Trump is still President-Elect. It’s been 3 days since the election.
Already foreign powers emboldened by his election are launching racist attacks against Black people.1
Already Trump has put Elon Musk on a phone call with Ukrainian President Zelensky,2 and with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and Argentina’s President Javier Milei.3 Musk isn’t just “sitting in” on these calls, but, by all reports, actively participating in them. (Can you imagine what utter conniption fits conservatives would have had if, for example, Biden had put Bill Gates or Jeff Bezos on phone calls with world leaders?)
Already the cases against Trump are pending dismissal, allowing him to get away with things other people would already have gone to jail for. 4
I’m continuing to see hate spewed all over social media from conservatives towards liberals and Dems. “Suck it, losers,” “Just wait until he comes for you,” “Haha! Make libtards cry again!” … those are the milder of the invectives hurled by Trump voters.
It’s only going to get worse, so be prepared. The news is going to come thick and fast and, just like the previous 8 years, there’s going to be so much that we’re likely going to be forgetting the things that happened last month - or even last week - as the next new horror comes along.
I’ll document what I can. And I think I’m going to maintain a running list separately from each publication here. Feel free to send me links you think I might have missed.
Sources:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2024/11/07/racist-texts-slavery-election/
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/08/us/politics/trump-musk-zelensky.html
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/elon-musk-trump-phone-calls-world-leaders-1235158569/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2024/11/08/trump-dc-criminal-case-suspend-deadlines