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She Helped Launch the Women's March. This Year She's Sitting Out the Fight.
BBC ^ | 1/17/25 | Holly Honderich

Posted on 01/17/2025 1:57:30 PM PST by nickcarraway

As protesters gather in Washington DC on Saturday for this year's Women's March, Vanessa Wruble, one of its founders, will be 2,500 miles away, at her farm in the Californian desert.

"I didn't even know it was still a thing," she told the BBC from her five-acre animal sanctuary near Joshua Tree, which features a zebra, mini cows and horses, peacocks and chickens.

Eight years ago, on the eve of the first Women's March, Wruble had been consumed by it. In the aftermath of Donald Trump's surprise 2016 victory over Hillary Clinton, Wruble, along with a handful of other female activists, scrambled to pull together a mass protest against the newly elected president.

"We basically did not stop, we did not sleep," Wruble said. "It felt like we were doing something important."

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Wruble was pushed out of the Women's March soon after its first year, later saying her Jewish heritage played a role in that. Her exit was part of a raft of internal conflict that roiled the organisation from the start. The original co-chairs, Linda Sarsour, Tamika Mallory, Carmen Perez, and Bob Bland, have since left the group. They did not return the BBC's request for comment.

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Ms Gau said she thinks Democrats focused too heavily on abortion rights during the election over kitchen table issues like the economy, which exit polls showed was a primary concern of voters.

"We've been through all that before, and the sky didn't fall," she said of Trump's first administration.

(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: District of Columbia
KEYWORDS: agitators; bobbland; carmenperez; lindasarsour; tamikamallory; tds; trump; vanessawruble; womensmarch
So, Jews aren't welcome among the resistance to Trump?
1 posted on 01/17/2025 1:57:30 PM PST by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

So the annual sexist temper tantrum about a corrupt incompetent woman not getting elected President by US Voters is still a thing?

Hmm seems to remember something about “Defending Democracy” being screamed by the same clown show


2 posted on 01/17/2025 2:06:05 PM PST by MNJohnnie (Don't blame me, my congressman is MTG!)
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To: nickcarraway

This article was just chock full of all the tired leftist slogans.


3 posted on 01/17/2025 2:06:15 PM PST by PGR88
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To: PGR88

And yet, if you follow it closely, they accidentally disclose some truth.


4 posted on 01/17/2025 2:07:17 PM PST by nickcarraway
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To: MNJohnnie

So we won’t see Madonna talking of blowing up the White House? We won’t see women celebrating the vagina?


5 posted on 01/17/2025 2:15:11 PM PST by Dilbert San Diego
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To: nickcarraway

The Democrats can’t identify what a woman is.


6 posted on 01/17/2025 2:30:22 PM PST by Ge0ffrey
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Orange man bad, but Jews are worse, apparently.

Remember that the leftist inclusion is not extended to all.

7 posted on 01/17/2025 2:41:56 PM PST by Robert DeLong
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To: nickcarraway

Obviously not.


8 posted on 01/17/2025 3:10:25 PM PST by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: Ge0ffrey

At all.


9 posted on 01/17/2025 3:10:54 PM PST by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: nickcarraway

Is this Barney Wruble’s wife?


10 posted on 01/17/2025 3:13:39 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer (Joe Pedophile's deal with the devil is finally coming to an end. Thank you Lord. Amen.)
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To: nickcarraway

Five acres in the desert is not a farm.


11 posted on 01/17/2025 3:36:51 PM PST by marktwain
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To: nickcarraway
Estrogen fumes, menopausal hags, lesbian bitches, hot flashes, feminazis—talk about a witch's brew!

12 posted on 01/17/2025 11:25:03 PM PST by Governor Dinwiddie ( O give thanks unto the Lord, for He is gracious, and His mercy endureth forever. — Psalm 106)
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To: marktwain
Five acres in the desert is not a farm.

it is in LaLaLand

13 posted on 01/18/2025 5:17:09 AM PST by SisterK (it's controlled demolition)
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