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Sorry if the title is somehow misleading but, why is there such a wait for the incoming president to be sworn in?
Here in the UK and I'm pretty sure in all European countries when the government vote is in, the change happens more or less straight away.
It used to be March. Basically gives the incoming administration time to move to Washington.
British politics has become ridiculous yes, but the thread wasn't about starting a pissing contest. It was a fair and serious question.
There maybe a possibility that the out going government can do potential damage for the incoming government with such a hangover and sour grapes due to losing the election.
The US is a large country, in the 18th century it would have taken 4-6 weeks to ride a horse from the west coast to the east coast, it would have taken time for election results from each state to be collated, and sent to Washington for certification.
It was more like 6 months to ride across the US and was very dangerous to try so alone.
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I believe part of it has to also do with the need to vet all the incoming cabinet folks for security. I’m not sure if it still works this way, but there used to be 2 FBI agents assigned to the White House whose entire job was doing background/security badging on everyone new coming in. That’s a lot of backgrounds for 2 guys to get done in that amount of time.
It was made worse under the Clintons when many of the incoming choices were told to basically ignore the pesky FBI trying to vet them, but that’s another story (detailed in “Unlimited Access,” a book by one such FBI agent).
The current administration needs enough time to start WW3 before leaving the oval office.
Lewis , Clark with there guide s 15-17 yr old Indian girl Sacaewa with her new born baby where the 1st people to explore to the west. They say it was more dangerous than going to mars now. What was that 18 months or more, crazy. Because of her and her baby it was seen as a journey of peace . Otherwise the other tribes would’ve killed them. She knew diff languages too. Ya^ ko- thank you. The k is pronounced as a g.
It was not necessary to travel from the West coast. There were only 15 states in the late 18th century and all were on or near the East coast. It was still difficult sometimes to meet the March deadline.
Well, there weren’t any states on the west coast in the 18th century so……..
Interesting….
When was Yosemite dedicated …or… established as a National Park?
I think 2 Stroke made a simple mistake. That’s all. In the 19th century…post Monroe Doctrine America literally “exploded”.
But, no worries, I think his timeline is mistaken; yet, his point is valid.
Yep I forgot independence was before territorial expansion.
Washington's first inauguration was over a month late because of weather. Didn't happen until April. And that was when all the states were East of the Mississippi. California became a state in 1850. Imagine how long it took in a wagon or even a horse, in the dead of winter. It would be 20 years before train service was available.
So there Mucktub. With your tiny little country full of warm beer and bad food! 😁
My little country is similar in size to the US...
has a wide selection of cold beer...
and fine dining...
And cold beer.
If I could afford to travel, England and Australia would easily be in my top 10 if not 5. I mis dialed an international call once an ended up talking to some guy in Australia. It was 2:00 AM there and he was still up and doing beers. I tried to apologize and let him get on with it but he wouldn't have it. We talked for quite a while. Another time, I was at a driving range and i broke the shaft on my 3 wood. It went tumbling down the line and stuck this guy in the leg. I went over and tried to apologize and all this ausie said was "no worries. Shit happens." Seems like pretty laid back crowd there.
If you ever come to Australia, be prepared for the sarcasm, don't take offense when locals take the micky out of you and everybody else, it's a national pastime, and do partake in the fine dining!
Some folks are strangely preoccupied with The Donald…
Not that’s there’s anything wrong with that.
It gives time for the phucktard dems to do things like remove the "W's from all the keyboards in the white house.
gives them time to hurry and fuck up as much shit as they can so everything is blamed on the next guy
In all reality, there is no delay this time around.
We've already seen our, soon to be enacted, border policy begin to shift.
And look at how some MSM, tech, and other businessmen are clamoring to get on board.
And we're getting respect again on the world stage.
Just open your eyes.
biden goes overseas as president, gets shoved off to the back of stage after stage.
Laughed at as he stumbles around.
President Trump goes over to France for the reopening of the Notre Dame cathedral, and sucks all the air out of the room.
All eyes, even jill's, were fixated on the man.
And he absolutely owned macron during that photo op.
He's commanding, and recieving respect due the president of the United states of America.
The cabinet positions are all but confirmed.
And the delay is all but a formality at this point.
Think about it.
Do we even have a current president and vice president in charge of our nation at the moment ???
Or at all during the past four years ???
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