# \[Poll\] It's Inauguration Day, what will you be doing? **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [January 20, 2017, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-its-inauguration-day-what-will-you-be-doing/777631 "2017-01-20T15:50:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![HurricaneDitka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/96bed5/32.png) [@HurricaneDitka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HurricaneDitka)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2017, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-its-inauguration-day-what-will-you-be-doing/777631/1 "2017-01-20T15:50:44Z")
Anything special you’ll do today as a consequence of the day’s events in Washington? ---
**Author:** ![QuickSilver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quicksilver/32/7832_2.png) [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2017, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-its-inauguration-day-what-will-you-be-doing/777631/2 "2017-01-20T15:56:40Z")
Avoiding the spectacle entirely by running errands and treating ourselves to a nice dinner with lots of wine. Radio and TV tuned to music or strictly non political viewing (travel, cooking, movies, etc.) ---
**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2017, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-its-inauguration-day-what-will-you-be-doing/777631/3 "2017-01-20T16:05:53Z")
Where’s the option for puking my guts out? ---
**Author:** ![Frank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2017, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-its-inauguration-day-what-will-you-be-doing/777631/4 "2017-01-20T16:08:53Z")
There’s no option for watching the inauguration and Trump’s speech with fatalism. That’s what I’ll be doing. I’m not happy about him becoming President, but, c’est la vie. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2017, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-its-inauguration-day-what-will-you-be-doing/777631/5 "2017-01-20T16:10:51Z")
Just another day for me. ---
**Author:** ![Omg\_a\_Black\_Conservative](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/7ba0ec/32.png) [@Omg\_a\_Black\_Conservative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omg_a_Black_Conservative)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2017, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-its-inauguration-day-what-will-you-be-doing/777631/6 "2017-01-20T16:15:33Z")
Celebrating like the Dolphins just won the Super Bowl! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2017, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-its-inauguration-day-what-will-you-be-doing/777631/7 "2017-01-20T16:17:59Z")
Ignoring it completely and counting down the 1,461 days until he is shown the door. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2017, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-its-inauguration-day-what-will-you-be-doing/777631/8 "2017-01-20T16:18:22Z")
Choice #4-Not participating in poisoned well “polls”, and peacefully protesting to remind Trump that any free ticket do do whatever he wants is all in his head, and to remind my Representatives and Senators that they better do their damn job and not rollover whenever he says or does something that is detrimental to our country. ---
**Author:** ![HurricaneDitka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/96bed5/32.png) [@HurricaneDitka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HurricaneDitka)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2017, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-its-inauguration-day-what-will-you-be-doing/777631/9 "2017-01-20T16:18:38Z")
> [@El\_Kabong](#): > > Where’s the option for puking my guts out? > [@Frank](#): > > There’s no option for watching the inauguration and Trump’s speech with fatalism. I’m clearly not an experienced pollster :o ---
**Author:** ![iiandyiiii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iiandyiiii/32/7924_2.png) [@iiandyiiii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iiandyiiii)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2017, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-its-inauguration-day-what-will-you-be-doing/777631/10 "2017-01-20T16:20:54Z")
Enjoying a day off, not watching the news, and looking forward to seeing crowd size photo comparisons on the internet between 2008 and 2016 and thinking up of how Trump is going to make an excuse for having much smaller crowds. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2017, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-its-inauguration-day-what-will-you-be-doing/777631/11 "2017-01-20T16:21:14Z")
> [@HurricaneDitka](#): > > I’m clearly not an experienced pollster :o You were pretty clear in what you thought of those that voted against Trump, it seems to me. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Pig](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c57346/32.png) [@Little\_Pig](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Pig)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2017, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-its-inauguration-day-what-will-you-be-doing/777631/12 "2017-01-20T16:25:23Z")
Projectile vomiting ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2017, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-its-inauguration-day-what-will-you-be-doing/777631/13 "2017-01-20T16:26:04Z")
Where’s the option for “Stocking up on beans, rice, bottled water and installing solar panels”? ---
**Author:** ![Morgenstern](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Morgenstern](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgenstern)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2017, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-its-inauguration-day-what-will-you-be-doing/777631/14 "2017-01-20T16:28:14Z")
I was actually pretty upset about this until recently. Now the orange buffoon has picked fights with people he’s too stupid to beat. China, Japan and Mexico. I’ve made, and I’m making, the necessary financial moves to insure I’ll survive the results of this inexperienced child’s tantrums. Let him screw everything up. There will be profit in confusion and disorder if you have a few bucks in your pocket when the poop hits the fan. So, as far as I’m concerned, I’m seeing this as a golden opportunity for Trump to fail, center stage, on the 6 o’clock news with most of us saying “we told you so.” That is, of course, if old hamster fists doesn’t sent the nukes flying over someone accusing him of having a small wiener. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2017, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-its-inauguration-day-what-will-you-be-doing/777631/15 "2017-01-20T16:30:34Z")
> [@HurricaneDitka](#): > > I’m clearly not an experienced pollster :o The poll is rigged! ---
**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2017, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-its-inauguration-day-what-will-you-be-doing/777631/16 "2017-01-20T16:32:37Z")
> [@Omg\_a\_Black\_Conservative](#): > > Celebrating like the Dolphins just won the Super Bowl! 😃 Understandable, since the Dolphins had the lower score in their playoff attempt as well. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![HurricaneDitka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/96bed5/32.png) [@HurricaneDitka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HurricaneDitka)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2017, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-its-inauguration-day-what-will-you-be-doing/777631/17 "2017-01-20T16:33:00Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > You were pretty clear in what you thought of those that voted against Trump, it seems to me. I thought “lamenting” was a pretty gentle and generic term. Given the responses so far, I think “drown your sorrows” is probably accurate for some, although I wish I would’ve included “vomiting” now that I’ve seen how many people’s plans include that. I suppose you’re upset about the “crying”, but it seems like a realistic option given [what happened on election night](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/hillary-clinton-supporters-election_us_5822aad3e4b0d9ce6fbfe13c). ---
**Author:** ![Morgenstern](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Morgenstern](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgenstern)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2017, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-its-inauguration-day-what-will-you-be-doing/777631/18 "2017-01-20T16:55:18Z")
> [@HurricaneDitka](#): > > I thought “lamenting” was a pretty gentle and generic term. Given the responses so far, I think “drown your sorrows” is probably accurate for some, although I wish I would’ve included “vomiting” now that I’ve seen how many people’s plans include that. I suppose you’re upset about the “crying”, but it seems like a realistic option given [what happened on election night](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/hillary-clinton-supporters-election_us_5822aad3e4b0d9ce6fbfe13c). Mark my words. You’ll be caught up in the financial turmoil that old hamster fists and his oligarchy brings. It’s going to sting you just as bad, if you have anything to lose that is. When it does, we’ll remind you that you can find sympathy between shit and syphilis in the dictionary, not here. ---
**Author:** ![HurricaneDitka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/96bed5/32.png) [@HurricaneDitka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HurricaneDitka)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2017, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-its-inauguration-day-what-will-you-be-doing/777631/19 "2017-01-20T17:00:15Z")
> [@Morgenstern](#): > > Mark my words. You’ll be caught up in the financial turmoil that old hamster fists and his oligarchy brings. It’s going to sting you just as bad, if you have anything to lose that is. When it does, we’ll remind you that you can find sympathy between shit and syphilis in the dictionary, not here. That’s an awfully confident prediction coming from someone who I don’t have much faith in as a good predictor of future events. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Pig](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c57346/32.png) [@Little\_Pig](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Pig)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2017, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-its-inauguration-day-what-will-you-be-doing/777631/20 "2017-01-20T17:00:46Z")
Well that’s it. Shit For Brains is now the POTUS. Good luck Dopers. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-its-inauguration-day-what-will-you-be-doing/777631.md?page=2)