Links: "This is fine"

[sonia]

I thought I had posted these before, I but I couldn't find them.
On Fire, the original "This is fine" comic by KC Green.
This is Not Fine, the sequel by KC Green.

These are the comics that come to mind when I think about waiting until the election in November to see if things get better. We've been doing that for almost 4 years, and things have gotten much worse than most of us imagined. (I thought it would be bad. I didn't think they'd dismantle the Postal Service!)

Comments

[jesse_the_k]

Helpful to centralize those crucial links.

Reading a long history of the US called These Triths by Jill Lepore and I'm actually slightly soothed by the fact that our republic has always been on fire and the edge of destruction.

[amaebi]

Remember those early days when people were saying, "Look, he's not getting any legislation passed!"?

[sonia]

Yeah? I'm open to being convinced, but it does seem to me like we're sliding off the edge of a cliff. Maybe we were always sliding, but I don't think we were actively going over the edge.

[sonia]

I missed that at the time. I was in a full-blown panic for about 3 months after the election, expecting the kind of chaos we're experiencing now.

[amaebi]

I am sorry for your painful sapience. :/ I was watching the courts and telling the sorts of people I quoted to do so, but I wasn't in panic.

[sonia]

Thank you for your sympathy!

My grandparents were German Jews who got out of Germany in the late '30s, barely in time. And other relatives didn't get out. So I don't have illusions about how bad it can get, how fast.

I have German citizenship as part of reparations for my grandparents losing theirs at the time. In 2016 I felt like I had to decide NOW whether to start over in Germany or ride it out here. I concluded that I didn't want to start over like that even though it was likely to be bad here, so here I stay.

In that processing, I gained a lot of sympathy and understanding for why so many Jews didn't and couldn't leave Germany in the '30s. Starting over in a new country and a new language is no small thing, even with the money and connections to pull it off. Both sets of my grandparents did it twice in their lifetimes. My parents and their siblings did it once.

[silveradept]

The scope is certainly broader than I had envisioned, but the amount and aim of the destruction is pretty much what I had in mind from when the results were announced, since this was one of those situations where I absolutely took him at his word on what he intended to do when elected. If I was surprised by something, it was that the party that elected him was that willing to throw over whatever morals they proclaimed they had to do the work he proposed.