Days of Thunder

Trump’s inauguration was shock and awe.

In his speech he echoed Oliver Cromwell’s address to the Long Parliament, the first Thermidor in the history of English speaking people against the first left singularity. Did he know he was echoing it? Has he been at the history books? Probably at least some of those around him have.

But Oliver Cromwell’s coup against the long parliament was only the beginning. Cromwell had the upper hand, but the government just kept on getting lefter anyway, until he dissolved the Rump Parliament.

It has begun, but is far from over. People were stunned to see that the executive order rescuing the J6 hostages and the executive order stopping the invasion took effect immediately “Huh, you can just do that?”

Upcoming crises: Avoiding War with China, Russia, and the enemies of Israel, organising an orderly and dignified retreat of the Global American Empire from the Globe to its natural ocean borders. Making the decree that there are only two sexes, and these determined before birth, stick. Making the anchor baby executive order, constitutional amendment by executive order, stick. And of course, the unexpected. Things are going to happen that should have been foreseen, but were not.

It is normality bias to think that the upcoming Supreme court case on anchor babies matters. Whether these executive orders have actual effect is going to be resolved in a different way.

Augustus Caesar had military victory and death squads, and it still took him twelve years to get the Roman government in order. Trump has none of those, but he has made an impressive start.

We have long said that America’s problems are coup complete. When Trump was president, but not in power, and the presidency was in power, we often said that Trump should perform an autogolpe against the presidency. Trump has issued a pile of executive orders against the presidency, which look very like an autogolpe. That the border orders and the hostage rescue took effect makes it likely that the autogolpe will take effect. But, on the other hand, even after sending most of the long parliament home, Cromwell found it heavy going, and so did Augustus Caesar.

If Trump’s decrees subjecting the presidency to the president stick, all his decrees will stick, including constitutional amendment by presidential decree. If they do not, none of them will stick. I am still keeping my head down because I do not want to be J6ed.

I have long predicted that the resolution of this crisis will take place in a bloody and dreadful manner, and I still predict it will take place in a bloody and dreadful manner, but the very worst outcomes, hot genocide of legacy Americans and nuclear war, have just become considerably less likely.