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Inauguration Day 20 Jan 2021

Vixen

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To commemorate this historical event of a change of the President of the United States of America, that only happens once very eight years or so - except when there is a lousy president who only lasts one term - I have opened up this thread, for people to discuss their thoughts throughout the day.
 
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The State of Georgia has finally certified Raphael Warnock and John Ossoff as winners of the Senatorial runoff. In addition to being Inauguration Day, tomorrow these two gentlemen will be sworn in by the Vice-President, balancing the Senate as fifty Republicans and fifty Democrats.
 
What country are you talking about? If it's the US we have an inauguration every 4 years, even if the person being inaugurated is starting their second term.
 
TragicMonkey said:
What country are you talking about? If it's the US we have an inauguration every 4 years, even if the person being inaugurated is starting their second term.
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Well yeah but you have to factor in the Leap Years, the Coriolis Effect, and the Mercator Projection.
 
I see I am not the only one who sees echos of Lincoln's "Here I have lived" speech when leaving Springfield , Illinois to take up the Presidency in 1861 in Biden's farewell to Deleware speech today.
 
errrr, unless anything extra happens, most of the day will be Biden and friends preparing for the inauguration. And he probably won't have much to do the rest of the day.
 
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Thanks, I have duly edited the OP to make it clearer.
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It's still wrong: we do an inauguration every time. Every four years. Those who get two terms have two inaugurations. It's not per-person, it's per-term. And it would never be "or so". It's exactly four year terms. The US isn't parliamentary, we don't call elections whenever we feel like it. It's very, very rigid.
 
TragicMonkey said:
It's still wrong: we do an inauguration every time. Every four years. Those who get two terms have two inaugurations. It's not per-person, it's per-term. And it would never be "or so". It's exactly four year terms. The US isn't parliamentary, we don't call elections whenever we feel like it. It's very, very rigid.
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Did you spot the rewording 'change of President'. Only three or four presidents did not have more than one term: Andrew Jackson iirc, Nixon and the current incumbent. I think Ford might be another.
 
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Vixen said:
Did you spot the rewording 'change of President'. Only three or four presidents did not have more than one term: Andrew Johnson iirc, Nixon and the current incumbent. I think Ford might be another.
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The number is actually 23, including Trump. It's just become much less common since the turn of the 20th Century.
 
I found out on HBO's Real Time that it's the birthday of both Bill Maher and Kelley Anne Conway. I wonder what she'll be wearing tomorrow?
 
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I have a bottle of champagne in the fridge. It's getting popped tomorrow at 11:00 CST/12:00 EST.
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I'm celebrating by getting my first dose of the Covid vaccine! They'll be injecting the mind-control Gates-Soros microchip right at the moment the New World Order commences!!
 
alfaniner said:
I found out on HBO's Real Time that it's the birthday of both Bill Maher and Kelley Anne Conway. I wonder what she'll be wearing tomorrow?
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A huge smile on Maher and sackcloth and ashes for Kelley Ann?
 
I'll be changing my profile pic after four long years. For some reason, I was never able to use if on ISF no matter how often I tried. I made sure the dimensions and pixel size were correct and it just would not work.

 
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