Great post! Thanks for sharing your thoughts.

I agree her baggage was a big problem "interview on The View wherein she claimed she "can't think of a thing" she'd have done differently from Biden had she been president instead" That was the wrong thing to say and she stuck with it during her campaign. People did not want another Biden term, so why would she keep herself close to Biden, dumb.

Anyway stay safe, focus on your mental health. I'm glad you didn't succumb to despair. 2 people from a friend's gay choir in Seattle took their own lives after the elections :( Tragic. They performed on AGT a few years back, now they didn't see the point in life anymore.

Things will get better again. As you said in your post, it's mostly reactionary voting against all the stuff that has been happening in the past years. Fallout of the pandemic, climate change wreaking more havoc and the current wars the US is involved in whether they want to or not. It was indeed too much to overcome, people want results now, one candidate promised immediate results.

And just as in 2016, a blitz of targeted add campaigns works. That's the new reality. With AI and other tools it's easy nowadays to send custom targeted adds to different groups of people to gain their vote. Fact checking is rare, promises are easy to make. Lying is the accepted norm now in politics.

Next 4 years won't be easy, but there's plenty room here in Canada if you feel like moving!

What say you SJ? Is there room enough in Canada even for me? I mean, my Nana's old home in Beersville, NB is an option for me....If all hell breaks loose in the USA.

...I feel like crying right now.  It took me days to compose that post and edit it to my liking and that actually is the condensed version. If you don't feel like reading it, just politely click the up-vote button in the bottom-left corner of the post in question and I'll never know the difference and feel better.

Please, don't misunderstand me. I appreciate your post.  But, it is lengthy. Please give me some time to digest it.  You are a good person.

Of course, we're mostly straddling the border. Most of the country is sparsely populated and will be prime real estate as climate change advances.

Our dollar is low, so your US funds will go a long way! But we do have higher sales tax (13% in Ontario).
PS5 Pro plus disc drive cost me CAD 1197, $849

Free healthcare! (Wait times are awful, but at least you don't have to worry about medical bills)

Thanks kindly. I'll be alright, I'm just not motivated to do politics much anymore. Not suicidal or anything, don't worry. This ain't my first rodeo. Life will go on.

So sorry to hear you know of people who've taken their own lives because of the outcome!

SJ, sign me up! My Nana's old home is on 40 acres, I'm sure I can work my way in. Just need Internet, perhaps I can make a deal with a neighbor with Starlink, that way, I can still talk to y'all on the VGC forums !

Go Jaicee! You got this!

At least you posted it! It's good to get things of your chest. So many times I have second thoughts and cancel a post or loose them by waiting too long (accidentally close the browser or Windows reboots)

Feel better, it's easy to fall into negative feelings. My wife struggles with that a lot, I have as well. But we always move on, look for the good things. There are lots of good people in the world, try not to focus on the bad ones. Growing a thick skin is still required in today's society.

I'm going back to the Burning Shores (Horizon Forbidden West) to distract myself for a bit :)

As one with ADHD myself, believe me when I say that I relate to not always finishing things you start. But I basically forced myself this time since I hinted earlier that I might write such a post summing up my broad feelings about this election overall and what its implications were and kept feeling guilty about not following through.

"Look for the good things" is great advice. That's what you have to do. You have to learn to accept the things in life you can't change and make the best of them. Definitely easier said than done, but it's an attitude you learn through practice. I have to keep reminding myself to practice that.

Speaking of games, it's times like these when I like to revisit my comfort games a bit. My main one is Gone Home, which I have replayed this last week, but really any of my top narrative games will do. Sometimes I just need a good story experience that's familiar and no-pressure to lower the blood pressure and take the edge off.

Well anyway, enjoy Burning Shores!