Huh...

Thursday was International Woman's Day. What is this about? According to the website:

International Women's Day (March 8) is a global day celebrating the social, economic, cultural and political achievements of women. The day also marks a call to action for accelerating gender parity.

One day? We get just one day? That seems…gee…dunno….kinda bullshit to moi. Shouldn’t this be every single goddamned day?

Just FYI, the answer is YES, it bloody well should be!  We are a hideously long way off from equality to say the very least. Here's just one supporting example:

In Tennessee, there are loopholes in the law that allow a girl as young as 10 to be married to an adult. A bill was submitted to fix that, but Republicans in the legislature killed it to preserve an absolutely ridiculous argument against gay marriage. (source)

Child marriage exists here in the good ol’ U.S. of A and it’s most often girls who are married off to adult men. This isn’t just some horrifying thing that only happens in places like Mozambique and the Sudan. Zimbabwe, Malawi and El Salvador have banned child marriage – when will we?

Every goddamn day needs to include movement/action, no matter how small, to bring about equality.
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That big meet and make nice with Kim Jong Un looks like it was just a bunch of distractifying fluff. Tillerson came out yesterday saying “conditions weren’t right to meet with North Korea.” Will the Toddler in Chief, as usual, go off the rails in an attempt to get his way? His way, in this case, is some staged, reality TV, fantasy diplomacy event where Trump, looking oh-so hard-man presidential, walks in without any prep (beyond time in the makeup chair) and totally wins the day. This’ll be followed by endless applause and, of course, a thousand 20 year old adoring model-beautiful babes all going down on his sad, wee todger.

Which, of course, brings me to that Stormy Daniels business. Without a micron’s worth of doubt, this indiscretion (and hush money pay off) won’t cost him his base. Nope, not even, ESPECIALLY NOT, the evangelicals. Why not?

His regular, non-christianist fans – the alt-right, KKK, douche-nozzle boys brigade – are, likely, tickled pink about the whole thing. They voted for him PRECISELY because of this over the top, celebrity skin bullshit (that and the bigotry).

FlipYrWhig, in a comments thread over at No More Mister Nice Blog post Does Trump Have a Teflon Zipper? explains it perfectly:

I had it explained to me by a very Trump-y friend as "LOL this will only make him MORE popular with men.

Trump's whole life, and it's been obvious from the start, is like a 12-year-old boy's version of being a rich successful grownup. Fly around in your personal plane, live in your personal tall building, eat nothing but junk food, do no homework, pick fights with the people you hate, and touch as many naked ladies as you want.

As for the evangelicals, they’re solidly in love with their end of the world/rapture fairy tale – they don’t care how spectacularly hypocritical they're being. They don’t care how many of us are trampled and die in their mob rush to armageddon. Trump will bring them there – he’s gonna give them their happy ending. That's all that counts.

It's 241 days until we can vote OUT all the greedheaded, sycophantic fuckers who facilitate this Russian financed and promoed human trash fire and his crime family.