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George Washington's First Inaugural Address, April 30, 1789
Presidential inaugurations are important civic rituals in our nation's political life. The Constitution requires that presidential electoral votes be opened and counted by the Senate and House of Representatives meeting together, that the candidate with a majority of electoral votes be declared the victor, and that the president-elect, before taking charge of the office, swear an oath of office to "preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States."
In 1788, the Confederation Congress scheduled the first presidential inauguration for the first Wednesday in March of the following year. However, the early months of 1789 proved to be unseasonably cold and snowy and bad weather delayed many members of the First Federal Congress from arriving promptly in New York City, the temporary seat of government. Until a quorum could be established in both the House and the Senate, no official business could be conducted. Finally, on April 6, 1789 - over a month late - enough members had reached New York to tally the electoral ballots. The ballots were counted on April 6 and George Washington won unanimously with 69 electoral votes. Washington was then notified of his victory and traveled to New York City from his home in Virginia.
On April 30, 1789, George Washington took the oath as the first president of the United States. The oath was administered by Robert R. Livingston, the Chancellor of New York, on a second floor balcony of Federal Hall, above a crowd assembled in the streets to witness this historic event. President Washington and the members of Congress then retired to the Senate Chamber, where Washington delivered the first inaugural address to a joint session of Congress. Washington humbly noted the power of the nations' call for him to serve as president and the shared responsibility of the president and Congress to preserve "the sacred fire of liberty" and a republican form of government.
At that auspicious moment marking the birth of the federal government under the Constitution, Senator William Maclay of Pennsylvania observed that even the great Washington trembled when he faced the assembled representatives and senators. "This great man was agitated and embarrassed," Maclay added, "more than ever he was by the levelled Cannon or pointed Musket." After concluding his remarks, the President and Congress proceeded through crowds lined up on Broadway to St. Paul's Church, where a service was conducted. Social gatherings and festivities closed the nation's first inaugural day. Subsequent presidential inaugurations took place on March 4th (or March 5th when the fourth fell on a Sunday), until the Twentieth Amendment changed the date to January 20th beginning in 1937.
https://www.archives.gov/legislative/features/gw-inauguration
I ain't sayin' I am jus' sayin' Anon!
kek
Oh I see we rocking the fuck out this fine morning!
Here is one for the Shills, the PAYtriots and the Gate keepers.
TICKS AND LEECHES!
Much better. I was worried about you there for a second, Anon.
I just reheated some covfefe and lit another one!
Protestants in pulpits say that the QAnon era is creating tension in many pews
February 7, 2021
Having reached the vice president's chair in the U.S. Senate, the self-proclaimed QAnon shaman, UFO expert and metaphysical healer removed his coyote-skin and buffalo horns headdress and announced, with a megaphone, that it was time to pray.
"Thank you, Heavenly Father … for this opportunity to stand up for our God-given inalienable rights," proclaimed Jake "Yellowstone Wolf" Angeli (born Jacob Chansley), his face painted red, white and blue and his torso tattooed with Norse symbols that his critics link to the extreme right.
“Thank you, divine, omniscient, omnipotent, omnipresent Creator God for filling this chamber with your white light and love," he added, in a prayer captured on video by correspondent working for The New Yorker. "Thank you for filling this chamber with patriots that love you and that love Christ. …
"Thank you, divine Creator God for surrounding and filling us with the divine, omnipresent white light of love and protection, of peace and harmony. Thank you for allowing the United States of America to be reborn. Thank you for allowing us to get rid of the communists, the globalists and the traitors within our government."
Many phrases in this rambling prayer would sound familiar to worshippers in ordinary churches across America, said Joe Carter, an editor with The Gospel Coalition and a pastor with McLean Bible Church near Washington, D.C. But the prayer also included strange twists and turns that betrayed some extreme influences and agendas.
"This is a man who has described himself as pagan, as an ordained minister, in fact," said Carter, reached by telephone. "The alt-right has always included some pagan influences. But now it's obvious that leaders with QAnon and other conspiracy theorists have learned that if they toss in some Christian imagery, then they'll really expand their base and their potential reach 100-fold."
Law-enforcement officials will soon present evidence attempting to prove who planned key elements of the illegal riot that crashed into the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, after the legal "March to Save America" backing former President Donald Trump's claim that fraud cost him the White House.
This is just the latest example of how conspiracy theories, on the left and right, have soaked into public discourse about COVID-19 vaccines, Big Tech monopolies, sinister human-trafficking networks and, of course, alleged illegal activities in the 2016 and 2020 elections.
There is no way to deny that this digital tornado has shaken many Protestant churches, according to a new Lifeway Research survey that asked clergy to respond to this statement: "I frequently hear members of my congregation repeating conspiracy theories they have heard about why something is happening in our country."
Nearly half (49%) of participating pastors agreed with that statement and 13% strongly agreed. Another 47% disagreed, including 26% who strongly disagreed. Only 5% said they were not sure.
The online and telephone survey included a balance of large- and small-church leaders. Pastors of churches with more than 250 in attendance are the most likely to agree (61%). White pastors (50%) were more likely than Black pastors (36%) to say that they frequently hear conspiracy theory talk in their flocks.
Carter said it's interesting that older pastors in this survey – 65 years of age and up – were the most likely to say that they haven't experienced this trend. That could mean that they are unplugged from online life or that "it's younger pastors who are listening more carefully and then they recognize what they're hearing," he said.
Last spring, Carter wrote a "What Christians Should Know About QAnon" feature for The Gospel Coalition website that urged pastors and evangelical leaders to take this "political cult" more seriously.
At that point, he wrote: "Christians should care about QAnon because it's a satanic movement infiltrating our churches.Although the movement is still fringe, it is likely that someone in your church or social media circles has either already bought into the conspiracy or thinks it's plausible and worth exploring."
Carter said he would use "stronger language" if writing today.
"So many people are being tempted to turn politics into an idol," he said. More and more Americans seem to believe that "what's really important in the world is politics, while religious faith is something weak for old ladies. What matters is political power – period. That's a dangerous temptation."
https://www.getreligion.org/getreligion/2021/2/3/protestants-in-pulpits-say-that-the-qanon-era-is-creating-tension-in-many-pews
Trump Hotel in D.C. Hikes up Price for Significant QAnon Date of March 4
BY EWAN PALMER ON 2/8/21 AT 4:39 AM ES
https://www.newsweek.com/qanon-trump-hotel-washington-march-1567489
Imagine taunting your [enemy] so relentlessly. Always Soon!
Imagine how tired [they] must be. Soon!
[They] just want it to end. Soon!
Maybe today.
Maybe tomorrow.
Must be truly terrifying.
A Hurricane Warning from the FISA Court
Beware the destructive force surging from deep state waters. The struggle against deep state power is the struggle of memory against forgetting.
By Lloyd Billingsley February 3, 2021
U.S. Navy veteran Carter Page once served as an asset for the Central Intelligence Agency. FBI lawyer Kevin Clinesmith altered an email to say that Page was not a CIA asset, which exposed the Trump campaign associate, an American citizen, to surveillance under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA). Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz exposed Clinesmith’s crime, and Clinesmith was the only person in the FBI to face criminal charges as a result of U.S. Attorney John Durham’s investigation into the Obama Administration’s bogus Trump-Russia probe in 2016.
Clinesmith faced a maximum of five years in prison and a fine of $250,000. But on January 29, D.C. District Judge James Boasberg gave Clinesmith 12 months probation, a $100 fine, and 400 hours of community service. The judge did not tell Clinesmith he had betrayed the FBI, the Justice Department, or the Constitution he had sworn to uphold. No, the criminal falsification of the email, Boasberg said, was the “only stain on the defendant’s character that I have been able to discern,” adding that the case had thrust Clinesmith into “the eye of a media hurricane.” For Boasberg, a 2011 Obama appointee, that was a curious choice of words.
As some Americans may recall, “Crossfire Hurricane” was the name of the FBI-Justice Department covert operation conducted against then-candidate and later President Trump. The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court served as a strategic asset in that operation. Chief Justice John Roberts appointed Boasberg to the FISA court in 2014, and since January 2020, Boasberg has served as the FISA court’s presiding judge.
With the tap on the wrist for Clinesmith, Boasberg certifies that it’s OK to defraud the very court over which he presides. And besides, as Boasberg told the D.C. court, the warrant to surveil Carter Page would have been approved even without Clinesmith’s “misstatement.”
Yale law alum Boasberg, who earned a master’s of studies degree in modern European history from Oxford, served up a few misstatements of his own.
Clinesmith pleaded guilty to altering the email in August 2020, so in January 2021 he wasn’t exactly a “defendant.” As Joseph Klein explains, Clinesmith served since 2015 as assistant general counsel in the national security and cyber law branch of the FBI’s office of general counsel. For this official to engage in criminal falsification is more than a “stain” on his character, and it was Clinesmith’s falsification that exposed Page to media smears suggesting that he was some kind of Russian agent. After Clinesmith emerged in the 2019 Michael Horowitz report, the establishment media hardly made him a target.
The sentence of probation for Clinesmith was much less than the three-to-six month prison sentence sought by special counsel John Durham. After his appointment by Attorney General William Barr in May 2019, Durham failed to bring any criminal charges against major “Crossfire Hurricane” players James Comey, Peter Strzok, Lisa Page, and others. With the merest tap on the wrist for Clinesmith, Boasberg sends the message loud and clear.
And that message is the Justice Department and the FBI may conduct covert operations against a duly elected president of the United States, violating federal law and abusing the FISA process without serious consequence. If any player should happen to get caught, say, falsifying an email, that person will avoid prison and get only the mildest possible punishment.
MORE AT LINK - https://amgreatness.com/2021/02/03/a-hurricane-warning-from-the-fisa-court/
This Anon must have been absent this day so here's to you, New Eyes and other tards like this Anon!
Damn Anon!
I never seen no Anon ever split all the shills heads open at once like that!
kek
Soon the mask requirement will be lifted yet some will refuse to stop wearing them.
Psychologically damaged for life.
Perhaps 4-6%?
A religion based upon wearing masks will occur yet will be short lived.
GM, Sam
Crazy shit! #ITALYDIDIT #ITALYGATE >mi6>china>obama>germany>cia>leonardo spy satellites>Italian Military contractors>Vatican Bank connection and shit! Fuck it's got everything like a Conspiracy Gumbo!
No worries as they will prolly give us a few spaceships with ample supplies and we will be headed to another Earth to settle a peaceful world while this one destroys itself. They will be missed. Sniffles
It's an Asimovian thing Baby!
Eyes Wide Open!
Oh it's on!
thats in my main potus file so that counts right?
Why QAnon Followers Think Donald Trump Will Be Sworn Back In as President on March 4
BY EWAN PALMER ON 2/8/21 AT 6:40 AM EST
After more than three years of Donald Trump not taking down satanic pedophiles and the "deep state" working against him, losing the election, then failing to order mass executions at Joe Biden's inauguration, followers of the QAnon conspiracy theory are now claiming March 4 as the next significant date for the movement.
Supporters of the radical conspiracy now believe that March 4 will be the day that Trump will still somehow be sworn in as president, seemingly undeterred by the January 20 ceremony, after which Biden entered the White House, and all their other predictions since late 2017 having failed.
The theory around March 4 has been bubbling since January, as QAnon found new ways to suggest "the plan" is still in place—despite Trump no longer being president—and that supporters just need to keep faith.
Interest around the date re-emerged after it was revealed that prices to rent a room at the Trump International Hotel in Washington, D.C on March 4 have been hiked to $1,331, more than double the $596 price for a guest room for most of that month and nearly triple the lowest cost.
The hotel in the capital has previously raised its prices on dates that are significant to Trump's supporters. On January 6, the date of the Capitol attack in which QAnon followers were a part of, it cost $8,000 to rent a room that night.
The latest prediction from the QAnon movement seems to echo that of the sovereign citizen movement, whose followers believe they do not have to follow federal laws or pay taxes.
The basis of this comes from a law they believe passed in 1871 which secretly turned the U.S. into a corporation. The sovereign citizen movement, therefore, believes that every president after Ulysses S. Grant is illegitimate.
They also claim the U.S. has been run by a group of shadowy investors since 1933, when Franklin D. Roosevelt ended the gold standard. The date of presidential inaugurations was also changed from March 4 to January 20 in 1933.
As noted by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), sovereign citizens provide officials with "hundreds of pages of pseudo-legal nonsense" to help back their claims if they are implicated in a legal case.
The FBI considers sovereign citizen extremists a domestic terrorist threat and their members have been behind a number of violent incidents. Many theories in both the QAnon and sovereign citizen movements are also rooted in anti-Semitism.
"They believe that March 4, 2021 is the start for the new Republic. March 4 was the start date of the new President until it was changed in 1933," Marc-André Argentino, a researcher who studies QAnon, tweeted on January 13.
"Why do they believe all of this? Well at the end of his Jan 7 speech Trump said 'Our incredible journey is only just beginning.' QAnon obviously latched on to that statement and they are using it to provide hope to their movement that no matter what it looks like in the media it is all about optics; because the Military and Qteam have thought of everything."
MUCH MOAR TIPPY TOP KEK - https://www.newsweek.com/qanon-march-trump-president-1567525
Careful or you will be the subject of the next Newsweek "QANON" hit piece!
And telling this Anon to grow a pair is like calling King Kong a fucking monkey!
kek
Just.
Newsweek is anon JUST like you.
Because it is moar kek that way.
Now anons cannot datefag because they would simply be repeating Newsweek/MSM!
I LOVE THIS MOVIE!
Yet you do not seem to understand that this is a good thing?
All of it.
All of the free rent and free advertisement.
This movement could not afford to pay them to advertise this movement any more than they did for free.
Do you remember the first few articles?
Remember how proud everyone was as the movement rose from relative obscurity primarily via the media.
Come on, Anon!
Who is in control?
I am sorry elderly newfag SHILL BITCH who types long crybaby bullshit in all red text yet thinks it is Night shift!
kek
Go back to playing with Shills, Baby Psychobabble Anon.
At this point I will refrain as lose lips…
do not date fag! kek