Biden's address this evening was at least as poignant and salient as Eisenhower's just before JFK was inaugurated in 1961. Ike warned of the dangers of power concentrated in the Military Industrial Complex. Biden warns of unprecedented concentration of power and wealth in the hands so few.
At the 23:50 minute mark of the video (btw, President Biden doesn't begin until 16 minutes or so into the vid), Biden warns of the dangerous concentration of power into the hands of a small number of ULTRA wealthy people. Today, an extreme oligarchy is forming in America that literally threatens our basic rights and freedoms.
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Today I also received this from Democracy Docket reflecting on Jack Smith's January 6, 2021 report (released just a day or so ago):
Were it not for President-elect Donald Trump’s election victory, an investigation found that there was enough evidence to convict him in a trial for his crimes. [...]
[T]he full report nonetheless offers the most comprehensive view yet into the overwhelming evidence of Trump’s alleged election subversion crimes.
Trump was charged in August 2023 with four counts for his [TREASONOUS] efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election: Conspiracy to defraud the United States; conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding; obstruction of and attempt to obstruct an official proceeding and conspiracy against the right to vote and have one’s vote counted.
“[F]or more than two months following election day on November 3, 2020, the Defendant [Donald Trump] spread lies that there had been outcome-determinative fraud in the election and that he had actually won,” the indictment read. “These claims were false, and the Defendant knew that they were false.”
One disappointment I have at this time in history is that broadcast/print and many on social media NOW write as if Trump has already retaken the Oval Office. He has not. He may do so next Monday at noon Eastern Time. Remember Yale historian Professor Timothy Snyder's guidance to refuse to obey in advance.
It may be short, but there IS still time for Congress to bar Trump, for good and proper cause, from ever taking office again. They should enact legislation declaring him ineligible for office pursuant to the United States Constitution, 14th amendment, Section 3.
In the meantime, I refuse to express in MY WORDS that Trump has retaken office.
