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Just virtue signaling as it will never pass 2/3 majority.
This thinking is why we keep losing. Make them defend her.
I'm pretty sure we keep losing because billionaires fund these assholes to keep doing what they are doing.
So they spin it how they can and then what? We lose.
I just block doomers.
Fuck outta my feed.
They do that anyways.
Your preacceptance is giving them permission. Stop it
There are so many things we can do with a simple majority, trying to attempt something that needs a supermajority just seems like it's siphoning off political activism from constructive things to red herrings. Performative at best, active sabotage of initiatives that can produce results at worst.
I'm not sure what you thought you were responding to.
However, the reason we're here is because Republicans spent the last several decades blocking anything that could have prevented this from happening, because almost anything of any substance requires a super majority. Because Congress is broken. This has ceded so much power to the executive and allowed extremists to take up a significant position in the legislature
Make them say the quiet parts out loud so they can be held accountable when the dust finally settles. Or just roll over and die if you think that day will never come, I guess?
Maybe not. Remember that Noem lacks a key leadership feature as far as MAGA is concerned: a penis. She might just be the sacrificial lamb that Republicans use to say "SeE? wErE lIsTeNiNg" and try to calm down the sheep ahead of midterms. Then tell her "Thanks for your service, but can you go into the kitchen and get me a beer, honeybuns?"
But then, we need to be concerned about who gets appointed in her place. I hear Dan Bongino is looking for a job....
How many years did the GOP keep relentlessly putting up new abortion restrictions, having them voted down or immediately overturned by courts before they got their big win? "Virtue signalling" is how you keep your political coalition together. "Virtue signalling" is how recruit the voters that eventually let you win.
Exactly, fighting for issues is what wins, long before you can achieve it. Drugs, healthcare, freedom, gov abuse, are all things to fight a popular fight on, and organize while you do it. Register some damn voters, organize, make sure the county vote is fair now.
Pretty sure impeachment only requires majority. If it works the same as president, house needs majority to impeach, then senate has the trial which requires 2/3s.
I think it’s reasonable to expect 3 house members to vote to impeach. And if all 218 vote to keep her in power, then they are all implicated in what is happening.
No it requires 2/3. Which we wouldn't get in the best of times.
Impeachment is simple majority. Then it goes to the senate to vote to remove the official which is 2/3
Same difference. Why not spend our energy on things we can actually accomplish like we did with Epstein which was a massive win which will help us all year?
First, it’s multitasking. You can put energy into multiple things. That’s why you have hundreds of legislators.
Second, what’s happening in our country right now with ICE is insane. And for the sake of the midterms, it’s important to put on record which legislators are actively supporting this administration in these specific efforts. An impeachment vote would give something real to indicate who is supporting the actions of this administration against its citizens.
We all know who it is supporting it. It's all the Republicans minus a couple.