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[–] 61 points 2 months ago (8 children)

I begged my congressman to support articles of impeachment. His response was basically that they don't have the votes, so why bother? He even said that if they did, it would be performative and would play into persecution rhetoric for Trump.

So that's where we are now. The only people with the political power to oust a tyrant have thrown in the towel.

I tried to reason with him that it matters. Even if they don't have the votes to convict. Impeach him once a week of you have to. Persecute the motherfucker!

But no, I guess re-election to Congress is more important.

Fucking joke.

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  • [–] 31 points 2 months ago*

    I tried to reason with him that it matters. Even if they don’t have the votes to convict. Impeach him once a week of you have to. Persecute the motherfucker!

    100% agree. Performative it may be, but doing it every single time he does something to warrant it, which is daily at this point, at least sends a message that this shit is unacceptable. Doing nothing is tacitly agreeing with it. It's baffling.

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  • [–] 25 points 2 months ago

    would play into persecution rhetoric for Trump.

    The whole fucking point of him doing the persecution rhetoric is to stop people attacking him, and they've played right into his hands.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    It’s why democrats lose as much as they do, they don’t seize opportunities

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago

    a bunch of them are DINOs so i wouldnt call them capable of seizing, they secretely want this to happen, the tax cuts from 2017, no dems tried repeal that at all, or made it thier promise. they benefit from it.

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