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So, in the minds of a majority of people of the United States, a racist misogynist with no concrete plans for policy is more qualified than a well prepared woman who used the wrong email server.

The dismantling of the American Dream that started with GW Bush, which was only paused and not reversed by the Obama administration, will start up anew. The car salesman convinced you to buy a lemon. Good luck getting it fixed under warranty.

Love to the many LGBT, ethnically unpopular, religiously unpopular and female folks out there. We're gonna need it.

And as for the half of you who put aside basic human decency on the back burner for the next four years: you are the reason I have no faith in humanity anymore. What little I had left.

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"Well, now. Gonna be a long trip."

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I've never seen Stephen Colbert like this. And the looks on the faces of the band at the end of the video are very telling, as well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9m2valF3s84

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24 hours ago, I went to bed, worried, but confident, of a Clinton victory. Tonight, I go to bed knowing we have a Trump presidency.

I'm seeing a massive "damnatio memoriae" of Barack Obama coming...the repeal of ACA (however expensive it may be for me, it was a good thing), the scaling back of LGBT rights, the rise (or at least public expression of closeted) homophobia, sexism, xenophobia and the slow transformation of the Republic into an Oligarchy.

Many of my friends are scared. Many are even making "escape plans." Others are battening down the hatches, getting paperwork, filings and processes rolling before the hammer comes down on them. Some others are considering going full on insurgency.

I am going nowhere. I survived being transgender in deeply machismo-istic 90s South Texas. I survived being LGBT in the GW Bush administration also in Texas. I've fought hard and loudly for what I have today. For what WE have today.

I will continue to do so.

And I hope you do, too.

We will survive, and we will succeed.