# Should President-Elect Biden hold the Swearing-in ceremony away from Washington D.C.?

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**Created:** [January 12, 2021, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-president-elect-biden-hold-the-swearing-in-ceremony-away-from-washington-d-c/930331 "2021-01-12T15:01:05Z")\
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**Author:** ![peccavi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peccavi/32/388_2.png) [@peccavi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/peccavi)\
**Post date:** [January 15, 2021, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-president-elect-biden-hold-the-swearing-in-ceremony-away-from-washington-d-c/930331/15 "2021-01-15T15:16:43Z")

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Rather than package it in new rhetoric, I’ll just repeat what I said in P&E.

> [@Is Biden being foolish to insist on an outdoor inaguration?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-biden-being-foolish-to-insist-on-an-outdoor-inaguration/930539/22):
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> No, he’s not foolish. For the same reason that Congress didn’t postpone the electoral certification to another day and didn’t meet in an “undisclosed location” for the vote…
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> Fuck 'em. Traitors and insurrectionists don’t get to dictate how the United States welcomes a new President. They don’t get to think they’ve intimidated a civilized nation into hiding away from them.
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> Biden should proceed with a public inauguration in front of a large a group is possible with Covid restrictions. And we should celebrate, as a nation, the successful transition to a democratically elected responsible adult after four years of a whiny toddler-in-chief.

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