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Weird fact: first back-to-back right-handed presidents since Johnson/Nixon. - Hibernating Baron Jan 20, 10:17 4
- Doom? -- nm - Qale Jan 20, 10:24 3
  - We survived that. We'll survive this. -- nm - Hibernating Baron Jan 20, 10:29 2
    - What if we're all dead and remembering? - David, Horny New Guy Jan 20, 10:30 1
      - It's totally not purgatory, but it's purgatory. -- nm - Hibernating Baron Jan 20, 10:31
Is this real? Did this happen? Because *chef's kiss* -- (link) - TWuG Jan 20, 10:16 1
- I think it's from when Donnie (and half the WH staff) had COVID. -- nm - loosilu Jan 20, 10:25
A bit behind on CSPAN, watching the Obamas work the crowd. THey are ROCK STARS. -- nm - loosilu Jan 20, 10:07
Amanda Gorman has gained over 200K followers in the past 30 minutes or so. (She also has a children's book apparently) -- (link) - decline Jan 20, 10:00 4
- she has retweeted the entire poem reading if you missed it -- (link) - colin Jan 20, 10:07
- That name just confused me but it's nice to see maj getting recognition :) -- nm - oblique Jan 20, 10:07 1
  - I didn't know departmental budget spreadsheets could be so beautiful yet heartfelt. -- nm - zeitgeist Jan 20, 18:25
- She was spectacular. -- nm - pmb Jan 20, 10:01
OH BOY! America is *INDEED* saved! A bunch of Touchstone movies are $4.99 on iTunes (and elsewhere)! -- nm - Mop Jan 20, 09:57
Holy schnickies. Just discovered easy keyboard shortcut to add emojis. Win+. or Win+; (on Mac supposedly Cmd+Ctl+Space) -- nm - zork Jan 20, 09:53 5
- BIDEN! - Spawn Jan 20, 10:14
- and you can arrow & tab/shift-tab to get around. no 🐭 required. -- nm - zork Jan 20, 10:08
- 🦋 -- nm* - Flavorize Jan 20, 09:58 1
  - 🐕&🦋 -- nm - 💗 Jan 20, 10:07
- Emoji keyboard! -- nm - Mop Jan 20, 09:55
is america all fixed yet? - tRuMaN Jan 20, 09:52 3
- It may take hours. Or even days. Be patient. -- nm - Cuzzin Todd Jan 20, 09:55
- Well... LAT from yesterday: Four years later, much of Obama’s policy has survived Trump -- nm - con_carne Jan 20, 09:55 1
  - OBAMACARE! -- nm - Mop Jan 20, 09:56
“I, for one, welcome being mad at all the perfectly ordinary ways a president can disappoint me.” -- nm* - Found on fb Jan 20, 09:47
Finally, the President is free to tweet again -- nm - decline Jan 20, 09:39 13
- First Tweet -- (link) - decline Jan 20, 09:59 4
  - Where are the CAPS LOCK and exclamation points!!! (NM) - Marlowe Jan 20, 10:17
  - OMG, White House keyboards have commas! Who knew? -- nm - zork Jan 20, 10:05
  - Look at that. Full coherent sentences. Beautiful. -- nm - Andie Jan 20, 10:01
  - I don't understand... I mean, I completely understand as it's a cogent and grammatically correct communication. But is that allowed on Twitter? -- nm - Cuzzin Todd Jan 20, 10:01
- I really don't like this as an avenue. Just use Press Releases like a normal president -- nm - Pippy Jan 20, 09:51 7
  - Okay boomer. -- nm - David, Horny New Guy Jan 20, 10:31
  - Obama tweeted, like a grown ass adult and President. -- nm - loosilu Jan 20, 09:55
  - I believe they will (and use social media as a secondary outlet). The first official WH press briefing is at 7PM tonight -- nm - decline Jan 20, 09:54
  - I'm sure they will be very perfunctory on Twitter, like Obama was. -- nm - mara Jan 20, 09:53 2
    - That would be a mistake. Like it or not Twitter is an important way to reach people. - Cuzzin Todd Jan 20, 09:57 1
      - Twitter is a shitty platform that shouldn’t be looked to for anything but snark. -- nm - Qale Jan 20, 10:25
  - I mean that’s where all the press spend all day so... -- nm - spamlet Jan 20, 09:53
An important observation. -- (link) - Beryllium Jan 20, 09:38 1
- DJ Roomba in 2024! -- nm - Inigo Jan 20, 09:40
*breathes* -- nm - Jovian Jan 20, 09:37 5
- is your blood pressure finally going down now? -- nm - decline Jan 20, 09:40 4
  - it went down once Barr resigned. But had gone up after the half assed coup attempt. -- nm - Jovian Jan 20, 09:41 3
    - Baby's First Coup Attempt - David, Horny New Guy Jan 20, 09:55 1
      - Babies are more into First Coo Attempts. -- nm - Qale Jan 20, 10:30
    - I think everyone's went up after that. -- nm - Cuzzin Todd Jan 20, 09:43
"a cactus is not a vegetable! It doesn't work like that." -- nm - Classroom Transcripts Jan 20, 09:35
Happy Birthday to 2 famous Doctors. Deforrest Kelly (Dr. McCoy Star Trek :TOS) and Tom Baker (the 4th Dr. Who) -- nm - Remlik Jan 20, 09:34 2
- Watched Star Trek 2 & 3 last night -- nm - budice Jan 20, 09:36 1
  - IV tonight? "Everybody remember where we parked." My favorite ST screenplay. -- nm - mara Jan 20, 09:50
Congratulations Joseph, our Biden -- nm - Max Jan 20, 09:31 1
- As the great Seamus O'Malley once said, If you can dodge a wrench you can dodge a ball. -- nm - Biden si Jan 20, 09:33
China sanctions a bunch of Trumpites including Pompeo and Azar. Can't go to China, Hong Kong or Macao, or do business with China -- (link) - decline Jan 20, 09:29 6
- And they did it at 12:04. -- nm - loosilu Jan 20, 09:50
- What about Ivanka? -- nm - Mop Jan 20, 09:31 2
  - nope. they gave her a bunch of trademarks over the last 4 years. -- nm - Remlik Jan 20, 09:34 1
    - That's the point. Once she has no power, how long until they bury her? -- nm - Mop Jan 20, 09:34
- But not Trump himself? -- nm - eag Jan 20, 09:31
- Hmm, apparently I can feel schadenfreude. -- nm - David Jan 20, 09:30
second gentleman seems like a cumbersome title. -- nm - tRuMaN Jan 20, 09:27 7
- Heh. I thought people were wacko for having dreams about these people but I swear last night I dreamt - con_carne Jan 20, 09:41
- Mr. Doug. -- nm - mara Jan 20, 09:33
- Almost certainly when they coined "First Lady" they did not consider this implication -- nm - rollo Jan 20, 09:31
- Second Dude -- nm - decline Jan 20, 09:28 3
  - Bro #2 -- nm - budice Jan 20, 09:29 2
    - DOUG! ARE YOU IN THE GARAGE WITH JOE AGAIN! -- nm - Kamala Jan 20, 09:31 1
      - We're, uh, fixing the lawnmower! *puff puff pass* -- nm - Doug Emhoff Jan 20, 09:33
Amanda Gorman 2024! -- nm - Max Jan 20, 09:24 5
- maj? -- nm - Inigo Jan 20, 09:27 2
  - That was my reaction when I first saw that name a few days ago :) -- nm - Meg Jan 20, 09:37 1
    - same! -- nm - loosilu Jan 20, 09:51
- Needs to find someone named Gander as a running mate for the Gorman/Gander ticket. - Beryllium Jan 20, 09:26 1
  - I would've gone for Gorman/Ghast but this works too. -- nm - Hibernating Baron Jan 20, 09:32
This young woman is going to be collaborating with Lin Manuel Miranda soon. She’s great. -- nm - Will Hunting Jan 20, 09:23
Somebody's a Hamilton fan. -- nm - mara Jan 20, 09:23
Arrested Development. -- (link) - Beryllium Jan 20, 09:20
I didn't hear anybody sing with Garth -- nm - eag Jan 20, 09:18 4
- They weren't miked. -- nm - mara Jan 20, 09:23
- did Garth sing ~I got friends in low places~ ? -- nm - Beaker Jan 20, 09:19 2
  - I think this is the wrong venue for that and wrong President -- nm - eag Jan 20, 09:22 1
    - But the only song of his I know. -- nm - Spawn Jan 20, 10:13
Did that motherfucker just invoke Obama singing that song after the stone-cold murders of a dozen people, to which Blunt did nothing?! -- nm - Will Hunting Jan 20, 09:18 1
- yes -- nm - tRuMaN Jan 20, 09:20
“Joe Biden is sworn in as president: ‘Democracy has prevailed’“ -- nm - David Jan 20, 09:17
Usually I use the phrase "Our long national nightmare is over!" hyperbolically. Not today. -- nm - Cuzzin Todd Jan 20, 09:16
Lol -- (link) - Beryllium Jan 20, 09:16 5
- Bernie gotta Bernie! -- nm - loosilu Jan 20, 09:54
- It's a good coat! -- nm - Mop Jan 20, 09:34
- i like this -- nm - colin Jan 20, 09:23
- Also, his mittens were gifted to him by a VT schoolteacher, and made from recycled wool sweaters and fleece made from recycled plastic bottles -- (link) - Roger More Jan 20, 09:21 1
  - nice -- nm - zork Jan 20, 09:24
garth sure dressed up man. -- nm - tRuMaN Jan 20, 09:15 1
- Be glad he left his horse down on the Mall. -- nm - Qale Jan 20, 09:27
Re: the VP question on B2, as a native Kansan, I cannot forget about Charles Curtis. -- nm - Hibernating Baron Jan 20, 09:12 2
- Reading his wiki page, it needs to be better known that the US has had a Native American VP. -- nm - Roger More Jan 20, 09:24 1
  - Indeed! -- nm - zork Jan 20, 09:25
I'm confused, he isnt talking about himself and all he can accomplish. who is this America he keeps talking about... - tRuMaN Jan 20, 09:12 2
- She works at Biggie's in Wilmington. -- nm - Hibernating Baron Jan 20, 09:14
- Must be the one from Superstore -- nm - Beryllium Jan 20, 09:13
I just hugged my kid for the first time in a week after Biden was inaugurated. - kelly Jan 20, 09:12 17
- *this* is such good news -- nm - zeitgeist Jan 20, 10:46
- Thanks Obama! -- nm - oblique Jan 20, 10:01
- good stuff -- nm - zork Jan 20, 09:50
- That's great! -- nm - Roger More Jan 20, 09:34
- Fantastic! -- nm - spamlet Jan 20, 09:22
- Awesome!!! it just keeps getting better! -- nm - loosilu Jan 20, 09:20
- :-) -- nm - Krusty - Diamond Dog Jan 20, 09:19
- awesome -- nm - decline Jan 20, 09:15
- yeah!!! -- nm - prayformojo Jan 20, 09:14
- very nice! -- nm - Remlik Jan 20, 09:14
- best wishes to you, your family and all you fools down there -- nm - mud Jan 20, 09:14
- Good to see you! Still feeling okay? -- nm - mara Jan 20, 09:13 5
  - Yeah. I’m technically out of quarantine tomorrow. My smell and taste seems to be back a bit, but I’m very winded with high heart rate when doing very - kelly Jan 20, 09:17 4
    - I'm glad you are on the mend! -- nm - Pippy Jan 20, 09:55
    - Yay! MrsJax was also asking about you this morning. Good to hear. -- nm - JaxSean Jan 20, 09:28
    - This is very good news, at this point, I believe. *fingers crossed* I think about you every day! -- nm - mara Jan 20, 09:24 1
      - Yeah, it seems to be all good. It could have been so much worse. -- nm* - kelly Jan 20, 09:46
heh. doodie. -- nm - JaxSean Jan 20, 09:12
this speech is pretty B- but after the last four years, I'm ready for B-. -- nm - amanda jeans Jan 20, 09:11 5
- How's your supervisor taking it? -- nm - Reagen Jan 20, 09:18
- yep -- nm - Max Jan 20, 09:15
- Heh. -- (link) - Beryllium Jan 20, 09:15
- No carnage is always a good thing. -- nm - jnine Jan 20, 09:13 1
  - And ironically, he is standing on the site of carnage. -- nm - loosilu Jan 20, 09:21
"I feel like Marty McFly opening the garage and finding a brand new truck." - Volnelk Jan 20, 09:10 1
- What happened to the *other* Marty McFly? The one who lived that life until "bad alternate reality Marty" took over his life?! -- nm - Mop Jan 20, 09:14
The modern preface of "Look," annoys me a bit. It doesn't feel like it belongs in a prepared speech. -- nm - Max Jan 20, 09:09 4
- Its part of his speech mechanisms that have avoided sputters -- nm - budice Jan 20, 09:11
- C'mon, man! -- nm - mara Jan 20, 09:11
- look, I get that you dislike it, but look, it works. mostly -- nm - tRuMaN Jan 20, 09:10
- Look, you just have to get with the times, Max. (Compared to the past four years of speeches, I'll take it.) -- nm - Beryllium Jan 20, 09:10
That was a very nice mention of Arlington cemetery. -- nm - Loyola Jan 20, 09:04
Best Hump Day ever! -- nm - TWuG Jan 20, 09:01
Ready for the GOP to issue a statement that the COVID situation is a nightmare under the Biden administration and something needs to be done. -- nm - Volnelk Jan 20, 09:01 3
- He did more already than Donnie did in 11 months. -- nm - loosilu Jan 20, 09:02
- They will give him 24 hours. -- nm - Spawn Jan 20, 09:02 1
  - But what about the deficit?!?!?! -- nm - Volnelk Jan 20, 09:02
Reign of Terror has ended! -- nm - eag Jan 20, 09:01
I've had the strangest nightmare... -- nm - Reagen Jan 20, 09:01 1
- were there tiki torches and an orange tint? -- nm - mud Jan 20, 09:11
Canada trying to make some news on America Day. Brantley to the Blue Jays on a 3 year deal. -- (link) - Krusty - Diamond Dog Jan 20, 09:01 3
- Raptors waived Alex Len yesterday -- nm - zork Jan 20, 09:22 2
  - I saw that and he might be a nice big man off the bench for the Nets. We have three spots to fill and Jordan is playing way too many minutes -- nm - Krusty - Diamond Dog Jan 20, 09:24 1
    - Boucher has stepped up nicely for a young guy who isn't a natural centre -- nm - zork Jan 20, 09:26
*weeps* -- nm - Moscow Mitch Jan 20, 09:01
It's noon! *raises a glass of champagne* It's real, guys. -- nm - mara Jan 20, 09:01 1
- Hallelujah!!!! -- nm - loosilu Jan 20, 09:03
Noon. Done. -- nm - Andie Jan 20, 09:00 2
- It's gonna take a while to hit me. -- nm - loosilu Jan 20, 09:03
- Woooo -- nm - zork Jan 20, 09:00
*exhales* -- nm - znufrii Jan 20, 08:59 1
- Ding Dong the Douche is Gone. -- nm - pmb Jan 20, 09:06

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