3 hours ago, mr mr said:

yesterday went very smooth indeed. no problems what so ever. no violence or anything at all. just a normal day of a new president being sworn in. just like any other time.  

The national guard out on mass and the perpetrators of last weeks violence suddenly aware that their leader had chosen not to pardon them.

 

Markets are happy:

 

 

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/stock-market-biden-inauguration-b1790325.html

1 minute ago, Chomper Higgot said:

Markets are happy:

 

Thanks Trump. 

2 minutes ago, Mama Noodle said:

 

Thanks Trump. 

Thanks for leaving early. 

6 hours ago, Tug said:

We are back!!hopefully wiser for our brush with a coup and a fascist takeover of our democracy back to offering a hand up not a push down contributing to the common good were possible a good day for all

Back for a time but now we know how incredibly fragile American democracy is and how close it came to being destroyed by the movement of an anti democratic pro authoritarian demagogue con man. The white supremacist demagogue and the perverted ideas he represents are still out there in numbers among the American electorate. They will try again. Decent democracy loving Americans should not get too comfortable with this recent victory. The struggle to keep it ain't over.

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2 hours ago, Chomper Higgot said:

The national guard out on mass and the perpetrators of last weeks violence suddenly aware that their leader had chosen not to pardon them.

 

 

look. posters on here were positive certain things were going to happen. none of which did. hence my comment. 

 

now nothing happened and it's still what ? 

 

nothing happened. i wonder if those persons are big enough to admit they were totally wrong in their judgement of what would happen yesterday. 

 

 

10 hours ago, webfact said:

SPANISH PRIME MINISTER PEDRO SANCHEZ, SPEAKING AT A PUBLIC EVENT

"The (election) victory of Biden represents the victory of democracy over the ultra-right and its three methods, the massive deception, the national division and the abuse, even violent, of democratic institutions... Five years ago, we thought Trump was a bad joke, but five years later we realized he jeopardized nothing less than the world's most powerful democracy."

 

An exceptionally apt, articulate, piercing assessment by the Spanish PM, telling it like it is.

 

I only wish we had heard such a clear-headed, concise assessment from more of the U.S. politicians during Trump's tenure.

 

43 minutes ago, mr mr said:

 

look. posters on here were positive certain things were going to happen. none of which did. hence my comment. 

 

now nothing happened and it's still what ? 

 

nothing happened. i wonder if those persons are big enough to admit they were totally wrong in their judgement of what would happen yesterday. 

 

 

That’s a big if.

 

 

World leaders are jumping for joy so much that it looks like a cirq de soleil audition.

7 hours ago, mr mr said:

yesterday went very smooth indeed. no problems what so ever. no violence or anything at all. just a normal day of a new president being sworn in. just like any other time.  

a Commander in Chief fled the scene

3 minutes ago, Opl said:

a Commander in Chief fled the scene

 

and a new one was sworn in. time to move on and build for the future. maybe now is a great time for a media blackout on the don. 

 

good press or bad press....it still keeps him right where he wants to be. in the spotlight. 

2 hours ago, mr mr said:

 

and a new one was sworn in. time to move on and build for the future. maybe now is a great time for a media blackout on the don. 

 

good press or bad press....it still keeps him right where he wants to be. in the spotlight. 

You can't prevent the media from reporting on all his trials. He'll be in the spotlight for years.

To expand on my last post about our recent grim lesson on the fragility of American democracy. 

 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/01/20/democracy-survived-barely/

 

 

"Democracy survived, barely"

 

World leaders noticed too.

 

The authoritarians among them were no doubt hoping that American democracy would fall.

 

Happily it didn't, at least yet.

11 hours ago, mr mr said:

yesterday went very smooth indeed. no problems what so ever. no violence or anything at all. just a normal day of a new president being sworn in. just like any other time.  

 

Just like any other day in Portland

 

 

47 minutes ago, PattayaJames said:

 

Just like any other day in Portland

 

 

 

You do realize, the news report video you posted is largely about a crowd of protesters/vandals attacking, defacing and breaking windows at a local Democratic Party office?

 

 

17 hours ago, webfact said:

How world leaders are reacting to Joe Biden's inauguration

That is how they acted in public.

I would love to see how they acted in private.

 

 

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