Trump protesters occupied Capitol Hill, some breaking glass and entering the parliament building, while the two chambers of Congress were about to confirm Joe Biden as the new president of the United States.
President-elect Joe Biden went on TV, rightly calling the event unfolding on Capitol Hill an assault on the Rule of Law. Biden called on Trump to go on national TV now and demand an end of the siege.
Finally, President Trump released a video message. Instead of saying that Joe Biden had won and that it was all over, the Liar-in-Chief repeated false claims about the 2020 presidential election: it “was stolen from us. There was a landslide election … But you have to go home now …”
Democrats win the Georgia Senate race and there a majority in the US Sentate
Also today, January 6, 2021 it has become clear that the two candidates of the Democrats in the Georgia Senate race have won. Therefore, Democrats manage to win back the majority in the United States Senate. At first sight, it’s a tie: 50 Democrats facing 50 Republicans. However, in the case of a tie in the US Senate, Vice-President Kamala Harris, who presides over this chamber, has the decisive additional tie-breaking vote.
Georgia has elected the State’s first Black Senator: Reverend Raphael Warnock (*1969). Since 2005, he is a senior pastor at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, the same church pastored by civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr. After his election, he told CNN he hopes to bring the concerns of ordinary citizens to the United States Senate.
Jon Ossoff (*1987) is a documentary film producer and investigative journalist. While in high school, he interned for civil rights leader and U.S. Representative John Lewis. Jon Ossoff is the first Jewish Senator from Georgia and, at 33, the youngest.
Democrats control now the White House as well as both chambers of Congress. This means President Joe Biden, his administration and his party will have no excuse when it comes to pushing through the Democratic agenda. It’s all in the hands of the new team.
The United States are facing problems on many fronts: the covid19 pandemic and the economic and social crisis related to it, public debt and budget deficit, the infrastructure falling apart, college debt and college tuition fees, the level of education in public schools, pollution leading to man-made climate change (at the same time, there will always be natural climate-change; you can find climate-change deniers on both sides), the rising rival CCP China (a bully in the South China Sea and elsewhere, not respecting intellectual property, repressing Muslim Uighurs, crushing democracy in Hong Kong), mending ties with the EU and other allies, lack of privacy on the web (Google, Facebook, Microsoft, etc.), Putin’s Russia (Syria, Ukraine, etc.), Iran’s nuclear deal, etc. Joe Biden has to address the dire economic and social situation in some US regions. There is no such thing as “flyover” country. Nobody can be left behind.
Obviously, Joe Biden and his team cannot solve all those problems in four years. They will have to set priorities. Let’s hope Joe Biden has learned the lesson from Obama’s disastrous foreign policy (Iraq, Syria, Libya, Ukraine, etc.). There is no time for another amateur-hour after the disastrious years of George W. Bush, Barack Obama and Donald Trump.
On the brighter side, Joe Biden is a moderate Democrat who can work across the aisle. Here and there, he will need moderate Republicans — a few of them are still left 🙂 — to push through ambitious reforms the United States desperately need in all kind of policy fields.
The photo shows Reverend Raphael Warnock in August 2020. Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Raphael_Warnock_for_Senate_(cropped).jpg + https://www.flickr.com/photos/190241126@N08/50335629636/
Article added on January 6, 2021 at 22:43 Swiss time.
