Jim McGovern, Democratic Rules Committee Vice Chair on The
Felon’s Cabinet Junk Drawer picks:
“Isn’t that usually how things go in authoritarian
dictatorships? Purge the military of anyone who might have a spine and refused
to obey an unlawful order? I mean, what the hell is going on here? And their
cabinet picks so far? I mean, these are like beyond insane. Someone who
is credibly accused of having sex with an underage girl. Someone who sucks
up to foreign dictators and has attracted major concern that they can’t be
trusted to protect America’s secrets from our adversaries. Someone who paid
hush money to cover up a sexual assault accusation, you know, to lead our
military, he’s picked because [The Felon] likes him on Fox News? Someone who
says that tap water turns kids gay? I mean, this is the dream team? This is the
dream team? Really? I mean, seriously, it would be funny if it weren’t so sad.
And hopefully, you United States Senate has a backbone and insists on a
thorough confirmation process. Look, the truth is this. The truth is that this
is not what people voted for … I’m reading the newspaper again this morning
that they want to issue blank pardons to those who committed crimes on January
6th. Republicans call them ‘political prisoners.’ I mean, these are
people who were arrested, indicted, tried, and convicted by juries and judges
and courtrooms across this country for violently attacking our brave law
enforcement officers people who smashed cops in the heads with metal
barricades, who jammed them indoors until blood was coming out of their mouths.
And the incoming administration is thinking about pardoning them. I do not
believe any of what my Republican friends are talking about on the floor today
is in line with what the American people voted for. They voted for cheaper
groceries, not whatever the hell this stuff is. They are asking us to vote for
a bill, my Republican friends, that we give the incoming administration the
ability to revoke the nonprofit status of any advocacy group they want, just by
labeling them as a ‘terrorist sympathizer.’ A bill that would give
President-elect Trump a new power to just unilaterally accuse an American group
of terrorism and then shut them down. My friends on the other side, they want
to blame trans people. Guess what? Trans people aren’t the ones raising
people’s grocery prices. Big corporations are. They wanna blame immigrants. And
here’s the deal. Immigrants aren’t the ones denying health insurance claims … It’s
the billion-dollar insurance companies that do that on a daily basis. And they
want to blame woke this and woke that, what’s woke about thinking special
interests should not be able to buy tax breaks?”
McGovern is new to me, but this is the Democratic party I
want; stand up and speak up and tell the goddamned truth about The Felon and
his so-called administration.
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