• opus86@lemmy.today
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    2 months ago

    Trump isn’t going to give up power willingly. He is openly and gleefully breaking everything with no thought of the consequences. Republicans wouldn’t be going along with it unless they think they are untouchable. If they think kidnapping people with no due process and dumping them in concentration camps isn’t going to have a consequence, then they are all in. Trusting the rest of their lives on Trump isn’t a bet I would take, but I’m just an everyday idiot.

  • Goretantath@lemm.ee
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    3 months ago

    For a second, i missread the title as third term instead of impeachment and was like “WTF!!!”

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        3 months ago

        Or vote majority dems but still got Trump because your “Democracy” got some middle-men and land-over-people system built-in.

        And even with a fair system, we just saw stupidity at play in Germany. Historically high vote participation of ~82.5% and yet still 28.6% for the so called “(christian) Union” (average Republicans), 20.8% AfD (straight-up Nazis) and 16.4 to 8.8% for Social Dems, Greens and The Left. Only reason we aren’t completely fucked like the US is that there are more parties, and the Union didn’t fully finished cuddling with the Nazis yet (they love to do so though, both domestic as well as US MAGA).

        The moment you got bad education and especially a bad populistic Press democracy stops working and starts deconstructing itself. Not to mention you’ll get both + pissed off people in a completely fucked economical system.

  • grte@lemmy.ca
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    3 months ago

    Majority of US Voters Support Third Trump

    Oh god

    Impeachment

    Oh thank god

  • Tanis Nikana@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    I don’t support impeachment. I support his demise.

    Reading his obituary will be more celebrated by me than my own birthday.

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      You ever see those memes where the killer comes into the house, but can’t find the victim. So the killer does something akin to "shave and a haircut two bits…

      You don’t have to kill these people. But you have a duty to revoke their right to vote.

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      3 months ago

      While I agree that fascists like him should be afraid to go out in public, that particular fascist dying would make him a martyr. He needs to live long enough to be convicted again and actually serve jail time.

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        3 months ago

        That is silly because the US justice system will never ever do that, you could just as well hope to win the lottery and have better odds. The US justice system is dead, if it ever existed. His demise is a much more realistic hope.

        Also they already act like he is a martyr, it won’t change anything with regards to that.

      • Tanis Nikana@lemmy.world
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        3 months ago

        He can die of cholesterol.

        There. No martyrdom. Also it’s likely to happen.

        All I have to do is put my feet up, and not call McDonalds and tell them that their food is unhealthy and they should change it.

      • Bristingr@lemm.ee
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        3 months ago

        This time get someone who can actually hit the fucking broadside of a barn.

      • captainlezbian@lemmy.world
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        3 months ago

        I would actually prefer an impeachment and removal from office. That would actually be a huge step in unfucking our current situation

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          You are basically saying “if we unfucked our current situation then we could impeach and remove him from office”, because the impossibility of holding him accountable is part of the problem.

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      3 months ago

      They are gonna need a floor drain on his grave cause that’s where I’m peeing.

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    3 months ago

    What good would impeachment prove when it’s happened twice before and nothing comes of it

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      This time, Congress could stop blowing the cheeto and have him removed. You know, one of the branches keeping the others in check. I know it ain’t likely, but a man can dream.

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        3 months ago

        At this point they are all so complicit in his crimes that that will never happen, because it will implicate them as well.

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      I think you forget that the second time they got to 54 votes to convict, including multiple Republicans. It’s difficult but not impossible. And even if they don’t get a conviction, which is obviously the most likely outcome, at the very least it distracts the administration and as long as the public supports it it’s a winning issue.

      If you think things will keep marching unimpeded the way they are now with impeachment proceedings going on, I think you forget how disruptive they have been in the past

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        3 months ago

        and when the inevitable ‘acquittal’ from the senate comes, it will empower him and he’ll crank the shitshow up even more than it already is.

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          OK then I guess we shouldn’t impeach him. Cool. Let’s just keep doing what we’re doing. Unless you’ve got some great plan you’re trying to tee up here?

          The only way to beat Trump is to turn the public against him. Until the public turns on him, there is no political will to stop him.

  • Guns0rWeD13@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    it won’t happen. buy guns.

    it’s more important that the people speak with bullets anyway. we need to establish a precedent for people like him. a warning for future idiots and sociopaths. a reason for the rest of the morons to pay attention.

  • lemonaz@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    And I’m sure a majority of Trump voters support a third term and maybe stop short at crowning him godking.

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        2 months ago

        Who, me? I am not from Burgerland. Also, this was done by Italian communists, not superior, enlightened, liberal European society or something. Where are the left parties in Europe, curbing right wing politics? I don’t see them. Europe is slowly falling for the same right wing politics. Falling profits and rising inequality will lead to the capitalist class propping right wing governments to suppress dissent by using tired talking points like immigration and ‘culture’, and, to paraphrase one among those fellows who hanged Mussolini, capital will not be able to preserve itself without killing liberalism to give way to fascism.

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          i can not argue with that, still it will end the same way. Social media is not reality bcs not the real world.

  • CaptDust@sh.itjust.works
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    3 months ago

    Impeach and Remove. See, I’ve learned impeachment is toothless without that second bit, have to be very specific with expectations.

  • Sam_Bass@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    If we can’t impeach him, find a deserted island in the middle of the pacific and beach him