Rested. Marching is hard on the muscles, but good for exercise!
Today — influence.
Husband noticed that VoteSpotter was on his iPhone. I showed him how to use it. Like me, he rarely gets involved in politics, although we both vote in nearly every election, and have never missed a Presidential election. He was very interested in what our representatives are doing, and added his own opinion!
I also spent a lot of time writing up many of the issues that I saw on the March, in an attempt to explain it to people who have said they are confused by the purpose of the March. I’ll admit to being very cranky at first — my feeling was the most of the people were being either disingenuous or disrespectful. After all, there has been so much information about the March for months, I really felt people either were living under a rock and didn’t realize it was happening, didn’t care – in which case their “confusion” was sarcastic and disrespectful, or they disagreed – in which case their “confusion” was disingenuous. I prefer honesty.
The big theme of the day was the first Press Conference by Sean Spicer, President Trump’s Press Secretary. This is an angry blast at the media, and very much focused on complaining about reports of the attendance for the inauguration.
The Press Conference was followed later with an interview with Kellyanne Conway (Counselor to the President). She refused to actually answer Chuck Todd’s question about the President sending out Sean Spicer to essentially present falsehoods. It was at this historic moment (4:18 in the following video) that Kellyanne decided to introduce the term “Alternative Facts.” I think I’ve heard it before, but no one jumped on it during the campaign because they didn’t take her seriously. In my opinion, she makes it clear who’s really in charge (see 5:10 when she says, “this is why I’m here at the White House…”).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IcBblq-QOo4
Alternative Facts = “I don’t like your facts, so I’ll make up my own” = LIES