Not gonna see campus rebellions like  1968 this time round.  By targeting the immigrants and foreign students, Trump has successfully put the fear of deportation and imprisonment in the people protesting.  This has divided the community into a them and us situation, demonizing the foreigners.  During Vietnam, protesters might get arrested, but they weren't being deported to jails in El Salvador.  The risks this time around are substantially larger.

I suspect with Peaceful Protest now off the table, we'll see a rise in bombings and violent actions to draw attention to the plight of the Palestinians.  This in turn will result in even more repression.  Civil War seems inevitable.



At Columbia University, Trump's crackdown chills a fervent campus

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/columbia-university-protests-trump-crackdown-rcna198016

This could become a very BIG problem very quickly.  If they are already   falling apart after just a couple of weeks, what's it gonna look like in a couple of months?  Beyond that, is there any way to stop the chaos before it spins out of control?

Besides being malicious, the even bigger problem is that Musk & Trump are incompetent and have no clue how to administer a goobermint.  Thee Yes Men Trump surrounds himself with are equally clueless.

Civil War may arrive sooner than expected.

Elon Musk's DOGE Cuts Are Crashing Social Security

https://newrepublic.com/post/193134/social-security-falling-apart-elon-musk-doge-cuts

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For our post-truth word, some fiction:

The Privatized and Fascist States of America

The year was 2029. The American Experiment had ended.  Not with a bang, but corporate acquisition has trumped all freedom.

Following Donald Trump's re-election in 2024, the U.S. government underwent a radical transformation. With Elon Musk as Chief Efficiency Officer, Trump's unofficial but all-powerful special government employee, the new administration began the largest privatization scheme in history. Agencies deemed "inefficient" were sold to the highest bidder. Social Security was acquired by Meta. The U.S. Postal Service? is replaced by Tesla Logistics. The Federal Reserve is gone and a new digital currency run by an AI, " $TRUMP dollars" takes its place.  With a picture of the smiling orange motherfucker on every god-dammed digital wallet.  This is required by law.

At first, markets surged. Investors celebrated. America became a corporate utopia, innovation replaced bureaucracy and stimulus checks squelched any resistance to Trump's profit of plunder.

By 2026, cracks began to show. California and New York, resisting federal mandates and the surging poverty, declared economic independence, refusing to recognize the authority of the newly privatized government.  California became fully independent while Texas unlike the rest of America, thrived. 

Fully embracing Musk's vision of a decentralized, crypto-backed society based on cultivated economic disparity, Texas became the go to place for slave labor and tax free profit.  The Texas economy boomed at the same time interstate trade collapsed.

Basic services became subscription-based. Water in Arizona became a premium commodity controlled by Amazon Aquatics.  Any emergency medical care required a Platinum + membership.  Nothing was free and Trump instituted an air tax on anybody deemed a useless eater.  $50 a month if your net worth was less than $1,000,000 or if your politics were considered "progressive".  The tax became known as the "progressive tax",  but nobody who had to pay it thought it was funny.

By 2028, Washington D.C. was an abandoned husk, its marble monuments covered by corporate branding. Power had moved to Austin, where Trump, Musk, and their billionaire council presided over the fragmented remains of a once-united nation, fully protected by their mercenary armies of private police.

Their Privatized States of America restored the age of great robber barons.  For a small few America was great once again.

But not everyone was happy with the changes. A resistance movement, inspired by abandoned and outdated ideals of democracy and fueled by daddy issues with the big orange daddy, emerged in the Rust Belt.

Led by ex-government officials and the legion of unemployed.  The resistance sought to reestablish a public government, battling AI-controlled security forces and corporate mercenary forces. Their leader, a former postal worker named Hope Dashed, spread propaganda through underground networks.  Distributing printed pamphlets which urged Americans to reject their status as "subscribers" and reclaim their rights as citizens.

California its own nation began to launch its own communication satellites unwilling to pay the Musk nut for use of Starlink in 2028.  A direct challenge to Musk's dominance Starlink satellites went dark in an attempt to bring California into submission as had been done successfully to Canada.  Armed skirmishes erupted along the Mississippi in the ensuing chaos.  The Mississippi is a de facto border between privatized corporate states and free territories.

Now as the battle for America's rages on, one question looms.

Will America find its way back from the brink, or is it destined to follow the Soviet Union's path.   Fragmented, leaderless, impoverished, and lost to history?

It appears to be so.  Millions now die.

Can't win in the courts?  Get rid of them!

Fascism on steroids.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/26/mike-johnson-congress-courts-trump

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The social security system in Greenland includes:

    Public pensions for retirees and disabled individuals
    Unemployment benefits for those who qualify
    Healthcare coverage under a publicly funded system
    Family and child benefits, including parental leave and childcare support

Though benefits aren't as generous as in Denmark, they are still more secure than many U.S. states.

Greenland: Public pension system ensures a basic income for seniors, regardless of work history.  In the U.S. Social Security provides a pension based on work history.  Benefits depend on how much one has paid in.  There is universal access to pensions in Greenland, but In the U.S., people receive little or no Social Security if they haven't paid in.

Greenland: Parental leave policies exist, though not as generous as Denmark, child benefits are available.  In the U.S. there is no guaranteed paid parental leave, it depends on employer policy.  Any paid parental leave is better than the U.S.'s lack of guaranteed leave.

Greenland: Free education, including university options in Denmark.  In the U.S. only public school is free.  College is expensive, and student debt is common.  Greenland education comes without a massive debt burden.

But as they must have the COVID brain damage in Greenland like everywhere else, they must be standing in line to bend the knee to Trump.


The Greenlanders 4 Trump theme song.

How many hotels are there in Greenland?  They should refuse to book them any rooms.  Or they could refuse them entry at customs.  Although maybe having anti-Trump demonstrations everywhere they go would make for better newz footage.

It's pretty clear the only way Trump gets Greenland is by some kind of military maneuver and unilateral annexation.  The question is whether he is unhinged enough to do that?  Them if he did how would CONgress react, and would the Generals follow the order?

Denmark should station at least one military unit to protect the Greenland goobermint offices.  Force a firefight if an invasion happens.

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/03/24/greenland-trump-00246587

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Quote from: K-Dog on Mar 23, 2025, 06:32 PM

But if you have the money to flee Trump, do you really have to worry about him??  I jest.  But as a member of fight club.  If I left I might miss an opportunity to serve if I left.

Well, given my physical limitations I'm not of much use out on the street so my fighting has to be done with words, which I can write from anywhere.  The pen is mightier than the sword, or updated for the 21st century, the keyboard is mightier than the Kalishnikov! 

Quote* Trump announces sale of $5 million citizenship 'Gold Card' to pay down national deficit.

Does this mean we will be able to sell our citizenship and skip out?  $5 million and I'll find somewhere to go.

Problem there is finding a buyer.  Do you think anyone with $5M would want to spend it on an FSoA citizenship?  You can get a New Zealand citizenship for I recall reading $500K.  Frankly I bet Trumpolini is even killing tourism here from the rich Europeans.  Many countries are issuing warnings against travel to the FSoA now.  You could arrive in JFK and get deported immediately to a prison in El Salvador.

If I could just trade passports with somebody, I'd trade my FSoA Passport for a NZ  or Irish one.

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But if you have the money to flee Trump, do you really have to worry about him??  I jest.  But as a member of fight club.  If I left I might miss an opportunity to serve if I left.

                    Is not an option.


* Trump announces sale of $5 million citizenship 'Gold Card' to pay down national deficit.

Does this mean we will be able to sell our citizenship and skip out?  $5 million and I'll find somewhere to go.

Coming soon to a theater near you.

My vote for the Trump Fascist Resistance Anthem.

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If I wasn't a cripple, I'd definitely be looking for a new country to park my ass while I chronicle the Collapse of Industrial Civilization.   Ireland would be a top contender also, the EU part not the Brit part.  Anybody else fantasizing about GTFO of Dodge?  Where would you go?

Other top choices for me would be New Zealand and Finland.

Flight of the Trumpugees: The wealthy Americans fleeing the US for Europe

https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025/03/17/flight-of-the-trumpugees-the-wealthy-americans-fleeing-the-us-for-europe/

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