Tuesday, January 23, 2018

New York Magazine writer Rebecca Traister says that the media and the politicians do not yet understand the historical significance of the women's marches.

Courtesy of Crooks and Liars:  

New York Magazine writer Rebecca Traister, in a discussion with Chris Hayes and organizer Linda Sarsour, asked why the women's marches got so little media coverage. 

"What do you want me to tell the crazy women talking about justice? They ignored us again but they will not ignore us at the ballot box," Sarsour said. 

"This is right. This is symptomatic, the marches and the activism is not taken seriously. Why?" Traister asked. 

"They are women's marches. We know last year single biggest one-day demonstration in this country's history, we heard how afterwards, it was okay but just a march, it's performance, fun, people get together and wear their cute hats, whatever. No one seems to have connected, still, a year later when there is a spontaneous demonstration almost the same size in some places like Chicago, bigger, without a centralized organization drawing everybody. 

"I didn't know about the marches," she said. "I write about women and politics. I didn't know there would be women's marches until January and they were massive. They don't just have cute marches with the hats with the fact it's women clogging congressional phone lines and doing town halls, who have been organizing on the grassroots activist level around state and local office races around the country who have been winning in New Jersey, in Virginia and who are running in unprecedented numbers for the House, for the Senate and primarying Democrats from the left. 

"And apparently, the media's failure to take this seriously as a political movement and not as some social weekend thing that women do once a year, has led Senate Democrats to think it's not a serious political movement," she said.

I have been saying for awhile that women are changing things, and that the #MeToo movement and these female driven rallies are going to be significant.

But I have to admit that even I may not have recognized just how important of this will be to the future of this nation.

Women have clearly found their voice, and they are no longer asking men for permission to join the conversation. They are already having a conversation to which men better pay attention.

53 comments:

  1. Anonymous4:08 PM

    https://crooksandliars.com/2018/01/lara-trump-says-women-dont-get-why-they

    the dRUMPfs

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  2. Anonymous4:32 PM

    There are literally THOUSANDS of women running for office - locally, state-wide, and federally. Men will pay attention when they get elected, mark my words!

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  3. Anonymous4:59 PM

    The tea party WISHED they could have gotten so many people two years in a row. Or even one. Yet the media couldn't stop creaming over their idiots. That's because they were funded by billionaires with $$$ to spend on publicity. This, however, is purely grassroots and they are ignoring it, and then making excuses for WHY they should ignore it.

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    1. Anonymous5:12 PM

      Your typical dimbulb RWer still doesn't realize the Tea Party was AstroTurf. They gleefully did the bidding of billionaires.

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    2. Anonymous7:16 PM

      She did have a good aim and brought home the bacon.
      http://www.joemygod.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/PalinBoar-589x330.jpg

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    3. Anonymous8:25 PM

      7:16 PM - takes a pig to know a bigger one of a different breed. BANG. You’ll never outlive your past, Bristol, you’re infamous.

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    4. Anonymous9:40 PM

      @7:16 That is what Bristol Palin looked like when she wore that gorilla suit while pregnant on DWTS 2010.
      http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-2wMZc0vnVlo/VaqQZPrsURI/AAAAAAAAHS8/OCSxHwEL_Mc/s1600/bristol%2Bpalin%2Bdwts%2Bseptember%252C%2B2010..jpg

      By the way, where is that baby?

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    5. Anonymous4:51 AM

      Adopted out somewhere.

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    6. Anonymous5:07 AM

      7:16 Everyone who pays gets a pig on these canned hunts,it's not real hunting.

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    7. Anonymous12:31 PM

      You can put lipstick on a pig but it's still a Bristol Palin.

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    8. Anonymous12:38 PM

      Those pigs are full of parasites. I hope she sends the bacon to you, Alicia Mangelsdorf.

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  4. Anonymous5:05 PM

    After Trump’s tantrum, 11 nations leave America out of historic trade deal
    By Dan Desai Martin |
    JANUARY 23, 2018
    11 nations are set to sign a historic trade deal without the United States, exposing Trump's continued lack of global stature and influence.

    Photo by VictoriaPeckham source http://www.flickr.com/photos/victoriapeckham/4000992556/
    (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
    While Donald Trump prioritizes golfing and so-called “executive time,” foreign heads of state are busy filling a global leadership vacuum left vacant by the United States.

    Bloomberg reports that 11 countries — including Japan, Canada, and Australia — have reached an agreement on a historic trade deal, which they expect to sign in March.

    The U.S. was part of the original negotiations, formerly known as the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP). But one of Trump’s first acts after inauguration was to completely withdraw the country from all negotiations.

    And as Bloomberg notes, the deal came in the immediate wake of a reckless move by Trump, while he was home watching his own party shut down the federal government.

    “The deal was reached after two days of talks in Tokyo, and came just hours after Trump imposed tariffs on imported solar panels and washing machines — his first major move to level what he says is a global playing field tilted against U.S. companies.”

    And as per usual, his reasons relied on misinformation and outright lies.

    While positions on the TPP in the U.S. were mixed, withdrawing completely means that the nation has no influence over a deal impacting a huge segment of the global economy.

    According the the Australian government, the new deal will “eliminate more than 98 per cent of tariffs in a free-trade zone, with a combined GDP of $13.7 trillion.”

    Trump seems determined to isolate the U.S. from the rest of the world, withdrawing from a place of global leadership to a place of lazy isolation.

    And he is succeeding.

    The rest of the world thinks that Trump is some combination of arrogant, intolerant, and dangerous. Views on America’s global leadership have tanked since Trump took office, falling an astounding 18 points in a Gallup poll. And he has also managed to tank tourism numbers to the U.S., costing the nation $4.6 billion and 40,000 jobs in that industry.

    President Barack Obama spent eight years rebuilding the nation’s credibility on the global stage after George W. Bush’s reckless cowboy diplomacy mired the U.S. in multiple wars.

    Trump has managed to undo any progress that was made in barely one year. Not only has he lost the respect of global citizens, he has lost the trust of other global leaders.

    https://shareblue.com/after-trumps-tantrum-11-nations-leave-america-out-of-historic-trade-deal/

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    1. I haven’t heard how many jobs being left out of TPP is going to cost the U.S. but I did hear today that Trump’s solar panel tariff will probably cost the U.S. solar industry about 250,000 jobs.

      This to “save” 25,000 coal jobs.

      So much for the (F)Art of the Deal.

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  5. Anonymous5:06 PM

    Trump has cost America $4.6 billion and 40,000 jobs just by being Trump

    Trump's embrace of hatred and bigotry has tourists shunning America — and costing the country billions.

    Since Donald Trump assumed the presidency in January of 2017, international travel to the United States has slumped, as the world is repelled by his ongoing embrace of bigotry and incompetence.

    And new numbers from the National Travel and Tourism Office prove it the Trump travel slump is real and having significant consequences for the United States. There has been a 3.3 percent drop in travel spending and a 4 percent collapse in inbound travel to the United States.

    What this means is that the country has lost $4.6 billion that would have been spent in America and missed out on 40,000 jobs.

    Those lost jobs join the other 250,000-plus American jobs that have moved overseas as Trump presides over a rise in outsourcing and plant closings. That was before his massive tax giveaway to billionaires and corporations, which has enabled companies to make even more layoffs as he reverses the course of the ongoing Obama recovery.

    So why won’t tourists come? Trump.

    https://shareblue.com/trump-has-cost-america-4-6-billion-and-40000-jobs-just-by-being-trump/

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    1. Anonymous4:53 AM

      Our gun violence is enough to keep prudent people away, don't you agree? I mean, if another country had our problems, we'd put them on a "not safe to travel to list"

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  6. Anonymous5:15 PM

    Update: Another story has broken. Apparently Trump summoned the FBI's acting director to the White House for a little meeting. During that meeting, he asked Acting Director Andrew McCabe who he voted for in 2016. McCabe told Trump he didn't vote.

    And now we have the White House working overtime to shovel McCabe out the door.

    -----

    Ari Melber is busy tying together all of the rapidly-breaking Mueller investigation stories today, calling it an "inflection point" in the Mueller investigation.

    https://crooksandliars.com/2018/01/events-breaking-fast-and-furious-mueller

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    1. Anonymous5:59 PM

      Preet Bharara also called it an "inflection point" in an interview today.

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    2. Anonymous6:09 PM

      That's the guy he tweeted about having a few months until he's forced to retire.

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    3. Anonymous7:07 PM

      "An inflection point is an event that results in a significant change in the progress of a company, industry, sector, economy or geopolitical situation and can be considered a turning point after which a dramatic change, with either positive or negative results,
      is expected to result."

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    4. FBI Director Wray was asked to fire McCabe. He refused and said if McCabe was fired, he would resign.

      Second FBI Director gone in a year? That won’t look good.

      I’m sure Mueller is smelling blood in the water. (That would be a shark reference. Tee Hee.)

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  7. Anonymous5:16 PM

    Multi-billion dollar US corporation uses Trump’s tax scam to kill over 5,000 jobs

    As expected, the GOP's tax scam is turning out to be nothing but bad news for American workers.

    ...On Tuesday, personal care product corporation Kimberly-Clark — the maker of Kleenex, Huggies, and many other popular brands — announced that it will be closing or selling 10 facilities and shedding about 12 percent of its workforce as part of a so-called “Global Restructuring Program.”

    The company told reporters on a quarterly earnings conference call that the Trump tax cuts would help fund the layoffs and closings.

    Chief Financial Officer Maria Henry explained the effects of “tax reform” at the top of the call, first bragging that the tax savings would be the equivalent of a 6 percent increase in earnings.

    “We also anticipate ongoing annual cash flow benefits from tax reform,” Henry continued, “that provides us flexibility to allocate significant capital to shareholders,” which is how many companies said they would use their tax windfall, rather than to create jobs.

    Henry went on to say that those tax benefits would also fund “our restructuring program over the next few years.”

    https://shareblue.com/kimberly-clark-multi-billion-dollar-us-corporation-uses-trumps-tax-scam-to-kill-over-5000-jobs/

    Kleenex
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    VIVA
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    Pull-Ups
    GoodNites
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    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kimberly-Clark

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    1. I’ll make it a point never to buy Kimberly-Clark stock.

      I’ll be buying alternates to Kleenex and Poise too. I don’t use any of the other products. I’ll make sure whatever I buy is NOT connected to the Koch brothers too.

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    2. Anonymous1:38 AM

      No Koch for you then.

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    3. Anonymous3:50 AM

      Bu you have to let the company know that, mentioning Maria Henry by name:
      http://www.kimberly-clark.com/contact-us.aspxt

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  8. Anonymous5:30 PM

    SS
    http://www.politicususa.com/2018/01/23/gop-strategist-steve-schmidt-calls-fox-news-autocratic-state-run-tv.html

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  9. Anonymous6:21 PM

    The liberal women's marches will do nothing, except excite their own base as if they are doing something. I know so many women that shake their heads and laugh at these hypocrites.

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    1. Anonymous9:09 PM

      You don't know any women, you psychopath. You don't know anybody, period. You have no friends and no life. Even the peepond kicked you out for being such a bullshitter. The only people who don't want you to go away and die are your poor parents.

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    2. Anonymous1:37 AM

      No I have lots of friends. Lots, I promise. A Lot of women friends too, they all have vaginas. Not the 'identify' as kind, that still have the penis. Friends friends friends. Me.

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    3. Anonymous3:13 AM

      It already has done lots of things you moron.

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    4. Anonymous4:49 AM

      Be honest here.You sit in your room and imagine a life you don't have.Here you are wishing and hoping that women's voices don't matter,to make you feel better about your own small,tired,whining voice.

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    5. Anonymous4:56 AM

      I believe she does know women who shake their pimply heads at the marches...because they are uneducated and brainwashed little Kewpi dolls.

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    6. Anonymous5:16 AM

      You know "so many women" that shake their heads at the women's march?

      Believe you, right? Bigly! After all, lots of people are saying so.

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    7. Anonymous7:49 AM

      They should call it, 'time of the month march.'

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    8. Anonymous8:06 AM

      Husbands like 'yeah, go, go all weekend!'

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  10. Anonymous7:04 PM

    OT?"“After telling me who to love, what to believe, what to do and what not to do and now you sit back and the prostitutes don’t matter, the grabbing the you-know-what doesn’t matter, the outright behavior and lies don’t matter, just shut up!” Steele blasted.

    “They have no voice of authority anymore for me,”
    Steele concluded."
    https://www.rawstory.com/2018/01/dont-ever-preach-ex-gop-chair-tells-evangelicals-still-support-trump-shut-hell/

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  11. Hedgewytch8:38 PM

    The women of this nation are pissed. From the older women like me who remember all the battles we seem to have to keep on fighting to the Millennials who refuse to accept the status quo and are insisting on equality and respect. We saw the beginning of the women's wave with the refusal to elect Roy Moore. That race was won because women of color came to the polls in unprecedented numbers. I can't wait until Nov. The old white men of this nation are about to get a real shock.

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    1. Anonymous4:57 AM

      It can't come soon enough. It's horrible to say, but I'll say it. The world needs these old white assholes to sink into oblivion.

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    2. Anonymous9:20 AM

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CycZrrBx_a8

      PINK

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  12. Perhaps they’ll notice the historical significance when an overwhelming number of women not only run but win political offices in 2018 from the local to the Federal level and everything in between.

    Women aren’t just marching. They are organizing. They are learning. They are taking action. They aren’t taking this any more. They’re learning how to run for and win political office and they are doing just that.

    And that’s a good thing. If enough of them win, they will change this country for the better.

    I hope it happens all over the world. It’s about time global leadership when from paternal back to maternal, the way it was millennia ago. I think the men have mucked things up for long enough. Put the women back in charge for a few centuries and let’s see if things improve.

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    1. Anonymous1:33 AM

      "Perhaps they’ll notice the historical significance when an overwhelming number of women not only run but win political offices in 2018 from the local to the Federal level and everything in between."

      Hahahaaha! Haahahahaaaaaaa! oh. Hahahaahahahahahahahahaa! Heh.

      Thanks. Hahahaaaaaaa.

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    2. Anonymous4:46 AM

      1:33am People like you will sit him,not vote ,and laugh. Millions more will march on down to the voting booth and make a difference.

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    3. 1:33

      Already happening, Shithole.

      Virginia was just the beginning.

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    4. Anonymous9:08 AM

      Virgina just had the right spelling is all.

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    5. Grey One talks sass12:25 PM

      I wasn't going to say anything, being a polite old lady and all but Wow! The size of thighs on this troll boggles the mind.

      I bet they are bragging about how they let us ladies have it, how their manly bits impressed our weak female brains. I bet they even, gasp, believe they won the internets for the day.

      Silly little troll. You really need to cut back, you have so little wit and brain to spare.

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  13. Anonymous3:42 AM

    Well, there is an aspect to it of "good girls." I mean c'mon - Selma, ivil rights, MLK - they all faced serious bodily harm. Marching was a risk.
    (and in MLK's case eventually were felled by the opposition)I was at the 1968 Dem convention as a child of the protestors.

    Haymarket, Emily Davison, Kent State on one side

    Women's March on the other. Uhm yeah. There is a difference.

    No I'm not advocating violence, but we need some action with teeth.

    National strikes
    in the moment self-defense against men who practice physical harassment.
    Make NDAs and payouts illegal or unenforceable
    Public shaming of men (or women) who are convicted of it sexual harassment.

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  14. Grey One talks sass4:45 AM

    I believe the decision makers in news corporations have trouble understanding anything female. In not covering the record breaking crowds they hope females will be distracted by the next bright shiny frippery to cross their path. The top decision makers faith in such stereotypes will be their undoing.

    • It it my hope that the daughters of today learned lessons their mothers never intended to teach.
    • It is my hope the daughters of today asked why it is possible for them to access whatever career they choose but their mothers were restricted.
    • It is my hope with the #metoo campaign many daughters understand clearly why their mother did not rise up to claim her place in the sun back in the sixties and seventies.
    • It is my hope that the young women of today kick Patriarchy in places which are tender.

    Not all men, but most, fear women not because of what we've said we will do but because of past treatment of females. Right now we want equality. I guess Justice will have to wait.

    (It is not oppression when another gains rights you've always possessed)

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    1. Anonymous6:16 AM

      Teach your young sons too. And seriously I think most men are ok with women in many areas. It is those men that stand for trump and foundation that have a huge respect complex and anger towards women. Accepting some men are better homemakers than some women, accepting that some women are better politicians, president and scientist etc. is the problem some men have.
      So this is just a mindset of the next generation, children learn what they are taught. It is extremely important that we the people of this nation teach our children, respect for all life. Teach them that assault and abuse is wrong. That being honest is right. That cheating and bullying is wrong. And to honor our constitution, rules of conduct, laws and basic morals. We must trust, believe and hope for a better future.

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    2. Anonymous5:08 PM

      "I believe the decision makers in news corporations have trouble understanding anything female."

      This makes perfect sense when you remember that the vast majority of the media is owned by just a handful of VERY conservative corporations, run by old white men.

      They're from a generation when women stayed at home, wore frilly aprons, and had dinner ready when their manly men came home from a long day at work. They can't grasp the concept that women want and deserve to be, not in the house purchased in the husband's name, but the House of Representatives or State House.

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  15. Anonymous4:59 AM

    I just hope we don't blow it. I'm a woman. We can be our own worst enemies. No jealousy and catfights, girls, once we get there. There is PLENTY of work for everyone of us.

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    1. Anonymous6:21 AM

      There will be some women that are stuck. Mostly for financial reasons, fear, threats and hardship that stand with trump foundation of corruption and liars. Those women need help.

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  16. Anonymous7:22 AM

    he dropped a bombshell: his hostility towards the staffer was because of Obamacare. “Sometimes I have the tendency to lash out to others on the staff,” he told the paper “And you go hardest on the ones that you care the most about.”
    “Meehan was voted in to advocate for the best interests of the 7th district, but instead used his power to personally and financially attack a staffer,” “His actions are appalling and today I am calling on Meehan to immediately RE$IGN from Congress.”

    https://thinkprogress.org/meehan-obamacare-harassment-c63f8fac1ac0/

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  17. Anonymous2:27 PM

    Been down this road in the 70s, let's hope the cause does not get high-jacked again by one group that is looking out for themselves rather than the greater good.

    In the 70s it was the lesbian movement that took over and made it about them rather than equal pay for equal jobs. We still don't have equal pay and have to fight every single year for save abortions.

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