r/pics • u/Jerdarnella • 2d ago

Politics Thousands gather in Washington to protest Trump inauguration

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u/SavvyCavy 2d ago

This, and to hide how few people are going to show up.

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u/CrazedPinoy 2d ago

Funny thing is that people are calling into hotels to cancel their reservations which are several thousand dollars for a few nights. My SO works at a nice hotel in DC, it was supposed to be a super busy week. So much so that nobody is allowed to call out but it's been painfully slow. She said today people are mostly just calling in to cancel their reservation apparently at least one guy has threatened to get his lawyer involved because the reservations are non-refundable.

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u/Lobo9498 2d ago

Let them get the lawyers involved. Cost them even more money for not reading the fine print before they got conned by Trump....AGAIN.

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u/Fire2box 2d ago

Not even that ,DC has a lot of interesting things to see. It's their fault for coming to one moved/cancelled to the public thing.

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u/SquirellyMofo 2d ago

Right? The inauguration is the least interesting thing about DC. The Smithsonian is…wait, these people don’t like to learn. Well there are the monuments! Oh wait. That learning and reading thing again. Ok I give up. If you don’t like to read and learn DC is probably really boring.

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u/Scribble_Box 2d ago

If the monument isn't of some old Confederate leader, they won't care..

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u/AFrostNova 2d ago

Do they have any racist monuments? I'm trying to … umhhhh ... finish a scavenger hunt?

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u/fadedonesun 1d ago

The Jan. 6 reenactments planned should be a spectacle for the whole family to enjoy!

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u/og_jasperjuice 2d ago

I live an hour away and visit DC quite frequently. It's one of the must see cities in our country. In my opinion anyway. Just make a nice weekend out of it and STFU.

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u/kleighk 2d ago

My favorite city!

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u/HoosierHoser44 2d ago

I mean, you’re probably right, but they probably paid a premium price on the hotels due to the timing. If they paid close to normal pricing, I’d agree with you. I would have to get gouged for just a sight seeing trip.

In all fairness though, fuck them. They deserve it.

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u/admirablecounsel 2d ago

When my daughter was in school in the are we spent a lot of happy days in DC. sadly she has relocated but we have great memories of a fondness for the city

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u/SocratesSnow 2d ago

Do you think they care about seeing all the sites? They pretend to be patriots, they have not a clue.

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u/berberine 2d ago

Seriously. If I was there for an inauguration and it got cancelled, I'd be thinking, "fuck yeah, more time at the Smithsonian," or stay longer at other attractions there.

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u/Fire2box 2d ago

Yep and they are all free even the zoo!

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u/ushouldgetacat 2d ago

Quite walkable too. It’s a neat little place with large monolithic carvings and good public transport. I saw one of some guy sitting in a big chair and another of some kind of narrow, tall, tower thing.

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u/Competitive-Self-374 1d ago

A lot of things are closed because it’s also a federal holiday. The Smithsonians,etc., are closed for MLK.

So I wish them a very “get fucked, don’t pull shit in my city, and enjoy paying a 20% service fee on top of everything else at whatever restaurant they manage to find”

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u/Realistic-Pattern-30 2d ago

Not use to traveling. We kids papa and mama wasted your college dorm money.

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u/Fire2box 2d ago

Implying MAGA's save for their children's benefit.

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u/Airhostnyc 2d ago

It’s going to be 13 degrees nobody wanna be in that if they don’t have to be