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We are in an all-hands-on-deck situation. Also known as AHOD.
Many of us are low on cash, but I would argue this moment is when we most need to support one another. Sometimes, that means maybe skipping a latté or three so that starving writers can keep doing their thing to expose the truth.
It’s true that I have no guest luminaries like Michael Cohen, but I work pretty hard at this for pennies per post. I’m not complaining, other than to say I’d much rather stick to fiction, but this regime keeps forcing my hand. Make it stop by becoming a paid subscriber. I know. Counterintuitive. Everything is counterintuitive these days, is it not?
Prognosticating correctly seems to be in my DNA (sometimes I wish I’d be wrong)
Here are some posts I’ve made during the past year or so that are relevant to the current phase of our crisis:
A post about how the U.S. has emerged as a predator state.
I first wrote about Stephen Miller on Substack in September 2024, before the election, and on Medium in March 2024.
I wrote about Miller’s boss, Susie Wiles, too, long before she did her bizarre eleven interviews with Vanity Fair.
I took a deep dive into the takeover of the Supreme Court by billionaires in August 2024, also before the election. Reading this will help you understand why the Supreme Court has become the corrupt pro-Trump entity it is now.
I was a founding member of “Team Hillary Predicted All This” long ago.
When I feel a sudden urge to lose white subscribers, I’ll take a deep, painful drive into race relations, such as in this post.
Other times, I’ll let race relations color my fiction, such as in this short story, which is related to the Restive Souls timeline.
Other times, I let my frustrations with my demographic show, such as in this piece. Our lack of clarity on this topic is a big reason we are in this mess, dammit.
Want to understand the Greenland obsession? It’s all about grift, of course, as explained here.
My most recent post is mostly just two short videos that compare the thugs in Minneapolis (and L.A., Chicago, and now Maine) with the January 6 Insurrectionists, to demonstrate that the insurrectionists govern us, whether we want to admit it or not. You can’t watch the two videos without seeing the correlation between ICE and Jan Sixers.
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Satire and humor are hard these days. Most of us aren’t in the mood. For me, it releases tension in my broken brain to write a little satire. I try to remember to include trigger warnings.
My conclusions after the bootlicking event they call Davos.
Presidential grift, by the numbers
A headline that speaks for itself.
Once in a while, if my stomach is strong, I’ll do a roundup of the week’s events. If you see one of these, you know that regime-induced nausea has not yet overwhelmed me that day.
I never forget my wonderful lady friends, who are ballasts in this era of mayhem.
I also like to sometimes introduce you to the men who hate our wonderful lady friends.
Speaking of men who hate women, let’s go to Texas for this weird story about Ken Paxton’s weird divorce.
Speaking of Texas, let’s do a tour of a future Texas after it becomes an independent state.
Or this peek into a dying state.
Speaking of dying states, let’s look at what Trump Chief of Staff Susie Wiles helped accomplish in Florida.
Sometimes, it’s useful to look at the state of Texas to take a glimpse into America’s future. I’ve done that several times.
Sometimes, the future is now. I’ve talked about Project 2025 for so long that I started a publication on Medium devoted exclusively to Project 2025. It was basically ignored, and here we are, but it’s there.
The most important story on my Medium Project 2025 pub was this one: Trump Plans To Fire Federal Workers and Replace Them With a Reichstaff. (no paywall)
Check out these bullet points from the article and ask yourself how many of them I nailed:
If Trump wins the election and implements his plan for replacing traditional civil service employees with MAGA loyalists, the government will eventually be stocked with people who meet specific litmus tests:
Virulent anti-abortionism.
Climate denial.
Extreme isolationism (think Brexit on steroids, except your nation’s best friends are Putin and the occasional other dictator).
Belief in a rule of law established not by traditional constitutional considerations but by the whims of the extreme far right.
A level of extreme wealth among a few that would make Ayn Rand blush with embarrassment.
The use of AI to manipulate, through the government, public opinion (we’ve already seen this extensively by the Trump campaign).
A depleted social security and welfare system — people would be on their own if they get sick or run into catastrophic financial difficulty.
A renewed and aggressive law enforcement system designed to remove “thugs” (Black people) from the streets, deport the darker-skinned among us, and remove Muslims from American shores once and for all.
Remove due process from most law enforcement considerations.
I even made a cool logo for Project 2025. All by myself! (Michael Cohen can’t do that, I checked.)
If you really think you can find this level of prognostication and warning elsewhere, skip this next part (and I apologize that I was right, but it’s really not my fault):
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That all these prognostications have come true is a bit alarming. I track that stuff, too, like here:
I also write a lot of fiction
There’s a ton of fiction here. Explore the website to find it. Here’s a brief sample:
Can one phone alert change the world?
Even my fiction is often topical, such as this science fiction piece about a forty foot extraterrestial.
The concern about the one percent goes back a long time, all the way back to MagicLand, my first novel, along with its ancillary short stories, such as this one about The First Eradication.
And this short story, which is acts as a report from the Peter Thiel government on the status of the Third Eradication (the end of us).
Let’s hope that the prognostication in my first novel, MagicLand, which is sort of a YA (Young Adult) Romeo and Juliet story about the aftermath of the one percent’s eradication of the rest of us, doesn’t come true, but things are looking dicey.
I hate promo pieces
But if I don’t get more paid subscribers, the bottom line is that eventually I’ll move on. Nobody likes to work for ten cents an hour. That’s not a complaint. It’s not me whining. It’s just reality. I have software skills. I can do other things, even in the age of A.I. vibe coding.
And, frankly, I’m getting tired. Just like you. Maybe, after all this, the Trump regime will win its battle against my body. I doubt it, because the more they dig in, the more I do. But who knows? I’m not getting any younger. Hell, maybe if I get enough readers, they’ll just kill me. Let them. I’ll die with my fists in the air.
Thanks so much to all of you who’ve been supportive of my efforts. This includes, of course, those who have free subscriptions. I, too, can’t afford a pile of Substack subscriptions, so I get it. Thanks for all the restacks, too. I wish I had time to thank everyone who does that. But I notice it. I appreciate it.
Everything is free here except for that very rare excerpt from my upcoming novel(s). These are so rare that they haven’t happened yet. The excerpts I have posted so far haven’t been paywalled.
My original intention with this Substack was to include exclusive content for paid subscribers, but now that I’m more familiar with the Substack experience, wow, I just don’t like paywalls. I don’t like “paid” comment areas, either.
That means I depend on the generosity of those who enjoy what they read and are willing to pay a little to encourage me to keep at it. You never really know what I’ll hit you with — political rants, humor, satire, fiction, even the occasional religious screed (these usually get me into trouble with at least one or two readers).
The one thing I can promise is: No AI. All my writing comes from my neurons. Much of it is heavily researched. Remember to check out the footnotes! I sometimes sneak in Easter Eggs.
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Stuff I’m working on: At this point, the question really is, what aren’t I working on? I have 133 Drafts in my Posts list. Most of them won’t see the light of day because they’re not good enough for my amazing subscribers, who seem to avid and intelligent readers. It’s a niche, but I love that niche, and I love you all, too, even though, like most men, I’m not great at showing it.
Thanks to all of you, whether you subscribe or not, whether you are a paying subscriber or not, or whether you’re just visiting.
