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Post by Tim on Jan 20, 2017 12:07:38 GMT -5
I agree. It's a fitting picture of the Orange Hitler.
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Post by BettyNewbie on Jan 20, 2017 13:34:24 GMT -5
Unless I post it in a thread called "My Fanart," it's not mine. .... ROFL Thursday's inauguration weekend welcome concert did its job, in that it accurately and compellingly set the tone for the new administration and the new America. It didn’t run properly, didn’t reflect your tastes or interests, and you wouldn’t want to purchase a ticket to it—let alone desire to be present to witness the disaster.
Yet here we are. 3 Doors Down is here, too.
“Make America Great Again! Welcome Celebration Concert” was the much-ballyhooed event that struggled to book major acts to perform.
Toby Keith, Lee Greenwood, the Piano Guys, and the aforementioned 3 Doors Down headlined. By comparison, President Obama’s We Are One concert featured Mary J. Blige, James Taylor, Josh Groban, Sheryl Crow, will.i.am, John Legend, Jennifer Nettles, Garth Brooks, Stevie Wonder, Usher, Shakira, U2, and Bruce Springsteen.
Trump, on the other hand, a man who boasted his entire campaign about his ability to close deals, failed to book a Springsteen cover band for his festivities.
The poor CBSN host on the livestream I was watching was saddled with teasing, “Toby Keith is in the house!” while we waited for the concert to begin… 15 minutes late.
As he read the rest of the list of performers, each name was delivered more like a question—like a substitute teacher taking roll call trying to nail the names of foreign students. In other words, he had never heard of any these people. “Lee...Greenwood?” “DJ...Ravidrums? I hope I didn’t mess his name up.” Then old faithful: “And again, Toby Keith!”
Because of all that embarrassment, it’s as sheepish as any big opening—the grand opening to Trump’s entire administration, at that—could be. And with that, the Army Band, admittedly sounding great as ever, struck up its welcome as the president-elect’s family entered the stage in front of the Lincoln Memorial.
From beginning to end, the somber cloud hovering over the incoming administration, this impossible to book concert, and, really, America, stifled the music. Hardly the pomp and circumstance you’d expect from such an occasion. Certainly, it was hardly the spectacle that a man who fancies himself the Greatest Showman on Earth would be proud to produce. Read More: www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2017/01/19/trump-s-inauguration-welcome-concert-was-a-total-disaster.htmlSurprise, the concert turned out to be the total debacle that everyone thought it would be. The Twitter responses listed in this article are GOLD, especially this one: hxxps://twitter.com/106th/status/822206342513434625/photo/1 And, this one: hxxps://twitter.com/TimfromDa70s/status/822236763305353217 (Replace the "hxxps" with "https" in your address bar to see the page.)
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Post by Tim on Jan 21, 2017 0:25:18 GMT -5
Ouch! What a debacle Well, he's the President now. Gonna be a long four years. The only hope is, that in the 2018 midterm elections, the Republicans lose control of Congress. While that won't oust Trump, it would rein him in. Reaction from around the world...
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Post by BettyNewbie on Jan 21, 2017 1:33:04 GMT -5
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Post by Tim on Jan 21, 2017 12:23:11 GMT -5
Good for them.
If Trump wants to turn back the clock, he's not going to have an easy task of it.
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Post by BettyNewbie on Jan 21, 2017 14:07:23 GMT -5
Could this be the start of a new feminist movement? WASHINGTON — The Women's March on Washington opened Saturday with impassioned calls to resist President Trump's agenda, as thousands massed to offer a loud rebuttal to his inauguration as the 45th president.
"A platform of hate and division assumed power yesterday," actress and activist America Ferrera told marchers. "But the president is not America. His cabinet is not America. Congress is not America. We are America!"
Feminist icon Gloria Steinem, gesturing over the crowd, said the gathering demonstrated "the upside of the downside."
"This is an outpouring of energy and true democracy like I have never seen in my very long life," she said.
Organizers of Saturday's Women’s March on Washington have expected it will take its place among historic marches that led to movements — including the 1963 civil rights demonstrations and the Vietnam War protests of 1967.
On Saturday morning, a city official in Washington said, according to organizers, the turnout estimate had grown to 500,000 — more than double the 200,000 people that organizers initially expected to attend.
Attendees aren't organized by a single group. They’re coming on their own — aboard buses and trains from locations as distant as Colorado’s Rocky Mountains — after Hawaii grandmother Teresa Shook created a Facebook page following November's election.
“We will witness one of the largest and most significant demonstrations for social justice in America’s 240-year history,” said Crystal Hoyt, an associate dean at the University of Richmond who focuses on women and minority leaders. “By stoking and exploiting fear, Trump mobilized deep-seated sexism, racism, and xenophobia to gain political traction,” she said.
According to the event website Eventbrite, roughly 1.1 million people plan to participate in more than 350 marches and rallies this weekend around the country. The largest is the main D.C. march.
By comparison, 200,000 people attended the March on Washington in 1963. A 1967 march on the Pentagon protesting Vietnam drew 100,000. Red More: www.freep.com/story/news/politics/2017/01/21/womens-march-aims-start-movement-trump-inauguration/96864158/Third Wave Feminism has often been criticized for lacking the political bite of its predecessors. While the First Wave fought for the right to vote, and the Second Wave fought for workplace equality and reproductive rights, the Third Wave has been mostly associated with academic jargon and debates over things like safe spaces and wearing makeup that are irrelevant to the lives of most women. It's also been heavily associated with "post-feminism" and the idea that feminism is no longer necessary and relevant because women have full equality now. Orange Hitler's ascent to the presidency may have been the final blow to this myth of "post-feminism." Not only did the first female Presidential candidate lose to a literal sexual abuser, but said sexual abuser threatens to roll women's rights straight back to the 1950s. The hard-earned gains that women have taken for granted for several decades now could be wiped out in just a few short years, and younger women may be finally getting a real taste of the kinds of attitudes that their mothers and grandmothers had to go up against. That it was Hillary Clinton, specifically, who lost to Orange Hitler adds to the symbolism. Hillary has forever been associated with 90s era "Girl Power" feminism, being the first First Lady to take an active political role in her husband's administration, as well as later move on to her own political career. She inspired countless girls and women, and many felt that she would be our first female president. Her shocking and devastating loss to a literal neanderthal of a man makes for a perfect close to 90s era Third Wave Feminism, marking the birth of a Fourth Wave.
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Post by Tim on Jan 21, 2017 18:32:10 GMT -5
You could get involved with this Fourth Wave, Betty. You're the right age and the right generation.
The next few years could see the growth of this Fourth Wave, showing Trump that, no matter what he believes, he can't just roll back the clock and pretend it's 1955 again.
Could we see the start of the Second American Revolution? As I said, the whole U.S. system of government is time locked in the late 1700's. The world has long since moved on from that time, and the U.S. must as well.
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Post by BettyNewbie on Jan 21, 2017 19:23:22 GMT -5
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Post by Tim on Jan 22, 2017 0:26:43 GMT -5
Man, what a difference. Trump was lucky if he got a quarter of the people that Obama got. Good old Faux News. The network that Joseph Goebbels would have been proud of (sorry for violating Godwin's Law here).
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Post by BettyNewbie on Jan 22, 2017 12:03:48 GMT -5
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Post by Tim on Jan 22, 2017 12:32:14 GMT -5
Poor baby. Get used to it, Donald.
Keep the pressure up, people. You have a right to protest, after all. Don't let Orange Hitler take that from you.
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Post by BettyNewbie on Jan 22, 2017 15:04:35 GMT -5
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Post by Tim on Jan 22, 2017 18:22:10 GMT -5
Yeah, he's gonna have to accept that. The Electoral Collage may have put him into the White House, but the American people are not gonna just roll over and be the good little sheep he wants them to be.
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Post by Squad 51 on Jan 23, 2017 10:11:29 GMT -5
One simply question here before I may post it (on the weekend): I put some of my thoughts together about the new President and ask also some questions about his politics. The thing is that I could still work on it, to add new things and all.
Would it be okay if I post it here on Friday or Saturday? These thoughts were collected after the Inauguration.
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Post by Tim on Jan 23, 2017 12:07:41 GMT -5
Sure, Jana, go ahead. We don't mind
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