"Surely, this time, impeachment will have consequences!"
Even if it passes, he will never be removed from office. There is no low that Trump can sink to where Republicans will not fall in lockstep with him. It's pointless.
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Good. They should get rid of him by any means necessary.
"The non-partisan group"
HAHAHAHA!!! Fuck off!!
Who gives a shit if they're partisan. The fashies call everything left of trump partisan
Ah yes i remember these exact news at this time during his first term
Nothing news from an empty source.
Impeachment stops corrupt individuals, not an entire party of fascists
Lol as proved last time, impeachment means absolutely nothing. It didn't stop the last corrupt individual, in fact he was just reelected and is as corrupt, if not more, than before.
It's certainly doomed, but democrats already get paid to be there so why not use every tool in the book? Time Congress is arguing about impeachment is time they're not implementing fascist policies
Yeah, unless the Senate finds him guilty, which they didn't last time and won't likely this time, if won't stop him.
Exactly. The corrupt individual couldn't be stopped because theres an entire corrupted party that supports the corrupt individual.
the american democracy would be pretty good, if it wasn’t for parties… now it’s a never ending competition between two conspiracies
Lol its not the "parties"
The constitution never said anything about the two-party system.
That was an emergent property of FPTP voting system
TLDR: Fuck the FPTP system
And it's not like we didn't fuckin' see it coming, either. Washington, with one foot out the door: "Don't deify me, don't form political parties."
So, guess what else nobody listed to him about?
No GOP backing, so this is meaningless theater.
Exactly. He's been impeached twice and nothing happened. He should have been barred from office years ago. The entire process is nothing but political theatre for donors.
How many times did the magahats offer impeachment articles for Biden? The theater isn't meant to be successful, but just a constant buzz for voters.
Impeachment is irrelevant anymore
It's a process. It is like filing charges against someone, and then the Senate holds the trial. The Senate found him not guilty. So there were no consequences.
FFS no. All it did the last two times was help him, because impeachment is basically impossible and he's going to "win".
Trump has become an untouchable thanks to the people. 😄
Third time is the charm
I'm starting to think these Democrats aren't taking this seriously
Jesus Christ... NO.
Same as the last two times, it's a wasted effort without the votes in the Senate. If you can't remove him, don't bother. Focus on winning back the House and Senate in 2026.
Time and time again, this image remains relevant
Without the ACA I would’ve entered life-altering levels of debt (or died?) so I have a slightly more favorable view of democrats than this. Occasionally they move the needle, even if I find them incredibly frustrating.
They absolutely can do good things, I was mostly referring to the fact that they knew that what is happening would happen and yet put in zero protections to protect Americans from literal fascism, instead they used fear mongering as a campaign tactic.
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That's the idea. Impeach him after 26. It's in the article
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Gotta pretend they are doing something
Who exactly? Who is pretending they are doing something?? Is it democrats you’re accusing of pretending to do something?
How about maybe you try reading the article next time instead of chiming in with edgy nonsense.
It is a non partisan group called Free Speech for People. You’d have known that had you read the 1st paragraph of the article.
Oh. And while we’re on the subject of pretending… even if you were right and it is the democrats pretending- at least they pretended to do something. Because so many of you flat out admittedly did nothing.
And look what that got us.
Unfortunately this is just a sign of how bad the US has gotten.
There have been impeachment attempts on Clinton, W Bush, Obama, Trump and Biden. Impeachment was supposed to be used to stop a president acting illegally but its just become another political weapon in the US capitol.
The US system is so unbelievably broken. It entirely depends on bipartisan support to get things done but things are now too polarised to function and the electoral system prevents 3rd parties access at any level.
The two parties have destroyed democracy. It could be fixed but it would need to start at the state levels with 3rd parties coming in and rebuilding the electoral system. But the 2 parties have even gerrymandered the constituencies so only the two parties can win.
Even other countries with first past the post systems have other viable political parties - look at the UK, Australia and Canada. Fptp is flawed and breed an replacing but the US version is next level for locking in the status quo.
It's not "the two parties". The Republicans impeachment efforts have universally been partisan witch hunts - even the successful one against Clinton. (And I am no fan of Clinton. He should have been ostracized by the Democrats a long time ago). W Bush and Trump both committed crimes worthy of removal from office. It's not the same at all.
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Just an FYI, Australia doesn't have first past the post, rather we have preferential and compulsory voting. We're quite proud of it. An independent organisation creates voting districts which means gerrymandering is minimised
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Kick that fat stupid bastard out on his diapered ass fast as you can
This was a look I was hoping only Republicans would champion. Ceremonial impeachments etc. One little trick i hope they master is shutting down the government just because they felt like it.
Impeachment has been of no consequence for more than half a century. Yet another demonstration that the US constitution is fucking idiotic.
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Impeachment is pointless when the republican traitor filth control more than 1/3 of the senate. Suggest other solutions to dealing with trump.
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