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And this morning Jmackdaddyfunk has just registered.
Welcome to the madness, Jmack.

Getting fresh faces into the Ranter pack is a personal mission and I promise you that I am going to extend the invites to people I know will make it much more interesting, and entertaining.

Jeff, I have a friend who I'd like to introduce to RR. Is there anything he needs to do (other than sign up)? Should I let you know when and if he does?

Please do, just PM me.
If we all go around actively recruiting, the Rant will enjoy a very nice revival, and God knows, in these times we NEED it badly.

Know what I like to say? "The Rant is truly a cut above "talking politics on Facebook". Because it really really is.

Girls lost.
What else is new.
Because she voted some ways we didn't like (me either), and she wore pants suits, and her voice was shrill (really?).
So. We said HE is better. A pussy grabber who likes to talk about it.
I won't even go into the other
because as a woman.
Why?

So wonderful to see you back, Olyve ((((HUGS))))

Because men can be pigs and some women like pigs better than other women. Many women are just not ready: An ambitious man is "up and coming". An ambitious woman is a bitch. And unfortunately women believe this almost as much as men.

Next time, Democrats should run George Clooney.

Got another member tonight, also a personal friend.
She should be showing up here shortly, goes by DSS but you can call her Dory.

I'm excited about the recruiting drive. Hey Olyve!

Good to see you here Olyve

Hi all. Thanks to Jeffery for dragging me in! I look forward to sharing and learning. I had so hoped to take "griping" off of my to-do list, on Nov. 8, but that might be out of he question for a while!

As an FYI, no one calls me Dory! I know she is a famous fish....and while I am a Pisces, and I like fish, my grandmother used to call me Dori, and she was the only one allowed. It's Dorian. (No relation to the man who sold his soul to the devil for eternal beauty!) I go as DSS when I do not know the readers, or hiding from the Man. : )

I am an artist (painter, sculptor, jewelry designer) who is in sales for a very large company. I have a home office. I sell hardware and software to car dealers.

I've been a political junky for a few election cycles. My late parents had been activists and they started and ran the Gene McCarthy campaign in my hometown in NJ, and were anti-war activists. My dad started the desegregation movement in my town. With the help of the local clergy, he was successful. I marched on Washington and NYC against the Vietnam War as a young kid.

I began working on campaigns beginning with Howard Dean, and then John Kerry in 2004.

I was actively working with the Hillary team in my suburban Philly area. If it is any consolation, we turned out record numbers of left-leaners for Hillary in my county, Philly and the neighboring counties. I have no idea what the rest of the state was doing. The HRC campaign micro-targeted too much, and did not reach its tentacles to WI and MI. When states are lost by 1 point or a third of a point, as in MI, it's heartbreaking. Winning a mandate while losing the election is particularly tough, given the winner. I'm sure he himself is shocked. Trump looks like he has seen a ghost.

It's one week since the election and I have not entered Acceptance, yet. I probably will vacillate between Anger and Depression for a while. I will not be someone who will say, "It's time to move on." There may never be any moving on from this result, and the temperature, now, has shifted. The country feels off its axis. I was reassured by Pres. Obama when he said our government is not a speedboat, but rather, an ocean liner, which he learned during the course of his presidency.

From some voters, I have watched the same dumb lack of participation, or stubborn sour-grapes explanations and sanctimony, over and over again, for far too long. Dems do not know how to win, and stay won. Repubs do. If anyone wants to know why the country has drifted to the right, they need only look at Dem part-time participation in the process, and a super-picky need to have perfect candidates. 2010. 2014. And now, in an on year. Unbelievable. Republicans obviously do not need perfect candidates. Look who they elected.

Meanwhile, I am so very upset at the sanctimonious old hippies who led the charge with naive youngsters, who decided our team was running "evil." Better education is the answer, but I sort of feel that scaring the sh-t out of people might work better. I hope they are satisfied with the result of their third-party conscience vote for some impotent third party who cannot help them. Their thank-you notes from Johnson and Stein are in the mail, I'm sure.

Leave it to liberals to snatch defeat out of the jaws of victory.

So this describes a bit about me, and where my head is at, these days.

Thanks for the invitation, Jeffery, and I look forward to chatting with the rest of you soon.

DSS