What is this strange, post-election feeling? Oh right – it’s utter joy | Dave Schilling

A decade of political misery does terrible things to the mind. Tuesday’s wins came with a sense of unreality Late on Tuesday night, the comedian Alex Edelman asked a poignant question on social media: “I know we’ve never had to ask this before tonight, but what’s the opposite of doomscrolling?” I don’t have a definitive answer to that, though I did offer the term “boomscrolling”, accompanied by a gif of the social media sensation and Costco enthusiast Big Boom AJ. Continue reading...

Dave Schilling · Fri, Nov 6, 2026, 5:00 AM
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What is this strange, post-election feeling? Oh right – it’s utter joy | Dave Schilling

A decade of political misery does terrible things to the mind. Tuesday’s wins came with a sense of unreality

Late on Tuesday night, the comedian Alex Edelman asked a poignant question on social media: “I know we’ve never had to ask this before tonight, but what’s the opposite of doomscrolling?”

I don’t have a definitive answer to that, though I did offer the term “boomscrolling”, accompanied by a gif of the social media sensation and Costco enthusiast Big Boom AJ.

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