The election season is behind us. Congrats to those of us who supported Trump and my sympathies to those who are filled with despair at the news. Long live the USA 🇺🇸 What a joy it has been to find a connection to an authentic source of creativity within, and then to find another with an independent but aligned connection to their own source and to have that energy come alive in connection and bounce back and forth between us. From the phone call I made to Luca from Amsterdam in August where I told him "yo, it feels wild to say this out aloud but I think Trump is the right choice in this election" through now, we did our part in ensuring that @DonaldJTrumpforPresident got elected, especially important (in my perspective) to do so in the liberal bubble of Asheville in the swing state of North Carolina. I hope our words gave strength to those of you who were afraid of speaking up. I hope our words gave solace to those of you who were in panic mode about a Trump re-election, that may be, just may be, it's not as bad as you think it is. If you are still in panic mode about the results, I recommend that you listen to some of our perspectives on the "Progressives for Trump" podcast so that you may perhaps breathe a bit more easily. In this video, Luca urges us all to have our own predictions – whether you be optimistic about Trump's 2nd term or pessimistic – WRITE DOWN YOUR PREDICTIONS. So you can come back 6mo, 1y, 2y later and evaluate what you predicted and hone your capacity to predict effectively. This is the work of cultivating integrity. We'll try our best to come back and explore where we read Trump right and where we read him wrong Luca has drafted his own predictions here – https://www.facebook.com/luca.rade/posts/pfbid0tgBc9o6VHsSXH5YesSh4RzRh9PD8xPk1ULLsdNmnik6PiiSDgtUm8zcJTABDuKo6l In the video, I reference an intelligent-sounding economic doomsday prophecy that I encountered on Facebook, which in my view, seems to pick always the worse outcome at every juncture and assumes complete passivity from the President. You can see the post here – https://www.facebook.com/Jgtunnell/posts/pfbid02AC5JTn7R4NZU1kxM1N7vx3SwYPpfkPd6yo64qXovY67q5xVBDGCfRNRngtiA8yZXl (Both posts have been shared with public privacy by their corresponding authors.)

Firstly, the dude I'm having this conversation with is more than just a "Harris supporter" and I am more than just a "Trump supporter", but the limited characters available on the Internet require such reductiveness but let that reductiveness not seep into you as you watch/listen to this conversation. I have another video coming up on "abortion", where I share some reflections. This weekend I had a long chat with my sister where we discussed many things – one of which was the horrific 7 week abortion experience that one of her friends went through in LA. This subject is quite the intersection of all that so many of us care about and I hope that we can practice navigating conversations around it with care, awareness of what we know and awareness of what we don't know. #harris #trump #roevwadeoverturned #abortiondebate

This is the follow up on the conversation I had, emergently themed on abortion, with a brother who is voting for #kamalaharris this election. I get single issue voters through this content creation journey. As much as I feel aligned with many things that #trump has proposed, I get it why people would want to punish him for being instrumental in overturning Roe v. Wade. If that's you, I support you. At the same time, I hope that folks with a progressive orientation around abortion access – which is that humans should have the option to decide if they want to abort (in some cases) – move to the states/communities which have horrifically restrictive policies and foster the grassroots change required for the states to themselves change their regulations. In the long run, progress fostered from the grassroots seems to win out over progress imposed from top. There's so much more to talk about on this subject and I'm personally sick of the stalemate between pro-choice and pro-life bandwagons, both failing to represent and speak adequately to their shadow sides. #abortiondebate