I would never donate a plug nickle to any of the organizations on that list, but anything that can help poke a hole in Trump's galaxy-sized ego and throw a cream pie in his mango-hued mush works for me...Anti-Trump Inauguration Day concert is proposed, and people are taking sides
Robert Reich threw out an idea to his nearly 1.7 million Facebook followers this week that has a lot of people asking: How do we make this happen?
In a Facebook post on Sunday, the former secretary of labor under President Bill Clinton noted the dearth of celebrities and musicians willing to participate in Donald Trump’s inauguration festivities. Many supported Hillary Clinton.
So Reich is championing the idea that celebrities host an event of their own on Inauguration Day to give the official event, starring Trump, a run for the ratings.
“Someone just suggested to me a televised ‘freedom concert’ to air at the same time as the inauguration — with huge celebrities like Beyoncé and Jay Z, Madonna, Katy Perry, Justin Timberlake, Gaga, Bruce Springsteen, and so on,” Reich wrote. “Alec Baldwin MC’s the event, playing Trump as he does on SNL.
“Presto. The Trump inauguration loses all the TV ratings. Basically, no one watches it.”
Conservative commentators quickly mocked the idea as a sour-grapes scheme.
“Count Robert Reich among those who are up for taking their denial to the next level with this inauguration day alternative,” Doug Powers wrote on the website of conservative columnist Michelle Malkin.
“A cavalcade of liberal celebrities sure did the trick the last time, so why not try it again! The concert would of course be held in a venue known as The Bubble.”
Make that a fundraising bubble.
Reich also suggested that such a concert could raise money for a variety of progressive causes, including “the ACLU, Planned Parenthood, Lambda Legal, NAACP, Common Cause, CAIR, IRAP, SPLC, Environmental Defense Fund, Human Rights Campaign Fund, MoveOn, Economic Policy Institute, Inequality Media, and GLAD.”
His post inspired a Change.org petition that, as of Wednesday morning, had attracted nearly 44,000 signatures and dozens of supporters on Twitter.
The petition embellishes Reich’s idea by suggesting other participants: the cast of Broadway smash hit “Hamilton,” the San Francisco Gay Men’s Chorus and the Harlem Gospel Choir.
If just those groups participated, that would outnumber the musicians known to have signed up so far for the Trump festivities.
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So I signed the petition:
https://www.change.org/p/freedom-united ... ry-20-2017
