The Inauguration

[texas_ex2000]

They are protesting the loss of stature (in their minds) of being moral beacons. They feel that their concerns became secondary when the country elected Trump, which to some extent is true cause not everything can be the highest priority. This backlash is what happens when you invest in virtue signaling and the like. The reality is that 99% of their lives is not going to change under Trump.

Damm...that's a good analysis.

 

[texas_ex2000]

https://nyti.ms/2jKfTwd

From the NYTimes Style Editor. Melania looked ridiculously amazing. I wish Trump would take a cue. Lose a few pounds, clean up you hair around the ears, and BUTTON YOUR JACKET!

Honestly, all the Trump women looked very stylish. Am I the only one who really like Kelly Anne Conway's Gucci red white and blue dress? I don't know if non high-fashion people would appreciate it as much as Garment District professionals. She looked very beautiful on Thursday night.

WASHINGTON — In the end, she checked every box.

Elegant, unexpected dress? Check. Unknown designer elevated to overnight sensation? Check. New York brand? Check. Implicit message about cooperation and embracing the melting pot? Check.

When Melania Trump took the stage with her husband, President Trump, on Friday night for the inaugural balls, she demonstrated that, while she may have been out of the spotlight since the election, she hasn’t been sticking her head in the sand. She has been closely studying the vernacular of first lady dress.

In an architectural off-the-shoulder white crepe column with a thin burgundy ribbon as a belt, a high slit and a gazar wave curving from sleeve to hip and then down the skirt, she looked — especially when compared with the younger generation of Trump women, most of whom opted for gold-tinged sparkling princess gowns — understated and adult. Not remotely mired in the 1980s, though her husband’s look and rhetoric may be.

And despite rampant speculation about the designer behind the dress, she cannily managed to surprise the entire fashion world.

The gown was, according to a statement from her office, a “collaboration” between Mrs. Trump and the designer Hervé Pierre, a Frenchman who moved to New York in the early 1990s and eventually became creative director of Carolina Herrera, where he and Mrs. Trump met and where he worked on clothes for Laura Bush and Michelle Obama, though largely behind the scenes. He left that post last February. This is his first major dress under his own name (he does not yet have a full-fledged collection in that context).

 

[texas_ex2000]

Mr. Deez, that is what amuses me about the whole P***y movement. A few months ago these very same mothers were weeping (literally) on Facebook over Trump's comments.
"What do we tell our daughters? How do we tell them this isn't ok when the candidate for President says these misogynistic words?"
Flash forward to now. The same women are wearing p***y hats and T-shirts that read, "I'm a nasty *****" and "Nasty ******* get things done". How do they explain the hats and shirts to their daughters?

I have no doubt that their protest will be peaceful, but for the life of me I don't truly understand what they are protesting. Trump was caught using some gross language, and is (supposedly) pro-life, but other than that I don't see a huge "war on women".
My Facebook friends that are at the march seem to having a big, old vacation--hanging out in bars/eating out/having a grand time at the Peace Ball. The protest signs they have made make no sense. "Love Trumps Hate" type of meaningless slogans. The weirdest is a No Trump, Just Love with a black power fist. (All of these women are white as snow). Having fun is their right, as is the protest, yet I wonder if the money spent on this march would be better used supporting women's causes.
I'm sure there are many women's shelters, programs for battered women, single mothers, educational programs, etc. that could use that money, and it would actually make a positive impact on women in need, not wealthy moms with vacation days to spare.
I guess I'm a traitor to my gender.

Really, they should be counting their luck stars...they could have gotten Cruz instead.

 

[BevoJoe]

That was really a joke making fun of the "not all Republicans are racist, but all racists vote Republican."


It really pisses me off seeing those protestors base themselves at the Lone Sailor/Navy Memorial on Pennsylvania Avenue. Makes me sick to my stomach. If you want to protest and act like an asshat, fine. Don't do it at a Memorial to sailors and marines.

I agree with you. I don't care for protests or protestors to begin with, and these marches or demonstrations as often as not, turn violent and destructive as their personalities of the group turn from individual into a "mob mentality." But if there are going to be protests, which is every American's right, don't do it at memorials.

 

[BevoJoe]

Really, they should be counting their luck stars...they could have gotten Cruz instead.

Oh Lord!! That would have been awful to put it mildly.

 

[mchammer]

Damm...that's a good analysis.

Can't take credit, read it somewhere else.

 

[Mr. Deez]

Mr. Deez, that is what amuses me about the whole P***y movement. A few months ago these very same mothers were weeping (literally) on Facebook over Trump's comments.
"What do we tell our daughters? How do we tell them this isn't ok when the candidate for President says these misogynistic words?"
Flash forward to now. The same women are wearing p***y hats and T-shirts that read, "I'm a nasty *****" and "Nasty ******* get things done". How do they explain the hats and shirts to their daughters?

Two things. First, they never really cared about the misogyny. They cared about the politics. That's why they were OK with Bill Clinton being a colossal pig (at least as bad as Trump) but thought Mitt Romney (who was a gentleman) was anti-woman. Second, they're going to tell their daughters that they wore the idiotic hats and t-shirts with the coarse language as an act of protest and as a sign of solidarity with other women and sisterhood (a little like black folks who drop n-bombs around each other).

By the way, I found out today that my cousin is at the DC rally and posted a photo of herself wearing the hat. Ugh.

I have no doubt that their protest will be peaceful, but for the life of me I don't truly understand what they are protesting. Trump was caught using some gross language, and is (supposedly) pro-life, but other than that I don't see a huge "war on women".

But that's everything (or at least 90 percent of it). The "war on women" narrative is all about abortion and issues connected or related to abortion. They bring up equal pay to try to give the illusion that it's not all about abortion, but it's all about abortion. If you are pro-life, then you are a combatant in the "war on women." It's that simple.

I'm sure there are many women's shelters, programs for battered women, single mothers, educational programs, etc. that could use that money, and it would actually make a positive impact on women in need, not wealthy moms with vacation days to spare.

Very true, but donating money to the worthy charitable causes you mention doesn't serve a political agenda and present opportunities for self-aggrandizement. It just helps women who are in need. They care about doing the former, not the latter.

I guess I'm a traitor to my gender.

Or you're a person guided by real principles that aren't easily shaken by the cheap and shallow allure of identity politics.

 

[mchammer]

I think I get this. On one side, you have women who would prefer to be touched by a billionaire and on the other side there are women who would not (plus not be associated with Republican government and pro-life policies). This march is for the latter half to remind themselves that they are not the former half.

 

[UTChE96]

The party of NOOOOOOOOOO!!!

 

[Mr. Deez]

Yep. All about abortion. Link.

 

[Horn6721]

Isn't Trump pro choice ? Or at least he has said Roe blade is the law and he has never said anything about working to change that.

 

[Mr. Deez]

Isn't Trump pro choice ? Or at least he has said Roe blade is the law and he has never said anything about working to change that.

His most recent comments indicate that he's pro life and would appoint pro life justices. Link.

 

[Sangre Naranjada]

Appointing pro life justices is not the same as being anti-woman (whatever the hell that means).

 

[Mr. Deez]

Appointing pro life justices is not the same as being anti-woman (whatever the hell that means).

Of course it's not, but saying that it is the same motivates radical feminist types to vote Democratic.

 

[Joe Fan]

 

[Joe Fan]

SNL skit on Obama
so weird
even the handful of liberals whose brain is not fully eaten by bugs from outer space think it was weird

 

[Joe Fan]

 

[Joe Fan]

Why do lefties think its OK for them to attack 10 year old kids?
The top one is an SNL writer

 

[Joe Fan]

Not allowed in polling places, schools, gov’t buildings?
Bars?
Air travel?
License required to be in public?
Some sizes illegal?

 

[Joe Fan]

 

[Joe Fan]

here, another 'progressive' hits woman in the face

 

[Joe Fan]

language

Spoiler

 

[Joe Fan]

 

[Phil Elliott]

here, another 'progressive' hits woman in the face

I love how she called them "victim blamers" when they protected the guy. So much for defeating the "war on women".

 

[Seattle Husker]

Everyone is oversimplifying the Womxn's march if you think it's only about abortion. Yes, that is clearly a core issue and Trump would be best served to not poke the bear by defunding Planned Parenthood.

Still, Trump's views on women are much more than his abortion stance. You'd have to disregard the multitude of sexual harassment claims against him, the Billy Bush tape, the comments on the Howard Stern show, the treatment of Carly Fiorina and others to believe that he doesn't have a misogynistic view of women. Ivanka Trump is one of the only arguments against this and in this case you can clearly see that family trumps other views.

My prevailing thoughts from the Womxn's march is that HRC couldn't rally that support. That's the failure in her campaign. She couldn't realize that potential. I'm sure the Dem's are already trying to figure out how to tap into it. Their future success may depend on it.

 

[texas_ex2000]

here, another 'progressive' hits woman in the face

Completely typical.

 

[Joe Fan]

Everyone is oversimplifying the Womxn's march if you think it's only about abortion......

LOL, thanks for the coffee thru the nose!
Ahsley Judd does not need any of your mansplaining
She can tell you what its all about in her own words in less than 1M

 

[Seattle Husker]

LOL, thanks for the coffee thru the nose!
Ahsley Judd does not need any of your mansplaining
She can tell you what its all about in her own words in less than 1M

That's one opinion...of many. Opinions are like ********...

 

[Brad Austin]

American males have no idea the gigantic bullet we dodged when HC lost. The women's suffering hoax would've consumed the landscape to a sickening level.

Months ago HC was winning in the polls and the U.S. Women's Soccer team started their equal pay protesting. It was a tiny preview of the women's rights movement about to launch itself across all avenues of American life.

If and when HC sealed the deal, it was coming like a freight train. So glad the public broke the tracks before they arrived at the station.

I'm all for equality, but this movement was about to go ballistic and infect the country with emotional propaganda far beyond facts-based grievances.

Modern Libs never bother with silly things like facts when wearing the crown.

 

[Seattle Husker]

American males have no idea the gigantic bullet we dodged when HC lost. The women's suffering hoax would've consumed the landscape to a sickening level.

Months ago HC was winning in the polls and the U.S. Women's Soccer team started their equal pay lobbying. It was a tiny preview of the women's rights movement about to launch itself across all avenues of American life.

If and when HC sealed the deal, it was coming like a freight train. So glad the public broke the tracks before they arrived at the station.

I'm all for equality, but this movement was about to go ballistic and infect the country with emotional propaganda far beyond facts-based grievances.

Nope...no anti-women sentiment in the Trumpsters.

In one post, you've validated the 1.5M people that joined the Womxn's march. Bravo. Nice attempt to absolve your misogynist sentiment with the "I'm all for equality, but..."

It's perfectly fine to hold that opinion but don't be surprised when the misogynist label is appropriately applied.