017 Presidential Inauguration (ceremony and protests)
01-05-2017, 10:51 PM
I was present at Bill Clinton's inauguration because I was working in DC at the time. It is interesting to see once if you can make it there.
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It's almost impossible to throw a good old-fashioned protest march these days. Sure, it might seem simple: choose a cause, set up a website, and get a bunch of moderately vexed, rightly concerned, permanently enraged or even slightly bored people together in the same place at the same time. Add a few random signs that have absolutely nothing to do with the topic you're marching about — or, even better, a copy of that sign that says "NOT USUALLY A SIGN GUY, BUT GEEZ" — and in most cases, you're golden.
However, it is not that easy. Just ask the organizers of the Women's March on Washington, a much-hyped, celebrity-laden event scheduled for Jan. 21 in the District of Columbia. The march — organizers are careful to call it a "rally" and not a "protest" — was originally cooked up to coincide with the inauguration of Donald Trump as president. Thanks to obsessive left-wing identity politics, it has morphed into yet another exhausting episode of "Which college-educated woman who resides in the richest country on Earth and who was also just profiled in a glowing Vogue magazine puff piece is the most oppressed person in the room?"
The feminist infighting, sometimes fierce, has begun. "If all goes as planned, the Jan. 21 march will be a momentous display of unity in protest of a president whose treatment of women came to dominate the campaign's final weeks," The New York Times reports. "But long before the first buses roll to Washington and sister demonstrations take place in other cities, contentious conversations about race have erupted nearly every day among marchers, exhilarating some and alienating others."
In other words, even though some 176,000 people have pledged to attend — that's according to the event's Facebook page — and celebrities like Scarlett Johansson, Katy Perry, Padma Lakshmi and Cher have joined the fray, the march might just manage to self-destruct from within.
The culprit: "intersectionality," a brand of feminism that's all the rage on college campuses. It's also a brand of feminism that "asks white women," as The New York Times notes, "to acknowledge that they have had it easier." There are many different types of oppression, intersectional feminism teaches — based on race, class, sexual identity and more — that layer upon each other. In the world of intersectionality, victimhood is sorted by category, tallied and ultimately ranked.
"When it comes to the upcoming march, it is important to all of us that the white women who are engaged in the effort understand their privilege," wrote Bob Bland, a New York fashion designer who helped launch the idea for the march on Facebook. Bland, along with the march's other original co-founder, is white — but "that's not OK right now," one rally organizer told Vogue, "especially after 53 percent of white women voted for Donald Trump."
After a bit of reflection — and some minor bouts of freaking out — the Women's March on Washington now boasts a diverse coalition of leaders, fights back against "cultural appropriation," and praises the latest iteration of intersectional feminism on its website, Facebook page and beyond. The movement practices "empathy with the intent to learn about the intersecting identities of each other." It supports "the advocacy and resistance movements that reflect our multiple and intersecting identities." This all sounds nice, I suppose, albeit rather vague. It also hasn't stopped the bickering.
"The sense of betrayal white women have expressed in the postelection season is at best disingenuous, since we cannot say enough about the ways they turned out at the polls," LeRhonda S. Manigault-Bryant, a Williams College professor who refuses to join the march, wrote in The New York Times. When it comes to asking so-called allies to rank themselves on the privilege scale — rather than bonding together to, I don't know, actually fight against specific policies — "sometimes you are going to upset people," shrugs Linda Sarsour, one of the march's updated slate of four co-chairwomen.
In the end, the ultimate aims of the march remain rather mysterious, if you're the type who expects words to have meaning and events to have actual goals.
"The rhetoric of the past election cycle has insulted, demonized and threatened many of us," the leaders of the march declare on their official Facebook page. To be fair, this is certainly true. The 2016 election was a flaming hot mess, on both sides, and many Americans still can't believe it actually happened. "We are confronted with the question of how to move forward," the group continues, "in the face of national and international concern and fear."
Apparently, at this point, the way forward involves a cavalcade of left-wing causes — abortion, as usual, is taking top billing — buckets of vague platitudes, lots of hectoring and endless, obsessive, identity-based infighting. Sounds like a prescription for victory!
Just kidding. By now it's a cliche, and we can all almost say it in our sleep: It sounds like one of the reasons why we got Donald Trump.
Quote: (01-13-2017 04:34 PM)Space Cowboy Wrote:
Quote: (01-13-2017 04:31 PM)Menace Wrote:
It's not clear to me that Obama ordered this. Obama stops being president on 12 noon, Jan 20. So doesn't this mean Trump did this?
What power does Trump have to do such a thing? He's not President yet.
Quote: (01-13-2017 05:04 PM)trian1 Wrote:
Quote: (01-13-2017 04:34 PM)Space Cowboy Wrote:
Quote: (01-13-2017 04:31 PM)Menace Wrote:
It's not clear to me that Obama ordered this. Obama stops being president on 12 noon, Jan 20. So doesn't this mean Trump did this?
What power does Trump have to do such a thing? He's not President yet.
This was done by Trump's team. They notified him that at the first second Trump takes power that his services will no longer be needed.
That is not uncommon. ALL of the letters of resignation that are going to be accepted begin at that time.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/pub...story.html
Quote: (01-06-2017 07:56 PM)StrikeBack Wrote:
In my Australian city, they tried to get a million to march and protest Trump after the election, and 80 of them showed up. Hope you get the same "massive" crowd in DC!
Quote: (01-14-2017 11:53 AM)Laner Wrote:
We have a good crew here in Vancouver.
I rented a suite with a terrace for the night. The terrace is important, as I want to be sure to have a view of the likely protesters. Antifa and Free Speech (university associations) had a big row when antifa crashed their Christmas party and Soldiers of Odin showed up, and Soldiers of Oden retaliated and wrecked Antifa's headquarters.
Being Vancouver, I am not expecting much, but who knows. I watched Antifa hand out gas masks, crow bars and light a couple police cars on fire using some sort of white hot accelerator. They really just want to see shit get out of control, and as we all know, anything against Trump is condoned by current liberal power structures that run our city.
Either way, I get to enjoy the night from a nice room up in the air. Probably just watch it on TV in the room then hit Drais.
Quote: (01-14-2017 02:33 AM)Latinopan Wrote:
Quote: (01-06-2017 07:56 PM)StrikeBack Wrote:
In my Australian city, they tried to get a million to march and protest Trump after the election, and 80 of them showed up. Hope you get the same "massive" crowd in DC!
Is more easy to click on a Facebook event page than getting out your house and really doing something.
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A deadly shootout at the construction site of the new American Consulate occurred this week in a Mexican border town where Islamic terrorists and drug cartels plan to launch attacks against the U.S. during the period surrounding the presidential inauguration, high-level government sources tell Judicial Watch. An unknown number of gunmen fired multiple rounds adjacent to the new U.S. Consulate compound in Nuevo Laredo, Mexico, a crime-infested city in the state of Tamaulipas that lies directly across from Laredo, Texas.
The Mexican military responded to the attack, law enforcement sources on both sides of the border confirm insisting that their identities be kept confidential for security reasons, and at least three soldiers were either killed or critically wounded in the ambush. A local newspaper in Tamaulipas reported that 13 people died during a shootout in Nuevo Laredo, referring to the deceased as heavily armed “delinquents” with an arsenal that includes 12 automatic weapons, a rocket launcher, grenade, loads of ammunition and drugs in three vehicles, one of them armored. The deceased have not been identified and Mexican authorities will continue to investigate, the article states, attributing the information to a press release issued by Mexico’s Defense Secretary.
Judicial Watch’s law enforcement and intelligence sources say the barrage outside what’s soon to be the new U.S. Consulate is connected to a broad operation between Islamic terrorists and Mexican drug cartels to send President-elect Donald Trump a message by engaging in attacks at border ports. “Cartels usually don’t work with jihadists for fear of having the border shut down,” a veteran federal law enforcement official told Judicial Watch. “But Trump is causing so much disruption in Mexico that they are partnering to send a message as to who is in control. This is as outrageous as a small group of guys crashing planes into U.S. buildings.” Another official who has worked in the region for years said “Trump is causing a huge amount of fear in Mexico throughout all sectors; private, government, business, criminal, police….”
Nuevo Laredo is among the border towns that the terrorists and narcotraffickers plan to launch attacks in, according to intelligence gathered by law enforcement agencies in the U.S. and Mexico…
…Just last week Judicial Watch reported that a Jihadi-cartel alliance in the Mexican state of Nuevo León is collaborating to carry out attacks in American cities and ports of entry along the southern border. Confidential U.S. and Mexican law enforcement sources said that, as part of the plan, militant Islamists have arrived recently at the Monterrey International Airport situated in Apodaca, Nuevo León, about 130 miles south of the Texas border. An internal Mexican law enforcement report obtained by Judicial Watch confirms that Islamic terrorists have “people along the border, principally in Tijuana, Chihuahua, Coahuila, Nuevo León and Tamaulipas.” Cartel informants tell law enforcement contacts that “they are only waiting for the order and the times to carry out a simultaneous attack in the different ports of entry or cities of the United States of America.”
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Quote: (01-13-2017 05:04 PM)trian1 Wrote:
Quote: (01-13-2017 04:34 PM)Space Cowboy Wrote:
Quote: (01-13-2017 04:31 PM)Menace Wrote:
It's not clear to me that Obama ordered this. Obama stops being president on 12 noon, Jan 20. So doesn't this mean Trump did this?
What power does Trump have to do such a thing? He's not President yet.
This was done by Trump's team. They notified him that at the first second Trump takes power that his services will no longer be needed.
That is not uncommon. ALL of the letters of resignation that are going to be accepted begin at that time.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/pub...story.html