Rebirth After Trumpism Dies
Kaplan wisely left out specific damning of Trumpism but his meaning is clear to anyone paying attention. He is essentially hoping for a rough ride and then something better. One thing is for sure….it will not be about billionaires. They are an endangered species.
After millions can no longer make ends meet, perhaps as soon as this summer, look for somebody, maybe AOC, saying out loud to the public what Chris Hedges some years ago said about FDR: that he told the rich they had better cowboy up that over 91 percent tax to pay for safety nets or there were going to be millionaires hanging from lamp posts everywhere.
I am not impressed with much of what Galloway says but sometimes he is right on.
Cannot Make This Stuff Up
I fact-checked it and it is all true. He is named after a character in a sci-fi book written by von Braun. His grandfather was an antisemite and pro-apartheid.
Get Ready
Liberals better starting preparing. Harris lost because of the price of eggs, because she was both non-white and female, and because she was not allowed to promise she would tax the rich. And that was the end of America.
The Reagan Revolution was the beginning of a cancer that killed America on election night. It took 43 years to end 248 years of democracy. Democrats have no excuse because for 22 years of the 43, over half of that time, they held office.
Getting Crazier
The straight-up fascism of Trumpism is manifesting well before they have taken the absolute power they are obviously going to replace democracy with. Shadow president Musk is revealing his “free speech absolutism” is a joke while Trump is disavowing all his reelection promises one by one.
EVERYTHING
Everything, EVERYTHING, in politics reduces to the rich evading taxes and regulations.
Long does not even have a college degree. He introduced legislation to abolish the IRS and institute a scientology-inspired 30 percent sales tax on EVERYTHING.
No taxes for the rich is on the way. No taxes at all, even though they pay very little now.
The cabinet picks are like a middle finger to Americans….basically Trump saying I am going to rob you blind, and you are such fools you will bend over and cheer. Clear evidence that America was over on election night. All Trump had to do was keep saying the radical left were the problem.
Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley.bsky.social wrote a good list and I am going to post my “big 7” version also:
No matter what the corporate elite and billionaires tell you,
Universal health care is not radical
A living wage is not radical
Affordable housing is not radical
Unions bargaining for pay and benefits is not radical
Higher education without debt is not radical
Solving Climate Change is not radical
Progressively taxing the super-wealthy is not radical
Dematerialized
Joy tells it like it is. The election was the end of America. Nothing can save us except what cannot happen: millions in the streets demanding the end of the reign of Trump and his oligarch owners. The proverbial snowball.
Near the end of June, in 2022, I wrote that, “It has become clear to any of us with any critical thinking ability that the elections are going to be a nightmare. The Christians who have not been corrupted better be ready to fight for survival. Nobody will admit that what is almost certain to happen is mass violence.” What was not clear to me but has since become so is that most Americans are more concerned about the price of eggs than saving 248 years of democracy from being thrown on the trash pile. I should have known this several years ago when a coworker expressed his unhappiness about talk of raising the minimum wage. I asked him why it made him angry, and he said it would raise the price of the breakfast burrito he bought on the way to work every morning.
When I predicted mass violence, I had thought it would be so clear that Trump would lose that he would call out the MAGA AR-15 army into the streets and there would be a civil war. It did not go that way and some weeks before the election I somehow knew Trump would win and America was over. We deserve what happens next. Materialism dematerialized our country and now we can only pray it does not progress to showers and ovens.
Xenophobia
Their first step is to stop any new non-whites from coming to America. Their second step is to enable ethnic cleansing as quickly as possible because in twenty years, guess what happens? In 2045 whites become a minority in America. The White Christian Nationalist Identitarians know their time is running out. Their third step is described in the last chapter of the Turner Diaries, their bible. After stripping away the Christian part they will exterminate all non-whites, jews, and useless eaters….from all nations. This murder of 7 billion, leaving a billion people on a “white planet”, is their final solution to all problems facing humankind. This is the goal they never talk about and will automatically deny if asked about…their innermost secret utopian fantasy that binds them together. You better believe it because they will try.
The 1 percent, the Mammon worshipers, believe they are so smart and so superior to the white supremacists that they will rule over them like ancient kings ruled over superstitious masses of peasants. They really do. Much like the industrialists and politicians in post world war one Germany thought the Nazis were just another group they could manipulate. The mistake is overlooking the tribal instinct to utterly destroy the invader, to wipe out any other tribe that is a threat. This goes back tens of thousands of years; long before money became the god of this world.
New Years Day 2025
Best video Richard has ever made IMO. He is demonized as a Marxist and should have rebranded himself decades ago. But it’s not a perfect world.
Prediction for 2025
I predict Trump will resign due to “medical reasons” sometime soon after taking office and that will begin the triumvirate of Trump-Vance-Thiel that will quickly dismantle what little is left of democracy and take permanent power. The election of Trump was the end of America. The only thing that could save America is massive civil unrest with millions in the streets before the inauguration. The proverbial snowball.