• Zombiepirate@lemmy.world
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    7 days ago

    Still, the vast majority of Republicans are sticking by Trump, like 68-year-old Greg Votel, a retired law enforcement officer in Minnesota who said the president “can only do so much when you have a Congress that’s fighting him tooth and nail to preserve the Democratic Party” and told NPR that it will take more time for Trump’s plans to come to fruition.

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    Big deal. He’s not losing his presidency either way. Congress would need a supermajority of Democrats working in lock step to halt his evil machinations. And I really mean supermajority to overcome all the turncoats just waiting to show their true colors come voting time.

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      Right? He’s already been impeached twice, oh no the majority of people don’t like him. Now he’s in real trouble /s The entire US political system is such a fucking joke, it has been for decades, Trump just made it more apparent. Now it’s not who’s the best candidate (opinion), it’s who’s the least shit in your opinion. That’s sad.

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      And I really mean supermajority to overcome all the turncoats just waiting to show their true colors come voting time.

      Yeah, even when we have a “supermajority” we have the Fifth Column assholes make themselves known.

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    A question for Americans.

    In some other countries, eg Australia, if the ‘President’ becomes unpopular, their own party can vote them out and replace them during a term of office. It’s rare, but happens with bad polling, and ambitious politicians.

    Is that possible in the US? ie the Republicans could vote out Trump and replace him with Vance? Or could it only be done via impeachment etc, and would have to be voted on by everyone in the House/Senate?

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      It sounds like your asking the question from the perspective of someone with a parliamentary system where the prime minister is chosen by the majority party or coalition. That is not the case in the U.S., the president is elected completely independently from our legislators.

      While there is a provision to remove the president due to incapacitation, and there has been talk of applying that to Trump’s mental decline, the bar is high. The vice president and a majority of the cabinet (which were chosen by, and serve at the pleasure of, the president) have to petition Congress and if the president says no disability exists both houses of Congress have to agree by a 2/3 vote to remove him for disability.

      The more likely route is impeachment, but this is also a high bar. A simple majority in the House of Representatives impeaches the president, but that just means sending him to the Senate for trial where a 2/3 majority is required to convict and remove him.

      Don’t hold your breath for it.

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      They can impeach him but only if he breaks the law. Which he constantly does. This is why people should not be gung ho as much about getting rid of trump as much as getting rid of the republican party. Not conservatives necessarily but the republican party has no consistant way of acting that could really call them anything anymore.

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    Yeah so what? I’ve been reading dozens of not hundreds of articles about his low polling numbers since the beginning of his first term.

    Nothing changed

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      If you think NOTHING has changed, you’re not paying attention to news, you’re only looking at doomerism.

      People are pushing back, his policies are being stopped, and congress isn’t united along with him.

      Yes, he has done some absolute damage to the US and the world as a whole, but he has been stopped over and over again.

      People are fighting back, and people are winning.

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        The damage he has done to the US is extremely likely irreversible. Not that I mind, fuck the US, it’s been just as bad as Russia and China, it’s just that they granted the west stability, so the west kind of overlooked it’s continuous crimes.

        That tolerance is now over, and I highly doubt it’ll ever come back. Europe is stepping away from the US hard, and they won’t come back.

        Ukraine showed that Russia is mostly a paper bear

        Iran showed that the US is mostly a paper eagle, again, thanks to Trump

        Millions will die due to Trump’s actions

        Americans so far have done little to nothing, and yes, by that I mean the weak no-kings protests. Anyone thinking that the single day no-kings protests were great really hasn’t been paying attention to how bad the US has become that people can’t even protest more than a day without losing their jobs or something. Take a ook at Europe, take a look at France.

        I’m sorry, but it is REALLY hard to see that Americans are fighting back. It’s not doomerism, I know this too shall pass, this is just the reality of the situationn where this is not a new thing. The US has been sliding into authoritarianism for decades already and most people were defending it as the greatest nothing ever while people were dying on the streets.

        So looking at the few hollow victories that have been scored, I can only say that it’s too little, too late, at least for a victory lap.

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    Dum-dum donnie doesn’t really give that much of a fuck.

    He’s making money hand over fist for him and his rotten family as well as anyone around him getting cut in.

    And no one is stopping any of it. If they get that stablecoin fraud into place, they will make buckets of money and it will probably take a lot to pry them out of the center of our banking system.