Amanda Gorman was outstanding. What a talent.

Does anyone feel a sense of relief?

On Newsmax, pleasing the Q crowd.

I just watched it. Brilliant. Long, but brilliant.

But he not finished colouring the books in

Yes. But only after it was 12.01 Washington time.

True, but there are compensations like the whole salmon for 6/7 euro.

They have these international ferries where they sell booze at relatively low prices. Swedes take round trip tickets and have to be carried back into their country

Looking forward to self-drive autos...

In front of White House before Joe Biden entering in it , a brazilian reporter asked him: - What's your message to the world? He answered her: - Unity.
One thing that I cross my finger is that new American policy is help to fight climate changes, global warming, in fact, over the environment in all, and more, collaboration.
After Trump era, it was a nightmare, Trump supported affirmately Brazilian gouvernment, the worst in our policy was an increase of desertification process in the Rain Forest, and Pantanal, where more 30% in lost of fauna and flora, which it considerates endangered species, or worse, extiction ones!
It's a hope for not to gouvernment, but for a people that have judgement that 2020 was a nightmare: fires in forests, and Coronavirus.

In my view, I've never seen before how is so stratregy for Brazilian people the Biden victory in terms on environment issues.

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We shouldn't be looking for the heroes, we should be looking for good ideas - Noam Chomsky.

Agreed. All the more impressive when you learn that she is just 22, and published an acclaimed book of poetry in 2015.
Yes. Relief as a door was closed, bolted and locked when Biden's oath of office was completed, and relief again when Biden walked unscathed back into the Capitol after the ceremony.

Yes... Relief that hopefully there will now be an end to the shit show that we've had to endure for the past four years. And relief that there was no violence during the inauguration.

I've been longing for the day when I can read the US news without a delusional maniac constantly dominating the headlines. Hopefully that day will now finally be arriving.

So far today Biden has halted funding for the construction of Trump's border wall, reversed his travel ban targeting largely Muslim countries, and embraced progressive policies on the environment and diversity that Trump spent four years blocking.

Biden also reversed several of Trump's attempts to withdraw from international agreements, beginning the process of rejoining the Paris climate accord and halting the United States' departure from the World Health Organization -- where Dr. Anthony Fauci, the government's top infectious disease expert, will lead the US delegation.

His first action was to impose a mask mandate on federal property.

Not bad for the first few hours.

Gorman reminds me of a young Maya Angelou. Very gifted/talented...

So far Biden is more focused than Trump. Trump took years to write Executive Orders (EOs) to implement his ideas whereas Biden did this in hours.

The next step will be to check the quality. Trump's EOs were often poorly written so got delayed or even thrown out in court. Will be interesting to see how Biden's EOs make out.

CNN can't be the problem, we were told on these pages that they are always objective in their reporting and have never been guilty of printing misinformation and that must be true as it got about 10 likes!

If yesterday's coverage was anything to go by, I may well end up spending the next four years vomiting! I think respected British broadcaster Andrew Neil summed it up well when he tweeted yesterday, "Throughout the Trump Administration @FoxNews was its broadcast arm. It’s clear @MSNBC and @CNN are going to be the broadcasting arm of the Biden administration, from today’s saccharine coverage. Neither is a good look for independent journalism."

That aside, I think the speech from President Biden was very encouraging "I will be a president for all Americans...I will fight as hard for those who did not support me as for those who did." the words are the easy part though, it's the actions that follow them which will count!

Immensely so....I woke up in a better mood than I have in weeks (without even thinking of the inauguration). Then it slowly began to hit me that this misery we have endured for four years is almost over...I watched him leaving that White House like a hawk, I got teary when Kamala took the stage and fist bumped Obama & by the end of it all, I felt like I drank a crate of champagne despite diligently adhering to my dry-January.

What a relief, oh happy day!

Nothing to prevent you from staying with Fox News to inhibit your vomiting unless you are trying to lose weight.

Fox coverage of Biden inauguration was very good also of his actions, for example; "The Biden administration on Wednesday issued a 100-day "pause" on deportations of illegal immigrants -- a dramatic move that caps a slew of immigration-related moves on President Biden’s first day in office.".

An example of Fox coverage of Trump yesterday "Final days: How Trump turned on Barr and embraced the ‘crazy’ Powell".

Marton, just out of curiosity, what is wrong with deporting illegal/undocumented migrants? Should the world have a free no immigration system? Genuine question unrelated to Trump/Biden stuff.

That is an oversimplification, every case is individual and needs to be fairly and duly processed.

CNN was savage and I loved it...perhaps not neutral reporting, but I didn't mind when they commented on how "small" Trump looked walking to the helicopter and about his "tiny" crowd at the airport. (So much schadenfreude lately.) Trump's vial words throughout his presidency deserved such a response, but I hope that we can now move on from all the toxic media.

I greatly miss Peter Jennings & Dan Rather ... Dan is luckily still with us and has provided us with very eloquent words about this past administration.

https://twitter.com/DanRather/status...7Ctwgr%5Etweet