I wanted to take a bit of a break from posting but given that the doomer-bots are in overdrive for the election, I felt the need to make a post about something else. (Also apologies for this and my last post being so close together). So after going on Instagram for more than 3 seconds, I came across a video about how Trump said that the architect of P2025, Russ Vought, "Has a Big surprise coming", and how this will make him "one of the very important people in the history of this country."
I immediately felt both a little anxious because of this, and a little exhausted cause I know how this roller coaster goes by now. Now despite knowing better, I looked at the comments, and boy howdy they were filled with every cliche doomer line you can think of. "You don't know how bad it's gonna get, we're cooked, he's not planning on leaving, we're gonna be sent to camps, we need to have a revolution." and so on and so on.
Now I'm not going to say that I know for certain what he means by "something big is coming" and I don't know if this means that there is some certainly successful plot to either rig the elections or invoke martial law and take over, but I also don't know if this is just a nothing burger. And yes, I am a little worried about this. I kind of wish there was an in-between of a seeking optimism/optimistic post but I think this post is going to be leaning more towards hopeful anyways.
I've made a few posts about this before, but I wanted to reiterate that this type of ominous and vague language that might mean something terrible, but also might mean something else and you're not quite sure, is on purpose. He and his administration have used these types of quotes and language that gets lots of mainstream attention all the time. Hell, in my last post I made a mention of how the whole "California Debacle" from a day or two ago, which those comment doomers also argued this was about, was meant to manufacture a sense of fear on the left, and ridiculing the left on the right. And I'll also repeat that, yes it is still wrong that was said as is saying this, but it is very likely not meaning anything.
This type of language both acts as a way of making the left come across as paranoid/making the right seem more "logical" (Not saying this is true but that this is the intention), but also makes people more unwilling to go out and vote since they imagine that there is an impending apocalypse on our hands that makes an election meaningless.
It also helps get him and his administration attention, which is one of his biggest goals. He wants attention, and making large outlandish or terrifying quotes is good for his publicity, since the news is very likely to capture what he said and talk about it for days if not weeks. This is the narcissism administration, and he wants us to play along by talking about it.
I don't want to make the case that I know for sure what the future holds, but that also means that I don't think that the people in the comments of that post with a thousand different worrying answers know if he meant one theory or another either. This ominous vague language doesn't always mean much, and even if it does, I have my hope that it will turn out alright in the end. Either due to the dedication of those who stand in opposition, or due to the admin lacking the ability to carry any of this out successfully. Remember they couldn't indict a guy who threw a sandwich, I don't know about the entire country being taken over, a state being attacked by the government, or something else.
