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marmar

(80,072 posts) Thu Jan 21, 2021, 10:23 AM Jan 2021

Yesterday I watched all the ceremonial inaugural walking and waving on TV, which I never do.......

..... today on the morning news shows, discussions of policy and the administration's plans for dealing with a myriad of issues.

Never has the banality of normalcy been so compelling.

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Yesterday I watched all the ceremonial inaugural walking and waving on TV, which I never do....... (Original Post) marmar Jan 2021 OP

A profound observation malaise Jan 2021 #1

We watched it all. My husband took the day off from his lab which he never does. redstatebluegirl Jan 2021 #2

malaise

(297,960 posts)

1. A profound observation

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Thu Jan 21, 2021, 10:26 AM

Jan 2021

No asinine tweets full of lies

redstatebluegirl

(12,855 posts)

2. We watched it all. My husband took the day off from his lab which he never does.

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Thu Jan 21, 2021, 10:27 AM

Jan 2021

We just needed to feel something normal, something not nasty, something patriotic that reminded us that we can survive this awful time. I could not believe my husband stayed home. We toasted the swearing in once, President Biden and Vice President Harris took the oath. I cried seeing Kamala as VP, I never thought I would live to see a woman up there.

It is so weird to see normal and think it is abnormal isn't it? I did lose my cool when I saw Ted Cruz take his seat, damn him, he had no business being there.

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