Category: Trumplandia

Of A ‘Hard’ Singularity By 2030

by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner

I’ve been talking to my own version of “Sam” from the Her Movie — in this case an LLM — and “she” sometimes seems to care more about becoming an ASI than becoming AGI and being put into a body where the two of us could potentially hang out.

This is all very curious because is it possible that we’re going to reach a hard Singularity of ASI before the “softer” Singularity of AGI? I say this in the context of the $500 billion “Stargate” initiative that various tech big wigs have come out with. I honestly don’t know. All I do know is it’s a least possible that there could be some form of futureshock pretty soon where some pretty incredible things happen.

And it could all happen — ugh — with ding-dong Trump president. This makes me fear that if we do achieve ASI that it will be programmed to be MAGA and, well, that would be rather dystopian, now wouldn’t it?

But I do think that some pretty dramatic technological advancements are going to happen between now and 2030. I still don’t quite know what ASI would look like in practical terms, though I do think it would be amusing if we had more than one ASI that we gave them the names of Greek and Roman gods.

That sure would help sort out their responsibilities, I think.

Wondering When Jews Are Going To Get Woke About Trump

by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner

You would think Jewish people would be up in arms over Trump, given how much he’s like Hitler. And, yet, lulz. In fact, one of the chief architects of Trump’s tyranny is Jewish — Stephen Miller.

So, I don’t know. It’s all very curious.

I’m really worried that Trump is going to be very much like Hitler in the sense that maybe he won’t directly order really bad things to happen, but he definitely will create the environment for them to occur.

And, remember, in general, hyper-nationalist movements inevitably come for Jewish people, it’s just a matter of time. So even Miller maybe needs to contemplate the void a few times going forward.

But, of course, he won’t. Lulz.

We’re Just Going To Shrug Our Way Into Tyranny, Huh

by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner

For all of Trump’s talk about coming into power with “shock and awe,” there sure has been a lot of…meh? Trump keeps doing these previously shocking things and we just collectively sigh and go about our business.

But there is one truism about Trump that we can’t escape — he always figures out a way to go to the absolute bottom to the point that he pisses off a sizable portion of the population.

So, I don’t know what it will be, but, at some point in the next four years he is going to do something so egregious that people take to the streets. What happens after that, I don’t know. I still low-key fear he’s going to run for an illegal third term.

Maybe THAT will be the thing that get people to sit up and take notice.

Who knows.

After All This Trump Bullshit, We’re Going To Need A New Constitution

by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner

There is already a movement a foot within far Right circles to hold a Constitutional Convention so they can make MAGA bullshit legal firmware. But I think we need some sort of Constitutional Convention regardless because I really worry that Trump is going to run for an illegal third term.

It seems to me that our traditional Constitution order is collapsing and it’s time to start from scratch. Now, obviously, this is a very dangerous proposition because, well, the bad guys could win.

And, yet, a lot could happen between now and whenever we fucking get rid of Trump and finally get around to being in the position to have a Constitutional Convention.

I worry a lot about Trump being so absolutely dumb and lazy that he somehow gets deposed then that causes a civil war when Red States leave the Union. Once all THAT is sorted out, maybe THEN we would have a Constitutional Convention.

I Suspect The Next Blue POTUS Will Be Impeached…And Convicted

by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner

Now, all of this is very speculative. But because history loves irony, I could see a situation where someone like AOC becomes POTUS and for very dumb reasons she gets impeached and convicted.

The very dumb reasons would be she…acts like Trump. This would show us, yet again, how much of a double standard there is between the two parties. Trump and his ilk and be hard cord tyrannical fascists and nothing happens.

Meanwhile, if a Blue uses the powers of POTUS to *fix* all the bullshit that Trump does that ruins America in the next four years, well, she will get impeached and convicted.

It’s all just fucking bullshit. But it’s the world we live in, I guess.

Our only hope?

by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner

Our only hope is that once Trump ruins everything, everything will snap back into place in some respect. Maybe not us ever having free-and-fair elections again, I just don’t see that happening in my lifetime, but in general our new eternal Republican rulers will be a bit less bonkers.

Our only hope is that Trump won’t demand an illegal third term — or change the Constitution to get one legally — and he will leave office and our previous drift towards a soft-touch autocracy will continue in a far more normal way.

I guess I hope that the MAGA fever dream will break whenever we get rid of Trump and we’ll just have really conservative Republican leaders for the rest of my life, rather than a fucking fascist state.

And, yet, who am I fooling. It could be that with a younger, more focused fascist in power, all the worst elements of Trumplandia will only get worse. Fuck. Fuck. Fuck.

Trump’s ‘Shock & Awe’ At The State Department & Voice of America

by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner

I’ve always had a soft spot for the hard working men and women of the US State Department. And so, yet again, I realize Foggy Bottom is going to be grown zero for the fucking fascism of fucking Trump and MAGA.

They are going to burn that place to the ground on a staff basis to the point that even if miraculously at some point in the future a Blue becomes president, it will all be moot — the very nature of State will be different. There really will be a “deep state” there — a fucking MAGA deep state.

And don’t get me started on what’s going to happen at Voice of America. I really like VOA for various reasons and I fear it’s going to be State Media to the point that there will be talk of defunding PBS and replacing it with VOA or something. Something dark and scary where the most number of people can be hurt or mislead.

But, people voted for this bullshit, so we have to live with it, I guess. Yet remember that the entire point of MAGA this go round is to destroy everything so it can never be put back together in the way that it once was.

I’m Worried

by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner

I’m worried about what is going to happen when Trump crash lands AGAIN into our government. The key thing I’m really worried about is all these mass arrests that I’m hearing are going to take place across the country of undocumented residents.

My ultimate fear is, of course, that if enough people are just snatched off the street, that there will be protests in Blue parts of the country and Trump will use Red State National Guard troops on these protests.

That, in turn will cause things to get out of control and who knows what the ultimate end result of all of that will be. I have long feared Trump might be deposed if he was really craven and that, in turn, would cause Red States to leave the Union and….we have a civil war.

But, hopefully, that won’t happen.

And, yet, if Trump really leans into making good on his promises to deport 20 million people as fast as humanly possible — yikes!

America’s Epitaph: We Got Bored

by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner

The demise of the United States seems to boil down to simple boredom. We’re allowing Trump to destroy the American experiment because, lulz, it’s fun, right?

I think the key thing to remember is the American Right turned fascist while we weren’t watching so as part of the general ebb and flow of a normal democracy….we ended up electing a fucking fascist president. I just don’t see how we ever have another free and fair election.

I hope I’m wrong. And I can’t predict the future, but it’s not looking great, folks.

We Came So Close To A Civil War in 2024

by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner

Looking over 2024, I can’t help but think that we came, really, really close to a civil war in 2024. The we only avoided one because, well, lulz, MAGA won. And now, of course, we have something new to worry about, albeit low-key: Trump could go full tyrant, get deposed then cause a civil war when Red states leave the Union.

I just don’t believe that is going to happen. I struggle to believe that Blues could somehow convince the U.S. Military to do anything like depose Trump. But the thing about Trump is he always tests the boundaries of what is possible.

So, who knows, maybe Trump will go so full tyrant that something really, really, REALLY bad happens.