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The Dem's 'Let's All Wear Pink' Stunt Fell Painfully Flat. Here's Why.
HuffPost ^ | March 5, 2025 | Brittany Wong

Posted on 03/05/2025 1:56:33 PM PST by where's_the_Outrage?

When President Donald Trump made his speech to a joint session of Congress last night, a number of female Democratic members of Congress wore pink to protest the Trump administration’s policies they say negatively impact women and families.

“Pink is a color of power and protest,” New Mexico Rep. Teresa Leger Fernández, who chairs the Democratic Women’s Caucus, told Time prior to the speech. “It’s time to rev up the opposition and come at Trump loud and clear.”

Pink ― a color archetypically associated with femininity ― also calls to mind the “pink pussy hat” era: After Trump was elected the first time, those pointy-eared knit hats became the unofficial uniform of thousands of protesters during the 2017 Women’s March on Washington. (The hats became a symbol of female solidarity throughout the world, but they were also plenty mocked, too; some felt that there’d never been a better symbol of performative white feminism.).....

Interestingly, the pink did get people talking, or at least searching for answers on why the women wore the shade. According to Google Trends, “why are the congress women wearing pink” was the top trending “why” during the speech, only equaled by “why is Trump doing tariffs” in search traffic.

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


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: New Mexico
KEYWORDS: brittanywong; demprotest; huffpost; jihad; jihadists; newmexico; pinkcongress; pinkprotest; proterrorist; teresalegerfernandez; trumpspeech; womensmarch
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What the author fails to mention is how totally hypocritical it is to supposedly support feminism and women's rights while supporting allowing men into women's locker rooms and toilets.
1 posted on 03/05/2025 1:56:33 PM PST by where's_the_Outrage?
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

For the Democrats, “supporting women” just means “killing babies”. None of the other stuff registers with them.


2 posted on 03/05/2025 1:59:29 PM PST by ClearCase_guy
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Democrats are such juvenile, simple minded fools.


3 posted on 03/05/2025 2:03:25 PM PST by Dan in Wichita
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What the author fails to mention is how totally hypocritical it is to supposedly support feminism and women's rights while supporting allowing men into women's locker rooms and toilets.

As well as allowing men to compete against women and in some cases injure them.

And, again, I say WHERE ARE THE MOUTHY FEMINISTS? Where did they go?

4 posted on 03/05/2025 2:03:44 PM PST by Lizavetta
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Pink clashes with yellow and blue.


5 posted on 03/05/2025 2:05:25 PM PST by lightman (Beat the Philly fraud machine the Amish did onest, ja? Nein, zweimal they did already!)
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To me, the whole Democratic party comes across as childish and unprofessional. I think back to listening to Democratic politicians talk decades ago and they came across as caring and patriotic. Now if one were to say something patriotic it would feel jarring and unreal.


6 posted on 03/05/2025 2:06:23 PM PST by Gen.Blather
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If I were in Congress, I’d identify as a woman just to go crash their womyns caucus.


7 posted on 03/05/2025 2:08:36 PM PST by bigbob (Yes. We ARE going back!)
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I think the author let AI write most of her piece.

Plus, I agree that she totally missed why the pink outfits fell flat. No biological woman feels empowered when a man is allowed to use her restroom or locker room.


8 posted on 03/05/2025 2:11:19 PM PST by FamiliarFace (I got my own way of livin' But everything gets done With a southern accent Where I come from. TPetty)
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To: Gen.Blather

To me Nancy Pelosi is responsible for the blatant partisanship when she declared there is nothing that the democrats can work together with Trump. So dems are not allowed to put forth issues that Trump might try to get passed as it will prove Pelosi wrong.

This started during the 1st term when Trump tried to work with the dems on prescription drug prices, had office meetings, and then the dems shut it down.


9 posted on 03/05/2025 2:12:41 PM PST by where's_the_Outrage? (Drain the Swamp. Build the Wall.)
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I remember when the wore pink to protest the Iraq War.

Now they wear pink to protest not going to war.

How cute.


10 posted on 03/05/2025 2:15:48 PM PST by FlipWilson
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When I heard they were going to wear pink, I thought I’d be seeing a group of women wearing similar pink hues. Their stunt wasn’t nearly as noticeable because of the wide range of pinks which didn’t look like a unified protest.


11 posted on 03/05/2025 2:19:17 PM PST by skr (1 Peter 1:15 - But as he which hath called you is holy, so be ye holy in all manner of conversation)
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12 posted on 03/05/2025 2:20:07 PM PST by 4Liberty (One person’s Socialism is another’s neighborliness. -Tim Walz>)
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Holding up signs on little paddles didn’t help either. Were the Democrats going to stage a giant ping pong tournament in the House chamber after Trump’s speech?


13 posted on 03/05/2025 2:20:18 PM PST by dowcaet
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I hadn’t even thought of that. Are there any ‘trans women’ in Congress?


14 posted on 03/05/2025 2:20:54 PM PST by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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Yup: https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-politics-and-policy/sarah-mcbride-first-transgender-congress-delaware-rcna177878


15 posted on 03/05/2025 2:23:14 PM PST by where's_the_Outrage? (Drain the Swamp. Build the Wall.)
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Sarah McBride.


16 posted on 03/05/2025 2:26:02 PM PST by monkeyshine (live and let live is dead)
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They needed the vagina hats. That would have dignified the movement. /sarc


17 posted on 03/05/2025 2:26:03 PM PST by Old Yeller (On judgement day, you’ll wish you were biblically correctly, not politically correct.)
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It just shows women as followers. It makes them look weak, it makes it easy to identify who is “in the club”.
Typical high school behavior and a demonstration of why these women are not fit to have a legislative position.


18 posted on 03/05/2025 2:33:46 PM PST by DesertRhino (2016 Star Wars, 2020 The Empire Strikes Back, 2025... RETURN OF THE JEDI...)
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While most conservatives as we recognize that the dims with the ‘pink’ stunts and their, little, ping-pong-paddle signs are extremely childish that is OK with the dims if we think that way because they are simply targeting the least of the communist-common-denominators; the dregs of society like BLM, antifa, and other dumb-oxen.

They think that those kinds of animals will love the ‘pink’ and signs deals are wonderful.


19 posted on 03/05/2025 2:34:53 PM PST by spel_grammer_an_punct_polise (Learn three chords and you, too, can be a Rock Star!)
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20 posted on 03/05/2025 2:48:34 PM PST by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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