Tag: General Strike

General Strike!

by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner

I only feel comfortable writing any of this because absolutely no one listens to me. If I felt anyone would actually listen to me on this subject, I would keep my thoughts to myself. So, in a sense, this is just mental masturbation to make myself feel better.

Having said all that, I suspect it’s at least possible that at some point after Social Security checks fail to be issued (probably at the end of this month) there might be some momentum towards real collective direct action in the guise of something pretty huge like a Blue General Strike.

I say this because neither Trump, nor Musk is going anywhere and the only way to get rid of one or both of them is to do something really fucking drastic, like crash the national (global?) economy by having a General Strike.

Of course, there is a risk that doing such a thing would play into Trump’s hands by giving him the right to declare martial law. I suspect he’s bound to do this anyway, so, lulz, bring it on.

And, yet, I think there is also a chance that Blue’s just don’t have it in them collectively to do something so dramatic and drastic. So, Trump and Musk will consolidate power and I will live in a MAGA dystopian hellscape for the rest of my life.

Sigh.

Someone Needs To Show Some Grit

by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner

I know that Musk and Trump have a shit ton of political slack still in the system because no Blue with some power and authority is willing to, well, get arrested. Or to really go Howard Beale on their podcast or TV show — to freak out and tell people like it is: Trump and Musk are destroying the government.

I do get the sense that public hostility towards DOGE MIGHT be building. Maybe. A little bit. But we still have weeks before anything of note will happen that might make mass protests happen.

So, I guess we just sit around and watch as the U.S. government is consumed by a bunch of snot nosed tykes who clearly have never seen a woman naked, much ever gotten laid. It’s because things will be so different by the time we actually act that I think the old order is dead now and we need to start seeing the future in a different way.

We’re going to have a pretty drastic fork in the road soon — either we become a Russian style autocracy (or worse) or we do some massive direct action like a General Strike.

But, of course, the sad thing is most of this is out of the hands of Blues. It won’t be until a significant number Red voters grow disgusted with DOGE that Trump might purge Musk.

Yet, of course, we would still be stuck with Trump. Barring something I really, really can’t predict — Trump is probably going to run for an illegal third term and we’re just going to let him.

This is it. The end. Something new is being born, I just don’t know what it is yet.

Observation: We May Need A General Strike

by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner

I’m not advocating anything, but I am making an observation — it could be that the only way to catch Trump’s attention is a General Strike. We — Blues — could show our economic power and really crash the (global) economy by simply collectively not going to work until our demands are met.

Our demands:
A new Speaker is elected who is a respected leader.
Trump and Vance resign.

Then we go back to being the greatest nation in the world. Of course, if this was successful, Red States would leave the Union and a Second American Civil War would happen.

So…lulz?

I do worry that we may see unprecedented radicalization among the center-Left in the coming days. Some pretty wild things might happen. Buckle up.

About 38% Of The American Electorate Wants A Fascist White Christian Ethnostate

by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner

Boy, are we fucked — specifically because of the Electoral College. Even though only about 38% of the electorate wants a fascist state, that’s enough, because of the Electoral College, to take over the country.

Now, this is where things get….uhhhh….dark.

There is a big difference between the abstract of Blues living under the yoke of MAGA Project 2025 tyranny and actually living under it. And this is the point where I have to absolutely stress that I DO NOT WANT ANY VIOLENCE.

I’m just making my personal abstract fears concrete. I hate the idea of just having this general feeling of dread. I like to have some idea of WHAT I’m afraid of.

So, I’m telling both you and myself in all these posts I do on the subject.

But the case could be made that should Trump be elected and go full tyrant in a very ham-handed bonkers way, that there will be a collected effort on the part of Blues to depose him — probably starting with some sort of General Strike. And it could be just women, specifically, who really fucking hate Trump as a group, who just throw up their hands in Blue states and say, “Fuck that, I’m not going to work until that motherfucker isn’t president anymore.”

Or something like that.

All of this is extremely speculative on my part. It could be that Trump goes full tyrant and rather than any effort to depose him, about 1 million smug Twitter liberals flee the country instead.

Who knows. I can’t predict the future. But I AM very uneasy about the future.