For scooter and others who may be interested in how to counter the coming nightmare, I think Indivisible 2.0 offers a smart roadmap. We will almost certainly not be able to make it OK but we can make it better, I think.

The strategy, as I understand it, is to do all we can to take back the House and Senate in 2026. We work to delay and disrupt the Trump agenda now and to make him and henchpeople pay a big political price for what they do this term in the next.

Here’s the video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=db-Pvqa5SQE&t=2153s

Here’s the complete guide (it’s free).
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1o1gSdFWIUpw41O5zbaxedVsr6Xik5XpPd9FwqvXYu40/edit?tab=t.0

Agreed, Firefox.

But people need to be clear-eyed about what is about to happen. There is nothing normal about this situation and nobody should pretend that it is.

First, let’s not count our nightmares before they happen. Second, let’s be sure to financially support honest media.

The only counter is to have the documented actual facts, regardless of what Angry Right Wing propagandists try to misrepresent. Facts have not ceased to be facts. The judgment of history is going to be extremely harsh upon Little Trump and those who played these games to excuse his crimes, as well as the crimes committed by his followers.

In the present tense, sadly, there is no real way to counter the gloating and hate speech coming from Angry Right Wingers while Little Trump and those Angry Right Wingers control all the levers of power in the country.

It is fairly certain that multiple news organizations and public broadcasters will be losing their non-profit status as well as any funding they had been receiving – including NPR, PBS, Pacifica Radio, Democracy Now and many others. It is also fairly certain that newspapers like the Washington Post and The NY Times are looking at massive lawsuits and other legal attacks for being “enemies” of Little Trump.

We’re going into a fairly dark period of our history. The test of our democracy will be to see if we can come out the other side.

The level of gaslighting is astounding. Truly, I don’t know how we counter this.

Nice try by Fox.

In reality, Angry Right Wingers went into full tantrum mode as soon as it became clear that Little Trump was the loser in 2020. They screamed. They yelled. They pretended that Joe Biden wasn’t the President Elect. They pretended there were somehow massive examples of “voter fraud” even though there were none. They repeatedly tried to game the post-election process to steal the election after the fact. They created slates of fake Electors to try to confuse the situation and send the election to the House of Representatives. And when all else failed, they attempted a violent insurrection at the US Capitol on January 6, 2021.

We should remember that Little Trump never conceded the 2020 election, going so far as to champion dozens of frivolous lawsuits to make his false claims. We should remember that Angry Right Wingers have spent the past 4 years repeating the lie that Little Trump wasn’t the loser in 2020.

In reality, Angry Right Wingers have done far more than cut their hair. As is unfortunately typical for them, they lashed out violently when Little Trump lost.

In the current period, it is both understandable and appropriate that many Americans are displeased to see a convicted, unrepentant felon elected to high office so he can try to escape justice. And many Americans are more than uneasy about an open fascist coming back into power. The idea that Fox would attempt to make light of this situation is frankly sickening.

If there is ever a second edition of Jason Stanley’s ERASING HISTORY, this segment from Fox should be included in it. Perhaps there weren’t documented cases of Trumpers shaving their heads after the 2020 election, but, far worse, some of the Jan 6 insurrectionists were skinheads before that election.

Yep, it’s “1984” again. Anything that reflects badly on the leader simply never happened.