Americans, what's the plan if Trump wins the election in November? (serious)

I'm shocked more people aren't already better prepared for this, but it's actually the same thing we should be doing now, and continue to do if Biden actually wins:
Organize locally. Get hyperlocal. Organize your city, neighbors, block, building, workplace, and friend group. Establish mutual aid networks, take back city councils, county boards, and school boards from the stewards of landlords and big employers.
Establish protection for those who need it, and plant the crop of future national leaders who will do the long overdue work of putting government to work for the masses. Make it harder for any president or governor to exercise state violence by getting our people in prosecutors offices and judgeships.
The Democrats are not going to save us. Biden is just planning to go down with the ship. Absolutely vote for the lesser of two evils if you live somewhere where your vote matters, but recognize that the Democratic party is not an ally to the antifascist movement, because combating fascism conflicts with the interests of capital.
That can change, but until it does, don't put faith in them. Anything positive they do will be because power-players were replaced. And that starts in your own neighborhood.
Edit: Since this has been well received, I want to say a quick word on third parties: don't be afraid of them.
Without getting into a lot of details, there are a lot of myths about the risks that third parties present, but before we parrot all of that, we should just acknowledge that there is no harm in listening to their platforms. It doesn't make you a kook to hear ideas that often get suppressed by the mainstream, or to use third parties as a way to network and meet people. I think Jill Stein has a lot of useful things to say, and if a pollster asks me, I will gladly try to bump her numbers up so that she is harder to ignore. Don't be afraid to do that.
- This is good, and I'm piggybacking so I can add on:
  Get a passport, make friends in another country.
  Vote to slow them down, yell at anyone who tries to say that it's better to not vote or that Trump would be better for Palestinians.
  If you want to engage in electoral reform, you need to start years in advance.
  If you live in Texas: Vote for Biden and encourage GOP voters to not vote for Trump. If you're in a place with lots of GOP weirdos, try publicly and loudly watch his rallies at 1.5x speed; I've heard it breaks the spell b/c his cadence gets disrupted. If Texas goes blue, Biden wins and all the DNC voters suddenly know they can win, making it immediately more likely.
  If all else fails, remember someone might [Comment Cannot Legally Be Finished], which would solve multiple problems.
  
  Texas was won by fewer than 633k votes. Considering Trump's popularity I'd say it's ripe for flipping but we can't lay down on the job. Also the GOP policies are pushing out liberals and people that are vulnerable (LGBTQ+ and families with LGBTQ+ kids) so the window is closing.
  
  Get a passport, make friends in another country.
  Think it's worth mentioning that U.S. politics sets the tone of politics in a lot of the west. When Trump won, the alt-right parties in more or less all of Europe grew significantly. Here in Sweden over the span of the almost 8 years since, our nazi party grew from a smaller party that the right wingers argued whether or not they should collaborate with in order to create a right-wing coalition and win majority, to the second largest party in Sweden.
- You. I like you.
- Just be careful you dont get "Boeing"ed.

Project 2025 The plan the Conservative have for our future
This is for everyone that is taking the "oh well" stance... or the I'm going to wait it out stance... If you are unfamiliar with what the Republicans plan to do, I encourage you to look at the Project 2025 plan.
Some highlights
slash funding for the DOJ
dismantle the FBI
decimate environmental and climate change regulations in favor of fossil fuels
eliminate the department of commerce
ending the independence of multiple federal agencies
abolish the department of education
scientific funding would be limited to pro-conservative principles
end abortion nationwide
infuse government with Christianity
criminalize pornography
removing protections against discrimination for sexual or gender identity
terminating diversity, equity and inclusion programs and affirmative action
the military would be used for domestic law enforcement
the arrest and detention of undocumented immigrants
speedy capital punishment
Project director Paul Dans, a former Trump administration official, explained that Project 2025 is "systematically preparing to march into office and bring a new army, aligned, trained, and essentially weaponized conservatives ready to do battle against the deep state."
So, for fucks sake, can we stop saying that we can wait out Trump for another term. There won't be an America left if there is another term.
- Good luck with criminalizing porn
  Anyway it's sickening and shocking, apparently you don't need a coup and president assassination for the Gilead to emerge
  
  They already blocked porn sites in a couple states
  
  This sounds like a perfectly reasonable plan from the perspective of a conservative. Criminalize porn so people have to take the urges out elsewhere, criminalize abortions so rape victims have to give birth, and slash social services and education funding to create the next generation of uninformed, emotionally-driven voters.
  
  You’ll be surprised
- Swede here, we just joined NATO and this shit terrifies me, and what is worse is that this is what people are saying publicly, how far will they go in practice?
  
  Nah, I doubt they'll manage what they say. Some maybe, and shit'll suck no doubt, but there's a lot of inertia in the bureaucracy. My real worry is what the CCP & Russia will do once they have a green light that the US won't intervene in their expansionist ideals.
  
  Usually they go less far in practice than their promises, because our government was designed to be gridlocked.
- I think they do care, they've just been taught that their vote doesn't matter. This seems to be especially true of non-white people i talk to. How can we encourage people to engage? A meme or a list of concerns is not going to change their mindset when they've been manipulated into generations of apathetic resistance.
- What am I supposed to do then. I tried voting progressive and Democrat, I tried organizing, I tried donating and fund raising, I tried at the local level.
  And every step of the way the Democrats have gone out of their way to help move the goal posts to the point that my choices for a school board member we're someone openly racist or someone who is openly sexist.
  For president I get genocide or fascism... Gee really motivating me there folks.
  
  No, for president you get a lot of genocide and fascism vs some genocide with sprinkles of humanitarian aid.
  
  you get one choice that has shown he can be pressured with reason and public opinion and one that wants to commit domestic crimes with impunity, that openly wants to have his political enemies killed, and that has shown he can be pressured by Russia. You know, the country that swore to defeat the US from within.
  but yeah, both sides.
- slash funding for the DOJ dismantle the FBI
  these are good.

I don't think you can state the plan legally
- sic semper tyrannus
  
  He had the right idea.
  He came and he went.
- If I end up on try that jury, not guilty.
  
  Jury nullification goes brrrrrrrrrrrrr
- Tree of liberty is gettin' mighty thirsty.
- Oh man. I'm pretty non-violent, but Nov 2016, when my adult kids called me in tears, i had ideas swirling.

Keep doing what I have been doing - dragging MAGA fence sitters back from the brink one by one. The ones who have adopted Trumpism as their religion are too far gone. But there are a lot who just need to be taken by the hand and shown a better path.
When you see MAGA BS, challenge it with well-reasoned arguments. The object really isn't to change the mind of the poster. It's to prevent them from changing the minds of others.
- Yeah, there's a huge difference in tactics depending on whether you're trying to comvince the person you're arguing with, or the audience.
  The latter is soo much easier - often it's enough to back them into a corner where they out themselves as wrong whatever they say, and they'll quickly descend into a ball of rage.
  
  Making someone descend into a ball of rage is now how you get them off the fence.
- Thats what my brother does, but he is a cis het man who works in construction as an electrician. He is very left leaning so he does try to challenge things where he can.
  But I can't do that. I am a trans woman and confrontation legitimately would put me in danger and it wouldn't work anyways. People claim I am biased because I am in a group who is being targeted, its bullshit beyond belief but thats how people are.
- Can you please give an example of a well reasoned argument that's relevant here?
  I'm not sure of the relationship of reason to people that aggressively disregard objective fact and fluidly move the goalpost of their burden of proof.
  
  I like to ask who will replace the main stream media, and how that won’t make them the new mainstream media.
  
  Look up how to debate. Success is not measured by how bad you make the opponent look. That may work on one person, but you have to repeat it for every person who advances the same argument. Instead, take apart their argument, reveal underlying motives, expose untruths with irrefutable documentation, uncover false logic and bad assumptions, and respond without attacking the messenger.
  For instance, "The economy is terrible! Everything is so expensive." Well, stuff -is- expensive. But is the economy really the reason behind it? The US stock indexes are at record highs. Most companies have been beating the expected earnings per share. Isn't it more likely that things are expensive because companies are taking more profit to give to their shareholders? Which candidate do you believe is more inclined to change that?
  The object is not to defeat the opponent. It's to prevent others from being convinced by their arguments.

I’m torn on this. I’m “white”-ish enough, no kids, can’t get pregnant (or anyone pregnant) and I’m in the top 10%… so would anything for me fundamentally change? No…. I could stick my head in the sand and ignore it, but that’s really not me and it freaking breaks my heart to see all the people it impacts.
So I see one of three things:
Try to ignore it and keep voting blue and on policies to help those where i can
go one step further and put my money where my mouth is and help run an Underground Railroad for those who need to get to blue states while they still have the rights
flee to another country
I don’t really want to think about it, but it’s been at the back of my head.

Stick around and keep trying to improve the country despite everyone else's best efforts to fuck it all up
- This is my plan. I have to finish medical school anyways, and once I've done that, I'll be in a better position to help other people.

Same thing I did last time he was president. Ignore the news and spend as much time as possible in the woods on a bicycle.
- Whine about my taxes going up again. Cry laugh at John Stewart. Go defend my school board
- And if he gets what he wants you’ll just never return from the woods? The dude that reasons that presidents can kill opposition- literally
  
  That's my intention and I've been doing it for decades. It's kind of president-independent action.
  
  Al-Awlaki. The president can order the death of American citizens. The fact that we're pretending they already haven't is insane.
  They shouldn't be able to at all, of course, but it's what you do with a standing army.

As much as I fear what Trump will do to the nation it probably won't have much of an effect on me personally.
I live in a deep red state that's already about as corrupt and authoritarian as it can be, of course that's never really true- but it's not like it's being held up by anything Trump will target. The powers that be and a wide majority of the population are already fully subservient to Trump so it'll just be business as usual here.
I'm middle-aged, own my home, no dependents, all the childhood friends I've had that would be vulnerable already moved away and I have a pretty small circle of family\friends and not really looking to expand. And have a good position that's very insulated from economic and political turbulence. I'm also a cis white male and a gun-owner, I blend pretty seamlessly unless I tell people what I think about state\national politics. And I love the food and nature here. Also I kinda can't imagine job hunting at this point at all, let alone in another state. I'd like to live in a place that better reflected my values but I don't actually think that would help me or anyone else.
I'm established here and I don't really have any incentive to leave. Nobody is coming for me here and me moving to a Blue state won't help anyone there. And my accent has made people react negatively to me in the past and I'm worried I'd actually appear to be more of a fish out of water in those places than I do here, even though that's kinda what I've always been here. I vote, I donate. I used to volunteer but I'm tired now. Weird that I've made such a comfortable home in a viper den but we make lives how and where we can.
I know it's just my privilege to say this but no matter what happens in 2024 my life will be pretty much the same for the foreseeable future. Intellectually I worry a lot about the fate of the nation and humanity but personally I worry more about collapsing global trade and infrastructure fucking up supply chains and creating civil unrest that will effect me personally. But idk what to do about that but worry so I guess why worry...
- I’m in a similar situation. I have well developed social camouflage that will keep me under the radar. I’ll just continue to keep to myself.

Try to avoid being murdered by my neighbors.
- Living in a cop neighborhood is fun, no ?
  
  Living in a neighborhood with open Trump supporters feels like sitting on a ticking time bomb.

Step one: Buy a few firearms, for different scenarios (which should be easier under Trump sigh)
Step two: Go to work, home, and limit unnecessary errands, order for delivery more.
Step three: Practice marksmanship with various firearms. I have a country, but sane, friend of the family with a shooting range on her land.
Step four: Hunker down in my deep red state, because I hold non-christian belief's and I won't recant them on pain of death. Not because my beliefs "protect" me, but because as an American, I believe in freedom of religion and I'll die a proud American before I die as a Christian, my belief's don't matter compared to that. The protection of those belief's does.
- Buy the firearms now. Regardless of the election results, you may need them.
  
  Also ammunition. If shit really it's the fan it's a very tradable resource.
- belief’s
  Why the apostrophe?
  
  Every thing is some other thing’s thing

The same thing I did the last time he was president. Absolutely nothing.
- Correct answer. People thinking murder will magically be legal are insane.
  
  However, thinking that murder will magically be legal for a sitting President as part of his executive duties, is slightly more based in reality.

Spend a solid week posting screenshots of my comments on this platform about how the DNC is digging their own grave after they inevitably blame the voters for their loss just like in 2016.
- you blame people who a) voted for trump or b) didn't vote for Biden. simple as that.
  you want to blame the DNC because you voted for Trump/didn't vote for Biden? yeah, nah.

- Get a lesbian beard now would be a decent plan to consider. Just someone you can stand enough to have as a roommate.
- my social life is empty of anyone else I can depend on
  This is a problem that needs fixing regardless of who’s elected.
  Why don’t you have a support network?
  
  Why don’t you have a support network?
  Where does one buy one of those, and how much do they cost? Asking for me. 😂

Well apparently there are no negative consequences for staging a coop.
- Coup. COUP! It's not a fucking chicken house!
  
  He meant a co-op. A cooperative arrangement to leave the country
  
  I don't know, it doesn't seem far off.
  
  Well, as a real estate agent I staged a coop once but I still couldn't sell it. It was a low quality flip though.
- I mean do you like being woken up at 5 am every day? Because we had chickens growing up and it sucked. But with the price of eggs these days, maybe it's a good tradeoff.

If I had a plan to respond to someone horrible getting elected president, I would've used it long before now.

man fuck this i ain't have "flee the country" money

I really don't want to be here if it happens. Full stop.

Curl up in a ball and weep a salty creek.

There's not much to do except try to stay in my house and not engage with the outside world any more than I have to for four years.
It's also not like the Democrats are going to reign Trump in in any significant way. (Don't get me wrong. I'm voting for Biden, I just don't expect much.)
- You are making a lot of assumptions. If everything goes absolutely perfectly we might have an end in four years. I doubt it though. This man has already started dismantling our government with his federalist society stooges on the court. He plans to gut the executive branch so there is no Opposition within government. He has shown he will use violence to keep power.
  You don’t oppose fascism by being quiet. You oppose it by being loud and making it impossible for them to do their evil shit.
  
  I mean, you can do it quietly too. Spying and sabotage are also really useful.

If anyone needs help moving to the EU (and in particular Finland) let me know. I moved to Finland after 2016 (I saw the writing on the wall for awhile, before Trump - it's just that's when I finally had the best opportunity and Trump accelerated the need to move).
It takes less money to move than you might think to move. If you have a specialty (especially in STEM) it's really easy, and most jobs will even provide language classes for free.
If you don't, it's still possible, but it'll be much harder work I'll admit. You may end up as a janitor or laborer, but know this - you'll still be able to live comfortably. Wages can be much fairer here, public transportation is excellent to the point where you don't need a car at all, and you won't be bankrupted by healthcare. Even a low skilled SINGLE job will afford you financial security - something I remember was not the case in the USA.
And on the bright side, if you want to go to higher education here, university is a lot cheaper or, if you live long enough in a place to become a permanent resident or citizen, free.
If you get yourself at least 8k and 3 months of intensive Duolingo and maybe Mondly, you have a chance to move.
- Finland is one of three countries that banned my wife and stepdaughter's race by using a procedural "gotcha." Despite being a part of the Apostille convention in Geneva, Finland, Germany and Greece refuse to accept any documentation from Philippines. Therefore, they are banned from your country entirely.
  Thanks for the offer though.
  Reminder to all here: USA is not the only country on the planet with racism.
  
  Could you go into more details? I have friends from the Philippines (like, directly from there, never were US citizens) and they still even visit family every year.
  I'm not denying there's racism here - there is, especially against Muslims (possibly more their religion and culture than the race itself, since it's viewed very misogynistic and against Finnish values) and Somalians (this one is just racism based off ignorance). Recently against Russians too for, well, obvious reasons.
  But none of my Philippine friends have experienced racism, especially the ones with Hispanic names (there's Hispanic favoritism here).
  Of course, racism isn't why I recommend moving out of the USA to anywhere in the EU - it's the civil unrest, unjust work practices, broken healthcare, rolling back of women's and LGBTQ rights, corruption in government, etc.
  Are you sure it wasn't missing paperwork or errors? I'm assuming your wife doesn't have a US passport for example since you said all paperwork was from the Philippines, and my high school friend's grandmother mentioned Philippine record keeping, much like Salvadorian one, leaves much to be desired. Especially after Duterte's reign making things worse and not complying with other global governments, if this was 2016-2022.
  
  Is that race related? Sounds like an issue with paperwork from the Phillipines. Would they have been considered had they been a different ethnicity?
  
  Actually you'll notice that the counties with the best quality of life are incredibly xenophobic
- It takes less money to move than you might think to move. If you have a specialty (especially in STEM) it’s really easy, and most jobs will even provide language classes for free.
  Unfortunately I picked the wrong specialty (architecture). Still trying to get licensed by the end of the year, that's the only chance I have at another country maybe recognizing my degree. Regardless, it's not very in-demand.
  
  It is in the Nordics and some western Europe countries if you get some kind of green certification, as eco friendly and energy efficient architecture is in high demand to meet climate goals but there's a lack of architects specializing in that. Though from the news here it seems there's a lack of architects in general as it was seen by many as not the most profitable field for so many years, so ironically you kinda lucked out lol

Continue living in California, and probably not go to any red state. At least not with my wife. Continue to vote Democrat and spread progressive values.
- California is clearly the best state. It's like if you bought the EU off wish.com, but at least there's hope 😂
- West Coast is best coast.

Canada. Maybe northern Europe. But I live in a blue state and I don't want to see how long it takes him to say "states' rights only apply to those that voted for me"

Just try to live my life like I did during all the bad presidents I've had over my life. I grew up protesting against George Bush Jr and my friends still died in Iraq. now I just try to live my best life, and love and help protect others. I've always been lower class and on the outside of middle class suburban America, so I'm used to just going about my life, no matter what's taboo, or illegal at the time. Hell, DnD was the devil when I was growing up and I still played it. I still smoked weed when it was illegal, and I'll still love a man even if they say I can't.
- This is the way. Some things you have control over and some things you don’t. Don’t waste your limited life sitting in your house being mad about who the president is. Raise your kids to be good people. Try to find a job that lines up with your personal philosophy. Find a local community and be helpful there.

The same thing I’m doing now. The same thing I did during trumps first term and Bidens too.
Build stronger ties and more resiliency within my community, organize and agitate to improve it for everyone.

Find new loopholes to exploit. Adapt and overcome. Possibly buy some some snacks.
- Let's talk about these snacks
  
  Fruit by the Meter?

First I'll do whatever I can to be sure my communications and whereabouts aren't trackable, tell my friends how to contact me, and recommend they use the same channels anyway.
Then I'll find protests to go to and local campaigns to support however I see fit, and I'll do that right up to the point where I feel unsafe, at which point I don't know how I procede.
- This would essentially require you to not communicate outside of Signal.
  
  So be it, I guess. If that turns out to be unrealistic I would just have to be careful about the content of the messages I send. Discord and WhatsApp have to go, obviously, but I think I could convince most of my friends and family to download Signal if push came to shove. Maybe I could look into hosting a small Matrix instance if I felt comfortable with whatever risks would come with that.
  I don't think a second Trump administration is going to force me into complete anonymity, at least not overnight. I do want to commit to keeping my finger on the pulse so to speak, and staying a step ahead of whatever threats to my rights may be introduced. I have friends that would be much more threatened by Trump 2 than myself so if I can familiarize myself with these tools then I think I can help them feel safer.

Jump ship. Honestly, I’ll execute plan “leave the U.S. while it’s still possible.”
- Hope it don't turn out that's before the election. he's signalled every intent to clamp down hard
  
  You must realize he's pandering to the far right extremists. He had every opportunity to actually close the borders and realistically build a wall. This guy is so full of shit his eyes are brown.

In any sane world he’d have no chance. At least he’s shown enough incompetence and appointed so many corrupt greedy assistance, that he won’t succeed in doing as much damage as he wants, except to Ukraine. At this point it’s hard to believe he’s running for anything more than staying out of jail, making himself above the law
- Well, I wouldn't call the world we live in "sane".
- This time around the people surrounding him know what they need to do. It’s not like last time where they kinda tried to run the government with some pretense of obeying the rules. IMO should trump win this time they’re just going to go all-in and place themselves permanently in power.

Before the election we will be preparing bugout bags for my nuclear family and establishing concrete plans to flee.
After the election, if Trump wins we will monitor and be ready. At the first sign of trouble we get out of dodge. I have the ability to get EU citizenship for my family if need be. In the meantime, my wife and I have skills that can get us the privilege to move into some countries based on their employment needs.
My family and I would have reasons to be targeted by white nationalists if they felt empowered. I have received semi-threatening letters from such people in the past.
I hate that we have to think this way, but we do.

Just keep doing what I am doing. My kids will have citizenship in my wife's home country by the end of summer. So I can get them out if I have to. Me personally I am in no real danger.

Resist. Reorganize. Endure. Survive. Same as we've always done with presidents.
Idk what settlers are gonna do. Probably what they always do: whine, move to someone else's land if they're seriously inconvenienced, steal their shit, ruin that too, complain about how this keeps happening to them.

I'd like to think I'm not so backed into a corner that violence is the answer, so I'll do what I do every day of the week: keep my head down and wait.
If push comes to shove, and the lives of myself and my people are genuinely threatened, I won't retaliate in kind. I come from a long line of people that knew the benefits of blending in. I may not have the moxy to be a firebrand or to rally others to a cause, I may not have the heart to pull a trigger, but I have the means and skill to make triggers and the good sense to stay away from they places they get used.
It may not be the heroic sense of most Americans, but I was born into an America that sold us an action hero instead of providing us safety and I've never been one to buy rhetoric. I will not give my life for a cause, I will live to see it succeed.

Prevent it from happening in the first place my voting. It sounds like a lot of people have already given up before the election has even started.
- I don't think you understood the prompt

I'm a proficient software engineer and have the financial means to leave. I'm staying. 100%. This isn't a fight we can run from. If the US falls to fascism, there's a lot more damage we can expect around the world.
The plan is to increase the rhetoric and efforts already in place, but hopefully with more participation, as people (hopefully) slowly wake up to reality.
I had a buddy once in a previous job who didn't vote in 2016. His stance was that the system was "working as intended", and voting was equivalent to condoning the system. Not voting was his way of exercising his freedom of speech. I disagreed with his logic but I understood, mainly because I couldn't verbalize a valid and logical counterargument. Today I can.
My buddy was right. The system is working as intended. But you can't say that without also stating that, at our best, more than ⅓ of eligible voters don't vote. Couple that with a system meant to disadvantage large populations, and, yeah, the system is working as intended. I believe that our best option is to stay and fight by being politically active and encouraging others to do the same.
I also do believe in our fellow man. Trump has plenty of supporters, but I honestly believe they're outnumbered and endangered. This doesn't make them less dangerous. Probably moreso tbh. And even though they're outnumbered, the only way to truly push forward is to keep up the fight and not underestimate them. We need to be louder, fight harder, and make our voices heard when it counts. ie, vote.
- I'm staying. Just like I've stayed in Texas.
  But I also don't have kids. My sister left Texas when she decided to start having children and I support that decision 100%. This is no place to raise a child.
  
  My sister left Texas when she decided to start having children
  Those forced childbirth laws aren't working as intended.
- This isn’t a fight we can run from. If the US falls to fascism, there’s a lot more damage we can expect around the world.
  saying that it could be similar to germany during that one thing they did would be an understatement, considering how much bigger the US is, and how much more influence it has.
  It would be global, if not near global. The only good thing would be the fact that china and russia exist, and exist in significant capacity to do something about it (though it's debatable that they would) oh and india.
  I also do believe in our fellow man. Trump has plenty of supporters, but I honestly believe they’re outnumbered and endangered. This doesn’t make them less dangerous. Probably moreso tbh. And even though they’re outnumbered, the only way to truly push forward is to keep up the fight and not underestimate them. We need to be louder, fight harder, and make our voices heard when it counts. ie, vote.
  it's important to remember that the right is incredibly fractured right now, every party in the right hates each other. Unless everyone somehow collectively agrees, they will likely deconstruct themselves in part.

Try like hell to move across the pond or Japan.
- It was shocking to see how much better of a society Japan was when I visited. Really the one thing they don’t do as well as us is create shareholder value. To which I say, who gives a fuck?
  
  Every former expat I've asked says the same thing.
  Japan is for Japanese people.
  
  Hugely sexist country though. Maybe it's nice for men to move there.
  
  It' really seems like a great place to live. They don't seem on the verge of a civil war and aren't evil to each other. Has more of a everyone get along feel to it and who cares what you're into.
- I hope you’re Japanese or can pass for it. As beautiful as the country is (I loved it there) they are highly xenophobic and racist. There are literally restaurants where foreigners aren’t allowed in (even if you’ve lived there decades), getting housing in most places requires you to be “sponsored” by someone with a very high upfront fee, etc.
- Same

nobody's going to do anything. people always say they will but they never do
- One time I thought I did a thing...........but it was just gas.
- I doubt it this time. People are unusually riled up.
  There will be protests either way and they will be suppressed with violence.
  
  Screenshotting this for later.

Get ready for '26. Flipping/Maintaining the House and Senate has to be the priority.

So I just barely make it into the classes that do well under trump, but I’m very worried as the social safety net is falling apart for most americans, and that republican rule only speeds that problem. I’m going to be trying to strengthen resources that help people trying to make it to self-sufficiency, but I can’t overcome the typical american attitude of “I’ve failed because I need help.” I guess the best plan for most people is to take care of those around them, be moral and resist bad policy by quiet lack of compliance, and try to help good people get out of bad parts of the country so they collapse all the sooner.
- make it to self-sufficiency
  If a traffic accident can bankrupt you, unfortunately you're still at-risk.

Leaving the country and taking my kids in case plan 2025 starts happening.

I’m going to keep going to work, brushing my teeth, keeping my apartment clean, working out, visiting my father on the weekends. (serious)

Not sure. But my partner and I have an out, we will probably move to their home country and start a new life there if need be. It's kind of hard to determine when the right time to leave is.
- If things get very, very bad, this will be our plan as well.

Trump will eventually do something that gets between rich people and their money while also being an impeachable offense. The "sane" bussiness republican VP will pardon Trump after his impeachment and have him live out the rest of his life as a fox news call in guest until he died of "old age".
- If we're lucky he'll piss off his Russian contacts and end up falling out a window by accident.
  More likely is that this puppet will be used by bad actors to advance their agendas and as usual he'll distract everybody from the actual bad shit happening.
  
  If it's Russia, it will be a poison Big Mac.
- He just wouldn't follow through the moment someone told him his idea was bad for rich people.

"On Tyranny" by Tim Snyder has an excellent set of practical guidelines based on how it's played out in other places historically
- Here's a video on it https://youtu.be/19IhRaWZUl4

I’m in a blue state, so mostly help friends and family in red states. Specifically, help people access reproductive care.
Besides that, put more effort into local government.
- not when they pass a nationwide ban.
  
  Under what constitutional authority can they do that?

- Where to? Seriously, where to? I can't think of a single other country it would be feasible to move to.

Lots of head shaking and tsktsking but no real action

Move in with my friend in the Netherlands. He's wanted me to move even if Biden wins.
- I say Go Anyway. The Netherlands is awesome.
- What the fuck are you hanging around here for? Go live a better life

Laugh, fart, jack off. Probably simultaneously.

Move faster and work lots of overtime to get the last of my debt paid off then going to a friends place in Mexico. I speak Mexican Spanish well enough so I can avoid areas filled with expats.

Move to New Zealand. TBF, I'll probably move there if doesn't will as well.
- Welcome mate.

As an athiest, go get on Jesus' good side and hope for a better afterlife

i'll be ready to observe everything, and get a documented first hand account of fascism (assuming it happens)
Otherwise, i'll probably just shit and piss myself hoping nothing implodes. while staying very far away from the internet.
- ....................I really hope you're not in public when the results are announced.
  "LOOK AT THIS GUY!!!! HE'S SHITTING AND PEEING IN PANTS RIGHT NOW!!!!"
  Maybe you should just stay home. Spend the night on the toilet, ya know? Of coarse, you'll have to shut off the water first, and then flush away the remaining water first.
  I mean how ELSE are you going to shit and pee your pants, without making a big mess!!! If you don't shut off the water first, it's just going to clog the toilet and make it overflow.
  I mean really. This is day 1 stuff, ya know?
  
  damn, ok first things first. Name checks out.
  Second things second, someone here seems to be actively shitting and pissing in their pants, and i'm not quite sure who it is.

Same thing as last time.

Nothing. Like last time.