Tag: Tyrant Trump

We Have Got To Stop Appeasing Trump

by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner

The thing about Trump that a lot of people seem to forget is he’s not a Great Man of History. He’s a symptom, not a cause. Hitler, while very similar to Trump in the beginning, was definitely a Great Man. He bent history to his will, especially during the war specifically.

Meanwhile, Trump is too lazy and too big of a wussy to do what he was initially elected to do: turn the US into an autocracy. While he’s gotten far, far worse in his second term, he still just doesn’t — to date — have the backbone necessary to truly transform the US into a white Christian ethnostate.

That’s why, I think, if we really collectively stood up to Trump in some demonstrative manner that we could at least maintain some of our basic rights. And, yet I’ve learned, at last, that people are just too distracted playing video games or making money to give a shit about Trump’s tyranny.

Now, there is one specific issue that might change that: the economy.

In a paradoxical way, because the economy has been doing so well (in a K-shaped kind of way) Trump has been given free reign to do whatever the fuck he wants. But if that should change, then, maybe, just maybe, some people who otherwise wouldn’t care might sit up and take notice.

Remember, Watergate only really started to get worse because the economy sucked. There’s a decent chance that had Nixon had Trump’s economy (and Fox News) that lulz, he would have never had any problems, no matter how tyrannical he got.

Anyway, I have no hope anymore. I just need to finish my novel, sell it and hope that’s it a big enough success that I can flee the country.

‘ICE Out’ — Lyrics To A Pop-Punk RATM-Like Song About ICE In Minneapolis, Minnesota Written By ChatGPT

🎸 ICE Out 🎸

(Verse 1)
Black boots on the pavement, radios blasting lies,
Cameras flash the truth that they’re trying to disguise.
Downtown they move like an army of the crown,
In the city where the people try to stand their ground.
Shot a mother in her car, three rounds in the frame,
Called it self-defense but theirs is all the blame.
Blood on cold pavement, we remember every name,
Renée Good’s not a number, she’s the start of this flame.

(Chorus)
ICE out, ICE out, tear their stories down,
We’re not just targets for your badges and your rounds.
ICE out, ICE out, can you hear the shout?
Two dead in Minneapolis — and we’re fighting back now.

(Verse 2)
See the nurse with a heart bigger than their force,
Filming for peace, unarmed on their crooked course.
Pulled to the ground, pepper-sprayed and pinned so cold,
Shot for trying to help — the truth they never told.
They paint the narrative, they twist each damn account,
But the videos don’t lie — we see what really went down.
No more escape routes through your shiny black SUV,
Justice don’t come easy when you’re knee-deep in conspiracy.

(Bridge)
Operation surge, paramilitarized,
We raise our fists while they hide behind their lies.
Sirens wail but the righteous won’t relent,
From Powderhorn to North Side — we’re raising hell again!

(Chorus — heavy)
ICE out, ICE out, let the sirens scream,
Not another mother’s son caught in your war machine.
ICE out, ICE out, feel the masses shout,
Two dead in Minneapolis — we’re raging, we’re loud.

(Breakdown / Solo)
Rhythmic spit and snarl — guitars drive like protest chants:
“No more deaths! No more lies!”
“ICE out! ICE out!”

(Outro — shouted)
Stand up, stay loud, no retreat, no surrender,
Two dead in Minnesota — we remember,
We remember.

Minneapolis Is Not Trump’s Stalingrad

by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner

I saw on Twitter someone compared what’s going on politically relative to the reaction to the murder of Alex Pretti as “Trump’s Stalingrad.” As you may know, the battle for Stalingrad was the moment that Hitler’s hold on the German fatherland began to falter.

I just don’t see that at the moment.

I do think that Pretti’s murder is a major turning point in Trump’s second term, but it’s not something that will actually harm the regime politically. If anything, it will just make the two sides farther apart from each other.

I say this in the context that something similar happened in the post January-6th Insurrection world.

I know the issue hasn’t gotten the play in MAGA land that maybe we would like because none of the MAGA people in my life have made a point of mentioning it to ME. When THAT happens, then, well, something big has happened.

But as it stands, it seems like things aren’t going to get any better. All that will have changed is the context of events that happen later.

We Are All Alex Pretti

by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner

One reason why the thuggish murder of Alex Pretti by border control agents really gets to me is that could have been me. What he did is exactly the type of thing I would do.

I would totally just stand there with my camera phone and record ICE abuse. So, I can totally imagine a situation where I might find myself facing the same fate as Pretti.

(I wouldn’t have been armed though.)

It really makes you wonder if there’s anything ICE et al could do and it be recorded that might be too much even for MAGA to handle. I’m beginning to think there isn’t.

I think once we gave MAGA a pass for the January 6th Insurrection that that was the moment when we would no longer agree on the facts going forward. So, even if ICE et al shot up a few dozen people who were just standing around observing, THAT would STILL not be enough for MAGA.

They have a narrative — Trump good — and they’re sticking to it, no matter what going forward.

Another Issue For The Pyre

by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner

There are a number of issues that simply are non-starters politically in the USA. We can’t talk about common sense gun control. We can’t talk about global climate change. And we definitely can’t talk about abortion rights.

My fear is that the whole “innocent people being shot by ICE thugs” will be thrown on that particular pyre as well, to the point that it will happen all the time and the MAGA “rapid response” will be, on que, the same exact thing each time. The regime will find some reason to deflect responsibility for its deeds in the extreme and nothing will change.

We haven’t quite gotten there yet, but it’s definitely a possibility.

I think, barring something I can’t predict, that we’re going to implode into an autocratic Singularity and that will be that. There will never be free-and-fair elections again, at least in my life time.

I hope I’m wrong — I can’t predict the future — but, lulz, it’s definitely looking like we’re fucking doomed. The bad guys have won.

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.

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.

Of Trump & Canada

by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner

I didn’t entitle this “Will Trump Invade Canada?” because I am doing anti-SEO. I don’t want a wave to anxious Canadians coming to this site looking for answers that I just can’t give.

All I have is my opinion. As an American.

Now that we’re in a new normal where Trump is actively remaking the world in his own image, yes, I do think it’s possible that Trump could order an invasion of Canada.

There’s not a high probability, but it exists.

And that probability increases if there is any sort of skirmish between Canada and the US over…ugh…Greenland.

The issue is, I can’t tell you that there is anything or anyone in the US political system at the moment that would stop Trump from invading Canada. Things are so fucked up that Trump literally could invade Canada and Republicans would be silent and Democrats powerless.

There would be a wave of revulsion in the USA population that it happened, but it still would happen. And Trump would, in fact, demand that the entire fucking nation of Canada be the “51st state.”

And the really unnerving thing about the whole situation is because Canada isn’t some uniform block of people, there would be a lot of Canadians (as I understand it) would, after the shock wore off, at least want to negotiate some sort of peaceful assumption of power by the States over Canada.

Or, put another way, Canada would probably implode into parts that wanted to be American and parts that didn’t. (I think, I’m an American, but that seems to be the state of play on the ground in Canada at the moment.)

Anyway, I can’t predict WHEN this will happen, just that it MIGHT. We still have (at least) three years of Trump to go and he’s growing so bonkers that it literally could happen at any time or at no time.

Only time will tell.

The New Normal Of Trumplandia

by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner

There is no going back when it comes to Trump. Congress simply will not, can not do its job and so Trump as the Mad Emperor has free reign to reshape the world in its own image.

As such, we just have to accept that it’s possible that Trump will declare martial law, try to cancel elections and destroy NATO at some point. And, what’s more, he could very well run for an illegal third term just to finish off the old Constitutional order once and for all.

And there’s just nothing we can do about it, at least under the constraints of our existing political system. If I had any faith in the American people, I would believe it was at least possible that there might be a General Strike to bring down the Trump regime.

But, lulz, that’s just never going to happen.

Americans are simply too distracted and blasé about the world. The people who could do something about this particular issue — traditional conservatives — are now just “Good Germans” who are happy their taxes are lower and brown people are being locked up.

So, I don’t know what to tell you. This is it, guys. We’re finally living in Trumplandia.