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I don't know whether to laugh or cry. It's more absurdist theater at TOP. Here's the link (feel free not to check it out)"

We lick our wounds, we grieve, and then we fucking fight

President Obama, as the highest elected official of the Democratic Party, was suppose to run the DNC. Instead, he allowed the Clintons to control it through the appointment of Debbie Waserman Schultz, as its chairperson. I now believe she was appointed on the recommendation of the Clintons and Obama went along with it. Many of us celebrated when the DLC was disbanded, what we did not realize was that the Clintons had moved their operation to the DNC.

MSNBC pundits have been saying that Trump defeated both the Democratic Party and the Republican Party. Put another way, he defeated the status quo, the duopoly and establishment media. They also said this was a rejection of Clintonism, trade deals, centrism, all of it (a result, my dears, that we would not have if The Hillary had even squeaked in.)

Dear Democrats

You told us this was "her time" and if we disagreed we could get lost.

You called us misogynists and racists and showed us the door.

You drove us away, wilfully; with joy even, locked away in your little bubble of beltway bullshit.

We told you she was the weakest candidate that you could have put forward.

We warned you that she was intensely disliked.

We warned you that the elite were despised.

Bernie tweeted that Hillary will appoint justices to the Supreme Court who will overturn Citizens United, the case that allowed Billionaires and Corporations to spend any amount they wanted buy our election. My reply tweet:

• After watching the political, financial and media elite coagulate around Hillary!™.
• After watching The Donald Trump Show.
• After watching the complete and utter denial that any other choices exist by the party apparatchik.
• It will be interesting to see how many reject the common wisdom.

How many don't vote.
How many vote "other".

This election has been:

Abigail Austen transitioned ten years ago. At the time she became the British Army's first transgender officer.

Recently she and her fiancé traveled to the American South attempting to glean the state of the American transgender community in these times.

And she reveals a recent visit to the far-right dominated, notoriously anti-trans states, which support the Republican candidate, left her so traumatised she was unable to leave her home for two weeks.