Consequences

Yesterday I scratched an itch on my chest. While I was doing that, there was suddenly a sharp pain in my right elbow. I thought it must be a coincidence so I scratched again. It hurt again. Two lessons there. I have no idea how the nervous system is connected to make that trick work (I'm ignorant). And there are always unintended consequences.

Here is the message behind the story: a president who thinks he knows it all (but doesn't) is likely to be responsible for a storm of unintended consequences. What might be coming in this reign of arrogant ignorance? Here is a fanciful prediction.

1. Making America Great Again will end with The United States of America disintegrating into separate nations with mutually exclusive agendas. 

2. Florida, invaded by many Canadians from October to March, will be annexed by Canada as the eleventh province. Because Canada is generally welcoming of refugees, a million Palestinians from Gaza will arrive in Florida and be employed producing orange juice for Snowbirds and policing the shortest border in the world to keep out unrepentant GOPers who have left because they didn't like foreigners working at Disneyland.

3. Because of the huge influx of refugees from anti-abortion laws, California will secede and be renamed Femlandia. Visitors will have to submit to a blood test, and if their T level is too high, will be allowed only if they undergo estrogen therapy so they can stay. The military will be all women, trained and skilled in saying NO to naughty boys and sending them to bed without supper. There is a name for this aversion to masculinity. Femlandia is a nation founded on misandry. Who can blame them?

4. Texas will leave the USA and be renamed Ex-US. Fracking and drilling will be outlawed. Desert areas will have new villages built in the shade of extensive solar arrays since the unmitigated heat of direct sun will be intolerable because of the accumulated GHG emissions of wealthy nations like the old USofA. Ex-US will be well on the way to zero emissions. The offshore ocean will be renamed The Gulf of Ex-US and used for TDD (Tide Driven Desalination) and OSW (off-shore wind farms). Ex-US will thrive on the profits from clean energy and fresh water.

5. New York will declare independence and be renamed New Woke. Refugees displaced by the DOGE will gather there to participate in a culture of diversity, equity and inclusion. They will prosper with policies of global free trade, progressive taxation, publicly funded education through to university, universal medical care, subsidized housing and guaranteed minimum income. There will be a long waiting list of those wanting in, including many of the 1% who are willing to pay to join a society free of aggressive self-absorption, guns, threats, and mayhem. The other states will envy the success of New Woke and will queue up to join, happily conforming to the New Woke way: pay attention, think things through and proceed with caution.  That's as opposed to the Don-Elon principle: if it's working, it's obviously a leftist conspiracy and must be shut down as quickly as possible. 

The new red hat logo will be STUD, See Trump Undo Democracy.

The blue hat logo will be WWW, Woke Works - Welcome.

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This is so much fun; but I'm going to quit here. Dream up your own version of Don-Elon consequences, and tell us what you think. Scratch that itch and see where it hurts.

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