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I’m sorry, but they swore oaths to the Constitution. It’s not about practicality or what’s politically expedient—it is their duty to impeach if the president commits crimes in office, which he has. Do your fucking jobs. Wtf.
Democrats are feeling constant pressure from their base to disrupt the Trump administration, admitting to frustrated voters that they have no real leverage outside of the courts unless they win back at least one chamber of Congress
anything they can do about that?
Publicily advocate their base join grassroots and decentralized movements that enact direct action since the courts and political system are completely captured by fascists and time is of the essence?
Seems like that’d be a bit more useful than what they’re doing now, which is effectively nothing.
that’s my point they can’t do anything about impeachment, but people are shouting at the democrats like they should occupy the government or else the are nazi collaborators. the far left campaigning hard against the democrats and helping trump as always
They’ve filed a bunch of articles already. House speaker is a Republican.
I hope you voted for Harris and didn’t skip it.
Stop talking and fucking do something!
Well, you get part of your wish. The article’s about how they’re going to stop talking and not do anything.
Well yeah he was impeached twice on his first term and that did absolutely jack shit.
Without 13 red turncoats it accomplishes nothing except take up debate time slots, which might be worthwhile tbh.
They don’t have enough votes, and Republicans are all too scared of Trump to vote against him.
They probably could get enough votes for impeachment, not enough in the Senate to remove him. So it would be career suicide for any Republican to vote to impeach him. As they know there would be retribution for fulfilling their oath.
Nah, they wouldn’t even be able to get enough votes for impeachment.
There are Republicans who voted to impeach Trump and called him guilty previously, who are still in the Senate. It’s definitely possible, I just dont see them doing it knowing it will make them become targets after the Senate doesn’t remove him
On the one hand I’m furious. On the other hand it’s absolutely understandable seeing how infested things are with fascists right now. That it would have really only been for show. And that effort might be more effective elsewhere. There is going to be some effort somewhere right? Guys? Guys!?
That’s the thing, an impeachment proceeding would at least create a government record of what evidence there is of what crimes and impeachable offenses there are, and the backup plan seems to be to hope they can win midterms
And any amount of time the GOP spends defending their criminal King is time they aren’t actively fucking everyone over.
Ideally, absolutely. Realistically I don’t think they care about a record of their crimes. They’re committing them in Broad daylight. And daring anyone to do anything about it. There will be plenty to record whether or not any impeachment is pushed. If it can mean action can be put somewhere to make a real difference I’m all for it. Yes I’d like to see all the crimes cataloged etc. But that is getting to be a Herculean task at this point. They commit them like breathing. Two things they shouldn’t do.
They should just plan for a 1 and a half year impeachment proceeding, run a lot of their candidates on being antitrump and pro impeachment, and obstruct or boycott all remaining legislative processes possible until the Trump administration submits to a rule of law. If they play a long game of it, it can help them win midterms. By then, they could have the votes and have made the case.
They’d have to flip every Senate seat that is up for vote from here till 2026, and even then it’d be close.
As always, most of their effort will be used to try and stifle progressives.
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I don’t know any actual activists who are foolish enough to think Impeachment would do anything. Just liberals LARPing in the streets while it’s safe.
