• ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world
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    Issue is, that won’t necessarily happen, because a lot of democrats are cowards, and the right knows it. Many on the right calls this move of calling the opposition radicals in this way as a form of “cucking”, so it shames some of them into preemptively conceding.

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      because a lot of democrats are cowards

      I’d like to entertain the idea that they’re not actually cowards, but are either conservative plants, or are otherwise paid/controlled by the conservative agenda.

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      Democrat POLITICIANS are cowards, Democratic VOTERS are NOT. They are angry, and they want to go to WAR with MAGA, but our battlefield general is Schmuck Schumer, and he’s a smarmy, insipid little bitch, and is more interested in insider trading than being the courageous warrior leader we need. He doesn’t care at all who’s in charge, as long as he can keep making money. PedoCons are fine with him. He’s their best Democrat friend.

      AOC needs to primary him, and kick him out of the Senate in humiliating fashion, just like she did to the calcified old fart whose Congressional seat she first took.

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      It will happen with a Democrat majority. It just doesn’t mean anything because unless they have a supermajority and can get enough reps to agree on removal, impeachment ≠ removal from office. It’s just the start of a trial to consider his removal. It’s basically a slap on the wrist for him. He’s already been impeached twice and nothing happened.

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    No matter how radical any republican may think the left could be, the current people in charge are both actively protecting pedophiles, and are, themselves, guilty of abusing children.

    Maybe we need some radical left right now, eh? Maybe the child rapists shouldn’t be in charge.

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      Well these are the same folks with pedos running their hometown church. Pedophiles run deep in the church I expect them to elect them without thought

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      By the rest of the world’s standards, our left isn’t even remotely left.

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      “Radical left” is the Dems who actually want to do something. Don’t worry though there aren’t enough of them to get the job done.

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      I see folks complaining about “Tankies” on this site a dozen times a day and twice that on Sundays.

      Antifa, Radical Islam, Russian Bots, Chinese Wumao, ISIS, Tren de Aragua, Weather Underground… take your pick. They’re all corrupting the minds of our youth with quotes of people and videos of events perpetrated by people running our federal governments.

      Anyone that tricks a Westerner into refusing to support our national or state governments is an extremist radical contributing to the decay and destruction of our hallowed institutions. We have to find them, silence them, punish them, and remove them at all costs. Otherwise the Evil Foreigners will win.

      Do you want to wake up speaking North Korean? Then get with the program and join ICE, so we can stop these ultra-radical freedom-hating anarcho-communists.

    • 🍉 Albert 🍉@lemmy.world
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      can trump even be impeached anymore? as legally, whatever he does isn’t a crime?

      legally, he’s a tyrant and the law protects him.

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          He was already impeached twice, they will do nothing besides symbolic tasks. so many people belong in jail, yet legally, that is now not possible because nothing trump does is illegal. and the dems will make a show of an impeachment then not remove him

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            Impeachment is one half of the process. If the Dems held a supermajority in the Senate he would have been removed.

            Yes, this requires a lot of things to have been different, and everyone would have had to be following the intent of the constitution, not just the letter, but there exists a way to remove him and put him in jail.

            You can throw your hands up and say he’s immune from any consequences, but if everyone did that then it would really be true.

            I’m not saying people should blindly hope and do nothing, but quitting is exactly what they want.

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            This is exactly the idea behind the meme. They’ve already impeached him, twice. And nothing happened, it was all for show.

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        Impeachment doesn’t go through the courts but is entirely a matter for Congress. They can impeach him for anything or nothing as long as they have the votes.

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          It’s going to have the opposite effect in time. If center-right moderates are called radical Marxists, then they might as well at least be social democrats or democratic socialists anyway and at least have some sound policies instead of watered-down right-wing garbage.

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        People have the weirdest political compasses now. Spoke to a crypto bloke the other day who was emphatic about Nazism being “leftist” ideology.

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          That’s years old right wing propaganda spread by the likes of Alex Jones for years. They use the ‘socialism’ in “national socialist” (part of the term Nazi comes from) to argue so, ignoring the fact that anyone can make a name whether or not it’s true. If any socialist plans were made by the Nazis, it was of course racist first; only the in group gets any benefit.

          These are old ideas that were niche at first but have been moving out into the public as the right shifts the Overton window. Stuff we’d dismiss at ridiculous crazy yelly conspiracy man is now mainstream even with people who might not want to be associated with Jones.

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            Yeah, I love that one. “They have socialist in the name!” So you believe the People’s Democratic Republic of Korea is all of those things?

            The Nazis have socialist in the name because they joined with socialists in the early days to consolidate power and then they killed the socialists. Who what it they first came for in that poem? The fucking socialists.

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          To the American conservative? “National socialism” is all they need to hear, then they stop thinking

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    I wouldn’t be getting my hopes up.

    If there’s one thing watching US politics, from Europe these last +20 years, has taught me, then it’s this:

    Even with a solid majority, the house and senate democrats will be too full of individual self-interests too do anything of the sort.

    The democrats need something like the heritage foundation to effectively herd them into a unified collaborating political party.

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      Even with a solid majority, the house and senate democrats will be too full of individual self-interests too do anything of the sort.

      It’s not individual self-interests, it’s pretty blatant corruption to protect their donors, the US oligarchs. Any real investigation into republicans will implicate “democrat” billionaires as well.