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2 months ago
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Three, two, one...
I just woke up from a vivid dream. It was sort of like that dream I had about Satan dive-bombing into New York, which came to me a few months before 9/11. I wouldn't say that I'm the next Nostradamus, since that would be pathologically insane, but let's see if I'm right twice.
Last time, I told two people about that first dream I had about The Big Apple. This time, I'll leave this here for posterity.
(Warning: Characters in this dream are creamy white, chronically poor members of MAGA, so this is unfortunately another political entry. I didn't put them in my subconscious, but they appeared. Skip this vision if you think it'll make you lose sleep)
There was this massive tsunami that was coming in from the ocean. Everyone was scrambling inland. At first, it didn't look like anyone was going to take advantage of the situation. Then the scene narrowed to two Mexican children, both of them siblings. A third child, also Mexican (or Puerta Rican, I'm not sure), started antagonizing the smaller of the two. The older sibling started defending him against the bully, and drove him off. Then I saw all of these half destroyed homes on the shoreline. People had abandoned them. I saw some of the survivors returning, but these wispy hill people in tattered clothes had swarmed in and were going from house to house, rummaging through everyone's belonging and going around saying that they were "kicking all the blue voters out of their homes."
I woke up and I thought of ICE and the mass deportations. Basically, my sleep addled mind surmised that the end result of snatching people out of their homes and removing them is so they can replace them with members of MAGA.
Now, the difference between these two dreams is the 9/11 one came to me unabated/unprovoked. I hadn't the slightly suspicion that anything bad was going to happen in New York, let alone if there would be a world changing event. And as an aside, I never had a premonition of Covid 19. This nightmare could've easily been the result of being chronically online.
Just in case it isn't, I think that basically what I was seeing and hearing was that there won't be another election. If there is, Trump will seem to easily win, or JD Vance. It isn't totally inconceivable. After Kirk's death, Trump used it to whip up support with his base, who agree with quite literally anything he says or does. They aren't unlike people that like to watch documentaries that are narrated by Obama, only this time, these sycophants want blood, not to mandate vaccines. Well... maybe not literal blood, but they want property and political dominion. No more two party system. They want their country to be like other places where there is a monotheistic religion, a streamlined national identity, and a governance that exercises total control over its populace. Think of the day when Trump's base can finally publicly lynch brown Republicans. Heck, white Republicans too, like Pence. Anyone that doesn't kiss the ring goes up against the wall, all that.
Is it unlikely? Can white Christian nationalists gaslight me into thinking it's not happening, because Jimmy Kimmel is back on the air? What's the most unbelievable about the dream is the current administration rehousing poor white people, given that they're needy... oh... the residents that are vacated won't be replaced by the devout. The neighborhoods will be "cleaned up" and gentrified. They'll be replaced by "fiscally responsible" Dems and Pubs. MAGA is detritus, much like lower class blue voters. Affluent Dems know how to be unwavering in their devotion. They shout online and they put BLM signs in their manicured yards, but they don't stage attempted coups and they don't form militias. ICE isn't targeting brown people; they're going after the destitute. Hu, maybe there will be another election after all.
I can't be sure, of course. It was just another strange vision. I could've had it because I had a waffle for dinner. But ICE is in my backyard, teargassing kids in inflatable frog suits. They're teargassing cops in Chicago, and themselves, according to some reports. From my perspective it's still surreal because each day when I drive through Portland and Beaverton, I don't see any of it. I get out of my car and conversate and exchange commerce and no one is saying anything. I haven't seen one single public meltdown or a call to arms. I don't know where the ICE facilities are, but I'm not curious enough to find out. It's like nobody wants this. Nobody wants ICE and they also don't want protesters. They weren't troubled by theoretical gang violence, but the trouble started when ICE tried to remove them.
... how did Obama get away with removing so many alleged illegals. How did he do it... it's like he did it quietly and professionally and undetected. He probably didn't even say he was going to do it. That would have been really dumb. I wouldn't mind a dictator like that. An austere, shrewd, unflappable dignitary that understands that his base doesn't appreciate being bothered. The antithesis of that would be something like Putin or Trump. Like, you already have it all. You are immune. Can you please try to not steer the ship into an iceberg. Fix the roads. Your security is a happy public, not an unhappy one.
Last time, I told two people about that first dream I had about The Big Apple. This time, I'll leave this here for posterity.
(Warning: Characters in this dream are creamy white, chronically poor members of MAGA, so this is unfortunately another political entry. I didn't put them in my subconscious, but they appeared. Skip this vision if you think it'll make you lose sleep)
There was this massive tsunami that was coming in from the ocean. Everyone was scrambling inland. At first, it didn't look like anyone was going to take advantage of the situation. Then the scene narrowed to two Mexican children, both of them siblings. A third child, also Mexican (or Puerta Rican, I'm not sure), started antagonizing the smaller of the two. The older sibling started defending him against the bully, and drove him off. Then I saw all of these half destroyed homes on the shoreline. People had abandoned them. I saw some of the survivors returning, but these wispy hill people in tattered clothes had swarmed in and were going from house to house, rummaging through everyone's belonging and going around saying that they were "kicking all the blue voters out of their homes."
I woke up and I thought of ICE and the mass deportations. Basically, my sleep addled mind surmised that the end result of snatching people out of their homes and removing them is so they can replace them with members of MAGA.
Now, the difference between these two dreams is the 9/11 one came to me unabated/unprovoked. I hadn't the slightly suspicion that anything bad was going to happen in New York, let alone if there would be a world changing event. And as an aside, I never had a premonition of Covid 19. This nightmare could've easily been the result of being chronically online.
Just in case it isn't, I think that basically what I was seeing and hearing was that there won't be another election. If there is, Trump will seem to easily win, or JD Vance. It isn't totally inconceivable. After Kirk's death, Trump used it to whip up support with his base, who agree with quite literally anything he says or does. They aren't unlike people that like to watch documentaries that are narrated by Obama, only this time, these sycophants want blood, not to mandate vaccines. Well... maybe not literal blood, but they want property and political dominion. No more two party system. They want their country to be like other places where there is a monotheistic religion, a streamlined national identity, and a governance that exercises total control over its populace. Think of the day when Trump's base can finally publicly lynch brown Republicans. Heck, white Republicans too, like Pence. Anyone that doesn't kiss the ring goes up against the wall, all that.
Is it unlikely? Can white Christian nationalists gaslight me into thinking it's not happening, because Jimmy Kimmel is back on the air? What's the most unbelievable about the dream is the current administration rehousing poor white people, given that they're needy... oh... the residents that are vacated won't be replaced by the devout. The neighborhoods will be "cleaned up" and gentrified. They'll be replaced by "fiscally responsible" Dems and Pubs. MAGA is detritus, much like lower class blue voters. Affluent Dems know how to be unwavering in their devotion. They shout online and they put BLM signs in their manicured yards, but they don't stage attempted coups and they don't form militias. ICE isn't targeting brown people; they're going after the destitute. Hu, maybe there will be another election after all.
I can't be sure, of course. It was just another strange vision. I could've had it because I had a waffle for dinner. But ICE is in my backyard, teargassing kids in inflatable frog suits. They're teargassing cops in Chicago, and themselves, according to some reports. From my perspective it's still surreal because each day when I drive through Portland and Beaverton, I don't see any of it. I get out of my car and conversate and exchange commerce and no one is saying anything. I haven't seen one single public meltdown or a call to arms. I don't know where the ICE facilities are, but I'm not curious enough to find out. It's like nobody wants this. Nobody wants ICE and they also don't want protesters. They weren't troubled by theoretical gang violence, but the trouble started when ICE tried to remove them.
... how did Obama get away with removing so many alleged illegals. How did he do it... it's like he did it quietly and professionally and undetected. He probably didn't even say he was going to do it. That would have been really dumb. I wouldn't mind a dictator like that. An austere, shrewd, unflappable dignitary that understands that his base doesn't appreciate being bothered. The antithesis of that would be something like Putin or Trump. Like, you already have it all. You are immune. Can you please try to not steer the ship into an iceberg. Fix the roads. Your security is a happy public, not an unhappy one.
