The presidential campaign of 2024 reached Peak TDS (Trump Derangement Syndrome) last week on The Howard Stern Show. The world’s top shock jock turned lefty sycophant was interviewing Kamala Harris and said that if Donald Trump wins the presidency, “[T]he sun’s literally going to go out.”
That’s right. If Big Orange ascends once again to the Oval Office, the other Big Orange, the one 93 million miles away up in the sky, the one that makes life possible on planet Earth, will go poof.
Expostulated Stern, “I really believe we’re in for the darkest skies on the planet.”
That’s probably not the way it will happen, though. Scientists say that if the sun stops “sunning” — that is, if it “goes out” — Earth would be engulfed by a greatly enlarged red giant sphere of heat that would burn off the atmosphere and boil away the oceans. Plants would die. Animals as well. Earth would become a scorched, lifeless rock. Then, the skies would get dark and Earth would drift away into space.
But what are a few details when the subject is “If Trump Wins…,” eh?
Such power being imputed to one man, just for getting elected president of the United States! Having the power to blot out the sun all by himself has to surprise even The Donald.
I’ve been racking my brain trying to think of a more dire circumstance for humankind than the sun being extinguished, and, apart from Earth colliding with Mars, I’m coming up short.
We’ve come a long way from lefties merely threatening to skedaddle the country if a Republican made it to the White House. They still do that, of course — it’s become a Democrat tradition. A bunch said they wanted out if Bush II won in 2000; 20 big names threatened departure if Trump won in 2016; and now another cadre are saying they’ll ride out a Trump presidency abroad — with some of the same names as 2016 (Barbara Streisand, for example, and Cher, who at least promises to stay on the planet this time, as she said she’d emigrate to Jupiter in 2016).
But even if the “If Trump Wins” game does not portend planetary extinction, some on the left are plenty troubled by the prospect.
Some are worried Trump will prosecute his political enemies and put them in prison. Even Mitt Romney is freaking out! The Left, so attuned to the use and intricacies of irony, seems curiously blind to it in this case. Trump should pledge to do “no more” than his political opponents have done to him.
As reported by The American Spectator’s Scott McKay, a Democrat strategist said on CNN that Trump, if elected, would institute a eugenics program to eliminate blacks and gays. The strategist herself, Aisha Mills, worried she was “at risk of being exterminated” by Trump because she was a “black lesbian.”
A couple of writers at Rolling Stone are worried Trump will start executing criminals, publicly, en masse. You know, big spectacular events, “mass executions,” with, one imagines, marching bands and jumbotrons. Allegedly, Trump particularly favors the firing squad.
But that is only one of the depredations coming should Trump ascend to the White House. The remainder of the article speculates, with myriad quotations from “experts,” on the ravages perpetrated on the nation by a “Trump unbound, a man whose darkest impulses will not be checked by ‘adults in the room’ — creating potentially catastrophic consequences for the American experiment.”
Trump is looking forward to being “dictator for a day,” to “drill, drill, drill,” and stanch the border flow. But, says Ruth Ben-Ghiat, quoted in the Rolling Stone piece, “They want to have a blitzkrieg — and then all you need to be is a dictator for a day,” she said. “It’s not just a change of methods, it’s a change of political system — a vast expansion of the powers of the executive, so that Trump will be able to rule as an autocrat.”
The New York Times worries Trump will remake government entirely. Trump “and his associates have a broad goal to alter the balance of power by increasing the president’s authority over every part of the federal government that currently operates independently of the White House.” Included within this broad sweep of powers are pledges to make it easier to fire government bureaucrats and “unilaterally send federal forces to bring order to Democratic-run cities” — which the Times sees as bad ideas.
And we haven’t even got to the “climate changists” yet. The U.K.-based NGO Carbon Brief said, “[A] victory for Donald Trump in November’s presidential election could lead to an additional 4 billion metric tons of US emissions by 2030 compared with Joe Biden’s plans.” Adds environmentalist Bill McKibben, “It’s like finding an extra continent full of greenhouse gases.”
Unfortunately, Trump would be messing with the weather for longer than his four years. McKibben continues: “If we elect Donald Trump, we may feel the effects not for years, and not for a generation. We may read our mistake in the geological record a million years hence.” Now, that’s power!
And of course, the fallback go-to is the reductio ad Hitlerum. James Carville compares Trump’s planned Madison Square Garden rally on Oct. 27 to an infamous rally held by American Nazis in 1939 at the Garden in the run-up to World War II. Trump’s rally, Carville says, is scheduled “to mimic the Nazi rally of February 10th, 1939.”
All of it, though, pales in comparison to solar extinction. Let’s hope we get a chance to see if Stern’s prediction comes true.
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