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Ryuu96 said:
I've said it before but the Democrat Party is one of the most pathetic opposition parties in the West, Lol. JFC...It wouldn't have passed anyway, it was a symbolic vote, so why the fuck would you vote no? All you do is once again show that Republicans are totally united on an issue while Democrats can't get on the same page or support Trump remaining in power, how does this look to your voter base? All this tells me is 128 Democrats weren't mad about Trump bombing Iran, they were mad they weren't involved in the decision but they would have absolutely supported bombing Iran if it was put to a vote. This party I swear has absolutely zero fight in it aside from a few dozen, the public are fighting back against Trump's bullshit more than Dem leadership. Democrats fight harder to stop a left wing candidate (Zohran Mamdani) than they do Trump, Lmao. |
A less cynical reading (or more) cynical) is that every failed impeachment actually empowers the president even more. When someone is acquitted in an impeachment, it tells them that their actions will be sanctioned by Congress. We’ve also seen this in Texas, where AG Ken Paxton was acquitted of serious and highly credible charges along party lines in September 2023, and now runs roughshod over the Texas legal system, and is now challenging John Cornyn for his Senate seat when in reality, Paxton should be in a Federal prison cell. It also empowers MAGA voters to even greater depths of viciousness. See, the Democrats lost again in a sham impeachment trial
The bar for convicting someone through an impeachment trial is impossibly high. It’s not like a no confidence vote in a parliamentary system. It takes 67 out of 100 Senators to remove someone from office, a ratio which neither party will ever have. If Nixon had the same kind of Senate Trump did, he would never have resigned. And of he’d refused to resign when he did, odds are he would have been acquitted by the Senate anyway. And due to the rigidity of the U.S. electoral system, there are no such things as snap elections for members of the executive branch.. They are only held on set schedules. In the nearly impossible scenario of a conviction, Vance would become president, Congress would pick a new VP, and Vance would run in 2028 on how unjustly MAGA was treated.
I’m not saying Trump doesn’t deserve impeachment, but I can see why the Democrats don’t want to go through that kind of absolute futility again. They impeached him twice and it only gave him more power.
Last edited by SanAndreasX - on 24 June 2025
