Something to think about, any time you are having a bad day.

[Siwsan]

[Thekaspervote]

1. ☝️☝️☝️☝️👏👏👏👏😀😀😀😀😀

[guillaumeb]

2. Recommended, and shared. eom

[Faux pas]

3. Lol

and

[FM123]

4. Couldn't happen to a "nicer" guy!

[mahatmakanejeeves]

5. I'm trying to remember how many years it's been since that block of Pennsylvania Avenue was

open to traffic.

The kind you see in the picture, with a yellow line down the middle of the street.

Not since 2001, that's for sure.

https://www.google.com/maps/place/The+White+House,+1600+Pennsylvania+Avenue+NW,+Washington,+DC+20500/@38.8986854,-77.0367255,89m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m5!3m4!1s0x89b7b7bce1485b19:0x9fc7bf09fd5d9daf!8m2!3d38.8976633!4d-77.0365739

Here you go. May 1995, in the wake of the bombing of the federal building in Oklahoma.

The Sporting Scene

White House Hockey

By Aaron Gordon

March 24, 2014



Washington, D.C., isn’t exactly a hockey city. N.H.L. fans can watch the Capitals at the Verizon Center, but suitable locations for playing a casual game, whether on ice or on pavement, are scarce: the area’s few public rinks can be overbooked and hard to reach; most streets with the requisite lack of traffic are far too narrow. But in May of 1995, Pennsylvania Avenue, between roughly Fifteenth Street and Seventeenth Street—the 1600 block—was closed to traffic as a security measure, in the wake of the Oklahoma City bombing. That closure was formalized six years later, after September 11th. Inline skaters quickly flocked to the wide-open boulevard, and soon established a pickup game named after its most famous fixture: White House roller hockey.

{snip}

https://www.google.com/search?q=1600+pennsylvania+avenue+roller+hockey+washington+dc

[Mr.Bill]

6. But Trump thinks it's being built for him to be sworn in for his second term.

He may be the only person on the planet who thinks that, but it's probably what he thinks.

[bluestarone]

18. Wouldn't surprise me if that's what they told him!!

[NBachers]

7. I can think of another appropriate use for that stage.

[Captain Zero]

8. swearing in is not at the capitol this year?

corona inaugural?

[ybbor]

9. That's what I was wondering

Anybody?

[ancianita]

11. It's at the capitol. Just parts are being built for traffic control and the speech platform.

[ancianita]

12. Here's what's going on at the capitol.

This photo was taken Nov 5. No matter who the winner would be at that point.

[ancianita]

10. Lots of stuff is happening, apparently, some good, some not so good.

The platform is currently being built and the National Park Service has closed off portions of Lafayette Square, across the street from the White House, and Pennsylvania Avenue to start construction and set up for the parade.

The Associated Press reported that the Nuclear Security Administration, part of the Energy Department, has begun conducting low-altitude helicopter flights around the capital during the daytime with “state-of-the art radiation-sensing technology” as part of the public safety protocols.

Also there are five First Amendment permits, as of Nov. 10, being processed by the National Park Service that request access to federal land around Inauguration Day; four of them are Trump-related:

-- a demonstration “demanding urgent action to save the environment and end war” by the Answer Coalition;
-- a 300-person protest by organizers of Roar for Trump;
-- and a 5,000-person request for a “free speech demonstration against the inauguration” by the DC Action Lab.
-- Women for a Great America is requesting access to the White House sidewalk and Lafayette Park for a 250-person event, where they plan to “pray for President Trump.”

https://wtop.com/presidential-election/2020/11/faq-what-are-the-current-plans-for-the-2021-inauguration/

[gademocrat7]

14. These people are in need of an intervention.

[ancianita]

16. True. Aside from that, everything they're doing is legal and probably won't be near the inauguration

[barbtries]

13. i gotta gank that.

it gave me a warm fuzzy feeling.

sadly it didn't last long since he could very easily be watching with great satisfaction still convinced it's going up for his inauguration.

[niyad]

15. He has given me over 1,500 bad days. He owes me!

[MoonRiver]

17. Love it!

[Maeve]

19. Well, it's not quite like watching your own gallows going up

But close enough....

[samnsara]

20. thank you..that DID make me smile! :)

[Brother Mythos]

21. Thank you for posting this graphic. I needed a good laugh today!

And, I'm stealing it!