# Will You Protest The Presidential Inauguration? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [January 18, 2005, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-you-protest-the-presidential-inauguration/285285 "2005-01-18T02:05:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![PunditLisa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/4af34b/32.png) [@PunditLisa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PunditLisa)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2005, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-you-protest-the-presidential-inauguration/285285/21 "2005-01-19T02:57:19Z")
Yup. I’m going to protest by not attending the Governor’s Ball, the Young Republicans’ Ball, the Soccer Moms’ Ball, OR the Swiftboat Veterans Ball. W may be the lawfully elected President, but he can’t force me to wear panty hose! Black armbands, boycotting Walmart for a day. I tell you, those Boston Tea Partiers had NOTHING on us. ---
**Author:** ![Ringo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/779978/32.png) [@Ringo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ringo)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2005, 5:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-you-protest-the-presidential-inauguration/285285/22 "2005-01-19T05:15:38Z")
Yup, **Lisa** , _I’m_ not going to wear panty hose on Inaguration Day, either! ---
**Author:** ![elfbabe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b782af/32.png) [@elfbabe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfbabe)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2005, 7:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-you-protest-the-presidential-inauguration/285285/23 "2005-01-19T07:17:05Z")
Protest? Nah. But I will be flying down to Baltimore and renting a small truck on Wednesday. What? 😃 We’re moving stuff out of my old apartment. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2005, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-you-protest-the-presidential-inauguration/285285/24 "2005-01-19T15:47:47Z")
> [@Absolute](#): > > I’ve seen that stupid “Not One Damn Dime Day” email about fifteen times in the past year, complaining about issues ranging from the war in Iraq to oil drilling in Alaska to the wealth gap, and now the inauguration. It never fails to piss me off - political glurge can be even more annoying than the other varieties. As I’ve told [Snopes](http://www.snopes.com/politics/war/not1dime.asp), anyone planning on participating in that stupid “protest” would be better off at the anti-war protest scheduled for the same day on Pennsylvania Avenue. ---
**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 19, 2005, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-you-protest-the-presidential-inauguration/285285/25 "2005-01-19T16:45:47Z")
If I was anywhere reasonably close to DC, I probably would. Not sure if I would give the Hitler salute or the one-finger salute to the motorcade. I will try to figure a way to program my screen saver to count down the seconds till Dr. Evil leaves the White House (as of noon tomorrow: 126,230,400 seconds and counting). ---
**Author:** ![WolfpackJeep](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpackjeep/32/2921_2.png) [@WolfpackJeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WolfpackJeep)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2005, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-you-protest-the-presidential-inauguration/285285/26 "2005-01-19T17:45:49Z")
> [@Absolute](#): > > I’ve seen that stupid “Not One Damn Dime Day” email about fifteen times in the past year, complaining about issues ranging from the war in Iraq to oil drilling in Alaska to the wealth gap, and now the inauguration. It never fails to piss me off - political glurge can be even more annoying than the other varieties. > > I’m going to buy a big, expensive toy for myself on Thursday…maybe a telescope? Shoot, I forgot about that. The first time I saw that email, I thought that would be the perfect day to fill up the gas tank. If the weather isn’t too bad, there will probably be some protesters in the brickyard at my university. I plan to avoid that area. Maybe a bunch of them will decide to protest by boycotting class, and I’ll be able to get a good seat in Thermo II. ---
**Author:** ![Balle\_M](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/13edae/32.png) [@Balle\_M](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Balle_M)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2005, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-you-protest-the-presidential-inauguration/285285/27 "2005-01-19T17:52:03Z")
I’ll be taking some leftist friends out to dinner Thursday night where they can watch me celebrate by gorging myself on bread stolen from the mouths of the proletariat. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2005, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-you-protest-the-presidential-inauguration/285285/28 "2005-01-19T17:53:03Z")
I’m going skiing. Its the same way I protest working, weekends, Super Bowl, etc. etc. ---
**Author:** ![DiosaBellissima](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a8b319/32.png) [@DiosaBellissima](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DiosaBellissima)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2005, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-you-protest-the-presidential-inauguration/285285/29 "2005-01-19T23:29:16Z")
> [@Duckster](#): > > The last presidential inauguration I protested was Nixon’s second on January 20, 1973. I wore a black armband on the left sleeve of my brother’s US Army shirt. Needless to say there were quite a few black arm bands that day, protesting everything from the Vietnam War to issues arising out of Watergate. > > Since then I never felt the need to protest inauguration day, until now. I’m not sure what I will do, but I do know I will be more open about it. Perhaps I will fly the Flag from my car antenna, complete with black ribbon. Perhaps that same flag will be flow upside down. I don’t know. I may wear that black arm band again. > > Do you plan to protest? If so, how? Eh, what’s the point? I mean, really- what will come of it? Bush will stop in the middle of the swearing in and be like, “They…they don’t like me!” and throw himself into the reflecting pool? I actually plan on wearing my “George W. Bush is my homeboy” shirt…kind of a silent concession really. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-you-protest-the-presidential-inauguration/285285.md?page=1)