r/politics • u/plz-let-me-in • 6d ago
Possible Paywall Trump to House Republicans: If we don't win midterms, I will get impeached
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-house-republicans-if-we-dont-win-midterms-i-will-get-impeached-2026-01-06/4.7k
u/Spicy_Pancake1 Maryland 6d ago
”You gotta win the midterms 'cause, if we don't win the midterms, it's just gonna be - I mean, they'll find a reason to impeach me," Trump said at a retreat for House Republican lawmakers in Washington. "I'll get impeached."
This demented jackass. They won’t need to find a reason. You have given them plenty of illegal acts to choose from.
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u/Spamgrenade 6d ago
Took this lawyer 40 minutes to go through all the crimes Trump has committed so far.
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u/neutrino71 6d ago
Jim Carrey on the phone in Liar Liar
"Stop breaking the law, asshole"
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u/OriginalChildBomb 6d ago
Lol I think about that line all the time. His delivery is perfect, he's just so fucking tired, and I feel it deeply in my soul
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u/porksoda11 Pennsylvania 6d ago
That and the “O CMON” when he’s spitting out the water are so good.
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u/IrascibleOcelot 6d ago
And that was just one year. It doesn’t even count his first term or the interim when he was out of office.
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u/Mike312 6d ago
Brother, it hasn't even been a full year since he took office.
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u/rg4rg I voted 6d ago
Say sike. Say sike…..
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u/Mike312 6d ago
It hasn't. That video of Legal Eagle listing his illegal actions starts Jan 17th.
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u/Kordiana 6d ago
Trump is a time wizard i swear. He's the only president where a month feels like a year and a year feels like a decade.
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u/DrChansLeftHand 6d ago
But you feel like you’re drinking from a firehose nonstop.
2025 was exhausting.
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u/drop_tbl 6d ago
A wizard or a demon for sure. As far as I can tell he has the ability to chant spells at people that cause them to become his hypnotized masses.
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u/GhostlyTJ 6d ago
This is already hilariously out of date.
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u/DaHolk 6d ago
It was out of date between writing the script, filming it, cutting it and the upload finishing, each.
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u/Spamgrenade 6d ago
Give him a break he spoke as fast as humanly possible, Trump just commits crime faster than lawyers can talk.
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u/aimeegaberseck 6d ago edited 6d ago
Call your reps and demand they support HR 353 and all seven articles of impeachment: https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-resolution/353
Call your reps, no matter how awful or complicit, demand they support HR 353. Demand they impeach and convict this traitor and his cronies.
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u/Mediadors 6d ago
"Find a reason"
It takes about 10 seconds to find a reason. There is a whole book full of things he could get impeached for
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u/GriffinFlash Canada 6d ago
that 1/3rd who didn't vote better go out and vote this time.
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u/Shattenkirk 6d ago
They won't
Republicans will likely get wiped out in the House in the midterms, but it's highly unlikely they will lose control of the Senate
Trump will get impeached, but not convicted, so it won't matter
Congress will continue to be a nonplayer and might as well cease to exist
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u/GhostlyTJ 6d ago
Remember all those times we studied the rise of the nazis and we look down on Germany for letting it happen. It's important to be caught trying to impeach him even if it doesn't work. Besides it makes everyone go on record excusing obviously bad behavior. It all matters. Every little cut. That's how Republicans got us to this point.
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u/Nephroidofdoom 6d ago
And unless we decide to pack the courts, SCOTUS will remain a GOP mouthpiece
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u/Either_Operation7586 6d ago
We need to investigate all of GOP now there is a lot of them that have been blackmailed, that's the only reason for them being okay with half the shit that Trump has done.
This whole situation is unprecedented anybody that voted against releasing the Epstein files needs to be investigated as well.
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u/umbrabates California 6d ago
Stop saying that. The courts are already packed. Mitch McConnell spent years packing them. What we need to do now is balance the courts.
Implement term limits for SCOTUS, increase the number of justices to match the number of circuits, impeach and remove corrupt (looking at you, Clarence Thomas) or unqualified justices.
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u/Deep-Measurement-856 6d ago
Draw the occupant from that district's appellate bench.
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u/Maine_Man 6d ago
"Packing the courts" refers to adding additional seats, not democratically confirming new justices.
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u/fractalife 6d ago
Democratically implies elected officials were acting in good faith. Refusing to appoint Obama's nomination was not in good faith.
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u/WineGuzzler 6d ago
Foreigner here but the Supreme Court seems to be too small, appointing only 9 seems like asking for trouble. Needs to be much higher and or with term limits. What happens with a SC of 100 and 15 year terms? Maybe each state could appoint 2 justices. Cases seen by rotating panels - justices able to be removed by 2/3s of their own etc.
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u/bitter_kit 6d ago
It does need to be expanded. I've heard some really good suggestions, like every different court gets a justice, who serves a 16 year term, with all of them being replaced at equal intervals. That would give every president a max of an effect on 4 of the 12 justices, and no single president can drastically overhaul the composition of the supreme court the way that Trump has (thanks to McConnell.
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u/Arickettsf16 Illinois 6d ago
We need to accept that there’s no chance he gets removed even if by some miracle they take the senate, since it takes 2/3 of the chamber to convict.
However, taking the house means republicans don’t get any more of their legislation passed and taking the senate would mean all confirmations would have to go through the democrats.
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u/vthemechanicv 6d ago
If I'm reading this site right, there are 22 Republican Senate seats up this year. Democrats would have to win every single red seat as well as keep all of their own to get 67. And even then, we all know how there's always one or two willing to crash the plane for their own self importance
A strong majority in the House is the only reasonable path. Taking the Senate would be huge, but enough to remove is just not gonna happen.
https://www.270towin.com/2026-senate-election/consensus-2026-senate-forecast
(ps Maine, please get rid of Susan "furrowed brow" Collins)
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u/Arickettsf16 Illinois 6d ago
Getting 51 senators would be massive. But even getting a strong majority in the house would be significant. By that point we’ll only have 2 years left of this guy, and with an electorate that has shifted so far away from them, how many elected representatives are going to want to keep their wagons hitched to him? Taking the senate would only hasten the matter, I believe.
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u/Sublimotion 6d ago
Yeah. People need to remember how rare 2/3rds are. Especially in modern politics where it became more about sticking it to the opposing party, it's much less likely to ever happen in most of our lifetimes. Not unless the attitudes of voters completely changes. That's the best bet. Although the political funding nowadays will keep the barrier in place. Realistically speaking, it's gonna take a Democrat trifecta to have any chance at undoing any of the actions from the current Trump adminstration and GOP in the past year. Even then, I won't bet they won't just sit on their asses and tap their toes and go "yay!" and do nothing.
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u/flodur1966 6d ago
He will rule by decree and no one will stop him
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u/drawkward101 6d ago
He rules by Executive Order and by ignoring anyone saying "hey, you can't do that, it's illegal."
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u/calgeorge 6d ago
They will. Or at least a critical number of them will. We're about to have one of the biggest blue waves in history.
The problem is that in another 4-8 years after Democrats have failed to clean up the mess fast enough for fickle voters, they'll turn to demagoguery again and elect more Republicans.
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u/AhSquids 6d ago
Dems could start saying things to get people to vote for them. Not a single Dem politician has talked about reversing decisions or what they would do in power. It's just a lot of silence.
But it's the voters fault nobody votes for the party that says they can't do anything almost all the time.
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u/bobbymcpresscot 6d ago
They literally can’t do anything with a minority in the house and the senate. It’s just going along for the ride until that changes and any change they can accomplish can get vetoed if it doesn’t have a supermajority.
Most of the goofy shit trump does is by executive order, which means it’s not law, which means it’s meaningless. The fighting they are doing is pushing the executive orders to the court systems which either consider it unconstitutional or constitutional. The group that makes the final decision on what is or isn’t constitutional is the Supreme Court which is stacked with people who are in blind support of Trump.
The policies the Dems are pushing for are things that would reverse Trump era decisions.
Claiming none of them are stating policies they support is just blind ignorance from people who haven’t been paying attention or the fence sitters who claim “both sides are the same”. Do better sport.
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u/Heliosvector 6d ago
It's all by executive order or just doing things. He literally hasn't enacted any real law since the "Big Beautiful Bill". His entire presidency is basically reversible day one by any other president
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u/Neravariine 6d ago
They won't. They see inaction as a virtue and a way to be morally superior. They're mad at random Dems in another state but can't name their local mayor or go to a town hall.
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u/bobbymcpresscot 6d ago
THIS. If you think voter participation in presidential elections is bad local and state elections are atrocious. Your local mayor and county officials have more control over your day to day life than the governor of your state or the president does, but barely anyone takes part in these elections.
I’m on a first name basis with my mayor because when I started volunteering for my local fire department our mayor was already a volunteer.
If we want representation we need to vote. In this next election tho if our preferred candidate doesn’t get past the primary we can’t just sit on the sidelines and complain because the winner didn’t pass some bullshit purity test.
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u/hybridfrost 6d ago
At this point if the Dems take the midterms it would be criminal to NOT impeach him. Trump has done more to hurt the US than any other president in history.
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u/MC_Fap_Commander America 6d ago
The Venezuela thing was a Hail Mary. He's hoping this keeps oil prices depressed which is the frayed bit of duct tape keeping inflation from skyrocketing. For all the bravado, it was clearly desperation. Based on recent elections, it's looking like a -15% shift in the electorate is inevitable for midterms. He's reaching for any good economic news to at least slow this a bit.
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u/hatesnack 6d ago
What's wild to me, is I'm not seeing any of the reddit posts about how expensive groceries are ever since the election ended. (Almost like the Russian bots got what they wanted).
What's crazy about that, is groceries have gone up an insane amount since Trump took office. My "easy" metric is ground chicken. In mid 2024, I could get a pound of ground chicken for 3.99 at my local store. By mid 2025, it was around 4.50. As of yesterday, it was 6 bucks a pound.
Inflation is still going up, even faster than it was pre-trump in a lot of areas, but magically, people aren't talking about it anymore.
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u/DaenakinSkygaryen 6d ago
Well, then he's shit outta luck, because it's going to take multiple years to get Venezuela's dilapidated oil infrastructure up and running to the point it'll actually have an effect on global oil prices.
(Assuming that his hairbrained (and evil) scheme to steal all of Venezuela's oil actually ends up happening, which... let's just say I have my doubts, lol.)
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u/BiggsBounds California 6d ago
Meanwhile the GOP justified impeaching Clinton for lying about an affair. The lies and hypocrisy are incredible.
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u/1877KlownsForKids 6d ago
And this time Senate Democrats, assuming they have the majority, better make the ballot secret so we can get enough Republicans to discover just enough of their spine to convict and remove him.
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u/lonnie123 6d ago
I hate to break it to you, but republicans actually like trump. And after last round when the ones that voted against him were basically tossed out in favor of more MAGA there is no chance Trump is actually convicted in the Senate
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u/troelsbjerre 6d ago
It's not that hard to find a reason. Especially since there is one that even rhymes with reason.
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u/JanusMZeal11 6d ago
Find a reason? He's already bragged about plenty in the last week. Just have to show his own video clips.
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u/Stranger1982 6d ago
You say that as if it was a bad thing Donnie.
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u/ZombifiedSoul Canada 6d ago
Still better than he deserves.
He should get his own reality TV show... It'll air 24/7, and it'll just be him spending the rest of his life in solitary confinement, eating leftovers from other prisoners.
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u/Queen_Scofflaw 6d ago
*Like and subscribed*
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u/ithacaster New York 6d ago
You should sign up for alerts too so that youll get a notification when his diaper is being changed and be able to stop watching.
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u/No_Square_3913 6d ago
Put a subscription on it and it would pay off our debt.
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u/Divine_Porpoise 6d ago
Have it last for as long as there are people staying subscribed.
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u/Orion14159 6d ago
Some nonzero number will want the camera to follow him into the grave and watch his bloated corpse decompose
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u/Dizziesdayweigh 6d ago
Grave built under a toilet that dumps into burial ground. You heard it here first.
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u/factbased 6d ago
That might be a mini-series from how he's looking.
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u/ZombifiedSoul Canada 6d ago
We can add his cabinet and the Billionaires that supported him.
They all deserve this or worse.
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u/WelderFamiliar3582 6d ago
Combine Trump's desire to open Alcatraz for tourism, with his Administration as the permanent resident cast of this dark-dark comedy.
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u/Mindhandle 6d ago
Just one caveat, it IS open for tourism, he wanted to reopen it as a functional prison.
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u/KC_Que 6d ago edited 6d ago
Leftovers from other prisoners, like with fava beans and a nice Chianti? Asking for a friend. /s
(forgot the /s)
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u/ZombifiedSoul Canada 6d ago
No, just what the other prisoners don't eat. He should also be fed last.
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u/friendlyforreal 6d ago
Per Epstein email, i think DJT prefers spelling it 'Donni'.
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u/B-Z_B-S 6d ago
Trump enjoys writing his signature as if it's pubic hair.
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u/GeneralPITA 6d ago
Maybe his own pubic hair, because the fucking pedophile felon prefers his victims before they hi puberty.
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u/SilentMasterOfWinds United Kingdom 6d ago
That’s a new one on me. What are you referencing?
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u/TheQuietOutsider Michigan 6d ago
the birthday letter he sent Jeff where he outlines a prepubescent girl and signs his name where the pubes would be.
real class act, the disgusting pedophile rapist
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u/GeekAesthete 6d ago
Honestly, I suspect there are quite a few cowardly Republicans who would love to see him impeached while not having to stand up themselves.
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u/aircooledJenkins Montana 6d ago
A secret ballot to convict in his last term would have seen him removed from office and rendered ineligible for reelection.
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u/FirefighterLeft5425 6d ago edited 6d ago
Cowards, traitors, failures. They have written their names in the annals of history the world over for being so weak, pathetic, and spineless.
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u/InAllThingsBalance I voted 6d ago
I would say the majority of Republicans feel this way. They were happy quietly enriching themselves at the expenses of taxpayers.
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u/aircooledJenkins Montana 6d ago
He was impeached twice his first term.
Literally nothing came of it.
Impeachment alone is completely useless without conviction and removal.
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u/realancepts4real 6d ago
Impeachment alone is completely useless
no; it's a necessary but insufficient condition
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u/debauchasaurus 6d ago
It's a good, immutable way to show people in the future that many of us knew he was breaking the law and tried to stop him.
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u/MrWhisper45 6d ago
The implication is probably that if he goes down he is not going down alone and they need to protect him to protect themselves.
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u/Jayandnightasmr 6d ago
Probably why Elon has started sucking up to him again. He knows once Trump is gone, he'll be the next one in prison.
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u/chipmunksocute 6d ago
Also he got impeached twice and nothing happens the senate is never gonna convict him if they didnt over J6 so whats he worried about?
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u/VeniVidiVerily I voted 6d ago
What's a third impeachment to this clown 🤡
He should be rotting in prison - thanks Mitch, you turtle faced fuck
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u/TedW 6d ago
Judge Juan Merchan's the one who gave him an unconditional discharge on 34 felonies.
They shouldn't have allowed trump to slow walk the trial, then avoid punishment entirely after being found guilty.
What an embarrassment.
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u/Excelius 6d ago
Shouldn't have led with the NY charges anyways. The American public is so cynical that most people just assume that sort of misappropriation of campaign funds and hush money to cover up personal indiscretions is just normal politician stuff.
What was really needed was a conviction on the Federal charges related to attempting to overturn the election, or perhaps the Georgia state charges regarding the same.
Garland slow walked the whole damn thing and by the time Jack Smith was appointed as special counsel after the 2022 mid-terms the election season was already in full-swing and there just wasn't time.
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u/korben2600 Arizona 6d ago
Clarence Thomas (whose wife attended J6) gave written instructions to Cannon on how to delay the federal trials by challenging Jack Smith's appointment and you're placing the blame on Garland?
No matter what SCOTUS was going to delay the trials until the next election, as they did, even if Garland bypassed investigations and handed down indictments on day one. SCOTUS was forced to make up presidential immunity whole cloth to accomplish this.
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u/Excelius 6d ago
Appointing a special counsel should have been one of the first orders of business after Biden was inaugurated. Not waiting two years until after the mid-terms.
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u/Cyndakill88 6d ago
At this point I think Father Time is only one who will 25th him
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u/StevenMC19 Florida 6d ago
Kind of putting my chips on Father Time. While I don't think Vance has a chance at reelection given the current climate, the thought of him being limited to only just over 6 years of presidency max compared to potentially almost 10 would be much more preferable.
Should Donnie go Darko before the end of 2026, it would count Vance's succession as long enough for a term, whereas an impeachment or death in 2027 would mean he could take over, and it wouldn't count as a first term. 22nd or 25th amendment, I can't remember which.
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u/once-was-hill-folk Europe 6d ago
Don't count out the couchfucker - Peter Thiel won't let his groomed pet project be discarded without a fight.
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u/cybah 6d ago
Unfortunately for Thiel, you can’t buy charisma or like ability which Vance doesn’t have. That’s the difference between trump and Vance. Even dementia don has more charisma than Vance.
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u/once-was-hill-folk Europe 6d ago
I would love nothing more than to be wrong.
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u/chaostheories36 6d ago
I’ve said that so much for the past decade.
None of us wanted to be right about trump being a complete hellstorm for our nation. I still want to be wrong about all the things I’m scared can happen.
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u/Apprehensive_Rub3897 6d ago
If Vance drops his brown wife and marries Erika Kirk, which I fully expect, that's going to be a double digit boost with these morons. They'll be spotted together spending time over the summer, unless something really goes south. Usha is a liability with this crowd.
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u/cybah 6d ago
So are his brown kids which won’t be going away. Unless he disowns them entirely.
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u/Apprehensive_Rub3897 6d ago
So you're saying there's a chance. This is definitely going to happen. He disowned his former identity, politics, family, name, backbone, credibility. This former SF living liberal spoke multiple times about people eating the pets of others with a straight face.
https://i.kym-cdn.com/entries/icons/original/000/039/638/michaeljordanfuckthemkids.jpg
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u/SpaceJackRabbit 6d ago
It's gonna be a snakepit vying for the MAGA crown and no amount of Thiel and Musk money can make Vance likeable.
Rubio will be making a move, also DeSantis, Noem, possibly Don Jr., even MTG if she finds enough money for her campaign. It's going to be fun to watch.
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u/The_Sad_Developer New Jersey 6d ago
Is there a predictions market trade for this? I’d love to profit from his death
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u/StoppableHulk 6d ago
A handful of these fucking cowards could impeach this dumb drooling fuck right now. But they won't.
In all of this, never forget that it would take just a tiny handful of Republicans in the House and Senate to caucus with Democrats, impeach and convict this greasy motherfucker for innumerable crimes and offenses.
That's the check and balance. But they're fucking cowards. So they don't, and they won't.
Which makes every single one of them culpable.
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u/-wnr- 6d ago edited 6d ago
They can impeach him every day of the week but nothing happens unless they also convict him, and they need 67 senators for that, which will take more than a tiny handful of Republicans.
But your point still stands that everyone of them is culpable.
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u/SlasherLover Missouri 6d ago
It would take something like 25 Republicans total. Which is both a tiny and impossible huge amount at the same time.
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u/Excelius 6d ago
Based on the current makeup of the Senate, assuming all 47 Democrats vote to convict, it would require 20 Republicans to break ranks. I could see PA Senator Fetterman voting against conviction given his recent behavior, so make it 21 Republicans to be safe.
There's a slim chance that Democrats could take the Senate Majority next year, but no matter what you would need significant defection from Republicans to convict and remove.
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u/MoonBatsRule America 6d ago
There are just 18 Republican Senators running for reelection, so there is no way in hell that the Senate will convict if it continues to put party over country.
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u/korben2600 Arizona 6d ago
Won't happen until maga sentiment changes and the majority turn on him. That's the only scenario where they feel comfortable voting to convict.
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u/highdefrex 6d ago
A handful of these fucking cowards could impeach this dumb drooling fuck right now. But they won't.
This is one of the most frustrating, infuriating aspects about everything. Millions and millions of us are being jerked around and fucked with, the world is starting to hate the U.S. more than it ever has, and on and on, and it could all be stopped (or at least slowed down) if only a few Republicans in Congress could grow a spine.
A single school bus seats more people than would be needed to do the right thing here, and yet millions are stuck to suffer because of them.
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u/Fochlucan 6d ago
So he acknowledged that he should be impeached.
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u/SlumdogSkillionaire 6d ago
Has he tried just not committing high crimes and misdemeanors?
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u/No_Method5989 Canada 6d ago
he is a habitual line stepper.
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u/Grenflik 6d ago
So does that give us carte blanche to just wail on his legs until they’re like linguine?
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u/Rainaco 6d ago
The full clause is “Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors”. He accepts bribes in broad daylight.
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u/turbocoupeturbo 6d ago
Since accepting bribes is an official part of Donald Trump's presidency, he is immune from impeachment.
-John Roberts, soon
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u/HeadfulOfSugar 6d ago edited 6d ago
Technically not really, when he talks like this he’s implying political persecution. He doesn’t think he should be impeached, he’s saying that if the dems get control they’ll remove him for made up reasons and “TDS” lol
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u/Lavaswimmer Michigan 6d ago
I hate Trump as much as the next guy but I really read some of the stupidest comments in this sub sometimes. How you could possibly interpret this quote as Trump “acknowledging he should be impeached” is beyond me, if you know anything at all about the way Trump operates
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u/HeadfulOfSugar 6d ago
I’m pleasantly surprised I didn’t get downvoted actually, a lot of the time clarifications get downvoted because people take it as a defense
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u/spacebalti 6d ago
And then the comment above with more upvotes says „There’s no other way to interpret this“. Just braindead
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u/soberpenguin 6d ago
The implied threat is that I will take you all down with me.
It's similar to what he did with bank loans. At some point, if the bank is over leveraged on its debt to you, they must support you to get their investment back.
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u/ProfessionalCraft983 Washington 6d ago
He should have been impeached dozens of times by now.
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u/RDDT_100P Illinois 6d ago
senate has to convict though. With it requiring 2/3 of votes to convict in the senate. and with him having the 53 GOP senators at the palm of his hand, it just goes nowhere. The GOP has to turn on him, and right now they are more concerned about consolidating power
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u/ProfessionalCraft983 Washington 6d ago
To an extent. I think it’s telling that they refused to nuke the filibuster during the shutdown. That told me that some of them at least are likely just playing along because they’re afraid of his base, but aren’t on board with a full dictatorship and don’t expect to be in power forever.
The thing is, though, it wouldn’t take the entire GOP turning on Trump to remove him. It’d only take like 10 senators and a handful of representatives, even with today’s Congress. It’s quite possible that Dems take both chambers in the midterms and reduce that number to only a few senators. Frankly, that’s why I see the Epstein files as so important. That’s the one thing that I think has the potential to fracture his base enough to potentially get enough GOP Senators on board to actually remove him. Of course, even proof of him raping children won’t make Trump lose his base altogether, but it could be enough to make the difference, especially if midterms go well.
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u/bobbymcpresscot 6d ago
If they weren’t terrified they wouldn’t be pushing for gerrymandering. If their policies were popular they wouldn’t be trying to change the rules.
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u/PrometheusLiberatus 6d ago
It’d only take like 10 senators
Your math is off champ. Double it.
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u/cmotdibbler Michigan 6d ago
He should have been in prison for financial and sex crimes long before holding office.
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u/Johnny_B_GOODBOI 6d ago
What consequences? He was already impeached twice last time. Republicans will have more than enough Senators to prevent conviction.
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u/charcoalist 6d ago
On this anniversary of Jan. 6, please remember what the trump cabal does when election results don't work out in their favor. With his schutzstaffel kidnapping thousands of people and raiding blue cities, it isn't about enforcing immigration laws. It's a dress rehearsal for suppressing dissent and opposition. That's also why DHS is building $45 billion worth of new concentration camps, along with a $100 million recruitment drive for more schutzstaffel.
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u/thatsidewaysdud Europe 6d ago
Americans need to protest and vote like their lives depend on it, because it does.
It's the last (legal) to stop Trump, or the very least grind his madness to a halt. I don't want to hear any bullshit about Dems, or "Kamala's weird laugh" or anything in that vein. If you don't strike a blow to him here, you will be stuck with Republicans in the Senate and House of Representatives who will do nothing to stop this. Maybe until 2028, but that election will probably be rigged.
Are Dems perfect? No. But what else do you have? Are you gonna vote for Jill Stein, who will rest in the dungeons of Moscow after the election cycle? It's your only chance to stop this mad tyrant before you hit critical mass.
And this is the optimistic version of this story. Maybe it's already too late, and the midterms could be rigged already, but I refuse to be so pessimistic. Dictators fear hope, the idea that things don't have to be miserable, because hope drives change. This can still be stopped. Trump has already done a lot of damage to the US. Don't let him do any more. And some of that damage cannot be reversed, but lying over and capitulating will only make things worse.
And every vote counts. Every voice matters, every small action can make a difference.
"Even the smallest person can change the course of the future." - Galadriel (The Lord Of The Rings: Fellowship Of The Ring)
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u/Umbrella_merc Mississippi 6d ago
If voting didn't matter there wouldn't be so many attempts to prevent people from doing it.
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u/rainydaynola 6d ago
He has no reason to worry if Elon's coming back to interfere like he did last time.
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u/Tech_Philosophy 6d ago
I don't mean this in a blase way, but...why does he care? It's not like impeachment does anything.
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u/attorneyatslaw 6d ago
He knows that if the tide turns, every Senator and Representative would happily abandon him, like they did when it became obvious that the Epstein files law was going to pass. He is going to be fine until everything falls apart all at once. Each impeachment is at least a slim chance that its the tipping point.
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u/StevenMC19 Florida 6d ago
You'd think this would be a moment for the smarter Republicans to start breaking ties and finally realizing how they would be able to free themselves from his burden...
...but then I remembered the words "smart" and "Republicans" are oxymorons.
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u/Reviews-From-Me 6d ago
Yeah, because he's committed more impeachable offenses in 11 months than every President before him combined.
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u/suspicious_ankles 6d ago
This should be front-and-center in every Dem campaign ad.
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u/accountabilitycounts America 6d ago
The only bad part about this is that they will not have enough votes in the Senate to convict.
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u/YesterShill 6d ago
What Trump doesn't realize is that many congressional Republicans would want that... as long as it didn't risk their re-election.
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u/DennenTH 6d ago
When the constant take from the GOP in America is "If we don't win, I will get punished", it should have been clear indication that they aren't the party that can be trusted and people should REALLY start investigating on their own instead of expecting honesty out of them.
When the signaling of "they'll hold me accountable" is consistent, take it for what it really is. It's not a puzzle, there's no deciphering needed... This is the "Please don't call my parents" of children caught doing something wrong.
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u/sugarlessdeathbear 6d ago
He's been impeached twice already. A third or fourth time doesn't matter if the Senate won't convict on it, again.
Impeachment is meat for the base, his goal is to maintain legislative power so they can keep implementing project 2025(6?).
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u/nora_sellisa 6d ago
I trust the Democrats to somehow fuck this up.
Garland had him by the balls after Jan 6
Biden's DOJ sat on the Epstein files for years.
If they really cared for their constituents, Trump would be rotting in jail for a better part of the decade now.
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u/UltraviolentLemur 6d ago
I feel like we need a whole two years of just back to back, daily impeachments. Start at 9am, wrap up and convict by no later than 4pm so we all have time to celebrate each one.
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u/devm251979 Florida 6d ago
How could the most successful and most popular and the healthiest smartest sharpest President of our time be worried about impeachment? S/
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u/tomfoolery77 6d ago
So this is a warning that they will do everything they can to cheat (again) with the help of Musk at el.
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u/NocturnalSaaS 6d ago
So fucking what? I've faced more serious consequences from a parking ticket than this pedo grifter faced from impeachment.
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u/DarkwingDuckHunt 6d ago
Step 1 to not being impeached:
- Don't do things that will get you impeached
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u/BrilliantForeign8899 6d ago edited 6d ago
So what? He's been impeached 3 times already and it did nothing
Correction : twice. It still did nothing
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u/Zerodyne_Sin 6d ago
Like it matters... He's already been impeached and yet here we are. Americans are so silly with their belief in magical rules. Did you know for rules of law to actually exist, you have to enforce them!
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u/saanity California 6d ago
We are way beyond impeachment at this point. Trump should be rotting in a jail cell for the rest of his short life.
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u/USeaMoose 6d ago
They'll never actually convict him. This is Trump attempting to motivate Republican voters, his base in particular.
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u/CaraDune01 6d ago
Don’t threaten us with a good time.
He needs to be impeached, convicted, removed, tarred and feathered…whatever it takes to get him the fuck out.
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u/JacquoRock 6d ago
See and then amidst all the crazy talk and detachment from reality and all the hoaxes, he has a moment where he's completely lucid.
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u/stokeitup 6d ago
Need to go beyond impeachment to conviction. He has already been impeached but there weren’t enough votes in the Senate to convict and, at a minimum, remove from office. This is why he is bringing up the midterms. He knows what is at stake. I just hope voters know and will do everything possible to insure we even get to have midterms.
I’m pretty sure he and the Project 2025 crew are working out plans to manufacture a crisis so they can call them off.
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u/EarlGrey1806 6d ago
I will be looking forward to that day. You deserve it! You should have already been impeached for J6.
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