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[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 41 points 1 year ago (2 children)

They should remove him from the Senate entirely, since he's violating his oath of office on the daily.

[–] GentlemanLoser@ttrpg.network 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Can he be removed from Earth?

[–] SkyezOpen@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] Fhek@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago

Jewish space laser.

[–] TechyDad@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

For better or worse, removing a Senator is hard to do. The Senate would need two thirds of Senators to agree with this removal. Even if every Democrat agreed (and I'm even including Sinema and Manchin here), you'd still need 17 Republicans to vote for it.

Of course, it's a good thing that it's hard to do this. Otherwise, the next time Republicans controlled the Senate, they'd start kicking out Democrats one after another for the most idiotic of reasons.

[–] greenskye@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

Honestly I think it's worse. I'd be fine with the occasional good senator being removed if it was equally easy to remove the bad. More turnover in general wouldn't be a bad thing for Congress, especially if it's in response to something specific. That indicates a somewhat healthy democracy where senators are held accountable to something

[–] sturmblast@lemmy.world -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

honestly I don't think it would be hard to get 17 Republicans to support the military

[–] tory@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Ah, you think they still have morals and haven't sacrificed them all on the altar of bad faith? I'm jealous of your worldview.

[–] sturmblast@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I just don't believe that all of them in their entirety are against the military, most people support the military and it is one of the unifying things about all the parties in the political landscape

[–] thecrotch@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

Maybe not but they love the military industrial complex even more than the Democrats do