2024-11-08

Remain calm. But Prepare.

I've steered clear of reading or watching any news and will do the same for another week or so. I know what I need to know about him and his party. We know the broad strokes of what they intend to do. They've been open about their plans so we know at least some of the details. I'm guessing many of us are deep in thought on what to do next? How quickly will things develop?

As someone who has written pretty openly in a public blog, do I need to be worried as a member of the vermin class? How effective will they be in actually tracking people down? I'm a nobody and I doubt I have more than 10 people that read my blog regularly, so I'm guessing I'm low risk. Also, I'm a cis white male, so again, guessing lower risk.

Those most at risk carry their identity in gender, sexuality, and race.

Thinking about vulnerable people in red states. Will it take the new administration a year to ramp up? They'll come out of the gates at full throttle but they'll become more effective with each month in power. Will blue states be able to protect vulnerable citizens for any length of time or will they crumble quickly?

We are in that moment before it all begins. Our future selves will look back at the next two months and wonder why we didn't plan better. We'll wonder why we didn't take this or that precaution. We're likely being too casual in this moment.

Remain calm. But prepare.

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