You can just go and read Garcia's wikipedia page--his story is so clearly sympathetic--and come to the likely conclusion that at the very very very very very least he should just be let out of prison. Most people would say he should be let back into the country to live with his family. Now they are calling him a terrorist.
The spin is real. There isn't a right anymore, just far right, and they mastered new media in a way the left didn't. Almost all of the most popular podcasts are far right, right, and/or left disparaging. Their messaging apparatus is so powerful and consistent across platforms, they have a dark rhetorical anecdote for all scenarios locked and loaded. They created and propagandized the "culture war". Trump's personal motto - the truth is what I say it is. They've weaponized irony and created a trolling reality where their followers can cherry pick truths and lies in a perfect way to maintain their cognitive dissonance.
As for elections in four years, I'm not counting on it. I hope we'll have one—but I'm not counting on it. I think we'll vote, but it will be a Putin-esque election. Googling Peter Thiel, Curtis Yarvin, Foundations of Geopolitics by Aleksandr Dugan, Praxis, Network States, RAGE, The Butterfly Revolution... all point to the idea that billionaires purchased Trump to use as a figurehead while they do what they can to create a feudal USA. He was happy to get rich again and get his ass out of legal trouble. Now he can golf and boss people around until he dies. They are literally firing anyone who isn't loyal to him, that do not agree that the 2020 election was stolen. How on earth could there be a fair election in 2028? Everything they are doing points the opposite direction.
The writing is on the wall. With climate change and climate influenced mass migration, AI & automation looking to put a dramatic amount of workers out of work, China shifting from just manufacturing to engineering and designing, and social media and the internet allowing people to connect together to learn about (and grow resentment towards) "The 1%" and the growing wealth divide, billionaires are getting ahead of a people's revolution and
potentially WW3. All of these factors mean we are heading for some major system change in the US. The people with money just want it to be fascism instead of socialism. They would rather pay for Garcia to be in jail than pay for subsidizing his healthcare.
Something that's been memeing around recently, is this idea (paraphrasing): to a billionaire, the difference between 100 billion dollars and 10 billion dollars doesn't really change the quality of your life. At a certain point, a steak only gets so expensive, and so good, and so worth spending X amount of money on. But there is a big difference if you live in a world where one night, you get drunk, and pinch your nanny's ass, and she metoo's you on social media, sues you for sexual harassment, and wins in a settlement while disgracing your name, vs. a world where you can pinch your nanny's ass and she's so desperate for work that she'll let you do it, and maybe worse, because if she loses her job, her kids starve. There's a difference when, if you have a bad day, you can verbally berate your workers, threaten them, even hit them, and they'll take the beating because they are desperate, vs. a world where you have to go to therapy to manage your anger. Basically, to be powerful, you can't just have money. You need desperate people willing to betray themselves because the only other option is poverty. When people are broke and fighting each other for terrible jobs, the people at the top become extraordinarily powerful--even if they have less $ in their bank account.
I presume DOGE is mostly a front to give Musk a remote backdoor into the US governments computer systems. When push comes to shove, who knows what he'll be able to do from his compound in Space X. He can at least know who his potential enemies are/were within the government.
Sorry for the overtly negative missive. But unlike previous eras in the past, the regular fella who wants to push up against these folks are really in a pickle. They have our data (some sensitive), they know our shopping habits, where we live, how much money we have, who we chat with online, who are friends are on Facebook. They have face recognition software, drones, right-wing militias. And their ability to snoop, spy, record, analyze, and search will get exponentially more powerful as AI gets more powerful. And they've now roped off global trading, meaning all the goods we rely on to survive must go through Trump. We'll see if he initiates the Insurrection Act this weekend or in the weeks ahead - but man, we're cooked.
It's like all the rich people watched Season 3 of Fargo and said "oh man, that evil British man is making some good points. Best prepare."
