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Rational Security

The "Let’s Never Do That Again" Edition

Rational Security

The Lawfare Institute

News, Foreignpolicy, Nationalsecurity, Politics, Government, Middleeast

4.82K Ratings

🗓️ 21 January 2021

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Joe Biden takes the oath of office to become the 46th President of the United States. We’ll look at how Donald Trump spent his last day in office and how Biden is spending his first.

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0:00.0

So how did everybody mark the occasion at 12 o 1 p.m. on Wednesday?

0:05.0

I released baby cannon's last video.

0:09.0

Oh, a farewell.

0:11.0

Yes, baby cannon asked everyone to sing the Battle Hym of the Republic with her.

0:18.1

By, by baby Cannon. Farewell. It might be the one thing that's regrettable about the end of the Trump era.

0:25.6

I personally just let out like a huge sigh of relief and I wept a few tears and then I gritted my teeth and tensed my stomach until the

0:37.6

president and vice president were safely inside the capital out of sniper range.

0:41.7

I like thought that I would have like a single inside the capital out of sniper range.

0:42.8

I like thought that I would have like a single dignified tear

0:46.2

rolled down my cheek, but like it's somehow like allowing

0:49.6

myself to experience the most.

0:50.7

And I just like ugly cried from exhaustion and relief and like I think the

0:57.0

inauguration just like hit that like perfect tone the poet laureate like just all of it I was like, I spent the entire afternoon like

1:07.1

wiping waterproof mascara as it like, you know, runs down my face.

1:11.9

Totally, I think I started crying when the woman from the fire department

1:17.0

signed the Pledge of Allegiance in American Sign Language. sign language. do that again addition. Never, please.

1:34.0

Oh my God, we're so overcome and overwhelmed and overdone.

1:39.0

We're cleft.

1:40.0

In the astute words of our 40 what was George Bush our

1:47.0

43rd president George W Bush that was some weird shit

1:50.0

That was some weird shit those four years were some weird shit. Those four years were some weird shit, you guys.

1:55.0

Yeah.

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