Biden Calls for Unity in Inaugural Address
Joe Biden was sworn in as the 46th president of the U.S. shortly before noon ET. Minutes earlier, Kamala Harris was sworn in as vice president, the first woman to hold that role.
‘Democracy’s Day’
Biden kicked his Inaugural Address declaring “This is America’s day.
This is democracy’s day,”
“Democracy has Prevailed”
“Democracy has prevailed,” said Biden pointing to and thanking former Presidents Bill Clinton, George W. Bush and Barack Obama who were in attendance.
The phrase was in reference to the riots at that capitol and Trump’s efforts to overturn the election.
Trump was notably absent at the inauguration.
“Let us start afresh. All of us. Show respect to one another. Politics need not be a raging fire destroying everything in its path. Every disagreement doesn’t have to be a cause for total war. And, we must reject a culture in which facts themselves are manipulated and even manufactured.“
Biden cited Abraham Lincoln who said “My whole soul is in it,” after signing the Emancipation Proclamation.
Biden said, “Today on this January day, my whole soul is in this, bringing America together, uniting our people, uniting our nation, and I ask every American to join me in this cause.“
Trump Vows: ‘We Will Be Back’
On his way out the door, Trump Vows: ‘We Will Be Back’
“I will be watching. I will be listening,” he said. “We will be back in some form.”
He walked off stage to the Village People’s “YMCA” then walked up the stairs to Air Force Once, which lifted off at 8:59 a.m., bound for Florida.
Mish
Articles of impeachment just filed against Biden. 2022 midterms will be interesting.
I see reports that Antifa is out in small forces and smashed the windows of the Democrat Party is Portland. I can’t blame them – they have inherited a dysfunctional Country deeply in debt which was looted by the Baby Boomers. Now they have another rich old White Guy from Elitist Privilege and a Woman of Color who cavorted her way to the top with San Fran Willie Brown over them. Who wants that?
Proud Boys are right – Trump pulled a bait and switch.
Proud Boys. Antifa and BLM were merely useful tools of the White entrenched political families who rule America and represent Baby Boomers – they have more in common than they realize. Hopefully they will join forces and move the Country in a different direction – as the Baby Boomers did in the 60’s. And unfortunately, that includes violence and destruction because reason and compromise never works.
My goal to focus on unity. I am happy to debate issues and I know we have lots of disagreements. My hope is in debate we find the threads of agreement and work on those tiny threads. It is a start. I am an American and will celebrate that with all of you.
I don’t tolerate racism or mass labeling of “11 million leeches”
If you responded to HonestCreditGuy your comment just got tossed with the trash.
Uh oh Bitcoin. It was a good run.
Must die, must die,,,,,this bitcoin must die.
For the good of the nation this bitcoin must die.
Snowflakes! Snowflakes everywhere!
What I find interesting is typing in antifa.com in the address bar, you get redirected to the
http://www.whitehouse.gov
Gee I wonder why?
No, things are wonderful, I hope you are happy with our new President, No?
I guess the Kool-Aid is wearing off…
Who actually feels better with fluffy words like these from Biden or any politician?
“Who actually feels better with fluffy words like these from Biden or any politician?”
I feel better heating “fluff” than I did hearing the POTUS encourage violence against non-supporters based on conspiracy theories.
Just for now, a little peace of mind, just for now.
Trump would still be President if he had occasionally called for unity, or tried to grow his party, instead of constantly using the same strategy: divide, and try to pick the bigger half. That’s great, but if you keep dividing, each time you do, you chip off a few more people no longer in your core supporters, and the party gets smaller and smaller until it is a minority.
“….and the party gets smaller and smaller until it is a minority.”
The current voter makeup is Republican 25%, Democrat 31%, Independent 41%.
I’d wager, post-Trump, Republican’s lost 1% from there.
Demographics are extremely unfavorable for Republicans, Trump dramatically pushed in the wrong direction and the GOP did nothing. The last minute rebuke by a small number of the GOP, as with McConnell, is way too little, too late.
Biden’s speech was universally praised. Four year ago after hearing Trump’s speech George W Bush said that was some scary shit. It was very dystopian. Biden went back to a traditional message and in light of January 6th it might be the best Presidential inauguration speech in some time. Trump left as he came not being able to rise to the occasion and be part of something bigger than himself. He was simply unable to be gracious and consider the institution of the Presidency and be part of the transition . So Trump skulked away to Mar-a-lago
Now we can expect one time Joe to lead the country into the next big recession.
“Now we can expect one time Joe to lead the country into the next big recession.”
Not to, um, split hairs, but you do realize we’re IN a recession, right?
Recession….oh really ? Have a look at the US stock markets : all time highs !
You wanna talk about riots at inauguration?! Go back and see news clips of 2016. Clashes with police and a hundred arrests. Funny how the left projects on the right everything that they do…
RunnerDan is rethinking his affiliation with the Proud Boys….
Can anyone guess where many of the former Obama administration folks (now Biden administration folks) have been hanging out and collecting a nice paycheck? Why, at the Biden Center down in Delaware or Pennsylvania, that’s where. And with $20 million in undisclosed Chinese donations to live off of. At least half a dozen of these critters were there drawing $160,000 to $220,000 per year for being “Managing Directors” of the non-profit.
But, compared to the Clinton Foundation, Old Joe is still and amateur.
From where is this Irondoor Clown getting this misinformation….Oh Wait…from the Chito Man playbook… Bring the proof please….But if it were true…Sign me up I wouldn’t mind getting my hands on some of that money…
Can I ask a question. Who and What policies would members here like to continue. Since I am based in the UK I can only comment on the US foreign policy ones. I would like to continue the containment of Chinese Communist Party. However I am not sure how we do it. I want a equivalent of Truman’s containment of the Soviets. I also want US to stop Trump’s transactional approach to US allies.
I’d like to continue to see politicians who lose elections concede and accept defeat with grace, rather than trying to foment angry mobs to storm the congress.
I’d like to see the US stop building billion buck bombers that barely fly…and maybe get universal healthcare.
Not sure the US has many allies left….but I’d like to see a return to “normal” diplomacy…get the State Dept. back on track.
I’d like to see a great mutually beneficially US/UK trade deal. No fish need be sacrificed.
I’m sincerely hoping that China is making enough bad mistakes economically and demographically (with the one child policy) to cause the communists to end up as far less of a threat than they seem today. I think that might happen without much being done by the west, fwiw.
“I’d like to continue to see politicians who lose elections concede and accept defeat with grace, rather than trying to foment angry mobs to storm the congress.”
What the hey, We got to see a shirtless drunk millennial wearing a horn-hat & face makeup “preside” over the Chamber while spewing profanities.
Not at al an international embarrassment, not at all, the world just thinks we’re libatious!
To name a few off the top of my head.
Alright RunnerDan to your points:
Alright, my contribution…No take out Chinese food tonight…
Democracy’s day? how about Oligarchy’s day or Plutocracy’s day?
America’s political system is still broken, and it cannot be repaired with a few beautiful words like Unity and Democracy. I don’t see when it will be repaired if ever.
I wish Biden luck. I damn sure don’t want the job…..I don’t think he’s in it for the money, although he never impressed me as anything but another hack politician.
He couldn’t possibly be as bad as Trump…no matter how much he caters to the Woke crowd.
Actually it would be easy to be worse than Trump. Just start another war, or even ramp up the two still current ones.
“Actually it would be easy to be worse than Trump. Just start another war, or even ramp up the two still current ones.”
Though I agree, it bears mention that Bush did these, he wasn’t worse.
Not saying Bush was good, but that Trump was that bad.
Dude, Trump tried to overturn a legitimate election and make himself a dictator. You guys are totally delusional. Get some counseling. Our entire system was pushed right to the brink.
Cheney and Bush started the wars….not Biden……not Obama…..is Biden part of the neoliberal war machine? Yes…..so what. Trump didn’t do diddly squat to change anything about the US military industrial complex…..that was just his talking point….
It will take more than calls for unity for Biden to succeed. At this juncture, in the history of our republic, it is hard to see that democrats, republicans or Trump supporters will agree on the substance of anything significant, especially the lessons of history. Nonetheless, it will be interesting to see if the Congress, our politicians, leaders, and especially just inaugurated President JB, can set the tone and example for policies that in fact will act to unite the nation. We will all be watching and hoping.
Stopped by ZH a few times today to gauge the reaction. It’s quieter over there than I expected, presumably a lot of people are licking their wounds. The ones who were posting were sharply divided into two camps, either still trusting the plan or angry at Trump for deceiving them.
As for unity, we won’t be seeing much of that in the next few years. Even within the red/blue teams there are increasingly bitter disagreements and harsh economic reality isn’t going to help matters.
I fear if we continue to put so much emphasis on who is the elected king, we are going to lose more freedoms by the actions of people who need a king than any kind of legislative actions of Congress.
Aside from the cult-like aspects of the Q movement, what disturbed me most was the constant yearning for authoritarianism. They wanted Trump to be a dictator, a tyrant, and openly hoped for mass arrests and military operations within the country.
There is something seriously wrong with the American mindset if that sentiment resonates with so many people.
“There is something seriously wrong with the American mindset if that sentiment resonates with so many people.”
I don’t think as much of those people you see (online at least) are American.
In the case of ZH comments, I suspect many of those comments are paid professionals from a foreign adversary.
While ZH is indeed a haven for trolls and the quality of discussion there drastically decreased in the last 5 years, the Q phenomenon is very real.
I ignored it for years until I started reading r/QAnonCasualties over on Reddit. That was an eye opener, people from around the country (and world) told horror stories of family members and friends succumbing to magical thinking. It’s incredible how many marriages ended, how many families were torn apart by such a ridiculous ideology.
“It’s incredible how many marriages ended, how many families were torn apart by such a ridiculous ideology.”
Without getting into too much detail (friend since childhood), I can attest personally.
“Stopped by ZH a few times today to gauge the reaction. It’s quieter over there than I expected, ….”
I’m just gonna say it, I suspect a large quantity of the traffic there is professional Russian propagandists, this would explain decreased traffic, their job’s now moot.
I gave up responding in their comments when, any time I posted anything remotely non-Putin, I’d get flamed relentlessly.
“As for unity, we won’t be seeing much of that in the next few years. Even within the red/blue teams there are increasingly bitter disagreements and harsh economic reality isn’t going to help matters.”
Northern Georgia in the Senate run-off was a tell-tale that you may be wrong.
While there was a blue surge, districts in northern Georgia that vote extreme red had a massive drop in vote participation.
My bet, the diminishing size of the GOP was just further diminished, independent’s, moderates just increased.
Democracy’s day ?! Hahaha …TYRANNY’s day he ll mean , more and more of it !
Kind of like when Trump pushed for federal gun confiscation, began banning gun accessories without any Constitutional authority to do so, and then signed FIX NICS? Are you speaking to those kinds of tyrannies?
Trump won’t be back but as a reaction to the next 4-8 years a more acceptable version might.
How many didn’t vote for Trump because they just didn’t like him and not so very much against his policies? A more likeable version might carry the day.
The only way the USA unites now will be in war or after hitting rock bottom. Either or both could happen in the next 4-8 years. Same is true for many other countries too.
We are in a depression and it will grind slowly and finely.
While true that Trump’s policies were more popular that Trump himself, I predict that Trump acts to prevent some other Republican from uniting the party, just as he prevented the Georgia Republican Senatorial candidates from winning. With Trump, it’s all about him, and if can’t be about him, he will break it.
3rd party may be it.
Hey, if Biden, Wall Street, Cuomo, DeBlasio and Lightfoot have declared the corono over, then that’s good enough for me. The drinks are on the house at your local Hyatt hotel, just tell ‘em JB sent ya.
In order to be the master, the politician poses as the servant
Charles de Gaulle
“We will be back in some form.”
Sounds like Voldemort
Maybe more like the shapeshifters from Fringe. More obscure so losing the audience I know… .
He feels no need for human companionship or friendship, and cannot comprehend love or affection for another. He believes he is superior to everyone around him, to the point that he frequently refers to himself in the third person as “Lord Voldemort”
or herpes…
I prefer “he who cannot be shamed”.
Democrats always cry for unity, but only if you follow their cause. ‘Let’s all work together and I tell you what to do.’ When the repubs shove something down your throat, they just do it, whereas the Dems like to pretend that we are all one big happy family and then shove it down your throat. Let’s see if Biden actually does do some type of across the aisle working with the repubs, but I wouldn’t count on it. I never voted for Trump but I do hate the hypocrisy on both sides.
“Democrats always cry for unity, but only if you follow their cause. “
And how the hell are Republicans any different?
Agree with hypocriucy on both sides. Especially on spending
I’m sorry, I in no way meant to imply that I think Republicans are better which is why I didn’t bother to capitalize their name in my post or even waste my typing the name out.
Generally agree, but the only way to “unity” is to stop the gov from enforcing the will of half the citizenry on the other half. There is a party that is less in thrall with regulation and enforcement of social mores that the other. (And no, the religious right is not as censorious as the woke.) My two cents.
$8 trillion in additional debt over the past four years. Hard to believe there wasn’t unity in creating that.
I hate both parties, but I hate republicans less because they’re less hypocritical.
How can Biden call for unity and at the same time declare war against white supremacists? In the democrat world, white supremacist=trump voter.
What a joke, we aren’t even a democracy. Biden reminds me of aging Soviet leaders in the 1980s, hopefully his America doesn’t mimic his decline.
How many people were there waiting for the former president as he landed in Florida?
Hundreds, thousands? Surely the LARGEST crowd EVER assembled to greet a former president?!
A lot of people have told him they have never seen crowds like that, a lot of people. Believe me.
Everybody’s talking about it. Tremendous!
GOP has long been jealous of the appeal to celebrities the Democrats attract. Well, this need for the cult of celebrity in Republicans politics clearly brought down the party of Reagan to one of its lowest points. Who would have thought the personality of “you’re fired” would attract so many to claim superior leadership.
The GOP needs to return to being the party of Coolidge. If they do, they will regain my vote.
SHSSSSSSTT …. you not supposed to reveal this in the times we re living
He will never be back as President.
He disgraced himself permanently in the manner he departed.
I voted for him only because I preferred his policies to Biden, but by no means did I support Trump with much else than a vote.
Now, ain’t this gibberish…
I doubt Trump will be back even if it is at a gathering of ex presidents. I can’t imagine the last three presidents would give him the attention he wants as it is becoming more and more clear the GOP will probably cut ties with Trump.
” … becoming more and more clear the GOP will probably cut ties with Trump.”
Which, in turn, means the GOP is irreparably broken, Trump leaves with more than 85% approval from Republican voters.
Moderate Republicans know they cannot win elections if they’re linked to racism, extremism or violent groups, yet large swaths of republicans are complacent with it.
Mitch McConnell’s likely to vote to impeach him, who’d have imagined that a few months ago?
When I see the various traditional Republican voters who have formed multiple PACs like the Lincoln Project with the sole purpose of removing Donald Trump from office through a presidential election, it is hard for me to believe Trump has an 85% approval rating from Republican voters. I get the feeling that number is probably much lower after January 6.
I do believe the GOP has been reduced to a regional party and it may be a long time before we see a Republican in the White House again. The GOP’s real problem is demographics and they don’t have a good record of building support from the young voter base, and I really believe this got enforced with Trump. Combine that with Democrats who probably will deliver one day on the promise of lifting the shackles of slavery that is student loan debt, well…
I completely agree, Georgia is the perfect example.
Trump kicked the hornets nest and incentivized millions to vote that would ordinarily not otherwise.
These new voters have a taste of victory, they’ve been motivated to watch the sausage-making and participate, they’re here for at least a generation and they’re carefully watching for district gerry-mandering and vote suppression in area’s where that’s been the norm.
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I met Ross Perot back in 1992. I was in the army and he saw me and a buddy and took the time to talk to us because we were in uniform. I saw the power of his movement and what he brought to the 92 election as he formed a new party. You know after he passed it on, it was like he never happened.
It will be hard to match the personality of Trump just like it was Perot. I don’t even think his children will come close as much as many dream they are in line for the DC crown.
Did you see the latest Rasmussen poll?
I don’t pay attention to Rasmussen as they get a low score for accuracy and lean to favor Republicans. Just like I don’t pay a lot of attention to certain polls that lean Democrat. Rasmussen doesn’t have a good reputation.