The idea that people who predicted the very worse outcomes are actually just vigilant is insane. In the days before the election I had multiple people tell me that Biden would win but that it would be stolen and that armed militias would kill thousands of people in the streets https://twitter.com/davidfrum/status/1331057620518572033

Of course what just happened is bad! Of course Trump is bad! But at no point since November 4th has it ever been in doubt that Biden would be inaugurated on January 20. And literally for months before the election media made it seem that actual revolutions and shit were possible

There is a Radiolab from right before the election which you can dig up yourself where they say that it might all come down to who the military thinks should get the nuclear codes. Like, what the fuck game of pretend is this? People believe this shit because media places say it.

One man’s “terrorist” is another man’s “freedom fighter” and one man’s “paranoid catastrophizer” is another man’s “just being vigilant”