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The presidential transition of power that took the world’s breath away finally took place peacefully on Jan. 20, 2021, local Time. Instead of handing over to the military, as the pro-Trumpers analyzed and I also expected, the new president, Joe Biden, was inaugurated.
However, it could not be accurately called a “handover” but rather an “inauguration” or “enthronement” of the new president, as outgoing President Trump refused to attend the ceremony and flew early with his Family on Air Force One, returned to his Home in Florida. On the eve of his departure, Trump’s youngest daughter also held an engagement ceremony at the White House. It is customary for the outgoing president to leave a letter to the incoming president in his office, and it is said that Trump’s letter to Bay had only one sentence: Joe, you know I won. But whether this is true or not will have to be declassified later.
The first president in U.S. history to refuse to attend the inauguration of his successor was John Adams (Oct. 30, 1735 – July 4, 1826).
In 1800, Adams Sr. lost the presidential election to Jefferson and failed in his bid for re-election. Adams Sr. and Jefferson were once close comrades, but later had serious differences over political views and the election, and each disliked the other very much. So Adams Sr. refused to attend Jefferson’s inauguration as the new president.
The second president in American history to refuse to attend the inauguration of his successor was John Quincy Adams (July 11, 1767 – February 23, 1848), the son of John Adams, who is also known as Adams Jr.
In 1828, Adams Jr. lost his bid for re-election as president to his opponent Andrew Jackson. Adams Jr. and Andrew Jackson were already rivals, and for the first time in the 1828 U.S. presidential election, the two rivals attacked each other with insults, completely tearing each other apart. Like his father, Adams Jr. therefore refused to attend the inauguration of the new president.
The third president in American history to refuse to attend the inauguration of his successor was Andrew Johnson (December 29, 1808 – July 31, 1875).
Johnson was inaugurated as the seventeenth president of the United States after the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln in 1865. On March 4, 1869, Ulysses S. Grant became the eighteenth president of the United States. Johnson and Grant had different political views and their relationship was not good, so Johnson refused to attend Grant’s presidential inauguration.
This time Trump refused to attend Biden’s inauguration, apparently because he thought Biden’s presidency was not elected by fair competition, but “stolen”.
President Trump’s farewell speech at Andrews Air Force Base was watched online by 3 million people, 140,000 liked it and 4,200 disliked it, so it’s not unusual for a random video to exceed 500,000 or millions. Biden’s inauguration was watched by less than 500,000 people at most, with 2,300 people liking it and 3,500 disliking it.
“Trump left with the words, I’ll be back in some form! The much-anticipated list of pardons saw Trump pardon 73 people and commute the sentences of 70. Among them was his former ‘comrade in arms’ Bannon. But not Assange and Snowden, who are highly cried out on the internet. Many people in the Republican Party are said to have threatened Trump that if he pardons these two people, he will definitely push for his impeachment with all his might. In addition, Trump did not pardon himself and his family, while former President Barack Obama did so!” (Xue Jingzhong, “Hearts and Minds are Weighing Poles: Some Comparisons of Trump’s Departure and Biden’s Inauguration” 2021.1.21)
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What is unprecedented and will constantly be brought up for comment by people around the world is this.
To ensure a smooth transition of power, tens of thousands of U.S. troops surrounded Washington like an iron barrel, blocking off the streets as if they were enemies. In its 245 years of existence, the United States has never had a presidential inauguration that was so fraught with uncertainty and uncertainty. The total strength of the current capital is 25,000, more than the total number of U.S. troops in Afghanistan and Iraq. And Trump’s presidency has continued to withdraw troops from both countries, with the U.S. military presence now down to 2,500 each.
Two hundred thousand U.S. flags flew in the inauguration plaza instead of the spectators. Biden’s inauguration stage, installed with bullet-proof glass, a large teleprompter board just below the camera frame.
I wonder if this is considered military interference or non-interference in politics?
After the total failure of executive, judicial and legislative (congressional) relief, people in the pro-Trump camp pinned their last hope on the military, but as Windling’s “A Farewell to Trump: That Good Fight Has Been Fought” (2021.1.20) put it.
There are always people who believe that Trump will take back power through military force, but Trump himself has long dismissed martial law as “Fake News” on Twitter. If you calm down and do a little analysis, you can see that subjectively and objectively, this is neither feasible nor possible.
Objectively, Trump withdrew a large number of troops from overseas and did not start a new war, which is the first time in decades, so loved by ordinary soldiers, but the upper echelon of the military head is part of the military-industrial complex, the hair is the national tragedy, war money, on the Trump who broke their fortune has long wanted to expel them. Before Biden took office, the heads of the seven major military services bypassed the Department of Defense and joined forces to pledge their allegiance to Biden, something never seen before in American history.
Last summer the BLM movement was a mess, and even Washington, D.C., burned to the ground. Trump shouted “Law and Order” every day, sending troops or National Guard to maintain order everywhere. The military and local communities strongly resisted, and it was impossible to implement. It can be seen that Trump’s control over the military is actually very limited.
Trump is simply not well received by Washington bureaucrats, except for the support of We The People. The Department of Justice and the FBI have let election fraud go uninvestigated (some say there is not enough evidence on Trump’s side of the allegations of fraud, so please compare Russiagate to Ugate, thank you); the Director of National Intelligence’s report on foreign interference in the election, which was scheduled for December 17, has not been officially released until now (perhaps people in important departments have already seen it). The Director of Intelligence had to write a letter to Congress stating his belief that the report did not give an accurate picture of the depth of foreign interference in the election. Intelligence officials pressured grassroots intelligence officers not to allow them to express their analysis of foreign interference in the election. Intelligence officials abandoned the principle of political neutrality by disagreeing with Trump’s policies and not wanting to present intelligence that would help Trump. In other words, intelligence officials were simply unwilling to allow Trump to get a reason to initiate quelling laws; Pence, McConnell, Romney, Bush Jr, Liz Cheney (daughter of VP Cheney Jr) and a whole host of other RINOs defected and fell in line.
In this case, Trump’s rash activation of the counterinsurgency law is almost tantamount to suicide.
Subjectively, Trump is a defender of conservative values and focuses on Law and Order. He has not even started any wars overseas, so how could he provoke violent civil strife at home? More importantly, Trump is a democratically elected president, not a revolutionary. He knows that his authority comes from the people and from the Constitution, and he will not do anything that is not explicitly authorized by the people and the Constitution. (Including the recent daily clamor in the left media that Trump is going to pardon himself and his family, also a blatant disinformation.) Even if the election is stolen, most conservative voters still want to operate within the established constitutional framework, so Trump has always insisted on the legal defense of his rights. Of course, this road to go through go not, what to do in the future, is another issue.
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Some say Trump lost because of the Epidemic. Wrong! Trump is defeated by the deep government, he is a man fighting windmills.
Behind Trump’s departing back, it is clearer to see that he is indeed facing a deep government that is so disjointed that they are exhausting all means to bring Trump down. They are beyond partisanship, beyond the media, beyond the separation of powers and military neutrality. They would rather create riots, rather load guns for the presidential inauguration, rather rip apart American society, rather block Trump and his supporters’ social accounts across the board, and never let Trump’s evidence of fraud formally enter the executive, judicial, legislative cross-examination process, and even the final military pacification process.
Black Life expensive, the new crown epidemic, are just excuses they use to overthrow Trump.
After Biden officially took office, the New York Times and other mainstream media have begun to change their tune in due course to say that the epidemic is nothing more than like a cold, whereas previously they played it up like the sky was going to fall apart. How many people have been vaccinated, the number and rate of infections have dropped dramatically and so on have become the focus of coverage. “The light is shining, the vaccine is working, the California outbreak is starting to improve,” etc.
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Behind Trump, there is a torn American society. And this tear, not caused by Trump, is the deep government, vested interests over the past four years deliberately pile up success. Trump, with the fearlessness of a political vegetarian, has unveiled this tear to people around the world. Now, the deep-rooted government has lifted a stone to break its own feet and must clean up the mess itself.
Of course, they originally put the interests of the group above the interests of the country and the people, so I’m afraid it doesn’t matter if they clean up or not.
The latest poll shows that 80% of the respondents believe that American society is facing serious divisions. According to a recent survey conducted by a U.S. pollster, about 80% of the American people believe that “American society is facing a serious split,” Russia Today TV reported on the 20th. The new pneumonia epidemic, racial discrimination and growing social rifts are all problems in front of the new Biden Administration. (GlobeNewswire 2021-01-21 09:41)
Biden’s inauguration speech, repeatedly mentioned the need for unity: “We need the most elusive thing in democracy, and that is unity. Unity. I know that it may sound like a silly fantasy to talk about unity right now. I know that the forces that divide us are deep and real. We can see each other as neighbors, not adversaries. We can treat each other with dignity and respect. We can unite, stop shouting, and reduce our anger. Because without unity there is no peace, only pain and anger, no progress, only exhausting anger. Unity is the way forward. We must meet this moment in the name of the United States of America.”
Anyone’s speech is moving. But for four years, when the Democrats were cooking up Russiagate, when they were unleashing the left media to smear Trump across the board, when the executive, judiciary and legislature were blocking Trump’s access to election relief, when social media platforms were blocking Trump and his supporters across the board, and even when Trump still unconstitutionally initiated a second impeachment with only the last ten days left in his term, did they have “unity Do they have the word “unity”?
It is said that so far, in more than two hundred years of history, the U.S. president has been impeached four times, two of which were against Trump.
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In Trump’s wake, the separation of powers, freedom of speech, and military neutrality in the United States have largely existed in name only.
Fortunately, the most important value of America’s 200-plus years of liberal progress is not the superficially proclaimed, bookishly misinterpreted things above, but the civil liberties guaranteed by the First Amendment to the Constitution, and the independence of states’ rights guaranteed by the federal system, and the interstate competition derived from those independencies.
In other words, it is the chutzpah between civil liberties rights and power that is at the root of American prosperity. No matter how dirty the kitchen (public power) is, the guests entering and leaving the hotel (civil rights) are civilized and orderly.
In addition to the ten articles established by the First Amendment, the following constitutional amendments, which serve this purpose, are significant.
February 7, 1795, to limit the jurisdiction of the federal courts over the states.
February 3, 1913, the power of Congress to levy and collect income taxes.
April 8, 1913, the mandatory direct election of federal senators representing the states.
Yes, the most fundamental and important value of the United States for more than two hundred years was not in the republic, but in the independence of the states and the autonomy of the citizens under federalism. As British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher said in a speech thirty years ago.
“Our British contribution to Europe is very unique. For centuries we have fought to prevent Europe from falling under the domination of a single power, we have fought and died for the freedom of Europe, and without that will to fight, to sacrifice, Europe would have been united long ago, but that unity has neither freedom nor justice to speak of.”
Today, Britain is leaving the European Union. And America’s 200-plus years of federalism have guaranteed freedom and competition.
In both politics and economics, the value of freedom and competition trumps the value of democracy. The key to this is clear from the observation of economic and technological innovation: it is the freedom and innovation of the few who “win by one” that has brought about the commercial and technological revolutions that have led to the economic and social prosperity of mankind and the expansion of individual freedom.
The rigidity and decadence of the bureaucratic class and the democracy of “more is better than less” are what stifle vitality, innovation and freedom.
Therefore, we cannot rule out the possibility of a new American fracture brewing behind Trump.
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The back of Trump, the earth is pale, the more distant the clearer.
According to the American media Breitbart News (Breitbart News) published on January 19, columnist Nolte (John Nolte) in an opinion article, according to Rasmussen Reports (Rasmussen Reports), President Trump’s last day in office, the approval rate of 51%, which is only three in the legitimacy and accuracy, one of only three polling firms with a track record of both legitimacy and accuracy. Trump’s disapproval rating was only 48 percent. (Scholar’s Pulpit 2021.1.21)
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The road ahead for America is uncertain.
ChineseLife.com January 22, 2021 with “Riots in the West! Biden just took office, left-wing groups set off a new round of national smash-and-grab! BLM: The battle has just begun! disclosed under the headline.
While far-left groups have launched dozens of protest demonstrations against former President Trump’s administration over the months, even creating the Seattle Borough, among others, they have failed to quell their discontent as the new administration takes office.
While there have been right-wing extremist groups vowing to disrupt Biden’s inauguration, there were no protests or violence from right-wing groups on Wednesday.
Instead, left-wing groups Antifa (Antifa) and BLM (Black Lives Matter Too) began mass demonstrations and riots across the western United States hours after the inauguration of new President Joe Biden. They clashed with police, Democratic Party offices were attacked, and many stores were vandalized.
A spokesman for the BLM group reportedly stressed that the 20th was a very significant day because “today is the day to abandon Trump, but there is still a need to embrace the struggle, the battle has just begun. The demonstrators distributed flyers that read: “The fact that the Democratic Party is in power does not mean that the oppressed people have won.
Who opened Pandora’s Box? Who can put the devil back in the box?
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And Biden’s path may stagger.
Wu Xiaoman, “Biden’s Call for Unity Brings Increasing Confrontation; This Winter Is a Little Slow and Long but Not Over Yet! (2021.1.22) reveals.
“Yesterday (Jan. 21) the Arizona Senate has announced ‘election fraud’ and Republican lawmakers have posted on the official Congressional website the newly declassified ‘Obama supported Al Qaeda,’ declassified ‘Russiagate’ information, and the JFK assassination investigation, a series of frauds and corruptions, even ‘sellouts,’ and the ‘election unconstitutionality’ trial in the high court on the 22nd, all of which have not even begun.
“The Texas Attorney General has already launched a challenge to Biden to fight the many unconstitutional and illegal actions of the new administration. So, for Biden, this is the beginning of a nightmare. He broke down in tears and mentioned his own death in his Farewell Address to his home state on the 19th.
“Biden said, ‘I’m Irish. The Irish poet Joyce said that when I die, Dublin will be written on my heart. I would also say that when I die, Delaware will be written on my heart.’ And the fact that there were only 25 people in Delaware to see him off and hear him speak is a cut-off of elite politics from the people.”
Biden’s call for unity in his inaugural address, and his emphasis on the leftist ideological judgment that “political extremism, white supremacy, and the rise of domestic terrorism, which we must fight and we will defeat,” are at the root of America’s divisions!
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The U.S. election is over for now, but it will be like the aftershock of the twilight drum and the morning bell.
Mr. Shiner left two very profound and timeless paragraphs for everyone to enjoy together.
“Support Trump, what exactly is the support? After the smoke has cleared and the sound of war is far away, this question has surfaced in the minds of countless Trump supporters. You support an old, timeless and dear common sense, you miss the peaceful wilderness and its gentle morning mist, you hear the clear sound of church bells in your ears. To be, you cherish the historical heritage of civilization, order, property and civility. Trump is a Thule symbol, an energy attractor, who gives form to your desires and passions to act. Trump’s failure is a civilizational failure, a failure of every civilized person, and we share in the sharp pain.”
“Agree with the statement that mankind has no historical memory. Death takes away part of the information and the rest is mopped up by the living (Dahwan’s note: there is also smearing and retouching). But punishment is never absent; it is more vicious than once. It is difficult to sustain the triumphalism of leftization, otherwise it would be right. Mankind needs frequently paced punishment to detract from its omnipotence. After the living is destroyed, it will ask for help from reason and be human for a while.”
Human civilization, a primitive forest fire, usually not allowed to burn, accumulated for too long, the rotten mass will become a great fire that destroys everything.
And this usually burning small fire is the very idea and speech that transcends party and power, the spread of true freedom and equality.
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