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Democrat says Trump is ‘stealing’ from taxpayers and could be impeached if Republicans lose control of Congress (www.independent.co.uk)
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[–] tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 1 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

it could

It absolutely couldn't. Best estimates show dems gaining a couple seats in the midterms, and conviction requires 2/3 of the senate. There's no way 15+ of the GQP are gonna suddenly not be fascist bootlickers.

[–] FauxLiving@lemmy.world 2 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

They're talking about the parliamentary process, not the political reality.

[–] Flamekebab@piefed.social 1 points 5 hours ago

I was asking about the political reality.