Posts on Wednesday, January 20, 2021
As I grabbed some coffee before heading to the Capitol Building to watch the 46th President of the United States of America take his title, the lovely lady behind the counter told me she had never seen anything like this in D.C. in her life. And all I can say as I stand here now in the freezing cold with a handful of others is that I hope America never has to see anything like this again. Nothing is as it seems. It is just horrible, in every sense.
There is no one here. [SNIP] What I mean is that there is literally no one here.
Words of Division
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It’s an odd way to seek national unity: call a significant portion of the American public white supremacists, racists, and nativists. Welcome to the Biden presidency.
Joe Biden’s inaugural speech as 46th president is predictably being hailed for its “unifying” message. And just as predictably, his invocations of the divisive bromides of the identitarian Left are being swept under the rug.
According to Biden, we are a “great nation” and a “good people.” But we also oppress minorities with an ever-rising fervor. “Growing inequity” is among the greatest challenges facing the country, according to Biden, along with the “sting of systemic racism” and encroaching “white supremacy.”
Seattle — A group of people marching in Seattle Wednesday night vandalized buildings and caused property damage downtown. Seattle police have made at least two arrests—one for property damage and another for assault.
Seattle police tweeted photos of the damage and said multiple sites were vandalized, including the William Kenzo Nakamura Courthouse at 6th and Spring Street. The group started marching from Pioneer Square shortly after 4 p.m. At one point, members of the group lit an American flag on fire in the middle of an intersection. The fire was quickly put out.
The group was originally carrying a sign that said "Abolish ICE,"
As they witnessed President Joe Biden take the oath of office on Wednesday, House Majority Whip Jim Clyburn said former Republican President George W. Bush lauded him as a 'savior' for helping get Biden elected. The South Carolina Democrat is largely credited with giving Biden the endorsement he needed to shoot to the top of 2020´s large Democratic field and win his party's nomination.(Snip) He said Bush added that Biden was the only Democratic candidate he felt could have defeated President Donald Trump. Bush, who has largely stayed out of politics since leaving the White House, chose 'none of the above'
Cup of Joe
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• So, Joe Biden is now President. Can’t you just feel the excitement?
• No, seriously—has there been a new president in the last 70 years entering office with less enthusiasm than Slow Joe? I caught a YouGov poll today reporting that Joe Biden’s public approval rating is 52 percent—among the lowest for an incoming president since this polling question began decades ago. (Obama was at 69 percent on inauguration day.)
• Biden has one mandate—not to be Donald Trump. Biden won’t be able to settle for that. The good news for Republicans is that recent Democratic presidents invariably overreach, and provoke a backlash among swing voters.
Joe Biden was inaugurated as the 46th US president on Wednesday, after previously serving as the vice president during the Obama administration. Mr Biden, who served under Barack Obama between 2009 and 2017, is the first person in 32 years to be elected president after previously working as vice president. The last person to work in both roles was George H W Bush, who became president after serving as vice president under Ronald Reagan for eight years. In addition to Mr Biden and Bush, there have been 13 other US presidents who have gone on to serve as president since .
TORONTO — Canada won’t be getting any Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccines next week and 50% fewer than expected over the next month, officials said Tuesday, prompting the leader of Canada’s most populous province to ask U.S. President-elect Joe Biden to share a million doses from Pfizer’s Michigan plant. Maj. Gen. Dany Fortin, who is leading Canada’s logistical rollout and distribution of vaccines, called it a major reduction, but said Pfizer is still expected to meet its contractual obligation to ship four million doses to Canada by the end of March. U.S. pharmaceutical company Pfizer confirmed last week it would temporarily reduce
Donald Trump eschewed most of the traditional roles a president fills for the inauguration of his successor, except one: He left a letter for President Joe Biden.
White House spokesman Judd Deere confirmed Wednesday before Biden took the oath that Trump left a note for his successor. Presidents usually leave a note of congratulations and support behind in the Oval Office, but some had questioned whether Trump would do so given his hesitancy to even acknowledge Biden’s victory.
The White House did not release contents of Trump's note: "It’s a letter between 45 and 46," Deere said.
Later on Wednesday, Biden confirmed he received the letter, telling reporters
Wednesday ahead of Joe Biden’s swearing-in as President of the United States, Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) called for former FBI Director James Comey’s imprisonment. This comes in response to Comey telling The Guardian that the GOP “needs to be burned down or changed.” “Something is shifting, and I’m hoping it’s the fault breaking apart, a break between the Trumpists and those people who want to try and build a responsible conservative party because everybody should know that we need one,” Comey added. Paul, on Fox News Channel’s “America’s Newsroom,” called Comey a “notorious liar” and questioned why the GOP should take advice
Portland, Ore.—A crowd became violent and smashed windows at the Democratic Party of Oregon headquarters during a march through the east side of Portland on Inauguration Day. A crowd of around 100 people gathered at Revolution Hall around 2 p.m. and then began marching around 3 p.m. down Stark Street. They eventually reached the headquarters on NE 9th Ave and began smashing windows. Officers clashed with some of the protesters over blocking streets and various objects were confiscated. The group then began to disperse. PPB said arrests were made during traffic stops. The crowd made their way to Irving Park where they are gathered
President Biden posted his first tweet moments after being sworn in on Wednesday, saying he will work to help Americans through the “crises we face.” “There is no time to waste when it comes to tackling the crises we face. That’s why today, I am heading to the Oval Office to get right to work delivering bold action and immediate relief for American families,” Biden wrote on the @POTUS account at 12:36 p.m., echoing the broad themes of his inaugural address. Twitter switched over the account, along with a number of government accounts associated with the White House, at 12:01 p.m. when Biden officially became the 46th president.
President Joe Biden signed a stack of Executive Orders on Wednesday, immediately rolling back some of former President Donald Trump’s top priorities.The president signed three executive orders in front of the press as he sat next to a stack of folders which he intended to sign afterward.
“I thought with the state of the nation today, there’s no time to waste,” Biden said, noting that he wanted to “get to work immediately.”
There were at least 15 folders stacked on Biden’s desk.Biden signed executive orders mandating masks on federal property, ordering support for underserved communities
It’s not as though anyone actually expected TV newsrooms across America to cover today’s inauguration objectively. But boy, did they lay it on thick.The praise for Biden’s inaugural ceremony began well before the event actually kicked off, with CNN political director David Chalian remarking the night before that the lights lining the National Mall resembled “extensions of Joe Biden’s arms embracing America.”That preposterous assessment was matched by numerous equally absurd statements from Chalian’s colleagues and counterparts on Wednesday. To see the most nauseating coverage of President Biden’s inauguration, watch the video below:
A 65-year-old New Jersey science teacher has been charged with sexting with an undercover cop he thought was a 14-year-old boy, officials said Wednesday. Jesse Rosenbaum, a teacher at the Long Branch Middle School, was arrested Tuesday and charged with attempted endangering the welfare of a child, Mercer County prosecutors said. Authorities had been investigating Rosenbaum after allegations surfaced he was soliciting boys online to participate in sexual acts and sexually charged conversations. During the course of their investigation, an undercover officer pretending to be a 14-year-old boy was targeted by Rosenbaum, who called the “teen” and
Now that Joe Biden has been inaugurated as president, the White House website contact form wants you to list something in addition to your name, address, phone, and email address: your pronouns.(Tweet) That’s not the only change the Biden team has made in the digital world of the White House. The New York Times reports: Mr. Biden’s digital takeover also led to the removal of a webpage for a report from President Donald J. Trump’s 1776 Commission, which historians said distorted the history of slavery in the United States, was misleading and was hastily produced. The page that had hosted a PDF of the report now reads “Not Found.”
Smug NBC, CNN bigshots report ‘petty’
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NBC News’ Kelly O’Donnell and CNN’s April Ryan both falsely reported that President Trump did not offer an Air Force plane to President-elect Biden to arrive in D.C. for his inauguration. Biden instead, chose to charter a private plane with a generic paint job. CNN’s Jake Tapper, O’Donnell, and Ryan labeled Trump as childish and petty for not doing so, but it was Biden who made that choice.O’Donnell tweeted: “Arriving on a private charter aircraft with a generic paint job instead of the customary use of an Air Force plane for an incoming president is among the many courtesies not extended to the new president by the departing one.”
Joe Biden was sworn in as the 46th president of the United States and Kamala Harris was sworn in as the first Black, first Asian-American, and first woman to take the oath of vice president. And Michelle Obama came impeccably dressed for the momentous occasion. The former first lady Michelle Obama arrived at the Biden-Harris inauguration looking like an actual superhero in a magenta coat and matching pant suit. The hue from the purple family is a fashionable signal of bipartisanship. Obama's was one of many monochromatic looks in the fashionable crowd. Mrs. Obama's look was designed by Sergio Hudson
President Joe Biden plans to cancel the Trump administration’s 1776 Commission, only two days after the advisory panel released a report calling for a U.S. history education centered on the nation’s founding principles.
Biden(Snip) is expected to sign 17 executive actions, (Snip) a direct reversal of Trump-era policies, including the travel ban on seven predominantly Muslim countries, the construction of barriers along the U.S.-Mexican border, and the 1776 Commission to promote a “patriotic education.”
Through his day 1 executive order, Biden will “rescind the Trump administration’s 1776 Commission,” which “has sought to erase America’s history of racial injustice,” the Biden-Harris tradition team said in a press release.
Supporters of former President Donald Trump lined the streets of Mar-a-Lago, Florida, Wednesday to welcome the president to where he will be spending his time post-presidency.
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A line of supporters waited for him in Mar-a-Lago, holding signs such as “Welcome Home,” “We Love You President Trump,” and “Pres Trump won,” WOFL reported.
The South Florida Sun-Sentinel reported that Trump’s supporters had been lining up for hours along Southern Boulevard between Palm Beach Airport and Trump’s resort to wish him well.
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Hundreds of people lined the streets by the time the final motorcade rolled by.
“We want to show him he’s not alone."
The amnesty plan pushed January 20 by President Joe Biden includes a few cursory mentions of American families while championing the demands of migrants, employers, and investors.
“The U.S. Citizenship Act of 2021 establishes a new system to responsibly manage and secure our border, keep our [migrant] families and [border] communities safe, and better manage migration (Snip)
The plan mentions families 15 times, nearly all of which refer to foreign families:(Snip)The plan mentions work and workers 16 times, nearly all of which refer to foreign workers:(Snip)The statement repeatedly praises the economic migrants who have illegally taken jobs and wages from many millions of Americans, including mother of young children, disabled Americans,
With the second bogus impeachment in the books, the Washington Post has finally seen fit to admit that President Trump did not incite the storming of the U.S. Capitol on January 6 with his speech, acknowledging that it was, in fact, planned in advance. The article, published Tuesday, the day before Biden’s inauguration, declares in its headline “Self-styled militia members planned on storming the U.S. Capitol days in advance of Jan. 6 attack, court documents say” and opens with the following paragraphs.
Self-styled militia members from Virginia, Ohio and other states made plans to storm the U.S. Capitol days in advance of the Jan. 6 attack, and then communicated
Lady Gaga sang the National Anthem at the inauguration of the 46th President of the United States Joe Biden on Wednesday.The 34-year-old Grammy and Oscar-winner belted out the iconic song in a blue and red custom Schiaparelli Haute Couture look designed by Daniel Roseberry. Gaga's outfit also featured matching gloves and her jewelry included a large golden dove brooch to symbolize peace and unity. Many fans on Twitter compared her ball gown and accessories to the costumes worn from the movie franchise "Hunger Games."
President Biden took the oath of office on the West Front of the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday, four years after he attended the inauguration of President Trump as the outgoing vice president. Mr. Trump didn't attend Mr. Biden's inauguration, flying instead on Air Force One earlier in the day to his Florida home.
The inauguration comes two weeks after supporters of Mr. Trump attacked the U.S. Capitol, which led authorities to lock down the surrounding area and close the National Mall to the crowd that traditionally gathers on Inauguration Day.
One thing that never ceases to amaze is how Paul Krugman has a job anywhere when he is so continuously wrong. No question that on this site we have been fond of pointing out his many faux pas and foibles. But sometimes they’re just so stunningly dumb, it astonishes even us.Krugman was losing his mind, swooning all over Joe Biden and Kamala Harris today.
He’s tearing up, guys, objective non-biased media strikes again. (Tweets) Barf, was he watching the same Biden who lied his way from the very start of his campaign, even about why he was in fact campaigning, spreading the false claim
RUSH: I wonder, as Snerdley just said, what are the pictures of this gonna look like? This inauguration speech lasted maybe 15 minutes, it’s over, everybody’s leaving. It may be one of the least memorable inauguration speeches that there’s ever been. In this speech Biden called us domestic terrorists and then called for unity in the same breath.And I tell you, the Dilbert cartoonist, guy named Scott Adams, had a little tweet here saying that Biden had the worst start of a presidency in history, and it hadn’t even begun yet. He wrote this yesterday. What’s Biden done? One. “Biden has refused to halt a divisive impeachment.”
Joe Biden has signed his first slate of executive actions as president, erasing core aspects of Donald Trump’s legacy on the coronavirus pandemic, immigration, climate change, and more with the simple stroke of a pen.
Following an afternoon of ceremonies that included a virtual parade through Washington, DC, and the laying of a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia, the new administration immediately got to work around 5:15pm on the East Coast, rolling out 15 executive orders and two other action items.
“There's no time to start like today,” the president said from the Oval Office’s Resolute Desk.
It was a day for the ages in the lives of the liberal media. With Wednesday’s inauguration of President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris, one could have been mistaken if liberal journalists deemed January 20, 2021 the greatest day of the lives, topping anything they’ve ever experienced. Over on MSNBC, they completed their transformation from a network of hate for the President to one of unflinching admiration and promises of uncritical analysis.(Video) Following President Trump’s 2017 inauguration, MSNBC insisted that it reeked of anti-Semitism, “Hitlerian,” and it was “hard to hear” “very few olive branches.” It also fantasized about killing son-in-law and senior adviser Jared Kushner.
President Joe Biden on Wednesday signed a series of executive orders on immigration, moving to preserve and fortify the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, to end the so-called “Muslim ban,” and to stop construction on the U.S.-Mexico border wall.
Biden’s executive orders are in line with campaign promises that he would overturn a number of former President Donald Trump’s immigration policies on day one and come as part of a slate of 17 executive orders, memorandums and proclamations the Democrat will issue on his first day.
While the Supreme Court stopped Trump from terminating DACA, Biden’s executive order directs the Secretary of Homeland Security to “take all appropriate actions
Democrats took control of the Senate on Wednesday as Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff were sworn in as Georgia’s two representatives to the upper chamber.
The swearing-in, which took place hours after President Joe Biden’s inauguration, comes after the pair narrowly defeated two incumbent Republican senators, Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue, in runoff elections on January 5.
Vice President Kamala Harris presided over the swearing-in for both Georgia senators, as well as Democrat Alex Padilla, who will fill the open U.S. Senate seat in California created by Harris’ ascension to the vice presidency.
Donald Trump was, in my opinion, our best president since Ronald Reagan, rather easily. His achievements are impressive: the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, the biggest and most successful deregulatory effort ever, improved trade deals, record low unemployment, substantial wage growth for middle-class and working-class families for the first time in decades, encouraging development of oil and gas resources, pushing back against political correctness, critical race theory, and so on. And in the end, Operation Warp Speed, lowering regulatory barriers to accelerate development of covid vaccines in record time.
Trump’s foreign policy record was equally impressive:
As President Joe Biden was sworn into office, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) imposed sanctions on former Trump administration officials, including former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and former national security adviser Robert O’Brien, in response to their tough-on-China policies.
The announcement came a day after Pompeo declared the CCP’s repression of Uyghur Muslims in the Xinjiang region a “genocide.”
The Chinese regime sanctioned 28 people on Jan. 20. A foreign ministry spokesperson accused them of “seriously violated China’s sovereignty,” adding that they were “responsible” for “a series of crazy moves” which “seriously disrupted China-U.S. relations.”
“White guy fires Black man on first day in office.”This would be the headline if the corrupt media establishment covered Joe Biden the same way they covered President Donald Trump for four-plus years. U.S. Surgeon General Jerome Adams took to social media early Wednesday, ahead of Biden’s inauguration, to say that the incoming administration asked him to resign — Biden will reportedly name an acting surgeon general within hours. “I’ve been asked by the Biden team to step down as Surgeon General. Its been the honor of my life to serve this Nation, and I will do all I can to ensure everyone has an equal opportunity to achieve and
Is Kamala Harris “African American” or “Asian American”? I guess it depends on who they’re trying to win over. When they were in campaign mode, she was touted as the first “African American” VP candidate in order to get more votes from minority communities. However, Amy Klobuchar just introduced her as the first “African American, Asian American” VP. Suddenly, all the “blue check” twitter mob began to Watch below: (Tweet/Video) Even far-left users took notice and saw this as a sign of things to come:
Many Americans will remember President Donald Trump’s presidency as a four-yearlong storm of tweets, rallies and on-air rants that ended in a mob riot and historic second impeachment. But there was more to the Trump presidency than attention-hogging political drama and conflict; often unnoticed, Trump and his administration actually did succeed in changing some of the ways Washington works.
From imposing a ban on Chinese-made drones to rolling back rules on sexual harassment, from cracking down on robocalls to letting states legalize marijuana, Trump changed some key areas of federal policy in ways that may have lasting impact well after he’s gone.
The mainstream media believes that swapping out a 50-year old super model with a 69-year old lady is going to “bring fashion back” to the White House.Yes, really. Refinery29 published an article titled “Dr. Biden is bringing American fashion back into the White House starting with this subtle sparkly coat” Look below: (Tweet) As you can imagine, they immediately got BLASTED all over Twitter.“Our corporate media are so sick and sad and hateful that they will assert that the DEPARTURE of an actual fashion supermodel from the White House means the ARRIVAL, with the totally normally attired Jill Biden, of ***fashion*** to the White House,” said Mollie Hemingway.
A Wyoming legislator on Wednesday filed for the 2022 race for the congressional seat held by Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.).
State Sen. Anthony Bouchard, a Republican, filed a statement of candidacy, according to Federal Election Commission records.
Cheney drew widespread criticism for voting with Democrats and nine other Republicans last week to impeach then-President Donald Trump.
“Wyoming was President Trump’s best state both times he ran. That’s because Wyoming voters are strong conservatives who want our leaders to stand up for America, defend our freedoms, fight for our way of life and always put working people first as President Trump did,” Bouchard said in a statement Wednesday.
It’s Inauguration Day, which means unless a miracle drops on us immediately, Joe Biden is the 46th President of the United States. Once he’s inaugurated, it’s essentially over for any hopes that President Trump can continue into a second term, right? Hold your horses. There’s another avenue to expose voter fraud that only became available AFTER Biden’s inauguration. This play is called a writ of quo warranto. [Snip] It takes the accumulated bombshells, affidavits, videos, and other pieces of evidence and consolidates them into one legal case.
The first impression of President Joe Biden’s inauguration speech that Fox News viewers received on Wednesday was from anchor Chris Wallace, who uniformly praised it as “the best inaugural address” he has ever heard.
Following Biden’s powerful address in which he declared “democracy has prevailed” and called upon Americans to “end this uncivil war,” the 73-year-old Wallace turned to his Fox colleagues and likened it to all the other presidential speeches he’s witnessed over the years, including that of President John F. Kennedy in 1961.
A Dangerous World
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While the incoming kakistocracy is ridding the country of a treacherous evil — registered Republicans — the world’s real villains are patiently waiting for President “Insurrection” to leave Dodge. Lost in their hatred induced psychosis is that the bad actors of the world have been largely kept at bay by a shrewd champion of peace through strength. We’ve seen ISIS dismantled, Iran crippled by sanctions, North Korea’s belligerence subdued, and the impossible, peace spreading throughout the Middle East.
The Democrats’ all-consuming pathological myopia has caused them to lose touch with that global reality, no doubt assured their resplendence will usher in a new woke utopia.
President Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris paid tribute to America’s fallen troops at Arlington National Cemetery on Wednesday just minutes after taking office. Joined by three former presidents, Biden and Harris made the short journey across the Potomac River to underline their commitment to the military after four tumultuous years under ex-President Trump. In a powerful display of bipartisan unity, the first newly minted leaders stood alongside former Presidents Barack Obama, George W. Bush and Bill Clinton and former first ladies Michelle Obama, Laura Bush and Hillary Clinton. Wearing black masks, they lay wreaths at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier.
President Trump's children were overcome with emotion as their father departed Washington, D.C. on Air Force One for the last time.Ivanka Trump, 39, scrunched her face up in sobs as she watched her dad in the final hours of his presidency arriving at Joint Base Andrews and boarding a plane south to Palm Beach, Florida. Accompanied by her husband and her children, the First Daughter also stood alongside her siblings Eric, Don. Jr., and Tiffany — the latter of whom were trying their best to hold it together during the emotional sendoff.and her siblings as they watched their time in D.C. come to an end and their father fly off.
Former President Bill Clinton struggled to keep his mask on during President Joe Biden’s inauguration Wednesday and some on Twitter said the tiny covering, which had silver stars on it, looked like it was purchased from Claire’s. Photos and videos of the 74-year-old, who attended the inauguration with wife Hillary Clinton and appeared to fall asleep at one point, show his mask repeatedly slipping beneath his nose, and at other times, riding up and over his mouth toward his eyes as he tried to talk.(Snip)The starry mask, which had the words “WE THE PEOPLE” in a lower corner, was also likened to women’s underwear
Billionaire oil heir Nats Getty has come out as 'transgender non-binary' while revealing that they have started their physical transition by undergoing top surgery to remove their breasts. The model and activist, 28, displayed their top surgery scars while posing shirtless for a photo with transgender spouse Gigi Gorgeous; Nats also documented the operation in a video posted to their 28-year-old wife's YouTube channel. On Instagram, Nats detailed their 'emotional and exciting' decision to come out as transgender and non-binary, writing: 'I have spent my entire life not in sync with the body I was born with and confined by
As America says goodbye to President Trump, Democrats are doing what they do best: pushing forward, to the very last moment, with their four-year crusade to discredit, smear, and punish one of history’s truly great presidents. Having never given Mr. Trump so much as a moment of respite from their relentless torrent of defamatory lies, they have firmly secured their place in history as the pettiest, most lawless tyrants ever to defile our nation’s political landscape. Thus, it remains for the many millions of Americans who, with sober hearts and minds, are able to discern the monumental good that this president has done for the United States.
Stabbing Hector’s Corpse
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In Homer’s epic Iliad, the Greek hero Achilles finally kills his hated archenemy, the often trash-talking Trojan warrior, Hector.
After Hector dies, once frightened but now gloating Greek soldiers encircle and cowardly stab his limp corpse.
Achilles even ties the ankles of the dead Hector to his chariot and in fits of mindless rage drags him around the walls of Troy.
Homer then brilliantly shows how Achilles’ vindictive excess ensures sympathy even for the once-braggart Hector. Eventually, the adolescent Achilles relents, grows up, allows Hector to be buried, and accepts the tragic nature of a common humanity.
The University of Central Florida is set to fire embattled Professor Charles Negy, accusing him of creating a “hostile” classroom environment, the Orlando Sentinel reported this week.
Negy became a target of intense Black Lives Matter protests over the summer after he tweeted: “Black privilege is real: Besides affirm. action, special scholarships and other set asides, being shielded from legitimate criticism is a privilege. But as a group, they’re missing out on much needed feedback.”
He has since deleted the tweet and a few others that caused controversy at the time, but a petition demanding he be fired had garnered nearly 35,000 signatures and protesters even targeted his home.
So much for the fierce urgency of now, at least as far as Andrew Cuomo’s concerned. Democrats fought for months with Republicans and kinda-sorta Donald Trump over the scope of COVID-19 relief. Now that they have nominal control over both chambers of Congress and the White House, and Joe Biden calling for “immediate action,” when can we expect it to happen? Apparently, “immediate” is a term of art. Punchbowl’s Jake Sherman reports that Democrats will have their proposal ready for Joe Biden by, um … March? Seriously?
Vice President Kamala Harris, 56, and her husband Douglas Emhoff, 56, are moving into President Joe Biden’s former digs, the Naval Observatory. But the official residence of the Vice President is a bit of a step down from the couple’s $8 million real estate portfolio. Their new residence at 1 Observatory Circle Northwest is a six-bedroom house built in 1893. Since it was designated the official residence of the vice president in 1974, the house has undergone millions in renovations, over half of them when Al Gore moved in in 1993. The house is filled with history, with studio pottery by Joan Mondale
The Pentagon blocked members of President Joe Biden’s incoming administration from gaining access to critical information about current operations, including the troop drawdown in Afghanistan, upcoming special operations missions in Africa and the Covid-19 vaccine distribution program, according to new details provided by transition and defense officials. (Snip)Transition “personnel are not government employees and thus limited to some extent on what they can receive,” Gough said. “Membership on a transition team alone is not a license to access confidential, privileged or classified government information.”
The press and assorted Democrats were rubbing and wringing their hands with glee: Trump would issue late-hour pardons. He'd pardon the rioters. He'd pardon his relatives. He'd pardon Rudy Giuliani. He'd pardon Julian Assange, Reality Winner, and Edward Snowden. He'd pardon himself, which was what really got them going.
Headines ran like this:
Ex-Prosecutor Worries Trump Could Pardon Capitol Rioters as Pardon Power Extends to DC Cases -NBC
Impeachment and Removal Come to the Forefront as Lawyers Brace for Possibility That Trump Would Issue ‘Blanket Pardon’ to His Rioters -Law & Crime
Joe Biden paces as he dictates long portions of his speeches to aides, spinning out thoughts that quickly pile into six, seven or eight paragraphs of copy, only to later be scrapped.
On the 2020 campaign trail, he’d keep groups of supporters waiting inside while he’d hole up in a black car with aides, refining lines of his prepared remarks. Revisions go up to crunch time; it isn’t uncommon for a staffer to be scurrying to the teleprompter with a flash drive just before an event is to begin.
For higher-profile remarks, he’d obsessively rehearse portions until he committed them to memory
A Delaware rabbi blessed President-elect Joseph R. Biden and his wife before they left the state Tuesday night by comparing him to Moses and President Trump to the “cruel Pharaoh.” Rabbi Michael Beals explained at the farewell ceremony on the eve of Mr. Biden‘s inauguration the meaning of “bashert,” which he said is Yiddish for “meant to be.” “It is indeed bashert that you, our dear president-elect, are being inaugurated on the very week when Jews all around the world are reading from the book of Exodus about Moses freeing us from 400 years of backbreaking, Egyptian slavery at the hands of
Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. became the 46th U.S. president on Wednesday, completing the most daunting power transfer in recent American history.
Inaugurated in a fortified Washington under the shadow of the coronavirus pandemic, the 78-year-old Democrat took the oath of office at the U.S. Capitol in front of a sparse bipartisan crowd. He enters the White House exactly two weeks after a mob inflamed by his predecessor, Donald Trump, stormed the Capitol, disrupting the transition to Biden’s administration and leaving five people dead. Biden took the oath of office from Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts, with his left hand on a family Bible.
Biden, the oldest American president, faces swirling
President-elect Biden will reverse President Trump's controversial policy restricting travel for nationals from several Muslim-majority countries. Why it matters: The ban restricted travel and immigration, to varying degrees, for about 7% of the world's population. Biden previously blamed Trump for the "unconscionable rise in Islamophobia." (Snip) After lower court rulings invalidated the first versions of the ban, the Supreme Court in June 2018 upheld the Trump administration’s third version, which applied to nationals of five majority-Muslim countries — Iran, Libya, Somalia, Syria and Yemen — and put restrictions on people traveling from Venezuela and North Korea. In 2020, it was
Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) defended Republican colleagues Ted Cruz (R-TX) and Josh Hawley (R-MO) on Tuesday over their objections to the Electoral College vote on January 6, saying they were exercising their “freedom” as Senators.
The San Francisco Chronicle reported: (Snip)Feinstein, however, defended their right to object, (Snip)
“I think the Senate is a place of freedom,”(Snip). “And people come here to speak their piece, and they do, and they provide a kind of leadership. In some cases, it’s positive, in some cases, maybe not. A lot of that depends on who’s looking and what party they are. But it’s an important place to have this kind of dialogue.
YouTube has extended its ban preventing outgoing US President Donald Trump from uploading videos, ahead of Joe Biden's inauguration. The Google-owned site suspended Trump's account for seven days after removing a video that the company said incited violence in the wake of the storming of the US Capitol, which left five people dead.
On Tuesday, the firm said it would extend the suspension "in light of concerns about the ongoing potential for violence" for at least another week as Washington braced for President-elect Biden's highly unusual inauguration, Reuters reported.
President Trump did leave a note for Joe Biden, the White House confirms, continuing a tradition between outgoing and incoming presidents.A White House aide would not say whether Trump drafted the note on his final night in office, or whether he wrote the note before departing the White House for the final time in his presidency on Wednesday.Trump did not mention President-elect Biden in his farewell remarks at Joint Base Andrews on Wednesday, where the president was met with family members and aides for a final send-off before leaving Washington. Trump will be joined by a few White House aides as he embarks on his post-presidency life
President Trump left the White House on Wednesday morning for the final time as president, describing the last four years as “the honor of a lifetime” and vowing to “be back in some form.”Trump and First Lady Melania walked out of the White House shortly after 8:10 am, telling reporters the last four years has been “the honor of a lifetime” before boarding to Marine One with first lady Melania for the short ride to Joint Base Andrews in Maryland, where he was greeted around 8:30 am by hundreds of supporters.“I will always fight for you. I will be watching, I will be listening.
If there has been one politician on these pages we have WARNED ABOUT over the years it is Senator Mitch McConnell. The Senate Majority Leader is the most conniving, cunning and Machiavellian member of the republican party.
With his positions solidifying CTH warnings for well over a decade, his actions over the past several weeks now highlight the dark background of his politics. Today, McConnell took the final stab at the people’s president as Donald Trump prepares to depart the White House. The bloom is off the ruse: (Video)The institution of the modern UniParty senate chamber requires a voter to understand the shell game.
Clarity in Trump's Wake
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"Either the Constitution matters and must be followed . . . or it is simply a piece of parchment on display at the National Archives."— Texas v. Pennsylvania et al. Texas v. Pennsylvania et al. did not deny setting rules for the 2020 election contrary to the Constitution. On December 10, 2020, the Supreme Court discounted that. By refusing to interfere as America’s ruling oligarchy serves itself, the court archived what remained of the American republic’s system of equal justice. That much is clear. In 2021, the laws, customs, and habits of the heart that had defined the American republic since the 18th century are things of the past. Americans’ movements and interactions are under strictures for which no one ever voted. Government disarticulated society by penalizing ordinary social intercourse and precluding the rise of spontaneous opinion therefrom. Correction*
Fugitive national security contractor Edward Snowden and WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange missed out on pardons from outgoing President Trump on Wednesday. The high-profile figures were not among the 143 pardons and commutations issued by Mr. Trump with just hours remaining in his presidency. The clemency actions included a pardon for former White House strategist Steve Bannon, who was facing trial for allegedly defrauding donors in a project to help build Mr. Trump’s border wall. Also missing from the clemency list was Reality Winner, a former National Security Agency contractor imprisoned in 2018 for mailing classified material to a news outlet.
Two executives involved in the early call of Arizona for Joe Biden on Election Night, angering many conservatives, are no longer employed at the cable network whose ratings took a subsequent nosedive. Both have been lightning rods for conservatives since the election. The Associated Press reports:
Bill Sammon, senior vice president and managing editor at Fox’s Washington bureau, announced his retirement to staff members on Monday. On Tuesday, as part of a restructuring of Fox’s digital operations, politics editor Chris Stirewalt was let go.
Fox’s decision to call Arizona for Biden took the network’s anchors by surprise and infuriated the White House, which believed the determination was premature.
Demonstrations and riots will not stop with the Biden/Harris administration. They present a real danger to government as we now know it. (snip) Progressives have fostered these protest organizations. Now that they are in power will they be able to control them? They may find that they have created a Frankenstein's monster.
There are many reasons why the demonstrations will not be easy to stop. Social injustice and police brutality are only a small part of the reason for demonstrating. Many people riot to escape boredom
Joe Biden will be sworn in as America’s 46th president on Wednesday. Far from being the start of an era of reconciliation, it will be an acceleration of the disunity that his party and its media division have whipped up. God, please have mercy on the United States of America.
A few days removed from the 2020 election, Biden warned, as the coronavirus count was nearing 10 million, that the country was “facing a very dark winter.” We don’t disagree. Bleak days are ahead. But we disagree on the reason. This winter, and at least the next two years, are
Step aside, California. Minnesota, hang your head. Illinois is the wokest of all, and what it does will spread.(Snip) The proposed Illinois standards on Culturally Responsive Teaching and Leading have kicked up opposition from conservative and religious groups in state, who hold that the rule mandates political indoctrination and violates teachers’ constitutional rights. Every teacher certified by Illinois will have to be trained and assessed in accordance with the new standards. Attorneys for the Thomas More Society, which is working with the Pro-Family Alliance, calls the proposed standards unconstitutional and discriminatory on the grounds that they compel speech and violate the free exercise of religion and conscience.
Joe Biden will have a busy day after taking the oath of office as president at noon Wednesday, as the Biden campaign promised and incoming chief of staff Ron Klain recently affirmed.
Klain issued what has become a widely reported Jan. 16 memo on Biden’s first 10 days as president, aggressively carrying out actions that won’t require action by Congress.
“On Inauguration Day, President-elect Biden will sign roughly a dozen actions to combat the four crises,” Klain wrote, specifying “the COVID-19 crisis, the resulting economic crisis, the climate crisis, and a racial equity crisis.”
(Snip) 1. Enforcing Restroom Choice
The Glass-Jawed Party
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Somebody needs to explain to me why conservatives are so defeatist.
It never fails. A setback occurs, and rather than rolling their sleeves and getting to work, they collapse into bawling, whining puddles. They’re like a glass-jawed boxer who take a hit and goes down immediately. But instead of hauling themselves back to their feet and slugging away, they just lie there, sobbing, “It’s over… there’s no point… wave goodbye to Lady Liberty for me…”
There’s nothing new about this. During the Obama epoch it was eight years of, “Obama is eight feet tall. Obama can walk through walls. He can see you and you can’t see him…”
The Wilmington, Delaware, repair shop owner who distributed Hunter Biden’s laptop contents to the FBI and Trump supporters has emerged on a GoFundMe page to tell his story.
John Paul Mac Isaac has posted a series of videos — titled “The Truth” and “I am Not a Russian” and “I am Not a Hacker” — to dispel what Democrats and President Barack Obama’s intelligence kingpins said about him.
“To imply that I’m a hacker and that that information was hacked has had an irreversible impact on my business and my character,” Mr. Mac Isaac says in a video.
Rep. Boebert blasts 'baseless' suggestion by
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Dem lawmaker that she led reconnaissance
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Rep. Lauren Boebert, R-Colo., blasted Rep. Steve Cohen, D-Tenn., Tuesday over his "baseless" suggestion that she led a group of people who took part in the deadly Jan. 6 riot on a tour of the Capitol building days earlier.
"This claim is absolutely disgusting," Boebert told Fox News Tuesday. "It's offensive. I had my family in the Capitol on January 2nd. I brought my four sons, my mom, my husband, aunts and uncles to look around the Capitol. And then on the 3rd, we took some photos together before I was sworn in. My family left that day."
In 1940, a German refugee named Richard Krebs published a memoir called Out of the Night, which was a Book-of-the Month Club selection for that year. He published it under the pseudonym Jan Valtin in fear of reprisals from the Nazis and Communists his memoir exposed. [SNIP] From the outset of his presidency, Trump was tarred and feathered by Democrats and their media allies as a “traitor” a “white supremacist” and a “racist”– again without a shred of credible evidence.
President Donald Trump announced late Tuesday night that he had pardoned and commuted the sentences of 143 people in the final hours of his presidency.The president issued 73 pardons and 70 commutations.The list included pop culture figures, including rappers Lil Wayne and Kodak Black, but also included many non-violent drug offenders.The president did not pardon Julian Assange or Edward Snowden, two whistleblowers that illegally shared America’s intelligence and national security secrets. The two individuals enjoyed bi-partisan support for a pardon as their supporters had hoped that the president would ignore the intelligence community elites and prominent members of Congress in Washington who were deeply opposed to a pardon.
What did we just watch? 78-year-old Joe Biden on Tuesday suddenly became emotional during his farewell speech to his home state of Delaware as he quoted Irish poet James Joyce. “James Joyce was said to have told a friend, that when it comes his time to pass, when he dies, he said: ‘Dublin will be written on my heart.'” Biden said getting emotional (because the teleprompter told him to). “Well, excuse the emotion, but when I die, Delaware will be written on my heart,” Biden said.
Twelve National Guard troops deployed to Washington ahead of President-elect Joe Biden’s inauguration were flagged during background checks and have been sent home, Defense Department officials confirmed Tuesday, offering scant details as to what raised suspicions about them.Two of those were flagged for “inappropriate comments or texts,” Army Gen. Daniel Hokanson, chief of the Nation Guard Bureau, told reporters, including one reported within their own chain of command. Hokanson’s comments refute a Tuesday story from the Associated Press that all 12 troops removed from the Capitol had right-wing militia ties.“If there’s any identification or anything whatsoever that needs to be looked into,
President Trump on Tuesday night pardoned former top campaign aide and White House strategist Steve Bannon, who was arrested for an alleged scam involving private donations to build a border wall with Mexico. Reuters cited senior administration officials saying that Trump had pardoned Bannon. An official statement from the White House was expected early Wednesday morning. Bannon, the nationalist firebrand who was formerly the executive chairman of Breitbart News, had been facing a May trial on fraud and money laundering charges in Manhattan federal court.
President Trump formally declassified a large trove of Russiagate documents Tuesday evening over objections from the FBI.The declassified documents are expected to be released by Wednesday. President Trump said he received the materials in a binder on December 30 and decided to declassify and publicly release the documents. “I determined that the materials in that binder should be declassified to the maximum extent possible,” the president said.
Nearly 200,000 flags have been placed on the National Mall ahead of President-elect Joe Biden's inauguration, signifying the tens of thousands of people who won't be able to attend this year's ceremony. The Presidential Inaugural Committee first announced plans to install the public art display, which has flags representing all the U.S. states and territories, on Jan. 11. The display was lit up Sunday evening. (Tweet/Photos) “This inauguration marks a new chapter for the American people — one of healing, of unifying, of coming together, of an America united,” said Tony Allen, CEO of the Presidential Inaugural Committee.
Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) claimed Tuesday that the Senate would have convicted President Donald Trump during his impeachment and removed him from office if he were a person of color like her. Speaking to Democracy Now! host Amy Goodman, Tlaib claimed that not just Trump should be held accountable, but also anyone in Congress who “enabled him.”“I think many of us are obviously concerned, but it’s just a continuation of this administration,” Tlaib said of the lockdown and recent upheaval in Washington, D.C. “I mean, the Trump administration hasn’t fully been transparent, nor have they had moral values—
A U.S. Army veteran slammed Rep. Steve Cohen for claiming that National Guard troops in Washington, D.C., could pose a threat to President-elect Joe Biden. West Point graduate Jeremy Hunt called out the Tennessee Democrat for questioning the loyalty of 25,000 troops who have been deployed to the nation’s capital for Biden’s inauguration on Wednesday, calling it “absolutely ridiculous” and blasting him for exploiting an intelligence report to score political points. With reports that the U.S. Military was running background checks and the FBI was conducting additional vetting of the Guard troops, Cohen weighed in on CNN,
President Donald Trump just signed a proclamation regarding the sanctity of human life.In a statement posted to the official White House website, the president noted that this marks the fourth year in a row that he has recognized National Sanctity of Human Life Day in January.Jan. 22 marks the 48th anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court ruling making abortion a national right. The president used the proclamation to speak out against the landmark 1973 ruling Roe v. Wade, tout his administration’s accomplishments on behalf of the pro-life movement, and call on the American people to respect the sanctity of life.
Anthony Sabatini, one of the most patriotic and pro-America state legislators in the nation, has officially announced he has submitted an amendment to an upcoming transportation bill in the Florida House to rename US 27 after President Donald J. Trump.Sabatini, who has fought the unconstitutional mask and vaccine mandates also has a history of preserving our 2nd Amendment rights of Floridians. The highway, which goes by the Purple Heart Memorial Highway and the Claude Pepper Memorial Highway would retain its dedication to Purple Heart veterans according to the language in Sabatini’s amendment.
The report is buried in the “local” and “legal” sections of the Washington Post website, as archived by The National Pulse here.
Written by three non-political reporters, the Washington Post story illustrates just how out of control the blatant misinformation about “incitement” by the President has been over the past two weeks. “Self-styled militia members from Virginia, Ohio and other states made plans to storm the U.S. Capitol days in advance of the Jan. 6 attack, and then communicated in real time as they breached the building on opposite sides and talked about hunting for lawmakers, according to court documents
Et tu, Mitch McConnell?Just when Washington has a chance to turn the page, fresh signs emerged Tuesday that the past is not yet past. It is almost certain now that the Senate will hold an impeachment trial of President Trump next week.Even worse, it looks probable he will be convicted of a single charge stemming from the Capitol invasion. The history-making event got the green light from McConnell on his last day as Senate majority leader. Speaking on the Senate floor Tuesday, McConnell said of the Jan. 6 incident: “The mob was fed lies. They were provoked by the president and other powerful people
Like so much this past year, the inaugural celebration will be like no other: pared down, distanced, much of it virtual. But for actor Christopher Jackson — the original George Washington in Broadway’s “Hamilton” — performing in a virtual “ball” is a way of participating in an essential rite of American democracy.“I’m glad to play a part in it,” says Jackson, who will perform at the quadrennial ball for the Creative Coalition, a fundraiser for arts education and one of the more prominent unofficial events surrounding Joe Biden’s inauguration. “It’s a great honor, and I’m very grateful that we have allowed our system to continue to work
CNN’s Chalian: Lights on Reflecting Pool
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Like ‘Extensions of Joe Biden’s
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CNN’s political director David Chalian said Tuesday during of the inauguration of President-elect Joe Biden that the lights set up around the Reflecting Pool at the National Mall to remember the 400,000 Americans who have died of COVID-19 are like “extensions of Joe Biden’s arms embracing America.”Chalian said, “The contrast on display tonight was so stark. I mean, those lights that are just shooting out from the Lincoln Memorial along the Reflecting Pool, it is like almost extensions of Joe Biden’s arms embracing America.”He continued, “It was a moment where the new president came to town