1. Take over the Democratic Party and return it to the people. They have failed us miserably.

2. Fire all pundits, predictors, pollsters and anyone else in the media who had a narrative they wouldn’t let go of and refused to listen to or acknowledge what was really going on. Those same bloviators will now tell us we must “heal the divide” and “come together.” They will pull more hooey like that out of their ass in the days to come. Turn them off.

3. Any Democratic member of Congress who didn’t wake up this morning ready to fight, resist and obstruct in the way Republicans did against President Obama every day for eight full years must step out of the way and let those of us who know the score lead the way in stopping the meanness and the madness that’s about to begin.

4. Everyone must stop saying they are “stunned” and “shocked”. What you mean to say is that you were in a bubble and weren’t paying attention to your fellow Americans and their despair. YEARS of being neglected by both parties, the anger and the need for revenge against the system only grew. Along came a TV star they liked whose plan was to destroy both parties and tell them all “You’re fired!” Trump’s victory is no surprise. He was never a joke. Treating him as one only strengthened him. He is both a creature and a creation of the media and the media will never own that.

5. You must say this sentence to everyone you meet today: “HILLARY CLINTON WON THE POPULAR VOTE!” The MAJORITY of our fellow Americans preferred Hillary Clinton over Donald Trump. Period. Fact. If you woke up this morning thinking you live in an effed-up country, you don’t. The majority of your fellow Americans wanted Hillary, not Trump. The only reason he’s president is because of an arcane, insane 18th-century idea called the Electoral College. Until we change that, we’ll continue to have presidents we didn’t elect and didn’t want. You live in a country where a majority of its citizens have said they believe there’s climate change, they believe women should be paid the same as men, they want a debt-free college education, they don’t want us invading countries, they want a raise in the minimum wage and they want a single-payer true universal health care system. None of that has changed. We live in a country where the majority agree with the “liberal” position. We just lack the liberal leadership to make that happen (see: #1 above).

Let’s try to get this all done by noon today.

In a speech in the Florida International University, the former State Secretary urged legislators to take this decisive opportunity, in the wake of resumption of diplomatic relations between the two nations and the reopening of embassies in the respective capitals on July 20.

The US policy towards Cuba is at a crossroads and the elections next year for the White House will determine if we take a new course on this issue or go back to old practices of the past, she said.

We must decide between commitment and sanctions, between adopting a new thinking and go back to the deadpoint where we were during Cold War, she added.

She said that even many Republicans in Congress start to acknowledge the urgency to go ahead to dismantle sanctions and this is the moment when leaders must join this task or get out of the way of those who carry on with it.

She said that the blockade must end once and for all, to replace it by “more intelligent measures to reinforce US interests, and urged the Democratic leadership in Congress to join this policy.

A survey conducted by McClatchy-Marist Institute for Public Opinion released today found that 44 percent of possible electors prefer Clinton for president in 2016, 29 percent prefer Republican Jebb Bush and 20 percent prefer the controversial hopeful Donald Trump.

The Washington, DC-based Brownstone Foundation funded La Colmenita’s U.S. tour which will include a private show next week at the United Nations and performances at several venues in New York and San Francisco. For more information on the tour, which began in Washington, please see www.lacolmenitacuba.com

One of the plays performed by the children, ages 5-16, is inspired by the Cuban Five, a group of men imprisoned for conspiracy after trying to infiltrate right-wing Cuban exile groups engaged in terrorist acts against Cuba. For the cast of La Colmenita, these issues are very personal. Cremata’s father was killed in the 1976 bombing of a Cuban jetliner that was tied to extremist Cuban exile groups. “I am shocked that a U.S. politician would try and prevent a group of children from performing their art,” said Carlos “Tim” Alberto Cremata, founder and director of La Colmenita, which means “The Little Beehive” in English.

“She is treating us as if we were terrorists when the facts are quite the opposite. It is a small segment of the Cuban exile community who has used threats and violence to keep Americans and Cubans apart. We are simply Cuban artists who are coming to the U.S. with a message of social justice, peace and understanding. All we want to do is to share our stories with those Americans who want to know more about the things that are important to the Cuban people. Stopping us from doing that is, frankly, un-American.”

La Colmenita, named the UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador, has been welcomed in 25 countries and last toured the United States in 2003. This is the first time they have been able to obtain visas since then and were able to do so, in part, because the Obama Administration has loosened guidelines to encourage educational and cultural exchanges.

“La Colmenita is here because the Obama Administration and most Americans recognize that expanded communications, between our two countries is critical to reducing tension and increasing understanding,” Cremata added. Abracadabra, one of La Colmenita’s newest plays, is based on the case of the Cuban Five, who were sentenced to prison terms ranging from 15 years to two life sentences. Rene Gonzalez was released last week after serving 13 years in prison. Supporters of the Cuban Five have asked the Obama Administration to reconsider their lengthy sentences on humanitarian grounds; wives of two of the men have never received U.S. visas to visit their imprisoned husbands.