That’s a good point. If you had told me they ran that ad I’d have believed you.

It’s not out of desperation, it’s who they really are.

they are definitely crabs in a bucket of their own making.

Dr Frankenstein approves this typo.

He’s can’t be the senate Majority leader, he’s already keeper of the crypt.

Ha! Yeah, they’re kicking off the theater alright, I have great doubts that they have the votes to convict him. At the very least there’s a chance doing it now means the theater of it won’t spill into next year when the Dems take control, but even that feels like a long shot.

I’m aware of his role. Impeachment is a useless show without support in the Senate to convict. The stuff we know that’s already public knowledge is enough to boot him, but actually removing him requires republican support.

I get that he doesn’t have the power to do anything beyond MC the show, that’s why it’s meaningless for him to speak up

Furious enough to publicly announce that REPUBLICANS will be kicking off impeachment proceedings with overwhelming support for the conviction of his many, many crimes?

yeah, I didn’t think so.

Edit: Called it.

Yeah that one was a typo. I looked it up and couldn’t find anything specific beyond the constitution which a law journal confirmed covers all impeachments. Simple majority to impeach, 2/3rds to convict. I would be extremely surprised if anyone crossed the aisle to convict, but Texas also turned blue last week, so who knows!

Absolutely, and that guy is the chief of staff now.

Did he even ever set policy? It seemed like he just hired a billion dollars worth of goons and let them loose on the browns and the poors with no oversight or directions beyond “make peasants afraid again”.

they can’t do anything to Hegseth without 60% 67% of the Senate. Maybe this will pressure trump to appoint someone else, but that might actually be worse for everyone if he does it in the next few weeks.

Seriously, he didn’t say “convict” because removal still requires 2/3 of the Senate, and the Dems only have 54%, not 66%.

This is very likely Jeffries plan to waste as much time as possible. They need to get him the fuck out of that chair.

Completely agree, but for anyone not in Texas you need to understand that for a lot of people here “average centrist” is basically “militant communist terrorism”.

In retrospect (and purely, only in retrospect), if we had packed the ballots with progressives they’d have gotten in anyway. I feel strongly that the election was decided here in Texas by low information voters doing the opposite of what they did last time because that’s all they could think to do. I really don’t think it went any deeper than that. The fascists knew that about their base, that’s why all their ads have always been fear based. This time, real world fear was flying in the face of the manufactured fear, and it became impossible to ignore any longer. Many of these people have never left the state. They’ve only seen six dollar diesel in memes about California. When they saw that at home it was like seeing a tiger in their kitchen. They ran for the voting booths the same way they’d run for the shotgun.

Under no circumstances would I have ever placed a bet on a statewide blue sweep! I remember Anne Richards, I feel like she’d be happy about this outcome.

they can get the votes by showing six senators evidence of their crimes, and extorting them into choosing between voting and prison. I would prefer they go to prison, but IMHO correcting the serious harm this much presidential power causes is a worthwhile tradeoff.

Alternatively, the next dem president walks into the Senate with a shotgun and tests that immunity ruling.

Thousands of people just did years of work to get elected to offices across the spectrum of government and you’re sitting at a keyboard telling them it’s not good enough.

What is your plan besides that wishful thinking non plan you posted? What ideas do you have to help them? Do you have plans to work with them? Are you going to collaborate with anyone? Are you going to organize? Where’s your people, your war chest, your logistical support, your supply chains, your plan.

These thousands of people had a plan, they organized, they protested, they got elected and now they’re gearing up to do the job.

what are you doing besides yelling on the Internet?

oh and one follow up question, what the fuck are you going to be doing?

yeah, in this one that frog paints itself blue and a heron eats it while exclaiming “Blue flavor!”

Organizing. Strike. Revolution. is a slogan, not a plan. How can you demand from others what you’re not willing to do yourself? What is your plan.