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It comes to me at moments when the anger begins to reach a tipping point. Election "irregularities", Media Collusion, Federal Appointments to Donors. The Lies, The Hubris, The Corruption, and the impunity with which they do all these things

A fantasy of revenge against those who have acted in bad faith and have suborned our democracy. This would include donors, the media, the DNC, the campaign, and the candidate.

Am I leaving anyone out?

I have a huge amount of raw information on my FB timeline, which I posted in real time. Its public so anyone can get the raw videos being posted from the revolution delegates from the convention floor last night.

Staree Old Pirate FB Public Raw Data

The DNC hack has given rise to numerous articles voicing horror and concern over the possibility that Russian hackers under the control of Putin harvested and are disseminating emails that will embarrass and divide the Democratic Party and Hillary Clinton in order to aid the election of Putin fanboy Donald Trump. That's the gist of these stories. They all focus on this particular incident without broadening out the implications. But the underlying thesis is:

USA! USA!! USA!!1!!1!!!1!!!1

I expected chauvinistic propaganda from the Rs and the Trumpeters.

Not from Hillary and the Democrats.

I'm saddened, and in a way, frightened by what CiC Hillary and Gen Allen have in mind after Jan 20, 2017.

The first is of cruel and excessive punishment

Chelsea Manning may face charges relating to a suicide attempt this year, which could lead to indefinite solitary confinement or transferral to a maximum-security facility, according to a civil rights group.

The definition of The American Dream varies depending on the individual, but it almost always involves owning a home.
Which is why this should alarm you.

I visit a site called "newsmap" regularly because it gives me a high level heatmap of what MSM is talking about. Here's what today looked like:

http://newsmap.jp/#/n/us/view/

At some point today, Sarah McBride will speak for five minutes on the stage of the DNC and become the first transgender person to speak to a major party convention.

Preparatory to that event, Sarah spoke yesterday to Katie Couric of Yahoo news and Katy Steinmetz of Time magazine.

I am moved and inspired that there will be a chance for someone on a stage at a national convention to say that they are a transgender person. And my hope is that for anyone who is watching, who worries that their dreams and their identity are mutually exclusive, who worry about whether they can be accepted and succeed as who they are, that they can find some comfort and some hope in the fact that a person will be standing on that stage saying those words.

--McBride

We cannot all be in Philadelphia, either inside the convention hall as brave Bernie delegates making their voices heard on our behalf, or outside protesting in the streets. But we can do something else, especially those of us on social media, particularly Twitter and Facebook.

Here is what I am asking all of you with social media accounts to do.

ON TWITTER

This is Hillary Clinton's official twitter handle (i.e., her username): @HillaryClinton