Wife and I marched with thousands today in Santa Fe, NM. Amazing crowd, gave us a little hope for the future.

Leave it to the Beavers - signs from the Women's March.

I'm always astonished by the difference in signs. I remember Obama effigies being lynched in 2008.

On the other hand, Madonna.

The left consistently has the most creative protest signage, incorporating serious issues and humor. The right, rarely any humor and pretty standard boilerplate verbiage. Sad!

The tone has been set.

Sure, but it's a great way to distract attention from the golden showers though hey? I mean, just looking at how easy it is for Trump's guys to get the media running blanket coverage on a topic as inconsequential and safe as attendance numbers ... it does not bode well for the future.

blanket coverage

I see what you did there.

This shit is infuriating. Which I'm guessing was the point, because I was so shocked and offended by the nonsense this asshole was spewing, I almost missed the fact that no questions from the press were taken. This wasn't a press conference, it was a propaganda session.

Monday there will be a press briefing where they will take questions....it predict it will be even worse.

Here's the answer to one question: Trump is 'not going to release his tax returns'

"Crooked Trump" doesn't even begin to cover it.

I look forward to his imminent impeachment, though a Pence presidency terrifies me.

Maybe once the impeachment gets underway, we can offer Trump a plea-bargain to turn States Evidence on Pence.

Yes, it would then fall to the order of succession, but looking at them I can't see any of these people lasting more than 5 minutes before they run afoul of the Constitution as well.

Psst!.... Paul Ryan is Speaker of the house....just sayin

Fuck. How deep in the bench do we need to go before we find a decent human?

Depending on what you think of James Mattis it would be a full on massacre.

United States presidential line of succession

This will be the cross they nail him to. Everything will now be questionable because we don't know.

Day one.

But while President Donald Trump's hotel in Washington did serve as a hub of Friday's inaugural activities, it also stands as ground zero for what top Democrats and some ethics advisers see as his unique web of conflicts of interest.

And is beginning to appear that the media has found a line Trump can't cross. The all out attack on them.


Sunday Show Hosts Hit Back On Trump Administration’s Lies
“Alternative facts are not facts, they’re falsehoods.”


I am looking forward to the press briefing tomorrow...to see how the press responds.

If he would just stick to attacking minorities and non-christians, the press could live with that.

But Conway is making it easy for them...“Alternative facts"...That is a keeper.

No way HoZay!

Way.

I love this hilarious and 100% accurate reply to the 'anime Nazis' poo-poo'ing the Women's March.

Why is it I can't make heads or tails of comments on Twitter?

human decency?

Since it has to be shorthand, "anime Nazis" has become a dismissive term for the current crop of White Nationalists, referring to the basement-dwelling trolls that constantly spout racist pro-Trump-isms and so on. The point about women's rights in Muslim countries is about how a lot of conservatives have been trying to diminish these marches and feminism as a whole by saying things like "feminists have nothing to complain about, just look at what women go through under Islam" and so on.

More specifically, a comically large percentage of people spouting alt-right bullshit in online forums have anime-style avatars, to the point that those avatars have become a stereotype of them.

Which also explains why we're known as South Park Socialists.

I've only seen South Park Libertarians.

Good point.

Ah, okay. It makes much more sense now, thanks.

My mother and many others marched in DC. Had friends all over the country march in different cities. I'm impressed by the size of the protest.

I'm curious as to how any large maches get arranged, co-ordinated, supported.
I've put on events with just a few thousand attendees, sometimes onky hundreds, and you need to have in place public health, traffic, sanitation, transport, marshalling, press etc before you'll get the go-ahead, let alone any actual support, or gaurantee that you'll not be met with hostile opposition - who themselves have had to jump through the same considerations - whether that be "status maintainers" or just those who don't like somethong about you or your viewpoint.

And it costs loads of money - up front.

We know where a lot of the money came from in the recent election campaign - who is putting their hand in their pockets now? Did all the attendees really go a whole day without going to the toilet, eat for free, park somewhere without charge?

Who greased who's palm?

Obviously when we get to the pre-catastrophic situations seen across Continental Africa in recent years these things aren't going to apply - but I don't think we're quite there yet - people can still co home to their houses, and in many cases, jobs and families.

I am suspicious of mass demonstrations - whatever the cause there's usually a conductor and enabler.

all of this is just a guess - and i hear where you're coming from - but i suspect some of the organization for the march was guided by occupy folks. gonna bet michael moore worked it to get funding. plus the march took donations via its website. i threw in a bit.
some of the smithsonian bldgs were open for bathroom use. and portapotties were probably already on site from the day before. and i bet there were food trucks? there were some at the local march here.
how so many people could get away from job/home responsibilities to go down to dc is what surprised me. i wouldnt be able to swing that.

Hilarious

I wish.

I'm guessing that Trump wants the press corps to just give up and not bother coming. That way he can claim they are refusing to tell the people what he wants them to know. Which would be perfectly correct.

Baghdad Bob V2.0

You made me wonder whatever happened to him, so I tried looking it up. The most recent references to Muhammad Saeed al-Sahhaf were mostly people comparing others to him they wanted to accuse of lying.

His Wikipedia page ends with:

On November 7, 2014, Swedish newspaper Expressen posted a video of an ill Al-Sahhaf in a hospital bed in the United Arab Emirates, claiming that he was dying.

I don't see any activity after that so..? Is he an ex-Bob?

If Bob was the one claiming that he was dying, then I'm sure he's fine.

There was even a march in Riyadh. When even the Saudis protest you...

I first read that as a march in R'lyeh.

I can't possibly see how any login name could have led you to that conclusion.

When even Cthulhu thinks you're a complete shitbag....

Well, technically he's still asleep, but his minions were totally for Bernie.

Can you think of his horrible dreams?
Maybe Trump is an Old One dreaming he's a butterfly dreaming he's an orange topped apple doll filled with ignorance and hate.

Perhaps his manifestation is caused by a bit of undigested potato?

Kelyn...Were you there for both days? Wanted to compare them if you were. not so much in size that is obvious but in mood.
And curious were there the rebel flags?

Oh for those you who haven't heard Trump got caught in another bald face lie.

FEC case exposes paid actor Trump supporters
Rachel Maddow explains how a complaint to the FEC led to the admission that a company that provides background extras supplied "staff" for Donald Trump's very first campaign announcement.

What's chilling is that the things the right-wing fringe has been accusing the government of for years (using actors) is suddenly coming true, and thanks to the whackos, it'll be disregarded this time as well, even if we have the receipts.

It's different for them.
with Trump supporters it's "getting a good deal and foolin them liberals. "

Receipts...receipts ....We have "alternative facts".