I didn't watch any of it, and all the print is below the fold, the same way these electoral thieves took power:
"Biden sworn in as 46th president, vowing renewal through unity" by Jess Bidgood and Jazmine Ulloa Globe Staff, January 20, 2021
WASHINGTON — Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. was inaugurated as the 46th president of the United States on Wednesday, ending his predecessor’s turbulent tenure and assuming the country’s highest office at a wrenching moment of crisis with a somber vow of renewal through unity.
Standing on the west front of the Capitol, a place transformed into a crime scene two weeks ago by an armed mob hellbent on derailing democracy, Biden placed his hand on a family Bible and took the oath of office shortly before assuming power at noon. Then he urged Americans to end “this uncivil war” and work together to overcome the pandemic, economic devastation, and political unrest.
What nerve after the hell of the last four years from his side of the aisle.
The day’s events served as a clean break from the erratic and falsehood laden presidency of Donald Trump, who rode to power by playing on white grievance and xenophobia, was impeached twice, and who tried — but failed — to overturn the results of the election with the help of Republicans in Congress.
Trump left the White House hours earlier, and became the first president in 152 years to snub his successor’s inauguration. Two weeks after a deadly mob of Trump supporters laid bare the fragility of the country’s governing norms and raised fears of more attacks from white supremacists or other far-right groups, the relief in the Capitol was palpable as power passed peacefully to Biden.
“At this hour, my friends, democracy has prevailed,” Biden said.
I'm wanting to vomit.
The inauguration was a rebuke of the mob, one that showed the gears of democracy grinding forward through ritual in a time of uncertainty, but it was less a lavish celebration of American democracy than a spare reckoning with the challenges ahead.
Crushing all in its path who disagree, something far from democracy, and the saying it was a less lavish celebration is a bit of an understatement.
The COVID-19 pandemic and ongoing security concerns about domestic terrorism rendered the National Mall closed, empty save for flags representing the hundreds of thousands of people who might have wanted to attend. Straight lines of troops stood sentinel over the proceedings, some of the 25,000 National Guard members who poured into the Capitol to secure the inauguration.
A straw man psyop that serves their interests.
Biden’s calls for comity already face strong headwinds, with the ascendance of right-wing media outlets like OAN and the persistent myth, stoked by Trump himself, that the election was rigged. Seven in 10 Republicans do not believe Biden was legitimately elected and many of the 147 Republicans who voted to overturn the election results appear to be sticking with Trump’s divisive politics.
The screeching signals that they know the people of this nation are not with them and this was a coup.
Biden also used his first speech as president to do something Trump had not in the year since the pandemic arrived: Hold a moment of silence for the 400,000 Americans who have died of COVID-19.
“We need all our strength to persevere through this dark winter,” Biden said. “We’re entering what may be the toughest and deadliest period of the virus. We must set aside politics and finally face this pandemic as one nation.”
There he goes again, signaling that government drill whereby a deadly airborne pathogen was released, in that case smallpox, even as -- get this -- right on cue for Biden, the WHO admits high-cycle PCR tests produce COVID false positives and we are told not only about the progress the country has been making toward flattening the curve of new cases but also the dip in hospitalizations.
Timing is everything, right?
Biden’s ascension to the presidency is the capstone of a long career in national politics, one that began in a hospital room in Delaware when he was sworn into the Senate in the throes of family tragedy in 1973, and led him to serve as vice president under Barack Obama.
In that time, he formed an unshakable faith in political institutions and nuts-and-bolts dealmaking — something he offered up Wednesday as an antidote to the Trump presidency, although he never said his name.
“I give you my word: I will always level with you. I will defend the Constitution. I will defend our democracy,” Biden said.
I'm disgusted.
His tongue didn't turn to sand after he said it?
Hours earlier, Trump stood in front of a couple hundred of his most devoted supporters and allies at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland and bragged about his accomplishments as he prepared to fly to Florida. He spoke of the pandemic, which continues to claim thousands of victims every day, in the past tense.
“We love you. We will be back in some form,” he told the crowd. Later, before boarding Air Force One, he said, “So have a good life. We will see you soon.”
I'm not going to hold my breath waiting on the plan, sorry.
Have a good life sounds like goodbye.
Biden will face an immense challenge in rebuilding the administrative state and filling key government roles Trump left empty. He moved immediately to begin unwinding some of Trump’s policies with a series of executive orders, memorandums, and directives that he signed on Wednesday evening.
From his desk in the Oval Office, Biden rejoined the Paris Climate Accord. He also overturned Trump’s ban on travel from certain Muslim-majority countries, stopped the construction of a wall along the nation’s southern border, and fully reinstated a program that provides temporary relief from deportation for immigrants brought into the country as children.
Other orders would spur sweeping overviews of federal resources invested in racial equity and of federal rules over environmental, energy conservation, forestry, and wildlife regulation.
At the inauguration, lawmakers and diplomats huddled under blankets as snowflakes swirled. Obama and his wife, Michelle, mingled in masks with former President George W. Bush and his wife, Laura. The presence of outgoing vice president Mike Pence offered a semblance of bipartisan normalcy to the unusual day.
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"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. Clyburn, on a call with reporters, said Bush told him, “you know, you’re the savior, because if you had not nominated Joe Biden, we would not be having this transfer of power today.” 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” in the 2016 presidential election but has not revealed how he voted in 2020. In a statement issued following Biden’s victory, he wrote, “Though we have political differences, I know Joe Biden to be a good man” and added, “I offered him the same thing I offered Presidents Trump and Obama: my prayers for his success, and my pledge to help in any way I can.” Bush spokesman Freddy Ford downplayed Clyburn’s remarks. “Let’s not make this into more than it is,” he wrote on Twitter, adding that the former president was “saying Clyburn helped saved Biden’s nomination ... nothing Biblical here.” Clyburn’s pivotal endorsement before South Carolina’s Democratic primary seemed to have brought Biden’s candidacy back from the brink following lackluster performances in other early states. It was an awaited signal for many Black voters that Biden would be the candidate to stand up for their interests....."
My first question after that was is George W drinking again?
I wouldn't blame him after all the blood on his hands.
Hell, he's swimming in it after his lies and somewhere down in the pit of his soul he knows he's a monster.
Come to think of it, his regime was illegitimate, too, all eight years.
”It just feels like we are on our way to mending this divide and bringing our country back together, and that feels really good after these four years,” said Representative Lori Trahan of Massachusetts.
After the purge, right?
As the crowds cleared, Representatives Nikema Williams, of Georgia, and Sara Jacobs, of California, lingered a bit longer, to take photos, beam in live to followers on Instagram, and savor the moment, but Williams stressed Democrats’ milestones reached in diverse representation had to be more than just symbolic. Now will come the hard part, moving past the political gridlock and reaching across the aisle, as congressional Democrats call for Trump and his allies to be held accountable for their roles in inciting the Capitol attack.
What crowds?
Asked whether Biden could unite the nation — and a divided Congress — Williams turned to a quote from James Baldwin: “I can love and work with anyone except for those people whose disagreement is rooted in my oppression and my denial of my humanity.”
No one has denied your humanity, so stop denying mine.
You know, it occurs to me, during all my rants I never called Democrat voters terrorists or to be thrown in jail.
Yeah, their leaders belong there, same as Republicans, but the people are simply misguided and have been misled.
Before the ceremony began, inauguration attendees had to make their way through a maze of security checkpoints and black fences topped with barbed wire at the Capitol. The rest of downtown Washington felt like a ghost town, with an enormous security perimeter around the White House, the National Mall, and the Capitol.
The thousands of Biden supporters who normally would have flocked to the city were urged to stay home because of the pandemic, the traditional parade from the Capitol to the White House was truncated, and the inaugural balls went virtual. Many of the street level retail stores around the city were boarded up out of fear of unrest — although there were surreal signs of life, like the National Guardsman in full uniform and weaponry waiting for a cup of coffee near Farragut Square.
Do I even have to comment?
But near the church where Biden attended Mass with Harris, their families, and bipartisan congressional leaders on Wednesday morning, a small crowd gathered, rising on their tiptoes for a glimpse of the pageantry.
Pender McCarter, 74, a retiree who has attended every inauguration since Richard Nixon’s, lifted his cameraphone in the air and offered a quiet greeting as Biden’s motorcade passed through the empty streets: “Hey, Mr. President.”
All the photos are cropped to make it look "normal," and as for the motorcade....
That's why Biden wants amnesty for illegals and to throw the borders open. He needs his own army of blackshirt thugs to battle the "domestic enemy."
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More crap (literally) from the Globe:
"AnalysisBiden delivers sober call to action: ‘America has to be better than this’" by Liz Goodwin Globe Staff, January 20, 2021
WASHINGTON — President Biden ran on a message of unifying a divided country, and in his inaugural address Wednesday, he asked for help.
Issuing a sober call for action at the site of an insurrection, Biden challenged Americans to join him in that daunting undertaking.
“On this January day, my whole soul is in this: Bringing America together, uniting our people, uniting our nation,” he said in his 20-minute speech, “and I ask every American to join me in this cause.”
This cryptic crap is freaking me out.
And if we choose not to?
The new president laid out the challenges facing the country in stark terms — from white supremacy and political disinformation, to a once-in-a-century pandemic, to devastating job losses, but Biden didn’t claim he could solve all of those problems, unlike his predecessor, who once declared, “I alone can fix it.” There was no unveiling of sweeping proposals to address them. Instead, Biden called on Americans to come together and act — ending an “uncivil war” of red against blue, urban against rural.
“My fellow Americans, we have to be different than this,” Biden said. “America has to be better than this.”
What an absolutely unreal hypocrite and a-hole, and why would he want to "fix" the "challenges"when they have served his and his party's agenda so well?
You keep that shit going, even if you have to stage and script false flag fakeries!
Biden’s call for Americans to listen to each other, reject lies, and unify to confront the massive challenges facing the country echoed the words of one of his political heroes.
Yesterday they compared him to FDR, now he is JFK!
The ceremony underscored many of the severe challenges the 78-year-old Biden faces as president, problems he outlined in unflinching detail in his speech.
Biden spoke facing a National Mall filled with American flags instead of thousands of cheering fans, due to the ongoing pandemic, which has taken 400,000 American lives, and he swore his oath under the watchful gaze of thousands of National Guard troops, who have turned the Capitol into a heavily armed fortress following the Jan. 6 attack on the building by Trump supporters, but the ceremony, and Biden’s speech, reaffirmed the nation’s commitment to democracy even after it was severely tested by an outgoing president who attempted to overturn the election results. The sight of three former presidents from both parties mingling on the platform, and the many bipartisan rituals of the day, struck a sharp contrast with the partisan violence that took place in the same place there exactly two weeks earlier.
Biden, who was elected on a moderate message of unity and decency, said he knew that some think the idea of unifying at this moment seems like a “foolish fantasy,” but he reminded Americans that they have risen to even bigger challenges in the past.
“Through civil war, the Great Depression, world war, 9/11, through struggle, sacrifice, and setbacks, our better angels have always prevailed,” Biden said. “In each of these moments, enough of us, enough of us have come together to carry all of us forward.” He urged Americans to “open our souls” and repair divisions this time, as well.
He is making me absolutely ill, and that is just reading it.
The Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, which left five people dead, hung over the inauguration ceremony like a cloud, as speaker after speaker specifically mentioned the threat to democracy and to the peaceful transfer of power that the country faced.
Donald Trump did not attend, marking the first time since the 1800s that an outgoing president snubbed the event. Millions of voters, egged on by Trump and many Republican lawmakers, still do not believe Biden won the election legitimately, representing a formidable challenge to his administration.
Because he didn't, and we all know it.
The precariousness of the past few weeks made this Inauguration Day one of the most important in American history, and gave its pageantry a new significance.
“It was the most meaningful and simply important inaugural address certainly in my lifetime and probably since Franklin Roosevelt in 1933,” said Patrick Maney, a presidential historian at Boston College. “He rose to the occasion today.”
The Capitol gleaming behind him, Biden sent a message to the rioters who sought to disenfranchise millions of voters, but to those who did not vote for him for president, Biden reached out a hand — and asked them to give him a chance.
F**k off, after LAST FOUR YEARS!
Never gave him a chance at all, and now he wants one to fulfill the globali$t agenda?
As for the new pageantry being given important significance, that's damn cryptic as well.
The armed fortress that is D.C. is meant to be permanent.
He also called for lowering the political temperature, regardless of party.
As he screams white supremacy and Senate Nazis!
He's a damn fool.
The first test of Biden’s unity message will be in Congress, which is narrowly under Democratic control and where most legislation will require GOP support to pass. Several Republican lawmakers who attended the ceremony praised Biden’s speech and calls for unity, including a few who supported Trump’s attempts to cling to power after he lost.
“I thought it was very strong and, and very much needed,” said Senator Mitt Romney of Utah, a Republican who rejected Trump’s false fraud claims. “We as a nation come together if we are told the truth, and if we have leaders who stand for enduring American principles,” but Romney also said he was not interested in passing a new round of COVID-19 relief in the “immediate future,” previewing the trouble Biden may find in convincing even friendly moderate Republicans to support his agenda.
When he reached the White House on Wednesday, Biden bypassed Congress altogether with a blizzard of executive actions, many undoing Trump’s moves. He recommitted the United States to the Paris climate agreement, halted the Keystone XL pipeline, canceled Trump’s travel ban mainly targeting Muslim-majority countries, and stopped all funding for the border wall.
“There’s no time to start like today,” he told reporters in the Oval Office as he made his way through the stack of orders. “I’m going to start by keeping the promises I made to the American people.”
Oh, he is going to keep his promises, is he?
The level of insult has reached astronomical proportions.
I'm sure he will keep them, the question is promises to WHOM?!!
They are literally comparing Biden to God and are gushing over the new regime and the get ready for four years of vomit-inducing media fawning as our 'brave' journalists transform into PR agents for President Biden.
"Biden stimulus gets skeptical response from Republican moderates" by Laura Litvan and Erik Wasson Bloomberg News, January 20, 2021
President Biden’s proposed $1.9 trillion pandemic relief plan got a skeptical response from two Senate Republicans whose backing he would likely need for quick congressional passage.
GOP Senator Mitt Romney of Utah, a member of the bipartisan group of senators who helped propel talks on the $900 billion stimulus enacted last month, said shortly after Biden’s inauguration he thinks it’s too early for Congress to act again.
“We just passed a program with over $900 billion in it,” Romney told reporters. “I’m not looking for a new program in the immediate future.”
That turkey is rancid by now.
Another member of that group told reporters she doesn’t disagree with Biden that another round of help for an ailing economy is needed. Still, she said, it’s going to take some time to consider it.
That would be Murkowski, the Alaska Republican.
Biden’s proposal, offered last week, is the opening salvo in a legislative fight that could be prolonged by the go-big price tag and the inclusion of initiatives — like a minimum-wage increase — that are opposed by most Republicans.
With the Senate becoming a 50-50 partisan split, Biden will need at least 10 Republicans to speed his plan through that chamber.
Why?
Once Democrats ditch the filibuster they won't need them.
Alternatively, incoming Democratic Senate majority leader Chuck Schumer could use the so-called reconciliation process, which only requires 51 votes — but some parts of the stimulus bill are likely to prove difficult if not impossible to qualify for those rules.
“Even to get 50 Democrats on board, my guess is that number has to come down,” Jason Furman, who served as head of the Council of Economic Advisers under President Barack Obama, said on Bloomberg TV.
So they are already backtracking on the minimum wage.
Biden’s proposal has elements designed to appeal to moderate Republicans to help it gain traction in the Senate — including a $400 billion effort to contain the coronavirus and speed the economy’s reopening, as well as $1,400 in additional direct stimulus payments.
I thought we were getting $2000?
Other parts are set to spur partisan warfare. Negotiations could end up producing a smaller bipartisan package in the coming weeks, followed by a larger budget bill later in the year with Democratic priorities. Biden said he plans to unveil a second major economic program, aimed at longer-term economic rebuilding, at a joint session of Congress next month.
Parti$an warfare, what a joke!
Biden’s nominee for Treasury secretary, Janet Yellen, made the argument Tuesday to Senate lawmakers that historically low interest rates allow for going bigger on economic help now, but she met objections from Republican members of the Senate Finance Committee.....
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"Wall Street marked the dawn of President Joe Biden’s administration with stocks rallying to record highs as hopes build that new leadership in Washington will mean more support for the struggling economy. Biden has pitched a plan to pump $1.9 trillion more into the struggling economy; Wall Street hopes such stimulus will help carry the economy until later this year, when more widespread COVID-19 vaccinations get daily life closer to normal. “Most of Wall Street is assuming that the second half (of 2021) is when we will see pent-up demand start to show up in the economy, and. . . cause a ramp up in earnings projections,” said Sam Stovall, chief investment strategist at CFRA. A better-than-expected start to earnings reporting season also helped lift the market....."
All while you are in lockdown watching Netflix, and oddly enough, now the Globe is leading their bu$ine$$ section with the adverse reactions they have kept hidden until now even while telling you the vaccines work just as well on the variant.
More good new$:
"Morgan Stanley traders cashed in during the waning months of 2020 to round off the bank’s best year on record. The division beat analysts’ estimates as fourth-quarter equities revenue surged to cement the bank’s standing as the top stock-trading shop. It joined its closest peers, JPMorgan Chase and Goldman Sachs, in consolidating their standing on the top perch of Wall Street with the pandemic helping secure their lead over smaller rivals."
"UnitedHealth’s fourth-quarter earnings tumbled as costs from COVID-19 hit the health insurance provider, but results still easily beat expectations. Health care use rebounded in the final quarter of 2020 after the global pandemic kept people away from doctor offices and surgery centers when it first spread earlier last year. UnitedHealth also said Wednesday that its insurance business spent more in the quarter covering claims for COVID-19 testing and treatment. They accounted for 11 percent of all care activity, not counting prescriptions. That’s up from 6 percent in the third quarter. Medical costs, by far the company’s largest expense, jumped 7 percent to more than $42 billion in the fourth quarter."
"Procter & Gamble boosted its sales and profit outlook on expectations that surging at-home demand for its toilet paper and laundry detergent will continue, even as the rapid pace of growth took a slight dip in the latest quarter. The maker of Charmin, Tide, and other household staples now expects organic revenue to grow as much as 6 percent in fiscal 2021, an increase from the previous outlook of no more than 5 percent. P&G also sees core earnings per share rising as much as 10 percent, according to a statement Wednesday, up from a range of 5 percent to 8 percent."
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They don’t see a recovery by Easter.
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"Biden’s inauguration goes off with no security issues" by Ben Fox, Colleen Long and Michael Balsamo Associated Press, January 20, 2021
WASHINGTON — Troops in riot gear lined the sidewalks, but there were no crowds. Armored vehicles and concrete barriers blocked empty streets. Miles of fencing cordoned off many of the nation’s most familiar landmarks.
Joe Biden was safely sworn in as president in a Washington on edge, two weeks after rioters loyal to former President Trump besieged the Capitol.
Law enforcement officials contended not only with the potential for outside threats but also with rising concerns about an insider attack. Officials monitored members of far-right extremist and militia groups, increasingly concerned about the risk they could stream into Washington and spark violent confrontations, a law enforcement official said.
There were a few scattered arrests but no major protests or serious disruptions in the city during Biden’s inauguration ceremony.
In the hours before the event, federal agents monitored “concerning online chatter,” which included an array of threats against elected officials and discussions about ways to infiltrate the inauguration, the official said.
In right-wing online chat groups, believers in the QAnon conspiracy theory expressed disappointment that top Democrats were not arrested for sex trafficking and that Trump did not seize a second term.
They were told it is all going to plan, hah!
Twelve National Guard members were removed from the security operation a day earlier after vetting by the FBI, including two who had made extremist statements in posts or texts about Wednesday’s event. Pentagon officials would not give details on the statements. The FBI vetted all 25,000 members in an extraordinary security effort in part over the presence of some ex-military in the riot.
Two other US officials told The Associated Press that all 12 were found to have ties with right-wing militia groups or to have posted extremist views online. The officials, a senior intelligence official and an Army official briefed on the matter, did not say which fringe groups the Guard members belonged to or what unit they served in. The officials told the AP they had all been removed because of “security liabilities.”
The officials were not authorized to speak publicly and spoke on condition of anonymity.
General Daniel Hokanson, chief of the National Guard Bureau, confirmed that Guard members had been removed and sent home, but said only two cases were related to inappropriate comments or texts related to the inauguration. He said the other 10 cases were for issues that may involve previous criminal behavior or activities but were not directly related to the inaugural event.
The FBI also warned law enforcement officials about the possibility that members of right-wing fringe groups could pose as National Guard troops, according to two law enforcement officials familiar with the matter.
Like Antifa poses as Trump supporters?
Investigators in Washington were particularly worried that members of right-wing extremist groups and militias, like the Oath Keepers and Three Percenters, would descend on Washington to spark violence, the law enforcement officials said. Some of the groups are known to recruit former military personnel, to train extensively, and to have frequented anti-government and political protests.
In addition to the thousands of National Guard troops, hundreds of law enforcement officers from agencies around the country were also brought into Washington. The increased security is likely to remain in the nation’s capital for at least a few more days.....
Or FOREVER like EVERYTHING ELSE "temporary" that THEY DO!!
This is how they plan to ferret you out.
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Across deep blue Massachusetts, the historic inauguration of President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris brought forth an unfamiliar, but welcome, feeling among their supporters: hope.... and peace, like most Americans who live or work near state capitols.
It's poetic ju$tu$ and they are movin' on up!
"Surgeon General Jerome Adams resigned at President Biden’s request on Wednesday, as the incoming president sought to make a symbolic break with his predecessor’s COVID-19 response. The anesthesiologist and former Indiana health commissioner — a political independent who crafted a close relationship with then-Indiana governor Mike Pence — had emerged as a key spokesman for Trump’s coronavirus response, regularly appearing on national TV and using social media to advocate for public health measures such as social distancing; however, Adams’s visibility also made him a target last spring for Democrats, who accused him of defending Trump’s statements. Biden has nominated Vivek H. Murthy, surgeon general under President Barack Obama and a close adviser to Biden, to be surgeon general, but Murthy first needs to undergo Senate confirmation hearings, which have yet to be scheduled....."
It's basically Obama's third term.
Now about those diktats:
"Biden’s 17 executive orders, in detail" by Aishvarya Kavi New York Times, January 20, 2021
WASHINGTON — In 17 executive orders, memorandums, and proclamations signed hours after his inauguration, President Biden moved swiftly on Wednesday to dismantle Trump administration policies that his aides said have caused the “greatest damage” to the nation.
Despite an inaugural address that called for unity and compromise, Biden’s first actions as president are sharply aimed at sweeping aside former president Donald Trump’s pandemic response, reversing his environmental agenda, tearing down his anti-immigration policies, bolstering the teetering economic recovery, and restoring federal efforts to promote diversity.
Here’s a look at what the measures aim to accomplish.
Pandemic
Biden signed an executive order appointing Jeffrey D. Zients as the COVID-19 response coordinator who will report to the president, in an effort to “aggressively” gear up the nation’s response to the pandemic. The order also restores the directorate for global health security and biodefense at the National Security Council, a group Trump had disbanded.
Though it is not a national mask mandate, which would most likely fall to a legal challenge, Biden is requiring social distancing and the wearing of masks on all federal property and by all federal employees. He is also starting a “100 days masking challenge” urging all Americans to wear masks and state and local officials to implement public measures to prevent the spread of the coronavirus.
He is also reinstating ties with the World Health Organization after the Trump administration chose to withdraw the nation’s membership and funding last year. Dr. Anthony S. Fauci will be the head of the US delegation to the organization’s executive board and will jump into the role with a meeting this week.
Immigration
With an executive order, Biden has bolstered the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, which protects from deportation immigrants brought to the United States as children, often called Dreamers. Trump had sought to end the program, known as DACA. The order also calls on Congress to enact legislation providing permanent status and a path to citizenship for those immigrants.
Another executive order revokes the Trump administration’s plan to exclude noncitizens from the census count, and another overturns a Trump executive order that pushed aggressive efforts to find and deport unauthorized immigrants. Yet another order blocks the deportation of Liberians who have been living in the United States.
In a blow to one of his predecessor’s earliest actions to limit immigration, Biden has also ended the travel ban to the United States from several predominantly Muslim and African countries. Biden has directed the State Department to restart visa processing for individuals from the affected countries and to develop ways to address the harm caused to those who were prevented from coming to the United States because of the ban.
Biden has also halted construction of Trump’s border wall with Mexico. The order includes an “immediate termination” of the national emergency declaration that allowed the Trump administration to redirect billions of dollars to the wall. It says the administration will begin “a close review” of the legality of the effort to divert federal money to fund the wall.
Climate change
Chief among executive orders that begin to tackle the issue of climate change, Biden signed a letter to reenter the United States in the Paris climate accords, which it will officially rejoin in 30 days. In 2019, Trump formally notified the United Nations that the United States would withdraw from the coalition of nearly 200 countries working to move away from planet-warming fossil fuels.
In additional executive orders, Biden began the reversal of a slew of the Trump administration’s environmental policies, including revoking the permit for the Keystone XL pipeline; reversing the rollbacks to vehicle emissions standards; undoing decisions to slash the size of several national monuments; enforcing a temporary moratorium on oil and natural gas leases in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge; and reestablishing a working group on the social costs of greenhouse gasses.
Welcome to Biden World as he holds fast on climate standards.
Racial and L.G.B.T. equality
Biden will end the Trump administration’s 1776 Commission, which released a report on Monday that historians said distorted the role of slavery in the United States. Biden also revoked Trump’s executive order limiting the ability of federal agencies, contractors, and other institutions to hold diversity and inclusion training.
The president designated Susan E. Rice, who is the head of his Domestic Policy Council, as the leader of a “robust, interagency” effort requiring all federal agencies to make “rooting out systemic racism” central to their work. His order directs the agencies to review and report on equity in their ranks within 200 days, including a plan on how to remove barriers to opportunities in policies and programs. The order also moves to ensure that Americans of all backgrounds have equal access to federal government resources, benefits, and services.
Economy
Biden is moving to extend a federal moratorium on evictions and has asked agencies, including the Agriculture, Veterans Affairs, and Housing and Urban Development departments, to prolong a moratorium on foreclosures on federally guaranteed mortgages that was enacted in response to the coronavirus pandemic. The extensions all run through at least the end of March.
The president is also moving to continue a pause on federal student loan interest and principal payments through the end of September, although progressive groups and some congressional Democrats have pushed Biden to go much further and cancel up to $50,000 in student debt per person.
Government accountability
Following in the footsteps of some of his predecessors, Biden has established ethics rules for those who serve in his administration that aim “to restore and maintain trust in the government.” He has ordered all appointees in the executive branch to sign an ethics pledge.
That last sham is an absolute f***king laugh after the fired Ukraine prosecutor and the rest of the Biden Crime Family shakedowns.
Finally, Biden issued a freeze on all new regulations put in motion by his predecessor to give his administration time to evaluate which ones it wants to move forward. The memorandum is aimed at preventing so-called midnight regulations, policies pushed through by a lame-duck president unconstrained by electoral considerations.....
"Biden acknowledged that we cannot expect to live in a democracy without disagreement, but we cannot respectfully disagree in a way that preserves unity unless we operate from a common set of facts. A precondition of reconciliation in South Africa after apartheid ripped the nation apart, wrote Archbishop Desmond Tutu in his memoir, was for perpetrators and survivors of violence to mutually acknowledge the truth of past horrors, so that the nation could be reshaped for the future. To unify the nation, Joe Biden will first have to find a way to dispel the lies alluded to in his address — to uphold the truth. And that’s wherein the true power of his inauguration lies. His administration has the chance not only to speak the unadulterated truth from the White House, but also to bring people around to acknowledge the truths that are holding the nation back — its sins of the past, and the basic facts that must shape the future. There can be no denying the reality of human-caused climate change or the dangers of a deadly pandemic, no whitewashing of the legacy of slavery and racism that has divided our nation, and no lying about the results of free and fair elections. Not all truths that will shape the fate of the nation are self-evident, but some truths, once established, must be nonnegotiable in public life....."
In other words, you will have accept official lies as reality.
Btw, truth is always self evident because it is truth!
The Globe is also of the opinion that uniting America is worth the try after Biden spoke like a president and they shall overcome!
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The guy who was leaving:
"‘We will be back in some form,’ Trump tells crowd as he leaves Washington" by Anne Gearan and Philip Rucker Washington Post, January 20, 2021
No, you won't.
WASHINGTON — President Trump departed Washington for the final time Wednesday morning with a melancholy farewell — and a vow to return to the political arena — though he still did not directly acknowledge that voters had turned him away.
Because they didn't.
Trump had imagined a showy military send-off that more resembled authoritarian pageantry than the placid rituals of American electoral democracy. In the end, a military band played “Hail to the Chief” and cannons fired in salute after a modest crowd of a few hundred aides and other loyalists showed up at Joint Base Andrews to see him off.
“This is a great, great country. It is my greatest honor and privilege to have been your president,” Trump said as his audience chanted, “Thank you, Trump!”
“I will always fight for you,” Trump said. “I will be watching. I will be listening, and I will tell you that the future of this country has never been better. I wish the new administration great luck and great success. I think they’ll have great success. They have the foundation to do something really spectacular.”
As Trump concluded his remarks, he vowed, “We will be back in some form.” He added, “Have a good life.”
That sounds like goodbye.
Trump modeled his send-off event on the martial-themed arrival and departure ceremonies for foreign dignitaries, but for all Trump’s love of a spectacle, the event had more of a feel of a county fair than a big-budget extravaganza.
Guests included outgoing White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, senior policy adviser Stephen Miller, former White House physician and now Republican Representative Ronny Jackson of Texas, and other current and former aides, including former press secretary Sean Spicer. The Trumps also were joined by members of his family, including daughter Ivanka Trump and son-in-law Jared Kushner, both senior White House advisers.
Noticeably absent from Trump’s send-off were the three elected Republicans who had worked most closely with him — Vice President Mike Pence, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, and House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy. All three instead attended Biden’s inauguration, which Trump decided not to attend, bucking the traditional transfer of power.
They were never with him.
Earlier in the chilly winter morning, the Trumps walked out of the White House residence for the final time. A subdued Trump told reporters that serving had been the “honor of a lifetime.”
The Trumps then boarded Marine One, which lifted off the South Lawn at 8:17 a.m. and carried the couple into the brilliant morning sky. They flew over a fortified city of checkpoints and armed soldiers amid threats of another attempted insurrection by Trump supporters.
Trump released a farewell video on Tuesday in which he noted the arrival of a new administration and wished it luck, but did not mention Biden by name, nor did he concede or directly address his own defeat.
Instead, Trump touted his record as president and declared that “the movement we started is only just beginning.”
He never drained the $wamp, and then opened the spigot when he left:
"Hours before his exit, Trump undoes one of the only measures he took to ‘drain the swamp’" by Josh Dawsey Washington Post, January 20, 2021
WASHINGTON — President Trump rescinded an executive order early Wednesday morning that had limited federal administration officials from lobbying the government or working for foreign countries after they leave their posts, undoing one of the few measures he had instituted to fulfill his 2016 campaign promise to ’'drain the swamp.’'
Trump had signed the now-reversed executive order with much fanfare in an Oval Office ceremony in January 2017.
’'Most of the people standing behind me will not be able to go to work’' after they leave government, Trump said at the time, flanked by senior aides.
The order required executive branch appointees to sign a pledge that they would never work as registered foreign lobbyists, and it banned them from lobbying the federal agencies where they worked for five years after leaving the government.
Ethics experts at the time noted the order had loopholes — but still offered cautious praise for Trump’s attempt at halting the revolving door that allows government employees to use their positions to land lucrative jobs in the private sector.
No explanation was given for why Trump chose to rescind the order. The White House released the directive at 1:08 a.m. Wednesday, on the day he left office. It had been signed Tuesday.
Government watchdog groups expressed disgust with Trump’s decision to reverse the policy in his final hours as president.
’'The revocation of the 5-year lobbying ban for presidential appointees is the perfect coda for the most corrupt administration in American history,” Robert Weissman, president of the group Public Citizen, said in a statement.
Trump largely failed to fulfill the pledges he made to change Washington’s culture.
Among the five pledges Trump made to “drain the swamp” and curtail the influence of lobbyists, a Washington Post review last year found that he sought to address only two — through the executive order in January 2017 that he has now reversed.
It's looking now like that was just BS.
Meanwhile, Trump gave wealthy donors ample access to him and his top aides, holding pricey fund-raisers at which supporters personally pitched him on their ideas.
He also forced the government to spend money at his private hotels as he and his family traveled around the globe, and he sidestepped rules that had been designed to prevent nepotism, allowing his son-in-law to serve in a top government role.....
That was his bane, having his idiot son-in-law run the show.
Pardon:
"Trump’s late-night pardon blast benefits 143 people, but not the ex-president himself or his family" by Rosalind S. Helderman, Josh Dawsey and Beth Reinhard Washington Post, January 20, 2021
WASHINGTON — President Trump on Tuesday granted clemency to 143 people, using a final act of presidential power to extend mercy to former White House strategist Stephen K. Bannon, well-connected celebrities, and nonviolent drug offenders — but he did not preemptively pardon himself or his family.
Among those who were pardoned or who had their sentences commuted on Trump’s final full day in office were the rapper Lil Wayne and former Detroit mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, who has been serving a 28-year prison sentence on corruption charges.
Trump also pardoned two former Republican members of Congress, Rick Renzi of Arizona and Randall ’'Duke’' Cunningham of California. Both had completed prison terms that stemmed from corruption convictions. A third, Robert “Robin” Hayes of North Carolina, was pardoned after finishing a probation sentence for making a false statement during a federal investigation.
Before finally signing the paperwork shortly before midnight, the president spent part of Tuesday consumed with indecision over whether to pardon Bannon, according to two aides. The former Trump adviser was charged last year with defrauding donors to a charity established to privately fund the building of a wall on the southern border.
Some inside the White House believed Monday that Bannon would not get a pardon, but Trump continued to weigh the matter — balancing Bannon’s previous help to him, and potential to help him in the future, versus what he viewed as disloyal behavior at times.
Bannon was forced out by Kushner, just like all the rest.
The last-minute clemency extended to Bannon underscores how Trump has used his presidential power to benefit allies and political backers.
On Tuesday, Trump also granted a pardon to GOP megadonor Elliott Broidy, 64, who pleaded guilty in October to acting as an unregistered foreign agent and lobbying the Trump administration on behalf of Malaysian and Chinese interests. A Los Angeles investor, Broidy helped raise millions for Trump’s campaign before serving as the Republican National Committee’s national deputy finance chairman.
He is one of the Jews pardoned by Trump in his final days in office, and here are the others who won't make print.
“Even Nixon didn’t pardon his cronies on the way out,” Noah Bookbinder, executive director of the government watchdog group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, said in a statement. ’'Amazingly, in his final 24 hours in office, Donald Trump found one more way to fail to live up to the ethical standard of Richard Nixon.”
Obama to Nixon to another level by using the law enforcement and intelligence agencies to spy on the opposing party's presidential campaign. Nixon only called on them to cover up a private operation.
On Wednesday, with less than an hour left in his term, White House officials said Trump signed one final pardon: for Albert Pirro Jr., the former husband of a Fox News personality, Judge Jeanine Pirro, a Trump ally. Pirro was sentenced to serve 29 months in prison after being convicted of conspiracy and tax evasion in 2000.
Many of those who received clemency had the backing of an ally of the president, such as former adviser Kellyanne Conway, Republican Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, former House speaker Newt Gingrich, or newly elected Senator Tommy Tuberville, Republican of Alabama, who were among those cited in the White House statement as supporters of various pardons.
Advocates for criminal justice reform lamented that many deserving people were overlooked, because the president appeared focused on handing out political favors.
“They all had something Trump wanted or benefited him in some kind of way,” Nichole Forde, 40, who hand-wrote her clemency petition in 2016 and is serving a 27-year sentence for nonviolent drug crimes, wrote in an e-mail from federal prison in Pekin, Ill. ’'I am not part of the Trump elite.”
While Trump in recent weeks had been strongly considering extending preemptive pardons to his adult children or even to himself following the attack on the Capitol, White House counsel Pat Cipollone and other advisers persuaded him that doing so would amount to an unnecessary admission of guilt, given that none has been charged with any crime or is known to be under federal investigation.
Those who didn't get one were cut from print:
Trump ultimately decided against other controversial pardons that he had also been considering, including for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, former NSA contractor Edward Snowden, and the president’s own attorney, Rudolph W. Giuliani, who has not been charged with a crime but whose consulting business has come under scrutiny by federal prosecutors in Manhattan.
Did he not pardon them because they are CIA?
It's rumored that is why Snowden outed the NSA and why Russia is keeping him, and Wikileaks turned out to be a tar baby of sorts.
Trump had also contemplated pardoning Sheldon Silver, the former Democratic speaker of the New York State Assembly who was convicted of corruption, but the final list did not include his name, and the president decided against a pardon for the star of the Netflix reality show ’'Tiger King,” known as “Joe Exotic,” despite high optimism from the zookeeper’s camp. On Tuesday, his supporters stationed a stretch limo near the prison where he is incarcerated to squire him home had his pardon been granted.
Trump also pardoned Ken Kurson, a political consultant who was editor in chief of the New York Observer while it was owned by Kushner, Trump’s son-in-law. Kurson had been charged in October with cyberstalking related to his divorce from his now former wife and had not yet gone to trial.
The president issued a full pardon to Paul Erickson, a GOP political operative who had been sentenced to seven years in prison for wire fraud and money laundering after pleading guilty to a scheme to defraud investors in oil development company. Separately, Erickson was romantically linked to a Russian woman who pleaded guilty to conspiring to infiltrate conservative groups.....
Remember her?
Related:
"In the days before he left office, President Donald Trump instructed that his family get the best security available in the world for the next six months, at no cost — the protection of the U.S. Secret Service. According to three people briefed on the plan, Trump issued a directive to extend post-presidency Secret Service protection to his four adult children and two of their spouses, who were not automatically entitled to receive it. Trump also directed that three key officials leaving government continue to receive the protection for six months: former treasury secretary Steven Mnuchin, former chief of staff Mark Meadows and former national security adviser Robert C. O’Brien, two people familiar with the arrangement said. Under federal law, Trump, his wife, Melania Trump, and their 14-year-old son are the only members of his immediate family entitled to Secret Service protection after they leave office. The couple will receive it for their lifetimes, and Barron is entitled to protection until he turns 16. Former vice president Mike Pence and his wife, Karen Pence, will also receive continued Secret Service security for the next six months under the same law governing protection, but Trump wanted every family member who had been protected by the Secret Service during his administration to be covered for six additional months, according to the people familiar with his directive, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe security arrangements. That means the expensive, taxpayer-funded security will continue for daughter Ivanka Trump and her husband, Jared Kushner; son Donald Trump Jr.; son Eric Trump and his wife, Lara Trump; and daughter Tiffany Trump. The 24-hour protection will focus on Trump’s grown children, although his grandchildren will receive protection that derives from being in proximity to their parents. A former Trump White House spokesman declined to comment. A spokeswoman for the Secret Service also declined to comment, saying the agency does not discuss the individuals it protects. A president can order Secret Service protection for any person he chooses, but it is highly unusual for a departing president to provide 24-hour security to relatives who are adults long past their college years. It’s unclear what precedent there is for a departing president to extend this same protection to aides after they have left his administration. Former Trump White House spokesman Judd Deere declined to comment on Trump’s directives before he left office. President Bill Clinton and President George W. Bush sought extensions to protect their college-age daughters for a short period after they left office. President Barack Obama’s daughters Sasha and Malia were also granted a short extension of security after he left office in 2017, when they were in high school and on a gap year from college. A Secret Service official declined to say when that protection ended. The Department of Homeland Security, which oversees the expansion of Secret Service security, did not respond to inquiries about the threat assessment that prompted the Trump decision. The perk for the Trump family is expected to cost taxpayers millions of dollars and further stress the elite federal security force, which in the past four years had to staff the largest number ever of full-time security details — up to 42 at one point, according to former senior administration officials. The extension of security for the Trump family comes as the Secret Service has also mobilized protective details for the extended families of President Biden and Vice President Harris. Full-time security teams are being deployed to protect Biden’s two grown children and seven grandchildren, as well as Harris’s two stepchildren. The Trump family’s protection has been costly for the Secret Service’s budget, as his adult children traveled widely across the country and around the world for personal vacations and travel related to the Trump Organization, the family company. From 2017 to 2019, government records show, Trump family members took more than 4,500 trips that required the Secret Service to travel alongside them, costing taxpayers tens of millions of dollars....."
Hope you don't need to take a dump.
