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House Blocks Effort To Impeach Secretary Of Defense Pete Hegseth (deadline.com)
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[–] 21 points 1 day ago (7 children)

I was hoping some Republicans would split off, especially since for some of them this is their last congress. From this, I'm guessing removing the president is off the table for the next 2 years, but we can sure as hell have a good time trying.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

    I’m guessing removing the president is off the table for the next 2 years

    Getting 2/3 of the Senate to convict Hegseth with a 56–44 Democratic majority was already a longshot. If you thought there was ever a chance of convicting Trump in the Senate even with that majority, I don't know what to tell you except "Welcome back to reality".

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  • [–] 5 points 1 day ago

    Well, I was hoping some people would split off with the growing anti-Zionist wing of the party and abandon Trump before nobody will admit to having voted for him; Bush 2 eventually lost his base's support, but it looks like the GOP is going to back Trump until one of them dies.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 day ago

    I've been saying this and getting downvoted because apparently I understand nothing.

    Yes, blue won, yes they turned texas blue. Big deal. But at the end of the day, they don't have a supermajority and with all the pedoparty following trump, these two years will be, at max, a pause to trump madness. And that's not even granted unless every elected dem starts doing actual opposition.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 day ago*

    They sometimes find spines once they're in a lame duck period, but usually when retiring. If they got voted out, they probably still want to be taken back into the warm, cash-insulated bosom of right-wing media, think tanks, and lobbying firms, and that means keeping their vertibrae nice and gelatinous.

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