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THE VILLAGE PEOPLE played out a pre-inauguration Trump rally last night with their famous disco song Y.M.C.A.
Ahead of his inauguration today, US president-elect Donald Trump held a rally last night where he was lavished with with support from his diehard followers and pledged a range of measures in his first weeks and months in the White House.
At the close of the rally, Trump danced alongside the Village People as they performed their 1970s hit Y.M.C.A., which had become the unofficial anthem of his election campaign.
Trump pledged a blitz of presidential actions to end “American decline”, saying that he would crack down on ‘woke ideology’ and immigration.
In a raucous campaign-style gathering in Washington, the 78-year-old Republican promised cheering supporters that he would act with “historic speed” from day one of his White House comeback.
“Tomorrow at noon, the curtain closes on four long years of American decline, and we begin a brand new day of American strength and prosperity,” Trump told a packed sports arena.
“I will act with historic speed and strength and fix every single crisis facing our country.”
Billionaire Trump was joined on stage by Elon Musk — the tech tycoon who will lead a major cost-cutting drive in his administration — and who vowed to make America strong “for centuries.”
Much of Trump’s hour-long speech focused on immigration, driving home one of the dark messages that helped spur his remarkable victory in November’s presidential election over Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris.
“We’re going to stop the invasion of our borders,” added Trump, who has pledged to launch raids targeting undocumented migrants within days of taking office.
But he also promised “lots” of executive orders from his first day back in the Oval Office, including one to ban “transgender insanity” and critical race theory from schools and to keep trans athletes out of women’s sports.
Trump also reiterated a promise to release files on the assassinations of former president John F. Kennedy, his brother Bobby Kennedy and civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr.
Long lines of Trump supporters formed outside the arena despite snowy conditions.
“I wanted to see history unfold before my eyes,” Alan McNeely, 21, a student from Connecticut, told AFP.
Earlier, the future US commander-in-chief paid a symbolic visit to Arlington National Cemetery, the resting place of America’s war dead.
Trump laid a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, followed by Vice President-elect J.D. Vance.
The sombre ceremony contrasted with Trump’s last trip to the cemetery as a presidential candidate in August, when the US army criticized his staff for pushing a cemetery employee.
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Looks like il be watching a load of ads
They will be loading them on now and making you wait a minute before they clear.
Just get the ad blocker extension on chrome! It’s free!
Some websites have managed to work around the ad blocker such as TV3 Player so I wonder will YouTube do the same, hopefully not.
I honestly didn’t realise YouTube had ads until I started watching it on my mobile. I’d downloaded ad blocker on my laptop years ago so it came as quite the surprise.
If it came to it, I would happily give up my TV subscription and TV licence and just pay Youtube instead. They deserve it at least. Sky is a bad joke and RTE is the pits.
not to be confused with Red Tube
whats that?
pull the other one Ken….
Pretty sure he is pulling on something
The beginning of the end for you tube, And the chance for someone to set up “New Tube”.
Not sure Google have thought the pricing through. Can’t see many people willing to pay a score a month for Google play music and YouTube. Expect to see a sharp rise in piracy again.
This will be the end of YouTube. The whole reason it became popular was because people could freely be creative and how others their talents.
Adsense and vloggers ruined that. People will not pay to watch that crap that currently dominates YouTube
Just get extensions on your browser, I’m sure there’s ways around it.. 10$ a month is madness.. Can’t see it going anywhere
That works out at € 8.81 over here.
Netflix is better value.
Time for a Continuity YouTube me thinks
Ads it is so…
Adblock plus on Laptop & AdAway on rooted phone. I dont see any Ads.
I take it they’re adopting the Netflix/Spotify model. But (for me anyway), paying to skip ads is not something worth paying for. I mute the ad and do something else while I wait. When you add up all those 30 seconds for the year (excluding the ads you can’t skip, you know the ones), that’s a lot of time I spent being somewhat productive. The YouTubers get their money from showing ads cos I let it run and I didn’t spend money. Crisis averted.
Would it be considered a crime to shoot pewdiepie?
Only if you blog it.
$10 a month. how about no….
$10 a month is nuts when they give content creators .000000001 of a cent of that . At least netflix is financing new content and shows.
I said this was going to happen due to ad blocker and i got argued with and red thumbed and told this wasn’t going happen. Now we all know google is looking for extra money but they have the excuse they need.
Google services will start blocking IP’s and system with adblocker installed and when google do it everyone will follow. Law decided that ad blocker can block content so inturn so can google .
have your say