Like, yeah, they can ‘get away with’ ending soft power. They can ‘get away with’ extrajudicial killings. They’re operating off of pure machismo right now. They’re getting drunk on their vices. They’re stripping masks where masks wouldn’t be advised to be stripped. I feel like I understand now that Fascism is, in part, an expression of weakness. They wouldn’t be doing this unless they were scared. It’s too volatile. It feels both too late on a power-level and too early on a popular-level. Never mind the ticking time bomb that is AI data centers. It feels like, and I’m sure this is cope, there is a timer on their ability to run the circus much longer.
My first instinct here is to doubt myself, intellectual pessimism and all. In that vein, maybe this is just revolutionary optimism, but we’re at the point where it feels like there is a palpable anger brewing in the basement. I don’t know. Maybe Palantir works as an anti-communist panopticon and we just death spiral forever. I don’t want to lose hope.
I’ve said it from the beginning: these people will be undone by their own virtuosic incompetence. Give them enough rope, and they’ll hang themselves. Right now, the MAGA Morons are trying to figure out how to tie the noose, but they’ll get it eventually.
The only problem is the amount of damage they’ll do before they finally collapse under their own stupidity.
As an outsider, right now I would say Steven Miller and Rubio are the most competent and “normal” by US standards. They will likely survive in the post Trump era and lead a republican minority until their moment comes. They will also criticize Mamdani in NYC.
Rubio may get out of this, but not PeeWee Himmler. He will be lucky if he survives this with just a jail cell.
And of course they’re going to criticize Mamdani. Nobody fucking cares what those morons think of him especially Mamdani himself.
I will be very interested if he faces prosecution in the future. How well is the US in punishing corrupted politicians in general, are there precedent cases that show the system has teeth against people in power after Epstein?
Sooner or later Mamdani will be confronted with them as a popular opposition symbol.