What now?

I successfully avoided publishing an ill considered and profane rant here on Wednesday. I'll take that as a sign of my growing maturity. I'm never going to be able to write a clear and organized essay about the events of this week. So we are going with the unstructured bullet points format.

• A lot of people that fucked around voting on Tuesday are going to be very unhappy with the find out phase of their actions.

• MAGA thinks they won, but in fact we all lost. Well, not the billionaires.

• Billionaires are a policy failure.

• Spare me the 5000 word essays on economic insecurity. Over half of the country can't deal with a black woman in charge. It really is that simple.

• If I want to be generous a lot of people that aren't racist or sexist are okay with endorsing that as a policy if it saves them a few bucks on their taxes.

• I don't want to be generous. Not with them.

• After running for President twice and being President once, Trump has absolutely no idea how government runs. I'm looking forward to the MAGA Congressional contingent from Kansas and Iowa telling him to go fuck himself when Musk tries to eliminate or cut farm subsidies. All politics are local, so all cutbacks have to affect only other people. With any luck , the gridlock will lock up Congress for 4 years. This assumes Democrats don't eek out a victory in the House.

• It is perfectly acceptable to believe that your Trump voting family member doesn't give a fuck about LBGTQ people. This sadly holds if you are LBGTQ. When somebody shows you who they are, believe them. If any LBGTQ folks reading this need to talk, or vent, or whatever, shoot me an email. I'll be happy to commiserate, or just listen.

• Don't trust anyone that might be a fascist supporter. There will be (or maybe already is) a snitch line.

• Several states voted to protect access to abortion and also voted for the guy promising to eliminate abortion.¯\(ツ)/¯

• North Carolina punished the black Nazi but not the white Nazi.¯\(ツ)/¯

• On second thought, the NC thing makes perfect sense.

• It's not my place to tell anybody how to grieve, but at some point we all need to go from anger and grief to anger and action. I'm not qualified to tell anybody how to help. I'd suggest talking to the marginalized folks in your life and ask them what you can do to help. Lots of organizations are going to need your money and your time as they work to counteract the fascist regime and help protect those that get targeted.

• If your first thought about Trump's election was "Praise Jesus," you don't know a damn thing about Christianity.

• Posting on Facebook is not activism.

• Mark Zuckerburg was an active participant in the election results. Assume everything you've ever posted on FB, regardless of your privacy settings, will be available to MAGA persecution squads. I don't know that deleting anything on FB actually removes it from the database, but you should think about mass deleting everything you've ever put on Facebook and then use it very carefully going forward, if at all.

• Twitter is a Nazi bar. Stop fooling yourself that you are making a difference there and close your account, yesterday.

• The first Europeans that set foot in what is now America were Christian, racist, and sexist. Over 1/2 the county has failed to evolve beyond it.

• In Animal House, faced with the loss of Delta House, the Deltas went on a road trip. I'm doing the same.

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