With great fanfare, President elect Joe Biden and Vice President elect Kamila Harris were sworn in at the United States Capitol amongst a bipartisan group of dignitaries who were socially distanced.

Notably absent and in a breach of tradition, Donald Trump did not attend the inauguration, nor was the customary invitation to the White House given by Trump to incoming President Biden.

Donald Trump seemed to want to escape Washington DC as early as possible so that he could get a free flight on Air Force One one last time to his new home in Florida.

Vice President Pence along with his wife attended the inauguration as well as congressional leaders, ex-president’s including Barack Obama, William Jefferson Clinton, George Bush, and their respective wives. Retired congressional leaders also attended along with other dignitaries.

There was heavy security in the nation’s capital due to the fact that right wing white supremacist terrorists and insurgents attack the United States Capitol two weeks earlier with the intent of trying to overturn the United States election and democracy at the behest of Donald Trump.

The nation seemed to breathe a sigh of relief as normalcy seemed to return back to the government with Biden’s inauguration.

Lady Gaga saying the Star-Spangled Banner, Jennifer Lopez saying America the beautiful, and Garth Brooks saying amazing Grace. They all gave great performances.

Due to the Covid 19 pandemic, and the security situation in the United States Capitol, rather than having people fill the area in front of the capital and the reflecting pond, which is ordinarily the custom during presidential inauguration’s, instead 200,000 Star-Spangled Banner flags were planted to symbolize people.

President Biden comes into office with an unprecedented number of serious problems to resolve after the tumultuous and disastrous Trump presidency. There is a Covid 19 pandemic, a once in 100-year deadly viral outbreak that has killed over 410,000 people as of Biden’s inauguration. Further, millions are out of work, and hundreds of thousands of businesses have gone under due to the Covid 19 pandemic.

Most experts agree that Donald Trump’s utter failure to provide competent leadership on the coronavirus pandemic situation was the cause for the massive economic downturn related to the failure.

Biden also has to deal with the diminution of the United States on the world stage, global warming, a crumbling infrastructure, and many other problems that were not dealt with under Donald Trump.

Both Democrats and Republicans seemed to breathe a sigh of relief as Joe Biden was sworn in.

Joe Biden said, “now it’s time to get to work.”

By Norman Gregory

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Outgoing President Donald Trump was impeached for a second time today by the United States House of Representatives, for inciting sedition related to the attack on the United States Capitol building.

History was made for two reasons, first Donald Trump is the only president in American history to be impeached twice during a four-year term or any term for that matter, and secondly this was the most bipartisan impeachment of a President in United States history.

Obviously, the fact that Donald Trump was impeached for sedition against the United States government makes him the only president to ever be impeached for sedition as well.

Now Nancy Pelosi must transmit the impeachment documents to the Senate. The Senate leader McConnell says that he will not call the Senate back in the session until after Joe Biden has been sworn in as the new president.

This effectively means that the trial in the Senate on the impeachment will not occur until after Donald Trump has transitioned out of office, and Joe Biden is the new president.

Many Republican House of representative members questioned why the Democrats would impeach Donald Trump if he has only one week to remain in office, although ten Republicans joined in the vote for impeachment.

The Democrats responded by saying this type of conduct cannot be tolerated under any circumstances, and they want to ensure that Donald Trump will never be able to hold office again on the grounds that he is a clear and present danger to the United States of America.

Only 16 Republican senators need to join in on the Senate impeachment for all Trump to be convicted on the impeachment. It Donald Trump is convicted in the Senate on the impeachment, a simple majority vote will that be done to confirm that Donald Trump will no longer be able to hold office.

President elect Joe Biden has stated that he will defer to the Congress to decide the matter, and that his main interest is in dealing with the coronavirus pandemic and bringing back the economy.

By Norman Gregory

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At the time we called this a bloodless coup d’état or insurrection, but in fact blood was spilled.

As United States Air Force veteran who used to salute the Star-Spangled Banner every day, and who has sworn an oath to uphold and defend the Constitution twice in my life the last time being in 1997 up to the present, I was appalled. I am sure most Americans who observed what was going on were also appalled.

Since the attempted coup d’état and insurrection of Trump supporters, I have been watching the news constantly as are many of you as well.

I am not a psychiatrist nor am I some kind of left-wing radical, I am a middle road of the road type a guy, and it is not hard to see that Trump supporters and many on the right have become radicalized by constant seven day a week 24-hour right-wing propaganda of the type that Goebbels used when he served Adolf Hitler, to radicalize the Germans to start World War II, and to murder 6 million Jews.

In essence not only have many Republicans and Trump supporters become radicalized, but they are brainwashed into a Trump cult. They being the victims of constant propaganda which spews hate and demonization against Democrats and so-called liberals, like drug addicts have no clue that they are in what amounts to a death cult. They do not know they are brainwashed. The parrot the crap they have been fed.

You can see the difference between the way Donald Trump was campaigning, and the way Joe Biden was campaigning. Donald Trump talked about the radical left and how the country would not survive if the Democrats were elected, and that the Democrats were radical, and that the Democrats were communist and socialist, and that there is no way the economy would do good under the Democrats.

Whereas Joe Biden talked about bringing the nation together and representing all Americans.

The hateful and divisive rhetoric not only from Donald Trump, but from his supporters and political party, the Republicans, have never in our history been so insidious and hateful.

For the eight years before Pres. Trump was elected, Barack Obama ran the country just fine and saved it from economic calamity and brought the nation back. If you listened to the rhetoric from Donald Trump and the Republicans, Barack Obama destroyed the nation which in fact was not only not the case, but it was a boldface lie. This is called disinformation.

When you have a political party that is so hell-bent on gaining power or staying in power that they will say and do anything, we are in big trouble. There are feebleminded people amongst us who will believe the false narrative and take action which was seen during the insurrection this week.

What is the scary part of the insurrectionists at the capital were people from all walks of life including lawyers, firefighters, retired military personnel, etc. being a part of it.  In other words, not all of the brainwashed insurrectionists that tried to take down our country were feebleminded, some of them were smart enough to know better.

The people that attacked our capital and our Congress with the intent to overturn the election and therefore our constitutional government, because they did not like the results, are enemies of our nation and our people. They are the enemy within. These are not ordinary people; these are people who are brainwashed and not in their right mind. These are people who have been listening and watching compartmentalized brainwashing propaganda and disinformation from right wing media sources, and these people for the most part do not get news or information from any other sources.

After a while someone who nonstop listens to disinformation and propaganda begin to believe the bull crap that they are being fed which is exactly what is happened to the Republican Party of today.

I am hopeful that the people that are brainwashed by right wing disinformation are too lazy to actually really start a civil war. The fact is we Americans all have more in common than not. You know there is something seriously wrong though with people who know hundreds of thousands of people have died from a coronavirus pandemic but yet they will still walk around without a mask acting like nothing is wrong simply because Donald Trump told them so.

The mob that descended upon Washington was a wake-up call for us all. A motivated force could have easily gotten into the capital and taken out one branch of our government.

If you do not know you should know based upon the insurrection that took place last week, our representative democracy is hanging by a thread. There is a percentage of the population that does not want to abide by the results of election because they lost the election. They are willing to tear down our government because they lost. Democracy requires cooperation from everyone. If your party does not win, you vote when the next election comes along and maybe you will win, maybe you will not.

I like you want those who attacked the United States Capitol to be prosecuted to the full extent of the law. I want Donald Trump removed from office now. I want Donald Trump prosecuted for inciting an insurrection along with Rudolph Giuliani, Donald Trump’s sons, and any other party who incited the insurrection.

I want a quick reaction force to be stationed in Washington DC to prevent what happened at the US Capitol building from ever happening again.

I love the United States of America, but there are people that love Donald Trump out there more than they do their own nation. It is time now for we as Americans to call out the constant right-wing propaganda that is creating these monsters that attacked the United States Capitol. It is time for United States businesses who love capitalism, to shut down advertising for media that promotes right wing extremism. As they can see, if allowed to go unchecked, they will soon lose their nation as well.

I am a free-speech guy, but not when that speech incites insurrection against the United States government, that speech should not be protected.

By Norman Gregory

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Speaker of the house Nancy Pelosi has indicated that the House of Representatives will most likely initiate a second impeachment against Donald Trump for inciting insurrection against United States government, when he urged his followers to go to the United States Capitol building and use force to overturn the election.

The majority of Americans are shocked at what unfolded when the United States Capitol building was attacked by traitorous seditious minded Trump supporters attempting to interfere with the United States government certification of a lawful election. Both Democratic and Republican leaders have expressed outrage.

Both Democratic and Republican leaders have expressed deep concern about what Trump may be capable of in his last couple of weeks in office.

Some members of Trump’s cabinet have met to discuss invoking the 25^th amendment to the Constitution which in part states that if a majority of cabinet members and the vice president agree that the president can no longer discharge their function as president, that they can present those findings to the Congress who can then after a vote remove the president from office.

It is said that Vice President Pence is against invoking the 25^th Amendment.

National leaders both past and present feel that it is important to remove Trump from office to ensure the national security of the nation, and to ensure that he does not do any more damage to the nation.

Trump has for months brainwashed his followers into believing that there was no way he could lose the 2020 election unless there was rampant fraud. Once he lost the election, he claimed that he lost by fraud, and the constant brainwashing type of propaganda to his followers, have caused tens of millions of Americans to believe that the election was stolen even though there is absolutely no evidence to show wrongdoing in the election, and Trump has loss approximately 62 court cases including two Supreme Court cases.

The United States of America is in an unprecedented situation at the present time. We will report more as facts come out.

By Norman Gregory

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The United States Congress in a middle of the night joint session counted the votes of the electoral college and certified the results of the 2020 election which makes Joseph Biden, and Kamala Harris, the new President and Vice President of the United States respectively.

They will be sworn in as provided by the United States Constitution on January 20, 2021.

Soon thereafter, Donald Trump put out a press release stating that there will be “an orderly transition” on January 20.

Ordinarily when Congress certifies the results of a presidential election, the process takes approximately 30 minutes. This particular year in an extraordinary show of lack of respect for the democratic process, some disloyal House of Representative members, and a few Senators, tried to reverse the will of the American people.

They were overwhelmingly rejected.

It looks like for now the United States Representative Democracy is still intact.

By Norman Gregory

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