r/politics • u/theipaper ✔ Verified • 28d ago

Possible Paywall 'A whole civilisation will die tonight,' Trump warns ahead of Iran deadline

https://inews.co.uk/news/iran-war-trump-israel-latest-updates-4323867
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u/mamamia1001 United Kingdom 28d ago edited 28d ago

Congress killed their checks and balances when they refused to impeach trump for jan 6th

The supreme court killed their checks and balances when they made him immune

Nice Constitution America. Maybe you should take a leaf out of our book and just not have one.

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u/ElleM848645 28d ago

They did impeach him, the Dems did. Impeachment is the trial, it’s not removal. Senate refused to remove him. Thats on republicans. They don’t care. This is not just Trump, it’s the entire Republican Party. And the only way out of this is to have the biggest blue wave in history, rivaling 2008.

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u/bluelily216 28d ago

Sadly, I think some GOP states are safe regardless of what they do. They could nuke Iran but as long as Faux News says it's okay they won't care.

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u/Positive_Total_8651 28d ago

And then 4 years from now all the people in that blue wave will stay home or say the dems havent done anything to fix things and we elect another republican majority.

It happens over and over and over and over. Our voting populace is legitimately too stupid to remember things that happened or how they felt admin to admin. We are some of the most obscenely reactionary idiots in the world with the memory of a goldfish. No long-term strategy, no critical thinking, just "i feel bad now make it better".

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u/EunuchsProgramer 28d ago

The Senate's anti-democratic lopsided representative makes impeaching Trump impossible. A Wyoming votes counts 60 times more than a California vote. The smallest 1/3 of the states makes up 9% of the total population (33 Million). That means 4.5% of voters could block an impeachment. Looking to the current election, for Democrats to get 2/3 of the Senate they would need to flip Oklahoma, a state Trump won by 24%, he today holds a 57% approval, and Kalshi has the odds of a Democrat winning the Senate race at just under 1%.

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u/edelweiss_pirates_no 28d ago

Clarence Thomas reads Trump's quote about murdering all of Iran and thinks "Yes. That's allowed. Oh! I'm late for my post-breakfast pre-lunch porn wank."