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[–] 119 points 1 year ago (11 children)

I'm reasonably certain that at this point there's absolutely nothing that Trump could do that would actually be "impeachable" in anything other than a speculative and legalistic sense, since making it a reality would require courage, determination and integrity, and those qualities are in vanishingly short supply in a Congress comprised almost entirely of co-conspirators, sycophants, enablers, sybarites and cowards.

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  • [–] 63 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    If people are willing to look past raping kids, there's no bottom to this entire sordid mess. Hoping that "something" will finally be enough to suddenly get irrational people to act rationally is more than idle, it's insanity.

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  • [–] 23 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    He's been impeached twice tbf

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    We need to get past this, everyone means convicted not just impeached.

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  • [–] 15 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    Think you mean removed. The house votes to impeach and the Senate votes to remove after impeachment passes.

    His felony convictions are a separate matter that he will never have consequences for.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago

    Your confusion is exactly what I'm talking about.

    There are two steps when removing the president:

    1. Congress can vote to impeach, with simple majority
    2. Senate holds an impeachment trial. They need 2/3s vote to find the president guilty of the charges (convict the president).

    What everyone gets confused by is that twice congress found enough evidence to open a trial to remove Trump, but he was never convicted by the Senate/found guilty.

    Here's an article that talks more about it - https://constitutionus.com/constitution/what-are-the-steps-of-the-impeachment-process/

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    He could be impeached for making the oligarchs poorer.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    True, but I think he's too feckless and desperate for approval to do that. He's stupid and self-absorbed enough to move towards doing it, but I'm sure that all it takes is a few judicious words in his ear to make him once again chicken out.

    The few exceptions appear to be things on which the oligarchs apparently stupidly agreed with him - like trying to head off Chinese AI development by cutting them off from western chips, which ended up being just the kickstart that the Chinese chip industry needed to ramp up their production to the point that China no longer needs foreign chips.

    I can see how they might want to blame something like that on him, but I don't know if they'd stick their necks out that far, or succeed if they did.

    But yeah - if there's any chance of him actually being punished for his many and egregious crimes, "no longer being useful to the oligarchs" would be it.

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  • [–] 48 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    If I had a nickel for every impeachable act by Trump...

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  • [–] 43 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Throw it on the pile of endless crimes he will never be held accountable for

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  • [–] 32 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    Well no shit. Everyone who has been paying the slightest attention knows that his crypto fund is nothing but a front for bribes and money laundering. His fortune has been going up by a billion dollars that we know of every month every since he took office. We've known this has been going on for months, how is that such a shock?

    Sadly however, if we ever took back every billion dollar he stole ever since he got into office we wouldn't even get close to cover for the damage he has caused.

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  • [–] 27 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I am an observer and I am in no way stunned.

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  • [–] 18 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    And our republican controlled Congress will do nothing.

    Republicans are complicit in treason.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    The whole population is complicit. Look around in the world: Nepal, Budapest, France, the people want to be heard. In the USA, it is a handful of people protesting. Armchair activists....

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago

    Trump’s cryptocurrency startup

    Just when I thought crypto's reputation couldn't sink any lower

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago

    Zzzzzzz....

    Release the Trump/Epstein files

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago

    J6, abuse of power, obstruction of Congress, Epstein... How is this going to lead to accountability?? 🤣😑🥲

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    [–] 77 points 1 year ago (11 children)

    Wake me up the day this SOB suffers any actual consequences for anything he does.

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  • [–] [S] 6 points 1 year ago (9 children)

    To be fair, he has suffered consequences, like Jean Carol, humiliations by Obama, tons of companies going under, etc. He just blames others for it, so it doesn't mean much. He's not a happy dude either and his health is deteriorating fast. I just think they're not equal to his crimes.

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  • [–] 19 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (8 children)

    his health is deteriorating fast.

    The man is nearly in his '80s... He could be the happiest man in the world and his health would likely be deteriorating.

    That he's lived so long when better men have died early is proof enough that God doesn't exist.

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  • [–] [S] 8 points 1 year ago (7 children)

    Or if he does exist, he's more like the Old Testament god.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I’m more of a mind of if, in the highly unlikely event that, there ever was an intelligent creator they are long since dead or have moved on to other projects.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    It's a safe bet knowing enough human world history from the first civilizations to be built in dank river valleys to present day to say no gods ever interacted with us while we're alive anyways. If they exist at all. Or that it/they could be aware in the first place of some temporary peach fuzz growing on a doomed tiny rock ball.

    I'm on team Pointless Math Bubble expansion Big Bang among countless other universes instead of singularity Big Bang myself. Not that it matters. It's just one of the 27+ Big Bang theories. I just like Time kinda existing beforehand in a higher plane.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    This is actually how I've been thinking about it.

    I still don't believe a God exists, but if he does he's an absolute piece of shit. Sounds about right for the world he supposedly created

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  • [–] 61 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    He did all of this in plain sight, with people pointing it out in real time. How is anyone at all caught off guard about any of it?

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  • [–] [S] 47 points 1 year ago (7 children)

    Lol, I guess we now know why he had a tantrum last night and is suing the NYT for 15 billion dollars.

    Trump files $15B defamation lawsuit against The New York Times

    President Donald Trump has added The New York Times to the list of media companies he’s challenged in court, filing a $15 billion defamation lawsuit that targets four of its journalists in a book and three articles published within a two-month period before the last election.

    https://apnews.com/article/trump-lawsuit-new-york-times-b2a615192ebe2dcec859eb883368dfbb

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  • [–] 32 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    And by doing so, he’s just calling more attention to something that was probably able to be brushed under the rug because of how fucking rich these people are

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  • [–] [S] 19 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    The NYT is owned 90% by a family who has owned it for over a 100 years. He might be barking up the wrong tree here. I fucking hope so.

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    For some reason I don't see the Post backing up the New York Times, or the Supreme Court stopping the federal government from censoring the press anymore.

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  • [–] [S] 6 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Maybe, maybe not. Pretty soon, the billionaires are going to be targeted. We'll see if they do their own thing.

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  • The billionaires own and or buy the press. So long as the billionaires want more power and money and to pull that money from the working class they have the support of the executive and judicial branch now. The most powerful branch in a republic is supposed to be the legislature. By far in my opinion. Yet right now we have gotten to the point where the executive branch may honestly be hoping for a shutdown because it only makes Congress look worse.

    "They never get anything done and I can" is the image that will likely be pushed soon by this administration. The President doesn't believe in freedom of speech, press, assembly, or religion. He only believes in populism, and trying to create an authoritarian rule over people using the media to manipulate the people to make him popular regardless of people's rights getting stomped on in the process. He wants money flowing into his pockets, and everyone around him to praise him for it. He doesn't care that the money coming into his pockets is coming from working class Americans, so long as they are foolish enough to keep him in a place where he can keep making that money.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago* (1 child)

    If you think the MAGA government, or even a Democratic government, is going to hold Billionaires responsible for anything, you're delusional. The worst they would do to them is give them a multi-billion dollar government contract, and a huge tax break.

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  • [–] 19 points 1 year ago

    He's been doing impeachable things every fucking day. How will this make any difference?

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    and nothing will be done about it

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    What can we do about it? Tell me something I can go out and do today or this weekend. I'm sick of sitting on my hands. Feels like protests do nothing

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    Yea, but the Republicans won't do it. They want to destroy the nation.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    it has been 9 years of this and they're still posting this cope

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago*

    it has been 9 years of this and they're still posting this cope

    "User slams every single citizen in the United States for a decade of getting high as fuck on their own supply. You'll never believe what he does next."

    It's what's called journalism nowadays I guess. It's really fuckin tragic.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    Idk guys this sounds like hate speech, don't you know we can't accuse the leaders in the regime of any crimes?

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