What, you have to fill out an application to go where they test your political opinions?
No to mention that bring against abortion and being pro-choice are utterly compatible positions.
Thank you.
I’m Catholic, I am against abortion, I am pro-choice.
The world is full of complex ambivalent decisions. To think otherwise is a kind of violence, and it certainly leads to actual violence. I’m heading the other way.
Every man who has killed a woman w/ his bare hands and malice aforethought owes his very life to a woman and that hardly stopped him. The tropes you spout are idiocy.
Please tell us what you are talking about?
That just having daughters, sisters, mothers isn’t enough to simply stop someone from doing things harmful to women. Men who have physically harmed women had mothers who gave them life and it wasn’t enough to prevent them from doing harm.
Trump’s daughters are no protection from him enacting harmful policies.
Thanks, yes - that’s what I meant. Every man is born of a woman but that hasn’t stopped some from killing women most deliberately, b/c it’s simply not a consideration they had. ‘I want to hurt women, but since there are women I care about I cannot.’ does not cross any man’s mind.
Oh, got it.
By the way, the marches? They kicked ass. My town of 60,000 had about 12,000 marchers. It was crazy. Peaceful, fun, people in wheelchairs, lots of kids and babies, a big Latina section, local native American dancers, the unions, amusing signs (“free Melania!”), a lot of men, and a veritable sea of pink pussy hats.
Every protest I’ve seen needs two things…a guy or two in a crappy wheel chair…and somebody tooling around on a bike made for kids (that looks like he might be homeless and or stole said bike).
There were lots of wheelchairs, although most had very old women or disabled children in them. Lots of strollers. There was a tandem bike, and a giant dove puppet (maybe a swan?) manipulated by three people. There were a lot of things.
My daughter went to the NYC one. She said the NYPD were very supportive.
I read an article that the Chicago march turned out 150K, so many more than expected that there were to many to march safely down the streets. So it was a “rally in place”.
I was at the D.C. March with some friends. The Metro was packed assholes-and-elbows as was the Mall. We couldn’t hear the speakers or see the Jumbotron they had set up. Still, it was wonderful being around a lot of committed, passionate people and the signs were attention-getting, to say the least.
That said, these things take on a life of their own. I have no trouble believing the estimate I saw of almost half a million people. I’m not sure any city is equipped to handle an influx of half a million people in one place.
My wife and I went to the DC March. It was the most people I’ve ever seen in that size space. Some of the usual right wing wack jobs I see near the Capitol were there (I work in the area). I’m sure there were left wing wack jobs there too, but it was mostly a jillion civil people taking a stand.
Just got back from the march in Portland-100,000 strong in the pouring rain. The police providing traffic control wore pussy hats and had a great time having their pictures taken with the marchers, and afterwards the tweeted that the marches made up one of the largest, * and least troublesome* of all the protest marches they can recall in recent history, and that there were no incidents to report.
I think Madonna had a couple of words for you…
Besides, don’t you think that a lot, if not most, of them come from blue states and Congressional districts that are solidly Democratic already?
More than 7,000 in my little corner of the world, decent for a population of 140,000. It rained, so as many umbrellas as signs, but the mood was serene. Very peaceful. We’re pacing ourselves… there will be many more marches, I think.
My sister, a friend of hers and I went to the DC March. It was wonderful, inspiring and I felt so much a part of this community that it was easy to handle the crazy, people-packed atmosphere. We were there in unity.
I ended up going to the New York march, sort of.
I was supposed to go with a friend but she bailed ( which I saw coming a couple of days ago).
Now the New York march was staggered , with people asked to show up at a specific start point at an assigned time (if you weren’t marching with a group you were given a time based on the first letter of your last name). But it seemed like a lot of people just showed up at various points along the route and joined up.
It was very cool. The subways were very crowded with most riders obviously headed to the march. There were a lot of families with children, a lot of men ( I’d estimate that the crowds I saw were about 40% male) and a lot of elderly people. And it was definitely an anti-Trump march.
I decided not to do the entire march, my start time was too late and i was going alone. So I took the train to the end of the march route and walked down towards the last entry point, having checked the map of the route. The marchers were in the street and there were spectators on the sidewalk on the other side of the barricades. The spectators were all sympathizers and many of them were carrying signs. I saw a total of ONE counter-protester, a woman walking towards the march with a Trump/Pence sign.
I watched from the barricades for a while, then entered the march for the last 5 blocks, then doubled back and watched from the sidewalk again. I loved seeing the turnout - I’m hearing numbers between 250K and 500K. It would probably be easy to undercount because of the way the march was spread out over time.
Probably 12,000 in my town of 60,000. Very peaceful and friendly.
Why arent people upset at the DNC for; 1. picking a poor candidate and 2. running a bad campaign?
Joe Biden would have won.
Bernie Sanders would have won.
Hillary MIGHT have won if they had actually had her out there campaigning or focused on the economy (which is what Bill told them to do but they didnt listen).
Instead, the campaign spent over $1.4 billion and LOST.
That is whom you should direct your anger.