the next step would be removal from office, but that didn't work the last two times. By all means, try again, but I expect this douchbag to have a third and fourth term, and all the bullshit that entails.

No, that kind of moral equivalence is what Trump plays on.

Take for example: "All politicians lie"

But!

"Read my lips, no new taxes" is qualitatively different from "They are eating the cats! We are deporting rapists and murders!"

Surely you see the difference

Obama war crimes bombings at least he worked with the State Department and DoD lawyers to come up with a legal theory and framework. It obviously blurred some boundaries. But it was qualitatively different from literally threatening genocide after consulting (as far as we can tell) nobody.

There should have been a non-stop effort to impeach him since January 6, 2021.

Yeah, this should've been going since at least the ICE bullshit started, at latest. One resolution fails? Another one, right then. Keep it going, constantly, Enemy At The Gates style. Make them defend the position, make them justify it to their supporters.

Honestly, I’m all for it and wish the dems had been doing it even more.

Same here. And for the record, until now usually it has been Al Green introducing articles of impeachment alone, but doing it anyway because it's the right fucking thing to do. I have nothing but the deepest respect for that, because it has NOT helped him politically, but he does it anyway, like the sign at the State of the Union address: where the fuck were his Democratic colleagues??? Even if it goes nowhere, I appreciate that there's at least one Dem in DC not politely ignoring the total illegality and unconstitutionality of what the orange chancre does.

This time, though, it is John Larson of Connecticut introducing the articles of impeachment, a guy who's been in Congress since 1999. I never heard of him, so I looked him up. And while this impeachment is still the right thing to do, Larson is 100% a party man, never steps out of line, and has never done this or anything like it before.

But in an unrelated note, Wikipedia says that, "For the first time since 1999, Larson faces serious Democratic challengers." Better late than never, but I have to ask myself, would Larson even be bothering if his own ass weren't on the line because progressives -- not R's, not D's, but progressives -- are overturning almost every single election they're appearing in with shock wins, often with unexpected double-point leads?

I'll take a Hail Mary pass, but it would go over a lot better with me if I didn't think he was doing it solely to save his own seat.

Impeach harder!

This is Lemmy. The community here will always be dead-set against anything that could bring actual progress.

Impeaching Trump is just another Tuesday now. No meaning.

Trump's already been impeached, twice, and it did absolutely fuck all. It's the theater of doing something while being maliciously useless just the same.

I was merely stating the worst case scenario. I would much prefer something more rational, like a sustained general strike starting on May 1st, lasting more than a day or two.

Each No Kings rally gained more people each time. It's a step in the right direction, but the uptake needs to accelerate.

He’s already been impeached twice. It’s the Senate that keeps ~~dropping the ball~~ pussing out.

There, fixed it.

And that is the inherent problem -- "the dumbing down" as Sagan once wrote.