First of all, there was no general anger level in society like there is now, in 2000.

Secondly, the Y2K crisis was way overblown: thousands of IT contractors were brought into corporate murrica and in other countries to rewrite code so that the rollover was not an event. I had a hunch that the rollover from 99 to 00 was a big nothing and this proved true. I'm certain that any real time systems that needed to operate continuously (electric plants, sewer and water, etc) had been remediated and tested years before.

Thirdly the US is in multiple overlapping crises - financial/debt at all levels, cost of living, and political hatred, all at once. We had nothing like that back then.

I have an icky feeling that the sequence of events after the election may be political violence followed very closely (matters of days) by lockdowns, restrictions, and breakdowns of normal operating practices. Like COVID but accompanied by public pushback and violence.

I'm trying to prepare us for a short term crisis of inconvenience that does not turn into door to door pogroms. For example, if the power gets cut I can keep our freezers running. If the water supply gets shut down I can filter enough safe water to keep us going. etc.

If it rises above that level we're not that prepared (EG, no guns owned here.) My plan is a 1-2 month plan, not a 6 mo-5 yr plan.

We'll see if I am stupid on Nov. 5 or 6 and how much fuckery the American public will tolerate.

I think they don't know how to stop him this time. They've tried everything and their old cheating methods aren't working anymore. One false election move and the Dems are immediately called out and sued. Many will be prosecuted if they cheat. The Republicans now have zero tolerance for cheaters, no matter who they are thanks to new leadership at the RNC.

The Democrats know they have a loser candidate in Kamala. They kept Joe Biden for too long and then he blew it for them with his absolutely damning debate performance. They were busted and had to stick with Kamala after Biden endorsed her. Kamala is Biden's payback to the Democrat party and especially Nancy Pelosi who strong-armed him to step down. The fact that they chose him as the candidate in the first place doomed them from the start. They knew it was iffy but he was probably the only candidate that would allow Obama et al. to run the government from the shadows.

The journalists know that Kamala is a total joke, but their reputations are on the line. Kamala won't answer any questions and their audience is expecting answers. All they ever get is rope-a-dope from her.

I've always thought Democrats would fall back on Plan B and try to sabotage his presidency but none of their lawfare is working against him. Plus, they have to win elections in Congress. Its looking likely Republicans will take the Senate. I don't know about the House, but I hope so.

The Democrat party is dead. They had their chance to reclaim their roots with RFK, Jr. but instead rejected him. Inadvertently, they helped create the unity ticket that's made up of total garbage and deplorables.