Anti-Trump Demonstration Today

Glad you cleared that up sunseeker

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!)

LGBT gone from government site. Environment gone.

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

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.

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.

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...

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.

Yes it has gone silly back to real life now.

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

This thread has gone silly.

annodomni true to form nasty comment. How predictable.

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

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

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.

Indeed Trisher, bad manners perhaps, but hardly vile.

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

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.

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

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.

What needs to happen after the march.

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

This was a worthwhile reason for women to march.

twitter.com/5050Parliament

twitter.com/vergilophile/status/822927031834963969/photo/1

I came across a programme on Sky Arts (who knew Sky did Arts?) last night on Bob Dylan. I enjoyed the programme, which reminded me how good Dylan was in his early years, so young, yet so talented. The other big thing that stood out for me, was the level of protest marches in support of civil rights, the crowds were racially mixed with white Americans marching in support of equal rights for Black Americans. This protest happened in my early adult life. The protests in the US and many other major cities yesterday, against Trump are happening in my later years. We go one step forward, two back in many ways.
We should never forget though as Rinouchka says, the anti Vietnmam war protests had an impact on the president of the time. Protest is our right and it does influence policy, it just takes a while to do so.

It was the rough-rich vote that helped Trump. It's a pity money can't buy class or brains.

The marches, and there will be more, are a message and yes Trump is so arrogant and thick skinned that he ll pretend there was only 20 people walking, he ll pay no heed at all, but the message will go round the world and like the suffergettes actions it can make a difference