# What an outstanding inaugural speech! **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [January 20, 2017, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-an-outstanding-inaugural-speech/777639 "2017-01-20T17:20:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2017, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-an-outstanding-inaugural-speech/777639/81 "2017-01-20T19:50:34Z")
Trump didn’t claim any credit for his capture! Wonder why… ---
**Author:** ![aldiboronti](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9fc348/32.png) [@aldiboronti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aldiboronti)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2017, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-an-outstanding-inaugural-speech/777639/82 "2017-01-20T19:52:53Z")
> [@E-DUB](#): > > By the way, the phrase, “The jig is up” is seen by many as racially offensive. From the OED: > [@](#): > > 1. A piece of sport, a joke; a jesting matter, a trifle; a sportive trick or cheat. the jig is up (or the jig is over) = ‘the game is up’, it is all over. Now dial. or slang. > > 1592 T. Nashe Pierce Penilesse (Brit. Libr. copy) sig. L2 v, Let not your shops bee infected with any such goose gyblets or stinking garbadge, as the Iygs of newsmongers. > a1633 Visct. Falkland Hist. Edward II (1680) 66 As with a Jigg of State might catch them naked. > 1663 J. Heath Flagellum (1672) 27 When the Major now perceived the Jig, and how Kitchinman had fooled him, he could have pulled the Hair off his Head. > 1688 J. Bunyan Jerusalem-sinner Saved (1886) 103 By jiggs, and tricks, and quirks, which he helpeth them to. > 1735 W. Pardon Dyche’s New Gen. Eng. Dict. Jig,…an arch merry Trick. > 1777 Maryland Jrnl. 17 June Mr. John Miller came in and said, ‘The jig is over with us.’ > 1800 Aurora (Philadelphia) 17 Dec. As the Baltimore paper says, ‘The Jigg’s up, Paddy.’ > 1834 W. A. Carruthers Kentuckian in N.Y. II. 210, I began to think the jig was up with me, for she began to look serious. > 1848 W. T. Thompson Major Jones’s Sketches Trav. 14 (Farmer), I know’d the jig was up. > 1861 Thackeray Four Georges iv. 210 Her jigs, and her junketings, and her tears. > 1894 W. D. Howells in Harper’s Mag. Feb. 380 The die is cast, the jig is up, the fat’s in the fire, the milk’s spilt. > 1923 E. Wallace Missing Million xii. 100 It was almost like the last spiteful act of a man who knew the jig was up. > 1961 P. G. Wodehouse Service with Smile ix. 152 You’re in the soup, Miss Briggs. The gaff has been blown, and the jig is up. > 1965 New Yorker 18 Sept. 56 O.K., Frankie, the jig’s up! > 1974 Nature 15 Feb. 420/3 The weight of opinion seems to be that the jig is up for the map’s supporters. Care to point out anything of racist origin in the above? This is exactly the kind of PC nonsense I mean. Because some ignorant idiot somewhere knows diddly squat about etymology and pulls pure bullshot out of his ass we all have to kowtow to him? I think not. ---
**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, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-an-outstanding-inaugural-speech/777639/83 "2017-01-20T19:55:11Z")
The greatest part of today was watching Obama (and his family) leaving. The cloud has finally lifted. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2017, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-an-outstanding-inaugural-speech/777639/84 "2017-01-20T19:55:45Z")
Tell you what, **aldi** , if any of the really important issues can be resolved by an extensive understanding of etymology, we’ll get right to you about it. Wait by the phone, you never know… ---
**Author:** ![marshmallow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/df705f/32.png) [@marshmallow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/marshmallow)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2017, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-an-outstanding-inaugural-speech/777639/85 "2017-01-20T19:56:34Z")
> [@aldiboronti](#): > > Political correctness, the jig is up, your time is done. A common sentiment, though based on what I haven’t the faintest idea. You think political correctness will decrease as boomers die off and millennials increasingly control the culture? I saw similar reactions in December, with Trump supporters saying they feel relief now that they can finally say Merry Christmas. Americans attribute some odd powers to the president. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2017, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-an-outstanding-inaugural-speech/777639/86 "2017-01-20T19:58:06Z")
> [@Omg\_a\_Black\_Conservative](#): > > The greatest part of today was watching Obama (and his family) leaving. The cloud has finally lifted. Michelle Obama has more grace and dignity in one fingernail than Trump has had in his entire life. ---
**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, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-an-outstanding-inaugural-speech/777639/87 "2017-01-20T20:00:17Z")
> [@Omg\_a\_Black\_Conservative](#): > > The greatest part of today was watching Obama (and his family) leaving. The cloud has finally lifted. You think you’re happy? Wait till you see the rest of us in four years when this con man leaves in disgrace. ---
**Author:** ![aldiboronti](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9fc348/32.png) [@aldiboronti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aldiboronti)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2017, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-an-outstanding-inaugural-speech/777639/88 "2017-01-20T20:07:51Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > Tell you what, **aldi** , if any of the really important issues can be resolved by an extensive understanding of etymology, we’ll get right to you about it. Wait by the phone, you never know… I quite agree, they can’t. But this is the SDMB. We’re not supposed to let ignorance stand unchallenged or uncorrected. Hence the post. ---
**Author:** ![SenorBeef](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senorbeef/32/2220_2.png) [@SenorBeef](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SenorBeef)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2017, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-an-outstanding-inaugural-speech/777639/89 "2017-01-20T20:11:12Z")
> [@Omg\_a\_Black\_Conservative](#): > > The greatest part of today was watching Obama (and his family) leaving. The cloud has finally lifted. The cloud of economic recovery, scandal-free governance, the respect of the world, the fastest deficit reduction in US history, and a thoughtful, intelligent leader in office. Whew. Our era of peace and prosperity is finally over. And everything you predicted came true, too. He took all our guns, rounded us up in FEMA death camps, cancelled the election, declared himself dictator for life, and instituted Sharia law. Thank god we’ve moved past all that. I’m not sure our country will ever recover. ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2017, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-an-outstanding-inaugural-speech/777639/90 "2017-01-20T20:12:14Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > Michelle Obama has more grace and dignity in one fingernail than Trump has had in his entire life. Post truth society, my friend. Toe Trump supporters, Michelle Obama is - literally, by the way - a transvestite posing as Obama’s wife. I’m not kidding, that’s the actual story they’re told. ---
**Author:** ![Procrustus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/procrustus/32/2994_2.png) [@Procrustus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Procrustus)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2017, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-an-outstanding-inaugural-speech/777639/91 "2017-01-20T20:16:59Z")
> [@SenorBeef](#): > > The cloud of economic recovery, scandal-free governance, the respect of the world, the fastest deficit reduction in US history, and a thoughtful, intelligent leader in office. Whew. Our era of peace and prosperity is finally over. > > And everything you predicted came true, too. He took all our guns, rounded us up in FEMA death camps, cancelled the election, declared himself dictator for life, and instituted Sharia law. > > Thank god we’ve moved past all that. I’m not sure our country will ever recover. NM ---
**Author:** ![penultima\_thule](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/penultima_thule/32/3833_2.png) [@penultima\_thule](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/penultima_thule)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2017, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-an-outstanding-inaugural-speech/777639/92 "2017-01-20T20:18:05Z")
> [@AK84](#): > > He does not like being outside his comfort zone. I, for one, hope Prez Zapod does stay inside his comfort zone throughout his term, though this would seem to be both unlikely and not necessarily a good thing. If outside his comfort zone of slogans, reality TV and US bankruptcy provisions the facade might fray a little. Did he have his towel with him? ---
**Author:** ![Velocity](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/velocity/32/18006_2.png) [@Velocity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Velocity)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2017, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-an-outstanding-inaugural-speech/777639/93 "2017-01-20T20:18:41Z")
> [@SenorBeef](#): > > the fastest deficit reduction in US history Given that the national debt increased by $9 trillion during Obama’s presidency, clearly not fast enough. ---
**Author:** ![Mr\_Quatro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/bc8723/32.png) [@Mr\_Quatro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr_Quatro)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2017, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-an-outstanding-inaugural-speech/777639/94 "2017-01-20T20:23:40Z")
I’m prejudice to GOP, but I enjoyed the morning with the new POTUS and his family and seeing all of the older presidents. The speech was very different than anything I have ever heard a president say … I bet someone wrote it down to use against him three years from now when he runs for office again. One real sign he is successful as POTUS will be noticed in the stock market:[Stock Market Performance After Inauguration - Business Insider](http://www.businessinsider.com/stock-market-after-inauguration-democrat-republican-2017-1) But as this election’s outcome has confirmed, the past is not always a reliable guide for what will happen next. > [@](#): > > The Dow has failed to hit the psychologically significant level of 20,000. Meanwhile, in one sign of the tight range stocks are stuck in, the S&P 500 on Thursday closed without a drop of 1% or more for the 68th day in a row. That’s the longest streak for such a narrow trading range in at least 10 years, noted Callie Bost, a financial analyst. ---
**Author:** ![SenorBeef](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senorbeef/32/2220_2.png) [@SenorBeef](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SenorBeef)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2017, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-an-outstanding-inaugural-speech/777639/95 "2017-01-20T20:28:09Z")
> [@Velocity](#): > > Given that the national debt increased by $9 trillion during Obama’s presidency, clearly not fast enough. You’re like those political commercials that played constantly during the 2012 election. “Obama said he’d reduced the deficit, but the debt has increased every year!” Yeah, well, no shit. That’s what happens when you run a deficit. He was handed a 2 trillion dollar a year deficit. The deficit was reduced to 600 billion dollars under him. A reduction of the deficit of 1.4 trillion dollars is the biggest reduction in deficit the country has ever seen. The idea that he’s somehow doing a bad job because the republicans fucked up so much that we were in a 2 trillion dollar a year hole in the first place is ridiculous. He turned an out of control fire into something managable, yet somehow he’s to blame and not the people who set the fire in the first place. ---
**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, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-an-outstanding-inaugural-speech/777639/96 "2017-01-20T20:28:11Z")
> [@Velocity](#): > > Given that the national debt increased by $9 trillion during Obama’s presidency, clearly not fast enough. It’s not his fault that Republicans refused to undo the catastrophic Bush tax cuts. ---
**Author:** ![Count\_Blucher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2017, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-an-outstanding-inaugural-speech/777639/97 "2017-01-20T20:29:38Z")
> [@Velocity](#): > > To be fair, that’s not that far from the Bernie Sanders platform, just from a different angle. Still, let’s hope Ben Affleck starts looking for people to help harder… and faster. … Edited to add: I’m just Clothahump could see it from his Dojo’s window… ---
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2017, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-an-outstanding-inaugural-speech/777639/98 "2017-01-20T20:29:46Z")
> [@Velocity](#): > > Given that the national debt increased by $9 trillion during Obama’s presidency, clearly not fast enough. Classic pivot. If the deficit numbers don’t prove your point, talk about the debt; maybe nobody will notice. ---
**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, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-an-outstanding-inaugural-speech/777639/99 "2017-01-20T20:30:26Z")
> [@Velocity](#): > > Given that the national debt increased by $9 trillion during Obama’s presidency, clearly not fast enough. Deficit is not the same as debt. Debt is cumulative. Deficit is new debt per time period (year, month, quarter, etc) If you charge 3000 to your credit card one year, 2000 the next and 1000 the third, your debt went up but you reduced your deficit. ---
**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, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-an-outstanding-inaugural-speech/777639/100 "2017-01-20T20:32:29Z")
> [@SenorBeef](#): > > The cloud of economic recovery, scandal-free governance, the respect of the world, the fastest deficit reduction in US history, and a thoughtful, intelligent leader in office. Whew. Our era of peace and prosperity is finally over. Feel free to join me on the real world. We’ve had no economic recovery-- it’s been smoke and mirrors. When two to three to four times as many people drop out of the labor force as find a job, that’s not a recovery. We’re not respected in the world. Russia openly mocks us. China outright challenges us. Our allies don’t trust us (and, indeed, Obama has worsened relations between ourselves and both Israel and the Philippines, as well as with Europe due to the whole NSA thing). And countries like Iran are brazen in their attacks on US interests. And Obama is nowhere near a thoughtful and caring last, what with constantly talking diem to half the country and all. > [@](#): > > And everything you predicted came true, too. He took all our guns, rounded us up in FEMA death camps, cancelled the election, declared himself dictator for life, and instituted Sharia law. [I never said any of this.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=15710995#post15710995) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-an-outstanding-inaugural-speech/777639.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-an-outstanding-inaugural-speech/777639.md?page=6)