We all deal with grief differently and sadly, we've had more than our fair share around here. My dear friends and fellow C&Ler's Fran and Nicole both lost their mothers this past week, and we're collectively grieving over the election of a openly fascist, racist, misogynist, xenophobic loose cannon who has promised to make the lives of millions of our fellow Americans miserable and who is currently surrounding himself with a bunch of right wing zealots as part of his transition team.

It's going to be a rough next four years, to put it mildly and more than ever, we need to come together and vow not to give up the fight and see if we can start to right this ship during the midterm election in two years. And in the mean time, it's going to be ugly.

I expect Trump's enablers in the media to continue to do their best to normalizing what is not, and should never be considered normal, and telling all of us how Trump has got a "mandate," even though they never gave the same consideration to President Obama who won his elections with huge majorities, and we find ourselves with another president who was elected without winning the popular vote.

Here's the lineup for this week's Sunday gab-fest, courtesy of the Orlando Sentinel, and to no one's surprise, it's packed with Trumpsters (Oh joy.):