15. Kamala Harris conducted a really impressive campaign, so don’t pillory her. She got us to close to even and we owe her our respect and gratitude.
16. Lastly, the Swishkatz family has your back. We are not going away and we will not be quiet. In fact, we like our odds and now we know the stakes. Today was a major Thanos loss, for sure, but you need to get up again and fight. I know we can do this all day. And we will.

13. They will try to bring everyone to heel via their now massive power. Again, we don’t have to like it or cooperate. They won through tapping into rancor and selfishness. Fine. So be difficult. Say no. Resist. Don’t feel the need to be nice. In fact, be disrespectful. Lose people who tell you to accept this. It’s okay to be angry and fed up and disappointed. In fact, it’s required.
14. We can and will win again in what is a dark moment for progressives. The lives of our children depend on it.

12. Thiel was the one who first saw the awful vehicle that is Trump and now Vance, who is also the one to watch (and Trump now needs to watch his back too as his usefullness will diminish). Thiel has bought himself a government for very little and will use it to further his many troubled theories. All the second bananas around the erratic Musk are via disciplined Thiel. Go read his books to understand as he has spelled it out clearly.

10. Musk will merge X with Truth Social & take it public to benefit him and Trump. It is still a shitty business but a powerful propaganda organ. He bought it for this reason & will continue to use it in that way since the $44 billion he spent will yield trillions.
11. Musk is vindictive & loud, but he and Trump will inevitably war. Two malignant narcissists cannot occupy the same space for long. The person I would zero in on is the quieter (but not quiet) Peter Thiel, the true mastermind.

9. While folks like Mark Zuckerberg & Jeff Bezos have fiddled while Rome burns, Elon Musk remains a dangerous asshole, even if his bet on Trump paid off handsomely. He took a canny risk & invested to benefit himself & his cronies. We will now have to endure his toxic nonsense on blast. Make no mistake, he is Henry Ford of this era, bent and pathetic and ugly, even if he can land a rocket on a surfboard. He will be celebrated by some other tech leaders, but they are not safe from him most of all.

8. Tech companies, especially social media, along with gerrymandering & Rupert Murdoch’s angry, cynical news outlets, have combined to bring us here. Tech leaders abrogated their responsibilities to ensure safety on their platforms & regulators did too. This is media unfettered in a way that will be studied decades from now. They were handmaidens to sedition on 1/6 and are now just willing bystanders more interested in profits than anything, as I have long asserted. It was capitalism after all.

6. Do not engage in conspiracy tactics and disinformation as attractive as they are. They won across the country clearly because their messages resonated and were able to tap into an existing dark vein of the American psyche that has always been there. Hope works. So does fear. As I say about tech: Enragement equals engagement.
7. This still remains a divided county & that means something. Most of these splits are close to 50-50. You are not alone even if it feels like it. Don’t cooperate.

4. You may be tired & heartbroken, but that does not mean we can rest for long. The world spins forward in the end has always been my mantra, proven time and again, even if it goes backward at times in its long history (this is def backwards).
5. Thank you to all the anti-Trumpers who warned us all whom we have let down and who are now adrift for a very long time. We are all in danger in some way, but they will bear the first ugly blows that are doubtlessly coming. Continue to support them.

2. The other side will not be magnanimous in victory at all. Too many of them are the people you think they are, so no need to try to reach across the aisle & hope for the best unless you want to. (I hear their caterwauling, but not me!)
3. This is the red wave we were all dreading, just a few years later. It’s not clear yet what the mandate is — my guess is that it is economic and immigration issues rather than the truly bent ideas — but it is a mandate nonetheless, given how widespread it is.