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To ask whether you'll watch the inauguration?

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mumofoneAlonebutokay · 20/01/2025 14:26

Bit of a boring one I guess. I'm gonna get the snacks in for me and dd as the coverage starts at 3.30/4pm (UK obs)

I love to watch stuff like this, makes me feel connected to the world 😅🙈

Plus I wanna see if anyone slips up and let's their face show their real thoughts

Plus I'll be making comparisons between barron and Gary barlow's giant son

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fixingmylife · 20/01/2025 17:20

He's like an automaton.

3floofs · 20/01/2025 17:20

Why does he talk in this monotone, falling style?

usernother · 20/01/2025 17:21

Watching it. Finding it really interesting.

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mumofoneAlonebutokay · 20/01/2025 17:21

'Remain in mexico' policy

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3floofs · 20/01/2025 17:21

You can see the disgust and despair literally emanating from Biden and Harris.

AitkenDrum1970 · 20/01/2025 17:21

Is the little fluffy bit of (orange!) hair over his left ear covering where the bullet ‘ripped through him’? Or just wind blown?

Adamante · 20/01/2025 17:21

Of course, not too big a fan of Trump, though he can’t do any worse than Biden, but do like JD Vance - so funny & eloquent. Wish we had a similar leader in the UK 😊

JHound · 20/01/2025 17:21

Bignanna · 20/01/2025 17:20

Apparently, British PMs don’t normally attend Presidential inaugurations, it wasn’t a slight.

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They aren’t even invited. That commenter got their facts from Facebook.

CheesecakeOnTheLanai · 20/01/2025 17:22

It all just seems so classless when you think back to the likes of Kennedy etc... Hardly going to go down in history as a "ask not what your country can do for you" moment is it.

TellYourSugargliderISaidHi · 20/01/2025 17:22

TellYourSugargliderISaidHi · 20/01/2025 17:08

He did put immigrant children in cages so he kept that one. And he said men should grab women by the pussies and got a sexual abuse conviction so I’m saying he did quite well.

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Sorry, wrong quote!

JoanCollinsDiva · 20/01/2025 17:22

Phthia · 20/01/2025 17:19

Are you equally delighted that he will take away women's rights over their bodies?

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I thought he declared he would veto a ban on abortion? Is that what you're referring to?

AChickenPooAndABiscuit · 20/01/2025 17:22

CheesecakeOnTheLanai · 20/01/2025 17:07

It's all getting a bit strange now, not quite as strange as seeing Trump dancing to YMCA yesterday, but still.

It’s a bit parallel world, isn’t it? Love your username by the way!

ItWasnaMeGuv · 20/01/2025 17:22

Phthia · 20/01/2025 17:19

Are you equally delighted that he will take away women's rights over their bodies?

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What do you mean? If you're talking about abortion he says he will leave it to the individual states to deal with. Its a niche issue, anyway. The issue of males invading women's spaces affects every woman.

JHound · 20/01/2025 17:23

Adamante · 20/01/2025 17:21

Of course, not too big a fan of Trump, though he can’t do any worse than Biden, but do like JD Vance - so funny & eloquent. Wish we had a similar leader in the UK 😊

JD Vance with his history of misogynistic statements?

You want a leader like him in the UK?

JoanCollinsDiva · 20/01/2025 17:23

Bignanna · 20/01/2025 17:20

Apparently, British PMs don’t normally attend Presidential inaugurations, it wasn’t a slight.

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They are usually invited though is my understanding?

Starmer wasn't.

MumChp · 20/01/2025 17:23

Nope

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mumofoneAlonebutokay · 20/01/2025 17:23

TellYourSugargliderISaidHi · 20/01/2025 17:22

Sorry, wrong quote!

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Oh this was to me - sorry didn't catch it - yes, I'd forgotten about the poor children in cages!

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BuzzieLittleBee · 20/01/2025 17:23

I have the inauguration on in the background.

The immediate slagging off of the previous administration, and stating how everything is going to be better FROM TODAY, with standing ovations left right and centre, with Biden and Harris having to sit there on the front row and listen to it all is just bizzare.

Sinkintotheswamp · 20/01/2025 17:23

3floofs · 20/01/2025 17:20

Why does he talk in this monotone, falling style?

Medication and some kind of mental decline I think. He's clearly more on the ball than Biden, but he's not sharp as a tack.

JHound · 20/01/2025 17:23

ItWasnaMeGuv · 20/01/2025 17:22

What do you mean? If you're talking about abortion he says he will leave it to the individual states to deal with. Its a niche issue, anyway. The issue of males invading women's spaces affects every woman.

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Actually access to abortion affects far more women than the teeny tiny number of trans women that exist and may need to use the toilet.

Trans women in my spaces is a niche issue. In all my life this has occurred once and that was at a former ballet school….where the co-owner was a trans woman.

Oh sorry twice, in a gay club where the men would just use whichever toilet they wanted to.

Phthia · 20/01/2025 17:24

SnidelyWhiplash · 20/01/2025 17:12

I’m watching it, despite my revulsion.

It’s certainly a rather odd ceremony. Feels north-Korean in parts.

Milania looks ridiculous in that silly hat.

Looks like Melania deliberate went for the hard brim so that his lips couldn't reach her face. 😁

HoraceCope · 20/01/2025 17:24

did he say Drill baby drill?
ffs

CheesecakeOnTheLanai · 20/01/2025 17:24

AChickenPooAndABiscuit · 20/01/2025 17:22

It’s a bit parallel world, isn’t it? Love your username by the way!

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Haha thank you! Golden Girls is my all time comfort show.

Adamante · 20/01/2025 17:24

JD Vance with his history of misogynistic statements?

His one comment about Cat Ladies? 😁

Yes!

3floofs · 20/01/2025 17:24

Revoke the electric vehicle mandate?!