It Will Not Take Much
TRANSMISSION 16: A meditation on dominos
to go from Trump suggesting the midterm elections be canceled
to people hearing him say that and, through a game of internet-drunk telephone, changing the suggestion to a certainty
to Trump hearing them shout it and, through perfected grift, echoing it back as if it were truly their idea
to people hearing their echo and chattering the chant back and forth, simplifying, simplifying, simplyfing until it becomes the shape of an easy lie
to people saying “the elections are already canceled"
to them believing it with their whole terrified hearts, repeating, repeating
to Trump around midnight on November 3 watching Republicans losing nationally by a leftward 12-point shift
to Trump turning to TruthSocial and X and Tiktok and all his captured media, telling the country:
Look, I am only doingthe people’s work
the people want Trump
to stop the voteon these fraudulent elections
Trump was winning anyway
to Trump turning to the GOP, silently daring them, the last human part of him begging them even, come on, come on, there must be a limit to what you’ll watch me do, unconsciously pleading with them to stop him
to all of them bowing like beat dogs in submission
to Trump completely losing his mind, and with it all sense of mortality
to the United States building a new Gaza in the world and deporting into it a neverending stream of non-white peoples
to Greenland being something we take, took, was always part of the empire
to American flags sprouting like mushroom clouds in every country, on every continent
to a time of legionnaires and the collapse of many peoples.
