Bring out your dead

Predictions for the demise of American empire

Nov 08, 2024

This publication is supposed to be about human progress. For now it seems my adopted homeland has decided to do the opposite of that. I plan to be here as a witness and scribe.

Let us begin.

The dark future of American empire in decline begins with Trump’s potential Attorney General vowing to drag opponent’s bodies through the streets.1 That sets the tone for a second Trump term. Editing of the enemies’ list is furious and ongoing.

The misogynists, racists, and fascists are ready to show us their entirety now. The ugly has been put on display.

The above tweet from a hate-filled fascist named Nick Fuentes2 is representative of what Trump’s second term will be characterized by. Those of you on the left who keep advocating for dialog should take a moment to reflect on what your opposition believes. There will be no peace until the left is willing to wield power. We have the majority, and we have the morality. Time to fight for it, if there is ever going to be a time.

For now, they won. For now, they can be who they always were, except with more power, and more stolen “legitimacy.” Congratulations to the monsters masquerading as humans. The statistical chances of our species self-destructing just rose exponentially.

Many of my readers are aware that I think religion poisons society. Trump is in power for the second time because of religion. While he himself is completely non-religious, his followers are devoted to their sky daddy, and in their minds, Trump is his agent here on earth. This has real-world consequences. For most people, they will be disastrous.

From the Freedom From Religion Foundation

Declaring that “people tell me that God spared my life for a reason,” President-elect Trump announced: “That reason was to save our country.” Trump added, “America has given us an unprecedented and powerful mandate. I will govern by a simple motto: promises made, promises kept.”
What are those promises? And what do they mean for the work of the Freedom From Religion Foundation? Whether Trump favors the lesser-known playbook of the America First Policy Institute, “poised to be more influential than Project 2025,” according to the New York Times, or the 900-plus page playbook created by the Heritage Foundation & Co., we know Trump will be working with extremists and Christian nationalists ready to undermine America’s democratic principles — including the constitutional principle of separation between state and church.
Below is a quick review of Trump’s “promises” and how they affect our work:
“Make America pray again.”Trump has promised that one of his first acts as president will be to set up a task force to root out “anti-Christian bias” and protect “pro-God context and content.”
“We don’t worship government, we worship God.” Trump’s remarks, previously as president and then as candidate, have repeatedly undermined the constitutional principle of separation between state and church.
Ten Commandments and bibles in public schools. Trump has endorsed posting the Ten Commandments in public schools, something FFRF is in court fighting in Louisiana. FFRF is also suing with a coalition in Oklahoma over Superintendent of Public Instruction Ryan Walters’ bid to spend $6 million buying Trump bibles to distribute to all classrooms there.
A universal voucher system. As a candidate Trump has not only promised to eliminate the Department of Education, but has also proposed up to $10,000 a year per child in taxpayer money on private education or homeschooling. He also supports Education Savings Accounts, or ESAs, allowing families to divert a designated amount of per-student spending to pay for religious schooling or homeschooling. “If Trump wins, count on continued culture wars, school vouchers and a fixation on ending the federal Department of Education,” warns education scholar Josh Cowen, who recently addressed FFRF’s national convention.
Trump may target nonbelievers. He announced last year: “Together, we’re warriors in a righteous crusade to stop the arsonists, the atheists, globalists and the Marxists — and that’s what they are — and we will restore our republic as one nation under God with liberty and justice for all.” We already know he has promised to restore bans on Muslims traveling here, which FFRF opposed in amicus briefs after he imposed this unconstitutional religious test during his first presidency.
Attacking the Johnson Amendment.Trump will resume his promulgation of “alternative facts” against the Johnson Amendment, which bars tax-exempt donations from being used for partisan electioneering by churches and other nonprofits. We expect him to continue signing executive orders, such as his prior “Religious Liberty Executive Order” and many other mandates intended to dismantle the Establishment Clause’s prohibitions on uniting religion and government, particularly mandates allowing religious exemptions against discrimination.
Christian nationalist cabinet and judicial appointments. FFRF’s legislative team is prepared to vet and oppose Trump’s expected cabinet appointments of “foxes” to guard the chicken coop as well as extremist judicial appointments, as he did in his past presidency.
Abolishing abortion. Trump’s prevarications on abortion notwithstanding, FFRF is expecting his Christian nationalist handlers to push hard to abolish abortion nationally. As this is written, we await word on whether Democrats will lose the House and if Trump will control Congress, where his supporters seek to ban medication abortion nationally and enforce the zombie Comstock Act of 1873 to close abortion clinics. We know one of Trump’s opening acts, as it was in his first presidency, will be to reimpose the Gag Rule barring foreign entities receiving U.S. funds from using their own funds to provide information on abortion care.
Erasing trans individuals. Trump campaigned on promises on day one to “revoke” existing policies supporting health care for transgender people, including signing an executive order instructing federal agencies to stop all programs promoting the concept of sex and gender transition at any age. He would terminate federal funding for any hospitals and medical personnel providing health care to transgender youth. He also vowed to pass a bill establishing that the United States only recognizes “male and female” as assigned at birth, thereby erasing transgender and nonbinary people out of existence. He told believers at the Faith & Freedom 2024 convention: “I will take historic action to defeat the poison of left-wing gender ideology and restore the timeless truth that God created two genders, male and female.”
Extremist playbooks. Among the almost 300 executive orders the America First Policy Institute has already drafted for Trump’s signature are orders defunding Planned Parenthood, requiring mandatory ultrasounds before abortions — including medication abortions, and establishing legally that there are only two genders.
If the Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025 prevails, we already know its proposals would unite church and state by:
Infusing “the pursuit of Blessedness” into every level of government. (Page 13)
Dismantling nondiscrimination protections for LGBTQ-plus Americans. (Pages 333, 375 and 548)
Mandating a “biblically based” definition of marriage and family. (Pages 477–482)
Dismantling civil rights protections in the name of “religious liberty,” providing a license to discriminate. (Page 494)
Allowing religious employers to discriminate against employees based on beliefs. (Page 586)
Turning the Department of Health and Human Services into the “Department of Life.” (Page 489)
Gutting overtime laws while establishing Sunday as “the Sabbath” and forcing employers to pay overtime on Sunday. Because “God ordained the Sabbath as a day of rest.” (Page 589)3

In addition to having various flavors of American gods and kings shoved down your throat and the throats of your children and other relatives, there are other changes likely to be arriving soon.

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Predictions for what is coming:

MAGA 2.0 will eat just as many fascists as innocents. Fascism is parasitic and self-defeating in the long-term.
Draconian religious legislation will be passed and written into law. A national denomination like the Church of England will be formed. Evangelicals will attempt to force mandatory attendance. The end goal is compliance and obedience.
The federal government will begin implementing a national control infrastructure designed to monitor and control access to the Internet. Expect national restrictions on content that was once taken for granted.
The conspiracy theorists who have been claiming for decades that interment camps for political dissidents are being built all over the country will finally be proven right. Pay attention to what happens to Liz Cheney, Mitt Romney, Jack Smith, and hundreds of others who had the courage to stand up to a con man who wanted to be a dictator. He has what he so desperately lied, cheated, and stole to get. Trump is a dictator in waiting now.
Trump’s criminal cases will disappear and he will pardon himself of his existing convictions.
Those who have been or are against MAGA will be arrested and disposed of by various means.
Trump will not survive through the end of his second term. If he does not die of natural causes he will be disposed of for failing to be a useful enough idiot.
JD Vance will prove far more competent and evil than Trump when he takes power. Vance will also be better at bowing to his oligarch handlers.
Project 2025’s implementation will cause nationwide riots. The protests that happened during Trump’s first term will seem tiny and insignificant in comparison.
Hate crimes will rise exponentially.
Disinformation and misinformation will rise exponentially.
The military will schism as immoral and unconstitutional orders are given and carried out. The fracturing of the military will destabilize democracy globally.
Federal and state institutions, especially those that are for the purpose of providing a social safety net, will be gutted and dismantled, resulting in the 1% gaining wealth and the bottom 50% being subjected to increased scarcity and preventable suffering.
Climate change will continue to spiral and weather events worldwide will become increasingly catastrophic.
States will attempt to secede. The country could splinter into autonomous regions.
The second American civil war is going to happen before the end of the decade.
The European Union will form a new defense bloc absent the United States. NATO will splinter and disintegrate. Russia and China, among others, will attempt to fill the power vacuum.
Prices for food, fuel, and everything else will begin to spike as social unrest and upheaval cause hyperinflation. Rationing is likely.
Human rights, insofar as US power can be projected, will become a thing of the past.
Global conflict will increase exponentially.

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The predictions above are just that. Guesses based on what I think I know through the lens of history, and from paying attention to what the fascists are saying.

I do not know how this will end. No one does. But everyone could see it coming, if they were paying attention. Tens of millions of Americans voted for it. They are my enemy, and they are yours. The time for civil disobedience is here, and the time to throw off the chains of a broken two-party system was long ago.

If we cannot band together now to demand and fight for a better future, we never will, and humanity will pass into oblivion by its own stupidity and ignorance.

Be resolute, and no matter what you have to give to the cause of undoing the evil that is upon us, be ready to give it. The sky is actually falling, and it will become dark if we do not light up the night.

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