< Average ratio of pounds per participant was certainly larger.

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What happens next will be a signpost to the future. If these huge marches, using the most potent force the left has, fail to effect any meaningful change then we shall know. The liberal left will be spent - for now. And so far, I'm not getting a sense that these marches have changed anything. Rigby is right - we cannot rest on our laurals. These women are ours for the turning - they will flock to those who can give them what they really crave - proper guidance, a safe frame to women. We cannot waste this chance.

I'm starting to recall shades of Occupy Wall Street. When that went down a few years ago, media was all over it and we also got the usual celebrity endorsements and people on social media constantly pushing the event. After about 2-3 months, everything suddenly stopped. People simply packed up and went home after they got their fill of feeling virtuous.

I see lots of progressives and anti-Trumpers gloating about the size of the crowds but let's see how things are in a 3 months. As other people on this forum have pointed out from looking at the signs the protesters are carrying and even in some cases actually talking to protesters, their mental processes seem to be scattered all over the place. You see people marching not just about "women's issues" but for everything to Black Lives Matter to climate change to defending Muslims, basically just a huge mish mash of basic bitch progressive causes. What this shows me is that they aren't organized or focused and that after the initial endorphin rush overload they'll go back into their bubbles and complacently watch what is going around them with only the occasional tweet or Facebook post to make it feel like they are accomplishing something.

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For the record this is actually more fake news.

The women's match in Washington only drew a max of 500,000, compared to the 900,000 who attended the inauguration.

They're lumping all of the women's marches in various cities into one statistic and comparing it to the Washington inaguration crowd just so they can lie and say that it "beat" the inaguration.

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The women's match in Washington only drew a max of 500,000

Even NPR reported only 175,000

I was still blue pill during occupy wall street, to my eternal shame. I felt there were legitimate grievances to the economic fuckery going on, but the protest were quickly co-opted by vagrants and overly entitled types. I quit the whole occupy thing. Criticisms of that outcry were much the same, that it was a hodgepodge of ideas with no clear message for what they want to accomplish.

The day after the election, I went to an anti-Trump protest at the local university, and it was no different than this.

This is not a protest in any meaningful way, it is an open air group therapy session.

When I went to the University protest, there was a couple hundred people taking turns getting up on an outdoor stage at a small amphitheater for their turn at the mike. What struck me about the whole affair, apart from the high level of emotion, was that there was no coherent message whatsoever.

Each person who got up onstage took a few minutes to talk about themselves, and how hard their life had been. We had many different genders, gender expressions, non genders, we had slam poets, survivors of childhood abuse ("This is my Twitter handle, and for any victims out there, my DMs are always open to you."), angry fat women and men-women of any color but white, apologetic whites ("I am sorry to be taking your time here, I am white. . . But I'm from Denmark!"), masochistically apologetic white men, each with their own story, each with their own psychodrama.

I looked over the crowd, checking out all the hastily scribbled signs, and noticed that none of them were alike, many of them were vulgar. Pretty soon a march of high school students came through the campus, bunking off school, having a grand time, again, without a message, divergent signs, many different chants, getting cheered as they passed by.

These are not protests in any way that can be recognized as effective or coherent.

What I saw at the University was about 500 hundred separate protests, each one tailored to the individual, bespoke protests, protests that finally understand you, protests that are your best friend, protests that know their place.

I see no difference between what I saw after the election and what these women are doing here.

At best you can say that the cost of entry is listening to someone else's bullshit, then you can get on to the real protest, the one that singles you out of the crowd and elevates you to the center.

These women have no idea how little they like or understand one another, and no idea how different political change is to being patient enough to listen to other people talk for just one afternoon out of your life.

Let them march.

Let them wear pink hats with puppy ears, like fucking children or cos-players, Let them have pictures and costumes of vaginas, let them take dumps in the streets, let them chant nonsensical phrases until they are hoarse.

They will divide themselves from within when the time comes to put up or shut up.

They will, in full knowledge that they are doing it, peck each other to bits over irrelevancies, knowing it is stupid, wishing they had man to step in and say, enough, they will impurity spiral themselves into bickering life long feuds.

Ha ha, fucking Ashley Judd fantasizing about what Trump fantasizes about? How shrill and snarky.

I can't wait to see how snark takes down the Commander in Chief.

Go for it girls, we will enjoy every minute of it.

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It appears that most of you guys are not seeing the forest for all the trees. I'm talking about the fact that the feminist movement as well as Marxist Liberal Left has just handed us the keys to its own destruction:

Project yourself forward to 2020 and Trump is about to be re-elected to his 2nd term. The wall has been built, we've made peace with Russia, China is on its knees and once again we are seeing a majority of American made products in our super markets. Employment figures are at a 10 year high with many people previously having exited the workforce getting a chance to go back to work. As part of Trump's re-election campaign a re-make of Reagan's 'It's Morning Again in America' is released:






Meanwhile in the Middle East ISIS has been completely smashed and American troops are loosely collaborating with Russian forces to keep the lid on any remaining splinter groups. In Germany Angela Merkel is long gone and many of the illegal invaders have been deported or have left the country after the AfD coalition forced the hand of the coalition and prevented any family members from being admitted. In France Hollande is only a bad memory and Le Pen has all but made it impossible for any Middle Eastern migrants to cross into French territory. The European Union is in shambles after France voting to leave as well and Britain already having completed the separation.

What we are witnessing right now is merely the echo of a dying era. Just a few years from now we will be able to use these very images and video clips you have posted in this thread to shame and embarrass feminists and liberals across the Western hemisphere. The Marxist Left and its minions truly doesn't know what's coming and it believes that the platform Obama has built will still be around years from today. But Trump will spend every single day of his administration to systematically disassemble the cultural nightmare that Obama has brought upon his nation as well as many others.

Be patient - give it time. Everything that is happening right now will only fuel our fury and our resolve. The Left is digging its own grave and you all know the saying...

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That is an accurate shirt if I've ever seen one.

Fucking hell, they were quite literally singing "Allah Akhbar". There's no hope for Western societies, unless something completely and utterly drastic occurs. What a damn shame for men looking for a wife in that shit show.

Western women as a whole need to be put over the knee and spanked. Each man must do his part.

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Piers continues being a shitlord troll.

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When we send our women to the Womenz March, we're not sending our best.

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I was still blue pill during occupy wall street, to my eternal shame. I felt there were legitimate grievances to the economic fuckery going on, but the protest were quickly co-opted by vagrants and overly entitled types. I quit the whole occupy thing. Criticisms of that outcry were much the same, that it was a hodgepodge of ideas with no clear message for what they want to accomplish.


Their greviences were legitimate, but they were a bunch of marxist wankers and of course this did not go anywhere. It is even likely that the movement was co-opted by Soros like manipulators, so they got nowhere of course.

Sargon has a good takeaway of the whole issue:






While he is no fan of Donald Trump, he clearly sees him as someone infinitely better than Hillary Clinton. Any sane person should be able to see that, but obviously sanity is out of the door.

'komatiite'

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While they were having their empowering Allah Akbar, real women who grew up in Islam are tweeting this:

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and meanwhile in Europe on the very same day 3 Muslim rapefugees are raping a Swedish girl and transmitting everything live on Facebook:

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Allah Akbar indeed...... comrade sisters, put on that empowering Hijab and keep marching on.

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and meanwhile in Europe on the very same day 3 Muslim rapefugees are raping a Swedish girl and transmitting everything live on Facebook:

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Allah Akbar indeed...... comrade sisters, put on that empowering Hijab and keep marching on.

Damn I heard this story and it was completely sanitized without mentioning they were rapefugees.

I've been battling this bullshit on facebook.

I posted a pic of female bombing victims in Syria. Basically saying yeah you women have it so hard.

60+ likes, 7 shares, and over 100+ comments

Didn't back down, dug in, and went on full fucking assault against these dead brained idiots.

Actual footage of me in my comments section:



Not a single one could answer about why they weren't having marches in 3rd world countries, why they weren't criticizing religious regimes, etc.

Deep down inside all of them knew EXACTLY what would happen to them if they marched in those countries.

I called out them out on how we support countries who treat women as second class, how we give them millions.

No response. "BUT WHAT ABOUT MUH IMMIGRATION"

"My family came here legally, why can't yours ?" "If someone cut in line in front of you, you'd be mad also"

No response.

"It's not racist or xenophobic to do back ground checks and want to protect your borders"

No response.

I wrote about how my family came from a previous war torn region to the US, she stated that the US basically this.

Laughable. Guess who does the fighting and dying in wars ? - Yeah thought so.

A woman said, "we march for women all over the world" - oh you mean in other first world countries ? let me know they actually march in the countries that ACTUALLY suppress women's rights."

"I wish I could solve it all, have a good day" - yeah typical dodging.

I pissed off the hornets nest with facts, logic, and truth.


Women in the US are SPOILED and privileged compared to the women in the 3rd world, I keep trying to explain this.

It ALWAYS falls on deaf ears.

Interesting article here. The draft research she did is pretty thorough.

ZH: Ex-WSJ Reporter Finds George Soros Has Ties To More Than 50 "Partners" Of The Women’s March

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Former WSJ reporter Asra Nomani asks in the NYT's "Women In the World" section what is the link between one of Hillary Clinton’s largest donors and the Women’s March? Her answer: "as it turns out, it’s quite significant."



Here is what else she discovered.

Billionaire George Soros has ties to more than 50 ‘partners’ of the Women’s March on Washington

In the pre-dawn darkness of today’s presidential inauguration day, I faced a choice, as a lifelong liberal feminist who voted for Donald Trump for president: lace up my pink Nike sneakers to step forward and take the DC Metro into the nation’s capital for the inauguration of America’s new president, or wait and go tomorrow to the after-party, dubbed the “Women’s March on Washington”?

The Guardian has touted the “Women’s March on Washington” as a “spontaneous” action for women’s rights. Another liberal media outlet, Vox, talks about the “huge, spontaneous groundswell” behind the march. On its website, organizers of the march are promoting their work as “a grassroots effort” with “independent” organizers. Even my local yoga studio, Beloved Yoga, is renting a bus and offering seats for $35. The march’s manifesto says magnificently, “The Rise of the Woman = The Rise of the Nation.”

It’s an idea that I, a liberal feminist, would embrace. But I know — and most of America knows — that the organizers of the march haven’t put into their manifesto: the march really isn’t a “women’s march.” It’s a march for women who are anti-Trump.

As someone who voted for Trump, I don’t feel welcome, nor do many other women who reject the liberal identity-politics that is the core underpinnings of the march, so far, making white women feel unwelcome, nixing women who oppose abortion and hijacking the agenda.

To understand the march better, I stayed up through the nights this week, studying the funding, politics and talking points of the some 403 groups that are “partners” of the march. Is this a non-partisan “Women’s March”?

Roy Speckhardt, executive director of the American Humanist Association, a march “partner,” told me his organization was “nonpartisan” but has “many concerns about the incoming Trump administration that include what we see as a misogynist approach to women.” Nick Fish, national program director of the American Atheists, another march partner, told me, “This is not a ‘partisan’ event.” Dennis Wiley, pastor of Covenant Baptist United Church of Christ, another march “partner,” returned my call and said, “This is not a partisan march.”

Really? UnitedWomen.org, another partner, features videos with the hashtags #ImWithHer, #DemsInPhily and #ThanksObama. Following the money, I poured through documents of billionaire George Soros and his Open Society philanthropy, because I wondered: What is the link between one of Hillary Clinton’s largest donors and the “Women’s March”?

I found out: plenty.

By my draft research, which I’m opening up for crowd-sourcing on GoogleDocs, Soros has funded, or has close relationships with, at least 56 of the march’s “partners,” including “key partners” Planned Parenthood, which opposes Trump’s anti-abortion policy, and the National Resource Defense Council, which opposes Trump’s environmental policies. The other Soros ties with “Women’s March” organizations include the partisan MoveOn.org (which was fiercely pro-Clinton), the National Action Network (which has a former executive director lauded by Obama senior advisor Valerie Jarrett as “a leader of tomorrow” as a march co-chair and another official as “the head of logistics”). Other Soros grantees who are “partners” in the march are the American Civil Liberties Union, Center for Constitutional Rights, Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch. March organizers and the organizations identified here haven’t yet returned queries for comment.

On the issues I care about as a Muslim, the “Women’s March,” unfortunately, has taken a stand on the side of partisan politics that has obfuscated the issues of Islamic extremism over the eight years of the Obama administration. “Women’s March” partners include the Council on American-Islamic Relations, which has not only deflected on issues of Islamic extremism post-9/11, but opposes Muslim reforms that would allow women to be prayer leaders and pray in the front of mosques, without wearing headscarves as symbols of chastity. Partners also include the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), which wrongly designated Maajid Nawaz, a Muslim reformer, an “anti-Muslim extremist” in a biased report released before the election. The SPLC confirmed to me that Soros funded its “anti-Muslim extremists” report targeting Nawaz. (Ironically, CAIR also opposes abortions, but its leader still has a key speaking role.)

Another Soros grantee and march “partner” is the Arab-American Association of New York, whose executive director, Linda Sarsour, is a march co-chair. When I co-wrote a piece, arguing that Muslim women don’t have to wear headscarves as a symbol of “modesty,” she attacked the coauthor and me as “fringe.”

Earlier, at least 33 of the 100 “women of color,” who initially protested the Trump election in street protests, worked at organizations that receive Soros funding, in part for “black-brown” activism. Of course, Soros is an “ideological philanthropist,” whose interests align with many of these groups, but he is also a significant political donor. In Davos, he told reporters that Trump is a “would-be dictator.”

A spokeswoman for Soros’s Open Society Foundations, said in a statement, “There have been many false reports about George Soros and the Open Society Foundations funding protests in the wake of the U.S. presidential elections. There is no truth to these reports.” She added, “We support a wide range of organizations — including those that support women and minorities who have historically been denied equal rights. Many of whom are concerned about what policy changes may lie ahead. We are proud of their work. We of course support the right of all Americans to peaceably assemble and petition their government—a vital, and constitutionally safeguarded, pillar of a functioning democracy.”

Much like post-election protests, which included a sign, “Kill Trump,” were not “spontaneous,” as reported by some media outlets, the “Women’s March” is an extension of strategic identity politics that has so fractured America today, from campuses to communities. On the left or the right, it’s wrong. But, with the inauguration, we know the politics. With the march, “women” have been appropriated for a clearly anti-Trump day. When I shared my thoughts with her, my yoga studio owner said it was “sad” the march’s organizers masked their politics. “I want love for everyone,” she said.

The left’s fierce identity politics and its failure on Islamic extremism lost my vote this past election, and so, as the dawn’s first light breaks through the darkness of the morning as I write, I make my decision: I’ll lace up my pink Nikes and head to the inauguration, skipping the “Women’s March” that doesn’t have a place for women like me.

Asra Q. Nomani is a former Wall Street Journal reporter. She can be reached at [email protected] or on Twitter.

Okay this shit has gone full fucking retard. This is the #WomensMarch and the crowd of "empowered women" just watches as some guy insults and then punches a female reporter in the face.

You can't make this shit up guys. The crowd watches a male feminist punch a female reporter in the face and they do nothing because the man is a "leftist" and the woman represents a "conservative" publication.

I think we've seen it all boy-o's

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Quote: (01-22-2017 05:14 PM)Unchained Wrote:  

Okay this shit has gone full fucking retard. This is the #WomensMarch and the crowd of "empowered women" just watches as some guy insults and then punches a female reporter in the face.

You can't make this shit up guys. The crowd watches a male feminist punch a female reporter in the face and they do nothing because the man is a "leftist" and the woman represents a "conservative" publication.

I think we've seen it all boy-o's

This clip actually provides profound insight into the protesters' motives. Why is it that they'll preemptively take to the streets over the [unsubstantiated] possibility that President Trump will cause women harm, yet when they witness an actual unprovoked assault against a woman right in front of their faces, none of them appear to take any issue with it?

This protest has absolutely nothing to do with women's well-being and everything to do with human tribalism.