I’m watching the official feed, which is hosted by a couple of long-time Capitol guides, since they have cameras in places where nobody else does. They have apparently been told to avoid mentioning 1/6, so it’s interesting to hear them dancing around the subject, especially when Eugene Goodman was introduced.
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FelonyGovt
Ok I’m crying.
Baud
Thanks for the thread.
Baud
Amy is beaming.
mali muso
Watching the same feed. Amy Klobuchar is not shying away from mentioning 1/6!
O. Felix Culpa
Thank you, Amy, for speaking truth.
Baud
Good speech.
Just Some Fuckhead
Why is Amy Klobuchar speaking instead of Bernie Sanders?
piratedan
Amy wasted no time in bringing up 1/6…. I am getting the sense that many of our lawmakers aren’t going to just forgive and move on for the sake of Unity like the GOP has been bleating about.
Elizabelle
Hunter Biden is on the inaugural platform.
And
trumpis not. LOL. Yea!mrmoshpotato
@mali muso:
No she is not.
Suzanne
I’m sitting here in my home office, totally alone, clapping in front of my monitor like a doofus.
Wearing pearls with my hoodie.
Elizabelle
Who’s wearing their pearls? Baud? Subaru??
eponymous
I’m choking up. Amy is, too. Such a different look to the capitol today…
mali muso
@mrmoshpotato: She’s bringing it! Go Amy.
Ramalama
Canadian tv is going crazy for Kamala who graduated from high school in Montreal.
Baud
@Elizabelle:
I’m wearing pearls but you don’t want to know where.
Spanky
Fuck you, Roy.
Cheryl Rofer
Soprano2
I am!!!
No name
@FelonyGovt: I’ve been crying since yesterday. Stress, relief, pride…
CaseyL
Oh, I am enjoying Amy K’s speech.
Oh, ugh. Blunt up next.
zhena gogolia
@Just Some Fuckhead:
Oh, you.
mali muso
@Suzanne: lol, me too. At home alone wearing yoga pants and pearls. Watching, clapping and squealing by myself.
Skepticat
These are tears of joy.
O. Felix Culpa
@Suzanne: Ms. O and I are wearing our pearls too! And Pippin the Wonder Dog is wearing his tuxedo in honor of the occasion.
zhena gogolia
From thread below: I love that both Kamala and Hillary are wearing regal purple.
Immanentize
@Just Some Fuckhead: Ha!
Just Some Fuckhead
Republicans should have had to choose between fomenting an insurrection and participating in a new president’s inauguration.
zhena gogolia
@Elizabelle:
Why do we have to wear pearls?
SFBayAreaGal
@Cheryl Rofer: I missed that. Thank you for sharing this great moment between the two of them.
Delk
I’m pretending that there is no pandemic and that everybody is wearing masks to deal with the stench of the last four years.
O. Felix Culpa
Getting our champagne flutes ready for noon ET (10 AM ours, but day drinking is allowed on a day like this).
And Blunt mentions 1/6 too. Good. No sweeping under the rug.
Nicole
Oh, everyone is obviously so happy. I love seeing how happy everyone is.
guachi
I’m standing in line for my COVID vaccine. Seems an appropriate thing to do at around noon.
Immanentize
@O. Felix Culpa: I may get out Julie’s pearls and put them on.
O. Felix Culpa
@Cheryl Rofer: Love it!
zhena gogolia
As he says the words “the assault on our Capitol,” CSpan shows Cruz. Good trolling.
VeniceRiley
This is much nicer than yesterday, when I got a week in twitter jail for calling Broidy a wh*re.
The seditionists must be having a breakdown seeing Cruz there.
SFBayAreaGal
@O. Felix Culpa: I want to see pictures.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
okay, Josh Hawley’s senior senator and turmp enabler can wind it down and STFU
Kattails
@Elizabelle: I am! Will need to run out and get some champagne mid-afternoon.
Elizabelle
@Immanentize: You should. Julie is along for the day, too.
O. Felix Culpa
@Immanentize: Ok, now the onions are working overtime.
Soprano2
I’m not getting much work done for the next hour, that’s for sure!
Just Some Fuckhead
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: How else will we get delightful Reagan anecdotes?
Alison Rose
I don’t own pearls, real or fake, but I put on my rainbow bead necklace because I am happy to have an administration again that actually sees me as an equal citizen.
Mary G
@Elizabelle: I have a tuxedo cat.
Elizabelle
@Mary G: That works.
O. Felix Culpa
@Alison Rose: Hear, hear!!!
Leto
@Soprano2: Avalune is!
SFBayAreaGal
@guachi: I keep bugging my VA doctor about when can I get my Covid-19 vaccination.
Ivan X
Watching without commentary on C-SPAN makes me feel like I’m actually there a little bit. It’s very moving.
I actually had the enormous privilege and honor to be there in person during Obama’s inauguration, which will always be one of the very greatest highlights of my life. But this feels special to me, too.
dexwood
@Elizabelle: mrs. dexwood has pearls on and a cowbell ready to shake.
Baud
That was neat. The fist to the chest.
O. Felix Culpa
So nice that we care again about “the least fortunate among us” and love.
Oh, and “care for the common good.” I like that too.
lamh36
alright back from my doctors appt…got caught in traffic.
Let me catch up on some stuff I missed before the swearing in starts!!
Delk
I’m eating a pear. That’s the closest thing I have to pearls.
Mary G
“Please stand if you are able” gets up in my feels.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@Just Some Fuckhead: doing my part for a Day of Good Feelings, I’ll limit my remarks to a link.
Baud
@Delk: Heh.
CaseyL
Very happy to see every speaker (so far) making a point about how this inauguration might not have happened, and the need to go forward with that realization. Democracy : We might have failed it.
Benw
@Nicole: everyone’s happiness is definitely improving my mood.
And I fixed my furnace! I am a home improvement god!
Raven
@Alison Rose: Ramble on Rose!
danielx
Twenty six minutes……
Dorothy A. Winsor
@piratedan: When someone sics a mob on you, your first thought is unlikely to be “unity.”
citizen dave
Just slightly (assuming I have the right Obama house), but now Biden and Obama will be living closer to each than when Biden was at the VP residence. VP residence just slightly farther away.
Immanentize
Biden is actually a devout Catholic, isn’t he?
Litlebritdifrnt
Very nice to see the lecturn being sanitised after every speaker.
Soprano2
I’ve heard a lot of commentary about why they didn’t just do this inside and stream it. Biden couldn’t let the insurrectionists win by driving his inauguration inside, and depriving him of even this little bit of tradition. I’m so glad he didn’t give in to them!
Benw
Lady Gaga and the United States Marine Band is a hell of a mashup
O. Felix Culpa
Lady Gaga! Hmm, that dress.
West of the Cascades
Love the Space Force flag. Lady Gaga is fabulous.
Just Some Fuckhead
@CaseyL: As long as the Republicans who fomented an insurrection – an attack on our Capitol – go unpunished, this is all kabuki, IMO. It will happen again and it will be much worse.
Alison Rose
Gaga!
Soprano2
Can you imagine if Trump still had his Twitter account? He’d be hate-watching and Tweeting up a storm right now, I bet!
Suzanne
Gaga looks amazing.
Immanentize
@Litlebritdifrnt: But the speakers need to mask up when they finish talking. Even priests.
Punchy
Days before Alex Jones demands her long-form diploma?
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@Soprano2: hear hear! I’ve felt the same way, and I’m glad it’s worked out
CaseyL
Gaga’s
skirtdress!!Baud
Ugh my feed is a few minutes behind.
Soprano2
Anyone else think Gaga looks like of like Lady Liberty?
Dorothy A. Winsor
@guachi: I’m home from getting mine! Between that and the Inauguration, it’s like Christmas and my birthday at once.
Spanky
A golden mike for golden pipes.
eponymous
Lady Gaga – has quite the eagle pin… She sings beautifully and she looks happy.
Immanentize
LADY GAGA! LOOKS GREAT!
Sister Golden Bear
@Alison Rose: Right? I’m beginning to feel like part of America again
@zhena gogolia: Harris has worn pearls to all the significant moments in her life, e.g. getting sworn in as CA Attorney General, CA Senator etc. There was online movement to wear Chucks and pearls today.
Baud
@Dorothy A. Winsor:
That’s just Lady Gaga’s dress.
Almost Retired
Gotta say, Lady Gaga did a far better job on the National Anthem than Lee Greenwood would have.
FelonyGovt
Lady Gaga is killing it!
Immanentize
Where is Albatrosity, she has a huge bird on her chest!
O. Felix Culpa
@Dorothy A. Winsor: It’s my dad’s birthday today. I’m glad we could arrange such a fine birthday present for him. :)
Kattails
OMG every hair follicle on my body just stood up–Lady Gaga–perfect!
dmsilev
@Suzanne: She should have shown up wearing one of her more …out-there outfits. Maybe the machine-gun bra (as part of the security forces)?
SFBayAreaGal
Wow oh wow, Lady Gaga and the band did a great job
Jim, Foolish Literalist
I think this may be the first time I’ve heard Lady Gaga sing.
Dorothy A. Winsor
@SFBayAreaGal: My DIL’s father got his first shot last week at the VA near Hammond, Indiana. He’s a Vietnam vet, which may have made a difference.
mali muso
Awww, feck…now I am crying.
RandomMonster
Lady Gaga killed it
Alison Rose
Damn, she sang the hell out of that
mrmoshpotato
Anyone else seeing a young Hillary Clinton in Lady Gaga?
O. Felix Culpa
Love the signing of the Pledge.
CaseyL
OK, don’t know why, but – I’ve been dry-eyed up to now – Lady Gaga singing the national anthem has made me tear up.
zhena gogolia
Gaga slayed me!
Suzanne
That rendition rivals Whitney’s.
dmsilev
Oh my. Reciting, and signing, the Pledge.
Details matter.
gwangung
Lady Gaga has chops.
guachi
Fantastic National Anthem
CaseyL
Holy hell: speaking and signing at once.
Enhanced Voting Techniques
I’ve been just filled with loathing for Trump like I’ve never been for years in the last 24 hours it’s because listening to Biden speak I realized our leaders should be talking like adults and not like the snot frait boi everyone loves to beat up while on a cocaine binge. God fucking lord, Biden as president is like having a nail removed from my foot with the relief that constant pain is gone. Four damn years of that 70 year old going on 19 orange clown endlessly bragging about all the hookers he’s paid to have sex with him. Bleeh.
O. Felix Culpa
KAMALA!!! SONIA!!!
Just Some Fuckhead
Hopefully Amy Klobuchar will be introducing Bernie now.
Steeplejack
Oh, man: genius to have that woman do the Pledge of Allegiance with ASL. ?
dmsilev
Madam Vice President.
Benw
Oh boy Sonia and Kamala!
L85NJGT
No auto tune.
Sister Golden Bear
I teared up at the military woman both speaking and signing the pledge.
CaseyL
Now. Gettin to the Real Stuff.
Suzanne
Holy shit.
Suzanne
So many onions.
RandomMonster
Like that domestic enemy, DJT!
Leto
Just wow; ok, here comes the waterworks
O. Felix Culpa
More onions. Love Kamala’s smile. She radiates joy.
Sister Golden Bear
Verklempt.
gwangung
Aw, man. Choked up.
Just Some Fuckhead
Closed captioning introduced Justice Sew Sew Soo Setoo.
Alison Rose
FUCKING CRYING
SiubhanDuinne
KAMALA IS VICE PRESIDENT.
And gets “Hail, Columbia” played for her.
Spanky
Aaaand Kamala’s in.
lamh36
HERE WE GO!!!!
VICE PRESIDENT KAMALA DEVI HARRIS!!!!
mali muso
Ok, we’ve moved from little sniffles to full on sobbing here.
dmsilev
PBS: “Kamala Harris has taken the oath of office. She is the Vice President.”
CaseyL
KAMALA IS VPOTUS!!
trollhattan
Kamala earns an “Alright!” from Joe.
Baud
@dmsilev:
MSNBC says it’s not official until noon.
Another Scott
Just starting to snow a bit here in NoVA.
Cheers,
Scott.
cain
@Elizabelle:
But is his laptop in attendance?
germy
Dove of peace!
zhena gogolia
THIS IS SO GOOD THIS IS SO GOOD
Elizabelle
Have not watched an inaugural since 2013.
Madame Vice President.
CaseyL
@Baud: Noon’s not far off; and fuck MSNBC.
SiubhanDuinne
@Alison Rose:
Oh yeah.
narya
@Elizabelle: I am! and actually it’s pretty damn dusty in here. Much to my surprise.
Soprano2
Wow, I didn’t tear up until Lady Gaga sang the line in the Star Spangled Banner about the flag still being there. Lots more significance in these things after 1/6, that’s for sure. KAMALA IS VICE-PRESIDENT!!
Baud
@CaseyL:
15 minutes.
arrieve
@CaseyL: Me too. I stood up and put my hand over my heart in my bedroom as Lady Gaga sang, and I teared up.
Spanky
She gonna get to the 4th verse?
(On “This Land is Your Land”, fwiw)
ETA2: Nope.
Alison Rose
Has J Lo aged a single day in the last like………20 years? Dang.
Benw
JLo’s fantastic
dmsilev
@Baud: Don’t really care right now.
Raven
@Sister Golden Bear: She’s an Atlanta Fulton County fighter.
SiubhanDuinne
@Elizabelle:
Natchooly.
ETA: Noticed earlier that Laura Bush was sporting her pearls.
West of the Cascades
@CaseyL: So if Trump dies in the next 15 minutes, she becomes president until 12:01? Doesn’t sound right … though one could hope!
cain
@Alison Rose:
And she had the kind of shit eating grin that mirrors all of us!
trollhattan
@germy:
Accessorized by the golden mic. That Gaga, always put together.
germy
can someone translate what Jennifer Lopez said during the song?
CaseyL
@Baud: 15 minutes – after 4 years? After these past 4 years? – mere trifle.
JLo doing not badly at all.
Immanentize
This machine kills fascists.
Sister Golden Bear
Never have the words “against all enemies foreign or domestic” been so poignant.
cain
@Suzanne:
She sang a melody from the sound of music and people stood up and took notice.
Raven
Jesus, I’m a fucking mess, I wasn’t sure we’d get here!
dmsilev
@Spanky: Doesn’t look like it.
FelonyGovt
J Lo really can’t sing at all, can she.
Soprano2
It’s too bad there’s no choir. The elite choir at our local state university, where I sing in the evening choir, sang at Trump’s inaugural. Even being Trump’s, it was quite an honor to be chosen for that.
Martin
That was one of the best renditions of the national anthem I’ve heard. I don’t know which arrangement that was or if she arranged it, but the tempo was outstanding, and she has a really excellent voice for it.
germy
@trollhattan:
I love her. And a great performance of one of the toughest songs to sing.
trollhattan
Busts out the Spanish. “Hi, Steven Miller”
Alison Rose
Oh yessssss love the Spanish thrown in there, no idea what she said but I’m sure it pissed off all the Trumpies :)
Ramalama
@Punchy: Too busy day drinking (ok ok sipping) to worry. Likely will happen, though, right?
SiubhanDuinne
Here we go.
lamh36
Bootleggers, just go on ahead and start printing this photo on tshirts…putting in in frames…etc.! This is one for the ages!
https://twitter.com/callmedollar/status/1351932826611019780?s=20
Spanky
Wait, Roberts is up NOW?
O. Felix Culpa
Stepped out to get the champagne ready.
dmsilev
Man, Q and his crew are really cutting it close on the whole “the Storm is Coming” thing.
germy
This swearing in ceremony is purifying. I feel purified.
cain
I wish Sotomayor would have gotten Kamala’s name right – I think she pronounced it wrong.. ugh. :D
Great job on that last song :-)
Baud
@Alison Rose:
I caught “justice and liberty for all” at the end.
O. Felix Culpa
We have a new President!!!
Suzanne
OH MY GOD ITS OVER
cain
HERE WE GO!
Benw
Congratulations Mr President!! Whee!
germy
The sun just came out, right at the swearing in. Nice timing, clouds.
(I’ve been yelling at clouds for the past four years, so I take credit.)
Spanky
Aaaand, Joe is IN!!!!
artem1s
It is done! so help me god
Elizabelle
Hail to the Chief for someone who is worthy of it. For the first time in four appallingly long years.
Just Some Fuckhead
Alright, start the Covid watch.
RandomMonster
And there it is. Congratulations to us all.
SiubhanDuinne
Sobbing and laughing and screaming out the window.
O. Felix Culpa
@lamh36: Love it. Get me one of those.
Soprano2
I just breathed out a breath I didn’t even know I was holding!!!
counterfactual
[long sigh of relief] time for a shot, Mr President Biden.
randy khan
I had a work call that ran much too long, so I missed Harris, but I did get to see Biden. I feel so much better already.
trollhattan
We made it. We fucking well made it. Thank God.
jonas
I don’t even remember who sang — if anyone did at all — at Trump’s inaugural. I recall that the only people willing to play were a bunch of D-listers nobody had heard of.
Nice little shoutout in Spanish there from JLo.
West of the Cascades
Hunter holds the bible … awesome.
Another Scott
They’re running a little early. It’s not official for another 9 minutes or so.
Cheers,
Scott.
Alison Rose
NO MORE TRUMP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
mali muso
Moar crying. Just… can’t believe we made it.
CaseyL
Standing and crying in my living room.
PRESIDENT JOSEPH ROBINETTE BIDEN, JR!!!
Raven
I hung my flag out too.
SFBayAreaGal
Vice President Kamala Harris. I am so happy I lived to see a Black/Asian woman elected to this position.
Spanky
Why are we all just sitting there?
Immanentize
Jill is crying.
mrmoshpotato
Yeah. Noticed that too. Had the make sure my computer time wasn’t off.
Sister Golden Bear
@Raven: Thanks for the clarification. I was distracted by the mimosa the size of a large baby that I may or may not have made.
Just Some Fuckhead
Pence sitting there wondering whose asshole he’s going to gently nibble on for the rest of his life.
trollhattan
@jonas:
I think it was Up With People. Just the hot ones.
Immanentize
Joe’s crying
O. Felix Culpa
46
Soprano2
Yep, that song is tough.
germy
“Good job, Honey,” Jill said.
Gin & Tonic
Why does Harris get “against all enemies foreign and domestic” and Biden doesn’t?
Kattails
@SFBayAreaGal: I just caught that “and her band”. ;-)
trollhattan
@Just Some Fuckhead:
Trump will be, “Mike? Mike? I don’t remember the guy.”
germy
@Immanentize:
So am I.
O. Felix Culpa
Leader Schumer. Hah!
Feathers
@cain: She was in the NYU musical theater program. Don’t get into that without an amazing voice.
J Lo really killed it. Way above expectations, and I say that as someone who’s been a fan of hers for a long time.
Elizabelle
Joe was resting up briefly before signing all the Executive Orders this afternoon. Gotta hit the ground running once this ceremony is over.
Baud
@Gin & Tonic:
Presidential oath is in the constitution. All other oaths are statutory.
jonas
Aw man, the dust in this room is just slaying my allergies…
Another Scott
@Gin & Tonic: VP gets the standard oath. President gets his/her own unique oath.
Cheers,
Scott.
arrieve
People are ringing bells out the windows and car horns are going here in NYC.
O. Felix Culpa
Mmmm, champagne.
Elizabelle
@Immanentize: Joe was crying. I loved that.
46 understands the incredibly demanding job he has just undertaken.
Leto
I haven’t stood at attention in almost two years. I did for this.
Ramalama
My partner (who is not American): “Michelle Obama looks like she could be a super hero.”
MisterForkbeard
I teared up a bit just now. And I’ve got this BIG STUPID GRIN on my face, just like the speakers.
It’s a great day. I’m also in a meeting at the moment, so can’t pay as much attention as I’d like.
Nelle
I did not expect to cry when Harris was sworn in but man, maybe I can quit numbing myself now.
Immanentize
@germy: me too.
Elizabelle
Handsome Joe.
He is.
jonas
That sound you hear is MAGAt heads exploding across the country after seeing Hunter Biden up there with his family watching his father get sworn in.
frosty
@Ivan X: The only channel I’ve found is Fox. No commentary there either, thank dog.
CaseyL
Democracy is precious; democracy is fragile.
The President is bringing it.
SFBayAreaGal
@Kattails: ?
Elizabelle
Shout out to President Carter! Who lived to see 46’s inauguration. 3 cheers!
cain
@Feathers:
Yeah JLO did a pretty good job – she had a good build up to the end.
SFBayAreaGal
@Leto: Mine was more of a parade rest ?
eponymous
Joe not mincing words.
germy
“the most elusive of all things in a democracy: unity.”
O. Felix Culpa
We must and will defeat white supremacy. Yes.
Just Some Fuckhead
@jonas: Wait? Hunter Biden is an actual person?
SiubhanDuinne
@germy:
”Purifying.” That is just the perfect word.
germy
Amir Khalid
@Alison Rose: :
All I caught was the end: “… ¡y justicia para todos!” (… and justice for all!”) Anyone catch the beginning?
Just Some Fuckhead
Call for the insurrectionist Republicans to be brought to justice, then have the crowd chant “lock them up!”
germy
Elizabelle
It’s noon. We have President Biden.
Exhale.
otmar
And the clock ticks past noon.
CaseyL
“We can” … do a lot of excellent, necessary stuff.
What a fantastic speech.
“Our better angels have always prevailed.” Vintage Joe, giving us his vision for America. All the gods help him realize it.
Alison Rose
SIRI STILL HASN’T UPDATED HER SHIT
germy
“Don’t tell me things can’t change. Here we stand.”
jonas
Pretty good speechifying from a guy I was told was a dementia-addled geezer hiding in his basement who couldn’t string two words together.
gvg
@frosty: i am watching washington post live stream
Evap
I’m drinking a nice IPA in my Biden Harris glass!
Expletive Deleted
Lurker here, probably late to the game but for those who were asking JLo was quoting the last bit of the pledge in Spanish.
Ben Cisco (onboard the Defiant)
And with that, America: Age of Moron is over. Gotta say, I’m digging the post-credits scene.
Matt McIrvin
Lots of my Twitter follows trying very, very hard not to feel good.
Baud
@Matt McIrvin:
Who’s fault is that?
germy
eponymous
Didn’t catch this earlier, but Eugene Goodman escorted Kamala Harris!
germy
@Matt McIrvin:
Soprano2
Jon Favreau tweeted that this speech is the exact opposite of the whole Trump presidency. I can’t agree more!
West of the Cascades
@germy: Someone in the Biden transition team, I hope, has been tracking which of these 11th hour pardons haven’t been delivered and accepted, so they could potentially be rescinded.
Elizabelle
“There’s no accounting for what fate will deal you.”
The difference between those who have empathy and those who don’t. People who understand that sentence.
jonas
My God, comparing these words to the load of bullshit, spite, and bile spewed by Trump four years ago…
cain
This speech is decent – but I remember Obama making a lot of the same appeals for 8 years and these assholes voted for Trump. I hope that this time the lesson is learned.
I will say that Joe delivers his speeches with a simple elegance that very different from the soaring oration of Obama.
Elizabelle
@jonas: Spewed by who? That name. It meant something. Once.
RandomMonster
Nice mention of alliances. It will be nice to have allies again.
Soprano2
Yep, I never could have imagined what my life would be today 10 years ago. You never know what will happen to you; your life can be changed forever in 5 seconds.
Ivan X
@cain: I don’t think even Biden’s most ardent fans would call him a soaring orator. And I’m perfectly good with that right now.
eponymous
This is so decent and competent and truthful. I hope so hard that the optimism of his outlook prevails.
West of the Cascades
Quoting Norah Jones, as President Kennedy once quoted Kahlil Gibran. I’m loving hearing our President speak truth and hope.
Elizabelle
Lovely, gracious and resolute speech. We are in a better place now.
CaseyL
I don’t need soaring oratory. I appreciate it, but it doesn’t move me.
What I appreciate, what moves me, is someone speaking from the heart about their resolve, their intent, and their determination to make us whole again.
That is what I heard in President Joe’s speech.
Ivan X
@CaseyL: Well said.
Steeplejack
Roy Blount again?! Get this asshole out of here.
Elizabelle
@Steeplejack: I think Senator Blount might vote for impeachment. He might.
FWIW, President Obama owns Amazing Grace. In my heart.
Remembering Clemente Pinckney and all the souls lost at Mother Emmanuel.
Emma from FL
@CaseyL: Perfectly phrased.
Elizabelle
I will watch this whole ceremony again tonight. And smile throughout.
Has been pitch perfect.
mrmoshpotato
Take a moment.
Steeplejack
“The Stars and Stripes Forever.” Word.
Still verklempt about the ASL pledge. That was the high point for me. Besides Garth Brooks’s formal blue jeans, of course.
zhena gogolia
@germy: YESSSS!
Ken
OK, ceremony over and chattering starting, so TV off.
Also a suitable time for the NYAG to start opening indictments; it won’t detract from the inauguration.
jonas
Ok and that’s a wrap. Damn that was one hell of a closing benediction.
Here’s to having a real president again! It’s a good day.
Geoduck
Ended up sleeping through it all thanks to my erratic sleep schedule, but woot! It finally happened!
ballerat
Amanda Gorman’s reading just knocked it out of the park. Most powerful and resonating words of truth said today at that podium.
J R in WV
I’m not a Lady Gaga fan, but Oh My did she do a good job with the President’s Own Marine Band!
Lady has pipes, and knows what to do with them!
Last, again…