by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner
It is very, very unlikely that our worst fears about what’s going on at La Palma will be realized and there will be some sort of “megatsunami.” It’s so unlikely as to not be something any of us should be worried about.
But I love me a scenario, so let’s run it. Let’s think about what would happen to the United States on a political basis, if a huge fucking wave crossed the Atlantic and destroyed a huge chunk of the American Eastern Seaboard.
My initial reaction is given how divided the country is at the moment, that the country would decend into chaos and something akin to the “Red October” that the MAGA New Right keeps babbling about would happen. The political and economic implications for the United States would, on paper, be enough to destroy the country unto itself.
But let’s think about this more deeply.
It could be that some of the assumptions I’m making aren’t right, that I’m jumping to conclusions. The country would be in shock for the first few days after the event and there would be a massive power vacuum across a huge swath of the country. It could be that the first reaction to the event would be for the country to unite. A lot would depend on how much of the Federal government was still functioning after the possible destruction of D.C.
It seems logical to conclude that it would be the massive economic depression that would strike the globe that would be the thing to cause some sort of MAGA New Right-themed “revolution” in the United States. If Trump survived the event, he would likely somehow be ranting about how now was the chance that MAGA had been looking for — it would be their time to strike. Or, more specifically, Steve Bannon would be saying that.
So, it’s very possible to imagine after the initial shock wore off and the economic implications of the event began to sink in that the usual finger-pointing would begin to happen and be taken to the next level as a huge, populous portion of the country struggled to get the lights on and to figure out what happens next.
I could easily see 20 or more small MAGA states descend into some sort of MAGA New Right themed revolution, which would, in turn, strain the already gobsmacked Federal government.
But, again, I may be assuming the absolute worst a little bit too much this time. Or not. If there was going to be a Second American Revolution, this time with the intent of “making America great again,” something like a huge fucking wave destroying a huge chunk of the country is probably the best bet for it to happen sooner rather than later.
I have to take a moment to ponder how otherwise deluded the MAGA New Right is for thinking that they could pull off a “Red October” without a massive wave striking the US Eastcoast. Revolutions usually, by definition, are Leftist and for all their talk of how much they fucking want to fuck their guns, MAGA cocksuckers have — if the January 6th Insurrectionists are any indication — proven to be massive wussies.
Anyway, hopefully this will stay just a idle daydream.
