This is my third blog for 2025, and I must admit that by the end of March, we knew that the Trump administration would do a lot of damage in the next two years. This is because they are already at it, taking a blow-torch and a chain-saw to the administrative state that so many people rely on. What is happening is pure Project 2025, and it is everything that the Democrats warned us it would be. They told us these things would happen, but a strategic part of the population didn’t listen. So, they voted in the worst person to ever occupy the Oval Office. Trump 2.0 is fueled by retribution, grievance, callowness, and greed. Elon Musk, the unelected co-president, is seen to be the front man to ensure that the wealthy donor class are the absolute winners, and the rest of us will just get screwed over. Any suggestion that Elon will give up his power and leave the oval office is patently false - he has too many vested interests to keep track on.
Speaking of graft and corruption, it would seem that Trump has no inhibitions about showing the nation and the world that he can be bought and sold. His bit coin introduction is garnering him billions of dollars, and the Qatari flying palace 747 plane gift will fall to him when he leaves office, not to mention all of the quid pro-quo transactions, and the pardons for purchase, the pro-bono lawfirm extravaganzas not to mention the tariffs, with their off-again and on-again impulsive changes, the associated stock market ups and downs, and those insiders who are profiting off of it. Compared to his first term level of corruption, we are seeing a landslide of graft and corruption on a scale unimaginable in a public servant, let alone a president. Throw in the tax break for billionaires, and you got an administration that any uber wealthy person would have to love and call their own.
Still, those who are being hurt by this administration, or will be hurt, include many of the fools who voted for Trump and his lick-spittle Republican panderers. Voters wanted a change, they wanted the economy to improve so they could financially get ahead, and where the price of eggs would drop. They collectively fear the “Other,” and they feel it’s okay to callously encourage officials to hurt the helpless and powerless, such as immigrants, people of color, gays, lesbians and trans-genders. What will happen is actually the inverse of all these peoples’ hopes, since everyone will get to experience a deep economic recession, the abrogation of laws, the elimination of the safety-net, and rampant inflation. That will come back on those who voted for Trump. There won’t be any government assistance to mitigate these disasters, and if an avian-flu virus pandemic hits us, we will be thoroughly screwed. The only thing that these voters will see that would give them some measure of satisfaction will be in the cruel treatment of migrant workers, undocumented immigrants, legal asylum seekers, and even documented immigrants and green card holders. As ICE begins its sweeping deportation exercise, many will be swept up, including those who are citizens born in this country. The prices of everything that undocumented workers do, from picking fruit and vegetables, to cleaning, fixing, painting and building, will suddenly be too expensive.
It is obvious that much of this change in direction will harm whole groups of Americans, and not just the people that racists and bigots impugn. Everyone, except the ultra-wealthy, which is the “donor” class, will get hurt by the cruel actions and mindless fumbles of the current Trump regime. We were warned, but the majority of people still voted for Trump. Now all of us will suffer because of the blind stupidity of this ignorant majority. The Republicans have around two years to do what they will to wreck the country and install an authoritarian regime, and then, if they are unsuccessful, they will likely lose their majority in the House and possibly even the Senate. Local elections will turn against them as well, and even some red states might finally be liberated from Trump intoxicated, craven Republican politicians. However, if they succeed, then we are in for a long dark period of American history. Whatever happens, it will be a long, long two years, and even if the house and senate are turned, the wreckage to our nation and even to the world will take its toll on millions of people. It will takes years, if even the damage can be fixed, and the world will continue on without American’s shining light of liberty and democracy to guide them, however imperfect.
When a person makes an emotionally based decision, like voting for a president, it’s difficult to admit that they were wrong. They will dig in, make excuses, blame everyone else to assuage their guilt, and never admit that they aided and abetted the worst sort of people to win an election. All of this horror show has arrived on the national scene and is unveiling itself for everyone to see, and there is nowhere to run and hide from the fact that quite a number of people acted in a selfish and stupid manner last November. I will feel compassion for everyone’s confusion, fear and pain, but I won’t forget nor forgive what a group of really knuckle-headed people did when they voted to elect Donald Trump for a second term.
That's where we're presently at due to the degraded state of the Republican party. That's the result of what Republican voters chose. Republicans primaried Trump and Republican voters PURPOSELY CHOSE HIM. Today, there's not a single Republican legislator who will choose country over party. None! This is because they all fear the MAGA voters, who will turn on them unless they continue to swear allegiance to their Dear Leader, Donald J. Trump. Cross the boss, and they could be primaried at least, or even violently accosted or assassinated. Which brings me to propose that these times and this turn of events be given the acronym FAFO. People voted for Trump as a joke, or a protest, or to put a thumb into the eye of the so-called liberal establishment for everything that the government has done from the pandemic until just last year. This acronym is revealed as the phrase “Fuck Around, and Find Out” and we are living it every day that Trump is in office.
We’ll see how this plays out. I hope and pray that we as a nation can recover from this terrible and foolish self-inflicted wound. Will we still have a republic in four years? Will the Trump regime’s mendacity and incompetence ensure their failure? I truly hope so, since the future peace and prosperity of the world relies on the American people to fix what they have broken, since not to do so will ensure that the future will be dark, desperate, and dangerous.
Do you think that as Witches, Pagans, and ritual magicians, this has nothing to do with you? That politics is irrelevant to our work in the magical religious arts? What happens to the most vulnerable in our society is a reflection on what could ultimately happen to anyone. As members of a small minority, we are a vulnerable group of people, especially to the empowered and active hoards of Christian Nationalists. There was a time when heretics were publicly executed, and in a period of chaos and the abrogation of civil society, those times could return. We have been warned, and may we yet be part of the resistance and the solution rather than the victims of the political storms to come.
Frater Barrabbas
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