Well Shit...

Apparently we didn't learn our goddamned lesson between 2016 and 2020.

I'm going to assume that by the time this comes out, most people reading this will be aware of the outcome of the US presidential election on November 5, 2024, and that it seems we were dumb enough to put Trump back in the White House. As I was saying above the jump, it looks like we didn't learn anything from having made that mistake the first time in 2016. Even then, I think quite a lot of us realized that Trump was not a particularly well man in a lot of regards, and things have only gotten worse in that sense over the last eight years. And yet here we are again, in what amounts to a worse situation than we were in back then.

I'm not going to get into the reasons for that in any great detail here and now because there are already many more qualified sources out there giving those reasons all the coverage it needs and more right now, and I'm sure they will be very easy to find right now. I'm hoping there will be plenty of time for me to give my own takes, for whatever they may be worth, on these things when they come up, as I can all but guarantee they will.

If there's one thing I can say for sure about all this right now, it's that no matter who we are or where we might be in the world, we're all a million kinds of fucked right now because of this, and the thing that scares me the most about it is knowing that there's a very significant part of the population here in the United States who can't or won't see or admit to that. I had hoped, I really had, when I went to vote yesterday, that we wouldn't wind up in this position, but here we fucking are all the fucking same.

So now the question becomes what the hell are we going to do about all this shit? For now, all I can think to do is suggest that we get ourselves collected up and try to regroup as best we can in whatever way we can an try to figure out just what the hell we can actually do about this damned mess we've gotten ourselves into.

There's a way out of this shit. I really and truly believe there's a way out. I don't know what that way is right now or how we're going to get there, but I know there's a good way out that has mas many of us as possible alive and as well as possible. I do know we're going to have to work and claw and fight to get there, but we're going to get out of this.