This is an interesting thread of thought. P25 undermines the C but still works within some legal framework. But NRx completely abandons such pretenses in its Sargon-esque pursuit of raw brutality and power.

I’d argue we’re already in a civil war, but I do think DJT is prob taken out by heart failure or dementia…he’s trying to do too much and the job’s already notorious for taking its toll on sensible presidents. Lord Loveseat isn’t going to inherit the following bc his charisma’s that of a couch and

bc the cult of personality DJT has was cultivated by decades of a persona crafted by a TV show, so there was always going to be a courtyard coup whenever he was gone and a War of the Roses was likely always going to subsequently occur. It’s gonna be weird bc I think it’s gonna look like very bad

corporate advertising (think like Democratic leadership trying out sanitized messaging that inspires no one) and, depending on the state of the Democratic Party (specifically its direction and leadership), the US will likely have something of a power vacuum bc of all this admin’s state destruction.

I wouldn’t be surprised if the fault lines end up breaking along the ultrawealthy trying to buy up and create company towns and challenge states to oppose them and serve as rubber stamps / a facade of legitimacy for a billionaires’ playground. But the fall of the US was

always most likely going to be a whimpering collapse into further and greater dysfunction than some blaze of glory. Geopolitically, North America’s a good place for a country as big as the US if you can control sea to sea, but otherwise the environment quickly proves challenging to control and

you prob end up with something more along a United States of Europe of varying nations of a largely similar identity, but the local and sub-national differences harden into distinct identities in a resource-scarce and competitive environment absent mutual cooperation.

I should note, this fate is far from sealed and if the US has a strong Democratic Party focused on the whole of a nation and rebuilding public goods and services and bring these ultrawealthy and megacorporate entities to heel instead of being run over roughshod by them, then I think you largely

can keep the US as is intact. The Dems were always going to fracture (imo back in 2015) it was just a matter of when, and the 2024 election might’ve been the breaking point. It’ll essentially take a new New Deal to keep the country together but the alternative is prob more clearly worse that

even ideological opponents prob have to concede it and play defense to what they see as government excesses. Doesn’t guarantee we stay on top as world leader but that’s largely a function of US policies since the fall of the Soviet Union and was always going to be a 21st century challenge for us.

Kinda feels like a better case scenario for this is more like how the end of The Wire was, but hey, even Baltimore’s gotten its crime rate down so that could serve as something of an abstract model for how we might want to go forward.

Is there a state solution? Any solution? Can we just quit the feds?

I'm not sure, I don't think we have to continue being a donor state. I do believe that was California and other donor States being kind to the rest of the United States.

What's NRx movement (I'm sure it's super bad whatever it is)

Not nice people. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_En...

It’s Dark Enlightenment. Vance is Thiel and Yarvin’s guy.

The name is literally an oxymoron.

They sound more twisted than project 2025