Well, the inevitable happened — the FBI looked at this website. Now, a lot goes on with this site that I can’t see in my Webstats, but this time I definitely saw a ping from the FBI.
The ping was someone looking at my old scenario whereby it was Blues, not Reds who tried to leave the Union. I no longer think there would be a secession by Blues, it would be more of a “recognition” crisis than a “secession” crisis. It would be a lot murkier problem because the war aims wouldn’t be the clear cut of: we’re leaving the Union.
It would be more like, “We don’t recognize Trump as POTUS.”
Meanwhile, I continue to believe that Red States are one “truth” on the part of Trump away from taking serious steps to secede. Or not. What do I know. But I am really, really anxious about the next few months, no matter who wins.
In general, it’s looking more and more like the 2016 election of Donald Trump was something of a political historical fluke. Just the right set of conditions were in play at just the right moment for it happen. And Trump has been riding off of the fumes of that win since it happened.
This raises the question — if he loses AGAIN on Election Day 2024, what does that mean? One thing I don’t think it means is the end of MAGA. The political movement is such a force of political nature that what might happen is Trump fades while some new, young fascist slips in to take his place.
I say this because I think American democracy is on its last legs for various political, historical and economic reasons. So, even if Trump doesn’t turn us into a Hungary-style autocracy, someone else will soon enough.
One lingering fear I continue to have is that if Trump loses in a landslide that he is going to start ranting about the need for a National Divorce because Reds are “unwelcome” in the Union. I don’t really think he’s going to do such a thing, but I do worry about it.
Even though it seems as though all my over wrought fears about a civil war are just that, there remains a little part of me that worries — worries a lot. Sometimes, it seems as though we’re one “truth” away from civil war in the sense that all Trump would have to do is “truth” out that there needs to be a National Divorce.
Meanwhile, on the other end of the spectrum, what happens if Reds attempt to brazenly steal the election from Blues if Harris wins? Then what are we going to do?
It seems to be that for the next few months the fate of the United States may rest with the power of the U.S. Military in the sense that if things do go bad, the military will have to step in to keep the country together.
Or something. Something like that.
And, yet, I’m not prepared to believe that is really true. It could be that no matter what, the country is a lot more stable than I realize and, as such, we have nothing to worry about.
That’s what I hope is what is going to happen, at least.
I was at a nursing home recently when I overheard a visitor say something along the lines of, “You can’t vote for Kamala Harris, she’s the devil’s choice.”
Oh boy.
That doesn’t really encourage me that if Trump loses there won’t be significant political of some sort. Today, I was running in my mind one of the many dark scenarios that might happen if Harris wins and…oh boy. I can just imagine Virginia imploding into Red and Blue parts that want to destroy each other.
I still don’t know what I’m going to do, in practical terms, if something like that happens.
I have no particular special insight into what’s going on with the election at the moment, though I will note that I am seeing just a tiny trickle of people interested in my lazy coverage of the whole Trump blow job thing. And, as an aside, I continue to worry that some big bombshell is going to drop that derails the Harris campaign at the last moment.
But I’m hoping that she wins and we can put MAGA to bed once and for all.
And, yet, there’s something else I’m worried about — if she does win by a landslide, there is a greater-than-zero chance that Trump could begin to rant about the need for a National Divorce because Reds are “unwelcome in the Union” or some such bullshit.
If he were to say that, I think Texas would take him up on the offer without blinking and eye. That, in turn would cause many other Red states to follow suit. Anyway, all I can do is hope that that doesn’t happen, huh.
If Kamala Harris wins the 2024 election, we will have at least bought ourselves some more time. There’s every reason to believe that the macro demographic trends that led to Trump will continue and four years from now someone — maybe Trump? — will still be angling to make us a fascist state.
I just don’t see our fascist problem going away any time soon.
But if she does win, I think it means America collectively decided that we were willing to fight for our democracy after all.
My main fear is, of course, that Trump will lose, but “win” by cheating in some way. If that happens, holy shit are we going to be in dire straights. But we have to hope and pray that that won’t happen.
We have to have some faith, I suppose. Some faith that Trump won’t at least *successfully* cheat. But I do think if Harris wins that the next four years are going to be pretty dramatic one way or another.
How dramatic and why they will be dramatic, I don’t know. We’ve been really lucky the last four years — outside of January 6th.
If Trump wins, then I think it means that this is who we are in 2024 — a nation that has finally sunk into fascism. Our democracy has been on its last legs for some time now and if Trump wins — even if he does so by successfully cheating — then I think This Is It: America has decided it’s no longer an idea but a nation of “blood and soil”
I have long thought that someone like Trump, if you were doing psychohistory, was bound to pop up in our political history at some point because of demographic changes. Trump has always been just a vessel, an avatar for some fucked up shit going on in our body politic.
He’s not a great man. Far from it. He’s too lazy and dumb to be a great man. But if he wins on Election Day, then it will mean that the greatest counter-revolution since 1860 is about to take place.
But if Trump wins — even if he has to cheat to do so — that’s it. We’re going to slide into an autocracy much like Hungary, if we’re lucky, and Russia if we’re not.
And, yet, there is a risk that Trump is so dumb and lazy that he’ll go full tyrant on us from day one and, well, who knows. Maybe the US Military will have to step in and depose the motherfucker. (Not that I want that, but it something to muse about in the abstract.)
Anyway. If Trump does win, holy shit are we in for some fucking chaos.
Sometimes, you just have to throw your hands up and move on. If things were “normal” then Trump mimicking giving his mic stand a blowjob might mean something to someone.
The thing I’ve noticed about conservatives is how often they have a huge fucking chip on their shoulder. That’s why Biden’s gaff caused by his stutter gets them worked up into a frenzy — see picture above of Texas’ Lt. Governor. They freak out at any sign of someone looking down on them, just as they are completely indifferent to the families they tear apart at the border.
It’s a very unsettling paradox.
But, here we are. Conservatives think that Biden’s remark is a “gotcha” that they can use to cruise to success. They see it as equal to the “deplorables” comment that Hillary Clinton made during the 2016 campaign.
It’s somewhat open to debate if that is the case. We’ll see, I suppose. But we are definitely in the political silly season now. Big time. Any little thing for good or bad gets warped and twisted into a Big Deal and this will continue between now and election day.
I still don’t know what’s going to happen with the election. It really could go either way at this point. I would like to think that Harris has some momentum, but I really got burned in 2016, so…I’m not prepared to accept that on face value just yet.
Even if Harris wins outright on election night, Trump could use extra legal and extra political means to “win,” such that the country implodes.
I have repeatedly told my far more conservative relatives — whom I love dearly — that late night TV will be purged if Trump wins. To date, all I’ve gotten as a reaction is a lulz. They just don’t care. All they care about is closing the border to scary brown people and putting the ones who are already here in camps before they get deported.
That’s it, that’s their only concern.
When I press them on what a disaster deporting 10 to 20 million undocumented people would be, all I get is a hand wave. They don’t really care what happens if it Trump fulfills that promise, they just want it to happen. They want things to go back to the way they were at some nebulous point in the past when America was “great.”
The idea that there would be purge of American late night TV is pretty profound. It’s something that I will be able to point to and say, “Uh, I think we’re in trouble, guys.”
It definitely makes me wonder what the conservatives in my life — whom I love dearly — will respond to such things. I suppose they will just shrug and go about their business until I eventually get arrested for refusing to stop saying that MAGA is fucking fascist bullshit and can collectively suck my cock.
But we have to appreciate that there’s probably going to be a massive diaspora if Trump wins. I continue to believe that about 1 million smug Twitter liberals will begin to flee the country at some point after Trump officially winning the election.
Things could get so bad that Trump locks the country down and it will grow really, really difficult to get out at all.
I know that sounds hysterical at the moment, but it’s definitely something we need to contemplate at the moment. All those Americans leave the country could dramatically change world culture.
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