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[Vector]

If I become president, I'll swear in on a copy of The Bee Movie.

Cool babe, you do you

[LordBaal]

I would sacrifice a goat to Mars, or maybe Jupiter.

[Vector]

Honestly, I was imagining some kind of Dionysian orgy replete with theater, dancing, and way too much wine.

[LordBaal]

Psssshh... you are ruining the surprise!

[anewaname]

This is maybe the most obnoxiously religious inauguration in modern history.

Ahhh.... Trump's had the most religious activity.

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This is from wikipedia, but surely the videos will back it up
"Three religious leaders delivered benedictions following Trump's speech, bringing the total number of prayers during the ceremony to six, a record number. Reverend Franklin Graham; Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan, Archbishop of New York; Reverend Dr. Samuel Rodriguez; Pastor Paula White; Rabbi Marvin Hier; and Bishop Wayne T. Jackson gave the benedictions. Jackie Evancho concluded the ceremony with a performance of the U.S. national anthem."

Trump also had two bibles for the swearing in process, not sure how common that is.

Biden had maybe two benedictions and two Amazing Grace renditions. (Did I miss any short prayers?)

[MorleyDev]

Clearly the incoming President should tear the heart out of the outgoing President with their bare hands and offer it up to molok.

If they can't do so in a single blow, the outgoing President earns the right to reclaim the Presidency via trial by combat.

[delphonso]

trial by combat.

Rudy intensifies

[Random_Dragon]

Clearly the incoming President should tear the heart of the outgoing President with their bare hands and offer it up to molok.

If they can't do so in a single blow, the outgoing President earns the right to reclaim the Presidency via trial by combat.

Nah. At the end of every president's term they should ascend to the top of a pyramid, get mad drunk as fuck, and have their successor cut their heart out with an obsidian knife as an offering to Huītzilōpōchtli.

[Lord Shonus]

Biden's demanded and received the resignations of (read: fired) the union-busting head of the NLRB, the toady in charge of the Consumer Protection Bureau, and the guy in charge of the U.S. Agency for Global Media who strove to turn Voice Of America into a Trump propaganda arm. The NLRB part in particular is unprecedented - traditionally the head of that agency serves 4 years even if it bleeds between presidencies.

The purge has begun.

[misko27]

I feel uneasy for the stupidest reason: nothing bad seemingly happened. I had braced myself hard for some state government buildings being occupied, or shootings done by Trump supporters gone insane, but I've heard none of that, only a peaceful inauguration in Washington.

Of course, none of these things are directly consequential for me personally, living across the Atlantic and then some, and worse things than those I imagined are definitely happening somewhere else in the world (read: wars, genocides). 's a strange fixation.

Hate to be that guy, but there's still 11.25 months left for someone to do something shitty. If the Capitol attack didn't uncork all the latent shittiness of the far right in America, it came very damn close.

Oh there was almost no chance of a terrorist attack today, unless you didn't really follow the QAnon and the similar sorts. They thought today was the culmination of THE PLAN. Why would you be a terrorist, if the PLAN is about to come to fruition?

Now, it has failed. Many will deradicalize. Many will self-numb. Some, will radicalize further. A lot of low-level terrorism is gonna happen, it'll be rationalized away I suspect; up until the time it produces a crime on the scale of Oklahoma City Bombing that leads to repudiation. Until then it's just gonna fester.

[MorleyDev]

Looks like the penny finally fucking dropped for the Proud Boys that Trump never gave a shit about them. Always nice to see far-right extremists fracture.

Meanwhile, QAnon-followers come to the only logical conclusion: Joe Biden was Q all along.

[Duuvian]

I think you guys should undeploy the army, feds, and National Guard and just pay France to send the Legion d'Etrangers to guard your inauguration.

Send the British Army. Half way through the inauguration ceremony the rains of Castamere starts playing

I liked the parade before the wreath-laying, well done to the band and the marchers. I mention it because there were Redcoats there.

At first I was like aahh they're back!

But then they saucily marched past the dais to Yankee Doodle while the leader elegantly gestured towards the stage and I thought: quite right

A very enjoyable scene; I watched it hoping it was an official delegation from London though I think it was a cadet group from the US (hard to search for so I'm not sure)

Yes, social media conglomeration is terrible, but it's not bad because the president was banned for inciting violence. It's bad because two-three companies control everything. Break the monopoly, don't nationalize it, and fix the damn web.

That is what everyone is concurring, ye yey eyeye

I think there should be a government run forums for discussions and to allow further contact both ways between constituent and lawmakers. I've always thought Twitter a poor choice as a platform for government figures due to the character limits.

Is the information required to be provided to register to vote enough to register an individual voter on a theoretical government forums if they were to say mark a checkbox somewhere to opt in? I would guess yes, but I haven't operated a forums.

EDIT: Fixed spelling of Constituent

[KittyTac]

Yeah an official service for the president to say things would be good. It's a good idea when the president isn't a shitposter.

[Egan_BW]

the president should have to twitch stream from the oval office, and have to stop their work every three minutes to read out donations. Government efficiency would go down, but transparency, federal income, and parasocial bonding would go way up!

[Starver]

usenet://gov.whitehouse.potus
usenet://gov.whitehouse.potus.m
usenet://gov.whitehouse.potus.funny
usenet://gov.whitehouse.potus.kibo
usenet://gov.whitehouse.potus.wesley-crusher.die.die.die