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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

Good way to spread covid.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 weeks ago

It's about the half flags isn't it?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 weeks ago

Cold weather and low turnout. It'll look more crowded indoors.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

And there will be a million people outside for this. The largest crowd in the history of crowds. So many people, more than you can imagine. And there will be videos and pictures showing tiny, shrunken, crowds. Yet his base will call them fake.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Wasn't his last inauguration day the biggest crowd in the history of protests in the history of the United States?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Yeah. But this will be biggest, most largest, in the history of crowds. Billions of the best people will be there.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

I wish, but I think last time will have been bigger

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

"Weather", sure. It'll be 22° and cloudy. Cold af, for sure, but it's always cold for inauguration. What else is ol Trumpy boi worried about

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

My crowd size is massive, it was just cold out!

Anyone else remember that ’alternative' facts was originally a response to crowd size at the first inauguration?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago

I was really looking forward to the satellite images of the crowd....

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 weeks ago

He’s for sure going to say that global warming isn’t happening because they had to move in from the cold.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 weeks ago

Crowd would seem too small outside

[–] [email protected] 35 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

And these people want Greenland? I hate to break it to them...

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

thinks back to how bad a time Nazi Germany had trying to invade Siberia

I think they need to learn this lesson the hard way.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

But they don't learn it the hard way, it's mostly low ranking military who suffers.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

It was kinda green when Erik the Red colonized it a thousand years ago, especially compared to Iceland at the time which was covered in even more glaciers.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)
[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 weeks ago

Goddamnit. Now all the Luigis hiding in the bushes need to go home.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago

If your supporters are so numerous, energetic, supportive and dedicated .... it shouldn't matter to any of them what the weather was outside. It would have to be a hurricane to stop them. His supporters should be lining the streets of the capitol demanding to be at the inauguration and wanting to see their new leader in public.

Definitely a lot of snowflakes at this event

[–] [email protected] 43 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Ah, yes. "Weather." And totally not because of snipers, drones, rotten eggs, tomatoes, hecklers, or Mrs. Cake.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 weeks ago

Cold weather = small crowd

Nuff said.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I want to hear about Mrs. Cake?

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

P.s. don't ask us about

  • rocks
  • troll’s with sticks
  • All sorts of dragons
  • Mrs. Cake
  • Huje green things with teeth
  • Any kinds of black dogs with orange eyebrows
  • Rains of spaniel’s
  • fog
  • Mrs. Cake
[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I want to be inside this joke so bad now.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

It involves reading this book.

spoiler

There was a familiar building on the junction of Broad Way and Alchemists. The facade was ornate, but covered in grime. Gargoyles had colonized it.

The corroded motto over the portico said “NEITHER RAIN NOR SNOW NOR GLOM OF NIT CAN STAY THESE MESSENGERS ABOUT THEIR DUTY” and in more spacious days that may have been the case, but recently someone had found it necessary to nail up an addendum which read:

DON’T ASK US ABOUT:

  • rocks
  • troll’s with sticks
  • All sorts of dragons
  • Mrs. Cake
  • Huje green things with teeth
  • Any kinds of black dogs with orange eyebrows
  • Rains of spaniel’s.
  • fog.
  • Mrs. Cake

(It is later revealed that the missing letters in the motto have been stolen and repurposed for the sign over a salon elsewhere in the city.)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Is the grass greener now that you're on the other side?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

No, I just feel like I’m stuck in a drawer now.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Praise the goddess Anoia!

You're falling down the Terry Pratchett rabbit hole very effectively! The best way out is to start reading.

Anoia is the goddess of things stuck in drawers. Mrs. Cake is too be avoided because she has precognition but forgets to turn it off during conversations which leads to confusion when she answers a question before you ask it, but insists you ask anyway because she'll get a terrible headache if you don't.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

Yeah but Mrs Cake is religious, and follows Anoia

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I was wondering last night, how cold does it have to be for trump to skip his own inauguration.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago

How cold is a dead body?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Coward... If you cant stand in the cold for 15 min. To give a speech you shouldn't be able to do the job. If he is worried about getting harrison'd then wear a better coat.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

He probably can't fit into them anymore.

[–] [email protected] 39 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I thought conservatives were all supposed to be tough and manly and shit. My small gay ass is sitting outside all day in 0 degree weather in a boom lift installing cams on the side of office buildings and this motherfucker can't brave the cold for a couple hours or so?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Mmmm small, gay, good with your hands and not afraid of heights? Sign me up, baby.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

And he's new in town.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Possibly a way to avoid smaller crowd stories, though I doubt it. He has many more fans now than he did the first time he got in.

If an asteroid hit, that’d solve issues for a hell of a lot of people.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

While I doubt it will happen, I’d love to see this move indoors to a smaller venue and STILL be unable to sell out.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Inauguration becomes Super Spreader Event, perfect.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

For communicable disease? ... or fascism?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago
[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago

I was thinking communicable diseases. You know there won't be a mask in the place, and people will be hollering and slobbering all over each other. The effect on fascism seems hard to determine from my perspective. Will more people die or become disabled? Maybe that slows the fascists down a smidge. Time will tell, my friend.

[–] [email protected] 58 points 2 weeks ago

I thought he was a MAN.

Indoors is woke.

Can you imagine the circus if Kamala or Biden had theirs indoors?

“What are they hiding from the public????”

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 weeks ago

Will they punch holes in the roof to raise the flags to the highest they've ever been?

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