Greets and saluts from the NYC metro area. Thanksgiving is just around the corner, and we’re now treated to media reports of how this will be more stressful than usual because of the election - and providing tips on how to cope.

Seriously? We don’t need to cope. Trump and the extremists won. And there’s no excusing the behavior of those who supported Trump despite all the evidence to the contrary.

Trump continues to fall further and further behind in the popular vote. In fact, her margin is growing. 63.7 million votes to Trump’s 62 million.

The margin is slim in a few battleground states too, and the official votes still aren’t in yet but aren’t likely to break for Clinton:

Three thousand votes are all that separate Clinton and Trump in New Hampshire. The margin is about 12,000 in Michigan, 27,000 in Wisconsin, 68,000 in Pennsylvania and 113,000 in Florida — close, but nothing compared to the 537 votes that separated George W. Bush and Al Gore in Florida 16 years ago.

So, far from having a mandate, Trump’s limping into office with no mandate and an extremist agenda. Media outlets are spinning furiously to try and normalize his agenda, which is anything but normal. He’s surrounded himself with extremists, and he’s not even paying heed to the rules (such as even considering generals for positions when they’re prohibited by law from being appointed to civilian oversight positions). He’s got a neo-Nazi in charge of his propaganda/agenda in Bannon, and apologists for his extremism continue to carry his water.

His agenda is about exploiting anger, fear, and ignorance. So it goes without saying that he will push for the things that mean the most to him - tax cuts for the rich that shift burdens on to everyone else (all while claiming this will create jobs - trickle down’s incessant failures will fail once again, especially when he looks at tapping Kansas’ own Brownback for that role).

Trump’s shown a dislike/hate towards the 1A, and if there isn’t adulation, he attacks. We saw this during the campaign, particularly with his statements about trying to change libel/defamation laws to make it easier to sue media outlets - to cow them into covering him more favorably (hagiography seems to be his thing). We see it with Pence and his other top people pushing for disrespecting minority rights - especially minority religious rights and protections.

And it seems that the only part of the constitution he cares even the slightest bit about is the 2A (and oddly enough, gun sales are booming once again, even though there hasn’t been any gun confiscation by any elected officials of legally owned guns anywhere in the US). All those claims about Clinton coming to grab the guns was BS - along with all the other BS thrown at her.

That brings me back to Trump’s claims that he wouldn’t prosecute Clinton.
1) it’s not up to him. It’s up to the DOJ to decide (and Congress could take things up as well);
2) he’s already breaking a promise to prosecute/imprison Clinton.

All of which is to say that you can’t trust Trump on anything he says or does, and that you have to be wary of everything his cabal of cronies says and does.