The road to Gilead. Alas, some people will just go along for the sake of their own security, greed and/or need for power. The rest of us need to resist as best we can.

Elon Musk suggests support for replacing democracy with government of ‘high-status males’ | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/elon-musk-trump-harris-high-status-males-4chan-b2606617.html

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Sorry Ukraine
Sorry NATO
Sorry Women
Sorry Earth
-We failed you.

#politics
Guessing that:
1. Drumph doesn’t make it to 2028
2. Vance is way more incompetent
3. Unless GOP changes senate rules, they will never have 2/3 majority
4. Dead sisters/wives/daughters, raise in suicides by LGTBQ+, inflation/recession/depression? will at some point be issues
5. History tells us that this shit never ends well

“Like voters of all stripes who were frustrated with inflation, Latino voters in pre-election polls kept listing the economy as the top concern and believed Trump to be better on that issue.” MSNBC

Everything else about Biden’s economy was exceptional. Jobs creation historic, GDP growth larger than Trump, wage growth larger, stock market growth larger than Trumps, and our portion of the World’s inflation problem kept low.

So the expectation is Trump will do America even better. Sure. 🤔

I prefer leaders of the free world not be pathological liars, racists, fraudsters, adulterers, narcissists, climate change deniers, immigrant haters, and adjudicated sex offenders, but hey, that's just me.

We actually live in a world where nobody really has any authority over any other person or their decisions.

We can take actions and react, and other people can, too.

We can choose to believe in rules or laws, or we can flout them.

Someone can _force_ another person into a position or mislead them or threaten them.

But it's actually a free-for-all.

We _can_ however, _agree_ and promise to behave a certain way towards one another, and then _keep that promise_.

Learn to use your free will.

I understand that some people might find me a Debbie Downer at this time, but I think I'm actually giving the *hopeful* scenario. I am, after all, assuming that there still will be a country here in four years.

Several people have asked me how to support/protect libraries in the coming four years. Here's how, straight from a librarian: https://danialexis.net/2024/11/09/heres-how-to-help-libraries-in-the-second-trump-era/

#library #librarians #politics #reading #books