The bawbag has left the building!

A massive 70 year old cheese puff Wotsit with tiny wandering hands.

Around this point I lost my coffee.

Does anyone know the significance of the US flag with vertical stripes? They have one in the field of flags. A mixture of stuff on Google, peacetime flag?

US flag with vertical stripes?

Chinese knock off?

This idea of a civil or peacetime United States flag, such as the one your neighbor is flying, is pretty much an urban myth. It also seems to be a favorite of various conspiracy or anti-tax groups.

Here’s the deal: In 1799 the U.S. Treasury Department had something called the Revenue Cutter Service, charged with enforcing custom rules and stopping smugglers. It was the forerunner of today’s Coast Guard.

Congress authorized the service to fly a flag of 16 vertical red and white stripes. Sixteen stripes because there were 16 states at the time. The idea was to distinguish customers-enforcement ships from military ships. That’s where people today somehow got the idea there is an official civil flag separate from the military Stars and Stripes.

There were a couple different versions of the first customs flag, mostly involving the arrangements of an eagle and stars. Of course, there were also various versions of the U.S. flag until the design we use today (plus two more stars) was specified by executive order in 1912.

And something very similar to that original Revenue Cutter Service Ensign is used today by the U.S. Coast Guard.

https://eu.azcentral.com/story/claythompson/2014/11/26/flag-america-coast-guard-stars-and-stripes/19542479/

Quite the rallying cry from Bernie here. If only we had someone like him in the UK.

Dunno. I can’t help thinking that if he believes that is what is best for his country, perhaps he should have got himself elected.

New Radicals re-forming for a one-off performance of You Get What You Give at the inauguration. 😀

fashion tips for the left leaning inauguration attendee

Bernie’s mittens are made by Jen Ellis, a teacher from Essex Junction, Vt. She gave them to him 2+ years ago and was surprised when he began wearing them on the campaign trail. They are made from repurposed wool sweaters and lined with fleece made from recycled plastic bottles. pic.twitter.com/ErLr29lY2t

— Ruby Cramer (@rubycramer) January 20, 2021

Quite the rallying cry from Bernie here.

Indeed, yes.
Would like to think that Biden was aware of what Sanders intended to write; it’s not as if Sanders is just another Senate member – incoming chair of budget committee, strong personal and political support.
Must be tempting to use the reconciliation process given that McConnell is unwilling to cede the filibuster.

Quite the rallying cry from Bernie here. If only we had someone like him in the UK.

what, some out-of-touch unelectable old bloke? We’ve been there I think

though not having agent orange there is probably the best thing, it’s kinda of going to reinforce the Don the outsider fighting the “swamp” in the eyes of the trumpist base. It’s coming over as very chummy and happy that the cheese puff is off to florida.

Was anyone else hoping they’d just open the door of Air Force 1 and push him out? :p disappointed 🙁

unfortunately….

At 1105 AM POTUS and FLOTUS walked down steps of Air Force One for last time. Family followed. He waved but did not take questions. Motorcade is slowly inching away. pic.twitter.com/4BtujXqz7Y

— Josh Dawsey (@jdawsey1) January 20, 2021

I’d have loved to see him walk up to the heliclopter and for the door to remain closed while an Uber cab beeped at him from the front gate.

“We did it, Joe. We got New Radicals back together!” pic.twitter.com/bkCx53JV4y

— JamiRae (@jamrae85) January 18, 2021

qanon are expecting the green goblin to show up on his glider and blow them all away with radiation grenade.

Kinda disappointed they didn’t leave an empty seat for Donny at the inauguration.

have foreign leaders ever been invited to this ? or is it always an all US affair.

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Dunno. I can’t help thinking that if he believes that is what is best for his country, perhaps he should have got himself elected.

Seriously?

what, some out-of-touch unelectable old bloke? We’ve been there I think

Yeah we chose the lazy, lying narcissist instead, and it’s going REALLY well.

Just been in a meeting with some American colleagues. I congratulated them on having a new head of state and pretty much got a “meh”.

To quote their jokes:
“Trump is deranged, Biden is just senile” and “Kamela will be taking over soon enough”.

Edit: I think they were mostly Democrats too…

donnie bone spurs desperate to tweet somethin about size of the crowd, he must be going up the wall 😀

Love a bit of Laday Gaga but she’s a bit lefty and I reckon Britney or that Pimp guy that toured with Trump woulda been better to unite the angry gun-toters.

@jimdubleyou – Kamela Harris becoming president would send the right-wing nut jobs completely mental!

and it’s done

and it’s good to see Pence there

Get. In.

Oh, nine minutes to go. Hang on, people!

How can you be pardoned for a crime you haven’t been convicted of? 🤔

A pardon can been given at any time after the act is committed, he can’t pardon anyone for crimes they’ve not yet committed, but anything after the fact is fair game.

They’re not supposed to be a ‘get out of jail free’ card for the mates of a President, although that has happened before, it’s not really rare. Bill Clinton pardoned his Brother for Cocaine possession for example.

Doesn’t mean they’re off the hook completely, if they really want to they can still go ahead with Steve Bannon’s case, he can still be found guilty and he would still be banned from doing certain things as a convicted felon, voting, he may also be banned from some roles in government. He just can’t be punished for it.

Also, it’s only a pardon for federal criminal crimes, he can still be tried on a state level, or in a civil case.

I’m hoping the news will cut to Florida at 5 past 5 showing Trump being dragged out of his club in handcuffs after having been tasered.

It’s now noon in DC so it’s official – President Biden.

So Biden’s song of choice permits us to smash a merecedes benz? Cool .

get on with it, fbi on stand by ffs

what, some out-of-touch unelectable old bloke?

Which bits do you disagree with?

Are we done here? Are we all off back to the Donny thread for the orange jumpsuit shit?

Ah Garth Brooks for the Republicans. Green Goblin in disguise?

“out-of-touch”

Given his support from the youth, wouldn’t that put him very much in-touch?

Sad to see this thread end. thank you to everyone who posted I really enjoyed following it.

Love a bit of Laday Gaga but she’s a bit lefty and I reckon Britney or that Pimp guy that toured with Trump woulda been better to unite the angry gun-toters.

I imagine that’s why Garth was there.

Sad to see this thread end. thank you to everyone who posted I really enjoyed following it.

Very much this. Thank you, I have come back to this thread as events have unfolded, getting a kind of real time commentary from people that actually understand it has been invaluable.

And I also enjoyed chewkw’s input.

It’s been nice to see the end of Cadet bone spur.

He had no style,he had no class.
His big fat face was like a well skelped arse.