The situation doesn't seem extremely amenable to a traditional insurgency or uprising. The masses demand... normal order, the executive to do its fucking job, rule of law, disaster aid to be paid out in a timely manner, a coherent plan for addressing public health issues, and managed supply chains. And yet, a typical revolution would be expected to upend all of those things.Maj wrote:I've been saying since the start of this that coronavirus is the revolution we won't throw for ourselves. It remains to be seen if it succeeds because America doesn't seem like it's gonna help much.
It's one thing to do an uprising against oppression. It's quite another thing to do an uprising against incompetence. You can't burn down the post office to stop Donald Trump from defunding the post office. Or rather, you can, it just doesn't do any good.
Contrast with the gun toting morons in the anti-lockdown protests. Their position is literally less popular than belief in vampires. They have no popular support and can't overthrow anything. But they can point guns and shout at people because their goal is simply to collapse the country into anarchy. They don't care about the roads being maintained or the post office working because they are fucking idiots who think that their place in ownership class will insulate them from societal collapse somehow.
Now we have the major problem that our institutions have completely failed. The Republicans have chosen to simply refuse to remove the criminally unfit president because they simply don't want to do it. Jared is still stealing PPE from states and selling them on the black market. Our country has a remedy for this situation, but there are also veto points and the Republicans occupy enough of them that if their entire party simply chooses to support depravity and criminality over the rule of law the wheels of justice cannot and do not turn.
I genuinely don't know what the answer is. By far the fastest and cleanest way to solve this problem is to elect a Democratic majority in the senate and send Trump to jail. But that's a really long time in quarantine days - the election isn't until November and the new Senate doesn't take over until January. But Mao's successful uprising took nine years. There's no obvious path to a quicker resolution than 9 months to even put people who give a shit in charge of the country.
Nine months isn't nine years. But it's still too long. And it may well be that the regional consortiums need to step up and bypassing the incompetent federal government much sooner than that. I don't like that, because I'm not sure that that kind of decentralization is a genie you can put back in the bottle. It may be the least-bad option for the moment.
But this is what the mad emperor has been tweeting:
Just... what the actual fuck? That's the Donald trying to pretend that he didn't misspell "Nobel Prize" or that he wasn't completely confused as to which people got Nobels and which people got Pulitzers. And of course, the original wouldn't have made any sense as "sarcasm" with the prizes misnamed either. And perhaps most importantly of all, ranting about reporters being bad for having reported on his crimes would be stupid and dangerous even if he done it "correctly." Obviously the United States was never intended to have a mad emperor or a completely corrupt political party that kept the mad emperor in power despite obviously insanity, criminality, and incompetence. It's going to be a bad time no matter what.Donald Trump, literally today wrote:Does anybody get the meaning of what a so-called Noble (not Nobel) Prize is, especially as it pertains to Reporters and Journalists? Noble is defined as, “having or showing fine personal qualities or high moral principles and ideals.” Does sarcasm ever work?
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