Sunday, January 21, 2018

Senator Chuck Schumer Providing Backdrop for Women’s March 2018

The Biggest Star of Women’s March 2018 is (drum roll, please): Senator Chuck Schumer, a male-#MeToo-er of which there now seem to be so many.
It was Schumer who managed to pull off the timely shutdown of the government—one day before the march—providing the march its main backdrop:
“Against the backdrop of the U.S. government shutdown that took hold Saturday, many marchers pointed to the irony of the closure of iconic sites associated with the fight for liberty and equality, such as the Statue of Liberty and the visitor center at the Martin Luther King Jr. National Historic Site in Atlanta. (LA Times, Jan.20, 2018)
“Like last year’s protests, these overspilled U.S. borders, with dozens of overseas gatherings. At a linked event Saturday in Rome, Italian actress-director Asia Argento, one of movie mogul Harvey Weinstein’s accusers, called on women to “speak out and change things.”
Nothing’s dramatically changed since their first march: 

The Democrats are still willing to shut the government down (in this case for a weekend) in order to hold the country hostage.
The loudest screams of outrage in this year’s Women’s March are coming from the #MeToo Movement, 30 some years in the making; ‘Power to the Polls’, the overriding chant even though the masses remember all too well how it was the presidential election campaign polls that overwhelmingly incorrectly predicted Hillary Clinton was the inevitable winner when Donald Trump (screech and scream!) ended up as America’s duly elected president instead.
Even the symbolic pink pussy cap of Women’s March 2017 has been flattened down to “caps with cat’s ears.”
The L.A. Times calls it “the genesis of the pussyhats or pink cat’s ears hats”.
Worst of all for the millions frustrated by Women’s marches,  the same old, same OLD celebrities dominate the soap box.
No wonder they needed Schumer this time out!

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