Month: February 2021

Rona Rock — The Curious Case Of Miley Cyrus


by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner

Miley Cyrus’ career is in a curious place. She’s doing all these covers as if she’s struggling to figure out What’s Next. I would suggest that this struggle comes from her voice — she has a pop-rock voice so it’s tough for her to pull off a hard rock song.

There are a number of different ways she could go. One is bank back into the adult contemporary crap that we have to suffer through right now or she could push ahead into harder rock. It seems if she decides to take the latter course that she should team up with Butch Vig of “Heart Shaped Box” fame and the band Garbage. I could definitely see Ms. Cyrus as a successor to Shirley Manson. But Ms. Cyrus would have to choose her songs carefully.

And, yet, who am I kidding. It definitely seems as though there are some macro trends at work that indicate rock is dead and never coming back for any reason. So, it’s not like anyone — even Ms. Cyrus — could produce good music and get any popular attention.

Oh well. I would note, however, that Ms. Cyrus is smoking hot. I still don’t understand what’s going on with her mentally, though. She’s so out there that I always thought it was some sort of act. But she continues to act so bonkers on a consistent basis that I’m beginning to think that’s really who she is. Which is…interesting.

How Red States Could Win A Second American Civil War


by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner

You wanna know how Red States “win” a Second American Civil War? Don’t have one — just be patient. Wait until 2024, win that election — one way or another — and then turn the United States into an autocratic managed democracy like they have in Russia.

It’s when Red State people grow so bloodthirsty and impatient that they start jumping the gun and wanting a civil war NOW that they get themselves in trouble. Red States have a huge political advantage. Trump showed how weak and ineffectual liberal-progressives are on a political level. What happens, of course, is Red State cocksuckers see that and think, “Just imagine what we could get if we started murdering people in cold blood!”

Why that misses the point is as long as you’re dealing with things on a political level, then Red States win. Much like with Slave Power in the 19th Century. They were pretty much getting everything they wanted on a political level and it was when they freak the fuck with the election of Lincoln that they lost everything. Even the biggest fey soyboy might get a bit more spunky if a gun is pointed in his face.

But the point of all of this, I think, is we have to take seriously the idea that the Republican Party is now a full-blown fascist party. And, what’s more, it’s far more powerful in real terms than the Nazis were in the 1931-1932 era. The Republican Party is only one of two major parties in the United State. So, all they have to do is get the presidency and Congress again and that’s it — they can strangle liberal democracy once and for all in the United States and slowly turn us into Fortress America.

There will be white minority rule for decades to come and all without firing a shot. Sure, some of the bigger Blue States might grumble about leaving the Union, but I just don’t see them doing it. But if President Pompeo or Cotton drives them out of the Union in an effort to reconstruct them in MAGA’s image, then, well, all bets are off.

Or, put another way, the United States is already an autocracy without an autocrat. MAGA can stroke one out all it wants to the idea of revolution or civil war, but it would be extremely self-defeating. If you REALLY want to destroy America and turn it in to Trumplandia — just be patient, you fucking cocksuckers.