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[–] 7 points 1 week ago* (2 children)

Unfortunately only 'impeach' is on the table at the federal level, they didn't (and realistically couldn't) pick up enough senate seats to reach the threshold to convict in the senate. Hopefully reforms can be brought through at state levels though, and then when/if federal control switches back we'll be able to integrate those changes across the entire system.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    The Democrats can't impeach on a partisan vote, but enough Republicans that barely skated might jump ship. Some of them have 6 years for people to forget an impeachment vote.

    They know damned well Trump is dying of dementia and when he goes the MAGA cult pops. Best to get ahead of the curve and say, "I stood up and did the right thing!"

    No, I'm not holding out any hope, but at least I can see a path if I squint real hard.

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  • [–] 1 point 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

    Trump I can see a path towards impeaching, but not Vance. Which means there's a depressingly good argument to be made that with congress' support cut off, it may be more beneficial to take a "dont assassinate Hitler" approach; something like:

    "Right now trump is an incredibly tempting scapegoat for the R's to save face with most of their base: pin the comically humiliating handling of the Iran war on trump and his close associates (what their base is most offended by), say you regret it's necessity but you must remove him to preserve America's imperialist interests, he's just deteriorated too much from the great man and you need to preserve his legacy while something still remains of it, replace him with JD who despite being an evil couchfucking fascist creep is capable of appointing competently bureaucratic evil bastards rather than trump's carousel of dribbling morons and watch as they tear down everything the possibly can in preparation for 2028."

    I don't know if leaving trump there to blunder as a humiliatingly incompetent and hopefully nutered stone 'round their neck is a good call - I don't think anyone knows how this will go and what approach will be the best for preventing further damage to the country. For now I fear the best we can do is plan for damage mitigation as the response rolls out from the fash, and work out a more specific strategy as things settle.

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