It makes no sense that they let this happen. Why just go along with it? Why not even try to use the power of the sitting Democratic administration to stop it? Why not push the trial to occur? Why not actually give a sentence with the charges against him?

There are so many things that could have been done differently. I've heard some people saying the Democrats wanted him in office, but I don't buy that. If that's what they wanted, they could have just done all the shit he's saying he's going to do himself.

I want to think it's some kind of long con to dismantle the Republican party or to innoculate us against authoritarianism as a society, but that doesn't really fit with his track record from the last time around.

I keep waiting for some last minute shit to happen and it keeps not happening. The Democrats didn't even try to argue that electoral votes for an insurrectionist were invalid. And now all these companies are rolling over to ditch any semblance of striving for equity before he even gets in the door. Not that I thought they were doing it out of the goodness of their hearts, but shit.

I've been meaning to get a passport but the funding for the nonprofit I work for is looking dicey for the next year so I'm afraid to spend any more than I absolutely have to in case I need it for rent. Even if I did go to Canada, do I really want to do that if he's just going to invade it anyway? At least now I'm in one of the somewhat safer states. I'd considered going to Europe, but what happens when I sell my car to get there and then war breaks out or my visa flops and I have to go back? At least now I'm mobile.

Something has to give. At least in WWII there was this alliance of liberal democracies and communist states to fight against it. What happens when all of them are just.. absorbed by it? Europe doesn't have the force projection to do much of anything even if they had the firepower and the political backing. I suppose there's still hope for the US military refusing to obey unlawful orders and defending the Constitution, but that isn't exactly the most ideal situation either.

I suppose civilian institutions might resist the worst of it? State governments? Even the more hopeful scenarios don't look great right now.

This is not where I thought we'd be a couple of years ago. I saw the first Trump term coming when the DNC put their foot on the scale for Hilary. I did not see this.

While we're here, anybody notice that all those Democratic vote spoiling accounts literally disappeared into the aether the minute the election was over?

Fuck.

See how important it was that they took their time to dot their i's and cross their t's? Just imagine where we'd be now if they rushed it!

She did her time and has been out a long time already.

No rent. Food, clothing, healthcare, so many other things taken care of. I can see how it might be appealing to some, even if it's not for me. Makes me wonder, what did she escaped from, that seems worse than jail to her.