Tag: Fuck You MAGA

We Creep Closer To The Invocation Of The Insurrection Act In Minnesota

by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner

I can’t predict the future, but I am worried that the new shooting in Minneapolis will be enough to be the tipping point so Trump invokes the Insurrection Act. I have been feeling weird the last few days, as if something big was about to happen and maybe that is it.

Though, to be fair, in real terms, the Insurrection Act is more a issue of perception and introducing the idea of marital law later down the road than it is some sort of magical-mystery device to make all of Trump’s problems go away.

And I really don’t think even the Insurrection Act or martial law would produce a civil war or revolution. People continue to be way too blasé about Trump and only should Trump try to literally try to cancel the 2026 midterms do I think we get a civil war or revolution.

Only time will tell, I suppose.

Hollywood Seems Scared Of Telling A Story About ICE

by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner

If Hollywood wasn’t so woke and scared, they would get a backbone and produce a movie about ICE. Now, obviously, there is a lot of lag time between when something becomes big and when Hollywood gets around to making a movie about it.

And, yet, I don’t know, you’d think someone, somewhere in Hollywood could maybe write a scifi novel that, in metaphor, addressed what is going on with ICE right now.

Maybe it’s being produced as we speak. But Hollywood is supposed to generate catharsis for us on a collective psychological basis, so if it’s being thought up, chop, chop, hurry up.

The people need you.

A Second American Revolution / Civil War & ‘Threads’

by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner

The movie Threads has got to be the scariest non-horror movie ever. It depicts a post-nuclear holocaust world in which humans descend into extreme savagery. It’s insane and, tragically, probably right about what would happen if there was a nuclear-tipped Third World War.

I keep thinking about Threads because America is pretty unstable at the moment. If there was a second revolution or civil war between now, and say, 2029, it would not be sweet and nice like the recent movie Civil War, it would be horrific like Threads.

Take the American South, for instance.

Probably what would happen is a huge race war in the context of an extreme white Christian ethnostate being established — think “The Turner Diaries.” It would be incredibly horrific.

And, in general, if the US imploded, the entirety of North America — maybe the world — would be sucked into the chaos. WW3 would happen, for sure, with at least 1 billion people dying because of some sort of limited nuclear exchange. And the US would use WMD on itself in a gratuitous manner.

What’s worse is, even if there isn’t a second American civil war or revolution, the US is going to probably become a thuggish autocracy — or at least a zombie democracy once the SAVE Act is passed.

Anyway, I like to think of myself as a survivor. So it will be interesting to see what happens next.

Jesus Christ, Are Things Dark

by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner

I just don’t see us having free-and-fair elections again in my life time. I have a feeling the SAVE Act is going to pass and that will be that. We’ll become a zombie democracy like Hungary and, lulz, I’ll end up in some sort of camp.

I say this in the context of how ICE is slowly, but surely strangling our freedoms.

And Trump seems to be itching for an excuse to use the Insurrection Act (or martial law?) where ever he can.

AND, add to this, the very real possibility that Trump is going to run for an illegal third term. If he does that, man, am I going to pop a gasket. And, yet, I’m powerless. No one listens to me or takes me seriously.

So, all I got is just my usual blathering. But I will note that if Trump does attempt to run for a third term that there is a very good chance that he will literally destroy the United States.

The country will implode into chaos.

And, yet, lulz, like I said, there’s absolutely nothing I can do about it. I guess I can double down on the novel I’m working on, sell it, and get the hell out of the country.

Philadelphia May Be Next Place Visited By ICE’s Jackbooted Thugs

by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner

For some reason, there is a rumor floating around that ICE’s next invasion point is Philadelphia. There has been a lot of talk about how rough the fine folks of The City Of Brotherly Love are compared to Minneapolis but, I don’t know.

I would like to THINK that that is the case. I would love it if ICE got the shit scared out of them by the people of Philly. And, yet, I have my doubts. Not that Philly people can’t do it, but for some reason ICE has managed to go into places like Chicago and Washing D.C. and…nothing.

There wasn’t nearly the push back that we’ve seen in Minnesota.

Anyway, as I keep saying, because of mission creep, I suspect that ICE is going to literally become American’s SS. They’re going to go way past just enforcing immigration laws into becoming fascists that just knock heads when necessary at the behest of Trump.

Abolishing ICE Is The Moderate Position At This Point

by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner

Trump has his SS now, apparently, with a whistleblower claiming that ICE agents are being told they can just crash into your house and seize you as necessary. I keep expecting ICE, because of mission creep, to show up on my front doorstep and demand me explain my online ranting.

It’s just a matter of time at this point, I fear.

I’ve decided that I while I won’t fight back, I will stand my ground. I know my rights and if I’m not doing anything untoward, I’m in the right. I’m going to scream at the top of my lungs — and have some choice words for some MAGA people I know — as I get dragged out into the night.

If We Appease Trump On Greenland, Canada Is Next

by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner

We have to accept that we are in a new age, a new era. America is now run by a mad king, an America Caligula, and as such we have to look at things in a different way.

If we just lulz Greenland and let Trump seize it, then Canada will be next. And given the fact that Trump is, like, the Foundation series’ The Mule, he probably will get away with it. He probably will invade Canada, destroy all that and while there will be a lot of upheaval in the USA because of it, it’s not like he’ll be impeached and convicted.

Trump is, for the moment at least, not only a mad king, but a god-king. There’s just nothing we can do about the situation. Or, at least, there’s nothing we’re willing to do about the situation.

The US democratic political system is going to implode and it definitely looks as though China, the USA and Russia will divide the globe up into different spheres of influence.

Thankfully, Russia has an economy the size of Italy, so it can only do so much trouble in Europe unless it uses nukes — which is highly unlikely.

As for the USA, my fears about either dying in a camp or being thrown out a window by an ICE agent are growing…more possible, if not probable.

Not Great, Guys: Christians Now Have New ‘Persecution Porn’ To Goon To

by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner

I suppose it was inevitable that there would be some screw up on the part of the center-Left in Minnesota so MAGA would have some sort of talking point. Something, anything, that they could pivot to whenever the tragic murder of Renee Good came up.

Well, it happened.

For some dumb reason, some protesters got it in their head to actually protest during a church service. Don Lemon was there for some reason. Anyway, I kind of feel sorry for Lemon — because of fucking racism, he’s going to be tared and feathered as being a part of the demonstration when as best I can tell, he was just there when it happened.

Anyway, now the two sides have their respective reasons to be angry and to talk past the other side.

I’m Worried That Mad King Trump Will Demand A Constitutional Convent

by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner

We have a long, long, long three years ahead of us when it comes to Trump. And, as such, there are any number of ways that he could really screw things up. Given his love of besmirching anything that anyone holds sacred, it seems logical that Trump would inevitably go after the Constitution.

There are a few excuses I could imagine him using to do such a thing. One, the most obvious one, is so he can run for a third term. The second, less obvious, but equally potent to the MAGA base would be to pass a balanced budge amendment.

I say all of this in the context of a growing suspicion on my part that Trump is a Russian agent of some sort. Putin notoriously pass through a series of constitutional changes in Russia as he was consolidating power. It would make a lot of sense if Trump did too, because, lulz, form follows function.

As such, Trump has such an absolute hold on the American political system that once he broached the subject of a Constitutional Convention, there would be no stopping it happening.

And, as I understand it, there’s no avoiding the very real possibility that any such convention would be populated primarily with MAGA participants so Trump would, at last, make America Trumplandia once and for all on an existential basis.

The Reason Why This Nobel Peace Prize – Greenland Thing May Bite Trump Is Its Simplicity

by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner

The thing about what’s going on in the US right now is everyone is distracted that Trump can get away with seemingly anything before anyone notices enough to look up from their video game play.

But, occasionally, something does break through and usually it’s because of one thing: it’s simple.

It’s simple enough that the late night talk show hosts can make a joke about it without any explanation.

Trump wants to take over Greenland through force because he didn’t get a Nobel Peace Prize — how much more simple can it get?

I don’t think that anything is going to really happen — at least in the United States — because of these Greenland-Nobel Prize shenanigans on Trump’s part, but I do think it’s going to leave a little bit of a mark.

People will couch things that happen later in terms of, “well at least Trump isn’t starting a war because he didn’t get the Nobel Peace prize.”

The issue is that it’s still up to the Europeans to do something about Trump. The US is “Trumplandia” now so, lulz, we can’t do anything. But if the Europeans don’t blink, then that just MIGHT have some sort of political consequences for Trump in some shape or form.