If Social Security checks aren’t cut on time, there’s a real risk of severe protests across the country. But my fear is that just because there are massive protests, doesn’t mean that the press will cover it.
In fact, I would go so far as to suggest that only if there’s a General Strike will and the economy crashes will anyone give a shit. And I just don’t see American being willing to risk their “lives and sacred honors” in the real world instead of being just keyboard warriors.
The thing about what’s going on as we slide into autocracy is we’ve reached point where everyone is learning the weaknesses of the system. So, no matter what, this is it, the end — you can’t unring Trump’s bell.
We either go full Russian-style autocracy, or we have a Great Turbulence where the Good Guys win and a Third Republic is established. There is no middle ground anymore.
I honestly don’t know which direction things are going to go. It could be either way. The only way we “solve” this problem is via something akin to a Revolution and I just don’t see Americans prepared to do that. So, I suppose I’ve answered my own question — it seems like we’re going to become a very legalistic dictatorship with two branches of government that exist, but don’t do anything.
That’s the dystopian hellscape that we’re zooming towards at the moment.
Words elude me sometimes when it comes to try to describe how bad things are right now. The system has imploded and Trump and Musk have free reign to establish a dictatorship. I really need to piviot back to working on some novels.
I need to just shut down the political part of my mind and avoid Twitter as much as possible. But my life may become rather…bumpy…very soon so that is kind of difficult to do. The outside world may demand my attention, no matter what.
But I do think that very soon — as soon as tomorrow — I’m going to focus my mind on being creative in a constructive manner, at last. I just can’t be in neutral forever, I have to do something with my life.
Trump hates the Kennedy Center for a number of reasons, chief amongst them is it’s a symbol of all the cultured people who think he’s a piece of shit (which he is.) So, he wants to remake it in his own image — going so far as to name himself to lead it the damn thing.
This is another example of how dark things are and how even if we magically get a Blue President at some point in the future that the whole context will be different. This hypothetical president will spend their entire first term just figuring out how to cobble the Federal government back together and even then, like I said, the context will be different.
You can’t unring a bell, as they say.
We are so fucked. So totally and completely fucked. And I keep reviewing how right I got so much of this. I still think the only reason why we didn’t have a civil war was Trump won. Had he lost, there was a good chance he would have demanded a civil war.
And Blues just don’t have it in them to put up any sort of fight. Fuck MAGA, fuck Trump and fuck Musk is all I have to say. I might as well use my free speech while I still have it. They’ll come for me soon enough.
Oh my fucking God are things dark politically now and getting darker by the moment. We’ve reached a no-going-back moment: I just don’t think America is going to be the same now, no matter what. I don’t think we’re ever going to have free and fair elections again and if a Blue somehow did magically get elected the entire context of his or her administration would be different.
So, this is it, folks, we’re totally fucked.
As I repeatedly predicted with my “hysterical doom shit,” we are, in 2025, now a dictatorship. Trump is ruining everything to the point that even if we somehow put things back together, it won’t be the same. And Trump is showing other people want can be done to the point that the fascists are going to totally transform the United States no matter what.
Of course, there is a greater-than-zero chance that Trump and Musk could really fuck up, there’s a General Strike and massive protests and somehow, magically Trump and Musk are deposed. Then a civil war happens because Red States get mad and leave the Union.
So…lulz?
I just want to live in a traditional Western democracy. That shouldn’t be a big ask.
Something’s gotta give. We can’t have Blues on the backfoot forever. I would say we need to primary the entire Democratic Party, but I don’t think we’re going to make it that far.
So, in an ideal world, someone like Jon Stewart would jump into the arena and go toe-to-toe with Trumplandia. But, alas, I just don’t see that happening. We’re fucked totally and completely.
There is the chance, of course, that when Trump gets his way and totally guts the social safety net that there will be a severe push back from the population and THEN things get interesting.
But I have my doubts. I think this is it. We’re going to become a literal dictatorship — at least for the rest of my life — and we’re going to have no middle class at all and turn into something like Brazil. Ugh.
The Final Question in the Trump era is — if Trump somehow fucks with Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid so they don’t work properly as people have always assumed, will there be any substantive consequences?
If Social Security checks aren’t cut, will people just shrug and let Trump get away with it, or will there be things like a General Strike or massive protests or whatnot. I honestly don’t know.
Americans are so fucking complacent and just want to make money that it could be that Trump will touch the third rail of politics, Social Security, and nothing of note will happen. If Trump really does get away with doing such a thing, then he will have passed through his last barrier to being a true dictator.
Fucking with Social Security is the only thing I can think of that might, just might cause Trump to finally either be deposed or at least, in some way behave. But there is just as much a chance that he will double down and use any protests as an excuse to declare martial law and that will be that — the United States will finally be a fascist military dictatorship.
I honestly don’t know what will happen if Trump moots Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid. It’s very much up in the air because I suspect that MAGA, so busy sucking on the teet of racism, will figure out a way to even rationalize something as profound as the end of Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid.
They just might really be willing to let Trump pull it off.
It is clear that soon the United States really will be a dictatorship in the traditional sense — Trump (with his proxy Musk) will rule by decree or just ignore the rule of law while the Legislative and Judicial branches cool their heels in obscurity.
That seems to be our immediate future.
And, what’s more trillions of wealth will probably be transferred from the very poor to the very wealthy in a few months once some legislation is passed.
All of this doesn’t vie well for the future of the United State’s stability. And, yet, I also think Americans are, in general, just too complacent to do anything like a General Strike.
I think this is it. We will no longer have free and fair elections and we will be an actual traditional dictatorship — probably by the end of the year, if not sooner. So, lulz, I suppose my fears of dying at the hands of an ICE agent aren’t too far off.
I will just remain a Man In A High Castle until that happens.
One of the big ways that Hitler was able to seize control of Germany in early 1933 was there was a fire at the Reichstag. It is speculated that the Nazis started the fire, but there’s no proof.
Anyway, I’m waiting for something like that to happen with Trump. If there was a 911 type terrorist attack soon, that would allow Trump to consolidate power even faster than he already is.
But maybe I’m being paranoid for no reason. Maybe Trump will just keep on consolidating power and nothing like that will happen. I sure don’t *want* something like that to happen, but things are pretty dark right now and I fear they will only get darker.
I’ve written numerous times over the years about the possibility that Trump is so stupid and lazy that he could finally push the public to the point that the U.S. Military would feel it needs to step in to overthrow him. (This, of course, would cause a civil war because Red States would leave the Union.)
So, I don’t really want a military coup, but it is enticing. It has a certain allure to it, as if we could square the circle of MAGA turning us into a fucking MAGA Nazi state by just starting all over.
We have a military junta run the country while we hold a Constitutional Convention that would have sweeping powers to reform things so we can bounce back. But, like I said, about 48% of the population LOVES what Trump is doing, so, lulz. It’s all very frustrating.
There just doesn’t seem to be anything we can do to fix this particular situation. At least in the near term. Either we slide into autocracy with our eyes wide open or Trump and Musk finally do something so outrageous that there’s, like, a General Strike and the U.S. Military is forced to step in.
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