At this point I doubt Jackboots, swasticas, or gas chambers would make a difference.

Take care of your loved ones.

And if wishes were fishes there would be no room in the ocean for water.

You aren’t wrong, but “could” is doing some heavy lifting.

Back during Trump’s first term I would hear people saying “this country is going to fall into civil war” and I told my friends “we are nowhere near a civil war.” Because the conditions were not there. It takes a huge buildup to move people to organized violence. You have to have thousands and in the US case millions or at least 100s of thousands of people willing to kill and die for a cause and we didn’t have that, and still don’t.

But the pandemic came and we saw half the country couldn’t be bothered to wear a mask or get a vaccine to protect their neighbors and the other half saw that outpouring of collective psychopathy and realized that their neighbors were willing to risk their lives and the lives of their family and community to “own the libs” and we moved a step closer.

But you can’t have a civil war like the 1800’s today, there aren’t bright geographical lines of loyalty. I predicted in the Biden administration that we would see a period of rising violence scattered across the country, like bleeding Kansas, but spread all over.

And that is exactly what we are seeing.

We still aren’t at the point where we could fall into civil war, but we are closer every year. Trump is doing his damndest to create the conditions.

I pray we never get that far. Civil wars are the worst short of full on genocide, and they make the big G a whole lot more likely.

According to other headlines they already have IDF soldiers refusing to deploy to Gaza and going to prison instead. The Nazis invented the gas chambers because shooting crowds of civilians was leaving their SS troopers disabled with PTSD. they need to gamify it to provide some psychological cover for their grunts to finish the job.

If nothing else the fall in birth rates world-wide will lead to political instability.

If they can maintain the infrastructure of wealth without workers they won’t care what people do, and if they can’t then the surveillance will collapse with the supply chains.

Either way there is an other side to this dark tunnel, not without suffering and death, but there is still hope for resistance to the new facism.

Here in the US most schools gave up trying to ban phones in the 2010’s.

Dems control districting of fewer seats than reps. That’s just a path to permanent minority rule by the reps.

Now there is a path of escalation I had no anticipated. The Republican federal judges rule the cali maps unconstituonal, Cali goes forward anyway because the 10th amendment and that ruling is patent bullshit. Then Republicans refuse to seat the Cali delegation to Congress, essentially seizing power.

That would set the hair of neoliberals on fire.

Begining of the end? Nah, these seeds were planted by Nixon, they sprouted under Reagan, Bush watered them, Trump is just harvesting them.

Realistically, Clinton, Obama, and Biden watered them too, just not as generously.

The supreme court, which has nothing to say as trump dismantles the US government, will suddenly stop any action by a Democrat, should one ever attain the white house. (Or any other non-psychotic president). Any change must include removal of those corrupt individuals from their place of power.

The strong do as they please and the weak suffer what they must.

Not gonna stop until they find out how that worked for the Athenians.

We need a few more sherifs like 'Ol Smiling Cid Hatfield.

Oh absolutely.

Laws have never stopped him before.

Honestly, with the right propaganda it won’t take that long.

That’s insufferable by European standards but heaven by Arizona standards.

Culdesac is a word for a stretch of street that has no through way, a dead end. The only reason to drive into it is if you are going to one of the houses.

Honestly, once I was on HRT for a while, just tuck everything away works even in a bikini. I have never done a proper tuck with a gaff because before HRT I used specific clothing styles that didn’t need it, and after it just hasn’t been necessary.

Ranked choice voting is a good idea, but time will not save us. Millenians are shifting right, just a decade behind other generations.

Impeachment is worthless without a supermajority in the Senate.

I didn’t specify party. Congress could remove him, the Republican Senators refuse to do so.

I don’t think, if they voted to impeach, the FBI and capitol police would be like “nah, we are keeping him.”

I could be wrong, but I doubt it.