Summary
Donald Trump’s second inauguration drew an estimated 24.6 million television viewers, the lowest audience for a presidential inauguration since Barack Obama’s second in 2013.
Viewership declined compared to Joe Biden’s 2021 inauguration (33.8 million) and Trump’s first in 2017 (30.6 million).
Fox News led coverage, averaging 10.3 million viewers during the swearing-in and speech, while other networks saw smaller audiences.
I didn’t watch a single minute and I didn’t give a single shit about the coverage of it.
Democrats should’ve followed AOC and not even attended.
Yeah my sister was shocked that the I didn’t even watch the highlight reels. Cause I just don’t want to see that fuck. I’m going to be hearing about him and his batshit schemes for the next 4 years and I just don’t want to fucking deal with it right now.
I didn’t watch it but I still heard all about it.
Anyone else notice how political participation has been reduced to a consumption activity and pulling a lever to the left or the right? It’s almost like there’s a great big spectacle, and we’re all just hypnotized by the spectacle, and it’s alienated us from our surroundings and reality into mere spectators and automatons neutered from having an effect on our material conditions. Somebody should write a book about that, named something like, “Society of the Spectacle”.
What’s smaller? His audience or what’s in his pants?
The Democrats handed him power on a golden platter.
He won by less than 1%… hardly handing it to him.
“We wanted to win the election, but the prospect of continuing to be complicit in genocide was just too tempting”
The problem is morons who thought there was any way out of participating in the genocide. Your choices were either Harris who would rubber stamp arms sales to Israel while using them to bring them to the bargaining table in an effort to try to stop the slaughter or Trump who is going to supercharge the genocide until every Arab man woman and child in Gaza is dead.
And both of them are completely beholden to AIPAC who, thanks to Citizens United, dump football fields full of cash into our electoral process. People talk about Russian election interference but Israel’s been interfering in our politics for decades.
Can you all shut up with your genocide support justification bullshit. There is no moral or humanitarian plan behind arming a genocide. You are the Nazis, right next to the Republicans, you don’t give a shit about anyone except yourself, you brush aside the mass murder of millions of people in the last two decades all in an effort just to whitewash your hypocritical political identity. I have heard enough of your disgusting rationalizations for a lifetime. I literally want nothing to do with your society anymore except for maintaining my survival.
who is going to supercharge the genocide until every Arab man woman and child in Gaza is dead.
Palestinian. They’re Palestinian. Not “Arab”. “Israel” uses “Arab” to erase their identity. Notice how you do it too, Mr. “Political Expert”.
The problem is morons who thought there was any way out of participating in the genocide.
You participated. I didn’t. Explain to me how the fuck it falls on me that you voted for someone who committed genocide, and they committed it. What the fuck does that have to do with me? I get roped into responsibility by screaming “fucking stop it” for two years, doing everything in my power to stop it? No, fuck you. You’re responsible. I didn’t pull the trigger. I didn’t fucking cheer on the guy pulling the trigger, or the guy who handed him the gun. I’m back here watching with sheer horror, knowing every single idiotic fucking mistake in your brains that resulted in this. You try to pawn it off on me because of this imaginary fucking difference you’ve been sold between the morality of two people who are both behind a genocide, acting like genocide is an INEVITABILITY for a society. Do you not understand how fucking insane what you just said to me is? Yeah, of course the people in a society that’s committing genocide believe it’s inevitable, because if they had a fucking ounce of sense, their society wouldn’t be committing genocide. 300+ million people, who collectively have the power to do anything, to make their society ANYTHING, but their brains are so fucked and manipulated they think they MUST support genocide, they MUST support their rulers who want to commit genocide, because otherwise it’d be “genocide plus another 5-10%”. And actually try to convince people that the people committing that genocide really have good intentions! Yeah, sure, you’re not fucking brainwashed at all! And anyone who has a moral problem with genocide, well, they must be paid off by Russia or China or Iran, or hey, maybe it’s even Ireland or Portugal. Because every brainwashing narrative needs an enemy figure responsible for trying to propagandize you with the truth.
Learn to read. I was in absolutely no way justifying genocide. But I live in the real world where the consequences of people’s actions exist and not a Fantasyland where good always prevails and fighting the good fight wins in the end. The evil won and it’s in no small part due to people not acknowledging the reality of the situation.
But hey, go sit happy on your soap box, it’s not you and your family being exterminated. It’s not mine or anyone else on these platforms. You know why? Cause Israel has blocked Palestinians from using the internet. These people are going to die in the dark and it’s your fault.
I read what you wrote and responded to it. You are justifying support for genocidal politicians. People like you are the only reason this is happening. Of course you have some fucking excuse, of course you want to blame everyone but yourself. Of course your declaration of compromised morality is prefaced with “I live in the real world”. No, you don’t. You’re a slave to your fears and manipulated by your rulers. You have no idea what accepting reality is like. The power of the people is beaten down into being dictated their political choices by their rulers, and your “solution” is to pick one of the two choices, instead of reclaiming that power. You have chosen subjugation with no vision on how to get out of it, with full knowledge of the mass murder that results.
These people are going to die in the dark and it’s your fault.
The icing on the cake, weaponizing their genocide in a failed attempt to try to make me, what, feel bad? They’re human beings, not a rhetorical object for you to win internet points. This is why I say it’s so clear you don’t care about them at all. If their lives and deaths actually had any meaning to you you would be finding any way to make their genocide STOP. But you quit before you even started.
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I actually unplugged the TVs in the gym
Solid move
Why the fuck were they on that channel?
My local gym had all the tvs near the treadmills set to various political news entertainment stations (fox, CNN, etc.).
I typically sat in front of fox and let the ragebait fuel my running. It’s interesting how emotions can make you exercise better.
That doesn’t sound healthy.
Man I listened to RATM for my entire run yesterday and I knocked a full minute off my 5k time because it got me so fired up. Definitely related to everything in the news.
Thats the only excuse (maybe) for any TV playing fox news
He didn’t say it on which channel it was.
Any channel that gives a platform to a fascist is not a channel that should be on
I skimmed it on YouTube, enough to see grandpavict nodding off at his own event, if he can’t be bothered to tune in, why the fuck would i?
I watched it but mostly to witness the oath and was sickened the whole time. How much of the audience was like me I wonder.
Anyone else not only not watch, but actively avoided any possibility of even catching a glimpse of it?
I tried. It was the Nazi salute that broke through for me. I just couldn’t ignore it… I didn’t actually see it until watching the rerun of Monday’s Daily Show last night, but I saw the still shots.
If I hear his droning groggly voice going off about some fake shit, I usually snap and tell whoever to shut that shit off. It’s unbearable. The guy sounds how I imagine anyone would after a 40+ years of Quarter Pounders and Diet Coke, he’s probably way over his fair share in carbon emissions from his diet alone.
I thought I could tolerate reading quotes of him but it’s a mess every time. Whatever schools he attended failed him greatly.
I feel like I’m being mansplained to by the stupidest man in existence. Which works since apparently Trump’s executive order makes me a woman now.
No, it makes you non-binary. We’re neither male nor female at conception.
Whatever. If Trump doesn’t need science, neither do I.
We need science! But we don’t need his bullshit decrees.
This really is the perfect way to put it, and I feel like it even comes from a similar place of “I’m better than you so I know better than you” smarmyness.
And it’s even worse when he reads from the autocue. It’s like he talks himself to sleep, he loses energy after speaking more than 2 bigly words in a row. That’s probably why he always interjects himself with some dumb catchphrase to wake himself up.
LALALALALA!! I know I have to listen to journalist people summarize the shit he’s done because it’s the reality we need to oppose. But nobody who isn’t paid for it should have to listen to that mosquito whine.
My rule is that I will always change the channel whenever Traitorapist Trump is speaking on TV. I can read a summary later, but mainly to get the tally of lies for that day.
I would rather smear human shit in my eyes than watch it.
Actually watching it would be the equivalent
I tried, but couldn’t avoid seeing a specific two seconds of it…
I only found out about Nazi Space Karen’s antics cuz of the memes.
Is that a malnourished child’s hand?
There’s a reason he was called the Short Fingered Vulgarian
I instinctively looked to see if there was a child hand stuck in his teeth.
Maybe that’s the hand that colored the face orange?
I saw that shit on Disney plus.
Immediately cancelled my sub.
Kids can have Bluey from the warships on the ocean 🦜☠️.I’d like to support content creators. They work hard, deliver their dream. And early on, a large delivery network is desirable! But if that provider enshitifies beyond my threshold, they are dead to me.
So set sail!
Hulu advertised this today. Like… What the fuck? How much did the oompa loopa pay you, Disney? They know we don’t want to watch this.
I saw that shit on Disney plus.
What, and I mean this will all my soul, the actual fuck?
I don’t give a single wet shit who the president is, why in the chocolate covered fuck is a streaming media content platform pushing that shit? Really glad I never gave them any money, and the subscription we had always a friend’s.
They also live streamed the debates, so this isn’t unusual for Disney. I think they have some live channels as well, so it probably falls under that portion of the service.
its just monkeys singing songs mate, don’t think to hard on it
So the numbers are actually quite a bit lower. All news agencies fluff their numbers, until tax time.
The fact that it’s streaming on Disney+, while not surprising, is disgusting.
We watched just to see if we needed to throw the bug-out bag in the car and go.
Hey just a word of advice, if shit hits the fan unless there is an immediate threat its generally better to stay in place. Even if folks dont know you they may know of ypur car, house, general sounds and what not which will possibly make them more likely to offer aid if needed. Also folks are gonna be a lot more wary of outsiders in times of trouble.
Noted!
Did you throw the bug-out bag in the car and go? You can’t leave us hanging like that
Nah, I wouldn’t be on Lemmy if we had ;)
Go where?
As a German, I can say that some more left-leaning like-minded friends would be very welcome here.
We’re strongly considering West Europe. We have a few contacts there that might alleviate the move. I’ve been holding out because I don’t believe in running from Nazis, and I’m still conflicted about it. I know that any meaningful action I could take would land me in jail forever, or worse, and I don’t want my kids to get the boxcars. It might be better for my family to just immigrate.
I’d love to immigrate to South America, but it looks like it’s a bit more difficult for us than West Europe, interestingly.
I can understand if you don’t want to give up your homeland. I would only leave Germany as an absolute last resort either. Then i would probably try to flee up north to the Scandinavian countries.
But I have to say, looking at the situation in the States, without wanting to sound overly dramatic, there is a good chance to think it’s already reached the point of no return and best is to gtfo now. I mean, at least from the outside perspective, it looks really really bad.
Thanks, the outside perspective is useful for breaking out of being the frog in the boiling pot. I’ll look into it more seriously.
I don’t speak German, can I still come?
Of course! And i think German is not that difficult anyway. Since English is a Germanic language, it’s relatively easy for many people who already know it to learn some German.
I’m afraid the main problem would be the housing crisis. e.g. i’ve been without my own place for over 2 years. Have to sleep on a couch at a relative’s small appartement. I basically occupy the living room.
I hope this problem can be solved over the next years. Of course, the right-wingers promise exactly that. And their solution is “get everyone out who is not like us”.
I speak French, so many I can find a place on the border! The afd’s solution won’t work though.
Oh, i had a very nice french neighbour at my old place. She was singing french chanson in a café i was a regular in. There was also a Franco-German friends’ association that met there from time to time.
Especially in southern Germany (but actually almost everywhere), French or French-speaking people are quite widely represented and very welcome!
Wunderbar
Nice try, fed boy
