David, not all mid-westerners are evil. I'm only a little evil. And my white-middle-aged brother was a big Hillary supporter.

Oh, I totally recognize that my reaction was irrational and unfair.

I'm just ready to dig in and fight like crazy against the massive teardown the Republicans are going to attempt.

For fuck's sake, they want to gut the EPA and sell off the National Parks. It's insanity.

Some useful summaries on Vox.

A nightmare for white working class economics: [link]

askye, it's not clear how they'll tear down the ACA. They probably won't stop it all at once.

One of the bigger problems is that Paul Ryan's been advocating all these horrible shitty changes to Medicaid including doing block grants to the states which was disastrous (for poor people) the last time that happened.

Attack on healthcare: [link]

Also they'll strip all the federal protections for LGBTQ people that Obama put forth. So it will be thrown back to the States and they will probably institute some Religious Freedom bullshit which allows companies to discriminate against LGBTQ.

War on LGBTQ: [link]

I'm planning on being as obstructionist and civilly disobedient as possible for two years and taking back at least one house of Congress then. Maybe both.

Two years of digging in and No Fucking Healing and No Fucking Coming Together and fuck you Vichy shits that want to.

If I lose Medicaid, I'm so screwed.

Thanks for the support, everyone.

I'm happy to be back at home with my family safe and sound.

Just physically and emotionally exhausted between the car BS and the election and worry about my wife and child.

Now that the adrenaline and shock has worn off the child is being overly-dramatic and whiny. But that's not surprising.

The tow truck driver that hit my wife actually had the nerve to offer to tow her back to his shop. She understandably told him to go fly a kite.

I realize that it won't just stop. But this is the only thing I can directly control right now.

I'm glad they are ok Kalshane

If I lose Medicaid, I'm so screwed.

I heard former LA gov. Bobby Jindal's name being bandied about as Sec of Health and Human Services. This is the guy who refused to accept federal Medicaid expansion in his state (a very poor and unhealthy state) - we had to wait until the new guy came in to finally get services to folks. Because, you know, Obamacare.

Kalshane, that's so scary. I'm glad they're all right.

I feel like I need to do something, but I don't know what I can do. Suggestions welcome.

I finally looked up my local results - they're pretty much what I wanted. Disappointed in the State results on the Death Penalty propositions. Nice to see that my county was 67% for Hillary. It doesn't matter, as such, but it makes me feel a little more comfortable with my immediate surroundings.

Left my phone at work again. Oops. I think that underscores that deciding not to drive to Tai Chi was right - I'm sure the actual class would be really good for me, but I'm physically and mentally exhausted to the point where getting behind the wheel would not be responsible.

Good luck, smonster.

Just got back from my volunteer shift at the plant conservation lab. That wipes me out when I'm "normal". Today on two hours sleep I'm feeling utterly beat. I'm catching up on socnets and emails but hope I can keep myself from breathlessly trying to find out more takes, more news...because I need a hot bath and sleep to function for a long day of chem lecture and lab tomorrow.

I haven't read through any post-mortem articles. I heard a little analysis on public radio on the way home and that's it. I'm bummed, anxious, and stressed but I know the fullness of this hasn't hit me yet. My mother was really devastated this morning. She was quiet about it, but yesterday morning she posted a photo of her clad head to toe in buttons she'd bought from the Hillary campaign. She did more work than ever to get my apathetic siblings to get out to vote (only 2 out of 14 didn't, one of whom can't because he's in jail).

I'm not on Medi-Cal but I'm on Medicare and SSDI and I do worry about what's going to happen with that. Given that my only other way to supplement my disability income is to sell off assets (bike, musical instruments, etc), I'm worried at what the plunge in the stock market is going to do to everything else that determines these things. So I can definitely empathize with those of you who are worried about the GOP dismantling ACA and how to get coverage with pre-existing conditions.

I find myself worried about me a lot (self-centered because I just don't have a family/social network I can absolutely depend on), but I also think about how this feels for people of color, Muslims, immigrants, etc. I've been thinking for months that I wanted to find some kind of working group on race. It's tricky to do, with lots of minefields, but I'm looking into it.

We do have a bit of good news on the local politics front and I'm really hoping that CA's general liberal lean coupled with its economic strength will help it resist or be resilient to the crap the GOP will try to do.