You’re confusing “experienced” and “prepared”. The latter is about planning. Clinton is moderately experienced but she’s been planning her presidency since she was about 8. Trump doesn’t appear to even fully understand what the job is, let alone what he’s going to do in it.
On that last part, I will agree. But I don’t think that is what the poster meant.
Any counterprogramming will get monster ratings–a smart TV exec could put together an ‘alternative viewing’ concert that would break records. How about David Hasselhoff: The Comeback? It would kill!
I’ll be in transit much of the day – on my way to Washington for the Women’s March.
But even if I were home, I’d claw my eyes out before I watched that whiner take office.
You’ve summed up the next 2 to 4 years.
I need to schedule a medical procedure that would be done under anesthesia. If it happens on that date then I could watch. Being thoroughly drugged up might make it bearable.
I will, but only for the main course- the actual address. At other times I will be looking for a job (or working in a job hopefully), but I will be paying attention.
If I miss the speech, I’ll just ask for a text-only version.
I have a subsequent engagement.
Looks like there won’t be a live, follow-along thread on the SDMB that day. I’m okay with that.
Well, you can bet on it happening now, motor-mouth!
On this MB, the number of threads about a US president is inversely proportional to how much he or she is liked. You can bet your bootie that at least one thread gets started while the inauguration is in process. And I suspect there will be more than one.
I’m mildly curious to see if the bible he is sworn in on catches fire, but other than that, sitting through any of his speeches is already nauseating enough without the dire circumstances attached. I don’t think I can handle watching it.
If you thought on it for longer than two seconds ( 
) you might realize her work as Sec State has her in the current know about the world’s political scene, her time as First Lady has given her a nearly unique insight into the job, moreso than any other non President or First Lady, and her time running one of the world’s great planet-spanning charities that’s helped millions of people has given her a bit of perspective that Kerry or Biden might not have. She’s been in personal contact with world leaders for decades. Could Kerry or Biden handle it, sure.
She was the person best prepared to do it, IMHO.
Judging by the poll, 12 people will be posting and 86 will be sitting it out.
Surely, that was not me you were addressing with an epithet? :dubious:
Yeah, but you don’t really want to see that happen, do you? They don’t have much in the way of ideas themselves, and you gotta go and give 'em one?
I agree with your point, but please make such points in the future without calling me names.
Well, now I want a follow along thread (this would save me from watching it). Surely one of you is willing to throw yourself on the grenade for the rest of us?
Or Stephen Miller, the speechwriter who wrote his speech for the Convention is writing it. He says he that he is anyway. Trump said that he was as of Dec 26. Guess this is something else that flips. Color me shocked. :eek:
Oh, hell, yeah.
I Voted no. I don’t have the visceral anger necessary for “Hell no!”. The thought of watching instead simply evokes severe queasiness.
I honestly don’t know whether you’d be pleased or disturbed if Trump came out and said, yeah, foreign policy, Pence will basically handle that; and domestic policy, too.