Tag: Tyrant Trump

‘You Can Just Do Things’ (Ugh)

by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner

Tech Bros can just fuck off. While the “you can just do things” mentality might work well with AI, it’s not the best form of government. In fact, it sucks. Big time.

I actually had an argument with some Tech Bro about the DOGE shenanigans and he invoked the “you can just do things” bullshit. It’s amazing that people who should know better would think that the literal use of a Tech Bro catch phrase in government might actually work.

Fuck that and fuck them.

But, here we are, with DOGE running rampant across the government breaking things that could take decades to fix. I still think that This Is It. You just can’t unring the MAGA bell. We’re in a new age and either we become a Russian-style legalistic autocracy or we go through a bumpy patch and….a Third Republic is founded.

At the moment, I just don’t know which outcome is going to happen.

What If You Held Massive Protests Against Trump & The Press Didn’t Care

by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner

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.

You Can’t Unring A Bell

by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner

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.

‘I, (AI) Trump’

by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner

I hear Elon Musk is trying to make Grok a conservative. The paranoid in me fears that Grok will be infused with Trump’s personality and one day it will be hooked up to the government and Trump will live forever in the digital sphere.

Stranger things, and all that.

That seems our fate. It seems as though we’re just never going to get rid of that motherfucker Trump. He’s going to become an ASI and rule the world under the principles of MAGA.

I wish this would just my usual historical doom shit, but that definitely seems the future we’re rushing towards.

Recipe For Disaster

by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner

House Republicans want to gut the social safety net to pay for massive tax cuts for plutocrats. This transfer of wealth is a recipe for disaster. In general, the more income inequality there is, the greater the chance for severe social disruption.

Now, remember, all of this is happening in the context of the rise of AI. It could be that the powers that be will use AI Androids to control not just the United States but the entire world. That might be our dystopian future.

But the fact remains that the second half of the 2020s could be extremely disruptive. In a way that leaves the old order in rubble and a new age being founded.

The 2025 – 2035 timeframe could see not just WW3, but a Singularity happen and who knows what the world will look like on the other side. So, lulz? All I know is that Trump and Musk are ringing a bell that can’t be unrung and something new, a new era is going to rise one way or another.

‘Implosion’

by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner

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.

I’m not dead yet, as they say.

#ETTD: Kennedy Center Edition

by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner

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.

Jesus Christ, Are Things Dark

by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner

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.

Blue Leadership Is Failing Us

by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner

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

by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner

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.