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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Depends on who is getting inaugurated.

If it’s a Democrat president, there’s a party everywhere and everyone is celebrating.

If it’s a Republican president, there’s protests everywhere, probably unrest/fires/damage, lots of police in riot gear, and everyone is grumpy.

I’ve been here since Clinton’s second inauguration, this is absolute fact. I’ve seen every one of them, and the above descriptions are totally accurate. [/quote]

[b]Nope. Trump's first inaguration had protests, but the Women's March was pretty gentle[/b] and I don't think there were arrests. Same with the GWB inauguarations. There was litter, but any big event in DC has that (go to the Mall any July 5th; it's gross). And it was the leadup to Biden's inauguaration that had pipe bombs and the invasion of the Capitol.

It's true that the general vibes of people who live in DC are happier when it's a Democrat elected--it's mostly a Democratic city--but there are always people who come to town who are excited. [/quote]

Nope, wrong. Several vehicles were burned at the intersection of 13th and K. Many windows along k street were smashed, too. And about 150 protesters were kettled and arrested at 12th and I st. Around DuPont about 200 protesters were besieged in the home of a sympathetic homeowner on Swan st NW by hundreds of cops. He offered them refuge from arrest as cops tried to kettle them in the block and arrest them. So cops surrounded his home for days.

In 2001 there were violent clashes with protesters and cops at Bush’s first inauguration. Mostly in the area around 15th and K. Lots of smashed windows there. It was ANSWER coalition, Mob-4-Glob and BlakBlok against MPD cops led by Chuck Ramsey.

In 2005 there were fewer protesters because the patriot act brought the hammer down and most people were too scared of Bush and the security state after 9/11. A few people from ANSWER turned out but they had been so infiltrated by undercover feds at that point they were a shadow of their former strength. There were a couple trash cans set on fire near 15th and L, and lots of tagging sprayed, but not much else.

I was at all of them, out in the streets, looking to make trouble. [/quote]

The Swann street kettling was in June 2020. And the other stuff wasn't on the same day as the women's march, which didn't result in any arrests.[/quote]

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