• GutterRat42@lemmy.world
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    5 hours ago

    Removing Trump requires 67 votes in the senate. There is no mathematical way to get those numbers in November. I don’t agree with him, but I understand where he is coming from.

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      5 hours ago

      There is a way in the November mid-terms. You’re just naysaying for the sake of it. But I understand where you’re coming from.

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        5 hours ago

        Requires the dems winning nearly every race because the maximum they could get up to is 69 right now. If they win every single seat up for re-election.

        The dems do have an advantage though. There are more republican seats up for re-election than democrat ones.

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    5 hours ago

    I’d like him gone but it would be fun for him to stick around while a lot of his bad work is dismantled.

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      23 hours ago

      I suspect the answer is actually “yes”. AIPAC has spoken, they like trump.

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      21 hours ago

      When asked if impeachment was a top priority, Jeffries said “of course not” during an appearance on “Fox News Sunday.”

      “I’ve made clear from the very beginning that our top priority is going to be to drive down the high cost of living,” the House minority leader added.

      Sounds like he’s trying to win the midterms.

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        19 hours ago

        Sure, drive down the cost of living … by impeaching Trump and getting rid of his dumbass tariffs.

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      22 hours ago

      I’m hoping there plan is to treat him like a stupid old feeb, and they’re saying this with a big wink.

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    22 hours ago

    Jeffries incumbency no longer a top priority for dems once they win House majority

    this just in from everyone hearing his weak-ass bullshit

    I can’t believe I voted for this bullshit motherfucker twice just because I thought he was cute and he flirted with me once. like I organized for him. I knocked on (possibly thousands of) doors for him. I marched through streets for this useless motherfucker! canvassing and al that endless campaign bullshit… FOR MONTHS!!!

    and all for this? FOR THIS MEANINGLESS BULLSHIT NOTHING OF A STATE REP?? AAAARRGHH!!!

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      6 hours ago

      One of the problems with the Democratic Party is that the number one quality for choosing leadership is how well they fundraise. Obviously this makes leadership beholden to those with the biggest pockets, like AIPAC.

      We need to primary every Democrat incumbent who isn’t a progressive in action as well as rhetoric.

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      21 hours ago

      And it begins.

      “Let’s move past thus” “We have to think about the future” “We need to reach across the table”

      Fuck these corrupt politicians. They know what Trump is and just want more after a short break.

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        18 hours ago

        The sound of the ratchet clanking shut as the overton window locks into place so that it can shift right once more.

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        21 hours ago

        I mean, I’m not even gonna say Hakeem Jeffries is corrupt (because I don’t really know), but I sure as shit am gonna say that he’s a do-nothing coward piece of shit. And that’s just as bad. He needs to go!

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      22 hours ago

      Good for you for putting in the effort though. Every drop counts, even if some arsehat comes along and steals your effort. You still did your best.

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    If only we can work hard to get him a majority, Jeffries promises he will only use it to play games strictly in his lane instead of actually leading and actively opposing trumps wild overreaches and global shenanigans. Thats heartening.

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        22 hours ago

        Impeaching would be a pointless game.

        Disagree, because I think a big part of politics is posturing, arguing, presenting your data as best you can, and putting on a show to get people charged enough to get off the couch. Its manufacturing support. So Jeffries job should be much more than just occasionally voting.

        • Freeposity@lemmy.world
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          Not only that but defending himself from impeachment takes resources away from all the other awful shit Trump is doing.

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        Right? Genuinely what the fuck is impeachment doing at this point? Nothing. The answer, at best, is obviously “nothing”, and you’d have to be deluded to think otherwise.

        I don’t even mean the obvious inevitability that it wouldn’t remove Trump; I mean that, at best, it wouldn’t sway public opinion effectively whatsoever. Trump right now is hanging himself by his own noose, and if anything, an impeachment could put angry Republicans on the defensive by redirecting their attention through a partisan lens.

        Impeachment should not be a priority; it’s patently a waste of time at this point, especially if Democrats win a House majority and can at least work to meaningfully slow Republicans’ flood of garbage.

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          20 hours ago

          I don’t follow your logic here. You know what slows a flood of garbage legislation? Forcing impeachment over and over

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            Forcing impeachment over and over

            I’m not even going to dignify this with a smarmy “wow, look at the strategic genius on display here” and breakdown of why this is dumb, because that’d be an insult to other people reading this.

            This is plainly the dumbest idea imaginable. House Democrats impotently jerking themselves off on the national stage over and over again is a strategy completely divorced from reality; Trump, by being such an astoundingly terrible leader, may have given them one more chance to turn the country around, and the second they actually seize on that (see: the article), your grand idea is to overshadow Republicans’ ire toward Trump and piss away all precious political momentum in a torturously useless quagmire of “orange man bad!” instead of at least attempting something feasibly useful.

            Just agonizingly stupid. Also, you clearly have zero idea how “slowing down Republicans’ flood of garbage” (notice I didn’t say “legislation”; I meant generally) works if you think that it helps to hold impeachment hearings over and over if Democrats already have the majority.

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              Congress’s main duties are legislation, budgeting and impeachment. To fully realize those powers they need a super majority or a cooperative president, and they’ll have neither.

              The administration will veto any legislation and has fucked with budgets. There is quite literally nothing useful Congress can do (unless you think they’ll have a sufficient super-majority) except obstruct or compromise with fascists.

              If they had the power to do anything useful I would expect several Constitutional amendments to top the list along with impeaching the whole executive branch and some Supreme Court justices. But they won’t have that so what performative bullshit would you rather have them do?

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    21 hours ago

    The democrats only want to bring us back to the exact conditions that brought us Trump.

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    21 hours ago

    Getting that fucker out of office should be a priority. Along with Schumer and any other trash that voted along with the Pedo Party.

    Then impeach the Pedo-in-Chief.

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      Then impeach the Pedo-in-Chief.

      wont get thru the senate, so it’s performative. has been impeached before… twice and still got reelected.