I mean… yes and no. Pretty much exactly the same voted for Trump this time compared to last time. 11 million less people voted for Harris compared to Biden in 2020. This was a lot of things, but it was much less of a GOP victory than it was a DNC loss. Once again: world fucking champions at snatching defeat from the jaws of victory.

Their opinion is whatever makes the shareholders the most money

But like… not /s.

I mean… I think the message is pretty fucking clear, especially when you consider voter count for Trump barely fucking moved, but fully 10 MILLION less people showed up for Harris compared to the last election. People are completely sick of the often meaningless platitudes and lack of action from the DNC. The corporate capture of the party is obviously catastrophic to their electoral chances. In terms of corporate friendliness, there’s actually almost zero difference between the two parties.

I’m pretty convinced that inside of a year, Trump is going to try to use the DoJ and various other agencies to specifically target CA in a ton of fucked up ways, and that it might ultimately be a dynamic that sparks a serious movement to secede. Which would of course spark CW2 under Trump.

This includes specifically targeting Newsom and trying to figure out a way to politically imprison him. This will be the American version of the Navalny/Putin conflict, which ended up with Navalny dying in a Siberian gulag.

Doesn’t matter, the incoming department of education will make sure that will become a nationwide policy

I’m going to point and laugh at you when you realize that things are actually becoming an order of magnitude worse, and you finally understand that you’ve been pushing false equivalence the whole fucking time.

Here’s what I think is going to happen:

• someone’s going to bring a case to the SC that results in Obergefell v. Hodges getting overturned. That’s the one that legalized same-sex marriage nationally.
• this will be used as a test case to force the CA government to comply with something that openly conflicts with and violates the CA constitution.
• CA will be legally forced to comply.
• any civil disobedience or refusal from state officials spur more lawsuits to either strong arm or even straight up politically imprison CA state officials as punishment
• CA maybe tries to secede

Maybe that’s how CW2 starts, idk.

Tbh, this could also be done in the context of abortion rights with the numerous states that have passed that, but I think whatever is going to be used as a “test case” for this is going to involve CA, because I’m kinda convinced at this point that Trump and the conservative sphere want to try to make an example of CA to attempt to scare everyone else into line. Who knows. They see CA as a threat, because as a state, it has the 5th largest economy in the world when compared to other whole-ass countries. They want to bring CA fully under their control.

Dude literally said he was gonna “protect” women whether they liked it or not. I took him at his word, but clearly a lot of women didn’t.

Tbh, for me, I’m realizing it’s triggering a sort of sea-change in terms of how I, as a citizen, want to interact with American society.

Laws, ethics, human dignity and empathy clearly aren’t important to people here. Money and power are. This is fully incongruent with my personal beliefs in a variety of fundamental ways. I’ve tried to aim my career at areas that are going to help better society - that’s a big part of why I work at an oncology-focused biotech now. But like… I’m faced with the realization that this country just doesn’t share my values, and doesn’t actually care that I willingly take markedly less compensation than, say, working at Meta, and it’s primarily because I want to make the world a better place.

I admit it’s starting to feel like an abusive relationship. I don’t think the world is going to become a better place in my lifetime. It’s going to get a lot worse in a lot of ways. My initial reaction was to begin taking steps to just fully fuck off from this country, and find someplace else with a society that hasn’t fully eaten itself. Try to keep my sanity and ethics in one piece by finding a new society to call home that’s not America.

But I ALSO have begun to realize in the last couple days that there’s another darker path I could take that denys the society I’ve honestly come to resent pretty strongly the my true capabilities and abusive consumption of my efforts: Malicious compliance. I could just fully jettison my ethical guidelines and engineering principles and simply min/max the absolute fuck out of comp and just retire early. Work for Meta or OpenAI or some health insurance company or whatever the fuck is the absolute most lucrative job I can find and just fully shoot for leadership metrics, not really fucking caring about the toxicity of the management class, the morale or well being of my team, the impact my work has on society, the quality, reliability, and integrity of the code I ship, or any of that ivory tower crap I’ve previously held as crucial elements to my profession. Stop trying to move the needle in the right direction. All gas, no brakes. If this country is determined to not give a fuck, why should I? Why shouldn’t I try to get to a place in my career where I can just retire, or do whatever I want without worrying too much about the personal consequences, because I can just fuck off at my own discretion due to money?

And the second, darker option has the added benefit that I wouldn’t have to essentially abandon my family here, who are definitely not considering moving away as seriously as I am. My parents are both not in the best of health; maybe I should try to at least spend some more time closer to them before I just fuckin leave - or at least, as long as I can stand it here before the “fuck off and leave” route is truly the only viable option.

Post an overly obsequious yelp review? Believe it or not, also jail.

China’s 100% gonna shoot their shot at invading Taiwan in the next few years

Yeah wow good thing Biden waited so fucking long to do fucking anything with this

Yep. I’ll be genuinely shocked if Congress doesn’t start to look a whole fucking lot like the Duma.

I don’t think they will, because I don’t think they’ll be allowed to win.

To be fair, I feel like Jack Smith was absolutely sabotaged by his boss. Garland had ZERO interest in the investigations actually going anywhere. It’s part of why he waited so long to even get started on anything, and part of why he didn’t push back more forcefully against blatantly partisan judicial bullshittery.

But it seems there very much is an electoral mandate.

Yep, same. This election fully shattered any illusion that DNC leadership gives a single flying fuck about what the working class cares about. They deserve to collapse as a political party after shitting the bed so hard they lost to the fascist party led by a guy who literally shits his pants on a regular basis.

While I don’t disagree, that’s fiction, not history. We’re talking about historical parallels.

If you can convince the lowest white man he’s better than the best colored man, he won’t notice you’re picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he’ll empty his pockets for you.

-Lyndon B. Johnson