I'm almost never ashamed to cry. I cried and laughed with joy seeing her sworn in!Not ashamed to admit that I shed some tears watching the first woman VP sworn in. I wonder if there will ever be a female President sworn in. But I definitely celebrate today.
Hopefully w both of my parents long lives I've got some chance, and I better be cogent, too. (A very good chance)There will be. Not sure it will be soon (unless Uncle Joe kicks the bucket), but it will happen.
Just wish so badly that my Mom had lived to see the first woman VP. And to see Trump leave, she couldn't stand him and all he stands for.
Yeah saw that last night . Very cool!They were made by a teacher from VT, he wore them on the campaign trail. They're made from repurposed wool sweaters and lined with fleece made from recycled plastic bottles.
So THIS.I just hope somewhere, Trump is watching this and weeping uncontrollably.
Great ceremonies! Loved Lady Gaga's singing and outfit!Same. So cool to see her making history like this .
Absolutely lovely inauguration. The speeches were wonderful, the performances beautiful and moving. I know we've got a long road ahead in terms of all that needs to be repaired and improved and whatnot. I do not for one minute believe things will be resolved overnight, nice as that would be, nor do I envy Biden and Harris the Herculean task ahead of them.
But I definitely wish them, and the Democrats as a whole, well in their efforts going forward. I hope there will be many significant positive changes coming our way at long last, and that the dark days of Trumpism and all the ugliness that comes with it will soon be nothing but a distant, awful memory, and an important lesson we carry with us going forward, so we never go through this sort of nightmare again.
In the meantime, today, I'm going to celebrate and breathe. I'm going to rejoice in the fact that Trump is at long last GONE, and I will no longer have to give a shit about what he said or did today, and I can feel safe and comfortable going to sleep again at night. It's a strange feeling to adjust to, but I'm definitely enjoying it.
I hope he and his family are nervously staring at their door, awaiting a potential knock from law enforcement, and worrying about which criminal/civil battles they'll have to deal with first.
Absolutely!I read an article earlier about Q Anon losing their minds today..oh wait, that already happened.
I would say though, there could have been a hidden message in Bernie's mittens. And Lady Gaga's giant dove.
Out of curiosity can these EO be challenged by the courts ?
I assume that the GOP being out of power in DC leaves them the only option to fight everything up to the SC
Otherwise why work so hard to install these judges ?
The United States has re-joined the Paris Accord, the Muslim Ban is gone, DACA is safe(among several other executive orders were signed), and Democrats officially have control of the Senate, completing the trifecta. It's a good day.
Yes. We gotta work hard.The past few hours of first “official duties” have been a breath of fresh air. Hope it stays that way for as long as possible.
Omg, waaaaay less doomscrolling! Pheeeew!I'm looking forward to politics being boring again.
Love that song! Perfect.Springsteen. Land Of Hope And Dreams. Perfect.
WHAT a poem! My sis and I were there for Clinton's first Inauguration and so we heard Maya!So let us leave behind a country
better than the one we were left with
Every breath from my bronze-pounded chest,
we will raise this wounded world into a wondrous one
We will rise from the gold-limbed hills of the west,
we will rise from the windswept northeast
where our forefathers first realized revolution
We will rise from the lake-rimmed cities of the midwestern states,
we will rise from the sunbaked south
We will rebuild, reconcile and recover
and every known nook of our nation and
every corner called our country,
our people diverse and beautiful will emerge,
battered and beautiful
When day comes we step out of the shade,
aflame and unafraid
The new dawn blooms as we free it
For there is always light,
if only we’re brave enough to see it
If only we’re brave enough to be it
When you're surrounded by 25k armed troops and an insurrection occurred two weeks ago and you hear the fireworks 7 seconds before the tape delay sets in...
I’ve been out of commission for a bit as we had to deal with a very sudden death of our dog - from healthy to dead in a week, and he was only 7 (a GSD). Just a devastating experience for us and our kids and today was the first day I really plugged back into work, other things. And honest to God just seeing Trump on that plane felt like enormous relief, like we’d all been so damn tired for so long and now he was gone.
And not going to lie, the thought of Biden’s two shepherds moving in today, shortly after we said goodbye to ours makes it a bit easier. Dogs >>> people.
I don't know about any of you but while
I am taking some deep wonderful breaths I
also don't quite feel it's real.
It's not like I'm checking every few hours if he's there,
but it doesn't feel totally solid yet.
I definitely chalk it up to PTSD.
Which I had due to being stuck with a verbally, and violent roommate for years.
-trigger warning-
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This is a pleasant surprise to me. Democrats must get out of the business of trying to help people in ways they won't understand. Direct aid is better than tax credits. It's better politics and it's simpler to understand, so long as you don't make it means tested to hell.
This is really the last hope for the Republican party. Supposedly there is a small faction that is trying to convince GOP Senators to convict Trump and take the party back to some version of pre Trump days.
Sadly I don't see that happening.