Tag: Tyrant Trump

‘A Lot Of People Are Saying…’

by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner

I keep having to recalculate my “hysterical doom shit” about the future of what’s left of America’s democracy. Trump said in the last few days that “A lot of people are saying we need a dictator,” and that leads me to believe we definitely won’t have free-and-fair Federal elections in 2026, much less 2028.

So, this is it.

We’re now a dictatorship and that just happens to have zombie elections on a regular basis. We’re now no better than Hungary or even Russia. The key question is, of course, do we go full Russia or do we linger around Hungary?

At the moment, that’s something of an open question.

I think a lot of it depends on who replaces Trump. If it’s JD Vance, then I think we might, just might linger in the Hungary zone. But if it’s someone who is far more craven and focused on absolute power, then, lulz, we zoom towards the Russia model and I endup in some sort of gulag.

That, or I get pushed out a window.

Fuck MAGA, bunch of cocksuckers.

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.

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.

The United States Is Tearing Itself Apart

by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner

All the signs are there that we’re all going to have to grab the metaphorical bug out bag and head safety within my lifetime. I don’t know exactly when it will happen or why, but it’s going to happen.

I am well aware that I’ve been pontification about this possibility for a long, long, long time and absolutely nothing happens. And I’m not really saying that “this time is different.”

I’m just saying that the centrifugal political forces are gaining in speed and power and soon there is going to be a revolution and / or a civil war. And probably WMD will be lobbed by either side against each other.

Think of it as a “slow implosion” rather than a “slow civil war.” The two sides are growing more and more extreme, even though it’s really just the MAGA cocksuckers going nuts and then Blues in a half-assed kind of way *trying* to “resist.”

I think the slack in the system will tighten up should Trump run for a third term, or clamp down on freedom of speech in a more direct way than he’s been doing. Besides suing anyone he doesn’t like, Trump really hasn’t in a ham-handed way been a real dictator against the press.

When he goes full dictator against the media, then all bets are off.

Oh, Come On, ‘Big Balls’ Being Involved In A Modern Day Reichstag Fire Is A Little Bit Too On The Nose

by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner

Political darkness continues to fall here in the United States. I say this in the context of that punk ass little bitch “Big Balls” being beat up in D.C. and, in turn, causing Trump to send in the military into a city that has seen its crime rate actually go down in recent years.

As such, Trump continues to dabble in direct authoritarianism by sending troops into Blue States for no damn reason. This is only going to get worse because we’re all too busy doing Tik-Tok dances to notice.

We’re going to wake up in a few years to a Max Headroom-like version of Trump as an ASI that demands we worship him as a god. Ugh. I wish I was joking. That definitely seems a real possibility at the moment.

For the moment, I seem safe. I’m just a loudmouth crank in the middle of nowhere. But as the vise begins to tighten on the lives of everyday people, ICE is going to come for me eventually — it’s inevitable.

ICE by that moment will have morphed from bothering undocumented immigrants to be a general purpose Gestapo or even SS, depending on how bad things get.

I figure I have a few more years before ICE comes for me. Right now, I’m just a kooky, loudmouth crank. But once we dive directly into Russian-style autocracy, all bets are off.

I’ll end up in a concentration camp, soon enough.

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.

Pick A Side: Now What

By Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner

Now that our slide into MAGA autocracy has begun to accelerate, it makes you wonder what happens next. Logically, to me, the whole point of the Trump historical experiment is for him to run for, and win, a third term, which would shatter the whole Constitutional system.

Then we would all be left struggling to pick up the pieces, maybe to the point of having to call a Second Constitutional Convention to reaffirm that we are, in fact, a Constitutional Republic in the first place.

But the key thing we have to remember is the United States is no longer a republic. We are now an empire just as much as the Roman Empire. The question now is how far we will slide towards some form of “hard” authoritarianism like they have in Russia. At the moment — I just don’t know.

Once Trump shatters the existing Constitutional order just by being himself, who knows what — if anything — will replace what we’ve had since 1789. But one thing we have to remember — there’s no going back.

This is it. This is the new America. Pick a side, one way or another.

The Epstein-Trump Connection: A Political Powder Keg

Recent developments surrounding Jeffrey Epstein’s legacy have thrust the disgraced financier back into the political spotlight, creating uncomfortable questions for the Trump administration and exposing contradictions within the president’s political coalition.

The Contradiction at the Heart of Trump’s Base

Trump’s core supporters have long subscribed to theories about shadowy cabals controlling global affairs, with many pointing to Jeffrey Epstein as a central figure in such networks. Yet these same supporters have consistently overlooked a well-documented reality: Trump and Epstein maintained a close friendship spanning approximately two decades.

This cognitive dissonance has become increasingly difficult to ignore as recent events have unfolded.

The Client List Reversal

The administration initially signaled its intention to release Epstein’s client list, with Trump and Attorney General Pam Bondi making public statements to that effect. However, this position quickly shifted, leading to speculation about the reasons behind the reversal.

The change in stance has prompted questions about potential conflicts of interest and what information such a release might contain about Trump’s own associations with Epstein.

The Maxwell Factor

Ghislaine Maxwell, Epstein’s convicted co-conspirator, remains incarcerated in federal prison. Her continued imprisonment presents both a potential liability and opportunity for the current administration.

Political observers are increasingly speculating about the possibility of a presidential pardon for Maxwell. Such a move could serve multiple purposes: demonstrating executive clemency while potentially securing favorable testimony or statements regarding Trump’s historical relationship with Epstein.

Timing and Political Calculations

If such a pardon were to occur, political analysts suggest it might happen during August—a month traditionally associated with reduced media attention due to summer schedules. This timing would allow controversial decisions to unfold with potentially less scrutiny.

The critical question remains whether the American public would accept such a presidential action, particularly given the high-profile nature of Maxwell’s crimes and the broader implications for justice.

Systemic Implications

These developments reflect deeper structural issues within American political institutions. Trump’s presidency has consistently tested constitutional norms and democratic guardrails, suggesting that individual controversies may be symptoms of more fundamental systemic challenges.

The Epstein affair represents another potential stress test for American democratic institutions, raising questions about accountability, transparency, and the limits of executive power.

Looking Forward

Whatever unfolds in the coming months, the intersection of the Epstein case with current political realities highlights the complex relationship between past associations, present power, and future consequences in American politics.

The resolution of these issues may ultimately depend not just on legal considerations, but on the public’s willingness to demand accountability from its elected leaders, regardless of political affiliation.