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Literally treason, as in under the definition that was deliberately made nearly impossible to prosecute
So he’s turn the government into a patreon subscription?
If you sign up for the Warmonger plan, you can get a new war of your choice from Trump for 1 billion a month.
Always was
I know this is getting to be a really tired rhetorical question, but... How is this not ground for immediate impeachment?
History will not be kind to the turdy Republican congresscritters and senators who are letting Trump wreck the country.
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It's a scam, he wouldn't actually do it.
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He can declassify documents at will/in his head so it doesn't matter.
How is this not ground for immediate impeachment?
Impeaching is like suing.
They could have impeached Obama for a tan suit, and convicted him of it in the Senate. Even if he had never worn a tan suit.
It's why it's supposed to be important who we send to DC, instead of just picking people who yell at the loudest at whoever we don't like.
They're supposed to represent our will, and they're clearly not.
How is this not ground for immediate impeachment?
Trump's already been impeached twice, back in his first term. The Senate refused to convict on both occasions.
Then Biden's DOJ refused to prosecute the outgoing president for anything in the four years Democrats controlled the executive branch.
History will not be kind to the turdy Republican congresscritters
The Year is 1972 and I am predicting that history will not be kind to Republicans
The Year is 1987 and I am predicting that history will not be kind to Republicans
The Year is 2008 and I am predicting that history will not be kind to Republicans
The Year is 2026 and I am predicting that history will not be kind to Republicans
Don't just blame Republicans. This lack of action in the face of this corrupt, treasonous, pedophile is the government.
Today our people can see that we're faced with a government conspiracy. This government has failed us. The senators who are a filibustering concerning your and my rights, that's the government. Don't say it's Southern senators. This is the government. This is a government filibuster. It's not a segregationist filibuster, it's a government filibuster. Any kind of activity that takes place on the floor of the Congress or the Senate, that's the government. Any kind of dilly-dallying, that's the government. Any kind of pussyfooting, that's the government. Any kind of act that's designed to delay or deprive you in need right now of getting full rights, that's the government that's responsible. And anytime you find the government involved in a conspiracy to violate the citizenship or the civil rights of a people, then you are wasting your time going to that government expecting redress.
- Malcolm X, the Ballot or the Bullet
Don’t just blame Republicans.
I'm sorry, is there another party that controls virtually all of the government right now?
Saying it's "the government" is just reinforcing the age-old Murc's Law media trick that lets the Republicans skate away scot-free.
You clearly missed the point of the quoted speech. This isn't just Republicans. This is the government in action. Democrats chose to vote on the BBB instead of indefinite filibuster. Democrats helped keep the iran war going. Democrats are enabling Trump and the Republicans. It's not just Republicans. The government has failed us.
Yes? That party is named "The Hilariously Rich", wtf? Welcome to Earth I guess, must be strange waking up here.
Alright let's be charitable, if you'd like to rebut, find us some real firebrands and leaders among the mythic "merely not in power right now" half of Congress. Some folks who a lot of us say "yeah that person sees how severe this is and is doing stuff I never even THOUGHT OF to work against this. Holy shit let's have more of that".
It's been so many years of the US spiraling towards this, even getting a little test run a la Trump v1, the insurrection that was the loss of v2.
Been a whole lot of time for all those powerful Democrats, wielding around 50% of legislative power throughout all of it, to respond and prepare, work for their people and values, I probably just missed all the awesome shit they got done or even sincerely attempted.
Really looking forward to hearing some heartening news from you, sounds like you know about a lotta cool Democrat stuff I've been missing.
[Art.] 10. [Right of Revolution.] Government being instituted for the common benefit, protection, and security, of the whole community, and not for the private interest or emolument of any one man, family, or class of men; therefore, whenever the ends of government are perverted, and public liberty manifestly endangered, and all other means of redress are ineffectual, the people may, and of right ought to reform the old, or establish a new government. The doctrine of nonresistance against arbitrary power, and oppression, is absurd, slavish, and destructive of the good and happiness of mankind. June 2, 1784
(Emphasis added)
Impeachment is a political process. You must have the votes in the House to impeach, then you must have the votes in the Senate to remove.
If a political party stands behind their guy and they have sufficient numbers, removal is simply not possible.
It is a political process, not a judicial process.
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was that enough zeroes? let's just get this over with
He literally let Mar-a-Lago guests hold it during his first term. This timeline is immune to satire.
So not just blatant corruption, but blatantly treasonous corruption as well.
Let's just cut to the chase where he sells national secrets on eBay.
Don't be silly, he is using shadow brokers. The dark website where they auctioned off all of the NSA spying tools that were stolen that is.
Liara T'soni would never
If he had technically competent people they'd have a .onion and accept Monero
Nah, that's a little too savvy for Trump directly. We can infer, from stories given to us, that he literally just sold secrets over the dinner table at Mar-A-Lago in his first term.
Last term sure. This term he's teams of greasy east coast fixers (mobbed up, corporate and ethnic,) all in on his bullshit, they know what they are doing, to a degree. I mean I'm positive they set up a vast bribery system through layers of shell corporations that ends in the President, and his other appointees' possession.
This statement should trigger 25th.
Add it to the mountain of them accrued even since before he was president the first time.
You know he’ll deny he was involved in this idea if it backfires. Some low level worker will get named, shamed and fired.
~~Fired~~ promoted
Revoke this man's security clearance.
Why did Americans voted for this APE? Why?
Daily reminder that if you don't vote, you agree to all candidates.
Becuse Kamala didn’t win a primary and/or she wouldn’t be tough on Israel. See how much better we have it!?
Not saying those weren’t legitimate beefs, but people spouting that shit before, during, and since the election were/are completely fucking delusional. They chose a dictator over a primary process lacking in transparency, and a status quo foreign policy. And we laugh at Republicans complaining about the leopards eating their faces. They’re eating progressive faces, too, just for different reasons.
FWIW, I also think her general female-ness also played a part in the loss. Trump’s 2-0 against women, both of whom were incredibly qualified, and moderate as all Hell. Hard to argue against that record. I see people saying she ran a terrible campaign. If that’s true, why was she doing well in the polls? And don’t say polls are meaningless. They get it wrong, for sure, but she got a lot of traction in a really short amount of time. To this day, given who she was running against, and what he was saying at the time, I still haven’t heard a good reason people didn’t vote for her.
B-b-but Kamala wasn't against Israel! Not voting for her was a good thing to prove I don't support genocide! I stopped genocide!
/s
Not saying those weren’t legitimate beefs, but people spouting that shit before, during, and since the election were/are completely fucking delusional.
Preach. 100% this. I swear a lot of them are plants.
Some of them definitely were plants, but much like the anti-vax/flat earth movement, it started as a couple of trolls/political operatives and caught fire amongst some of the most braindead people in the country. It's like those people never had to make a hard (or even slightly uncomfortable) decision in their lives.
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Pays six figures to get the national security briefing
Excited to tune into the President's Private YouTube Channel
Five hours of ads. One hour of the President saying what a good job he did.