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Hundreds of thousands of women and men crowded the streets of Washington in an anti-Donald Trump rally and march on Saturday. Photographer Polina Yamshchikov (@polinavy) shared faces and voices from the street for @theintercept on Instagram. As she followed along the route of the Women’s March on Washington, she asked the people that she met the same question: What are you marching for?
Ayesha Gill and Rabia Baig, from Virginia. “We are here to show support for everyone else who has been marginalized by Donald Trump. We’ve got their backs, and we’re so grateful that they have ours.”
Dustin Philips, from Washington, D.C. “The collective energy—and positive feelings—here are such a contrast from yesterday. It has given me a little hope.”
Alina Mogilyanskaya and Elia Gran, from Barcelona. Alina says she is marching because she wants “to resist the new regime,” while Elia says: “I am here for selfish reasons: for my own need to feel accompanied and feel this presence in this difficult time. I am from Barcelona and this march feels independent from any government. Women’s rights are truly universal. I came because I could participate, regardless of citizenship.”
Rui Wang, of Tucson. “I came to send a message to the U.S. and to the world that decency, kindness, justice, constitutionality are important. It’s a big tent and we may not all agree on every single issue, but it’s so important to show solidarity with one other.”
Gayle Ayer, of Panama. “I care about my grandkids, but I’m not just here for my family—I am here for the whole world. He [Trump] wants to destroy so much. This matters a lot.”
Rosie Silvers, 16, (right) and Anna Goodman (left), of Maryland. Rosie says the girls are “here because we care about democracy, feminism, and human rights. We also came because we didn’t have much of a voice in that we were too young to vote, so we want to make sure we are heard.”
Loretta Aiken, of Virginia.“I’ve lived around here for over 45 years and this is the biggest crowd that i’ve seen here since the Vietnam Protests. I was here for the original women’s movement in ’71-72. It makes me sad. Why have we not progressed further? We have in a lot of ways but we have so long to go.”
Connie Chen, of New York. “As a person of color who is also a woman, I know how vital it is to stand up for things you believe in. I am here today to stand with my fellow women, people of color, muslims, and oppressed people off all kinds.”
Chase Palmer, 16, and Julia Camara, 15, from D.C. “We are here because we refuse to tolerate who is in office.”
Top photo: The Women’s March on Washington on Jan. 21.
This women march, sponsored by cultural marxist terrorist George Soros, against Trump and American democracy is insane. If against Islam and Sharia Law it would make sense.
No, you can’t take my rights I am still using them.
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Women of color organized the March on Washington
Wingnuts and/or Trumpers are simply lying when they say the contrary:
thank you for this beautiful piece
Hate to say it, but this story only proves how “selfie-referential” and rather unfocused the whole thing was. So a bunch of white people jumped the NE corridor Amtrak and spent the day “stranding up for things”.
Directions for effecting actual change:
Step 1: Pick specific issue.
Step 2: Pick specific strategy.
Step 3: Take action.
Do not proceed to Step 3 without completing Steps 1 & 2.
LOL
you forgot your Step 4: Run it by a white man to get permission and approval.
yes. thanks for this.
White Women Under siege!! Unfairnesss, and maltreatmnt!! Imbalanced narratives!!!Police State !!!!!
Where’s whitey gonna go to affirm HER GOD GIVEN rights???!!!
http://www.newser.com/story/237238/woman-fired-investigated-for-trump-assassination-tweet.html
A march is dress rehersal for revolution. check out this in CounterPunch.
http://www.counterpunch.org/2017/01/20/the-nature-of-mass-demonstrations/
Would have been nice if these folks showed up prior to the election.
Trump brought the world together on Jan. 21, 2017 to hatred him. No matter, what color of your skin was or choice of religious or choice of sex the choice is your not the government. Across the world their came together for the sister hood. So Hillary glass ceiling got broke anyway it was Nov.8 2016 it was Jan. 21, 2017 a new beginning is come now, how many piece was it, for each persons who stand up for themself and love one. Who know Putin would start a woman new revolution, the fight have just start power to the peoples, not the crooked, corrupt, dishonest government bunch of old whore.
For anyone who cares to know of what I refer to below, this just posted:
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-01-22/ex-wsj-reporter-finds-soros-has-ties-more-50-partners-women’s-march-washington
Pretty stunning how well this methodical Soros orchestration of emotion laden false-issues measures the detachment from realty mostly well intentioned Americans suffer as matter of observable fact.
Application, as in Ukraine, Syria, Libya etc., of color-revolutions has come home to roost with the same nefarious objective of societal and political disruption to achieve regime change by subversive force.
This neoliberalcon cabal directed by Henry Kissinger will not relent until they’re exposed and taken down as the traitors to this country that they most certainly are. Every critical constitutionally protected right is now under attack and at risk by program of cultural division. Could it possibly be more glaring than it is?
We need to investigate, arrest and jail ALL of Kissinger’s cabal. That’s the mortal enemy of America who’s been working socio-political subversion and economic usurpation since Nixon.
Americans are under psychological assault by their worst internal enemy. If it isn’t made clear who is behind it and why, if we don’t care enough to understand it in historical context, ..we’re done with any and all illusions of a liberated and free humanity.
As it is, none of us are free living as we do under the regime of lies. Trump is no savior, but neither is he clearly a part, as yet, of that regime of eternal war with global domination objectives in subversive and illegal possession of this nation.
Ahh I’ll have to read that again. Maybe I won’t.
Maybe you should.
No point squiting at this fluff.
Bravo! Well written indeed!
Protesting, marching in Washington, around the globe, the comments all seem to be stridently opinionated, with the truth drowned out by ignorance. The women marching are not necessarily protesting, pre se, but effectively demonstrating their condition. We must be reminded there are no ” women’s” rights, only those granted in the U.S. constitution. for U.S. citizens, for every person. Marching, for whatever purpose, reminds all of us that we must not abridge what has been established, marching reminds us that there is concern for an issue. For this reason a president, and every elected official, is put on notice that everyone will be watching now more than ever, and their actions will be judged harshly
Only in your fantasies. Random, unfocused demonstrations like this one have virtually never had any measurable effect on policy. There’s no reason to imagine that will change now.
Look at the huge economic progress we can expect under Trump: http://www.theaustralian.com.au/business/mining-energy/donald-trump-vows-to-unlock-66-trillion-shale-oil-and-gas-revolution/news-story/bdd8db1ecc8067ae4028b8430dbbae20 (find it via a search engine). Trump says that by overriding all those nasty state rules hindering drilling, we can have $50 trillion in oil and gas production — and of that, the middle class can expect as much as $33 billion, provided they work real hard for it!!! Ain’t that grand? Ain’t it a wonderful thing not to know the power of 1000?
The money flies straight away, doesn’t even stop to have tea; the pollution we can cherish for generations.
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What an amazing day. There were wonderful speakers on stage.
I didn’t watch the march or participate, but I listened to the entire broadcast from DC.
Thank you for your coverage and videos.
A repost of an intelligent observer: “…the women’s march against Trump today all over the world SHOULD have been in front of the DNC headquarters in D.C.”
The misery of wars, the racket of ObamaCare (by insurance corporations for insurance corporations), the Guantanamo bay, the jailing of whistleblowers while banksters (Obama major donors) and torturers were let free, the millions of displaced people in the Middle East, the US/NATO-slaughtered children and women of Syria and Libya – this is bloody Obama legacy.
So I see that “sex predator and suspected pedophile” charge against the Clintons didn’t work out so well for you Anna and you are taking another tack.
https://theintercept.com/2017/01/21/faces-from-the-womens-march-on-washington/#comment-341704
Did it offend you that the expected First Husband was called a sex predator and suspected pedophile? How come that you totally neglected the most important points: “the millions of displaced people in the Middle East, the US/NATO-slaughtered children and women of Syria and Libya – this is bloody Obama legacy” And Clinton’s legacy of course, “we came, we saw, hi died” and the pearl of Northern Africa went in flames, along with children and women.
You are such a phony. The only thing Trump said about the displaced in the middle east is that he would make sure they didn’t come here.
Yes, indeed.
wonderful! thank you
What I find most interesting about this article is how vague and almost inarticulate the objections are. I’m only able to read the quoted comments, I don’t know if there are any videos that expand on any of the quoted material in the text. What I’m reading is little more than unspecific anger and fear. I’m reminded of Frederick Douglass’ sage advice, “Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.”. If this is the best they can muster, Trump has nothing to worry about from these crowds as they lack the specificity needed to drive effective political change. Merely showing up is necessary but insufficient.
Nobody appears to be marching for a particular desired outcome, thus there’s no specific action being tasked for President Trump to take up: “Women’s rights are truly universal”, which rights are being referred to? “As a person of color who is also a woman, I know how vital it is to stand up for things you believe in. I am here today to stand with my fellow women, people of color, muslims, and oppressed people off all kinds” in order to achieve what, exactly? What do you believe in? “I came to send a message to the U.S. and to the world that decency, kindness, justice, constitutionality are important” like when Obama was drone bombing innocent people to death including “non-combatants” like women and children, or Americans like the al-Awlakis (father and son assassinated in 2 separate drone attacks) who were both denied due process? Where were the marches then? Doesn’t this choice of years of inaction risk setting up a precedent President Trump can point to and say something like “You’re not angry about the killings because I’m using these drones to do the same thing Obama did.”? I understand you can’t go back in time and effectively organize and protest then. But you have sown that history, there will be consequences to bear for those choices, and what I’m seeing now is not helping the public understand precisely what you want to improve.
You have a tough row to hoe here: Given how much Obama did without any large public marches opposing him (for example, Obama: continued Bush’s wars, added new wars, wrecked the economy, let big banks off without punishment, and added new jobs which largely don’t provide a living wage according to the New York Times) these protests make you appear merely partisan, not principled. This 8-year history of doing little leaves me unconvinced that the current marchers will put in the long-term effort needed to identify what it is they want done and then effectively politically organize around those ends. Ridiculousness like “We are here because we refuse to tolerate who is in office” is said as if there’s another choice. Talk like that tells the public you’re not in touch with reality. Trump is POTUS now. Negative fear-based campaigning for the Democratic Party’s neoliberal warmonger has failed. It’s time for you to identify what you want and get busy pursuing that.
Marching in the streets is one thing, but you need to identify specific goals. I recommend reading and then backing HR676 — universalizing Medicare. You also need Congressional contact campaigns (paper letters are more effective than emails because they show you took more time and are more likely to show you care, and phone calls, and visits to Congressional offices are all good starters after you identify what you want). You can tell Congress what you want them to support and that you back their ability to overcome a presidential veto to get what you want. Don’t throw your collective power away on what you fear from President Trump. I understand that you see a Congress filled with people you don’t trust. However continuing on as I’m seeing above is all too easily dismissed for being inactionable.
What is the numerical threshold, for *YOU* – *Globally* – JB Nicholson, before it is simply understood that the consensus is that no one wants trump as president of the US?
1billion?
And how many people have to explain *what* in *how much detail* before you’re satisfied that “merely showing up” is enough? Everyone I know amongst the 100’s of thousands at the march I attended today knows that there’s far more work to be done and are extremely clear on their rhetoric, talking points and demands.
Anyone who doesn’t understand what’s going on here – simply by the shear number of people who are registering discontent “merely by showing” up is either willfully ignorant or mentally disabled.
I haven’t seen a single one of these people calling for Trump’s removal as president. Besides, would you prefer Mike Pence – for that would be the new occupant of the presidency were Trump impeached.
I think it’s a good point that there are no specific demands toward ameliorating the lack of democratic socialism being made, nor any threats of civil disobedience – just further inflammation of the awful divide between shallow liberals and shallow conservatives, a divide that does nothing to challenge the corporatism, militarism and imperialism of the Deep State (or establishment or the “Bosses” or however you wish to refer to the corrupt oligarchy responsible not only for the inequality of society but also the entrenched social divisions and the bread and circuses employed to sedate impulses toward effective and lasting change).
I take it that you didn’t hear the speeches before the DC March.
There are many desired outcomes, but you missed all of them.
Michael Moore, for one, has a list of ten things that people can do over the next 100 days.
#1 wake up, brush your teeth, drink your coffee, (walk your dog), and call your Rep and both Senators.
Every day. Or three times a week. 202-224-3121.
There are other groups promoting daily issues, but I do not remember which.
Call your Rep and both Senators and say what?
That Obama’s wars should be ended by Trump and Congress?
That Gitmo should be closed?
That corporatism, militarism and imperialism be made as illegal as they are corrupt, now that Trump’s their face instead of Obama?
Hell of a plan. That would be grand, but it isn’t what Moore said, is it? Seems like the above could have been demonstrated before, though. Like for rat least ten years or so.
We need a female CEO in every corrupt corporation! Blame Trump for this not happening! You know, it looks a little partisan, and a bit weird to waste all this political momentum on the same old useless Democrat Vs villainous GOP theater, but hey, whatever floats your paper tiger.
Trump had better watch out, or these people will all march for no discernible reason again!
“We need a female CEO in every corrupt corporation! ”
Carly. Fiorina.
“Trump had better watch out, or these people will all march for no discernible reason again!”
Hahahaha. Thanks, I needed that.
Hahahahahaha!
The path you preach is exactly the path your representatives want you to take.
I totally agree with JB Nicholson above; are those who are marching and speeching ready for the long haul and ready to lay down their bodies to block the “machine”?
Probably not.
Things haven’t gotten bad enough yet.
But, they will.
Most participants in this protest have no idea what the US and the Deep State are doing around the world.
Their focus is too narrow.
Not a Trump fan but certainly was not a HC one either.
This country is FU@#$& until the Deep State is dismantled; that won’t happen until there is downright violent action in the streets.
End of story.
This is truly the most sensible comment I’ve read anywhere about the D.C. marches. Thank you for your refreshing insights.
Thank you for posting this. I have three daughters, and in the country in which we reside the protest/rally was all so….vague. It was, at least here, just more Trump hate and not as productive as an extended trip to the farmers market to get good wholesome whole foods for that night’s dinner. Not a single sign about the big companies taking over global ag or the agrochemicals companies destroying the planet – and the USA at dazzling speed. Yawn. The women we chatted with after the demonstration seriously had NOTHING to say that wasn’t just bitter noise, and all of it about a man who just took office, has made some remarks…but he isnt why birds fall from the sky with bees and butterflies nor is he responsible for terrible food crops and frightening aggressive vaccines schedules or the alarming number of kids in the USA and elsewhere that flap, scream, cannot speak, function independently, and dominate education these days. The USA is a factory for all these disabled kids and shattered families…not a single sign. Nothing. Your remarks about Medicare are interesting. When I taught in the USA they were working on a five in one shot that poor women will get – or anyone a dr wants to give it to. Is it true that the current shots schedule is 60 plus disease challenges and before age six and MANDATORY in CA? That explains so much about what I saw happen to kids and in communities in the almost decade I was there and working with children and teaching in urban schools. They just keep slipping more and more into an already crowded schedule. Be careful what you wish for with universal and covered care. Bayer makes the hep b and they also built Auschwitz. No backing slowly to the door now…mandatory in two states and in any hospital that wants to give it to you post the Cures Act that just past. Monsanto Protection Act protects Bayer, now BayerMonsanto from litigation once Americans realize that micronutrients are missing from all the over 1500 patented food crops, fodder ones, and feed created by that company and other special interests. The shots dont work well in bodies with stealth nutrition. I dont know why they wont tolerate this president. They tolerate seedless watery produce that undermines the immune system. They tolerate deportations as long as the Cool Guy does it, and all the other horrors of the last several decades. They tolerate an increasing number of disabled and chronically ill kids and adults and the most aggressive vaccine schedule ANYWHERE and the most costly drugs too – far more than in Canada. I dont get it…maybe it is simply easier to hate on Trump than look carefully and in earnest at the sick, crippled, broke nation the USA is becoming.
Yes! It was refreshing to read what you just wrote. Where were all these people when Obama’s administration betrayed the public’s interests left and right?
“Obama: continued Bush’s wars, added new wars, wrecked the economy, let big banks off without punishment, and added new jobs which largely don’t provide a living wage according to the New York Times) these protests make you appear merely partisan, not principled.”
I think in general, being proactive and letting Trump know ahead of time that we care about certain values, is a good thing. Better to start now.
But as you are saying, what about the people from both sexes and all ages, who were ‘marginalized’ by drone strikes? Did they matter?
And how about Hillary’s role in Libya? Her support for the crime bill, that led to the incarceration of African Americans, on an unheard of scale in modern history? Should we dehumanize Trump and his supporters because of what sounded like sexual assault? But we should only pay lip service to the atrocities that both Clintons were involved in, without that same intense hatred that we have towards Trump?
For that matter, what about the rights of people who don’t fit into the standard minority categories? What about people with autism or asperger’s, who are ostracized and ridiculed all their lives? Does it matter that they find it more difficult to get jobs, because they look different?
And as far as men vs women go, what about the feminine privileges that women don’t like to admit? We know women have been treated as second-class citizens, and we’ve made some progress. And it’s great that we have sympathy for innocent ‘women and children’ being killed during a battle. But why are the innocent men mentioned, less often? (Yeah, yeah. We know that most soldiers are men, and we assume that soldiers aren’t innocent. But that ignores the fact that civilian men are killed and injured).
Why do people say that it’s wrong to ‘pick on’ or hit women, instead of saying it’s wrong to hit people in general? It’s more ok to ‘pick on’ people, who presumably are better able to defend themselves, because of their size? But somehow, it’s less ok to pick on someone, because of their smaller size? Why can’t we just say it’s wrong to bully or hit anyone?
So, yeah. It’s good to send a signal to Washington about our values, and what kind of civil obedience they can expect, if those rights are violated. But it’s pretentious to claim that we really care about rights, but most of our righteous indignation is triggered only by certain groups being violated.
What does it mean when more people show up to protest a President than showed up to inaugurate him?
When many of the inaugural attendees, if not most, were either millionaires themselves, lobbyists attending on the company credit card, government employees, workers, fervent partisans and bored locals, is this an indication of a rigged election? The guy had to pay moonlighting actors to show up for his original announcement of his candidacy. How many in his rallies included hired actors, from provocateurs to sign wavers? Remember “my black guy”? How many at the inauguration were paid to be there?
America is much, much bigger than this little man.
Political set designers may think that if they throw a flurries of confetti, a couple of marching bands, and some sad performers sing patriotic songs, people will think it’s a genuine celebration. Yet all these people come from across the country with no agenda other than their distaste for this blustering fraud. They remind the world that there’s nothing authentic about Trump. He’s a spoiled rich kid who parlayed a hundred million dollar inheritance into a parody of an American success fable who brags about grabbing pussy and being “smart” for not paying taxes.
Those hoping his “success” will rub off on them — or that he’ll honor his promises to them — should recall the collective fate of those who hoped his University would help them to succeed. I suppose they did succeed eventually — only after he settled with them despite promising he would never settle.
I’m surprised he got past the Republican convention; I’m surprised he got as many general election votes as reported; I’m even more surprised he was inaugurated. I suspect tens of millions of Americans think the same thing.
Maybe it’s a secret Santa.
Good for the marchers.
The more often we’re reminded this clown is a complete fraud, the more clearly the corruption that he declaims while personally displaying exactly that which he deplores, the more evident the rot destroying this country.
milton wiltmellow…Great name, and great post, I ‘am thankful that there are aware and thinking people like you in this very dark and dangerous time in your’e very divided country. I am not from you’re shores, but be very sure that the world is watching this illegitimate idiot who allowed a foreign nation to steal you democracy…RESIST…PEACE!!
I agree. Perhaps it would also be best to remember this in the days to follow:
trump.er.y -definition
attractive article of little value or use
showy but worthless
Nice word!
I should have known it already but I didn’t.
The Owners and their agents laugh all the way to the bank as protesters continue to focus on narrow issues of identity politics or merely vague expressions of dissatisfaction.
As long as the Bosses can keep the battles focused on divisive social and cultural conflicts and the people’s attention turned away from the central issues of class and capital, they are happy Bosses.
Who are these bosses?
Specifically.
Name them.
Then explain how they’re able to perpetuate this grand conspiracy.
Specifically.
Then, if you haven’t died from self-boredom, explain how you know what you know that the rest of the world doesn’t know.
In short: who are these “bosses”, how do they maintain such a vast fiction, and why do you deliver Trump’s campaign spiel for him?
The election is over.
Let’s start with the Nazi collaborator George Soros. What liberal womb have you been hiding in?
In simple terms, what Doug refers to as “the Bosses” are what George Carlin called “the owners” in his famous rant of which you have apparently never heard:
George Carlin: They Don’t Care About You
As for their names, well, these change as corporations’ CEOs do, and Deep State officials do, but look to those in charge of the Federal Reserve, the military-industrial complex, Big Banks, Big Energy, Big Insurance, Big Pharma, Big Agribusiness, Big Prisons and those individuals and conglomerates who control all telecommunications and large media outlets; basically those people and industries (often multinational) heavily dominating the U.S.government via massive corporatism and crony capitalism.
We live in a world in which eight (8) individuals have as much wealth as three and a half billion other humans combined and milton gets snippy because I dared to suggest there are Bosses.
You’ve summarized nicely, Maisie, but I’m afraid it’s going to take concussion grenades to blow some people out of their blinkered “intramural” partisanship.
Masie, Dough Salzmann, jonfen foyer, James McFadden … and others
I address this to those who all seem to be saying similar things.
The “power elite” — the 1 percent, bosses, ceos, owners, MI complex, bankers, Wall Street, CFR, … whatever collective label you want to attach . — are the villains here.
I don’t disagree.
But that’s not my point. My first and oft repeated point is simply this: what makes you think a President Trump can, will or is even capable enough to oppose and impede this “power elite”?
All indications are that Trump not only doesn’t oppose them, but he’s one of them and will consciously and knowingly pursue and impose their interests. Further, he will not tolerate protesters and opposition as “gently” as Obama treated OWS or BLM.
This is the point of much of his rhetoric. No more restraint. No more “identity politics.” No more “weakness”. It’s time to “make America great again.”
With Trump, the backlash will be authoritarian, militant, and brutal. Sure, a Women’s March won’t bring the same repression as a BLM march or a demonstration in support of a cultural minority like Muslims or undocumented workers, but be very frightened: a minority movement will be viciously and violently attacked by exactly the same “security” forces which protect the interests of the power elite.
A confrontation will occur. Most likely many confrontations. If anyone missed the militant response by the Ferguson police to the shooting of Michael Brown or to the “negligent” death of Freddie Gray, multiply it.
Trump will bring militancy. It is inevitable.
My second point is larger. This shit has been going on for centuries.
When Congress passed a bonus for WW1 veterans and then reneged on it, the <a href="MI complex trampled their camp in Washington.
When Rome burned, Nero blamed the Christians. When Robespierre led the French Revolution into the Reign of Terror, the target was opponents to the Revolution. When starving peasants demonstrated in Russia (google “Bloody Sunday 1905″) the Russian military massacred unarmed protesters. There are thousands of more examples of repressive, authoritarian regimes using the military power of the State to brutally suppress political opposition.
The Trump regime will be no different. Just listen to him!!
And remember this. The victims will be minorities — will always be minorities — because that is how authoritarians justify themselves. They will claim to act in the interests of the State or the interests of the People or the interests of God … whatever.
They will only choose the battles they can win — military as well as politically.
Your political analyses won’t matter. It will be the people with the guns who will suppress the people without the guns who oppose them.
Everyone wants to think their own politics are unique, their own cause more just, their own goals more righteous, their own culture better than others. History almost always refutes them.
My larger point is this. By electing this fascist Trump, you guarantee bloody suppression in the near future. You think it can’t happen because it hasn’t happened. You’re wrong. Several states have recently passed legislation allowing the murder of protesters.(google “suck it up buttercup legislation”.)
Perhaps this is necessary. Perhaps Clinton would have responded in an authoritarian way too. Perhaps …
As the Republicans are learning as they destroy ACA, you should have a viable replacement for that which you intend to destroy. Otherwise the guys with the most and biggest guns will win — as they almost always do.
You don’t like this concentrated power of the “ruling elite”? Me neither. But you just handed your opponents a gift — a weak and vain “leader” who will protect their interests with blood, cruelty and brutality because they are exactly his interests too.
On the false dichotomy between Trump’s ‘make America great again’ and Clinton’s ‘America is already great!’:
Corruptions of Empire
I’m not sure why you listed me in your long rant that begins with a quote from my comment. My comment was to answer your question “Who are these bosses?” – and I answered it . I also indicated that Trump is playing a leading role in a faction of the power elite. So don’t throw in a “non sequitur” and claim that I think Trump will oppose the elites – he is clearly a representative of his wealthy investor class. He is the most vile leader the Republicans could find – I am no fan and do not expect him to do anything useful. I tend to agree with much of the rest of your rant – we should expect a ruthless reaction by the ruling class to cow us into obedience. Trump’s role is to play the authoritarian monster that he is until his usefulness of herding us back to neoliberalism is complete. It will include Trump taking the blame for the coming economic collapse brought on by neoliberal Fed policies. I suspect that in the CFR scheme of things, Trump will get the blame then be eliminated in the hope of pacifying the masses with promises of reform. But like what happened in Greece, he will be replaced by a friend of the bankers who will argue TINA and bailout the banks once again. However, “the best-laid plans of mice and men often go awry.” We can upset this plan. The plan requires our obedience and passiveness – which they may not have this time. If people finally organize and resist, it will take a suspension of democracy to defeat us – which may not have the backing of the military – so we can win. But if the military sides with oppression, then at least the bloody mask will be removed and we will recognize our empire for what it is – fascism – the purely corporate state. If it reaches that point, it will be bloody revolution – or the Robo-cop world – neither very inviting. Interesting times.
Well said.
I apologize.
I suppose it’s an optical illusion. When almost everyone around you is wearing various shades of Trump, the hues bleed together.
This sort of generalizing about the 1% doesn’t help, in my opinion. Warren Buffet and the Koch brothers, for instance, share very little except having large bank accounts. Throw in Sheldon Adelson, Peter Thiel, Michael Bloomberg and Bill Gates and the 1% is a muddle of nonsense. It’s the perfectly vague category to preface any political statement at all because the only common thread is their extravagant wealth.
I’ve noticed other consistencies among those commenting here.
Many seem to think Trump is an alternative to the 1% while Clinton is an architect of the 1%.
Now that Trump is president and Clinton can no longer be used as foil, the 1% substitutes for Clinton. (e.g., “Killary is a warmonger for the rich so I voted for Trump … becomes … The 1% work in their own interests (which is why I voted for Trump.)
The subtext veritably shouts, “Yes, I voted for Trump even though I know he’s a fraud, a fool, and a liar. At least he wasn’t Hellary.” No one admits it (with one exception) because they’re still having to justify themselves to themselves.
I assume this 1% meme substitutes for their Trump vote in many cases. I was wrong to assume that it applies in all cases.
Thanks. Yes – I too am surprised at so many people attempting to justify their support of Trump. Both corporate candidates were vile. We need a 3rd party – and perhaps a 4th and 5th too. The march made me think we need a “Women’s Party” – now that would be powerful.
Regarding your comment “the only common thread is their extravagant wealth”
I think this is an illusion created by the MSM. You really should read C. Wright Mills’ “The Power Elite.” Analyzing the power structure as a sociologist, he was able to glean insights into the mechanisms that create the 0.01%’s class consciousness. He presents his observations of how class indoctrination is maintained through an elite education process and a selection process that promotes those loyal to the investor class interests – which is basically the corporate/military/political promotion process. This is the key to understanding how the 0.01% can act almost as a single minded group to maintain power without the need of a global conspiracy. (Not that conspiracies don’t exist too – watergate, iran-contra, WMDs in iraq, bailout myths, etc.) The self interests of members of this group are not entirely aligned, but aligned enough to make it incredibly efficient and powerful at protecting class interests. Of course the book provides many other useful insights too. Written in the 50s with a male-dominant slant reflecting the times, but still very applicable to the politics of today. You should check it out.
Milton, if you’ve been to parties, where middlemen in charge of cash flows backing certain political campaigns are present, you know you can’t question Doug’s logic. Smoke and mirrors.
Non-violent civil protest is a postive and important thing, even if it doesn’t bring immediate results. If there are no signs of mass hysteria, everything is cool. Otherwise it is a symptom of a trend that can lead to some unexpected results, like color revolution or some shit resulting in an actual downgrade of the system.
@milton — “Who are these bosses?”
Eisenhower called them the military-industrial complex.
Before that, C. Wright Mills described who makes up “The Power Elite” and how they are selected and indoctrinated into the American power structure – a book worth reading.
They consists of the CEOs/CFOs and directors of the major corporations, the Council on Foreign Relations and other wall street financed think tanks, the Joint Chiefs and their key staff, and the heads of the major government institutions (which are drawn from the ranks of these economic, political and military institutions). The conditioning and interbreeding of these groups creates a ruling class which protects the class interests of the 1%. It is not a fiction. It functions like any corporation – only those who buy into the ideology of maximizing profits, unregulated capitalism, American exceptionalism, meritocracy, American hegemony, and other American myths are allowed to rise to the upper ranks. This selection process generally creates a single minded ruling class that makes all the major decisions that impact our lives — which is how power is exerted. On occasion there are conflicts within those ranks – like the current conflict between the neoliberal-neocon-CIA-WallStreet-Hillary faction (which wants to continue the Bush-Obama policies of isolating Russia before reviving TPP as part of the pivot to Asia to maintain American hegemony) and the neoliberal-neofascist-FBI-BigOil-Trump faction which wants to cut a deal with Russia before isolating China and wants to fully dismantle all barriers (i.e. regulations) that limit domestic profits, prevent wealth concentration, and stop privatization of everything.
This ^^^.
Are you that blind, Milton?
No wonder you’re a Clinton whore…
Judge me as you wish.
Trump and the usual brigades of rightist scumbags will demonstrate whether I’m accurate or not.
I’d love to be wrong.
You are alway talk about futur without any fact. just presumption and not past fact or evidence. There’s zillions of evidences about the elite “bosses” who did currupt things but only futur imaginary presumption about Trump
(i.e Sorry for my bad english not my language)
This is what i figured, accurately. Hillary would have turned over the sovereignty and will of America to her TPP tribunal criminals and GoldMan Sachs tieves.
Trump on the other hand, cant screw anything up because the public wont let him. Ha.
What a brilliant plan!!!!
What could possibly go wrong?
Or is this simple a blustering attempt to hide your regret?
Get used to it Cryladies and Cucks all the gnashing of teeth and window breaking changes nothing and further deligitimizes your so called cause which is still up for interpretation. Obama created and gave us Trump without Obama there is no Trump. After 8 years of out of control multiculturalism, the bombing of no less than 7 countries, open boarders, a collapsing healthcare system and pandering to losers of this country you get to kiss the ring of Trump! The useful idiots portrayed in these images legitimize the term femanazi!
Why should multiculturalism be controlled? You’ve proved your bigotry right there, pal.
Because it’s a cancer in this country! No I’m not a biggot because I think multiethnic is good its multiculturalism that’s proven not to work.
Der Trumpmeister vill make Amerika GGHREAT again.
No more impure Schlavic influences on the goodness of Amerikankultur. Der kommies vill gghet vat’s coming to zem!!
Vat ist wrong vite theese?
Godwin’s law
Godwin’s law has been repealed in view of the rise of genuine fascism and neo-Nazi movements around the world.
No. Longer. Operative.
Lets talk about the seven wars: the hundreds of thousands of human beings killed on Obama orders. The millions of displaced refugees, including small children, running form the ruined cities of Syria and Libya. The drone games against Al Qaeda with numerous innocent victims (collateral damage). Meanwhile, the US ( on Obama watch) has armed Al Qaeda in Syria to win back the oil roots (hail, war profiteers!) and Sinai (hail, Israel!).
Enjoy your day. The victims of Obama cannot anymore.
Biting my tongue.
As I said above, the DC March was preceded by several hours of motivating speeches and suggestions, as well as poetry, music, and a lot of solidarity. Very little is open to interpretation.
The Republicans gave us Trump. And all sixteen of the finest religious extremists, tea party, establishment, and Libertarian candidates who weren’t as deep a bench as the party thought – and don’t you ever forget it.
It’s “feminazi.”
If you don’t like peaceful protests, freedom of expression, and speech, there are other countries where you might enjoy life better.
Your are correct it is feminazi and that’s what was displayed today! Also, never said they didn’t have a right to protest just thought it was pointless like most ridiculous things liberals do.
Soooo pointless! They should be trolling internet comment sections instead and raving about “identity politics” and “cultural Marxism” lol You little MRAs really need to find some new material. Oh I know! Maybe you could call people “cucks”, that will show them!
Pixie Dust go back to Srarbucks and have another latte and untrigger yourself snowflake. I love how the left always squashes comments from the right using words like trolling. Progressive scum can use vulgar language and use divide and conquer tactics yet that is politically correct.
If even some of these people had bothered to vote, the result of the election might have been quite different.
I’m not blaming them, of course. Mr. Trump ran a brilliant strategic campaign. Every time he appeared to be trending upwards in the polls, he’d tweet something to send the polls back down again. As a result, knowing he would lose, no one bothered to vote in the election except for people who’d been brainwashed by Breitbart News into believing that Mr. Trump had a chance to win.
Luckily, it all worked out for the best. A lot of people will have a good time marching for the next four years. It’s nice to see such enthusiasm, after years of increasing political apathy. This is the first step on the road to making America great again.
A lot of people will have a good time marching for the next four years.
uh huh – getting involved and getting in shape. Trump, just what America needed.
A whole lot more than ‘some’ of us did show up to vote, which is why Trump got 3 million less votes than a wildly unpopular career politician.
A steaming pile of feces will defeat him in his next election.
How do you do that?
Cast your mind into the minds of hundreds of thousands of other people only to discover they didn’t bother to vote?
Are you truly clairvoyant or just another clown like Trump who relies on your gut to determine what others think and do?
Let’s test it.
What am I thinking now?
Nope. Too bad.
I was thinking, “how do I keep a psychic in suspense.”
Only about 50% of eligible voters cast votes. Many assume the other 50% are politically apathetic. But the protest marches demonstrate they are actually quite passionate about politics; they just don’t choose to express it at the ballot box.
“they just don’t choose to express it at the ballot box.”
There was no need to take time off work to vote because Hillary had the election in her baggage.
Judging by Sean Spicer’s press address, the marchers have Trump rattled. Good work by all those who took part.
An astute commentary: “they are marching for Madeleine Jana Korbel Albright, half a million kids slaughtered is not enough” http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-01-21/500000-women-swamp-washington-anti-trump-protest-march-live-feed
Where these pink “pussies” have been while Obama was bombing 7 countries to a stone age? Or when Obama was pushing for fracking? When NONE of the torturers has been convicted on Obama watch? When the greatest number of whistleblowers were put to jail on Obama watch? When the criminal Wall Street financiers were rewarded with more cash and NONE of the banksters went to jail? When the single payer system was swapped for the racket of ObamaCare written by the insurers and for the insurers?
There was not a day during Obama regime when the US military were not dropping bombs and creating “collateral damage.” Not a single day. Where have you been, pink pussies, when Libya, Syria were invaded on Obama watch by US/NATO forces for “humanitarian reasons” and made Libya and Syria into a hell? When the Us was found cooperating with Al Qaeda, on Obama watch? Sen. Lindsey Graham believes that we brought democracy to Iraq. This explains everything.
See the proliferation of birth defects in Fallujah sprinkled with depleted uranium by the “carriers of democracy.”
People are still allowed to protest what they want in this country Anna. The important thing is they were there today. What protests did you attend during the Obama administration?
Why don’t we stay on point? It seems that the pink pussies prefer a confirmed sex predator and suspected pedophile Clinton in the White House: http://nypost.com/2016/10/09/the-sex-slave-scandal-that-exposed-pedophile-billionaire-jeffrey-epstein/
You are so dumb Anna. From the article you linked to a quote from Trump.
“I’ve known Jeff for 15 years,” Trump said. “Terrific guy. He’s a lot of fun to be with. It is even said that he likes beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them are on the younger side. “
In the famous word of former Governor Secession Rick Perry: Ooops.
What made you think that I am pro-Trump?
I am certainly against this: “There was not a day during Obama regime when the US military were not dropping bombs and creating “collateral damage.” Not a single day. ” But you prefer to notice not these trifles.
That was priceless: alternative facts. Sums it all up, really.