Surprised at how ugly the area is.
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Here's Obama's from SPAAAAAAAACE
https://content.satimagingcorp.com/static/galleryimages/geoeye-1-obama-inauguration-2009.jpg
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When people get into large, really really large, crowds, I can't help but see them as a horde of bugs.
harris's will be more packed than obama's
I mean, I watched bush's inauguration as a kid, and was stoked for Obama's having voted in my first presidential election.
Purely based on "middle aged white guy=mid numbers" and "first black president=large numbers" I feel that "first Woman, and second POC" will mean bigly numbers.
If it's not, I'll be amazed.
Queen Elizabeth II:
Well I didn't vote for her!
Continuing the quote Filthy peasant!
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No, no, no… The orange man has assured me that it was the biggest crowd of all time. Probably more people than had ever been in one place at the same time. And he surely wouldn’t lie to me.
Don’t worry he wasn’t lying to you, he was just presenting alternative facts .
Literally (news coverage of) day one of his term, and KAC coined a term that defined the entire administration.
2021 had very few people because of corona.
Reminds me of Spicy’s first presser…. His tone and attitude had me immediately realize the next 4 years would be rough…
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I was pretty sure it was gonna be a shit show as soon as the election results came in, but the fact the dumbass lied so obviously and pathetically only hours into his term really ironed in how fucked the next four years were gonna be.
I was one of those idiots going back and watching old Trump interviews and thinking, “Well, see, this dude can’t be the total idiot he’s putting on display today. Maybe he’s playing some crazy game and he won’t be as bad as he looks like he’s going to be.”
That lie made it clear to me that my stupid theory was no good. He won, there was no point in playing a character.
He got fame and attention for being exactly what he is. He doesn’t need to be anything else.
I was at George W.'s inauguration with a school group, and it wasn't as packed as Obama's but it blew Trump's out of the water, and it was cold and windy AF.
I was at George W.'s inauguration
Washington? Wow.
must has been the second one
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Lmfao
I wonder if it confuses the shit out of foreigners when we refer to Bush Jr. As George W.
It ain't George Washington. President George Washington always gets his name stated, no abbreviation.
The trees are being generous in the second photo
Voting Vs "My vote doesn't matter anyways." or "They're all the same anyways."
And for those of you who are in a similar situation as me, where your presidential vote for the most part doesn't matter (Trump's going to win by a minimum of 15 points in my state), your votes on down ballot issues do matter.
Local and state elections are where change starts. So get out there and vote, even if it's mostly doing harm reduction.
I'm gonna piggyback on this to make a related point:
If you take it down from +15 points to +14 points, that's gonna cost the GOP more money next time around. You don't have to win your state to make an impact. If you can make it more expensive to win your state, that takes funds away from their campaigns in other states.
(And if you make it cheaper for Democrats to win your state, that frees up funds for campaigns in other states.)
The same is true for blue states.
If your vote is not important because your state is locked in on a presidential candidate, local issues / candidates are worth voting on. They can have a more direct impact on your day to day.
Images like this show why it's so important to vote