Tag: Lara Trump

Weimar America: Lara Trump & The ‘Velvet Fist’


by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner

No one listens to me. Unless, of course, you’re an FBI agent in Washington D.C. who comes to this site to print out any blog post I might do about Alexa Chung. (Ugh.)

But I will note something — it would make a lot of sense for Lara Trump to run for Senate in North Carolina, win, then run for president, win, and serve as the “velvet” president to the “fist” of vice president Josh Hawley.

Or, put another way, as I keep saying, the United States is an autocracy without an autocrat. Not for nothing did a huge chunk of the electorate vote for “the guy from The Apprentice.” They wanted an autocrat and they got an empty suit.

So, they made the psychological reasoning necessary for our current barely-functioning liberal democracy to be strangled. As such, there are now about a half dozen would-be autocrats lurking around, trying to figure out how to get around Trump so they can finish the job he started.

Just enjoy this brief respite from autocracy while you can. We’re now officially in the “Weimar Republic” phase of United State history. The macro one-two punch of the browning of America combined with non-college educated blue collar men not being able to get laid is simply too much for the American political system to handle.

We’re totally, completely, fucked.

If you can get out of the country now, do so. Or if you can’t you really need to start taking the rise of autocracy in the United States seriously. Are you willing to suffer for freedom? Well, are you?

Q Nation: ‘The Velvet Fist’


by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner

Of all the House Trump: Next Generation people I’m worried about, it’s Lara Trump that seems the most poised to finally strangle American liberal democracy. I say this because she’s demonstrably beautiful, smart and ambition — and something of a proxy for her much-maligned husband Eric Trump. My current thinking is something like this could happen — Lara Trump wins a Senate seat in North Carolina (because she’s actually willing to, like, work, unlike Ivanka) and after a major primary battle with any number of non-Trump autocrats in waiting, we get ourselves The Velvet Fist.

Lara Trump will be the sunny, beautiful exterior while someone like Mike Pompeo or Tom Cotton is the “fist” while serving as her veep. This would be very in line with how autocrats work. As you may know, one of the ways Putin has stayed in power for about three decades now is he kept bouncing back and forth between President and Premier.

So that’s one of several options when it comes to how the United States finally lurches into its pre-ordinaed destiny of fascist autocracy. We’ll be so busy thinking, “Oh, Lara Trump would NEVER do that, would she…” that we are totally oblivious that Mike Pompeo (or whomever) is the REAL president behind the scenes who is quickly consolidating power in the 2025 – 2027 time frame. I have really come to believe that all my dystopian nightmares that I predicted during Trumplandia will still happen, it just may be Lara Trump (face) that it happens under.

We’re just not prepared as a nation for the historial sucker punch that is about to happen to us. American liberal democracy is going to be strangled by The Velvet Fist so quickly that by the time we process what just happened, the ICE Camps will be packed full of all the people Q Anon thinks are involved in some sort of evil cabal. (Which, oddly enough is pretty much just Jewish people all over again…ugh.)

And, really, Lara Trump instead of Ivanka Trump would square the circle of how Q Nation could start killing The Usual Suspects of Jews, etc without upsetting Ivanka’s tender Jewish sensibilities. She’s so complicit that by the time SHE realizes the monster she’s associated with, she’s going to be sharing a concentration camp with the equally gobsmacked Stephen Miller. Or, put another way, anyone who doesn’t think Q is simply a cover to murder “liberals” who also often happen to be Jewish is an idiot.

But this is all very speculative at this moment. It could be that it’s not the Velvet Fist, but the Orange Fist — our good old pal deranged Trump comes back, but only as something of a Trojan Horse. He would come back tan, ready and rested, but with Mike Pompeo or Tom Cotton as he veep. They would, in the background, do all the horrific things I thought Trump would do the first time around.

The point is, again — America is an autocracy without an autocrat. Macro trends just aren’t in our liberal democracy’s favor. Something pretty huge that I can’t sketch out would have to happen to prevent Republicans having another shot at turning us into Q Nation. Again — either get out of the country in the next four years or move to a Blue State.

Things are going to get dark.