How do we expel his entire cabinet? It’s not just Trump, we’ve got to dig out the roots and salt the soil.
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The Democrats win a majority in the House and appoint a half-decent Speaker, then impeach and remove both Trump and Vance. The Speaker of the House then becomes the President and they can appoint a whole new cabinet.
If all the Dems can do is remove Trump then we get President Vance, and all the cabinet positions stay the same.
If there's any hope of this, they need to excise the Schumer tumor first. Corporate Democrats have no will to fight because big money does not want things to change.
"Chuck Tumor? The oncologic surgeon is here to remove you now."
They need a majority in house and senate to impeach and convict. Conviction is how Trump is removed, impeachment just means he did enough to investigate any wrongdoing.
Correct. I was thinking about the presidential chain of succession and didn't mention the Senate. A simple majority in the house is needed to pass articles of impeachment. Then two-thirds of the Senate must vote to convict and remove the president.
I'd expect Trump's 3rd and 4th impeachments to go like the first two, i.e. he stays in office. Also, it would be very hard to find charges against Vance as VP.
If Trump did somehow get removed, Vance would take over as President, and it would take him a while to do enough bad stuff to get impeached and removed. And by then, he would likely have gotten his own VP confirmed, who would then inherit the office from Vance. So all this stuff about removing Trump and making things good again is wishful thinking.
Monica Lewinsky as Speaker. Because nothing matters anymore unless you do it with hyperbole.
Once you get rid of him it's much easier to make the Domino's fall
As we have seen in the past, impeachment is meaningless if we can't get a proper trial in the Senate. And it would take one hell of an election night for the Dems to get enough seats in the Senate to possibly remove Trump from office.
As much as I want Trump to face consequences for his actions, I'm not holding my breath.
Are we still pretending that the USA still has a functioning democratic process (as defined by its constitution)?
“They’ll find a reason to impeach me,”
Chuck "Magoo" Schumer even could...
And after midterms we re-elect congress leaders and the neoliberals can't threaten to cut off funding to states who don't vote for their pick anymore.
I really want AOC to run for president, but there's a good chance we can see AOC/Bernie as party leaders in Congress next session. Even if we don't, we'll get someone willing to impeach.
Martin won't have the DNC push for them, but he won't push for anyone.
They’ll find a reason to impeach me
And here I was thinking he was an idiot.
Gotta drudge one up from the scant, bare, desolately well stocked warehouse of valid evidence backed reasons. Somewhere in that minuscule, elusive, completely filled swimming pool of damning live-tweeted boasts of flagrant disregard for law. Probably still fuck it up somehow.
So what? The man has already been impeached twice. Nothing happened. The Senate is the one that convicts and the Dems don't have a chance in hell of taking back the Senate, so this is all a moot point.
He's already been impeached twice and should be used to it by now. What's the big deal? Wake up, brush teeth, go to Capitol, impeach Trump, go home, watch TV, sleep, repeat.
OTOH, he seems like he doesn’t want to be impeached, so we should do it harder
It gets easier after the first few times. Maybe they can have several impeachments going on at the same time, to get through them quicker.
He's making the bold assumption that people will vote.
The US has repeatedly demonstrated that impeachment doesn’t do shit.
Alt least he’s somewhat lucid.
Demonstrative bullshit. I don't know if I can wait 11 months for Americans to figure out things are actually kinda bad and they might want to start I don't know, doing stuff.
Let me be abundantly clear: If you are an American, and you think legitimate midterm elections are going to happen this year, congratulations, you are a blithering idiot and part of the problem.