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.

So this happened yesterday.

Thousands pack the streets of New York for the second annual Women's March. (via ABC) pic.twitter.com/8D3fC7aa8r

— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) January 20, 2018

We're not going anywhere.

In 2018, we're bringing our #PowerToThePolls.

GET READY.#WomensMarch2018https://t.co/yekbsBwxHj pic.twitter.com/joTcSU4Nuf

— Women's March (@womensmarch) January 20, 2018

Women’s March rallies are taking place in hundreds of cities across the world, galvanized by the #MeToo moment. Here’s the latest. https://t.co/zDbRq8TpPr

— The New York Times (@nytimes) January 20, 2018

My favorite signs of the day.#WomensMarch2018 pic.twitter.com/jayPwaNAec

— Denizcan James (@MrFilmkritik) January 20, 2018

LIVE: #WomensMarch2018 in Manhattan

Wow. Absolutely amazing. Republicans should be terrified of Election Day 2018. #TrumpShutdown https://t.co/b8FS1RN74S

— Scott Dworkin (@funder) January 20, 2018

Courtesy of Fox News: 

Across the world, people were coming together and hitting the streets on Saturday -- the one-year anniversary of President Trump’s inauguration -- marching against his policies and in support of the #MeToo movement against sexual assault and harassment. Protests in New York, Washington, D.C., and Rome were among the more than 200 such actions planned for the weekend. 

In Rome earlier Saturday, dozens of activists gathered to denounce violence against women and express support for #MeToo. 

People also gathered in Osaka, Japan; Frankfurt, Germany; and Kampala, Uganda, for boisterous demonstrations.

To me this is a beautiful thing.

But you have to know that if you are a powerful man used to treating women like objects, or second hand citizens, this has to be one of the most terrifying things imaginable.

But not for one powerful man, because I don't think he really understood what was happening. 

Beautiful weather all over our great country, a perfect day for all Women to March. Get out there now to celebrate the historic milestones and unprecedented economic success and wealth creation that has taken place over the last 12 months. Lowest female unemployment in 18 years!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 20, 2018

What was the score on that cognitive test again?

A smattering of conservatives show up in Nebraska for the Mom's March for America. Featuring guest speaker Sarah Palin.

 Courtesy of CBN News:

Scores of moms and women from across the country gathered in Omaha, Nebraska with a mission to reclaim their children’s “heritage through faith, family, freedom and the Constitution.” 

The Mom’s March for America, organized by Homemakers for America, was dubbed as a voice for moms concerned about a moral decline across the country and an answer to the Women’s March that took place in DC earlier this year. 

"We had just seen a couple months prior in D.C., this women's march that frankly didn't represent myself or any women I knew," said Dawn Wildman of Mom’s March for America.

The event only attracted about 300, though they bragged that thousands were probably going to watch the livestream.

However if they were planning to as counterpoint to the Women's March they  failed miserably, as THAT gathering attracted 2.6 million.

But hey this gathering had something that rally back in January didn't have,

The Wasilla Wendigo:

Former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin took the time to encourage the women attending, particularly the moms. 

"The best day in my life was the day I became a mom...No better job in the world. None more exciting, none more important," Palin told the women. "It is a war out there for our children's future," she continued. 

She went on to speak about the importance of seizing the moment. 

“You gotta seek out those opportunities to be in the battle when God has an open door for you,” she said. 

You know if she enjoyed being a mom so much, you might think she would have actually spent time with her kids, or stayed home with a newborn rather than losing an election to be vice president.

This is just another of a long line of failed attempts by conservatives to compete with the progressives.

Liberals throw a giant history making rally to protest Donald Trump, and the conservatives host some tiny, poorly attended knitting circle in an attempt to compete.

It's just goddamn sad is what it is.

Here's a little helpful hint for the future.

If the only "celebrity" speakers you can attract to your little soiree are Candy Carson and Sarah Palin your best move is to call the whole thing off and just accept the fact that you are really bad at organizing things. 

I think the Trump team has been trying to keep coverage of the Women's March off of the front pages. So here is more about the brave Alaskan women who participated on Saturday.

Courtesy of ADN: 

Snow, frigid temperatures and harrowing driving conditions weren't enough to keep thousands of Alaskans from participating in Women's March events across the state Saturday. 

Organizers reported hundreds of people in cities like Palmer, Homer and Juneau. Even remote communities like Adak, located in the Aleutian Islands, reported 10 people in attendance. At least 38 marched in Unalakleet, a Northwest Alaska village of 700 people.

Anchorage and Fairbanks both estimated march attendance in the thousands.

Some estimate that around 3,500 showed up in Anchorage while another 2,000 participated in Fairbanks.

Worth noting that Anchorage was in the middle of a snow storm and Fairbanks had temperatures around 30 below zero.

And just check out these women marching in Haines.

The March in Haines, Alaska. Respect. pic.twitter.com/ezKpFmnT9C

— Patti Digh (@pattidigh) January 22, 2017

Yet another reminder that Sarah Palin by no means represents real women in Alaska.

This movement is only going to grow and by the time we get to 2018 it will be a political force that nothing is going to be able to stand against.

And don't bother trying to compare this to the Tea Party.

These ladies would squeeze their teabags until they crumpled to the ground in agony.

I KNEW more people would show up for the protests.

@TrinityDC @sr_simone Lots of love shown across the Country and Globe! #thankyou #WomensMarch #StrongerTogether pic.twitter.com/bnRfZIBdhG

— Katy M. Gilliam (@ktmac74) January 21, 2017

This is literally the best thing that could have happened after Trump's inauguration.

Here is irrefutable evidence that more people are opposed to him and his policies than are supporting him and his policies.

And remember, this is JUST in DC.

There were huge protests like this all OVER the country.

So riddle me this Batman. Exactly how did this guy win more electoral votes again?

P.S. This protest yesterday, counting just the participants in the United States, is now being estimated to have included an astonishing 3.2 to 4.2 million people. Making it the largest protest in American history.

That's right deplorables, the largest protest in US history was against YOUR guy.

And that does not even take into account the number of people in other countries that also protested.

Ashley Judd's slam poetry speech at yesterday's Women's March is everything good about our country.

Courtesy of Raw Story:

Interrupting a speech being given by activist Michael Moore, Judd explained,”I bring you words from Nina Donovan,” a 19-year-old poet from Tennessee. 

The actress then belted out Donovan’s slam poetry, beginning with, “I am a nasty woman. Not as nasty as a man who looks like he bathes in Cheeto dust, a man whose words are a dis to America, Electoral College-sanctioned hate speech.” 

“I feel Hitler in these streets, Nazis renamed,” Judd continued, before turning to Trump’s disturbing comments about his daughter Ivanka. 

“I’m not as nasty as your daughter being your favorite sex symbol,” she exclaimed. “Our p*ssies ain’t for grabbing. This p*ssy is for my pleasure and giving birth to more nasty woman,” the poem concludes.

I was absolutely floored by the passion that I witnessed yesterday emanating from the women, and men, who participated in those protests.

But damn, Ashley Judd looked like she ate lightning and crapped thunder during her speech.

THAT is what we need so much more of.

THAT is how we take back our country.

THAT is how we speak truth to power.

And THAT is how we survive the Trump presidency.