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There are a number of reason why Jeremy Corbyn and the Labour Party in England did so well in the recent UK election, compared to Bernie Sanders failed attempt to win the Democratic Primary, but today I want to focus on just one. In the UK electronic voting machines are not in place. They use paper ballots. It should come as no surprise, therefore, that many UK pols are pushing for e-voting machines for the next election.

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has called a special session, largely so he can push once again for the removal of transgender people from from participation in human society (i.e. Senate Bill 6).

The day after the U.K. election Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn was caught relaxing outside a pub in Islington.

Those dudes in the white sheets in Saudi Arabia, the ones ruling that country pretending to be king and princes and all that utter nonsense, are really pissing me off.

Today I was awakened by my iPhone chirping a new message from my news app:

Trump hearings launch Kamala Harris

Oops!

It seems like just yesterday that I published a diary about three retired generals (all women) counseled Defense Secretary Jim Mattis to push forward against conservative attempts to end all transgender military service.

Oh, wait...it was!

To quote Chad and Jeremy, that was yesterday, and yesterday's gone.

Today, as is my wont, I was wandering around the Way of the Bern subreddit, and I came across a thread about recent trolling of that site by Clinton/DNC supporters. One comment struck me as heartbreaking. A woman spoke about how she had been cut off by many of her wealthy "limousine liberal" friends, because she refused to sing the praises of Hillary Clinton.

Obviously things didn't go the way the Tories, the pundits, and the news media thought they would.
At the same time, the Tories increased their percentage of the vote to it's highest level since 1983, and will remain in power. So it's debatable to say that the Tories are The Big Losers.