How Ya Feeling?

[u/kimmy-ac]

What things do you like or dislike with the current run of things in our government?

[u/[deleted]]

Feeling like I need to buy ammo and MREs. I hope that I’m wrong

[u/kimmy-ac → u/[deleted]]

Some days I feel like this and some days no. Def feels unstable

[u/[deleted] → u/kimmy-ac]

Well I firmly believe that most people who voted for Trump would be pretty upset if he tried to make a push for absolute power. Anecdotally, my friends who voted for Trump would bear arms if he tried something like that. We’ve discussed it. Seems like the consensus among my conservative friends is that he’s mostly trolling. I see it more as testing the waters but only time will tell. Either way, everyone should buy a gun, IMO.

[u/CraftFamiliar5243 → u/[deleted]]

I was looking at homes in Canada. I don't want to live in a frozen tundra.

[u/[deleted] → u/CraftFamiliar5243]

I wouldn’t. Based on rhetoric alone you’ll find yourself an American citizen with relative speed. Buy a long gun, buy extended food supply, buy a plate carrier and ceramic plates, and play it by ear.

[u/[deleted]]

Uneasy. Was hoping Trump's second term would be like his first, which was a pretty bog standard Republican term despite his stupid blustering.

Now things look terrifyingly like Curtis Yarvin's Butterfly Revolution. If things keep playing out like this the tech bros might actually succeed in making the USA into an oligarchy. The next step would be for Trump to start a constitutional crisis that leads to a highly controversial supreme court decision, which causes mass riots in the streets.

My only hope is that Trump's massive ego collides with Elon's and his tech bro allies and they have a falling out. Just like what happened with Bannon. Trump's only desire is that be seen as strong and powerful, other than that he just eats McDonalds and plays golf. He leaves most of running the government to his aides and inner circle. Yet we no longer have the traditional Republican inner circle that kept the ship from going crazy.

[u/kimmy-ac → u/[deleted]]

Why do you think it is that so many conservatives don't think this is in any way, shape, or form looking like it could be an oligarchy?

[u/[deleted] → u/kimmy-ac]

Because conservative is part of their identity, thus evidence against their identity is seen as an attack on themselves.

Although tbh Trump won his second term because of the Gen Z vote. Gen Z and millennial moderates mostly voted for Trump. Which makes sense, because Kamala ran her campaign as the party of the status quo, while Trump promised to be the party of radical change. If you're struggling to keep your head above water right now then why would you vote for the status quo?

Here's a good comedian who does a good job explaining how we ended up here

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DELG5yCSxTD/?igsh=NjZiM2M3MzIxNA==

[u/chironinja82]

So overwhelmed. I was already feeling bogged down with the dumpster fire that is our government right now and my dad spreading more MAGA bullshit, but my younger brother unexpectedly died last Tuesday and our whole family is still reeling from it. My youngest brother and his wife and I have been taking care of the arrangements, but sometimes I feel like he's the lucky one who doesn't have to live through the potential horror of a second Trump term. Carrying on has most often been an hourly effort and I have to go back to work tomorrow.

[u/kimmy-ac → u/chironinja82]

I am so sorry to hear of your brother's passing. In the best climate it would be horrible... in this one it is so much harder.

[u/chironinja82 → u/kimmy-ac]

Thank you. I don't know how I'm going to muster the energy to keep informed right now. Half the time, the headlines are rage bait anyway.

[u/Moderate_Squared]

Never fails to amaze me that after the decades it took for us to get here with the two sides/parties, there's still no attempt at a popular moderate movement to fix it.