• stretch2m@infosec.pub
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    23 hours ago

    I begged my congressman to support articles of impeachment. His response was basically that they don’t have the votes, so why bother? He even said that if they did, it would be performative and would play into persecution rhetoric for Trump.

    So that’s where we are now. The only people with the political power to oust a tyrant have thrown in the towel.

    I tried to reason with him that it matters. Even if they don’t have the votes to convict. Impeach him once a week of you have to. Persecute the motherfucker!

    But no, I guess re-election to Congress is more important.

    Fucking joke.

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      12 hours ago

      This kind of Dem is such a fucking pussy. Literally more worried about offending constiutents who would never vote for them in the first place.

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      19 hours ago

      would play into persecution rhetoric for Trump.

      The whole fucking point of him doing the persecution rhetoric is to stop people attacking him, and they’ve played right into his hands.

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      23 hours ago

      I tried to reason with him that it matters. Even if they don’t have the votes to convict. Impeach him once a week of you have to. Persecute the motherfucker!

      100% agree. Performative it may be, but doing it every single time he does something to warrant it, which is daily at this point, at least sends a message that this shit is unacceptable. Doing nothing is tacitly agreeing with it. It’s baffling.

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      20 hours ago

      Persecute Prosecute the motherfucker!

      FTFY. It’s only “persecute” if it’s unjust.

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      21 hours ago

      And look at the vote for releasing the Epstein files! Obviously, they ‘didn’t have the votes’ for that, either … but once they tried, even a bunch of Republicans were on board.

      At least fucking try.

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      16 hours ago

      So that’s where we are now. The only people with the political power to oust a tyrant have thrown in the towel.

      If only we lived in a democracy and could give people power with our vote…