of the few ceremonies that is relatively consistent and one of the few times in which the nation tries to come together under a new president who is trying to unify it. what does it represent in your mind, the peaceful transfer of power. last time we side eight years ago when george w. bush left the white house and barack obama became our 44th president. one of the things thank god we do well and we take too much for granted because if you look at the number of countries in which this does happen with so little fanfare and such little agitation it is unique and americans don t understand that. the role of the military parade and all the traditions that go with it. what is its origin? people celebrate with parades that were often pretty military compared to an inaugural parade nowadays and one of the things is if you just looked at inaugural parade through history, you knew nothing else about the president when he was coming to power it would tell you a lot. how does
center, welcome. hello, thank you, everyone. if you could please go to facebook live and make sure your feed is not being interrupted. my name is melissa lawrence. i am here today to basically bring to your attention how unfair and unjust our immigration and deportation system really truly is. my husband is a jamaican born citizen who was brought here as a young child. he committed a crime, a minor marijuana offense he got years ago and was punished for that as an american. he was brought here at eight years old so he lived his entire life here as an adult. he committed his crime, went to jail, paid a price and our local police department brought him back in 6 years later and called immigration on him to pick him up. he was punished yet again. i was 7 months pregnant with my first and only child at work and got the call that my husband had been picked up to be deported and i had to basically switch my entire life around and learn how to pope with a baby on the way and the job
climate change is the exxon ceo. i mean, you have a mad dog, the bankruptcy king, the foreclosure machine, i mean, we are in trouble. so we see the reality of all of these different pieces. and steve running a website that s amplifying nazis, you the justice department who said he was prokkk. i liked them until i found out they smoked weed. that s a crazy thing to say. i mean, everywhere you look is just like that s how i forgot steve is so bad, you can t even remember all of these people. this is just like a pirate ship of just grizzled one-eyed patch, cutless-swinging murdererrist thugs riding their ship around for anyone who looks are vulnerable, sneaking up on them, stealing from them and enriching from what s not theirs. i say that to say that so many of these people that were altogether were things that tens of millions of people hate, that the majority of people in this country don t think should happen but the only time it doesn t seem like a majority is when we say,
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