—Wiccan wisdom
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Let's say, just for laughs, that you're a Trump voter: I have a question for you!
Did you know when you voted what he was campaigning on?
No need to answer out loud, just think about it for a minute: "Hmm, did I have a solid understanding of his plans for America, or did I not have any clue at all?"
Your answer, broadly, will fall into two unsavory buckets:
- "No, I generally don't know what I'm doing from one day to the next—but by golly, I voted for him anyway!"
- "Hell yes I knew, in great, gory detail—and that's exactly why I voted for him!"
Debating whether your answer makes you a minion or a monster is a waste of time now—because the unpredictable, real-world consequences of your decision are upon us.
Trump 1.0 featured hundreds of thousands of Americans dying needlessly thanks to that administration's grotesquely incompetent handling of the pandemic. It ended (as we know since we witnessed it in real time), with an attempted coup. In America.
Trump 2.0 stands to be worse because the incoming administration has made it clear the chaos will be intentional and thorough (see Project 2025 for details).
Either way, you buy the ticket, you get the whole ride.
On a very related note, are you familiar with the US government policy of rounding up and imprisoning Americans of Japanese descent during World War II? I used to think this shameful bit of history was common knowledge, but now I'm not so sure—given that so many states have chosen to sanitize (and therefore desecrate) American history.
Little-known fact: Texas was a major hub for those WWII internment camps.
"The Texas General Land Office is offering President-elect Donald Trump a 1,400-acre Starr County ranch as a site to build detention centers for his promised mass deportations of undocumented immigrants, according to a letter the office sent him Tuesday.
"Land Commissioner Dawn Buckingham said in the Tuesday letter that her office is 'fully prepared' to enter an agreement with any federal agencies involved in deporting individuals from the country 'to allow a facility to be built for the processing, detention, and coordination of the largest deportation of violent criminals in the nation’s history.'
"The state recently bought the land along the U.S.-Mexico border in the Rio Grande Valley and announced plans to build a border wall on it. The previous owner had not let the state construct a wall there and had 'actively blocked law enforcement from accessing the property,' according to the letter the GLO sent Trump."
(Note that the prospective deportees are characterized as "violent criminals," conveniently ignoring the fact that immigrants, legal and otherwise, commit crimes at a far lower rate than "real Americans." Also, so much for due process and ensuring non-criminal, non-immigrants aren't swept up in the hysteria.)
This is just one of the many malevolent Trump 2.0 "policies" that will never make America great—but will make it apocalyptically unrecognizable.
And yet somehow, despite the fact that these camps have been variously described as unconstitutional, a grave injustice, and "utterly foreign to the ideals and traditions of the American people," — Texas now wants in on Trump's mass deportation plans, which the past and future "president" has literally promised will be bloody.
"The Texas General Land Office is offering President-elect Donald Trump a 1,400-acre Starr County ranch as a site to build detention centers for his promised mass deportations of undocumented immigrants, according to a letter the office sent him Tuesday.
"Land Commissioner Dawn Buckingham said in the Tuesday letter that her office is 'fully prepared' to enter an agreement with any federal agencies involved in deporting individuals from the country 'to allow a facility to be built for the processing, detention, and coordination of the largest deportation of violent criminals in the nation’s history.'
"The state recently bought the land along the U.S.-Mexico border in the Rio Grande Valley and announced plans to build a border wall on it. The previous owner had not let the state construct a wall there and had 'actively blocked law enforcement from accessing the property,' according to the letter the GLO sent Trump."
(Note that the prospective deportees are characterized as "violent criminals," conveniently ignoring the fact that immigrants, legal and otherwise, commit crimes at a far lower rate than "real Americans." Also, so much for due process and ensuring non-criminal, non-immigrants aren't swept up in the hysteria.)
As some may recall, Trump's first experiment in creating American concentration camps did not go well—unless you consider separating children from their parents and then losing those children in a Byzantine bureaucracy "going well."
This is just one of the many malevolent Trump 2.0 "policies" that will never make America great—but will make it apocalyptically unrecognizable.
Already, some of our friends are living in fear of what may happen in the coming months. As one said:
"Many of us may not survive this government. Stephen Miller, who’s the mastermind on immigration, has promised to 'turbocharge' denaturalization of naturalized citizens. I may personally be caught in this evil web—who knows what will happen to some of us?"
"Many of us may not survive this government. Stephen Miller, who’s the mastermind on immigration, has promised to 'turbocharge' denaturalization of naturalized citizens. I may personally be caught in this evil web—who knows what will happen to some of us?"
The slide into chaos is slow, until it's not.
And, as it'll be a long fall from Reagan's apocryphal "shining city on the hill," we should expect a wild ride to the bottom.
And, as it'll be a long fall from Reagan's apocryphal "shining city on the hill," we should expect a wild ride to the bottom.
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"May you live in interesting times."
[actually not a Chinese curse, come to find out—but a curse nonetheless]
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