Nope, nothing has changed.
Checked out of Facebook (that’s why I came back here). I don’t watch the news, although I am enjoying the new reporting style of calling out falsehoods in the lede. I won’t to listen to any clip of the President speaking as his voice and the words that come out of his mouth generally make me anxious. I generally feel a dearth of hope for the future and all of the things about this country that I care about, but I’m trying not to allow myself to wallow in the dread.
My parents were planning to move across states once both have retired this year, but are now questioning whether their previous financial plans which included collecting SS is still realistically going to happen. I can’t say if their social security is safe, but I can see they’re more anxious wondering what this administration is going to do.
I’ve set up monthly contributions to my local NPR station, Sierra Club, and Planned Parenthood. ACLU is next. I also subscribed to the digital version of the NYT. (I already had a WaPo subscription.) I have been more politically active on Facebook (and have been pleasantly surprised to see who this election has brought out of the woodwork). I signed up at swing left dot org to support left-leaning candidates in a nearby swing district in 2018.
I’ve given some thought to looking for jobs with advocacy organizations so I can do more to support them, but haven’t had much luck on that front yet.
Why are you people checking out of Facebook or closing your account or whatever?
I get to post at least 5 funny (in a sad, sad way) things our government is doing on a daily basis!
Paying WAY more attention to politics, set up monthly contributions to several groups, joined a local grass-roots progressive organization, contacted more members of Congress over the past two months than ever before in my life. It’s also, to some extent, shaped which texts I assign in my classes (loads more Orwell and Auden this time around).
^This, although that’s not the change. I discovered that truism in the 80’s.
The change is that now I’m avoiding Trump’s speeches, whereas the prior 8 years I was avoiding Obama’s speeches.
Slightly. I just don’t want to talk politics with anyone IRL. Not my side, not the other side, not any side. I just don’t feel like talking about it at all.
I’ve essentially put my whole household on a war footing. I’ve been acting as the communications head of a resistance group, my husband has been helping, and it seems like that’s all I do these days. I put out a weekly action items list which takes a ton of time because I believe in good quality solid actions with citations, none of that change.org bullshit. We’re planning rallies and that sort of thing. Plus, I’m still exhausted from the Women’s March.
Yeah, I’ve been reading a lot more news from a lot more sources.
This too. My dad (massive Trumper), had scheduled a visit for the Thursday after the election. It was not a pleasant visit.
My wife’s dad and brothers (all massive Trumpers), have taken the opportunity to needle her to certain degrees since the election. Sorest winners ever, IMO. Now, there’s a family function across the country later this summer, and all three will be there. The trip will likely cost us upwards of $5000-6000. We’re thinking we might sit it out; don’t really want to spend that $$$ only to have her dad and brothers stir up shit with us all weekend (yes, it’s just a weekend), when this would likely be our only vacation this year and it would eat into a lot of our needed home improvement projects.
I also don’t enjoy talking about it with people on “our side” either. I’m sick of having the bubble guts, and the less I talk about it, the more the bubbles subside.
In a novel I am writing, Hillary Clinton won the 2016 election. That now has changed and I have had to amend my fictional history timeline to account for a Trump presidency.
I am reading some political news on Facebook a bit more than I would have previously.
Other than that, no effect.
Refinancing my house before the banks get all fucked up.
Thinking about healthcare issues. Not sure what to do, but I fear they will get all fucked up.
Avoiding most news, but it oozes in so I get some anyway.
Thinking about how much we can simplify and get ready to live off of next to nothing if the economy goes tits up.
Yeah, similarly. I was planning to retire in a couple years, but the gutting of social security probably means that I’ll need a lot more savings and have to work longer. A serious recession is inevitable now that folks with a three-year-old’s understanding of economics have had all their checks and balances removed, and a depression isn’t entirely out of the question. I’ve taken advantage of the temporary climb in the stock market to move a lot of money out of investments and into guaranteed savings; I’ll be able to buy back in after the crash, and at least shouldn’t lose everything.
I’ve long since resigned to the fact that healthcare would be stunningly expensive (and perhaps unobtainable) until I hit Medicare age, but now it looks like that may be gone, too.
Like others in this thread I have to admit a little of putting my head in the sand. I read twitter much much less and I used to DVR Rachael Maddow but have not since the election. I will plug back in to RM eventually but I think I learned I can live with less Twitter in my life.
On a more personal level, I am worried if I should every lose my employer based health insurance (which for various reasons is not an impossible scenario), I will be stuck having to pay out the ass for COBRA like the bad old days instead of being able to buy a real insurance policy that is priced based on my income.
I didn’t used to grit my teeth when starting my car in the morning, counting out loud the number of seconds until I hear the words “President Trump” or “Trump administration” from the NPR announcer, so that’s one change.
Not much, mostly because I’ve already been doing the obvious (obvious to me – apparently others needed this clue-by-four to the head) things (like practice basic cybersecurity precautions).
I did get myself an appropriate t-shirt.
My wife and I are giving pretty substantial monthly donations to a number of charities and causes to offset the danmage he is doing. It’s enough money every month that it stings a bit which is ok.
I’ve also severed ties with Trump voters in my life. They were all people I was being polite to in the interest of keeping family peace. They won’t be missed.
Much like Dinsdale - no change.
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No.
I started carrying my driver’s license for even just walks around the neighborhood. I’ve stopped wearing my lovely colorful scarfs on my head and instead I wear a boring but warm pancake hat (I get migraines if my head gets too cold). I’m red/brown so could get misidentified as a Muslim or a Hispanic… something that used to only generate a laugh but which now could be serious.
We plan on doing a lot more canning, dehydrating and freezing this year but that really only coincides with the fact our fruit trees should be bearing a lot more than they did last year, we’ve been adding more raised boxes and we’ve added a few more types of wild mushrooms to our positively ID’ as good edibles.
A “form of venting”? If you mean venting as in “pissing in the wind”, then yes, it seems that many embarrassed, and angry, people have chosen to piss into the wind while they await the attempted 3rd coming of Hillary.
As far as having made any personal changes, except for shifting some investments around, I’ve found no reason to do anything differently.