Category: Trumplandia

Sick Sad World

by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner

The sad thing about modern America — and the thing that too me way too long to realize — is the people who were once the bedrock of American democracy are now the bedrock of American fascism.

It used to be that hard core, traditional conservatives believed in American democracy. Now, they hate democracy and want a white Christian ethnostate, damn the consequences — even if the consequences are things that go against their own fucking self interest!

Racism is a hell of a drug.

I still believe there is a risk that, in the end, Trump will personally cause more deaths around the world than Hitler. It doesn’t take too many nuclear-tipped hotspots around the globe to go off for that to happen.

Tragically, I am beginning to believe that only something REALLY drastic — like Trump, specifically, being the cause of the DPRK blowing up NYC with an H-bomb could possibly cause some MAGA conservatives to ponder their support for that fucking malignant ding-dong.

Anyway. I have no idea what is going to happen going forward. All I know is it’s probably going to be pretty fucking dark.

Tsar-A-Largo: Trump’s Plot Against America

by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner

Trump’s idea to turn all of Canada into the 51st state is so fucking stupid that you couldn’t write a novel or movie with that as a plot point. The idea that ALL of Canada would be ONE FUCKING STATE is so astonishingly stupid that it is like we’re living in a simulation.

But, here we are.

We’ve been so focused on the domestic political hellscape that Trump promises, that we have totally forgotten about how Trump could single handedly destroy the post WW2 liberal order. If he really does go after Canada, Greenland and the Panama Canal…that is like a Russian wet dream.

And remember, all that bullshit comes in the context of Trump planning on rounding up and deporting 20 million people.

All of this is seriously fucked up.

It definitely seems as though MAGA is determined to destroy everything to the point that it can never be rebuilt, even if Blues somehow, magically come to power again at some point in the future.

It could be that something akin to WW3 is going to happen specifically because of Trump and after a few billion people die because of him, personally….maybe the good guys will come back to power?

Maybe we’ll have the Singularity and be able to regulate it as species so we don’t get snuffed out by some sort of Artificial Super Intelligence? Only time will tell, I guess. But I am growing more and more alarmed.

The Great Tune Out Is Very Dangerous

by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner

All this tuning out that people are doing politically feeds into our lurch into autocracy. People just giving up and assuming they can’t change anything in their nation’s politics is a very living-in-an-autocracy thing to do.

When people become detached from their politics, then a lot of very dark things can happen because people not only don’t feel connected to their politics they really aren’t prepared to risk their lives and sacred honor in the real world to do anything about it.

And, yet, as I keep saying, Trump is so stupid and lazy that there’s a chance that he could force the issue of the consolidation of his power to the point that people get really, really angry in the real world — rather than the online one — and, I don’t know, he’s deposed in some way then a civil war breaks out.

But that is extremely unlikely and extremely speculative on my part. It definitely seems as though, lulz, Trump is going to turn us into an autocratic white Christian ethnostate without anyone saying anything or noticing and I’ll probably die from a ICE bullet to the head.

Or something ghastly like that. I really do want to get out of the country at some point if things get that bad, but I just don’t have the means at the moment.

Welcome To Trumplandia, I Guess

by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner

Fucking Trump. Ugh. The only thing stopping him from consolidating power in the US the way Putin did in Russia is he’s too dumb and lazy. If Trump wasn’t such a fucking malignant moron, he could easily turn the US over the course of the next four years into something that was drifting towards the legalistic tyranny of modern day Russia.

But I worry that Trump is so stupid and so lazy that he will try to force things in such a way that the country shivers and potentially even buckles into revolution and civil war.

And, yet, as is clearly the case from all my ranting over the years about such things — I can’t predict the future. So, probably what will happen is we’ll drift in fits and starts over the next four years into something closer to Turkey or Hungary.

There may be a Turkey-like coup attempt or something, something that gives Trump an excuse to purge the government in a big way. But, in general, Trumplandia is here — or at least will be in a few days.

I Have So Much Work To Do On My Writing

by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner

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.

Sigh.

The Looming MAGA Revolution Is Determined To Ruin EVERYTHING

by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner

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.

Fuck.

I’m Really Tired of The ‘Pivot’ Podcast’s Smug, Wealthy Bullshit

by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner

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.

We Are In Serious Trouble

by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner

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.

Trump Wore Us Out Until He Won

by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner

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.

MAGA Has Won The Culture Wars

by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner

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.