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Oh I'm sure we'll get him this time. Yup all those other times he dodged responsibility for his actions were just practice. This will truly be the moment of reckoning.
schumer and hakeem will give a strongly worded letter, when thier AIPAC masters tell them too.
I have zero faith in Dems at this point, so, yea.
"Could be"? Are they setting the stage for yet another example of when Democrats have the power to do something beneficial...they simply decide not to?
Their messaging needs to be simple and clear.... Trump and his cabinet are breaking the law, and must be impeached.
why is stealing in scare quotes? that's literally what he's factually objectively demonstrably fucking obviously doing
While the media are generally cowardly if not outright fawning towards Trump, in this case I think the quotes are not intended to be scare quotes. This is a standard journalistic way of indicating in the headline that this is a direct quote, not a paraphrase, of what he said.
makes sense
Impeached??? Omg! Not again! How ever would they survive? Unprecedented
hell his Greenland threats alone are grounds for impeachment. fuck all this.
anything to distract from said EPSTEINFILESTHATMAKETRUMPLOOKDEVIANTANDANYOTHERRICHPERSON.
As an outside observer - does impeaching do anything? I thought he'd got two of those under his belt already and it made no difference.
Impeachment is done in the House of Representatives and is similar to an indictment. After the House impeaches a government official a trial is held in the Senate. A conviction requires a two thirds vote in the Senate. If convicted the official is removed from office and may be barred from holding future office.
Trump has been impeached twice but neither trial has resulted in the 67 votes required for conviction in the Senate.
You have to impeach in order to remove from office. So far impeachment hasn't led to that, but it could.
the gop will never remove one of thier own office, they may virtue signalling by doing it in the house, but they made deals ahead of time knowing the senate will not convict.
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.
They're talking about the parliamentary process, not the political reality.
I was asking about the political reality.
The House has the power to impeach him...but only the Senate has the power to remove him. All the other times Democrats had control of the House, while Republicans controlled the Senate.
A bit misleading, to have the power to remove Trump requires 67 Senate votes which means removing every single Republican up for reelection and losing no seats or otherwise convincing those Republicans to remove Trump.
Even then, the line of succession will go to Christofascist Vance.
Voice of reason.
He commits impeachable offenses LITERALLY every single day. Just impeaching him with no consequences is a waste of effort, and it's not like Vance is going to be a picnic. Besides, Id rather leave Trump in and watch him make the MAGA candidates dance in 2028, teasing them about staying in or getting out, etc. He'll have lots to say, and they'll be afraid to cross him, etc. It's going to be entertaining.
If Vance is in, it gives him a chance to normalize MAGA, and make them viable for 2028.
vance can then be impeached if he does not follow the law.
Will he be impeached before or after he's excommunicated?
EDIT: I was wrong, he's Catholic, he should be excommed
Evangelicals don't believe in excommunication, their churches don't have central authorities which is why so many of them turn into money grubbing scams like televangelists with mega-churches.
And then you'll have the equally loathsome Mike Johnson. It's scumbags all the way down with that mob.
Vance will have chosen Thiel as his vice before then.
I reckon Thiel is probably pretty content where he is, running things behind the scenes.
The VP has to be confirmed by the Senate if appointed after the election. A Senate that would convict Trump wouldn't confirm Thiel.
following the law which includes the constitution should be the standard regardless. then it goes all the way down.
Republicans won't tho
if trump gets impeached then theoretically congress should be functioning again and enforcing the constitution and law on the executive.
I feel like Vance for all his aspirations cannot be compared to an elderly serial rapist pedophile who dodged the draft and tore down a wing of the whitehouse.
“Could be”? Wtf. Dems need a spine. Or be replaced with someone who does.
Democrats promised this in 2020 and didn't follow through. Get a new lie.
Democrats didn't control the Senate all those other times.
Stop making excuses. The caucus had a majority from 2020 to 2022.
Republicans controlled the Senate in 2020...and after that, Biden was president until 2024.
Yes, and during the time democrats had a majority, they did fucking nothing to bring him to justice.
To hear you talk about it, you'd think there is no such thing as a democratic majority ever.
Block him and stall his efforts. Public hearings.