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I don't have anything especially informed to say, but I want to blog online anyway to cope.

1. With the Presidency, the Senate, probably the House, and, importantly, the Supreme Court, there's no legalist barriers to fascism left in the USA. The system has some inertia and I don't expect to see project 2025 by February; capital doesn't like disruption. But any shakeup, like a climate disaster or war escalation, may now lead to power grabs that will make the Patriot Act feel like the good old days.

2. Similarly, I don't know how much the world's most powerful corporations will let Musk bring the Milei treatment to the USA. But Musk will be more powerful than ever and absolutely insufferable. For those who haven't been destroying your sanity by following this man, he's been full masks-out for a while about his white supremacism, routinely boosting literal Hitlerist Nazis and racist conspiracies. He's also self-destructing, and I have no idea if he will be in a hospital next year or history's cringiest Goebbels. I hope his own energy of "whatever is the funniest happens" manifests and results in Trump uncerimonously throwing him under the bus.