Put him in a bigger peach this time so he can't get out
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In the peach pit, like Buu
On one hand, great! On the other, wonder if this is in response to justice democrats targeting him.
https://www.axios.com/2025/04/28/justice-democrats-shri-thanedar-donavan-mckinney
Hmm we're preparing for 8 impeachments this term.
It'll be a new tradition, every year we impeach the man and every year it produces no real change.
Good luck with that while democrats control zero branches of gubment.
I've never done this before but it's actually time to call my congressman.
The totally free, and ad free, app called "5 Calls" will help you with that. It provides you their phone number, and a script. You can setup reminders to call daily, weekly, or I suppose monthly.
Won't they catch on that you're just reading from a script if enough people are using this app, and thus calling in and saying the same thing over and over again?
The fact that people are calling is what matters. It doesn’t matter if they are following a script. It’s a person that is taking their time to call in support/opposition to something.
^This. If you make the effort to call, you are very likely to vote in the next election. You won't be able to talk to your representative directly but the aides will relay the volume of calls coming in to them.
Yeah representatives don't rerally care if they get a thousand emails an hour 24/7, because that's easy to do with bots. But if they have to constantly ignore calls or temporarily hire more people to handle the volume, they'll take note. At least the better ones.
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Hasn’t this happened already? I could swear I’ve seen another article or two a while back saying someone was doing this same thing.
While good, we all know that the House won't pass this, and if they did the Senate won't confirm it.
I've said it before elsewhere but it needs to be heard...
It's just wild to me continually seeing posts not understanding how this all works, and how it would play out. It's like the people who thought China paid the tariffs...
The house is almost tied. That's who passes bills, handles impeachments, some of the most powerful committees are, and who impeaches Presidents...
218 Republicans, 213 Democrats.
Let's see, take New York for example.
26 representatives total, 19 Democrat and 7 Republican.
5 of those were within 2 points last time their seat was up.
People who think that New York is blue, their vote doesn't matter, skips the votes for the House and Senate and end up losing a Blue house seat but later complain that nothing changes are literally the fucking problem.
Every. Fucking. State. Is. Like. This.
Apathetic morons who don't realize that the president is only held accountable by the other branch of government then wave their hands around when they did jack shit to help put people in place to, are the fucking problem.
District 3 of California was lost by 24,000 votes. District 22 was lost by 3,000.
Those two seats in the house, along with the close ones in New York, Jersey, Michigan, Illinois, Washington, hell every state... Are what makes the House of Representatives or breaks it.
So, if you think that your vote for president doesn't matter, so you skip voting and let these other seats slip, yes, you're a fucking moron who can't grasp basic concepts of government that are taught in 4th grade.
And don't get me started on the State House/Senates, how they define voting laws and voting zones and engage in gerrymandering.
Every fucking vote counts.
And until the country realizes it, and starts acting on it, we'll keep getting the shit we deserve.
House needs a simple majority, and two thirds of the Senate.
Democrats would need ~18 seats.
First, that won't happen in 2026.
Even the best cases make it hard to win enough by 2028. Which is why impeachment is just not something we can hold out for.
Gerrymandering is part of why this is a problem, which is done at the local level, and again why every vote counts.
How could it play out? Assuming some absurdly weird upside down world just opposite of what we're living in, this is the only path just looking at the numbers...
Again, Democrats would need to gain 18 net seats. Seats Potentially in Play (Republican Incumbents): This requires looking at seats up in upcoming cycles.
- Class 1 Seats (Up in 2026):
- Highly Competitive Targets: These would be the first priority. States where Democrats have won statewide recently or that lean only slightly Republican. Examples based on recent political history might include:
- North Carolina (Budd-R)
- Alaska (Sullivan-R) - Unique dynamics with ranked-choice voting.
- Stretch Targets: States that are more Republican but could potentially flip under exceptionally favorable conditions (like the hypothetical turnout).
- Iowa (Ernst-R)
- Montana (Daines-R) - Depends heavily on candidate matchups.
- Kentucky (McConnell-R's seat - potential retirement changes dynamics)
- Kansas (Marshall-R)
- South Carolina (Graham-R)
- Very Difficult Targets: Solidly Republican states requiring overwhelming Democratic turnout and significant shifts among other voters.
- Texas (Cornyn-R)
- Mississippi (Wicker-R)
- Alabama (Tuberville-R)
- West Virginia (Capito-R)
- Oklahoma (Mullin-R - Special election winner)
- Wyoming (Lummis-R)
- Idaho (Risch-R)
- Arkansas (Cotton-R)
- Nebraska (Ricketts-R)
- South Dakota (Rounds-R)
- Louisiana (Cassidy-R) - Jungle primary system.
- Highly Competitive Targets: These would be the first priority. States where Democrats have won statewide recently or that lean only slightly Republican. Examples based on recent political history might include:
- Class 2 Seats (Up in 2028): (Looking further ahead)
- Highly Competitive Targets:
- Maine (Collins-R) - Often competitive, depends on matchup.
- Georgia (Perdue/Ossoff dynamic showed competitiveness, depends who holds it after '26 potentially) - Assuming GOP holds a seat here.
- Stretch Targets:
- Michigan (Peters-D currently, but listing potential GOP flips back if one happened hypothetically before 2028) - Generally leans D, but could be contested.
- New Hampshire (Shaheen-D currently) - Generally leans D, but listing potential GOP flips back.
- Very Difficult Targets: (Many solidly Republican states)
- Tennessee (Hagerty-R)
- Alaska (Murkowski-R historically, depends on dynamics)
- North Carolina (Tillis-R)
- Iowa (Grassley-R seat potentially)
- Texas (Cruz-R)
- Kentucky (Paul-R)
- And many others similar to the 2026 list (SC, AL, MS, WY, ID, NE, SD, KS, WV, OK).
- Highly Competitive Targets:
It's going to take an absolutely historic level of pain to both drive enough people to vote MAGA out to make this change though.
The amount that's being excused, sanewashed, and just drowned out with other absurdities...
We're on all on this shit ride until some new wildcard comes into play.
No impeachment, no Supreme Court, no guardrail is going to change that.
Something new and unaccounted for is the only feasible catalyst.
The amount that’s being excused, sanewashed, and just drowned out with other absurdities…
This is why articles of impeachment need to be introduced anyway. They need to do it every fucking day if they have to, every time it's voted down. it's not like the House or the Senate is voting on something better. They're voting on something worse.
It needs to keep being said that there is no sanity and there are no excuses and that something has gone fundamentally wrong.
Yes. People need to get out and fucking vote. Anything less than 80% participation in a presidential election is shameful.
But you need to do some background I think. California 22 might be "only" 3k, but it was 53%-47% in 2024. It's also voted Republican since 2002 (1) The real headfuck about CA-22 is how it's 73% Hispanic and reliably red.
Same shit with CA-3. "Only 24,000 votes" - they won that district by ten bloody points 55%-45%. There were 400,000 votes in the district. Thought it's a little more purple. (2)
Also, your numbers are off compared to wiki. Not sure where the discrepancy is but CA-22 and CA-3 were lost by 11,000 and 46,000 respectively.
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FINALLY.
Good. Now everyone needs to call, email, or visit with their reps to get this passed - assuming they can force a vote. It will only take 4 republicans crossing the aisle in the house to impeach him yet again. Then we need to hound our Senators to get a conviction. That will be the hardest part because it'll take about 20 republicans to join all the democrats and independents to convict him.
And then someone still has to drag him out
Who's gonna do that? The Justice Department full of Trump cronies?
At that point Vance would president, I think he’d be eager to move in to his new digs.
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I get the point but this will just result in a “official act” response and a hand wave.
It's a waste for a D to bring Impeachment charges. Unless Rs do it, it will never pass and will always seem politically motivated.
Isn't everything to do with a government politically motivated?
So you think they should just comply in advance?
Its never a waste to do the right thing.
Regardless, its nice to see someone actually trying to do something.
Weird how they only did it today when a primary challenger announced they were running.
They could have done this anytime before today but waited until their seat was at stake.
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I think every single D should do it, all of them should have ALREADY condemned his high crimes. They’re cowards
Force it into the record anyway
What does it waste? Every Republican, moderate, and undecided gets to see who actually wants impeachment. No stepping around it we'll know who could have ended this and voted to keep him. what can a Democrat do that isn't going to look politically motivated? Defeatist arguments are exactly what trump needs to become emperor
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Of course it's politically motivated, trump is a shit political leader.
He's done exactly 2 things I agree with, kill the useless penny, and say he'll pass a "congress can't trade stocks" law.
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There is no other motivation for any politician save for political motivation.
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Good. They should keep doing this for everything he does illegally.
Even if it won't amount to anything, we're getting Republicans on the record as saying they support Trump.
Makes it tough for the inevitable "I didn't side with Trump" statements we'll hear when he is finally gone.
How long until MAGAs use "MI-13" as evidence of a link to MS-13? Taking bets.
Hooray!
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