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A Sense of Doubt blog post #2164 - Inauguration Day 2021!!!!

A Sense of Doubt blog post #2164 - Inauguration Day 2021!!!! 


INAUGURATION COUNTDOWN

00 DAYS to inauguration


I cried through the whole thing, basically, starting with Kamala Harris taking the oath. 





And then, more tears during President Biden's speech. Later in the day, I thought I was done, and then...



It was a very emotional day, and I can't imagine that my emotions come anywhere near the catharsis of people who lost loved ones to Covid-19; to the families of George Floyd, Jacob Blake, Breonna Taylor; to people directly affected, like the family of the police officer killed in the insurrection.

And yet, like so many of you, I feel like I have been through a trauma, a nightmare, a national horror film, and watching the peaceful transfer of power, I felt a catharsis like unlike few I have in my life. Our country has gone insane, has been abused, has been under threat, has thousands, maybe millions, of people that believe lies about election fraud, lies about the pandemic, lies about masks, lies about climate change, lies about science, lies about so many things.

It has been intense.

I needed to purge.

Maybe you did, too.

Here's a Twitter stream and all the videos, two full versions and various edits.

Starting with what REALLY got me.

Inauguration BROADWAY! Seasons of Love/Let The Sunshine In
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Seasons of Love (Larsen) /Let The Sunshine In (Rado/Ragni/MacDermot)
Producers: Seth Rudetsky, James Wesley and Schele Williams
Director: Schele Williams
Video Editor: Jabari Payne
Sound Mixers: Shelbie Rassler and Matthias Winter
Music Director/Arrangement: Seth Rudetsky

Band: Seth Rudetsky, Perry Cavari, Carl Carter, Jim Hershman

Performers:
Chris Jackson: 525,600 minutes
Laura Benanti: 525,600 moments so dear
Laura Benanti: 525,600 moments so dear
José Llana: 525,600 minutes
BD WONG: How do you measure
Betty Buckley: measure a year?
Ruthie Ann Miles: in daylights
Jessie Mueller: in sunsets
Beth Malone: in midnights
Chandra Wilson: in cups of coffee
Jenna Ushkowitz: in inches
Olga Merediz: in miles
NaTasha Yvette Williams: in laughter, in strife
Ali Stroker: 525,600 minutes
Miss Peppermint: How do you measure
Vanessa Williams: a year in the life?
Fredi Walker-Browne, Wilson Heredia, Daphne Rubin-Vega, Anthony Rapp
How about love?
Leslie Uggams: 525,600 minutes
Mandy Gonzalez: 525,000 journeys to plan
Renée Elise Goldsberry: 525,600 minutes
Keala Settle: How do you measure the life of a woman or a man?
Wayne Brady: In truths that she learned
Derrick Baskin: Or in times that he cried
Javier Muñoz: In bridges he burned
James Monroe Iglehart: Or the way that she died
Andy Karl/Orfeh: It's time now... etc
LET THE SUNSHINE IN adds
Rosie Perez
Audra McDonald
James Wesley/ Seth Rudetsky/ Juli Rudetsky-Wesley
Chita Rivera
Rosie Perez
AND Charlotte d’Amboise in the center square!


















































Joe Biden and Kamala Harris inauguration ceremony
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Inaugural poet Amanda Gorman delivers a poem at Joe Biden's inauguration
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Inaugural poet Amanda Gorman, the Youth Poet Laureate of 2017, delivers a poem at President Joe Biden's inauguration. 

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Amanda Gorman, 22, became the youngest inaugural poet in U.S. history after reciting her poem “The Hill We Climb.”

“But while democracy can be periodically delayed, it can never be permanently defeated,” Gorman read. “In this truth, in this faith, we trust.”

Gorman is the current United States Poet Laureate. At age 16, Gorman became the Youth Poet Laureate of Los Angeles and later became the first National Youth Poet Laureate in 2017 as a sociology student at Harvard.

First Lady Jill Biden invited Gorman to participate in the inauguration in late December after hearing the poet at the Library of Congress.

Gorman immediately made waves following her reading at the inaugural ceremony, becoming the top trending Google search topic in the U.S.

Her words rang across the country: “A skinny Black girl descended from slaves and raised by a single mother can dream of becoming president, only to find herself reciting for one.”







https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/20/politics/amanda-gorman-inaugural-poem-transcript/index.html

When day comes we ask ourselves,
where can we find light in this never-ending shade?
The loss we carry,
a sea we must wade
We've braved the belly of the beast
We've learned that quiet isn't always peace
And the norms and notions
of what just is
Isn't always just-ice
And yet the dawn is ours
before we knew it
Somehow we do it
Somehow we've weathered and witnessed
a nation that isn't broken
but simply unfinished
We the successors of a country and a time
Where a skinny Black girl
descended from slaves and raised by a single mother
can dream of becoming president
only to find herself reciting for one
And yes we are far from polished
far from pristine
but that doesn't mean we are
striving to form a union that is perfect
We are striving to forge a union with purpose
To compose a country committed to all cultures, colors, characters and
conditions of man
And so we lift our gazes not to what stands between us
but what stands before us
We close the divide because we know, to put our future first,
we must first put our differences aside
We lay down our arms
so we can reach out our arms
to one another
We seek harm to none and harmony for all
Let the globe, if nothing else, say this is true:
That even as we grieved, we grew
That even as we hurt, we hoped
That even as we tired, we tried
That we'll forever be tied together, victorious
Not because we will never again know defeat
but because we will never again sow division
Scripture tells us to envision
that everyone shall sit under their own vine and fig tree
And no one shall make them afraid
If we're to live up to our own time
Then victory won't lie in the blade
But in all the bridges we've made
That is the promise to glade
The hill we climb
If only we dare
It's because being American is more than a pride we inherit,
it's the past we step into
and how we repair it
We've seen a force that would shatter our nation
rather than share it
Would destroy our country if it meant delaying democracy
And this effort very nearly succeeded
But while democracy can be periodically delayed
it can never be permanently defeated
In this truth
in this faith we trust
For while we have our eyes on the future
history has its eyes on us
This is the era of just redemption
We feared at its inception
We did not feel prepared to be the heirs
of such a terrifying hour
but within it we found the power
to author a new chapter
To offer hope and laughter to ourselves
So while once we asked,
how could we possibly prevail over catastrophe?
Now we assert
How could catastrophe possibly prevail over us?
We will not march back to what was
but move to what shall be
A country that is bruised but whole,
benevolent but bold,
fierce and free
We will not be turned around
or interrupted by intimidation
because we know our inaction and inertia
will be the inheritance of the next generation
Our blunders become their burdens
But one thing is certain:
If we merge mercy with might,
and might with right,
then love becomes our legacy
and change our children's birthright
So let us leave behind a country
better than the one we were left with
Every breath from my bronze-pounded chest,
we will raise this wounded world into a wondrous one
We will rise from the gold-limbed hills of the west,
we will rise from the windswept northeast
where our forefathers first realized revolution
We will rise from the lake-rimmed cities of the midwestern states,
we will rise from the sunbaked south
We will rebuild, reconcile and recover
and every known nook of our nation and
every corner called our country,
our people diverse and beautiful will emerge,
battered and beautiful
When day comes we step out of the shade,
aflame and unafraid
The new dawn blooms as we free it
For there is always light,
if only we're brave enough to see it
If only we're brave enough to be it




Watch Lady Gaga Perform The National Anthem At Biden’s Inauguration | TODAY
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Pop superstar Lady Gaga performs a rendition of “The Star Spangled Banner” at the inauguration of President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris.


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Performing sensation Jennifer Lopez appears at the inauguration of President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris to perform a medley that includes “This Land is Your Land” and “America the Beautiful.”


Bernie Sanders And His Mittens Win The Inauguration Day Meme Game

Inauguration Day wouldn't be complete without a meme or two to mark the occasion.

The creation of memes on the day when past presidents and lawmakers watch as a new president takes the oath of office has become somewhat of a hallmark in recent years.

Who can forget, for example, former President George W. Bush's trials with a rain poncho during former President Trump's inauguration?

Wednesday offered several viable contenders for the most celebrated meme of the day.

There's several dedicated to former First Lady Michelle Obama's stunning burgundy Sergio Hudson ensemble, and the change in expression on her face from the last time she attended a presidential inauguration.

And Lady Gaga, who sang the national anthem, had fans comparing her outfit with that of the character Katniss Everdeen from The Hunger Games.

No doubt, Jennifer Lopez, who also performed during the inaugural ceremony, and her fiancé Alex Rodriguez' elaborate U.S. Capitol photo shoot will lead to some promising memes as well.

But it was Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., a former presidential contender himself, whose expression and cozy coat stole the show.

Some had praise for his choice of mittens.

Still others were amused at the senator's outfit selection and curmudgeonly expression.

Others appreciated the sensible choice of outerwear on a chilly day in D.C.

Some pointed out that the jacket, which appears to be from Burton, a snowboarding company based in his home state of Vermont, is the same one Sanders wore in his now-famous "I am once again asking" video.

Still more speculated at what was in the envelope the 79-year-old senator was carrying.

And others lifted the image of the senator and placed him in various locations.


The Day Has Finally Arrived. Your All-Day Biden/Harris Inauguration Liveblog!

Evan Hurst
January 20, 2021 08:59 AM

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Good morning!

As we type this at you, Donald Trump, that motherfucker, has just lifted off on Marine One from the White House, for the very last time ever in world history. He was supposed to leave much earlier, but we imagine he was busy taking a shit. He's now on his way to Joint Base Andrews, where a crowd of military that's required to be there, plus whoever else Trump managed to bribe or coerce into showing up to wave him "bye bye!" will greet him, so that he may get on Air Force One for the very last time and fly the fuck away.

And then we can breathe one of the many deep sighs of relief we will breathe today. Because it's here. For real. It's January 20, 2021, and as of noon, Donald Trump is not the fucking president. Exhale.

This will be your inauguration day liveblog, and we'll be here updating it all day. Wonkette will have other posts, of course, like for instance on Trump's last-minute pardons of Steve Bannon — who was literally being prosecuted for fucking Trump's own supporters out of their WALL money — and a bunch of other people. We'll do our best to share you those posts in here when they go up.

Here's live coverage of the day, from NBC News:

9:08: Donald Trump and his weirdo family have taken off from Andrews. He gave a speech. It was stupid. He literally said "have a good life" to the small crowd that had gathered. He said, "We'll be back, in some form." Great.

Oh also MSNBC reports that Trump did in fact leave Biden a letter of some sort. Can't hardly wait for that.

Once Trump was wheels up in the sky, the Bidens came out of Blair House, where they stayed last night. It's their town now, IT'S THEIR WHOLE TOWN!

9:15: In case you did not see it, here is actual video of Trump and Melania getting the fuck out of the White House for the last time in human history.

9:20: The Bidens are at church, with people like Mitch McConnell, who did not go to Trump's going away ceremony. Guess who DID go to Trump's thing? Lauren Boebert, one of the wackass congresswomen from QAnon. LOL.

Axios is out with another inside dispatch of how Trump turned on Mike Pence. It started with a Lincoln Project ad, about how Pence would be the one to put the final nail in Trump's coffin on January 6. It drove Trump batshit and he threatened to sue the Lincoln Project. He didn't know what traditionally happened on January 6 before he saw that ad, that the vice president presided over the certification in a ceremonial way.

9:48: If you're curious how today is going to go, the official festivities start in about 12 minutes at the Capitol. Kamala Harris will be sworn in as vice president first, by Supreme Court Associate Justice Sonia Sotomayor. Sometime a little bit before noon, Joe Biden will take the official oath of office.

The New York Times says Lady Gaga, Jennifer Lopez, and Garth Brooks will be sworn in as secretaries of State, Defense, and Having Friends In Low Places, respectively.

Oh wait, they are just singing. Our bad.

After that there will be more things. They "review the troops," they lay a wreath at Arlington, and then there will be a virtual parade, led by Tony Goldwyn, the hot president from "Scandal."

9:52: Greta Thunberg, DOING THE SHADE.

9:58: Here is your message from Barack Obama to his firstborn son we mean vice president Joe Biden, of whom he is very proud today.

In other news, Joe Biden told Trump's surgeon general Jerome Adams to GTFO, and he did.

10:05: Michelle and Barack Obama have arrived and they look exquisite and Hillary Clinton has arrived, and oh my god can you imagine if Trump and Melania had actually stuck around? He's too small for an event of this magnitude. Wouldn't be able to hack it.

10:09: Mighty different scene from two weeks ago, when Donald Trump incited insurgents to attack it.

10:11: Got a picture for your spank bank, it is Joe Manchin taking a picture.

10:15: Mike Pence is arriving.

In other new Melania wrote thank you notes to her staff, just kidding she had one of her staffers write thank you notes to her staff.

10:25: Biden on his way!

Meanwhile Ted Cruz is there, which TBH we think he should have been disinvited since he is one of the elected officials whose constant pushing of THE BIG LIE helped incite Trump's coup. Just a fucking thought.

Also there: South Carolina wingnut asshole Governor Kristi Noem. So that's weird.

10:29: And here they are.

10:30: More screengrabs!


10:35: Ohhhh look, it is your senators from Georgia, also being sworn in today!

10:37: Here is your video of Hillary Clinton arriving at the Capitol.

By the way, we wrote something last night about how we never called the outgoing president "President Trump," except maybe in jest a couple times, and it just published. You may read it if you wish.

10:40: Josh Hawley is also there, which is weird since he is a seditionist.

10:45: Something something Al Gore's face.

10:48:

Seditionist:

Clintons:

And another very cute tweet from Raphael Warnock from last night:

10:52: Bushes:

And Obamas, and everybody is just noting that she. is. exquisite.

10:56: Seriously, just watch these two walk in:

10:58: Yessssssssssss.

11:00: Here comes Vice President Dumpstupid and Mother.

At least they had the class to show up and get made fun of.

11:01: Editrix is drinking in the morning, in a good way, out of Biden/Harris shot glasses, which you can buy!

11:05: Welcome to the day you lose your job, dickhead!

11:11: And here comes your new American vice president and her husband, and that's the moment we started choking up for the first time today.




11:17: And your new president and first lady.


Joy Reid notes that for the first time in four years, there will be a real love story in the White House. We'd add that there will also be one at the Naval Observatory, since Kamala and Doug are like giggly newlyweds.

Remember how you felt four years ago on this day. Just remember.

11:21: Meanwhile, the two fascist dipshits have deplaned in Florida, and that ain't their plane no more.

11:26: Amy Klobuchar just spoke, and now GOP Senator Roy Blunt, who planned the 'naug with her, is speaking. Something something Roy Blunt's face.

11:30: This is the guy who comes out and sprays down the podium after each and every speaker spits all over it with their face. Because the pandemic is actually real!

11:32: Is this the sassiest picture ever taken of Bernie Sanders? Sure why not.

11:38: And now for the traditional visit from Lady Gaga! She is singing the national anthem.


11:42: The Vice President of the United States.

11:45: Oh my god, y'all, we just watched Harris take the oath with the sound off as Jennifer Lopez started singing "This Land Is Your Land" and now we are for real crying.

11:48: Amy Klobuchar just said that was definitely the first time J-Lo ever opened for Chief Justice John Roberts.

Here's Kamala and Doug just after she took the oath.

Oh yeah, and ...

Donald Trump is not the president of the United States.

President Biden is. (OK, technically starting in eight minutes. But John Roberts called him "Mr. President," so that works for us.)

Inaugural address begins now.

11:55: Here it is, the first shitty Wonkette screengrab of President Biden.

11:57: If you're wondering how QAnon is handling this, HOO BOY.

12:00: OK it's noon, Trump's nuclear codes just stopped working, Trump's power just evaporated, Trump is less than nothing.

Biden talking about "unity" or some shit, it's fine, we're bored.

OMG WE ARE BORED. WE HAVE NEVER BEEN SO EXCITED TO BE BORED.

12:09: Hahahahaha, QAnon looooooooosing it.



12:15: And now Garth Brooks is here to sing "Amazing Grace."

Which is weird, because we were totally expecting him to sing his rewritten cover version of the John Mayer classic, "Joe Biden Is A Wonderland."

Oh well, missed opportunity.

12:16:

And Garth just asked everyone at home and at the Capitol to sing the last verse with him, and people are saying "Amen!"

12:20: Amanda Gorman, the first ever National Youth Poet Laureate.

12:24: Well Amanda Gorman is fuckin' cool and everything, right?

12:28: Quite a camera angle of Vice President Harris singing along with Garth Brooks to the last verse of "Amazing Grace" with Mike Pence's head in the foreground.

12:31: And now they walk out, but not before Barack Obama can hug Kamala Harris.

In other news, Trump's racist 1776 Commission website has already been taken offline.

Also in other news, you may now read Liz's post on El Fuckhead's grifty criminal pardons.

And other Wonkette posts! They are all there! Like this one about the Latinos for Trump wanting the election tossed, and this one about Joe Biden's Peloton, which answers the question: is it just a Peloton, or is it HUNTER BIDEN'S LAPTOP PELOTON?

12:41: By the way it's safe to follow the official White House and presidential Twitter accounts again, officially.

12:53: Here is the full Amanda Gorman poem, if you'd like to watch it again.

1:05: Vice President Harris and her husband saw the Pences off, like classy people.

Meanwhile, here is a post about President Biden deleting Trump's stupid racist 1776 Commission report.

1:07: Poor Mark. Somebody buy him a soda and bring him over to the dark side.

1:16: If you are curious what is happening right now, President Biden is SIGNING STUFF.

Like executive orders to make us all gays and communists, probably.

1:24: See? Like we said, signing stuff. That's probably the exec order declaring every Friday to be Free Abortion Fridays, because that sounds like a thing Democrats would do.

1:40: Seventeen GOP House freshmen sent President Biden a letter about working together. Madison Cawthorn signed it. We need you to see Madison Cawthorn's signature.


Right now there is a traditional gift-giving ceremony happening where Roy Blunt gives the President and First Lady a painting and Amy Klobuchar gives the Vice President and Second Gentleman some crystal vases and Mitch McConnell is about to give the Vice President a flag and we bet they get Olive Garden gift cards next.

1:50: Do you need some new swag that says "King Joe" because of how Joe Biden is the real socialism and socialism is the real authoritarian dictatorship? Got you covered.

2:00: This is the part where President Biden and Vice President Harris review the troops and make sure they are indeed troops and if anybody's shirt isn't tucked in they say "Hey, tuck your shirt in!" Or something. This serves as a good time to remind you that President Biden is now in control of the nuclear codes and tonight when you go to bed, you don't have to worry about that anymore.

2:10: File under "elections have consequences and Mike Pompeo is fuckin' GONE." The Twitter account for the ambassador to Israel now says "Ambassador to Israel, the West Bank and Gaza."

Biden and Harris on way to Arlington now.

2:17: Uh oh, looks like Georgia's dream team has been sworn!

Y'all meanwhile you have to check out this Elie Mystal thread of sad lonely Trump supporters doing one-man protests all over the country.

2:27: KAYLEIGH MCENANY WOULD LIKE YOU ALL TO KNOW THAT SHE ALSO TOO LEFT NICE NOTES.

2:36: Former presidents and first ladies at Arlington awaiting the arrival of the new president and vice president.

To be clear, that's the 42nd, 43rd, and 44th president of the United States at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier.

The 45h president thinks troops are suckers and losers, and is banned from Twitter.

2:44: And now the 46th president, and Madam Vice President.


2:48: It's happening, it's really happening.

3:01: Next up, President Biden and Vice President Harris go to the White House, where Biden will sign like 17 executive orders undoing as much as El Shithole as he can by the stroke of his pen. They are actually going to physically walk to the White House with military escort.

Hit that link for all the sexxecutive order things Biden is doing. Rejoining the WHO, rejoining the Paris climate agreement, canceling Trump's Muslim ban, protecting DACA recipients. All kinda stuff!

3:25: They do this shit so damn fast.

So hey, kids, we are going to OFFICIAL wrap this liveblog. But there's gonna be a parade, so feel free to hang around and watch, and if we see something cool/funny we'll add it.

But hey, you there. Wonkette is fully funded by YOU, you remember that. If you love us having salaries and you love reading these liveblogs, hit those buttons below to donate.

Thank you we love you bye.

Oh, and Dok post on that amazing poet laureate woman comin' atcha very soon!

3:47: Some pics from the parade down Pennsylvania Avenue.


And in this one Al Roker managed to get Biden to jog over and fist bump him, because today is the day America has a president who can jog again.

3:53: And now they are home.

Next, the Howard University marching band will walk Vice President Harris and her sexxxy trophy husband to the White House.

4:03: The Vice President of the United States is a Black, Asian-American woman. The Vice President of the United States is a Black, Asian-American woman. The Vice President of the United States is a Black, Asian-American woman. The Vice President of the United States is a Black, Asian-American woman. The Vice President of the United States is a Black, Asian-American woman.

Reporter shouts out and asks the vice president what her first priority is. She replied, "Walkin' to work!"

4:07: Vice President Mom-ala.

4:11: Harris 'n' Doug head up the stairs into her ceremonial office in the OEOB (Old Executive Office Building), though the news notes she will do most of her work in the office in the West Wing.



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Joe Biden is sworn in as the 46th president of the United States. Kamala Harris is also sworn in, becoming the first female vice president of the United States.









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