Anti-Trump Demonstration Today

This was a worthwhile reason for women to march.

twitter.com/5050Parliament

What needs to happen after the march.

www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/alicia-kearns/courage-beyond-the-march_b_14313302.html?utm_hp_ref=uk

I see Daphne's support network has come out in force to condemn me yet again with patronising posts and nasty comments but heyho only to be expected because I don't share their lefty views.

Do we need to have lefty views to condemn vile posts? That's a new restriction.

patronising posts and nasty comments
I don't think you can complain Firecracker123 you started it.
If it's lefty to think references to wealth and status are unnecessary and impolite then thank goodness I'm lefty, but actually many of my right wing friends (especially the poshest) think it's bad manners to talk about such things.

What's vile about saying life has been kind to you? Or have I missed something?

Indeed Trisher, bad manners perhaps, but hardly vile.

Some who climb the ladder and pull it up after them may yet fall to earth with a nasty bump. daphnedill who tells us she has been a higher earner in her time, clearly has not pulled the ladder down after her but left it there for the likes of firecracker to ascend.

I have also thought, on occasion, that some of dd's posts have a patronising tone. I think I might have been accused of the same somewhere or other.

Are we off anti-Trump rallies now then?

I quoted this elsewhere: "Judging by actual recorded footage, rather than morality tales on social media with implausibly emotive narratives, the overwhelming majority of violence around the US election has been conducted by opponents of Donald Trump."
Ed West

PS Not that I care. Just saying. It's too easy to get the wrong tone from the written word.

annodomni true to form nasty comment. How predictable.

This thread has gone silly.

trisher daphnedill started it with her patronising comment as well you know. But heyho who cares.

Yes it has gone silly back to real life now.

thatbags I think the 'vile' bit is the smiley face at the end. It's bad manners to talk about your wealth, it's much worse to mock someone because they haven't any money.
Ed West is the deputy editor of the Catholic herald- Catholics like Trump's abortion ideas, so perhaps not an unbiased view.

Indeed it is, thatbags.

Errrmmm...trying to work that one out, annodomini.

I've never been a member of any élite, as far as I know.

There are many members on GN, whose views I respect, even though I often disagree with them. I would put you in that category thatbags. People are free to challenge anything I write, but I don't have much time for people who call others names for the sake of it or come up with opinions disguised as facts.

I'm hardly likely to write something I believe is wrong and I do usually try to back up my argument, which probably comes from years of writing reports on various topics. However, if you think I'm wrong or disagree with my view, I'm all for proper argument/discussion. I've even been known to apologise for making mistakes sometimes.

Anyway, back to Trump...

Donald Trump said that it would be very controversial if he stood as a candidate. That was in 1997.
About Bill Clinton he said, "You think about him with the women. How about me with the women?"
He's just reaping what he sowed.

In 1999 he was a member of the Reform party, and wanted the Civil Rights Act to include protection for gay people. He also called for universal health care and the protection of Social Security through a one-time tax on the super-wealthy.
I imagine some of those protesting just want to keep him to his word.

Trisher, at one time Trump supported a right to partial-birth abortion. When he actually found out what it meant, he said he meant he supported a ban on partial-birth abortion, but he supported a a woman's right to choose abortion.
Another about turn.

LGBT gone from government site. Environment gone.

Now wants to move the American embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. Bloody lunacy.

whitewave Can I just correct your comment about LGBT and Environment being gone from the website (I am assuming you mean the White House website). When a new President is elected the whole of the existing website is moved to archives and a new website created reflecting the views of the incoming President, so really nothing has actually been removed. However, I will agree with you that these do not appear to have been mentioned in the NEW website. (I'm just being a tiny bit pedantic!)

Glad you cleared that up sunseeker

daphnedill started it

How old are you Firecracker123?

However, I will agree with you that these do not appear to have been mentioned in the NEW website.
Websites can be updated - we hope

Of course everyone is entitled to peacefully protest but sometimes crowds like this do impact on the everyday lives of others who may have to get to work, to important appointments etc.
And sometimes good manners seem to be fly out of the window if people are intent on protesting and not caring about their fellow citizens (including other females) who are then unable to get to where they need to be.

Just thought that is worth consideration too.

trisher, judging a man entirely on his Catholicism and support for an anti-abortion stance is not relevant to actual observation and recording of violence by demonstrators. I know this because my father was a Catholic and opposed to abortion but Trump would have given him an apoplexy.

You might not agree with a person on several (even most) things but that doesn't mean they are incapable of accurately reporting something. I'm shocked at the evident prejudice of your attitude.

I'm not saying Ed West has accurately reported something, only that you have no non-prejudicial evidence that he hasn't.