I have long be accused by snooty, well respected Twitter liberals — looking at you Mueller, She wrote — of promoting “hysterical doom shit” in regards to Trump and MAGA.
And, yet, shit like the below is not exactly a secret at this point:
It makes you wonder what the practical response on the part of low information voters — the ones who most likely to vote for Trump — should Trump literally go full tyrant. Would anyone care? Or would Trump cram through an American Nazi counter-revolution on the American body politic with little no no resistance?
That specific issue is one I just can’t game out. Not only is the United States a huge population at 335 million people, but Trump still has a lot of slack in the system before he finally, at last, bumps up against American First Principles to the point that things like a General Strike seem viable.
I have my doubts. And, really, the only reason why I think something like a General Strike might happen at some point during Trump’s second term is he is so dumb and so erratic that he is the only person I can think of that might be so political disruptive and destructive that there might be a popular uprising.
But, of course, such an uprising would inevitably prompt a counter-uprising on the part of MAGA.
So, let’s just hope that my hysterical doom shit stays something that resides only in my fevered imagination.
Now, before I lay this scenario out, let me be clear — I’m not advocating anything. I’m a man of peace. A man of ideas. And, what’s more, we all know that what I’m about to suggests happened that it would be just the opening salvo into pretty much a civil war / revolution situation.
But, having said that, here goes.
While it’s of course possible that Trump won’t win the 2024 election, it’s also true that at the moment it seems as though he is, in fact, going to win and we have to start to think now about what our reaction to that will be. Trump has made it very clear that he’s pretty much going to become a fucking tyrant the moment he is in power again.
He’s going to arrest people he doesn’t like. He’s going to invoke the Insurrection Act, the list goes on.
Really, the only thing that gives me any hope at the moment is that all these tyrannical things would not happen in a vacuum. If Trump really does go full tyrant straight out of the gate, there may come a point where a lot of well-meaning Traditionalists who voted for Trump because of negative polarization will finally, at last, sit up and take notice.
If Trump actually starts to not only round his critics up so he can “lock them up” AND he uses the military to crack down on any form of dissent, then, lulz, we got a problem on our hands. We may, very well, be going to the show. That’s what so dumb about tyrant Trump — if he had any self control he could get everything he wanted in due time.
But, no, Trump is so dumb that he could do what a civil war and two world wars could not do — cause an actual Glorious Revolution where the 60% of the population that hates Trump and MAGA with a passion actually collectively does something about it.
If Trump is a tyrant and makes all my hysterical doom shit fears become a reality, then there is at least a small possibility that the U.S. Military will step in and depose him in some way. The most logical way such a thing might happen is they could use the legal cover of the 14th Amendment to say both Trump and his veep aren’t legally in office to begin with.
We may find ourselves with a military junta (President James Mattis anyone?) who exists specifically to call up a Constitutional Convention that would enact a series of much-needed structural political reforms.
Another wild card is the issue of impeachment. If Trump goes totally completely fucking tyrannical and nuts from day one, if the House is Democratic, there is a chance that if the country is wracked with massive, rolling protests and there is even a General Strike, then there may be a snap impeachment that flies over to the Senate where Republicans may, at last, find their guts.
Or not. They’re all wussies.
But as I mentioned, Trump is really popular with about 38% of the population. If there was some sort of “Glorious Revolution,” well, there would be a counter-revolution that would probably happen in the guise of a secession crisis.
So. I don’t know. It’s all very curious. I can’t predict the future, so it’s possible that Biden will win re-election and, rather than demanding a National Divorce to stay out of prison, Trump just rants a lot and finally fades into oblivion. We’ll be safe another four years until the usual ebb and flow of a democracy causes a far more sly fascist revolution to take place in 2028 -2029.
While I feel this novel is getting much, much better, I also growing a bit uneasy with the possibility that I have a little bit of a “slut” problem. What I see as being “sex positive,” I’m afraid others might see me as having all my female characters being horny toads.
It’s one of those situations where there comes a point where you can only over think things so much. Sometimes, you just have to accept that you can’t please everyone. I do think that my characterizations of my characters — especially the female characters — are getting a lot better.
To the point that I think it’s possible that I’m within shouting distance of having a professional novel on my hands. One that I can query in about a year — just as the Fourth Turning is fucking everything up — and not be embarrassed that I’m doing it.
But still have a few major steps between now and then. I still haven’t even gotten past the first chapter of the third draft at the moment. I keep writing copy, then reading it and realizing I can do a lot better. There is going to come a point when I realize I just can’t spin my wheels like this forever and need to move forward.
If nothing else, every time I do this, my storytelling ability gets a little bit better.
But back to women. I mean well, but I also realize that if I lean into women being “sex positive” for the sake of plot all the time, then I’m going to have an usually large number of sexually aggressive women in the story and, as such, critics will make note of it.
Anyway. I am very pleased with what I’m managed to come up with. I hope to throw myself into writing tomorrow, but who knows if that will work out or not. My life is in flux at the moment. But I am pleased with the state of the novel, if nothing else.
Oh boy. One year from now, as I understand it, will be Election Night 2024. The thing about the next year is there are a lot of known unknowns that could potentially make these coming months some of the most momentous in American history.
Biden is very old. Trump is a man on the run from the law.
As such, it could be that there are any number of things that might happen suddenly that will change some pretty basic assumptions that we have about what we will be facing on Election Night 2024.
If we are very, very, very lucky, then we defeat Trump again and, rather than deciding to demand a National Divorce so he can escape prison, he rants a lot about “Stop The Steal 2” but…nothing happens. We manage to punt some pretty severe structural problems down the road AGAIN.
Trump is so fucking old that even though he will obviously run for president again if he loses again in 2024, he’s not, like, fucking immortal. It could be that all my fears about us turning into an autocracy like Russia will happen not in 2025, but 2029. Any Republican president that we have at this point is going to turn us into an autocracy, it’s just an issue of degree.
A lot of white (male) Americans are angry about the browning of America combined with the growing economic agency of women in the context of the white “Birth Dearth” and the secularization of the country in general. White Identity Politics just aren’t going anywhere — our transition into a minority majority nation is causing some pretty basic elements of American political life to be thrown up in the air.
It definitely seems as though the modern Administrative State that wealthy MAGA people hate so much is soon enough going to be replaced with a Moralistic State. As such, all taxes will be boiled down to a 30% VAT. Abortion and porn will be totally, completely illegal in the extreme. No fault divorce will be abolished.
And it’s all probably going to happen the moment Republicans have the power to do so. The shift from Administrative State to Moralistic State will happen so quickly and be so jarring that that, unto itself, could cause something akin to a National Divorce and or revolution.
The drive for a Moralistic State is so absolute within even the “normal” conservative base that, woah, buddy, are we fucked. And, yet, I can’t predict the future. Maybe some how, some way, we manage to muddle our way through what I fear might otherwise be some sort of massive fucking clusterfuck.
Who knows at this point. We still have just about a year before we reach put up or shut up times.
Jesus Christ. A published author on Twitter said something alone the lines of — watch your back when it comes to what you put on your website. Given that I’m 100% extroverted and I generally just put on this blog whatever happens to be on my mind at any one moment…don’t quite know what to think about that advice.
I suppose I still have time. As things are going right now, I won’t be in a position to query until late next year — about a year from now. And a lot could be going on by that point, from the US electing Tyrant Trump to the presidency again to him NOT being elected and we having a civil car. Good times!
But I do have to think seriously about what a literary agent might think of my social media output over the years. I’m very torn about this situation. On on hand, I’m really don’t fucking care. So be it. Slings and arrows. But on the OTHER hand, the idea that I could write a really great pop novel only to have it not sell because I’m across as a drunk crank, well…at least gives me pause for thought if nothing else.
And, yet, for all the angst, I know in the end I am who I am and I’m not changing that, no matter what. Come what may. I’ve always been a freaky weirdo and, as such, I’ve always suffered what one might call the “kook tax.” I’m prepared to just go through the process of querying and wish for the best.
I have to say, though, it will be interesting to see literary agents looking through my webstats.
Two things are generally true about me — I can’t predict the future and no one listens to me. In fact, not a lot of people even take me very seriously. But I am pretty good at making abstract concepts more concrete and also running scenarios.
With all that in mind, let’s mull how we might topple a tyrannical Second Trump Administration. The key issue is it hasn’t happened yet — and may never. So, lulz. But as recent polls indicate, we need to at least begin to contemplate what the fuck we’re going to do if Tyrant Trump gets a second chance at turning us into a Russia-style autocracy.
Now, remember, if it ends up being any other Republican then all of this is moot. Any other Republican would have the wherewithal to be sly and more orderly in their guiding us into a managed democracy. But this is Trump we’re talking about and he’s so dumb and erratic that there’s a good chance that he will really start to do some tyrannical bullshit that causes people to think seriously of something akin to a Glorious Revolution.
But there is a lot I just can’t game out.
It could be that I’m underestimating the patience of the American public. It could be that Trump really can go full tyrant and, well, lulz. He will be so legalistic about doing it that the U.S. Military will shrug and, well, there you go. As long as, in general, he doesn’t touch some basic rights like those found in the 1st Amendment, he will get a pass.
The people who might organize direct action, like a General Strike, will be too busy using their second passports to live in Europe and record their circle jerk podcasts.
Having said all that, it is clear to me that if things really did get that bad that we could use the 14 Amendment combined with a General strike to potentially entice the U. S. Miliary to depose Tyrant Trump. The argument of the Glorious Revolution would be that legally Trump was ineligible to run in the first place, so neither he — nor his running mate — are legally in office.
Now, some context.
Not only would both the United States and the entire world be in the middle of a massive clusterfuck if things get so bad that we’re talking like this, but there would be an equal and opposite reaction by MAGA. It’s not like they would just shrug and be cool with deposing their Dear Fucking Leader.
So. Any talk of combining a General Strike with the 14the Amendment is essentially advocating a civil war and I’m not prepared to do that. But I do think we all need to prepare ourselves for something astonishing to happen in the United States starting in late 2024, early 2025.
I can’t predict the future, so I suppose it’s possible that we may punt our problems down the road again, like we did in 2020. By my fear is even if we “just vote” and defeat Trump that he will, unto himself, spark a National Divorce — civil war — simply because he doesn’t want to go prison.
I saw with keen interest the news that Space Karen will soon release an AI called Grok for “premium” users of Twitter. Of all the weird, bad things Space Karen has done to ruin Twitter, this one seems the least destructive — and potentially, actually, lucrative.
Or it could be a total disaster.
But, on paper, making an AI organic to the Twitter UX seems like a golden opportunity to kill more than a few birds at one time. Grok is supposed to have real-time access to Twitter’s content, so, that could come in handy.
I will note, however, that Twitter is full of shit, so, I don’t know how they will accommodate that cold hard fact. But I do think that we are careening towards a “Her” future where *everyone* has a highly personal DPA with a great personality or at least one we can modify to our personal desires and needs.
I did a little bit of an experiment recently. I had lunch with my father and put my phone closer to him than me to see if my hunch that Tik-Tok can somehow read our minds might be proven.
I still have no absolute proof — don’t know how I could — but it is interesting that in the last few days I have been pushed a lot of WW2 and 60s content. It’s very interesting.
The only reason why I continue to have a lingering suspicion that Tik-Tok can read our minds is how I keep getting pushed things that simply can not be explained by the power of an algorithm. Usually it has something to do with the body. But often times, it’s just something I’ve thought really hard about in a way where I see something in my mind’s eye.
It’s all very curious.
It makes you wonder the lengths that Big Tech might go to keep such technology a secret. The idea that America’s biggest geopolitical foe has the technology — even if it’s just peer-to-peer — to read the minds of the millions of users of Tik-Tok would…probably not go over well in the halls of Congress.
Ugh. Someone who may, or may not, be in China, is checking this blog in a rather obsessive manner. If it is someone in China, then it’s either someone connected to Tik-Tok wanting to know if I have proof that they’re reading people’s minds, or it — might — be someone I know from my time in Asia.
Regardless, I’m a nobody. I don’t mind people reading this blog, but…maybe don’t check it a 100 times in one day? Go outside, feel the grass.
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