I’ve been completely checked out for the past 2 weeks even though I called it when Biden won the 2020 nomination.
I’m still pretty numb, the worst scenarios that will certainly unfold I can’t even fathom to imagine.
We are indeed in the darkest timeline.
Being able to check out for two weeks post-election is pretty good, that means you probably also have the discipline to check out for even longer, something that many of us can’t seem to do.
It’s a sort of denialism and avoidance that certainly isn’t healthy because I’m in a constant state of malaise.
Certain subjects, like carbon fuel emissions and the impending concentration camps under another tRUmp administration are genuinely painful to ponder.
Fear is a hell of a drug.
IMO, main thing you need to do to maintain your sanity is realize that America isn’t special and never has been (slavery-> Jim Crow->Civil Rights Era but with huge resistance). Massive swathes of humanity, both present and past, have lived under authoritarianism. And even as a member of a disfavored group it can be quite boring and tolerable as long as you are not presently in its crosshairs. May be unavoidable that some of us end up in its crosshairs but just look at the chances of that as no different than chances of getting in a car wreck or contracting cancer. Yeah, bad shit can happen at anytime, c’est la vie.
Lutnik is who elon wanted for treasury but he gets commerce.
Yeah I hear ya.
I remember getting a fortune cookie from the Chinese buffet in college that said ‘Ignorance is bliss, you must be happy’. It still makes me laugh to have fortune cookies that insult your customers, but it’s basically true. And I was a true idiot in college and much happier for it. Anyway I guess my point is to stay checked out for as long as you can, bc nothing is getting better anytime soon.
I keep picturing Departed Matt Damon walking in to his apartment with Mark Wahlberg hiding in the cut.
Much of this is the death of privilege and imminent role reversals. Midde Eastern violence, the work done by Chinese citizens, how unkind history has been to everyday Russians are all examples of these reversals.
Climate change could even be a boon, in the long run, for poc worldwide by evening the playing field, so to speak.
Take heart! More Americans voted for someone other than Trump this election!
Hilary’s margin in 2016 is larger than Trump’s in 2024.
Here’s where we post about the 47th President of the US Donald J. Trump’s second term
We already have this thread?
If we do then let’s delete this one. I didn’t see an other thread
Trump has radically transformed the Republican Party, so much so they will give tax cuts to the rich by reducing funding to the poor
Moving money from the poor to the rich is the entire reason d’être of the Republican Party.
“And the team plans to stop issuing citizenship-affirming documents, like passports and Social Security cards, to infants born on domestic soil to undocumented migrant parents in a bid to end birthright citizenship.”
ww.nytimes.com/2024/11/18/us/politics/trump-military-mass-deportation.html
will they replace illegal immigrant farm workers with prisoners?
