It's 2026, after a contentious election, Dems sweep the House and Senate. Two years of Trump and his horrific actions made the "we're not them" strategy viable for the year.

The news media stars are suddenly tense and nervous or clearly medicated. All the things they said about the protests, the shooting of civilians, the economic crash, the diseases.

And then, plodding along, the Hollow Men and Women, they repeat their talking points.

Yes, we do need bureaucrats. https://www.stevensavage.com/blog/2024/11/yes-we-need-bureaucrats.html

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OK folks in the #bayarea especially #sanjose would anyone be interested in a #zine meetup?

Remember, whatever awful thing Trump does ask how you can use it as a tool to defeat him and his cronies. Action his choices.

The next 2-4 years are going to be painful lessons in the value of good project management and how to take advantage of bad project management.

So I want you to imagine another triple hurricane hits next year, worse than what we had this time. Multiple states in disaster situations.

How well will our news media report something that may "look bad for Trump"?

I've read a lot of analysis of how the Democrats lost, and a big part that is still not mentioned enough is our media ecosystem. Even when it is mentioned, it's not enough.

We have a commercialized, billionaire-owned media ecosystem that attracted many a syncophant. That is a huge battle and requires everyone engaged.

It's weird when people act like welfare or medicare or social security are some Great Crime Against the Natural Order.

I mean I can find jokes from China 2000+ years old that include reference to welfare programs, from rice to firewood. We've been taking care of each other in various ways since forever, otherwise we wouldn't be here.

Something not discussed enough is that whatever is going on politically, it's a race against climate change affecting very delicate systems, many of which are run by complete grifting idiots.

Considering the anti-vaxx crankery about to come down the pipe, I pretty much assume I'm going to spend winter 2025 barely going anywhere and masked up when I do.

What a lot of people miss is last winter was brutal in many areas, between RSV, COVID, and flu. With less people being vaccinated and less caution, with federal signoff on stupidiy, it'll be pretty horrible in 2025.

And that's not counting if bird flu gets worse.

Really think the California Separatist parties are bracing for new members.

Among the many concerns about the incoming administration is one of responsibility.

From how to handle climate disasters, to oncoming bird flu, to the inevitable backfire of tarrits, to community pushback against deportation. These kinds of events that will require sober analysis of goals, results, and impacts.

Which of course we won't get. Internet memes and pandering slogans don't turn the power back on when the Texas grid goes under, or vanish the bodies piling up from another pandemic.

If you're wondering who really won in the 2024 election, I think it's China. Russia is worn down and is now a client state. America is turning on itself and about to crash it's economy.

Meanwhile China, objectionable as it may seem, looks very stable to the rest of the world.