I live in a soon-to-be-embattled free state in an otherwise occupied country.

That's how most days feel.

However -- I believe that there are more of us than there are of them, and that history can turn in a day, and that sooner or later we will prevail.

And when we do, I believe this catastrophe will result in the nation taking a far more serious approach to our election process.

I also think Russia will regret this. I consider them a terrorist gang now, and a clear and present danger to the United States.

May we live to learn this lesson.

'You used to be stupid and kinda mean; now you're a treasonous mass murderer. Darwin Award 2016!'

That's my sign for the coming protests, although it may change.

What's yours?

Bloodthirsty pirates grow concerned with crazy new captain's desire to ram the ship into the rocks.

'We wish we had the old captain back.'

Film at eleven, unless the ship's already sunk.

I predict the Reichstag Fire is going to be in California.

Unless the votes are counted in PA, WI, and MI, that is.

Just lodging my prediction. Not rocket science. It's Trump Payback science.

The Reptile is strong with this one.

I heard the recount funds were lagging, so I donated again.

Gets more interesting every minute.

Never been more entertained. Well worth it.

It's possible the money I donated could save the human species from extinction. Oh, maybe it's all a boondoggle -- but for less than I pay for Netflix each year, I get to irritate Trump before the Curtain Falls.

Because &@*$ those haters.

So, Carrier just destroyed their brand. Forever.

Make a deal with the Fuck-Pumpkin, will you? Give him a victory lap?

RUUD. That's what I'm buying. Carrier is dead.

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/local-investigative-reporter-denied-credentials-to-trump-event-by-carrier

Is it wrong to call the friend of a Facebook friend a Nazi? I did that today.

Don't know him. Don't want to know him. Don't even know her, but she's an excellent progressive and a great artist. And he popped up on a post she made today and told her that he loves her art but get over it, Trump won.

'There's no racism or misogyny', he writes. 'So you can't use that,' he said.

And the N-word just flowed from my fingertips to the very first comment box. Just that one word.

And sure, it got a lot of likes. She's got a lot of progressive friends. And I thought about it all day -- this guy I don't know -- jesus, maybe it's her boss or her neighbor, someone she actually sees every day --

Yeah, wrong one way. In the larger sense -- the Burn It All Down With Vlad Crowd that are fronting for the tide of human blood coming our way --

I don't know. Maybe if some of those early Weimar Republic Democrats had bared their teeth in public instead of letting the fuckers grab the stage forever there might have been a few less metric kilotons of human ash back in those days.

'There's no racism or misogyny', he writes.

That man's living inside of Fake News. I can see that whole world through those five little words there.

And I only have one word.

If you're going to San Francisco --

Three Words: California. Democratic. Supermajority.

That is all.

http://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article117621153.html

Broadening the path to long-sought deals on affordable housing, transportation infrastructure and climate change, California Democrats have again captured a two-thirds supermajority in both houses of the Legislature.

Enough late votes were counted in Southern California’s 29th Senate District for The Associated Press to project that Democrat Josh Newman defeated Republican Assemblywoman Ling Ling Chang, R-Diamond Bar. The outcome gives Senate Democrats 27 seats, the supermajority threshold in the upper house. Assembly Democrats secured their two-thirds margin earlier this month.

Chang initially led balloting for the 29th, which is anchored largely in Orange County, but she slipped behind as officials tallied provisional and late-arriving mail ballots in the days after the Nov. 8 election. The latest update Monday put Newman 2,136 votes ahead.

With the victory, Democrats reclaimed the theoretical ability to pass taxes, amend political spending laws, move constitutional amendments to the ballot or enact quick-implementing legislation without Republican support.

I'm a little afraid of running across a vocal Trump supporter.

Because I'm afraid of letting my rage out. Never a good thing. I spend a great deal of time dealing with my father's 'gift' for murderous, intelligent violence, and the Event has left me with a too-thin veneer of civilized calm. I'm a large male with martial arts training, and I'm utterly grateful to live in a very Blue area (87.5%!), and to have no family or coworkers who will admit to voting for the Event.

That guy on the Delta plane? Would have been Sad. So Sad. Hijab denigrators? Proud racists? Better be in a large group, fuckers.

I feel for all the Blue souls in red areas. Think about them often, and send them Vibes.

I'm trying to moderate these impulses and avoid triggers. Meditation, exercise, thought-direction: anything I can do.

But I'm a primate deep down. We all are. Faced with a screeching baboon with bared teeth, it's going to be the fight of my life to stay remotely civil.

Goddamn it.

We're in the middle of an undeclared civil war. They're dreaming the most un-American dreams ever dreamed. They won't succeed, because they are by definition the Most Incompetent Among Us. Can't think their way out of a paper bag. Don't have anything but bad dreams and hatred in their hearts. They're grooving on this Fake Ascendancy -- by which I mean it's all based on methodically-planned long-term destruction of everything that makes America great -- education, diversity, civil behavior. They've been sewing these seeds all my life.

I realize that it's a trap, these violent impulses. It's the social virus that Vladimir installed in our culture. While we tear each other apart, Russia will rise.

Big test for me. Breathe. Overcome the primate. Endure.

And to my brothers and sisters awash in the hatred -- I think of you everyday.