Prelude to the 2024 Election

 

(This is the flag of the United States 🇺🇸.)

The election is coming up soon, and everyone is holding their breath and crossing their fingers 🤞. I thought I would write this to kind of give you the stakes of this particular election because not every voter or potential voter may fully grasp what's at stake in this stake. At the time of me writing this, which Saturday August 17, 2024, I haven't been following the election as closely as I had before a few months ago. I just got tired of all the political BS. All of the political YouTubers whose job it is to talk about politics, talking about every little thing that happens during this election cycle. It just got overwhelming, and I had to click off of it, and stop watching those channels.

But, I feel compelled to write this in the running up to the election. I don't know when I'll post this, I might post it this month in August, or I might post a week or so before Election Day. Either way, I feel I should talk about Donald Trump and Project 2025. If you've been following this election at all, you'll no doubt know about Project 2025, and Trump's connection to it. Trump has tried to deny his ties to it, knowing that is such electoral poison ☠️, but the evidence is clear, and it shows that Trump has deep ties to Project 2025 and the Heritage Foundation, one of many conservative think tanks and organizations that authored it.

It's this 900 page document, a right-wing manifesto full of policy proposals for a future Republican presidential administration, not necessarily Trump, but come on, it was written for Trump. They didn't exactly do this kind of shit with George W. Bush, now did they? It details a plan by conservatives and the far-right to turn America 🇺🇸 into a fascist kleptocracy, not too dissimilar to Russia 🇷🇺, Belarus 🇧🇾, and Syria 🇸🇾. If Trump wins this election, if he gets that second term he's wanting all these years since his defeat in 2020, we could see at least a partial implementation of Project 2025 or Agenda 47, which is why Trump have been hiding behind to avoid association with Project 2025. 

 

(These are the flags of Belarus 🇧🇾 and Syria 🇸🇾.) 

 

Ever since people started looking up more about Project 2025, Trump supporters, or MAGA supporters 🇺🇸 as they've come to be known as in recent years, have tried to convince moderates and independents that Trump has nothing to do with Project 2025, and that his real policy agenda is Agenda 47. But, people actually looked into this so-called Agenda 47, and pretty much found what everyone should have suspected the moment it was brought up. It's pretty the exact same thing as Project 2025. It just uses different wording, it uses different language, but at the end of the day, it has all of the same policy proposals.

So, anytime a Trump supporter, or MAGA cultist 🇺🇸 tells you that it's Agenda 47 and not Project 2025, it's a deflection. They're lying to you, and trying to convince you that Agenda 47 is something else, but it's not. It's Project 2025 under a different name, and even more explicitly written for a hypothetical second Trump administration. Even though, it's plainly obvious to everyone who isn't a MAGA cultist 🇺🇸 that Project 2025 was written with Trump in mind, and was written with the expectation that he'll win the 2024 election.

So, what can we expect from Project 2025 if it is ever implemented under a second Trump presidency? Well, nothing good, I can tell you that. Say goodbye to women's reproductive freedoms, say goodbye to porn 🔞 (that one that would really hurt for me), say goodbye to civil liberties, say goodbye to freedom of speech and freedom of the press, say goodbye to the constitution entirely.

Say hello to further environmental degradation through the burning of fossil fuels, say hello to corruption and nepotism at the highest levels of our governments, say hello to imprisonment and/or assassination of Trump's political opponents, and say hello to use of the military to violently quell protests 🪧. We might even see use of live ammunition against protesters 🪧, no more rubber bullets or tear gas anymore. The gloves would come off under a second Trump presidency. 

 

(These are the flags of Russia 🇷🇺 and Ukraine 🇺🇦.)

On the foreign policy front, given how sympathetic Trump seems to be towards dictators, particularly Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping, we could see a withdrawal from NATO, pretty much undoing all of the work Biden did to reunify NATO and strengthen it at a moment of crisis like the the 2022 full-scale invasion of Ukraine 🇺🇦 by Russia 🇷🇺. The US 🇺🇸 pulling out of NATO would be a disaster that would lead to many untold consequences, most notably, the alliance fracturing beyond belief. 

 

(This is the flag of NATO.)

 

 

The thing people feared would happen to the alliance before Russia 🇷🇺 invaded, or rather, re-invaded Ukraine 🇺🇦, would happen if Trump is allowed to pull the US 🇺🇸 out of NATO. Israel 🇮🇱 would be emboldened to occupy and annex both the West Bank and Gaza, leaving the Palestinians 🇵🇸 with no land to call their own, enabling the further ethnic cleansing of these lands by the Israelis 🇮🇱. Any hope of a two-state solution would be crushed under a second Trump term.

 

(These are the flags of Israel 🇮🇱 and Palestine 🇵🇸.)

 

Russia 🇷🇺 would be allowed to consolidate its territory gains, and be given the chance it needs to regroup and reconstitute its forces, and then re-start the war at their convenience. The war in Ukraine 🇺🇦 would just become a frozen conflict that Russia 🇷🇺 would restart again to push further into Ukraine 🇺🇦 until they've taken the entire country. It'll be worse this time because Ukraine 🇺🇦 will not have the help of the United States 🇺🇸, and the US 🇺🇸 made up the bulk of the military aid sent to Ukraine 🇺🇦. 

 

(These are the flags of China 🇨🇳 and Taiwan 🇹🇼.)

And if Putin decided to push further, and invade other European countries, including those in NATO, Trump said that he wouldn't come to their aid, and he would in fact encourage Russia 🇷🇺 to invade those countries and take however much territory they want. China 🇨🇳 will also be emboldened to invade and annex Taiwan 🇹🇼 since Trump made it clear that he would not come to Taiwan 🇹🇼's aid if China 🇨🇳 ever invades, which they would if Trump allows Russia 🇷🇺 to win in Ukraine 🇺🇦. All of our worst nightmares when it comes to foreign policy and geopolitics would come to pass under a second Trump presidency. 

 

(This is the flag of Mexico 🇲🇽.)

 

We could also expect to see a war with Mexico 🇲🇽 because the Republicans have tossed around the idea of starting a war with Mexico 🇲🇽 for no reason for years now, since 2020 really. Imagine that, Republicans plotting to start a war against a country that didn’t attack us and we have no actual good reason to go to war with and invade and occupy. 

Even Trump got in on this idea, as some secret documents or memos came to light which exposed Trump’s plan to bomb Mexico 🇲🇽. He wanted to use the Air Force to conduct air strikes on the territory of Mexico 🇲🇽 in order to eliminate drug cartels. They didn’t go through it within because the Defense Secretary and the other top leadership in the Pentagon told Trump that it was a really bad idea, and that it wouldn’t achieve anything.

But with a second Trump term, and with the top positions within the government being filled with nothing but Trump loyalists and yes men, military action against Mexico 🇲🇽 could become a real possibility. There could even be a full-scale invasion of Mexico 🇲🇽 similar to that of Iraq 🇮🇶 in 2003, and every Republican would be on board with it, despite them all saying they hated the Iraq War 🇮🇶 when Trump was in office, and tried to present Trump as an “anti-war president” or an “anti-interventionist president.” 

Even Trump has tried to present himself as anti-war president or anti-interventionist by criticizing the Iraq War 🇮🇶, despite supporting the war back when it first started, praising Saddam Hussein and calling him a "terrorist killer," and saying over and over again that had he been in office instead of Biden, the wars in Ukraine 🇺🇦 and Gaza would've never happened. Yeah, sure buddy 🙄, you alone would've kept Russia 🇷🇺 and Iran 🇮🇷's proxies at bay. 

The praise he gave to Saddam might be less him being against the war in Iraq 🇮🇶 in retrospect, and more of a genuine adoration for the man ♂︎. I do think Trump genuinely likes Saddam, and wishes he could be like him. It's the same reason he likes Putin, Xi, and Kim Jong-un. And despite claiming to be against regime change wars like the one in Iraq 🇮🇶, Trump would find a way to sell a regime change war against Mexico 🇲🇽, at least to his hardcore base. 

And his base, the hardcore MAGA nuts 🇺🇸, would find ways to rationalize it and justify it by saying things like, "he's doing it to stop drug cartels" and "he's doing it to stop illegal immigration." We all know they'd all say that. And if Trump really did become as autocratic as we're all worried that he will, none of the opposition would have any say in the matter, and would be powerless to stop him. The US 🇺🇸 would go to war, regardless of what Democrats, or what any other opposition group say.

 

(This is the old flag of Iraq 🇮🇶 from 1991 to 2004.)

 

And for what? To stop drug cartels? I don’t think that an Iraq-style invasion 🇮🇶 with Mexico 🇲🇽 will solve the drug problem in Mexico 🇲🇽 or America 🇺🇸. If anything, a war like this would strengthen the cartels, and lead to more drugs coming across the border. It’s a lot trying to use a rocket launcher (an RPG) to deal with a cockroach infestation 🪳in your house. You didn’t get rid of the cockroaches 🪳, you just destroyed your house 🏠💥, and allowed the cockroaches 🪳 to spread further. And it wouldn't stop illegal immigration either since all you'd be doing is creating a refugee crisis, leading to more migrants coming across the border. Though, if Trump and the Republicans have their way, all of those incoming migrants would be detained and put into concentration camps.

I live in New Mexico, so we would feel the full brunt of any Second Mexican-American War 🇺🇸🇲🇽 started by a second and somehow even worse Trump administration in my home state. Though, let’s be honest, if the United States 🇺🇸 went to war with Mexico 🇲🇽 again, everyone would probably just call it the War in Mexico 🇲🇽 because journalists, media pundits, and historians alike are really uncreative when it comes to naming wars. I'd even take the name, the Border War like in Reminiscence, though I doubt that it would be called that. It’s a good thing that they named the war between Russia 🇷🇺 and Ukraine 🇺🇦, the Russo-Ukrainian War 🇷🇺🇺🇦, but we still haven’t gotten a good name for the current civil war in Sudan 🇸🇩. 

 

(This is the flag of Sudan 🇸🇩.)

 

So far, people have just been calling it the War in Sudan 🇸🇩, instead of the Third Sudanese Civil War 🇸🇩, even though it ought to be since it’s the third civil war in Sudan 🇸🇩’s history. But, the Republicans aren’t exactly known for their good ideas, and Trump just enables their worst impulses, especially when he (and they) have nothing left to challenge them.

When there’s nothing standing in their way, and there likely wouldn’t be under a second Trump term, as he would slowly transform the United States 🇺🇸 into a one-party state led by the Republicans. I don’t know if this is in Project 2025, but I wouldn’t be surprised if Trump and the Republicans tried to outlaw the Democratic Party and all other political parties except the Republican Party.

But, you know what? I am confident that Trump will not win this election. I try not to make predictions about this sort of thing since there's always a possibility that I might be wrong, I am confident this time at least that Trump will not win this election, and that he'll lose, and lose big, especially if the momentum surrounding Kamala Harris keeps up by the time the election comes. She has a lot of momentum at the time of me writing this, and if it keeps up, then I'm sure she'll win, and hand Trump his second defeat.  

He might've had a better chance at winning had he still been going against Biden, but he's not anymore. He's going up against Kamala Harris, who is a much stronger candidate than Biden in all honesty, even if I do like Biden. Hell, she's even a better candidate than Hillary Clinton was. Trump can only win when he's up against candidates that are either just as weak as he is or weaker. That was the case in 2016. He only won because Hillary just a really shitty candidate. No body really liked her, unless they were die hard Democrats, or die hard Clinton fans, or women ♀︎ who just really wanted to see a woman ♀︎ become president even if that woman ♀︎ just happened to be Hillary.

Plus, Trump is obviously not the same man ♂︎ that he was in 2016. Hell, he's not even the same man ♂︎ he was in 2020. He's the same crazy and stupid guy ♂︎ he was before, but he's just gotten older, and become senile, and that has only made his insanity and his stupidity even worse. It's the point where he can't even give a coherent speech without devolving into talking about Hannibal Lector, or sharks 🦈, or batteries 🔋, or Cheerio's, or whatever crazy and stupid thing that comes to his mind. All of the weaknesses he had before have only been amplified as he's aged, and is now in his late 70s.

I would like to believe that the majority of Americans 🇺🇸 would look at that, and go, "Yeah, this guy ♂︎'s not fit to be president." Oh, and there's also the JD Vance of it all, one of the worst Vice Presidential running mates in American history 🇺🇸. No body likes Vance, not even MAGA 🇺🇸 likes Vance. They just pretend to, and they're more than willing to look past him in order to get Trump re-elected. And if they aren't, they'll just sit this on out in total defeat, or they'll vote third party, likely for RFK Jr., also in total defeat since RFK Jr. might end up taking more votes away from Trump than from Harris.

But you know, there's also a lot of stupid people in this country too who are more than willing to vote against their own interests, especially if they happen to be racists or sexists and can't stomach the idea of a biracial woman ♀︎ as president, so you who knows? I'm just going to do my part, cast my vote, and hope for the best. I'm voting for Kamala Harris this year, and I hope that enough people will too for her to win to defeat Donald Trump for good, so he can finally go away and disappear from our politics forever. I'm sick of talking about him, I'm sick of thinking about him, and I'm sick of hearing about him, and I know for a fact that I'm not the only one. 

 

(This is an official portrait of Kamala Harris as Vice President, soon to be President if she wins the election.)