While running to POTUS in 2016, Joe Biden had to navigate a field of contenders, inlcuding some, like Bernie Sanders, who were calling for sweeping changes to the US political landscape. In order to get centrist votes, and appear less radical than the other candidates, Joe Biden was caught on mic saying to his GOP friends in Congress, “I will not question your motives”. And so, the GOP understood that Biden was a candidate that was not going to rock the boat.
Rocking the boat has never been Joe Biden’s modus operandi. It helped him win the election fro sure, and I am grateful. But now, he must reverse that stance. I will enumerate some of the reasons that our sitting president must actively or publicly “question the motives” of the vast majority of the GOP Congresspeople and the GOP party in general.
After a mob of President Trump’s supporters stormed the Capitol building on January 6th 2021, they forced an emergency recess in the Congressional
proceedings to officially certify the results of the 2020 presidential election. In spite of that horrific and deadly event, organized by and for Donald Trump, 147 GOP Congressmen still voted to overturn the results of the 2020 election. We must question the motives of all Congressmen who still publicly support the Big Lie and end the peaceful transfer of power in the USA. These Congresspeople care more about their jobs more than they care about their constituents or American democracy.
I have always viewed election tampering as a form of war vs America. Free and fair elections is what defines any democracy – but particularly ours, because we were the first modern country to transition from kings to elected officials. All the other democracies on the planet copied our model. And now we have one party actively working against the founding principle of our country.
Then we have the Congresspeople who incited violence on January 6th and still do. Alabama rep, Mo Brooks, advocated that Americans start taking down names and kicking ass, literally calling for violence, as did Donald Trump when he said “fight like Hell or you won’t have a country anymore”. Josh Hawley is currently selling mugs with his fist up in support of the insurrection. Marjorie Taylor Greene called for the execution of Nancy Pelosi. These are just a small sampling of the traitorous words from sitting GOP representatives.
As I wrote this this, a decision by the current Supreme Court, which has been stacked by the GOP, has said they will stop American women from controling their own bodies – and block abortions. They know that women of means will not be affected very much by this. This is an attack on all women. Rape victims are not even exempt. So this is also a “question the motives” ruling.
The fascist countries of the world all try their best to make life miserable for their subjects. This is so the majority of subjects are too busy trying to exist to put up a fight. And then the same fascists will arrest protesters. Trump was caught saying protesters should be shot and their “heads bashed in”.
Our sitting president is our commander-in-chief. Our democracy is under attack from the inside. Biden must question the motives of all who called for violence with respect to election results or he is not defending the founding principle of the USA. He should be aware that in 1945 Germany banned their Nationaliste Party from running for office ever again.
This citizen believes 75% the GOP should be banned from running for office en masse – the way they did in Germany in 1945. Any rep who openly supported the Big Lie. shoul dbe barred from running for office. Call it a national emergency and use your war plowers Joe. THIS IS A WAR! The GOP is fighting a war vs our government and the dems and Biden are just letting it happen.
I also believe that Trump is such a danger to the US democracy that he should be banned from holding rallies, which are clearly held to spread hate of fellow Americans. Use the fire in the crowded theatre laws. Just do it and worry later.
Finally, I am trying to give AG Garland the benefit of the doubt. I reason to myself, if Garlnad intends to indict Trump, he may be waiting for what he thinks will be public support after the broadcast of the Jan 6th Committee’s public hearings started in June. So, even if that is true, if AG Garland has not indicted Trump by June 3oth, after the show is well under way, we should assume he has no intention of doing so, because that would be the ideal time to maximize public support.
And then, if I were POTUS, I would ask for AG Garland’s resignation, much like Trump asked for Jeff Sessions resignation, and install Glenn Kirschner or Frank Figliuzzi – or someone who knows what’s at stake in America, and what will be lost if Trump is not jailed.
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