I’ve finally — FINALLY — gotten around to the point where I feel up to working on all these novels I’ve paused. It’s going to be a struggle, but I hope to get something, anything done by the end of the year so I can begin the querying process.
It doesn’t help that 1) I’m old 2) my life could be totally upended as a by product of the MAGA Revolution.
I suppose some of you reading this will cheer that second part, but if you do — fuck you, you piece of shit.
But all I can do is just write and develop as fast as I can, I suppose. It definitely seems as though this rather…unique…situation I’ve found myself in the last few years is going to come to a rather abrupt end because of fucking MAGA cocksuckers.
I just don’t think we’re prepared for how dramatic the change could be in the next few months. The first 100 days of Neo-Trumplandia could be shocking in more ways than one. Much of the social safety net could be gutted or transformed while the wealthy grow far, far more, well, wealthy.
Severe income inequality is a, “No great, Bob,” situation for any nation that hopes to be stable. But, here we are — the already severe income inequality found in America society is going to grow even more bad. And because we’re going to be a fascist state, lulz, elections won’t mean shit.
As such, it definitely seems as though the dystopia of a white Christian ethnostate — and an autocratic fascist one at that — is upon us. This is the quiet before the storm.
Jesus, I fucking hate MAGA. I fucking hate is so fucking much. With a white hot rage (in a purely abstract basis — in reality, I’m just rather blasé about the whole situation in any practical manner.)
I hate violence. I hate guns. Hell, I hate conflict. I just want to keep my head down and do my thing. That’s not to say I might not grab a camera and take pictures of an anti-MAGA protest if the moment arose. But given my life at the moment, have serious doubts about anything like that happening for some time.
Anyway. At the moment, it seems as though our only hope is AI Androids make common cause with the vast underclass that will exist in about 2050 and THEN who knows what might happen. Of course, there’s a small risk that if Trump goes totally nuts and tries to force us into a Russian-style autocracy before we’re ready that, I don’t know, the US Military might depose him?
Which, of course, will, in turn cause a civil war.
Even though I generally like Kara Swisher and Scott Galloway, their podcast “Pivot” has become totally insufferable. It seems most of the pod is just them having a circle jerk about the First World Problems they have at this or that spa or whatever else the fuck they talk about.
This pains me because I really have enjoyed the podcast in the past. But their came a point recently when in the middle of 20 minutes of self-congratulatory mental masturbation between the two those two wealthy people that this poor boy from Virginia just rolled his eyes and gave up.
Fuck that. They can do better.
They jumped the shark.
I suppose, in a way, my more populist Leftist leanings come out when I talk like this. I’m on the other side of the spectrum from MAGA, which is fucking fascist. I’m a Renegade of Funk.
Rage against the machine, man.
I still fucking hate MAGA, though. With a white host passion. Jesus, I hate MAGA cocksuckers.
I keep reading books about the rise of the Nazis and am taken aback by how, well, identical the scenario they present is to that of our current lot. The only difference between the Nazis and MAGA is MAGA is a movement of retrenchment, not taking over the world.
Otherwise, there MAGA and Nazism are identical in some pretty striking ways. As I continue to read book after book about the rise of the Nazis, I am stunned that it is, in fact, “happening here” in broad daylight.
I don’t know what to tell you. I am really worried that, in the end, billions of people could die if Trump totally leaves the world order to the point that various simmering conflicts go nuclear across the globe.
Fuck MAGA. And fuck you if you support the movement. Having gotten that out of my system, it seems as though the American slide into fascist autocracy was inevitable. Someone *like* Trump was going to rise and the country’s ties to traditional democracy were just too weak.
So, here we are — just about to become a white Christian ethnostate.
I don’t know where that leaves me — probably with an ICE bullet to the back of the head, but lulz, there doesn’t seem to be anything I can do to prevent that. I suppose I can try to flee the country at some point.
Who knows. All I know is I just don’t see us having a free and fair election during my lifetime.
Just like the Reagan Revolution shifted the political center of the United States Right, so, too, has the MAGA Revolution. The United States is far more conservative than it used to be and it probably will only grow more so going forward — probably to a scary degree.
There are a lot of unknowns, however.
The key one being is how successful Trump is going to be in his efforts to consolidate power. My only worry is he is so stupid and lazy that he will try to push the country into autocratic fascism so quickly that people finally — finally — get woke and there is some sort of General Strike or something.
I have my doubts that anything like that is possible.
Americans are just — for better or worse — too complacent. Things would have to get REALLY BAD before the average person would summon up the courage to take the streets or not go into work or whatever. People in the States are just too blasé, which has really helped keep the country stable over the years.
There is a chance, however, that things could get kind of bumpy in 2025 if Trump makes good on some of his more radical policy proposals. And, yet, it could be, lulz, absolutely nothing happens and we slouch into fascism with our eyes wide open.
Ugh.
But let me be clear — I think for marginalized people like the Trans, things are going to get really bad really quick. It doesn’t take too much imagination to see a scenario whereby somehow the Trans get stuck in all these huge camps that Trump is proposing to stick undocumented immigrants into.
I still believe that because of the disruptive nature of Trump’s fascist regime that he will ultimately be responsible for more deaths than the Nazis in WW2 — if you factor in all the simmering hot spots that might go nuclear because he decides to turn away from the outside world.
It definitely seems as though the US is going to transition into some sort of white Christian ethnostate — one of blood and soil — in just a few days. If we’re lucky, we’ll endup somewhere between Hungary and Turkey politically.
If we’re not lucky, we’ll endup — in a few decades — somewhere around Russia.
Then we’ll have to wait decades for the Singularity to happen so AI Androids and the underclass can make common cause against our fascist autocrat overlords.
But I continue to worry that Trump is so lazy and stupid that he will try to consolidate power in one fell swoop and, as such, there will be an extreme reaction from Blue states. Then Trump uses Red National Guard units against Blue state protests and, ta-da, we’re going to the show.
And if Trump was somehow deposed, or whatever, THAT would cause a civil war because Red States would leave the Union in protest.
I do not think anything so drastic is going to happen, but I do worry about it. Probably what will happen is Trump will either be secure enough that he won’t try to turn us into Russia overnight or it will all happen in fits and starts to the point that lulz, it won’t matter.
We’ll just wake up in 20 years and wonder why Eric Trump is serving his third term.
It definitely seems as though This Is It — the USA is going to become a white Christian ethnostate. As such, we will no longer have free and fair elections as long as I’m alive.
The only hope I have is maybe sentient AI androids make common cause with the underclass in a few decades and there’s some sort of revolution? I’ll be long dead, but it is something to think about.
It would make the great basis for a novel. But I have too many other things I’m working on to do such a thing at the moment.
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.)
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.
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