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  • [–] 5 points 6 days ago
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    CHANG: Well, let me just ask you, Congressman Aguilar, are there serious plans if you retake the House as Democrats to try to impeach President Trump again?

    AGUILAR: No. We are focused on delivering on the affordability agenda. Now, that doesn't mean that we are opposed to accountability and oversight. This administration needs that clearly. They are reckless and irresponsible at just about every level, including the most, you know, corrupt and inept Cabinet ever assembled. But I think we can start there. Keep in mind, it was a Republican who filed articles of impeachment on Pete Hegseth, and Speaker Johnson, who you just talked...

    Fucking hell, IMPEACH IMMEDIATELY YOU SPINELESS FUCKS. You know for a fact it will immediately pass and you can move on to the affordability agenda in five minutes.

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    [–] 8 points 5 days ago (3 children)

    Impeachment is a waste of time. They already did it twice.

    They need to go after Musk to set the tone.

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  • [–] 6 points 5 days ago

    They can do lots of things. Holding trump a lame duck and taking back the power of the purse could be a good option to stop 2 more years of this abuse. Build the case for after Jan 20. 2029. But yeah, Musk, Miller, kegseth. Then maybe strike a nerve by going after foreign agen kushner and his grifting kids. Can believe I forgot about removing blanch.

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  • [–] 3 points 5 days ago (1 child)

    They did it when they knew it was a waste of time. They only did it when the fascists controlled the Senate so there was no chance of him being removed.

    Now that the Dems control both, a full impeachment would force him out of office. Which is why they won't do it. They just wanted the political theater, not actual accountability.

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  • [–] 5 points 5 days ago (1 child)

    If they get the last two uncalled races it brings them to 56, with the political environment they may get their four for Trump but then we get JD.

    I'd rather they just continue to investigate to lay the foundation for criminal charges, while impeaching his cabinet.

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  • [–] 7 points 5 days ago (4 children)

    If they're smart, they'll concentrate on affordability. It's the only reason they're there.

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  • [–] [S] 3 points 5 days ago

    Affordability can't happen without accountability. Besides being a massive affront to human rights, all the money we're throwing at ICE garbage is money not going into healthcare childcare etc. social infrastructure that makes affordability happen.

    And besides all of that, the Republican party is no less of an existential threat today than they were yesterday. So long as they have their freedom and access to their financial networks they are going to continue to sabotage everything in this country. They must be tried and imprisoned or we will fall back into fascist bullshit again in a few years and it will be even worse than it is now.

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    I'm retired now. But if California ever flips red, my state pension is toast.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 days ago

    My wife and I are the millionaires next door, who live so far below our means that nobody knows. Even then, we're not the very rich. The billionaires pop a collective boner at the thought of draining people like us.

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    [–] 3 points 5 days ago

    With a majority in congress and the senate, they will of course push to impeach Trump. But whether or not that effort succeeds depends on if they can get some republicans in the senate to vote in favor of impeaching him. They need 67 senate votes to succeed.

    Considering how unpopular Trump is right now, and that it's the last two years of his last term in office, some of the republican senators might realize if they cooperate with the effort they might have an easier time in office for the next 10 years. I think the next president will be democrat and they will likely be in office two terms. The GOP won't have a chance for a comeback until 2036. Do they want to have a target on their back for the next 10 years, or do they cooperate and turn over the idiot that just torpedoed their whole party in order to achieve political survival for themselves?

    Every senator is a veteran politician who climbed up the ranks and knows how to play the game. I don't think they are going to sacrifice themselves to protect Trump. If stabbing him in the back ensures they stay in office as part of a tolerated, minority party then they will probably stab him good.

    Honestly he deserves it.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 days ago

    They're going to prioritize arming Israel and Ukraine, pushing us into WWIII, and blocking Medicare For All.

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