Watching the US Inauguration

Interesting to read all the comments.
I agree that America will be great again but thanks to Trump not Biden.
You really think this is over? I think the best is yet to come - keep watching, I think you are about to be astounded shortly!

The U.K. feels like a very small mean minded country after watching Biden’s speech and his initial immigration executive orders.

Vickysponge

Grandma70s

“Why did a quite solemn occasion then turn into a Broadway act?”

Precisely, Marmight. No sense of what is appropriate.

Completely agree with both comments. Inappropriate and undignified considering the state the country is in. I also saw a fireworks display on the news this morning and the Bidens staring dreamily up at the sky with (I think) Katie Perry bellowing in the background. ?

Oh dear. The only way is what we do eh ? I’m off for some fresh air,

NannyC2

Interesting to read all the comments.
I agree that America will be great again but thanks to Trump not Biden.
You really think this is over? I think the best is yet to come - keep watching, I think you are about to be astounded shortly!

Don’t be so ridiculous. Trump is a mean spirited weak individual who lies and feeds off adulation. Without that he is nothing.

NannyC2

Interesting to read all the comments.
I agree that America will be great again but thanks to Trump not Biden.
You really think this is over? I think the best is yet to come - keep watching, I think you are about to be astounded shortly!

So you keep telling us, in much the same words.

CarlyD7
sadly, I don't think we've seen the last of him
According to Cornel West The reign of Obama did not produce the nightmare of Donald Trump - but it did contribute towards it
So, it's very possible that history could repeat itself.

NannyC2 like it or not Biden is now the inaugurated President of the USA and I can’t see how that can change for the next 4 years.

NannyC2

Interesting to read all the comments.
I agree that America will be great again but thanks to Trump not Biden.
You really think this is over? I think the best is yet to come - keep watching, I think you are about to be astounded shortly!

The last time you said this we watched and the saw people trying to overthrow democracy in Trumps name. Is this what you want NannyC2, when round the world a sigh of relief is being heard?

I do wish we had an ignore button. I just don't want to read Trumps nonsense today.

I loved the inauguration and watched it avidly. I am worried that Biden may be assassinated at some stage though.

Sooze, I think most people will think that you area Trump fan. He never said it as it was. It was only his lies, not the truth. Some people will believe anything.

Good luck America!

You didn't really answer my question Whitewavemark2. Your comment was weak.
25Avalon - all I can say is mmmm - nothing is impossible. Clock is ticking.......

Oh Nanny! That is what my brother and his wife think, and
they are in England. Trump has many supporters who do not think he was delusional, just a wonderful human being who left his country in a far better place than it was when he took over... ho ho...

I am so glad that I wasn't the only person who watched it. I wanted to make sure that Trump really had gone.................

NannyC2

You didn't really answer my question Whitewavemark2. Your comment was weak.
25Avalon - all I can say is mmmm - nothing is impossible. Clock is ticking.......

I assume that you are referring to your question as to whether I think it is all over.

No I don’t, but if those likely to commit terrorism are the example of racist thugs we saw on the television on Jan 6 with T shirts proclaiming that 6 million was not enough and Auschwitz -work is freedom, then they must be fought just as we fought the Nazis 80 years ago.

Scum.

Ive been glued to the TV for weeks watching things unfold so no way I would miss yesterday’s coverage. Loved it. Struck primarily by the petulant, churlish behaviour of the Donald and his “ I love you” farewell and the statesmanlike professionalism of Biden. And VP Harris? Wow! I dont claim to understand the politics of it all TBH but to me it felt like a warm hug after 4 years of combative, inane rhetoric. Time will tell I guess. Did anyone else actually hold their breath on the walk up to the WH when POTUS trotted to the barriers to speak to reporters ? Not once but several times. My heart was in my mouth praying he wouldnt trip or slip. Only one mention above of Springsteen I think? Admittedly Im a lifelong fan but I thought his performance was amazing !

I am definitely not a Trump fan and felt a huge lifting of mood watching him go but anybody who really thinks this is over, is naive. The groundswell of his fans who have an aversion to socialism in any form, is still there and now they are feeling very cheated because they have been brainwashed by the narcissistic Trump.
It amazes me that anyone can thing socialism is "evil" and I'm not ever going to vote Labour. However, even I can see that in principle, that pure socialism and communism isn't evil, it just doesn't work because the rich leave the area. Even communism in an ideal world might be good but you always seem to have to shoot people to get them to try it. That's the evil bit!
I love that the inauguration featured people singing who would likely appeal to the young. A stodgy, sombre affair hardly makes it more dignified, just boring.

Have a nice day - truth Will Win!

I have just read about a Trump supporter who turned up at a rally yesterday to find he was the only one!

I had high hopes for Biden......but on day one he removes women's sex-based rights. I hope this will not go un-noticed and be the start of a very dangerous trend.
www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/presidential-actions/2021/01/20/executive-order-preventing-and-combating-discrimination-on-basis-of-gender-identity-or-sexual-orientation/

NannyC2 when Trump told those wearing the ‘6 million was not enough’ T shirts ‘we love you’ was he speaking for you ?

The music is uplifting, a celebration of a new President and hopefully a new USA.

NannyC2

You didn't really answer my question Whitewavemark2. Your comment was weak.
25Avalon - all I can say is mmmm - nothing is impossible. Clock is ticking.......

This is the second time NannyC2 has said such things. Each time it has sounded like a threat to the rest of us. Is this really allowed on Gransnet?

NannyC2

Have a nice day - truth Will Win!

I think that truth has already won.

Now you need to be debriefed and brought back to reality...

NannyC2

Have a nice day - truth Will Win!

NannyC2 you really should log on to those QAnon sites you have been reading for so long. If you do you will read that the promises made by Trump are empty and people realise that they have been taken for a ride and feel foolish for believing it all. Trump doesn’t care a fig for any of his supporters who he very recently called ‘low class’. He is away in Mar A Lago counting all the dollars he made from his election fighting fund and dreaming up his next scam which is the only thing he is really good at, next to lying of course.

NannyC2

Have a nice day - truth Will Win!

Some QAnon conspiracy theorists, in public and private internet forums and chat rooms, were despondent Wednesday as their prophecy of an Inauguration Day coup to keep Donald Trump in power failed again as President Joe Biden was sworn into office.

The situation left some QAnon adherents with no choice but to write off the conspiracy theory entirely, but others continued to maintain that it was still developing.

QAnon supporters believed Wednesday's inauguration was an elaborate trap set by the former president, wherein Democrats would be rounded up and executed while Trump retained power. Various other doomsdays theorized by the QAnon community have also come and gone without incident.

But in contrast with the events of those days, Biden's inauguration leaves the community with little daylight. As their predictions failed to come true, radicalized QAnon members expressed their sense of betrayal on messaging apps like Telegram and forums named after their failed doomsday scenario, The Great Awakening.

While Biden took the oath, a top post on a QAnon forum read "I don't think this is supposed to happen" and wondered, "How long does it take the fed to run up the stairs and arrest him?"

Other users became immediately dejected, realizing that their dreams of a bloody coup were not going to be realized.

"Anyone else feeling beyond let down?" a top post on a popular QAnon forum read. "It's like being a kid and seeing the big gift under the tree thinking it is exactly what you want only to open it and realize it was a lump of coal."

One of the largest QAnon groups on Telegram closed comments to let everyone "take a breather" after Biden's inauguration. When it reopened after it was accused of censorship, thousands of users expressed a range of reactions: confusion and realization that QAnon was in fact a hoax, as well as renewed commitment to the conspiracy theory, despite its unreliability.

Ron Watkins, the former administrator for the message board and QAnon hub 8kun and a major force behind false conspiracy theories surrounding the election results, seemed to capitulate, posting a note to his more than 100,000 followers: "We gave it our all. Now we need to keep our chins up and go back to our lives as best we are able."

QAnon influencers fled to fringe apps like Telegram and Gab after years of unbridled growth on larger platforms, including Twitter and Facebook, which banned QAnon accounts and content last year. Facebook reported Tuesday that it had removed 60,000 pages, groups and accounts that had promoted the conspiracy theory since November.

Some QAnon followers spent weeks preparing for a nationwide blackout starting at noon on Inauguration Day, warning friends and family in text chains and Facebook messages to buy CB radios and stock up on food. They believed Trump would announce martial law through the Emergency Alert System before carrying out mass arrests.

Travis View, who hosts the conspiracy-debunking podcast QAnon Anonymous, said those who make money on the conspiracy theory are having a harder time persuading adherents to keep the faith after such a spectacularly wrong prediction.

"QAnon influencers who have built large audiences over the past three years continue to encourage their audiences to 'trust the plan,'" View said. "Many rank-and-file QAnon followers are expressing anger and disillusionment."

Some QAnon followers stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, including a man wearing a QAnon shirt, while leading a pack of protesters toward the Senate chamber.

In QAnon chats captured by the fact-checking technology company Logically.AI and reviewed by NBC News, QAnon supporters drew hard lines shortly before the inauguration began and immediately felt embarrassed when the coup did not occur.

"God help us we're beyond ready. If nothing happens I will no longer believe in anything," one supporter said at the beginning of inauguration.

"We all just got played," another said moments later.

www.nbcnews.com/tech/internet/some-qanon-followers-struggle-inauguration-day-n1255002

Oh dear NannyC2 it looks like you "just got played"

Hear Hear!