Tag: Tyrant Trump

What The Fuck Are Blues Going To Do Now

by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner

Blues have two options ahead of them, it seems — bank Right or bank Left.

Banking Right
The United States is definitely lurching Right, AGAIN, and, as such, the center-Left probably needs to bank Right in response. Doing so could very well cause the Far Left to go nuts and cause some serious trouble but given how far Right the United States has drifted since 2016, it seems as though Blues shifting their center of gravity Right might be a good idea. While I’m an trans rights advocate, the whole thing doesn’t play very well in the Heartland. As such, it would make a lot of sense if Blues kind of cooled it with all the rhetoric about “protect trans kids” when, well, there really aren’t that many to protect in the first place. Being so wrapped up with such fringe issues makes Blues seem out of touch with the meat-and-potatoes issues that working families are really concerned with.

Banking Left
The case could be made, meanwhile, that banking Left, at least on economic issues, might be the right thing for Blues to do. This is option that a lot of the squeaky wheels scream about — they want Blues to embrace a more Leftist agenda in hopes of co-opting the populist flair of MAGA. I have some serious doubts about this because to do this means, by definition, leaning into all the kooky Leftist social agenda stuff that got us into this problem in the first place.

I am far more anti-MAGA than I am Leftist. In fact, I kinda fucking hate far Left Leftist for a variety of reasons. And, lulz, none of this matters — Trump is going to consolidate power and turn us into a white Christian ethnostate that will last for the rest of my life. Unless, of course, he is so dumb and lazy that he causes the general public to freak out and he gets deposed. (This is highly unlikely, given how blasé most Americans are.)

Trump Is Quiet. Too Quiet

by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner

Like a two year old in the other room who suddenly goes quiet, Trump is up to no good right now. Usually, he’s screaming at the top of his lungs about this or that thing. But since the election, he’s been (relatively) quiet.

I continue to believe that we’ll see Trump as a transitional figure. It will be his successor who ultimately consolidates power for MAGA and puts us somewhere on the Turkey –> Hungary — > Russia spectrum of autocratic states.

It seems as though, in general, we’re going to see the world order thrown up in the air pretty soon. Nothing is off the table. Everything from the end of NATO to Trump pretty much acting as an actual tyrannical dictator from day one is on the table.

This brings up an interesting issue — what if when Trump’s tyranny concrete people freak out? Right now, a lot of the worst things Trump wants to do — like mass deportations — are rather abstract in people’s minds. But when actually does that shit, whoa, buddy, could things go to hell in a handbasket pretty quickly.

And, really, for me the issue is Trump is so dumb and lazy that he could enact such a lurch forward into tyranny that people try to depose him, which, in turn, would cause a civil war because Red States would get angry. But that’s extremely speculative on my part.

Probably what will happen is we’ll just shrug our way into tyranny and either I am forced to flee the country or I get a ICE bullet to the back of the head because I won’t shut up about how big a cocksucker Trump is and how much I hate MAGA.

Trumplandia: It Appears America Is Entering Its Imperial Era

by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner

It definitely looks as though Trump is going to be a transitional figure that leads us into a full blow autocracy that is semi-imperial. I suppose this means that whomever succeeds Trump will be Augustus Caesar, the person who formalized the transition into a semi-monarchal form of government.

How, exactly, this works out is still up to debate.

But Trump seems determined to destroy the last vestiges of democracy in the USA and only his age prevents him from simply changing — or ignoring the Constitution and being “emperor” for the rest of his life.

Yet I can’t predict the future. I don’t know what’s going to happen. But it will definitely be interesting to see how far Trump’s tyranny can go before someone, somewhere notices it and there are, I don’t know — protests? Maybe that will never happen.

Maybe we’re just going to shrug ourselves into autocracy.

Trump 2028? (Ugh)

by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner

I need to get the fuck out of this country. I fucking hate MAGA with a white hot passion and, yet, here I am, stuck in a country swirling the drain into autocracy. So, I just stew in my juices, I guess.

The latest offense to common decency — among many — is the idea that Steve Bannon is floating that Trump can run for a third term. This makes me very angry. I want to pin down my far more conservative relatives — who I love dearly — down about if they would vote for a third Trump term.

But I know what would happen — they would either wave the concern off, or laugh in my face or somehow just simply not answer the question. Because I know, in the end, they probably would vote for Trump’s third term.

When Trump’s Abstract Tyranny Becomes Concrete

by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner

It seems to be we are in something of a lull before the the mass chaos of the second Trump Administration. There are a lot of elements to the prospective Trump Administration are only vaguely comprehended.

What happens when Trump actually does begin to arrest prominent “Resistance” politicians. Then what? What is going to happen? Will there be a huge reaction in the streets, or will people just shrug as we slide directly into hard autocracy?

I guess the point is — maybe we need to buckle down the hatches for what might be about to happen.

It Seems Inevitable That Trump Will Arrest Congressional Democrats One Day

by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner

With all the talk of the coup attempt in South Korea, I find myself thinking about how something similar could happen here. The most obvious way is at some point after the Congressional mid-terms (should the Democrats win) they decide to impeach Trump for something and he decides to arrest them all en masse.

I think *that* would be the last shiver of American democracy, more than anything else because I think he would get away with it. SCOTUS has already said he’s above the law, so, lulz, seems like he could pull off such a coup scenario pretty easily.

All the lawmakers would be in jail by the time enough people realized what was going on, given how big and distracted the country is, in general. I have a very low, dark view of how things are going to play out over the course of the next four years.

I think 2024 will be the last free-and-fair election in America history for the rest of my life — at least. We’re going to become a legalistic autocratic state like in Russia and that will be that. And because I will never bend a knee, Trump — or one of his successors — will order my death.

Good times!

The Catastrophic Collapse Of American Liberalism

by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner

The great joke that has been played on everyone is, of course, that American Liberalism has been crucified for the sins of the American Left that hates liberals with a passion. So pretty much, all the “woke” stuff that has hurt liberalism in the US isn’t even liberalism.

But, despite this, I suspect what is going to happen is, baring, I don’t know a DPRK nuke blowing up NYC specifically because of a Trump screw up, a reign of “just good enough” MAGA tyrants for the rest of my life.

Either Trump pushes through a Constitutional Convention so he has a lot more power for the rest of his life or we enter a semi-imperial era in our nation’s history where it’s just Trump after Trump after Trump from here on out being president.

And because Americans are generally complacent, lulz, it won’t matter. I’ve come to believe that its the “just good enough” part of the equation that is going to save Trumplandia — because of income inequality, America otherwise would be ripe for revolution. (Not that I’m advocating any such thing.)

Anyway — I still want to leave the country. As soon as possible. But for various reasons that just isn’t possible at the moment and so I will have to suffer the slings and arrows of being a minority of one in Trumplandia.

Blues Could Make A Comeback Pretty Soon — BUT

by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner

But for the fact that I just don’t see the US ever having another free and fair election again anytime soon, I would say given what a catastrophe Trump’s second term will be that Blues will make a big comeback as soon as possible.

So, what I expect will happen is the US is going to slowly circle the drain and in 20 years we’ll be a total MAGA autocracy and I’ll be long gone (or dead) because I wouldn’t shut my mouth about how much I fucking hate MAGA.

I suppose there are any number of black swan events that might happen that could upend this particular dystopian hellscape, but I wouldn’t get too excited. We’re stuck with MAGA for the rest of my life, I fear, no matter how fucking bad things get.

I suppose if, like we lost a few major cities to specifically Trump bungling a crisis with the nuclear-armed DPRK then, yeah, maybe that end MAGA. But racism is a hell of a drug.

I will note in passing that Blues need to reflect deeply on how they come across as white cancel culture snobs to “real America.” (Whatever that means.) The average American thinks Blues want everyone to be gay or trans and that they care more about pronouns than helping people with everyday problems.

This is the result of a massive, viscous propaganda machine that pumps out a lot of MAGA garbage against Blues as a whole. I just don’t have any ready answer to that particular problem.

It’s an example of how, in the macro the US is just historically fucked.

I Will Never Bend A Knee

by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner

It seems as though Trump and MAGA are consolidating power rather quickly without much resistance. I supposed it was inevitable that this would happen eventually in our nation’s history.

This leaves me wondering what my fate is. I’ve decided that no matter what I’m not going to shut up about Trump. I’ve been a loudmouth crank my entire life, what’s the point of stopping now — I can’t change who I am.

It’s pretty wild how this go round everyone is just shrugging and not even thinking of giving fascist MAGA even the most perfunctory of resistance. The powers are just going to bend a knee to fucking Trump and that will be that.

I really need to get back to working on something creative while we slip into autocracy. I guess I’ll just fucking be a man in a high castle or something and watch as the United States turns into a dystopian hellscape.

Apparently, No One Likes Liberals

by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner

I knew this would happen — I posted a link about how liberals are pussies and, of course, some fucking presumed redneck from the Deep South searched and found the link. So, it seems both sides hate liberals.

I get it.

They hate liberals because they’re fascists and I am annoyed with liberals for being unwilling to risk their lives and sacred honor in the real world to do anything about Trump.

So, there you go. We’re fucked no matter what. Things are going to get pretty dark pretty quick it seems. I have no idea what I’m going to do about my own personal survival.