# \[Poll\] 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:** 16\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Chisquirrel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6bbea6/32.png) [@Chisquirrel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chisquirrel)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2017, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-its-inauguration-day-what-will-you-be-doing/777631/41 "2017-01-20T21:12:27Z")
I’m secretly just a little bit happy. The comedians are going to have a BLAST for the next four years. Unless Colbert has to hold back tears again. That wasn’t so funny. ---
**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, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-its-inauguration-day-what-will-you-be-doing/777631/42 "2017-01-20T21:55:28Z")
Somebody was apparently busy at work today changing DNS entries / updating web servers: [https://www.whitehouse.gov/](https://www.whitehouse.gov/) ---
**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, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-its-inauguration-day-what-will-you-be-doing/777631/43 "2017-01-20T22:06:30Z")
> [@HurricaneDitka](#): > > Somebody was apparently busy at work today changing DNS entries / updating web servers: [https://www.whitehouse.gov/](https://www.whitehouse.gov/) Already mentioned this in another thread: [Trump has solved the “climate change” problem…by elimination all mention of it from the official White house website.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=19935785&postcount=57) ---
**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, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-its-inauguration-day-what-will-you-be-doing/777631/44 "2017-01-20T22:30:53Z")
[And the purge goes on, and on, and on…](http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2017/01/20/trump-s-whitehouse-gov-disappears-civil-rights-climate-change-lgbt-rights.html) ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2017, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-its-inauguration-day-what-will-you-be-doing/777631/45 "2017-01-20T22:36:37Z")
> [@Omg\_a\_Black\_Conservative](#): > > Celebrating like the Dolphins just won the Super Bowl! 😃 I’ll be celebrating like New Orleans as Katrina approached. ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2017, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-its-inauguration-day-what-will-you-be-doing/777631/46 "2017-01-20T22:43:30Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > Already mentioned this in another thread: [Trump has solved the “climate change” problem…by elimination all mention of it from the official White house website.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=19935785&postcount=57) One thing I’d forgotten until I actually went to [whitehouse.gov](http://whitehouse.gov) is that at a change of Administration, [whitehouse.gov](http://whitehouse.gov) starts over again from scratch. As I recall from 2009, not just the content from the Bush years went away, the design and format of the website changed completely as well when Obama became President. This happened again now. So all mention of climate change was removed from the White House website, because _everything_ was removed from the White House website. ---
**Author:** ![Rushgeekgirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rushgeekgirl/32/3715_2.png) [@Rushgeekgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rushgeekgirl)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2017, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-its-inauguration-day-what-will-you-be-doing/777631/47 "2017-01-21T00:22:51Z")
I spent the day sad but busy with a sick daughter who had to go to the doctor as a “walk-in” so we were there for half the day. I am so glad she has insurance. She has a respiratory and sinus infection. The medications cost more than I earn in a week. Thanks Obama. ---
**Author:** ![Battle\_Pope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4bbf92/32.png) [@Battle\_Pope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Battle_Pope)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2017, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-its-inauguration-day-what-will-you-be-doing/777631/48 "2017-01-21T00:27:38Z")
Need to have a "Rest of the World: pointing and laughing’ option. ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2017, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-its-inauguration-day-what-will-you-be-doing/777631/49 "2017-01-21T00:34:35Z")
I worked. I probably wouldn’t have watched anyway. I don’t remember watching an inauguration yet. Political speeches and pageantry bore me. ---
**Author:** ![HurricaneDitka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/96bed5/32.png) [@HurricaneDitka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HurricaneDitka)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2017, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-its-inauguration-day-what-will-you-be-doing/777631/50 "2017-01-21T00:37:09Z")
> [@Battle\_Pope](#): > > Need to have a "Rest of the World: pointing and laughing’ option. No we don’t. We clearly don’t care what the rest of the world points and laughs at. 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![NetTrekker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nettrekker/32/2909_2.png) [@NetTrekker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NetTrekker)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2017, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-its-inauguration-day-what-will-you-be-doing/777631/51 "2017-01-21T02:40:17Z")
Doing some work, watching some of the coverage on TV, thinking about the afterlife. ---
**Author:** ![Trinopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/2bfe46/32.png) [@Trinopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trinopus)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2017, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-its-inauguration-day-what-will-you-be-doing/777631/52 "2017-01-21T03:12:26Z")
Just got through patching (temporary only, alas) a leak in my ceiling. Clearly, Trump is to blame. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2017, 5:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-its-inauguration-day-what-will-you-be-doing/777631/53 "2017-01-21T05:13:23Z")
…I’m fixing a hole where the rain gets in And stops my mind from maundering… ---
**Author:** ![suranyi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e36b37/32.png) [@suranyi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/suranyi)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2017, 5:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-its-inauguration-day-what-will-you-be-doing/777631/54 "2017-01-21T05:15:34Z")
I took a long nap. The first decent sleep I’ve had all week. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2017, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-its-inauguration-day-what-will-you-be-doing/777631/55 "2017-01-22T18:06:19Z")
I got mixed up on the date, thinking it was the 19th, and just kinda had fun. Until I ran into people talking about the inauguration saying it had happened. And, since then, I’ve just had times of just anger, but in a weird, dejected form. Like the anger you get when you’re depressed. From what I hear, one of his first acts was to shut down something that is the only reason why a trans friend is even alive today. She got housing with government help, right when she was about to become homeless due to the discrimination she faced. With a house, she found a job, and is doing well enough for herself, but not well enough to financially help her many trans friends in the same situation. This is why I consider gloating to just be an admission that you don’t care about other people at all. ---
**Author:** ![madsircool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madsircool/32/3432_2.png) [@madsircool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madsircool)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2017, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-its-inauguration-day-what-will-you-be-doing/777631/56 "2017-01-23T04:26:18Z")
> [@BigT](#): > > I got mixed up on the date, thinking it was the 19th, and just kinda had fun. Until I ran into people talking about the inauguration saying it had happened. And, since then, I’ve just had times of just anger, but in a weird, dejected form. Like the anger you get when you’re depressed. > > From what I hear, one of his first acts was to shut down something that is the only reason why a trans friend is even alive today. She got housing with government help, right when she was about to become homeless due to the discrimination she faced. With a house, she found a job, and is doing well enough for herself, but not well enough to financially help her many trans friends in the same situation. > > This is why I consider gloating to just be an admission that you don’t care about other people at all. What act would that be? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-its-inauguration-day-what-will-you-be-doing/777631.md?page=2)