Inauguration Thread

Bogart

Talk about the inauguration here. Speeches, promises, the sight of Trump leaving for Florida, tens of thousands of national guard protecting the new American President from the wrath of it's arch enemy, Real America, etc



It's prettier when it's not covered in fascists.

Henroid

Bogart wrote: »

It's prettier when it's not covered in fascists.

Here's to hoping they sterilized the place.

Nobeard

Henroid wrote: »

Bogart wrote: »

It's prettier when it's not covered in fascists.

Here's to hoping they sterilized the place.

Still have the enablers of those fascist inside, though.

wobblyheadedbob

I wish my workday wasnt so busy

Steev

Inauguration Day is an actual holiday for government employees in my county, which is nice.

Do we know who all is attending this thing? Looks nicely socially distanced based on the picture there.

dlinfiniti

What time does this shit start? I don’t wanna miss the snoopy balloon

Henroid

I'm gonna (try to) do a watch party on my stream. I can't actually re-stream it and I'll have to have the audio from the broadcast muted. But I'm definitely encouraging people to bring a shot glass and your drink of choice because I will be doing a toast.

Muzzmuzz

Even though he doesn't have Twitter, I automatically assume Trump is going to use the obviously lowered attendance numbers for Biden as a way of comparison to HIS inauguration.

RMS Oceanic

Muzzmuzz wrote: »

Even though he doesn't have Twitter, I automatically assume Trump is going to use the obviously lowered attendance numbers for Biden as a way of comparison to HIS inauguration.

He'd do this even if Biden out-attendee'd him two to one. Or say those attendees don't count because rul 'murica

Marathon

Muzzmuzz wrote: »

Even though he doesn't have Twitter, I automatically assume Trump is going to use the obviously lowered attendance numbers for Biden as a way of comparison to HIS inauguration.

He’s already bitter that Biden is having actual celebrities willing to host/perform at his inauguration.

Shadowfire

https://twitter.com/travisakers/status/1351688002800640006?s=20

Casual

Is it normal to put up all the obsolete US flags for an inauguration?

Dhalphir

gonna feel weird tomorrow really

silence1186

I'm honestly trying to ignore this until after it's happened. If I'm busy at work time will fly and then I'll look up and have to ask who the president is.

Henroid

Casual wrote: »

Is it normal to put up all the obsolete US flags for an inauguration?

I'm not sure that it is but it also wouldn't be abnormal.

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zagdrob

electricitylikesme wrote: »

RMS Oceanic wrote: »

Muzzmuzz wrote: »

Even though he doesn't have Twitter, I automatically assume Trump is going to use the obviously lowered attendance numbers for Biden as a way of comparison to HIS inauguration.

He'd do this even if Biden out-attendee'd him two to one. Or say those attendees don't count because rul 'murica

Fortunately literally nothing Trump thinks will matter after this. If the Senate vote to convict, then, nothing he thinks will need matter ever again.

This is the best part of today. In a few short hours, Trump will just be a deplatformed regular citizen with no real power.

His crimes can and will be investigated like the crimes of anyone else, and the grown-ups will be back in charge and able to start righting the ship.

I am certainly braced for a lot of stupidity in the next few hours, and a lot of stupidity coming out when people are able to start combing through what the fuck happened the past few years, but that's already pre-assumed so it's not really going to bring me down. Short of him launching missiles or something like that we're on final approach to things maybe being able to turn a corner to start getting better or at least back to normal.

I crave being able to wake up in the morning and not having to check first thing out of bed what stupid shit the President did overnight.

silence1186

zagdrob wrote: »

electricitylikesme wrote: »

RMS Oceanic wrote: »

Muzzmuzz wrote: »

Even though he doesn't have Twitter, I automatically assume Trump is going to use the obviously lowered attendance numbers for Biden as a way of comparison to HIS inauguration.

He'd do this even if Biden out-attendee'd him two to one. Or say those attendees don't count because rul 'murica

Fortunately literally nothing Trump thinks will matter after this. If the Senate vote to convict, then, nothing he thinks will need matter ever again.

This is the best part of today. In a few short hours, Trump will just be a deplatformed regular citizen with no real power.

His crimes can and will be investigated like the crimes of anyone else, and the grown-ups will be back in charge and able to start righting the ship.

I am certainly braced for a lot of stupidity in the next few hours, and a lot of stupidity coming out when people are able to start combing through what the fuck happened the past few years, but that's already pre-assumed so it's not really going to bring me down. Short of him launching missiles or something like that we're on final approach to things maybe being able to turn a corner to start getting better or at least back to normal.

I crave being able to wake up in the morning and not having to check first thing out of bed what stupid shit the President did overnight.

I'm hoping he's on the plane after 12:01PM, and once he's no longer President the plane suddenly reroutes to New York without telling him, and he's met at the airport by officers that take him into custody.

Because I have to assume Florida will never extradite him to New York.

JaysonFour

SteevL wrote: »

Inauguration Day is an actual holiday for government employees in my county, which is nice.

Do we know who all is attending this thing? Looks nicely socially distanced based on the picture there.

I think Governor Whitmer of Michigan is attending, at least.

Bogart

Just seen a grainy shot of Trump getting on Marine One and fucking off forever and hmmm yes maybe today at 1:20pm I will have a beer.

LowHitPoints

Here's hoping this thread moves at a slow, steady pace. As opposed to the Lame Duck thread on Jan 6.

syndalis

Bogart wrote: »

Just seen a grainy shot of Trump getting on Marine One and fucking off forever and hmmm yes maybe today at 1:20pm I will have a beer.

As Marine One flew away, they played Billie Jean is not my lover.

This fucking guy.

Gyral

It's sad and pathetic how few people were there to see him off. I wonder how many were just staff who were made to stand out there.

Bogart

He's now giving his "I AM AMAZING" speech on an airfield. Just rambling bullshit.

Chanus

Gyral wrote: »

It's sad and pathetic how few people were there to see him off. I wonder how many were just staff who were made to stand out there.

it's a pretty disingenuous argument to make given i'm not sure how many people would have even been allowed to be there given the current situation

but his self worth is entirely determined by crowd size and ratings so i'm not going to make too strong a case against it

it is notable Pence decided to skip

Henroid

This is I think the 3rd time I've listened to this douchebag speak live during his term.

Munkus Beaver

Bogart wrote: »

He's now giving his "I AM AMAZING" speech on an airfield. Just rambling bullshit.

Literally.

Just nothing but lies and touting the horrible things he’s done.

I can’t watch it anymore, hearing him talk is like nails on the chalkboard for my soul.

Chanus wrote: »

Gyral wrote: »

It's sad and pathetic how few people were there to see him off. I wonder how many were just staff who were made to stand out there.

it's a pretty disingenuous argument to make given i'm not sure how many people would have even been allowed to be there given the current situation

but his self worth is entirely determined by crowd size and ratings so i'm not going to make too strong a case against it

it is notable Pence decided to skip

It’s more that Pence is at the Inauguration. Trumpet is the guy who decided to skip town like a monorail salesman that got found out.

syndalis

Chanus wrote: »

Gyral wrote: »

It's sad and pathetic how few people were there to see him off. I wonder how many were just staff who were made to stand out there.

it's a pretty disingenuous argument to make given i'm not sure how many people would have even been allowed to be there given the current situation

but his self worth is entirely determined by crowd size and ratings so i'm not going to make too strong a case against it

it is notable Pence decided to skip

I am listening to this rambling bullshit in front of this tiny crowd so that this remains the last time anything he ever said had any relevance. This is a send off for me, to 5-6 years of bullshit. Push this down river.

And, god willing, the last time the media covers him for anything outside of future trials and convictions.

Henroid

"The virus is no big deal but also be careful because China but it's not a big deal but it came from China so be careful" - basically what he has to say about the fucking virus.

He's a virus. Fuck off.

Henroid

Ahhh, he's going with the "if the next administration is successful it's because I set it up for them" speech. Here I thought he was going to talk about it being a disaster and such.

Bogart

You couldn't call it stream of consciousness, because he doesn't really have any consciousness, but it's one long, rambling sentence about how the stock market is up and how the pandemic was unfair but it'll be fine soon and he's been breaking records and his family works so hard and and and

Oh and now some casual racism about the "China virus" one last time. Chants of U-S-A from the small crowd.

Bogart

Fuckin YMCA as the send-off music.

Do your stupid asshole dance, you piece of shit.

Henroid

I can't wait for the Village People to send him a legal notice over his use of YMCA without permission.

Burnage

Bogart wrote: »

Fuckin YMCA as the send-off music.

I don't think there's anything more perfect to round off the nightmarish fever dream of the last five years.

Chanus

to be fair

Biden's administration will have to do a lot of highly visible things to unfuck what Trump has done

in a way that's Trump setting up Biden's success?

Bogart

Mary Trump is giving comments on the BBC. She is pleasingly scathing about his speech. "As expected, he got in his racism."

syndalis

This is the fitting image for his sendoff.



A small crowd, packed tightly together for no reason other than to stoke his ego when the camera lands on them (this is happening at Andrews AFB, there is scads of space there), none of them wearing masks less than a day after a memorial honoring the 400,000 avoidable dead this man helped kill.

And now they, the odds on them being homophobic bigots being pretty high, are dancing to a gay anthem.

Yup, fuck ever needing to watch something like this again because what he says might start a war or something. He is now irrelevant and we should treat him as such as a world.

Henroid

Trending on Twitter right now at the national level in the USA:

"HE'S GONE"

KoopahTroopah

Speech was garbage as expected, YMCA is a fascinatingly jarring send off, Don Jr. only got a half hug, and this will probably be another super spreader event.

Cool. Deuces, don't come back.

ArbitraryDescriptor

KoopahTroopah wrote: »

Speech was garbage as expected, YMCA is a fascinatingly jarring send off, Don Jr. only got a half hug, and this will probably be another super spreader event.

Cool. Deuces, don't come back.

https://youtu.be/VoJdb1TLLJQ

Mazzyx

I look forward to his official send off with charges at some point in the future.

But it actually rained last night in the DC area. Like nature itself was trying to cleanse the city of Trump.