Empty Threats!
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Every once in a while, a protest comes along that makes you stop and think. Not about the issue, but about whether anyone involved has thought the strategy through even a little bit.
The latest stroke of political brilliance is a group of women proudly announcing they will not have sex until Donald Trump is out of office. That’s the plan. That’s the move. That’s what we’re bringing to the table in modern American politics.
Now, I’m no campaign strategist, but I do understand one basic principle. A protest is supposed to create pressure. It is supposed to inconvenience someone. It is supposed to force a reaction from the target.
For that to happen, you need leverage.
And for leverage to work, you need something of value to the person you’re trying to influence.
That’s where this whole thing begins to fall apart.
Because when you publicly announce you are withholding something that wasn’t exactly in high demand to begin with, you’re not applying pressure. You’re issuing a press release about a situation that may have already been in effect.
Somewhere, a guy is hearing this announcement and quietly thinking, “Wait… that was still an option?”
There are husbands across the country staring straight ahead, doing the confused head tilt people do when they’re trying to process new information that somehow feels very familiar.
“Oh, this is a protest now? Interesting. I thought this was just how things were going.”
You can almost hear the conversation at the end of a bar.
“If this counts as activism,” one guy says, “I’ve been on the front lines of this movement for the last ten years.”
But let’s take this seriously for a moment, because the real comedy here is the belief that this is somehow going to ripple outward and affect anything beyond the people making the announcement.
There seems to be this idea that somewhere, in some office, someone is going to feel this.
That a meeting is going to stop mid-sentence.
“Sir, we have a situation.”
“What is it?”
“Another group has opted out.”
And that’s the moment everything changes.
Except it isn’t. There is no meeting. There is no panic. There is no ripple effect. There isn’t even a mild disturbance in the air.
Because when your protest has no impact on the person you’re protesting, it’s not a protest. It’s a personal decision for show.
And that’s really what this is. A performance.
We’ve reached a point where everything has to be announced, labeled, and framed as a stand. Every private decision now needs a title, a hashtag, and a rollout plan, even if it has absolutely no measurable effect on reality.
This isn’t about leverage. It’s about attention.
It’s about being seen doing something, even if that something doesn’t move a single needle anywhere.
In the end, nothing changes. Not policy. Not votes. Not outcomes.
And somewhere, right now, a bartender is wiping down the counter, listening to this entire conversation unfold, and thinking exactly what the rest of us are thinking.
This may be the only protest in American history where the people participating in it are the only ones affected by it.
And even that might be giving it too much credit.
Because for a lot of people, this doesn’t look like a protest.
It just looks like a blessing in disguise.
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