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[–] 36 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

How is kidnapping the president of a sovereign nation with no authority to do so, murdering people on boats because you think there might be drugs on board, or bombing girls' schools not high crimes?

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  • [–] [S] 58 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) (4 children)

    Signal chat.

    If anyone else, and I do mean anyone else, did that with that level of information, we'd be sitting in prison, intent be damned.

    And that's just the tip of the unethical iceberg that is Whiskey Leaks.

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  • [–] 1 point 15 hours ago

    Document disclosure isn't technically strict intent, knowing and willful as federally defined includes negligence ie. Knew or should have known they were disclosing classified information and SEC def of all people should 100% have known if they did due diligence.

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  • [–] 22 points 20 hours ago

    Some thought he might be resigning at this press conference. Oh no. No no no. This is a double down to end all double downs.

    "Murder is just a policy disagreement my bros. Y'all see all those policies I dropped on those fishermen swimming next to their sinking boats?"

    “In the 250 years of our American republic, no Secretary of War or Secretary of Defense has ever been impeached for carrying out lawful military operations,” Hegseth told reporters.

    I don't see what that has to do with anything. Oh and when your ugly ass gets impeached it will still be a true statement. See that word lawful?

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  • [–] 15 points 17 hours ago

    Dont bomb schools with children sounds like it may not be a policy disagreement

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  • [–] 13 points 16 hours ago

    "Policy disagreements" over the war crimes he brags about committing.

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  • [–] 10 points 18 hours ago (3 children)

    The whole situation is kind of depressing. He's not being impeached because of the sickening illegal acts he's ordered, like murdering innocent fishermen or schoolchildren. He's not being impeached for illegally launching wars, for which the president carries even more responsibility. He's being impeached because the Iran war made Republicans look bad and he's the fall guy.

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  • [–] 5 points 18 hours ago (1 child)

    He’s being impeached because the Iran war made Republicans look bad and he’s the fall guy.

    I suspect it's being started by a Republican precisely because of this. They want Kegsbreath to be the fall guy, take his impeachment, and leave the rest of the corrupt administration intact. They want the public to be tired of investigations and impeachments by the time any actually important names come up.

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  • [–] 4 points 8 hours ago

    Nope. Crimes.

    200 dead little girls, etc.

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    [–] 26 points 9 hours ago

    Fucking pussies.

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  • [–] 20 points 10 hours ago (4 children)

    Might as well hang this one up. Now that we see, once again every Republican is going to line up to suck Trump's dick, it won't get past the Senate in January.

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  • [–] 37 points 10 hours ago (3 children)

    Don't care. Get their treachery on the record. They're just racking up more reasons why they don't deserve power.

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  • [–] 16 points 9 hours ago (1 child)

    For real. This was one last chance to not be on the wrong side of history, at least not completely. And they made their choice

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  • [–] 9 points 9 hours ago

    Their plan is to never relinquish power. Then they can write history. The donors will surely open their wallets wide to bribe enough of the new coming congress to betray their constituents.

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  • [–] 3 points 9 hours ago

    Exactly, I feel like in the past people really haven't followed this much. These days I absolutely feel like they are catching on and seeing these decisions finally and holding them more accountable... finally! Time will tell I guess.

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  • [–] 16 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (1 child)

    House Republicans quash effort to impeach Defense Secretary Hegseth

    Editorialized title. They couldn't have done so without the help of Democrats:

    The Republican-controlled House voted 211-204

    The 11 Democrats recorded as not voting were Julia Brownley, Lou Correa and Nancy Pelosi of California; Laura Gillen of New York; Steven Horsford of Nevada; Jonathan Jackson of Illinois; Brittany Pettersen of Colorado; Melanie Stansbury of New Mexico; Haley Stevens of Michigan; Marilyn Strickland of Washington; and Frederica Wilson of Florida.

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  • [–] 1 point 43 minutes ago

    Thank god the blue wave was big enough to hopefully render hacks like these powerless. The fact that Schumer and Pelosi always place themselves firmly on the wrong side of history tells us all we need to know about Democrat leadership.

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  • [–] 12 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (4 children)

    And this is why people in Canada aren't looking to be friends with 'Merica again, same shit different day.

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  • [–] 8 points 7 hours ago (2 children)

    To be fair, they jumped the gun big time on this and the new progressive people we elected aren't in office until January. A Republican pushed this impeachment now specifically as a propaganda tactic so people would get confused and think the new Democrats we elected are just as bad as the old ones when this inevitably failed.

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  • [–] 1 point 27 minutes ago

    This was filed by a republican before the elections but was pushed back by another republican so that the vote happened in a new session that started after the elections. Them republicans voted against it and killed it. Nobody “jumped the gun”.

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  • [–] 3 points 6 hours ago

    Do we have a cross compare list of the republicans that voted no to the ones that were voted out?

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    [–] 28 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

    Impeach him. Then put him in fucking prison.

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  • [–] 16 points 11 hours ago (1 child)

    Him and trump at the very minimum need to be tried for war crimes at the hague.

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  • [–] 3 points 6 hours ago

    Unfortunately, the US has never subjected itself to that jurisdiction and the American Service Members Protection Act means the US might invade/attack if US folks go up on war crime charges.

    Guess we'll just have to hang them domestically.

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  • [–] 17 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago) (4 children)

    Impeachment list is pretty long, but the top ones that need to be impeached are:

    • Hegseth
    • Blanche
    • Miller
    • Anyone involved with letting Desantis off the hook for medicaid fraud with he and his wife
    • Trump family, starting with junior
    • Guilfoyle (edit-had wrong name)
    • Kushner and probably wife was involved somehow

    Did I get the main list right or should there be more?

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  • [–] 11 points 9 hours ago (1 child)

    GOP blocked it, according to the guardian

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  • [–] 6 points 8 hours ago

    Yeah ... don't get my hopes up America

    Tell me what you've already done ... not what you think you will do

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  • [–] 3 points 10 hours ago

    Way better spectacle than watching people being killed in live TV!

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    [–] 1 point 9 hours ago

    and it didn't get up :)

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