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Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a New York Democrat, ripped Donald Trump for his military attack against Iran on Saturday, saying the move is "absolutely and clearly grounds for impeachment."

Ocasio-Cortez ripped the president's action on X, formerly Twitter, and wrote, "The President's disastrous decision to bomb Iran without authorization is a grave violation of the Constitution and Congressional War Powers. He has impulsively risked launching a war that may ensnare us for generations. It is absolutely and clearly grounds for impeachment."

On the other hand, Senator John Fetterman, a Pennsylvania Democrat, came to Trump's side and wrote on X, "As I've long maintained, this was the correct move by @POTUS. Iran is the world's leading sponsor of terrorism and cannot have nuclear capabilities. I'm grateful for and salute the finest military in the world."

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[-] [email protected] 1 points 26 minutes ago* (last edited 14 minutes ago)

Does it even matter, American government and business is soaked deep in soggy dogshit.

It's not getting fixed by political discourse. If you're trying to do it that way than you aren't even playing the same game as the entity leading right now. Understand the game like mob boss and gang leaders. These politicians appear naive... We don't live in that world anymore and probably haven't for the past 30 years. It's the same feeling as seeing mainstream big religious people living in a dream world.

That's not a call for action or anything... It's just realistic observation.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 59 minutes ago

They tried this before multiple times and it achieved nothing, you'd think they'd come up with a new idea.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 2 hours ago

Cool. So since she's a member of the house of representatives, she must have initiated proceedings for impeachment, right?

[-] [email protected] 3 points 39 minutes ago

its not a good idea to introduce something in Congress if you dont have support

[-] [email protected] 84 points 23 hours ago

Mussolini got dragged through the streets and him and his gf’s lifeless corpses were hung upside down for all of Rome to see.

Weird fact. Not sure why I’m thinking of it

[-] [email protected] 17 points 21 hours ago

There is an old quote -

"The plight of the oppressed ends with the oppressor. Mussolini found this to be true, as will others."

[-] [email protected] 14 points 21 hours ago
[-] [email protected] 14 points 21 hours ago

Now THAT’s a PRIME NUMBER

Thank you for your attention to this matter

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[-] [email protected] 15 points 23 hours ago

It was Milan. Though I'm sure the people of Rome were more than welcome to go see his bespatted husk.

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[-] [email protected] 10 points 17 hours ago

What are they gonna do about it? Lawsuit? Lmao

[-] [email protected] 46 points 23 hours ago

Only a rag would quote Fetterman and credit him as a Democrat. He doesn't act or believe what he did when he was elected as a Democrat, his perspective is irrelevant.

[-] [email protected] 12 points 22 hours ago

I've watched Fetterman's 180 from across the pond. Don't really understand what happened and what made him flip.

[-] [email protected] 29 points 22 hours ago

He had a stroke that damaged his brain.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

Stop spreading that. It's not true.
Fetterman was a shitty mayor before his current office. He chased after a blackman with a shotgun because the guy was simply jogging in his neighborhood. He vandalized local business in the middle of the night that he didn't like.

He firmly stated he was not progressive during his run for office. The Republicans labeled him a progressive librel to try and smear him. He was never progressive, ever. The stroke did not change his views. He is and always was a slimy politician .

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[-] [email protected] 39 points 1 day ago

Keep screaming impeachment when clearly that doesn't work.....he belongs in jail ya know for being a 34 count felon rapist seditionous traitor.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 8 hours ago

This one might actually stick since the Republican party is split over this.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 21 hours ago

You know that that also did not work, right?

[-] [email protected] 7 points 20 hours ago

Yes clearly.

America is a shit show. Americans have shown they are ok with this.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 3 hours ago

Assuming the election wasn't hacked, yeah...

I have my doubts about the election (and I'm a big data engineer with a cyber security cert)

[-] [email protected] 4 points 8 hours ago

Those with the authority to do their jobs and jail trump willfully abdicated their responsibility to do so. Yeah, there absolutely is a subset of this population aggressively driving us toward an oligarchy and authoritarian kleptocracy, but the majority of American citizens would prefer to see the law upheld. We don’t want a three-tiered legal system, the bottom jails first and throws away the key, the middle bleeds you dry with legal costs, and the top has no rules or consequences.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 12 hours ago

Don't bunch us all up with the government. The government is ok with it being a shit show. Many voted against it. Many of us don't agree.

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[-] [email protected] 29 points 1 day ago

I want him actually removed from office. He was already impeached. Twice! It didn't do anything.

[-] [email protected] 23 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

To get him removed from office, you have to first get the House to vote (50%) to Impeach him. That is actually doable. But then the Senate has to hold a trial and somehow get 67 senators to vote to convict him. That would take every Dem and Independent and something like 20 Republicans to vote to convict. I agree with you, but I don't see that happening.

The only other way is by using the 25th Amendment which says, in part:

Whenever the Vice President and a majority of either the principal officers of the executive departments or of such other body as Congress may by law provide, transmit to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives their written declaration that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, the Vice President shall immediately assume the powers and duties of the office as Acting President.

Vance and all of Trump's appointed toadies would have to send a letter to the House and Senate saying Trump in not capable of being president. And even if, by some miracle that happened, the next step is for Congress to hold votes in both the House and the Senate needing two-thirds of both houses to declare that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office. Even if they somehow pulled that off in the House, it would still take 18 or 20 Republican senators to cross over and vote him out.

I just don't see any legislative way out of this. The Republicans in the House and Senate are simply not going to let it happen. They have too much power and no morals.

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[-] [email protected] 105 points 1 day ago

If literally anyone thinks "it's okay that Trump bombed Iran, it was the right move"...

Then couldnt you just argue that "if it was such an obviously right move, wouldn't it have been easy to get congress to approve it?"

It's illogical to on one hand say it was the right thing to do, while ignoring the fact he did it without approval.

If it was so right, then approval would've been easy to get...?

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[-] [email protected] 197 points 1 day ago

Fuck Fetterman that piece of shit.

[-] [email protected] 80 points 1 day ago

Gotta be a some kind of link between brain damage and rabid conservatism.

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[-] [email protected] 57 points 1 day ago

clearly grounds for impeachment

...add it to the pile, I guess.

But considering that impeachment is a legal process and that the current administration has zero respect for or inclination to follow the law, it's not like it'll accomplish shit. Dude needs to be deposed by those who have sworn to defend the constitution from domestic threats (the military) not run through some formal process.

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[-] [email protected] 28 points 1 day ago

Every day the Criminal in Chief commits impeachable crimes. Every. Day.

This is just the latest. But Congress is currently packed with illegitimate, undemocratically placed criminal cronies who face no accountability while shielding their criminal collaborators from accountability. So here we are.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago)

I like how they pretend if he is not the president it wouldn’t be the same. They lied about WMD in Iraq and went to war in behalf of israel. And the did regime change in Libya, bomb and missions in Somalia and Yemen and not a single word from almost all congress about war crimes in gaza.

Let’s be honest, AIPAC controls all level of governments.

The only issue now, white MAGA, who actually hate Jew, or Russian propagandist are calling him out.

As soon as AIPAC find dirt on them or manage to buy them, the progressive movement will find themselves alone again.

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