I hate to say this, but even with everything you wrote, Trump will probably be far worse, and we may look back wistfully at W. Sad, isn’t it.

Yes. Though to be fair I’ve mostly heard it from older people (like 50+) who grew up in an era where they thought colour blindness was the way to combat racism and don’t really understand that’s it’s a lot more complicated than that. Or who think that acknowledging race = racism.

My nephew, class Valedictorian and Very Nice Kid, signed up for the Marines right after 9/11, before he even graduated high school. He was sending 10% of his military pay home to his Sunday School when in short order he was killed in Ramadi.

I agree with you. I just think Bush was NO WHERE near as bad as Trump has been and it’s only been like three days in office.

Totally get that and understand. I guess some people I’ve hard say this were a little too vague for my liking and caused some side-eye from me.

I don’t think people have forgotten, people are using GWB as a comparison to point out how bad Drumpf is. No one thinks GW is great, they think Drumpf is so apocalyptic, that he makes a horrible war monger like GW look good. We don’t think GW is that great, we think Drumpf is THAT HORRIBLE.

Most people I’ve heard are either saying it tongue-in-cheek. Or if not, they aren’t saying GWB is amazing, but that he’s not as bad as Trump (which still leave room for some crappy behavior). I don’t think anyone is actually forgetting his policies. I’d love to have a Democrat in office, but if had the opportunity to…

“I was certain this dude was a dildo” KILLED ME!!

The comedian Brian Posehn used to have a bit about being bad at bigotry; e.g., whenever he saw a gay couple he’d yell “Go back to Mexico!” at them.

I hollered at this because it’s horrifying accurate. I PRAY for a GWB to save us right now. Lol

I thought he was a great choice for this monologue, I am a fan of Ansari. He is insightful and cutting but just so gosh darn nice, his humor, even about tough topics, makes me feel like we’re all going to be just fine.

Brown’s offensive reference to the wrong ethnic origin goes nicely with Ansari’s joke about people telling him to “go back to...the country you’re from!”. His follow up is that the racists tend to not be geography buffs.

Aziz’s bit about G.W. Bush in his opening monologue cracked me up. “What the hell has happened? I’m sitting here wistfully watching old George W. Bush speeches? Just sitting there- ‘What a leader he was!’ 16 years ago I was certain this dude was a dildo, now I’m sitting there like ‘He guided us with his eloquence!’”

I think you’ve really highlighted something, with the smaller marches, that I’ve been really excited by. Kara talks in this article about how she doesn’t trust the other marchers in the big cities; that is not an unreasonable fear. But I also want to talk about the many articles I’ve read with women in small towns who…

Thank you for this. I usually agree 100% with Kara but I can’t get on board with this. I am a black American woman, over 30 and this was my first protest. I usually only give money to the causes I support but felt the need to stand in solidarity and make my presence known this time. My friends and I went to a Women’s…

Yes. The catharsis and relief of being around like-minded individuals finally made me feel something other than the despair and hopelessness that I’d felt since November.

Exactly.

Almost 6,000 in Lexington fucking Kentucky. It was a good day.

The Women’s March prompted some reflection for me. I’ve never been to a political protest in my life and I agree with you that this march was somewhat of a catharsis. I described it to my mother as being a way of people in my city fighting back against the gaslighting. Of getting together and saying “you are not…

Be heartened by the marchers not in NYC or DC or LA or Chicago. Be heartened by the small towns where they expected 25 people and got 500. Be heartened by the women who stood up in Middle America and put their faces forward and said “I’m not going to accept that this is the new normal.”