Why couldn’t “No” be an option?
Tom Clancy’s Debt of Honor was a work of fiction but one can have fantasies that it’s a how-to manual. But even if we take out the scum & villainy that is our federal elected officials there’s more at the state & local level to replace them.
I will make no special effort to watch it, but if I do it will be with a professional / technical eye as I do some event production, including parades. Don’t care one lick about the ceremony, but can I learn something from the parade? That’s the ONLY reason to tune in for me.
Watching it != “celebrating”.
Watching it != “celebrating”.
I just hope when he walks out they play the Curb Your Enthusiasm theme song.
I doubt it. It’s one pm now – is it on today?
I saw the second plane hit the WTC live, so I suppose there is a certain value in tuning in to some things. You never know what will happen. But then, I was watching the wardrobe malfunction Super Bowl and didn’t even see it.
No, won’t be watching. Unfortunately, I’ve got a number of urgent things to do that day: wash my hair, do some laundry, clip my nails, feed the dog and take a good long nap.
I’m in court tomorrow, with several cases on the docket, so I won’t see it live. I might catch something on the news at some point, but it’s not a priority. I’m much more interested in seeing another part of Wrestling Kingdom 11 on AXS, and maybe catching up on stuff I’ve dvr’d recently.
I’ll be at my parents’ tomorrow, and they may have it on TV. But I’m sure as hell not going out of my way to watch it.
Maybe it won’t happen.
Nope. In fact, I’ll probably turn something else on, just in case there’s any truth to the thing that’s been going on around Facebook about ratings (that it will look worse for the inauguration ratings if everybody watches something else than if they just turn off their TVs).
I’m a teacher, and our district is requiring us to show the inauguration live in our classrooms.
We did the same for Obama’s 2009 inauguration.
I won’t go out of my way to get information about it, but will probably click on other people’s posts in various places.
Normally, I work weekdays (although a Monday inauguration, including 1/21, is a holiday for me), but I get every other Friday off, and, as it happens, one of them is January 20. I will be watching it live.
Actually, my boss let us watch the 2009 inauguration at work, considering how significant it was. I doubt that will happen this time.
“Rating” includes all TVs, whether or not they are turned on. “Share” counts only TVs that are turned on. Also, rating and share usually only include people aged 18-49 now; the only “full” count is the actual number of viewers, which is why a show that has more viewers than another show can also have a lower rating.
I have a feeling both sides will spin whatever the ratings are. I have little doubt that Trump’s rating will pale in comparison to 2009, and maybe 2013 as well, although Trump has an excuse for that one; it was on the Martin Luther King Jr. federal holiday, so a lot of people had that day off anyway.
If it’s on today, you can catch it on the Time Travel channel.
I thought you were blind. 
No. But then I never do - I sorta dislike “pomp and circumstances”-type events as a matter of course ;).
Unless I hear that gunplay has broken out among all the good guys with guns in attendance, I will not be watching and will catch the highlights later.
I saw Jon Voight give an introduction during the inaugural concert. Reminder : I now hate Jon Voight with every cell in my body and will never ever watch another Jon Voight movie as long as I live, including movies with Angelina Jolie in them. It’s so easy how quickly things change.
Keep your friends close, and your enemies closer.
I watch everything this man does. I don’t trust him with my country, and I want to be as informed as possible every step of the next few years.
I’ll also be carefully watching the faces of those around him. Even the most practiced of politicians will tend to forget that the camera is on them during these long, boring ceremonies. It offers the occasional chance to really read their faces and see what’s going on their heads.
Like Panache, I haven’t missed one in my lifetime, but I consider this one more important to watch than ever before.
I’ll also be gauging the mood on the mall. I plan to be there Saturday for the Women’s March, but if the tensions run toward a sense of fomenting danger or riot, I may choose either a route more to the edges of the March, or even to stay home.
As I often do on threads that request an opinion, I read the OP, gave my answer, and then went back to read the other answers.
:: Holds up the fist of solidarity to Duckster. ::
I haven’t watched one yet and I’m not starting now.
I can’t imagine anything more annoying than ‘pomp and circumstance’, with all the ‘pleased as punch’ fake smiles. Throw in a inspirational speech :rolleyes:, full of bullshit, written by speech writers (bullshitters) whose sole purpose is to make the speaker look good. The speech will include pauses for emphasis and ‘poses’ by the speaker, which clues the crowd to clap and cheer like a bunch of trained seals.
Not my thing.