th<\/sup> 2025<\/i><\/p>\nIt really does feel like March 1933, doesn\u2019t it? Hitler has just seized power. In America, the country is teetering on the verge of collapse, and a dozen states are no longer accepting US currency, opting for state script instead. A third of the banks have collapsed, and millions are starving, desperate, homeless. The Republicans are saying the poor are refusing to buy food or pay rent in order to punish the rich. A new guy, an affable and seemingly shallow New York pol named Roosevelt is about to be inaugurated, and the same people beating their breasts over starving children refusing to keep millionaires comfortable are warning the country will collapse, banks will fail, and people will suffer greatly\u2014just like they did under Republicans, only they leave that last bit out and hope nobody notices. Meanwhile, Japan has expanded over much of west Asia and is making little effort to conceal its plans for the Philippines, Indonesia, and even Australia.<\/p>\n
We\u2019re at about January 1933 if the parallels hold up. Things are bad and look to get far worse in the near future.<\/p>\n
American voters were seduced by an unholy coalition of plutocrats and zealots, who gleefully encouraged people to be their worst. Hate immigrants, gay and trans people, liberals, non-Christians and anyone with a good education. They believe such ridiculous lies as immigrants have a higher crime rate and eat people\u2019s cats and dogs; gays and trans are forcing children to have sex-change operations in secret, liberals want us all to live in caves and hug trees, and non-Christians are completely amoral and most are terrorists. And worst of all, the educated sneer at morons and use big words. It\u2019s why flat earthers hate astrophysicists.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s not really a surprise that a crowd like that would vomit up a con artist, a rapist, a philanderer and a felon to the oval office\u2014again. What is shocking is that there are so many Low People (as Stephen King once famously referred to them as) that they could do it. I think a lot of fundamentalists are correct that only God can make people good. Take anyone who thinks that only an invisible, silent sky pixie in his head stops him from stealing, raping, cheating and killing, and give him permission to be a scumbag in the name of god and country, and you end up with a depressingly large number of scumbags.<\/p>\n
How low? Well, look at the politicians who watched the Los Angeles fires and thought to themselves, \u201cHey, I can use that to blackmail the country into doing what I want!\u201d Sure, they\u2019ll provide aid. But they want \u2026 conditions.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s about as low as an American politician can possibly sink. Donald Trump is one of those politicians, of course, but that\u2019s no surprise. There are mob bosses, serial killers and CEOs with more principles and decency. A lot of it comes from states that California has sent many billions of dollars helping after disasters, such as Florida. Rep. Byron Donalds (R-Scumsuckers) said, \u201cI believe that if a state is so grossly mismanaged that the initial disaster is not quickly contained, then we have a responsibility to do common-sense things.\u201d OK, but remember your whole fucking state is going to be underwater by the end of the century, and you\u2019ll be begging for our help. \u201cRebuild maybe so that the conditions are such that the threat from fire is lessened so that we won\u2019t have to do it again,\u201d added Rep. Carlos Gim\u00e9nez (R-Mewling Hypocrites). Have you asked California for aid in hardening your structures against hurricanes, Carly? Oh, and what\u2019s your stance on immigrants? Ready to throw those whiny ungrateful Cubans out?<\/p>\n
At least Florida, like California, contributes more in revenues to the country then it gets back. It\u2019s small compared to the $85-120 billion California overpays, but at least Florida carries its own weight. The loudest whiners come from pauper states that take far more than they give back. Speaker Mike Johnson (R-Blub blub blub), a shell of a man emptied by toxic religion and subservience to Donald Trump, indignantly demands conditions. Say, Mike, how much did California demand in return for helping after Katrina? Or any of the other dozens of catastrophes your state has suffered?<\/p>\n
Gavin Newsom said of Trump last year, \u201cEverything was a transaction against his own citizens.\u201d<\/p>\n
Indeed. Well, expect more of that. Trump is out to punish anyone who didn\u2019t vote for him. States, individuals, it doesn\u2019t matter. He feels victimized because people hate him for being a hateful person, and he is out for revenge. It\u2019s all very noble, you know.<\/p>\n
But Trump and his followers have various weaknesses to exploit. The MAGAts and zealots are of a fundamentalist mindset, and are rapidly developing factions and schisms over such issues as whether there are \u201cgood immigrants\u201d versus the regular kind, or how much government should be destroyed. (Most, but far from all, are smart enough to want to keep the parts of government they benefit from.) Those can be exploited. The billionaires have a united front right now, but wait until they start seeing others getting favored treatment, whether they actually are or not.<\/p>\n
And finally, Trump himself has myriad weaknesses. He\u2019s vain and cowardly. He just moved his inauguration inside and semi-private, supposedly because of cold weather (24F, or -5C, but who could have guessed it would be cold in January?) but I suspect he feared a small crowd would be there, or worse, a large unfriendly crowd from the 100,000 strong demonstration held two days before. He also doesn\u2019t hesitate to screw over his helpers and followers. He\u2019s infamous for that. Tens of thousands of people spend large amounts of money-in some cases life savings\u2014to bear witness to his glorious restoration to the throne, only to have him cancel just 36 hours prior. Even the given reason was stupid. And threatening America\u2019s best allies seems like a really dumb idea, especially given the quality of the few \u201cworld leaders\u201d who do support him in Russia, China, Hungary or North Korea.<\/p>\n
And you\u2019re seen the quality of his cabinet and other position nominees. You could find a better collection of people in the county drunk tank on a Saturday night with a full moon. Criminals, bankrupts, white supremacists, conspiracy nuts and fools. It\u2019s like each was made from a shaving off Donald Trump himself.<\/p>\n
Lastly, there\u2019s Trump\u2019s competence. Or lack thereof. His followers are going to be very upset that many of his \u201cfirst day\u201d promises are vaporware, idiot ideas aimed at angry morons. His followers, as is usually the case, will be the first to get hit by his supposed brainstorms. Pissing off an angry, ignorant mob that has already been artificially riled up by propaganda seems like a really dumb idea.<\/p>\n
As for the rest of us, resist in any way possible. Be rude. Be firm. Make life as difficult as possible for these idiots. And maybe we can salvage the country by doing so.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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