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It's truly ugly out there.

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This piece echoes some of the feelings on the other side of the pond…

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/nov/06/trump-wins-election-consequences-despair-america

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And you know what -America gets what it deserves or at best what it is asking for!

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This too: “Most in the UK will be sleeping as polls begin to close across America, and may well wake up to the final result. Citizens here have made their preferences clear: 64 per cent want to see a Harris victory, according to a poll from YouGov last month, while just 18 per cent want to see Trump in office again.”

From https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/us-election-result-trump-starmer-farage-b2642183.html

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I am sad. I am angry. I am sick. But, most of all, I am scared.

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And in the end, all the monsters were human.

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i have always loved monster movies because i know this to be true. 😫

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American is f@cked. Putin and his minions own the country now because dump is too small Minded to know when he is a pawn.

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You didn't fail,Waj, corporate media did. They constantly made trump normal and never reported on the Biden administrations accomplishments,in real time. God help us all.Thank You for all your hard work before,now and in the future 🙏 Blessings this morning ☕ and will reStack ASAP. 🇺🇸

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We have to find the energy to fight, but it will difficult; we are tired.

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You speak truth to power. I’m numb.

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You are right and we know this is the same country our ancestors were dragged to by pirates. The pirates are still in charge and still loved by the old guard public.

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So we'll have to wait to see what gets chewed up, what gets spit out.

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Brilliant!

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thank you for this!

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It's gross.

I'm looking forward to seeing those exit polls.

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i m shattered. Hard times ahead for thise of us who are other.

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I agree with everything you wrote.

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CellyBlue- I do know this! -- As I am on travel, I cannot write much.

YOURS is among the very best, most substantive of columns, and your assessment of Jim Crow and Jane Crow is right on.

Yes, This is America.

Years ago, I would hear books read on the radio, which included diaries of soldiers of General Custer, who spoke of finding villages of First-Nation peoples ABSENT OF WARRIORS, and the Army used the opportunity to murder non-combatants -- women, children, the old.

It was cowardly and it was revolting.

So, if in 2024, race-baiting wins a national election, well, that IS our Nation, America.

The KKK and Jim Crow heritage is not, so far as I can tell, different from Nazism.

You have supporters, and I remain your friend, and together we build a community for "good trouble" (in memory of the loveable man, John Lewis).

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