Well, did you bother reading the WMW mission and vision statement? They happen to mention it there:
Anecdotally, it seems that a lot of the marchers are taking the “first step” aspect seriously, moving on to more sustained activism efforts.
Ah, the peanut gallery pipes up. Maybe you should read the document laying down those goals (cited above). But I’ll lay out a few others:
(Preamble: ‘Women’s march’ is a misnomer in itself, because there were a fair number of men there, and a fair number of all who were there because of their intense dislike of Trump, and secondarily to support women’s issues. Also, many of these have already been mentioned, in this very thread.)
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Reassuring the country and the world that there are, in fact, reasonable and thoughtful people who do and will oppose the election and actions of an unreasonable and unthoughtful leader, forcefully.
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Energizing the base to fight. You can say that there wasn’t an overwhelming amount of support for Hillary, but you can’t compare that to the very real disgust and discontent with Trump that runs through the people involved. There’s tinder for the fire, and it’s not just being created by the ‘lying media.’
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Organizing and mobilizing support (and, as importantly, money) to counter specific actions. For instance, PP is almost certain to go from government to public funding. It also currently dovetails with the first legal action against Trump of his administration, being filed today. Haven’t heard of it?
http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/315577-group-will-sue-trump-over-business-foreign-profits
There are just a few, and I’m sure you’ll have naysaying to do about every point. The thing is, it doesn’t matter. Negative Nancying may make you feel better, but it won’t change the realities, nor will it convince anyone not to fight, especially given your ideological track record.
Oh, we know he didn’t, But we infer that you found Obama completely untrustworthy for some reason. And yeah, he lied, and even admitted he was someone who would lie to the people, and had. A kind of admission I’m not sure how likely we are to get from Trump at this point.
I honestly haven’t look into either statement enough to offer an informed opinion on them.
…and look what I found in my inbox today:
“I stand with Planned Parenthood Emergency Guide” What you (yes You) can do to stand with Planned Parenthood.
This was from the Facebook Women’s March - New Jersey (Official)
I’m happy to see they’re not wasting any time and giving us immediate actions to take, the march wasn’t a flash in the pan.
Ugh, you apparently zoned out post election.
Women’s opinions only matter if they’re the opinions the left wants them to be.
Where are you getting the idea that the linked article’s author is saying that Trump-supporting women’s opinions don’t matter?
It’s very clear that the article author strongly disagrees with those women’s opinions and speculates unflatteringly about the reasons that they hold them. But that’s hardly the same as saying they don’t matter.
Read the comment to which I was responding.
What do you guys think: Did Madonna win herself a visit from the Secret Service?
I already did, but since you ask I’ll read it again:
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Nope, still not seeing why anything in that comment makes you think the article you cited is relevant to your claim about what “the left” thinks about women’s opinions.
:dubious: If the Secret Service wasn’t particularly bothered by Trump supporters explicitly speculating about assassinating Clinton if she won the election, I doubt they’re going to be upset about Madonna saying she’s thought about blowing up the White House.
Compare that to Madonna’s remarks in your own linked “Red Alert Politics” article:
Getting all triggered about Madonna, for Pete’s sake, making a hyperbolic and immediately contradicted remark about “blowing up the White House”, after they’ve blithely ignored far more realistic threats of terrorism from Trump supporters, makes conservative media look really delusional.
I’m not “triggered” by Madonna. I don’t really care that she said it, but the Secret Service probably does. They’ve investigated similar comments, mostly made by triggered leftist morons who probably don’t have actual intentions of acting on them, in the past. Here is another example. This guy actually got charged in federal court!
I don’t know if the report is credible, but Gateway Pundit reports that a Secret Service spokesman said ‘an investigation would be opened [into Madonna’s comments] but that the decision to prosecute rests with the U.S. Attorney’s office.’
It’s also probably worth noting that U.S. Attorneys serve “at the pleasure of the President”, so if Trump is as thin-skinned as alleged, he shouldn’t have much difficulty finding one that’ll press charges against Madonna.
I didn’t say you personally, I said “conservative media”, such as the “appalled and outraged” article you linked to:
If “Red Alert Politics” said anything remotely comparable in response to Trump supporters’ open speculations about taking out Clinton with “bloodshed” or “a coup”, I’ll be happy to apologize for misjudging them. Bring it on.
If they didn’t, as I said, their double standard makes them look frankly delusional. An elderly pop star admitting to thoughts of violent action which she immediately rejects and denounces is some kind of credible threat, while 2nd-Amendment preppers talking about “coups” aren’t? Puh-lease. :rolleyes:
It wouldn’t at all surprise me. The Trump Administration is apparently totally immune to any self-awareness concerning hypocrisy or double standards.
Thanks for the reiteration. I’d missed that (obviously) in the original.
If you’re evading you’re already losing.
Trump is angry because he’s Trump and is pissy that the march had more people than his inauguration.
The rest of us are amused at yet another lefty show of rage that claims to be more than it is.
A million liberal women marched. Now if it had been a diverse march, ideology-wise, that would have been something and a shot across Trump’s bow and the GOP as a whole. But since it’s just liberals, we can disregard it as usual.
Then why did you start this thread? Just to let us know you were ready to ignore “the liberals”? As usual? 20,000 people (not just women) showed up in Houston on Saturday. That was the biggest demonstration in the city’s history.
You’re free to ignore the whole story. Why not just concentrate on the Wonderful Things Your Guy has done since the Inauguration. Aren’t you proud of him?
:rolleyes: No, that wouldn’t not have been something, that would have been rush hour.
The entire point of a political march is that a bunch of people with similar opinions on an issue get together in a show of solidarity and organization. If they don’t agree on stuff, what’s the point?
I can’t believe I’m having to explain this.