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I’ve been watching the Women’s March television coverage this morning with equal parts amusement, irritation, and confusion. I find myself thinking that the rioters of yesterday and this sea of pink “Pussyhats” today are doing more for the Conservative cause than any amount of campaigning ever could.
I personally know (and like) at least a dozen women at the march in Washington and at least twice that many at the march in Indianapolis, and I’ve had many conversations about why they’re attending these marches. The main reason given is that they’re “scared” of Trump, his policies, and his presidency. Many of them seem to believe that we’re only days away from the forced childbearing of “The Handmaid’s Tale”. The actual cause for which these women are marching is amorphous…abortion (or, as Progressives nowadays like to term it, “reproductive rights”), LGBTQ rights, immigrant rights, BLM, etc. Basically, they seem to want to send the President and all of us cretins in the red states the message that we’re on the wrong side of history and that we’ll have to peel their abortion implements from their cold, dead hands
It would seem that the Progressive Left continues to misunderstand what happened on November 8th. We The People didn’t elect President Trump because we’re enamored of him personally; we voted against the constant finger-pointing, haranguing, and truly oppressive political correctness that has been ascendant in our public life since the mid-90s. We voted for the Constitution and a renewed observation of the Enumerated Powers. We voted to return to American Exceptionalism. Personally, I hope the Left continues their histrionics and shenanigans, reminding the rest of America why we voted the way we did.
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Bravo.
This is one more event in the Grievance Olympics. Who will take the gold — non reproduction rights or gender intersectionality? Does anyone really remember who took the bronze medal? Should it count?
Once I get my time machine perfected, I plan to go back and prevent Margaret Atwood from ever writing that horrible book. I consider it to be responsible for a ridiculously high amount of fearmongering on the left.
One of the few cogent moments on Bill Maher’s show last night came when he was speaking to Jane Fonda about the women’s march. He pointed out to her that Trump won white women. She admitted that she didn’t understand how that happened. She is taking part in the march today; it goes without saying that the irony was totally lost on both of them.
It would behoove the left and America if the marchers tried to figure out why Trump won.
“Never interfere with your enemy when he is making a mistake.”
Not the first time I’ve posted the following in the last week, but it is important enough to repeat:
Do your friends realize that by their presence they will, in effect, be advocating and supporting the following groups who are Partners of the Women’s March:
American Atheists
American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU
AFL-CIO
Communist Party USA
Occupy Wall Street
MoveOn.org
Muslim Community Network
United Progressives of New Hampshire (UPNH)
National Abortion Federation
Ipas
Southern Poverty Law Center
Trayvon Martin Foundation
Secular Coalition for America
Are the missions of these organizations included in conversations about the march?
… I wonder, Do they know? Do they care? Or is it part of their intent? Sad either way; because they may be friends with you but they are not friends to this country.
Honestly, I’m starting to get (or continuing to be) worried about the mass insanity that has infected the left.
I guess I knew it was always there, under the surface, but they used their smug self-certainty as a cork to keep it bottled up (most of the time).
November 8th came, and that cork popped.
I thought it would take a few weeks for them to calm down but it keeps going on, and it keeps getting more ridiculous.
What I’m seeing now is a completely unhinged daily meltdown over the tiniest of imagined infractions against their worldview. It seemed peculiar to me that every leftist I know used the word “dark” to describe Trump’s inauguration speech, until I noticed that every media outlet used the word as well. Every mention of America or patriotism was, to the left, a clear indication that American Naziism has arrived.
I am far less worried about what Trump will do (and I do harbor a few worries) than I am about what some crazed leftist armed with explosives or caches of weapons, and encouraged by a hysterical media, will do.
I don’t know how to get them to calm down. I don’t know if it’s possible. It’s going to take some influential, sober-minded, clear-thinking leftists to take their minions under control. Do any exist?
Afternoon Jennykins,
The only woman in Indy, I know, going (riding her bike) to the march is an English teacher at IUPUI. That department has a world view which is the typical leftist world view. Are the women you know who are going, young, ideologues, leftists? What lack of insight causes this sense of entitled victimhood?
Jennykins, well said. More lunatic demonstrations please.
I suspect that many are being paid to instigate/participate, so … probably not.
There are people on the right who seem to miss this one too.
“I said I would move to Canada if Trump won, but I’m just going to stay here and burn this garbage can.”
Also – Ashley Judd, you are a disgrace.
And Republicans . . .
Fair enough.
I dropped my friend and her daughters off at the DC Metro this am to attend the march. Her girls clearly didn’t want to go, and I felt bad for them. They had no idea what this is event is about, but I don’t think anyone else does either. If the signs are any indication, it comes down to that these women are angry that voters didn’t elect Hillary like they told them to. They remind me of the bossy girl on the playground at recess who demanded that her friends play what she wanted to play, or else. They are so bent out of shape about a crude remark Trump made on a hot mic 10 years ago? I think they’re really mad that his mistake didn’t disqualify Trump. Only progressives can have potty mouths and cheat on their wives. Those are the rules, and people ignored them. Let’s throw a big fit about it.
I posted something similar on another thread, but it may be more applicable to this one.
Why do the lefties seem irrational? The key is their unfortunate lack of a complete liberal (old sense) education.
From Wilson’s deep admiration for fascist governments in Europe to Obama the Goner’s ACA, the thread of fascist-leaning progressive government has been intact in our country until this election. Read Jonah Goldberg’s Liberal Fascism carefully to see how this is true.
Trump broke the thread and that’s the cause of the hysteria coming from otherwise sensible people. This is the face of true change, and the breaking of fascism’s long historical rise as the “right side of history” has imploded in their brains as would any other serious case of cognitive dissonance. They and their parents have been taught, or indoctrinated more accurately, for their whole lives, that Progressivism, Fascism, Illiberalism, BLM, and many other manifestations of fascism’s offenses against liberty, are normal. They actually don’t know what they don’t know, which I realize is trite, but it’s nonetheless true, which is one reason I think Trump emphasized that our children are being denied education in its true sense.
This is not the women’s march, it’s the leftist women’s march. If you want to see some real courage and a clear purpose, watch for the March for Life next week. Over 59 million Americans who would be 46 years old and younger are not on this earth because they were legally aborted. That is something to march about.
Coalition of the fringes. They make the Jacobins look positively catholic.
The Students for Life were at the march and managed to get to the front of the parade.
I have to admit I’m a little stunned by the turnout they got for this march – it really is huge. Lots of pictures here:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4142950/Thousands-women-head-Washington-protest-Trump.html
With all the talk of pussyhats I didn’t take it seriously enough. I saw hundreds of people marching in downtown Buffalo today. Biggest march I’ve seen here in a while.
I don’t think we’ve seen crowds like this since the anti-war marches during W’s term. I guess we’ll be seeing them regularly again. And as usual, the media will not show how many people are there from far-left groups and committing acts of violence.
I guess these are the 3 million more votes that Hillary got.
Well, this is off to a good start…
You’ll have to look hard because even if a million women show up it won’t exactly make front page news….
Excellent point. I will be interested to see what the numbers and coverage are like.
Yeah, my FB feed currently shows a seemingly endless wall of smiling faces topped with those godawful, ugly hats, captioned with self-congratulatory kudos about how “fierce” they all are.
Of course, I can’t help but notice that for the most part, it’s the exact same crowd that’s been wailing for weeks now about how hard it is for them to stop crying over the “devastating loss” they suffered last November.
So my take on the whole “Pussyhats” thing has now gone from “Ew!” to “Eh, if the hat fits.”
When I read the list of organizations in the background of this event, I’m actually very worried about what will happen when the Obamas come home from their vacation, with time on their hands and no restraints.
What about Obama calling tea party people teabaggers. I guess you can get alway with obscenities if you’re the first Arab American president.
Thanks everyone, I’m feeling much better now.
I must be old fashioned because I thought this was weird.