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Tremors in Magaland

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Since the murder of Charlie Kirk, the Trump regime has made it clear that it intends to crush all dissent from the left. US Homeland Security Advisor, Stephen Miller, made the ridiculous allegation that the Democratic Party was a “domestic, extremist organization” before the shooting. After, he practically spat out venom when talking about using the full power of the state to “dismantle the left.” Those thinking these are idle threats haven’t been paying close attention.

But there may be one glimmer of hope. Maga is in disarray since the shooting. Prominent voices, including Candace Owens, Tucker Carlson, Meghan Kelly have been raising questions about Kirk’s allegiance to Israel, with some alleging he was about to shift. Even before Kirk’s murder, Republicans like Marjorie Taylor Green were beginning to stray from the pack.

Just a day before his death, Kirk did an interview with the infamously smug and endlessly irritating genocide apologist, Ben Shapiro. He asked uncomfortable questions about genocide and ethnic cleansing to a visibly shaken Shapiro. This, and other instances, have created a conspiracy theory spiral in Magaland with some indicating they believed Israel was either responsible for or involved in the assassination of Kirk.

Make no mistake, Charlie Kirk was an odious man. His racism, antisemitism, homophobia, misogyny and Islamophobia are on the record for anyone to see. But Israel has banked on unwavering allegiance from the American far right. Evangelical Christians, who make up a large portion of the Republican Party, have a cultlike devotion to the Zionist state, with many believing it is essential for the second coming of Christ. But for others in the far right sphere, particularly gen Z, this bond is beginning to fray.

“There’s rumors going around—maybe Mossad is a part of the Epstein files,” one young male student told Kirk at one of his university events. And he wasn’t the only one to raise these issues. Other students noted that the algorithms on their phones are different to that of their parents. Their feeds are an endless stream of horror and suffering in Gaza. And the fact that Netanyahu was the first political leader to post on social media asking for prayers for Kirk after the shooting has also raised eyebrows, with many of them asking why a foreign leader would be so invested in a far right, American podcaster. So much so, that he was aware of the shooting before even Trump knew.

Kirk knew that the “America first” crowd were tired of wars and foreign investments that cost too much. As its primary colonial asset, Israel gets the lion share of American foreign aid. And he felt the pressure from them, as well as the wealthy, pro-Israel donors who funded Kirk’s Turning Point USA. Even ultra-Zionist billionaire hedge fund manager, Bill Ackman, has been embroiled in this, with accusations of pressure and even blackmail attempts. Something Ackman has denied.

To be sure, it is unlikely Kirk would have changed direction on supporting the genocidal state in light of his political ambitions. But the fractures aren’t something to take lightly. As the American Empire declines and unravels, it becomes a churning mess of conspiracies, suspicion and paranoia.

All of these issues shouldn’t convince anyone that the Trump regime will change course. The killing of Charlie Kirk has provided it with its very own Reichstag fire, undoubtedly thinking it is a perfect distraction from the damning Epstein files and the genocide in Gaza that it wholeheartedly supports. It is feeling emboldened with small victories, like the recent sacking of popular, nighttime comedian, Jimmy Kimmel. But the regime is clearly shaken and fearful. It knows its fragile alliances are unstable and unreliable.

Whatever the regime does now, opposition to its cruelty and sadism must be paramount. Protests against ICE, deportations, concentration camps, attacks on vulnerable communities and the genocide in Gaza must not be thwarted by its threats. Fascist regimes create or capitalize on chaos in order to benefit from the confusion. Giving in to that confusion would be a fatal mistake no one could afford.

Kenn Orfanos, September 2025

Photo Credit: A billboard showing an image of US President Donald Trump (L) embracing Charlie Kirk on the side of a building in Tel Aviv, on September 13, 2025.© Jack Guez/AFP/Getty Images

Democrats Seek to Become Even More Unlikeable and Irrelevant

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So, this group, who look like a barrel of laughs at any well heeled dinner party, want the Democrats to become even more conservative than they already are. This, despite countless polls indicating Democrats lost votes for being too conservative, historic wins like socialism-friendly Zohran Mamdani, and that the base is far more left than the Democratic Party elite.

This “Democratic think tank” (an oxymoronic term I absolutely loathe) wants to throw LGBTQ people under the bus and stop talking about that pesky existential threat of looming climate catastrophe. I’m betting they aren’t too keen on Palestinian human rights either.

I mean, who needs human rights, an end to genocide and a livable biosphere when you have the corporatized version of Fleetwood Mac to make the party exciting again?

From left to right, Breston McWhiteywhite III, Hester Ravenwhite, Burley Whitewallace, Chester Thomas (nephew of the Supreme Court justice), and Karen von Whitenstein.

The excerpt below is from the piece in the New York Times on their nauseating attempt to get the Democrats to become more like Maga.

“As Democrats search for their way out of the political wilderness, a new think tank, introduced on Wednesday, has some ideas about where the party went wrong.

Among them: too much emphasis on issues like climate change and L.G.B.T.Q. rights, and far too much deference to the powerful liberal organizations championing those causes at the expense, some argue, of appealing to voters in battleground states.

The think tank, the Searchlight Institute, was started by Adam Jentleson, a veteran Democratic operative. He knows that his effort, intended to minimize the sway that left-leaning groups have over candidates before what is expected to be a crowded 2028 presidential primary, will infuriate almost everyone — activists, organizations and the party’s liberal base, which is urging Democrats to fight President Trump.”

Kenn Orfanos, September 2025

Ezra Klein, Gavin Newsom, and the Death of American Liberalism

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We live in an age of absurdity when a fascist like Charlie Kirk is hailed as a champion of free speech and open debate. Free speech advocates don’t create databases of people they disagree so that they can be harassed, get death threats and have their career’s ruined. This is what Kirk’s Turning Point USA’s did to professors across the United States by creating the “Professor Watchlist.”

Kirk hated free speech, as evidenced by the watchlist and by his own rancid record of punching down on college students who objected to his rhetoric. His “debates” were merely opportunities for public mockery and the platforming of fascist ideas. And these professors, who generally taught the real history of the United States, represented an existential threat to his supremacist ideology.

He didn’t deserve to be shot, but the posthumous honorifics and performative mourning following his murder are beyond absurd. And it isn’t just Magaland that is responsible for that. Vacuous liberals like Ezra Klein have contributed to this kabuki theatre of wailing ninnies.

Klein is a particularly odious example. He penned a nauseating eulogy for the New York Times immediately following Kirk’s demise, claiming Kirk “did politics right.” Would this correct way of doing politics include the professor watchlist? Or paying for busses to the January 6th attempted coup? Klein’s intellectual rot is indicative of the nature of American liberalism, which usually plays handmaiden to fascism by pretending to be a foil while never obstructing its rise in meaningful or material ways.

Gavin Newsom is another problematic character in this regard. His gushing of grief for Kirk seems almost endless. Apparently, the two shared a warm moment on his show in their shared hatred of transgender athletes that Newsom still cherishes. And yet, we are told that he is the only viable opposition to Trumpian fascism. To many older, white liberals, Newsom charms with his use of memes to “own Trump.” It is a classic case of spectacle over substance.

If nothing else, Charlie Kirk’s death signals the death of American liberalism. An ideology that has always acted as a fortress to protect and save capitalism from itself. Presented as the only rational alternative to leftism, liberalism borrowed the left’s most palatable and inoffensive values and made them central to its ethos, all but ignoring the material concerns of the working class.

Championing equality and human rights ring hollow in a society where the working poor continue to see their status decline. And this is also how liberalism has provided cover for every brutal excess of American imperialism, from war, coups, up to and including the genocide of Palestinians by Israel, the empire’s most important colonial asset. Like so many Americans, white liberals are largely apathetic when it comes to foreign policy.

The result has inevitably been the rise of fascism. Like a ravenous vulture unobstructed from liberalism’s ashes, it ascends while liberals bask in self absorbed revelry, trample on the left for even modest demands, and pander to the very worst elements in society. What is tragically ironic is that figures like Klein and Newsom are busy throwing wood on its funeral pyre.

Kenn Orfanos, September 2025

Regarding Grief over the Death of a Fascist

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I just saw a video of a Palestinian child who was shot in the side by an Israeli drone. His intestines were coming out of the wound as he clung to his father. He could not have been more than 12 years old, probably younger. This is all made possible by the US and other Western governments.

So, let’s be clear about something. Those of you who are attempting to shame people who are not grieving the death of a fascist really need to stop. It isn’t working, it’s just incredibly annoying. This is especially true for those of you who haven’t said a damn word about Israel’s genocide in Gaza. Your virtue signaling rings hollow. And it is preachy and tedious when not sealed in the vacuum you have created.

Anyone who peddles in hateful values and has the ear of one of the most powerful people on the planet isn’t just “a guy with a different opinion.” He is a powerful voice that can influence a society toward fascism. This. Was. Charlie. Kirk.

Charlie Kirk was a rotten human being who called George Floyd a “scumbag,” said that the Civil Rights Act of 1964 a “mistake” and had only nasty remarks about the late Martin Luther King, Jr.. He pushed blatantly racist conspiracies like the “Great Replacement theory.” He said God’s word was clear in Leviticus when talking about executing queer people. He mocked the victims of gun violence, going so far as to say some deaths were necessary to protect his “God given rights.” He ridiculed Palestinian suffering while they are enduring a genocide.

These aren’t just “personal opinions.” Trump, Netanyahu and other fascists and war criminals are hailing Kirk as a martyr. His words have not only influenced many young conservative Americans, but they have contributed to an infrastructure of unspeakable misery for millions of people. Kirk was a champion and master debater for sadistic and murderous policies. If you don’t understand this, maybe it is because you live in a bubble of comfortable privilege.

If you want to grieve a fascist, have at it. But don’t expect me to show up at the wake. I grieve for the victims of Kirk’s rhetoric. I grieve for the political violence and that culture he celebrated. I grieve for anyone who had the misfortune of being in his orbit of cruelty.

But I’ll be damned if I shed one tear for a fascist.

Get your priorities straight before attempting to shame people who aren’t interested in sentimental rubbish for a person who did not care one bit about other human beings and made a living off of punching down.

Kenn Orfanos, September 2025

The US Invasion of Los Angeles

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It all started when White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller demanded the abduction of 3000 people a day. 3000 immigrants. A number that is staggering by any metric. If this policy is allowed to proceed, entire communities will be destroyed. Families will be ripped apart. And an entire generation will be traumatized beyond repair. It will also decimate the US economy which is driven by immigrant labour.

As a result of this barbarous demand, a vibrant immigrant community in Los Angeles was turned into a war zone. Jackbooted, heavily armed and masked thugs flooded the streets, attacking anyone they encountered. But they weren’t prepared for the neighborhood to stand its ground. Hundreds of people overwhelmed ICE. That’s when the LAPD came in with unhinged violence and brutality.

The LAPD, arguably the most corrupt and violent police force in the nation, pepper sprayed babies, beat women and choked a grandmother to unconsciousness in front of her family. Dozens of people had to be taken to hospital for treatment. They even shot journalist Lauren Tomasi with a rubber bullet as she was reporting in front of a camera.

But all of this was by design. The Trump regime had been looking for a reason to invoke the Insurrection Act, and it found one. Even though the vast majority of the protests in LA are peaceful, the videos and photos of some people waving Mexican flags, wearing keffiyehs or setting automobiles alight are all the regime needs as a justification for its brutality. Now it can say “look, we told you this was an invasion.” And this manufactured threat becomes the pretext they desire for the final descent into authoritarian fascism.

What happens in LA could determine whether Americans can recover any of their battered, lost or stolen civil liberties. But as I write, there are 500 Marines standing by on the President’s order to invade Los Angeles.

*Photo Homeland Security smashing a woman’s skull and ribcage with the butt of a shotgun.

Kenn Orphan, June 2025

Fascists Love Registries

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Last week, US Health and Human Services Secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., gave his first address to the public in that role. His focus was autism. In his speech, which has received enormous backlash, he said people with autism “will never pay taxes, they’ll never hold a job, they’ll never play baseball, they’ll never write a poem, they’ll never go on a date.” He also made unfounded speculations as to the cause.

From chemtrails to HIV denialism to raw milk to anti-vax quackery, RFK is no stranger to conspiracy theories. And they are far from harmless. Over 70 people died in Samoa thanks to his disinformation about the measles vaccine. He also speculated that Covid-19 was engineered and that Chinese and Ashkenazi Jews were mostly immune.

There is something about RFK that chills the soul. A deadness behind his eyes. An icy countenance that betrays any compassionate words he might utter. It is hard to put ones finger on what it is exactly, but if you could you would probably have to scrub it with bleach.

Stories from family members about his penchant for mutilating dead animals abound, from grinding up chicks and mice in a blender for his pet falcon to beheading a beached whale and tying it to the roof of his car. The stories lend credence to those uneasy, unsettling feelings one gets when you see him on a stage talking about health and wellness.

RFK’s new role appears to be in keeping with this lifelong legacy. And he is keeping pace with the general madness and misanthropy of the regime. His idea for “wellness farms” and “reparenting” for people who deal with drug addiction or who are taking psychiatric medications unsurprisingly sparked controversy for its similarity to communist “reeducation camps.” Now, RFK is planning a new registry to track people with autism.

What makes this all so chilling was the ease in which RFK diminished the value of human beings. These disabled people are “deficient.” They cannot work and pay taxes. By characterizing autistic people as unproductive members of society, he has already set them up as a problem. A drain on resources. A burden. A registry will only industrialize this otherization and make it easier for experimentation, institutionalization and disposal.

Fascists adore registries. They relish in categories and lists for people. Especially people who do not conform to their idea of normal. Whom they deem weak and that make them feel uncomfortable. Like the others in this diabolical regime, he is merely copying a dark page from history verbatim.

Kenn Orphan, April 2025

Fascism is a boot.

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This cannot be overstated. The myth of American democracy is now officially dead. The Trump regime openly and boldly defied the federal courts to return a person they disappeared to El Salvador. A person with the legal right to live in the United States. An action they agreed was an “administrative error.” Checks and balances, the safety valve to prevent authoritarian overreach, have been effectively rendered irrelevant.

This is not merely a “constitutional crisis” or even a coup. This open defiance to the rule of law is the establishment of a fascist dictatorship. And we don’t have to see it completely take over all aspects of society to understand how grave this moment is.

In addition to this, the regime has openly stated that it intends to disappear American citizens and send them to foreign gulags. It has already done so with legal residents, visa and green card holders, asylum seekers. Now, literally anyone is at the mercy of ICE thugs.

If you speak Spanish in public or have a tattoo, it can say you are a gang member or criminal. Don’t like the economic turmoil caused by Trump’s erratic tariff policy, and it can label you a “Marxist” (a term it views as derogatory). If the regime dislikes your political opinions, the protests you attend, your criticism of Israel, or for merely posting a funny meme making fun of Trump, it can deem you a “radical leftist,” antisemitic or a terrorist threat. Trump has said repeatedly that he believes the biggest threat is the “enemy from within.” With the dissolving of due process as a safeguard, he can make good on his promise to deal with that so-called enemy.

Of course, the regime is not going to arrest everyone who differs from them. The point is the fear it generates. By promoting this in conjunction with defying the courts, the regime is trying to create an atmosphere of paranoia and suspicion. It knows that a people who are afraid will be easier to manipulate. They will comply in advance.

Already universities are towing the line by ending diversity, equity and inclusion programs. Media companies are paying out huge settlements to Trump to the avoid legal costs of a trial. Lawyers are refusing some cases that may raise the ire of the regime. Comedians are rewriting their acts. And people are purging their social media accounts of anything that might draw unwanted attention. This is how it begins.

Fascism is the end of societies. The final iteration of late capitalism. Its goal is the protection of wealth for a tiny minority of oligarchs through sheer violence and endless intimidation. It not only stamps out dissent. It can plunge entire communities into perpetual fear and dread.

Fascism strips education of its curiosity, the arts of its colour, journalism of its pen and spirituality of its wonder. And it replaces it all with mindless nationalism. It exalts bigotry by scapegoating and dehumanizing the vulnerable. It disdains the intellectual and the scientist with ethics. It cannot be reasoned with. You cannot have a dinner party with it and think it was moved by your polite banter. Fascism is a boot. And its only reason for existing is to stand on the neck of decency, empathy and kindness.

This is not to promote defeatism. But there is no benefit in participating in a Pollyanna-like fantasy where the Democrats, after sucking up to corporations for years and cheering on a genocide, will somehow become courageous avengers and “save American democracy.” The most they will do is post a terse scolding on social media, give 25 hour speeches that block nothing and amount to little more than political spectacle, or listen to focus groups for their strategy to win the midterms.

The only hope now is for ordinary people to see things for what they are. To see this regime for the fascist death cult it is. For vulnerable people to take immediate action to protect themselves and their families. To leave the country, if possible, or make contingency plans. And for everyone else to do what they can to protect those people, while throwing wrenches into the gears of its machinery at every turn.

Kenn Orphan, April 2025

*Photos are of El Salvador president Nayib Bukele with Donald Trump at the White House (top) and the concentration camp Bukele runs in his country with US dollars (bottom).

Fascism has Arrived

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“There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen.” – misattributed to Vladamir Lenin

The above quote, which has been misattributed to Lenin, has been repeating in my head a lot these past three+ months. It describes the whirlwind of changes we have since the Trump regime was swept into power. From an endless stream of executive orders to the near complete dissolution of the old world order, it indeed feels like decades have already gone by. And this is perhaps what makes the next few weeks so harrowing.

When Trump took the seat of the American imperium, one of his first executive orders was to declare a national emergency at the southern border. With this, he demanded that the Department of Defense and the Department of Homeland Security advise him on if and how he could invoke the Insurrection Act. That report is due on the 20th of April, which is incidentally Hitler’s birthday.

In section 6B of the executive order it reads:

“Within 90 days of the date of this proclamation, the Secretary of Defense and the Secretary of Homeland Security shall submit a joint report to the President about the conditions at the southern border of the United States and any recommendations regarding additional actions that may be necessary to obtain complete operational control of the southern border, including whether to invoke the Insurrection Act of 1807.”

Trump wanted to do this during his previous role as president, but was stymied by the Secretary of Defense at the time, Jim Mattis. He also openly pondered if protestors could be shot. This time around, he has stacked his cabinet with yes men and women. Pete Hegseth, Tulsi Gabbard and JD Vance would never defy the dictates of the president. And they are the ones who will deliver him his options a few weeks from now.

The Insurrection Act would allow the president to use the military on domestic soil to quell “civil unrest.” And this vague terminology could be applied to anything from campus protests to demonstrations like on Saturday of this past weekend to bake sales at your local progressive church. He could fulfill his campaign promise of sending troops into “Democratic” cities which he has painted as being filled with “illegals,” criminals and “leftist radicals,” rounding up anyone he deems a threat. Painting them as “terrorists,” gang members, communists or perverts. No protests. No rallies. No gatherings. It would be a move directly out of the fascist playbook.

If he is advised on April 20th that the US is under threat, it would not be inconceivable for him to crackdown on the press, social media and on anyone who opposes the regime, from scientists to college professors to librarians. It would become a matter of “national security.” And corporations will almost always comply. Just recently, American historian Heather Cox Richardson was all but purged from Facebook as she openly criticized Trump.

The regime has already implemented breathtaking actions at stifling dissent on university campuses. Professors have fled to Canada. Border police continue to harass tourists and visiting delegates. Ice has already disappeared people for simply expressing opposition to US support for a genocide. It has also detained and deported hundreds without due process. And it has done all of this while boasting about it and promising even more.

If this regime is gleeful about sending people to a forced labour camp in El Salvador (see: concentration camps) and the complete annihilation of the Palestinian people, does anyone really think they would have a problem implementing the Insurrection Act and brutally repressing American citizens? As Trump decimates the economy, unrest would certainly grow. Does anyone really think he would not want to suppress this with every tool he has? And If he is comfortable saying undocumented immigrants are “poisoning the blood of our nation,” does anyone think he would not broaden that to everyone who opposes him?

To say time is running out would be an understatement. Fascism has arrived. And as Democrats hide, align themselves with them, or make meaningless 25 hour speeches that block nothing, it grows unchecked. It may have been decades in the making, but it has only taken a few weeks for it to establish itself. It isn’t in complete control… yet. But if there is no mass movement to stop it, it will proceed toward a full takeover. 

Kenn Orphan, April 2025

Stay Woke

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Many Americans are planning to go to protests tomorrow. And I applaud their desire to do something, anything, in a time of growing barbarism. But I would also caution those who think they are “saving democracy” by attending these events.

The American Empire is dying. Like all empires, its descent is not linear. It is erratic and may take a few decades for its final dissolution. But its prognosis is terminal. And the Trump regime is speeding this process up with idiotic tariffs and blind imperialistic fever dreams. It may be difficult, if not impossible, for many Americans to realize this. After all, the US has one of the most propagandized populations on the planet. But the signs are glaring.

For years, most white Americans have been drunk on a false shibboleth of supremacy. Believing that they live in the “greatest nation on earth” despite not having healthcare or basic labour protections. Most who espouse this notion haven’t traveled beyond the borders of their state, let alone country. Few possess a passport. But this delusion has permeated every cell, every fibre of the culture. Facts to the contrary (and there is a mountain of them) be damned.

They have been inured to the rot that has been allowed to spread through the halls of power. Fed a steady diet of Hollywood pablum where impoverished people have a chance to rise to riches. Where white heroes save Black and Brown people in the Global South. When the reality is that their leaders have been raping, pillaging and bombing them to smithereens for over 80 years. There is always a meticulously scripted “happy ending” to every unnecessary nightmare. Those who don’t fit in that narrative are disappeared, both figuratively and literally.

As the edifice of empire crumbles, its true nature is revealed. Standing there for everyone to see is a sepulcher filled with the bones of the innocent, the vulnerable. Anyone who stood in the way of capital. The tomb is ceremoniously draped in a red, white and blue shroud, but even those threads are beginning to fray. The tatters of nationalism cannot withstand the hard fist of betrayal.

As the late Howard Zinn once said, “there is no flag big enough to cover the crime of killing innocent people.” After more than a year and a half of supporting, funding and arming a genocide, the worst crime of this century, the US has demolished its reputation forever. The world understands this, even if most Americans do not. This one thing stands firmly in the way of any meaningful change. Unless it is reckoned with, platitudes and promises will continue to ring hollow.

You cannot save a democracy that no longer exists. And this is due to decades of political chicanery, where billionaires and corporations hold more sway than ordinary citizens. A protest is powerless unless it disrupts this arrangement of power. Not on a weekend, but during the week. When the gears of the machine are at full speed. The event planned for tomorrow will act as a vent. Letting off the steam of frustration, despair and hopelessness. And that is a good thing. But it would be foolish to think it will stop a regime that cannot be negotiated with.

Rallies and 25 hour speeches that do not block fascist legislation or executive orders, or stand non-violently in the path of the regime’s thugs, represent little more than political spectacle which can create the dangerous illusion of a mass movement. A kabuki theatre of clever signs and merchandise. But in the end, far more is needed. We are literally staring down the barrel of a gun. Our angry climate cares not about pithy speeches and signs. It requires a wrench thrown into the gears of death while there is still time.

If you go to the protests, consider these things. And instead of believing that Democratic politicians will save the republic, connect with real people. Build relationships that foster mutual aid and protection at the local level and outside of the institutions that are under attack. Above all, be careful. This regime has demonstrated it has no intention of listening to or working with anyone not in its cult of death. Knowing this might just save your life or the life of someone in a community that is now being ruthlessly targeted.

As Black residents of the American south once said to each other to encourage vigilance when faced with the violence of racist authoritarians, “stay woke.”

Kenn Orphan, April 2025

*Art is Hope by Syrian street artist Abu Malik al Shami. 

A Warning for those of us on the Margins of Empire

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Last nights atrocious spectacle was a wake up call. And we may not have many of those left. The speech Trump gave before the US Congress was a glimpse into the madness he has in store for all of us. The United States is rapidly falling into the maw of fascism before our very eyes and there is little organized political opposition from the anemic Democratic Party to stop any of it.

For those of us on the margins of American Empire, we cannot afford to ignore this. Trump’s imperialistic fantasies are not only disgusting, they are serious. He is demolishing the current arrangement of power on the global stage, not to empower the people, but to consolidate even more power and wealth into the hands of a few oligarchs and despots.

Like all US presidents, he has opened the coffers for Israel to continue its apartheid and genocidal project. When he shared a vulgar AI-generated video of a Trumpified Gaza, complete with casinos and an enormous gold statue of himself, he gave us insight into his depraved narcissism. He has no capacity for empathy or grace.

This was also on display with the shameful shakedown of Volodymyr Zelenskyy in the Oval Office by him and his sniveling side kick. His admiration for dictators and war criminals, from Putin to Netanyahu, should be seen as the cruel template he plans to implement against his neighbours in the Americas.

For those of us here in Canada, Trump’s continued ridicule and threat of making our sovereign country the 51st state is no joke. As in Greenland, he is eyeing Canada’s rich resources, from petrol to timber to minerals to water. He sees the imperial benefit of a melting Arctic Sea. And no matter how unhinged these threats may seem, he intends to make good on this by attempting to collapse the Canadian economy with draconian tariffs.

If there is any silver lining in any of this, it is that there is still some time to resist. The Trump regime is not all powerful. Fascism is gaining ground, but has not taken complete control… yet. And they have demonstrated a striking aversion to facts which will likely lead to their downfall.

In addition to this, the American Empire is in steep decline. Its economy is no longer the only dominant one on the world stage. Its infrastructure is crumbling. Its military is over-extended as its soft power around the world wanes. All while others rise, namely China and the BRICS coalition of nations. Most of its leaders are fatally corrupted, duplicitous and stupid. And its populace is struggling while a wealthy minority blames them for their plight and laughs in their faces. They are getting more and more angry, and things are likely to boil over soon.

For the world, the downside of all of this is a that we inhabit a very different portion of human history now. One with the looming existential behemoth of climate chaos on the horizon, the specter of artificial intelligence, and the constant threat of nuclear annihilation. As it descends, the American Empire will lash out even more violently to regain its former glory, even if it is merely a myth. And this makes the next few years the most dangerous in all human history.

Like all empires, the American variation will eventually collapse. We can only hope that when it does, it won’t take everyone down with it as it goes.

Kenn Orphan, March 2025