welcome back to this special edition of the beat. we turn our focus now to some of those big moments in 2017, moments that changed the entire national conversation. i m joined by liz plnk from vox, shelby holiday from the wall street journal, and comedian chuck nice. he s nice, man. we start with the women s marches. this was of course right after trump s inauguration. according to washington post estimates, this was the largest single-day demonstration in american history. think about that. half a million people in d.c. alo alone. the constitution does not begin with i the president, it begins with we the people. let this weight not drag you down, but help to get your heels sunk in. my body, my choice! those who are abusing their power, that is what i am here today to march against.
very slow. real slow. very, very slow. like almost you want it to end. that is true. and if you want 2017 to end, that s happening. lightning round. 2017 in one word. eyeroll emoji. mayhem. rusher. 2018 as we look ahead in one word. women. can i say started from the bottom now we re here? wow. i don t know where but we ll be here. turnout. and i don t mean like getting drunk. i mean really, turn out, damn it! vote! what s wrong with you! vote! do it! vote! get turned out! okay, fine, you win, you win. someone s got the mid-terms on his mind. liz, shelby, and chuck, thanks for being part of this show all year. thanks for being here tonight.
this also comes after, you know, the uproar about the protests, the national anthem protests and basketball players over in china and a number of racial issues that continue to be surfaced by this president. we are seeing this at the ballot box. if you re a republican right now looking into next year s mid-terms, you re probably a little worried about this. and you re worried about whether people are getting the real goods, the real facts on it because if they are it can turn off a lot of people, a lot of mod rarts. a lot of people regardless of what party they re affiliated with. liz is always quoting drake, who said, what s that, facts? and facts have become a huge point of contention in 2017. a time when we have more information available to us, more internet fact check available, but also in the first hours of the trump presidency this year, this should not be forgotten, you had sean spicer using his very first briefing to attack the media with a very misleading claim about crowd
i am a nasty woman! we go right to the panel. liz, what did those protesters and leaders teach us this year? well, they taught us that they re here to stay and that women are leading the resistance against this current administration. i ve been to a lot of marches and protests. i covered this one for vox. and i can tell you this one was unlike anything i ve ever seen or experienced in my life. we started 2017 with women creating the largest protest in u.s. history, in modern u.s. history. we ended the year with the metoo movement, black women in alabama turning that state, and also we have all this data from emily s list, from women who are not just interested in rung but actually, you know, taking the steps to change government. and have more women represented. that s what s so amazing a year later looking back at this. it transcended politics. it attracted this transactional solidarity.
the guy, he s trying to sell really ridiculously expensive shoes with his ridiculously crazy big baller brand. dude just needs to fall back. and if people want to tweet at you, what is your handle on twitter? @shelbyholiday. i m happy to let her know what you think. he s the joe jackson of basketball. he s everything that s wrong with sports. and i agree. liz, who needs to fall back this year? i mean, look, i also have a very controversial pick. which i ll get a lot of heat online for. but male rompers. you go, girl. romp-him is apparently the term that we re supposed to be using. men have everything. men have power, influence. they re equally represented overrepresented in congress. can we just have rompers? like can you just you get to keep rompers. can we keep rompers? can we see those photos again just to let that sink in at the end of the year? does anyone else agree? that s a onesie. i want to hang out with all those guys. that s a onesie.