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The Trump Era and the Biden/Harris Tragedy: Viral Politics in the Age of Fuckery Part VII

The Year of the Snake

Jan 17, 2025

Perhaps it’s appropriate to start 2025, the Year of the Snake, with inaugurating Donald Trump as president again. I officially started work on this piece on January 6, 2025, so… yeah… it seems to have gone exactly as I predicted. Damn… I was just being dour so y’all would vote the right way. Really misread the room, huh?

Trump won with damn near a majority. He won white women (after being an adjudicated rapist), and he gained ground with every other demographic—except Black women. He did well with the Hispanics that he plans to deport. He possibly got the closest to 50% that we may see for a long time. Anyway, this transition has been all scare tactics and bullshit.

We had UFOs hovering over New Jersey while billionaires, celebrities, politicians, and the media bent the knee to Trump while they continued to empty our pockets through Greedflation. With DOGE about to happen, they truly have a License to Steal. We are post-law, post-justice. Post-civilization. A true American Oligarchy.

Luigi Mangione took out a health care insurance CEO and both sides of America celebrated it. A guy drove his car through a crowd in New Orleans on New Year’s, Los.Angeles burned down, and another guy blew up a Tesla at a Trump hotel. Lightning literally struck the Capitol building on New Year’s Eve. Trump, when he wasn’t talking about invading Mexico and annexing Canada, Greenland, and the Panama Canal, tried to nominate Matt “Free Ice Cream In The Van” Gaetz as Attorney General. It has been madness, but as Loki once said: “Nothing matters!”

Jimmy Carter died shortly after the election and the funeral service was as awkward as everyone expected, and a strangely perfect example of how far this fuckass country has fallen. It was a fitting American obituary. If Obama was the Democrats’ new FDR, Trump is the Republicans’ new Reagan, and now Joe Biden, sadly, is the new Carter. I didn’t think Trump could top his Nazi bullshit in 2020, but by holding his Madison Square Garden Nazi rally and talking about immigrants “poisoning the blood” of the country and leaning into the whole Apartheid/Elon stuff, what he ran on was essentially “ethnic cleansing.” After winning the Senate back and retaining the House, and owning the Supreme Court, he’ll be able to do it and it’ll all be perfectly legal.

Even though Democrats only had months to recalibrate after Biden dropped out, we really thought we had it in the bag with Vice President Harris. So, yeah. Democrats sometimes get higher than Republicans on our own supply. But for a short period of time, we had Hope™.

Republicans won the presidency, the Senate, and the House. Democrats lost. Full fucking stop. After a decade in politics, Trump has been formally normalized. He is now The Official Establishment. And honestly, he has every right to it. Jack Smith’s report makes it clear that Trump would have been convicted for the January 6th attack; he was down for the count in a million different ways, and now he’s, again, astride the world. He wants to rename the Gulf of Mexico the Gulf of America. Eileen Cannon’s handling of the stolen classified documents case has guaranteed her a SCOTUS seat, and those Alito and Thomas retirement announcements are coming. Trump was the first person to win the presidency without being elected prior, lost it, and then won it again. You can’t blame him for wanting to be the president who gets a 51st state. Why not? Trump has already made a lot of history.

Democrats have been replaying the early 2000s by complaining about Musk and vote-rigging. I hate that man, but this wasn’t him. This was us. Democratic polling was always weak. Biden’s numbers were only slightly better than Harris’ when the race began and hers had a bump but it was clearly temporary. As much as we wanted to think this was an Olds vs. Youngs election, it wasn’t. This was a total collapse. Professional Liberals can complain about state vote counts but when you’re around 50%, you’ve pretty much already won. I have no intention of watching the Inauguration. Made that mistake once. Never again. I’m planning on getting a booster the day before and will spend the next couple days in an antibody, ignorant haze. And I’m gonna smoke a lot of weed!

Welcome to the Trump Era, America! He owned half of the teens and will dominate most of the 20s. If he doesn’t drop dead, he’ll be president until 2029. Trump has been a one man wrecking crew when it comes to other politicians. He beat dozens of Republicans and Hillary Clinton in 2016. In 2024, he took out Biden and then Harris.

He’s a singular American icon. I truly hate writing this, but he has failed up, kind of like a Lincoln figure. Wealth has no upward limit so he will never be content, never happy. That’s the coldest of comforts. Mass deportations polled well during the campaign so it’s a safe bet that the guardrails are gone. All of the worst people you can think of have been proven right by this election.

Biden, in his final days, finally got a ceasefire between Israel and Gaza. Like Carter, the world conspired to end this man’s political life. He’s leaving office with the worst numbers ever. Trump is already going after trans Americans. The Democratic party is in extreme disarray. This is the end. We aren’t even worth saving. This country has committed an unforgivable crime against humanity and there will be no redemption. This is a fatal wound that will never heal. The cuts are coming. They’re coming for federal workers, universities, and workforces. Get ready to start boiling your tap water before you use it. Anticipate a lot of food recalls never materializing. Get ready for illness, without end and an unending decline. Get ready for 4B, you prancing, dumbass incels. The “Trump Dance” is now a thing.

As terrible as everything in this country is, it’s about to get so much worse. On day one, Trump will pardon most of the 2021 insurrectionists, guaranteeing that there will one day be another attack. Bird flu has made the jump to humans and RFK Jr. will be in charge of the nation’s health. Get your booster shot now, you animals! Trump’s tariffs will increase the price of everything, but not to worry, Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswany will be running the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE, this is a joke, right?), an unofficial advisory board to tell Trump to make deep cuts to Social Security and Medicare, all while Trump balloons the defense budget. Seriously, if you bought a Tesla and your blue check mark on what used to be Twitter, you paid for Trump to win in 2024. Think about yourselves…

Speaker Johnson is the limpest of dicks, so Trump is essentially the Speaker of the House too. The acquisition of Twitter was not a means to an end but the beginning of a new prime reality. When you find yourself agreeing with Steve Bannon, the world, truly, is off its fucking tits.

I’ve written a lot about how multiple realities all existing in the same time and space in politics and, boy, was I right. But goddamn! American institutions like Beyoncé, Taylor Swift, and fucking Harrison Ford just told America what to do and we did the opposite. The New Republic’s Greg Sargent found a terrifying answer as to how Trump won. Americans don’t believe their own memories anymore. It’s that simple. We, as a people, have lost the plot. We are living in Trumposophy. We have grown beyond reason. This will probably be my last post about politics. It has been the highlight of my professional life to cover it. I cannot tell you how sad and hopeless it was writing this.

Anyway, I’m not the young man I was when I started in this game. Since finally catching COVID last year, my blood pressure has been fatally high. I’m too old for this shit. I’m middle aged. If this is what we fought so hard for, I’d rather opt out. And what is the point in talking if no one is listening? By the numbers, some of you motherfuckers voted for Trump. Fuck y’all. In the immortal words of Ali Wong, “I don’t want to lean in. I want to lie down.” I refuse to cover an administration that has a better than not chance of killing my crippled ass in the next four years. Oh well, peace! I feel as though I seem to curse everything I write about. I’ve written glowing reviews for shows, only to watch them nosedive in the following season. I’ve been a Harris fan for a decade and she’s DOA politically.

Everything I’ve ever written was for nothing. I may need to go to a place where my witch powers will create less damage. For me, no other shade of blue will do. Your faithless patriotism is the only hoax I believe in. I won’t be voting anymore. The first thing I ever wrote was a movie review in my high school paper. See you in the movie and TV reviews, suckers! Oh, and Trump will be inaugurated, again, on Martin Luther King Day.

The Trump Plague: Viral Politics in the Age of Fuckery

The Trump Depression: Viral Politics in the Age of Fuckery Part II

Carnage and Malarkey: Viral Politics in the Age of Fuckery Part III

Human Sacrifice and the 2024 Election: Viral Politics in the Age of Fuckery Part IV

Kamala Harris and the Vibe Shift: Viral Politics in the Age of Fuckery Part V

This is Your Final Warning… About the 2024 Election: Viral Politics in the Age of Fuckery Part VI

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