• ExtremeDullard@piefed.social
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    11 hours ago

    I know this is getting to be a really tired rhetorical question, but… How is this not ground for immediate impeachment?

    History will not be kind to the turdy Republican congresscritters and senators who are letting Trump wreck the country.

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      9 hours ago

      Don’t just blame Republicans. This lack of action in the face of this corrupt, treasonous, pedophile is the government.

      Today our people can see that we’re faced with a government conspiracy. This government has failed us. The senators who are a filibustering concerning your and my rights, that’s the government. Don’t say it’s Southern senators. This is the government. This is a government filibuster. It’s not a segregationist filibuster, it’s a government filibuster. Any kind of activity that takes place on the floor of the Congress or the Senate, that’s the government. Any kind of dilly-dallying, that’s the government. Any kind of pussyfooting, that’s the government. Any kind of act that’s designed to delay or deprive you in need right now of getting full rights, that’s the government that’s responsible. And anytime you find the government involved in a conspiracy to violate the citizenship or the civil rights of a people, then you are wasting your time going to that government expecting redress.

      • Malcolm X, the Ballot or the Bullet
      • CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world
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        Don’t just blame Republicans.

        I’m sorry, is there another party that controls virtually all of the government right now?

        Saying it’s “the government” is just reinforcing the age-old Murc’s Law media trick that lets the Republicans skate away scot-free.

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          You clearly missed the point of the quoted speech. This isn’t just Republicans. This is the government in action. Democrats chose to vote on the BBB instead of indefinite filibuster. Democrats helped keep the iran war going. Democrats are enabling Trump and the Republicans. It’s not just Republicans. The government has failed us.

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        [Art.] 10. [Right of Revolution.] Government being instituted for the common benefit, protection, and security, of the whole community, and not for the private interest or emolument of any one man, family, or class of men; therefore, whenever the ends of government are perverted, and public liberty manifestly endangered, and all other means of redress are ineffectual, the people may, and of right ought to reform the old, or establish a new government. The doctrine of nonresistance against arbitrary power, and oppression, is absurd, slavish, and destructive of the good and happiness of mankind. June 2, 1784

        (Emphasis added)

        https://www.nh.gov/glance/state-constitution/bill-rights

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      10 hours ago

      How is this not ground for immediate impeachment?

      Trump’s already been impeached twice, back in his first term. The Senate refused to convict on both occasions.

      Then Biden’s DOJ refused to prosecute the outgoing president for anything in the four years Democrats controlled the executive branch.

      History will not be kind to the turdy Republican congresscritters

      The Year is 1972 and I am predicting that history will not be kind to Republicans

      The Year is 1987 and I am predicting that history will not be kind to Republicans

      The Year is 2008 and I am predicting that history will not be kind to Republicans

      The Year is 2026 and I am predicting that history will not be kind to Republicans

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      10 hours ago

      How is this not ground for immediate impeachment?

      Impeaching is like suing.

      They could have impeached Obama for a tan suit, and convicted him of it in the Senate. Even if he had never worn a tan suit.

      It’s why it’s supposed to be important who we send to DC, instead of just picking people who yell at the loudest at whoever we don’t like.

      They’re supposed to represent our will, and they’re clearly not.

    • 🌞 Alexander Daychilde 🌞@lemmy.world
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      10 hours ago

      Impeachment is a political process. You must have the votes in the House to impeach, then you must have the votes in the Senate to remove.

      If a political party stands behind their guy and they have sufficient numbers, removal is simply not possible.

      It is a political process, not a judicial process.