I’m gonna pack all my bags and change nothing about my life.
Same. Plan for the worst, but expect business as usual. Always a good idea to have preparations already made in the event that you need to gtfo on a moment’s notice. With all the natural disasters that occur in my area, it’s kind of a necessity, so I don’t even need the excuse of “What if Trump does a Night of the Long Knives?” to have a bag ready to go.
Chances are I’ll just be avoiding politics for four years so I won’t have to listen to the daily gaffes, blunders, and scandals.
Live in denial while our country crumbles around us.
We excel at doing fuck nothing when things are falling apart around us.
“As long as others are having a harder time, then we’re doing alright”
Don’t worry, it already is.
And when it’s not crashing down, it’s funding ethnic cleansing in foreign countries instead. Gotta keep the combo going.
Maybe be able to finally afford a house with all these people planning to leave the country. Other then that hunker down and deal with shit as it comes like always.
Before in the day presidents served themselves into gluttony. The red fox will always dig its own grave even in the face of mutiny.
What?
It’s an understatement to say that even with oranges and lemons that they each have their own flavour. This is what is said, but not done.
I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic.
Continue on as a wage slave hoping to get like a couple weeks vacation eventually.
Depends on what he does. Since I’m in the least likely demographic to be targeted (hmm, unless they start going through political groups I’ve been a member of), probably the same as I’m doing now. If it looks like there will be a civil war, I’d probably try to leave the country, but I guess that’d be too late, and I think a civil war is unlikely. I don’t think many people would be willing to give their lives for… the Democratic party? I think the U.S. will become more like Russia (fake elections in red states [ensuring the Republican party the presidency and congress forever], more brutal police oppression, erosion of rights, opposition leaders falling out of windows, and encouragement of vigilante “justice” against whoever the “enemy” is at the time). I think protests and riots would be the most people would do, and they’d likely be met with increasingly deadly force.
Since covid, I make sure I keep a few months of non-perishables and water on hand in case of temporary supply chain disruptions, and I have plenty of wood to heat or cook with if needed. If there is a severe economic downturn (which is likely to happen in the unstable environment Trump would provide), and I couldn’t find another well-paying job, I’d probably lose my home for not being able to pay my mortgage though.
I haven’t kept 3 months of supplies myself but I keep a list of people that do and that’s almost as good.
Lol. Yeah, I don’t consider myself a “prepper,” and am not preparing for collapse, or any violence really. Just temporary supply chain disruptions so I don’t have to rely on others, the government, and perhaps help my neighbors if they’re desperate enough to want my rice, beans, pasta, and canned food :) I’ve built up a 3 month supply of food over a year or so by just buying double of everything that I need, and when I notice I’m getting low on something, I buy quite a bit more. Water is from rainwater harvesting barrels that I normally use for watering my landscape plants and gardens in the summer.
I’ll sigh, shake my head, and think, “That figures”. And then I’ll go to work, like every other day.
This but perhaps crippling depression as well.
to continue to live my life
Organize more and harder.
Maybe do that now
Just die I guess
The same shit I did today
I already moved. It’s not just Trump that’s the problem, and even if he loses in 2024, or does in office, the issues still will persist. America needs to figure out how to make the judicial system work properly and norms need to be codified. Vast swaths of the population need to change their culture of “us vs them”.
I won’t be going back, the way things work with Republicans, you can’t just move to a blue state, you have to move out of the country.
Where’d you land, out of curiosity?
I imagine a number of famous people will talk about how they’re moving to Canada, and don’t.
I’m working to set up connections to folks in Canada that will be willing to relocate LGBTQ folks across the border.
Voting.
Local. State. Federal. Like I always have. I also moved out of a “shithole” state in the words of our treasonous former president.
With China having a severe gender imbalance and a massive generation (age) imbalance, it’s going to cause all sorts of problems for them soon. Big, big fucking problems. And Russia just had all their young men flee, die stupidly, or decide Russia might not be the best place after they’ve released shittons of violent offenders, lol. Russia’s future looks dim at best. Iran isn’t looking too healthy either.
So the bottom line is this: no matter where you go, you aren’t outrunning a shift to a multipolar world, especially one where resources like fresh water and food will be getting more scarce as climate change fucks the world and countries get more desperate, particularly authoritarian ones that are losing a tenuous grip on their people. That shit always causes wars, because humans are too fucking stupid to prioritize science in any other context.
Countries with democracy and immigration and the means to defend themselves and their friends are your best bet. Our fate and your own fate are intrinsically linked because of that.
