at some point and or runs for a third term or whatever. His whole historical point is to, in effect destroy the United States as we’ve known it.

The questions that remain is how exactly that is going to happen and what comes after Trump. I still think there is a greater-than-zero chance that Trump finally does something so egregious that the country implodes. To the point that WMD are used domestically and the entire political map of North America is redrawn.

But we are nowhere near that happening at the moment. All I know is Trump is the tip of the spear of a MAGA counter-revolution and the country is going to be fundamentally different once he finally, at some point for some reason, leaves office.

I Fear Trump Is Going To Tear Down The White House

Considering the grandiose scale and ostentatious design of the ballroom that former President Trump has proposed constructing in close proximity to the White House, I am increasingly concerned that his ambitions may extend far beyond a mere addition to the existing landscape.

It seems entirely plausible, given his penchant for bold and extravagant projects, that he might entertain the audacious notion of demolishing the historic White House itself. In its place, I suspect he would seek to erect a new structure—likely a garish, oversized edifice that mirrors the opulent and imposing aesthetic of the proposed ballroom, prioritizing spectacle over the revered historical and symbolic significance of the current presidential residence.

Such a move would reflect a dramatic departure from tradition, raising questions about the preservation of the White House’s legacy as a cornerstone of American history.