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NRaleighLiberal

(60,024 posts)
3. It they happen regularly and often - if the media covers them - if it becomes clear he will
Sat Jan 21, 2017, 11:48 AM
Jan 2017

never be considered legitimate by us (the left and hopefully the center and right that he pissed off) - if he gets no respect and gets regularly laughed at.

Apathy will be our enemy - acceptance and normalization our disaster.

SticksnStones

(2,108 posts)
5. All the broadcast media I'm seeing this am have their cameras on trump trying to pray.
Sat Jan 21, 2017, 11:49 AM
Jan 2017

So no, I don't think there's enough coverage to get them riled up.

underpants

(182,942 posts)
11. The March will be going on for a while.
Sat Jan 21, 2017, 11:58 AM
Jan 2017

Yes they are trying to kill time with the mpnational prayer service but CNN has been covering it with reporters AT several marches.

Wounded Bear

(58,728 posts)
6. Not likely...
Sat Jan 21, 2017, 11:55 AM
Jan 2017

they are still in Defiant mode. It'll take more than one set of marches on one weekend to affect them.

Princess Turandot

(4,787 posts)
7. They're showing up on Twitter in the #womensmarch tag...
Sat Jan 21, 2017, 11:55 AM
Jan 2017
https://twitter.com/hashtag/WomensMarch?src=tren&data_id=tweet%3A822813675757060096

Mostly males, although there are a few women (the latter, lamenting abortion.)

And Piers Morgan is tweeting some revolting things (against the marchers.)

MineralMan

(146,337 posts)
9. More likely, it will piss them off and harden their already stony hearts.
Sat Jan 21, 2017, 11:57 AM
Jan 2017

The Right is finally in a position to exert their will without consequences. And they're going to have a field day doing it, too.

It's important to protest, but it's not going to move those people from their path, I'm afraid. We needed this BEFORE the election, not after.

DemocratSinceBirth

(99,716 posts)
12. I am under no illusion they can be moved. However I want to see them irritated.
Sat Jan 21, 2017, 12:01 PM
Jan 2017

I am sure there are many of them who couldn't care less about the sensibilities of polite society but some of them are.

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