Democrats are shying away from impeachment. Why?
To provide incumbents with political cover if they’re challenged:
https://www.axios.com/2025/05/14/trump-impeachment-pelosi-thanedar-nadler
To provide incumbents with political cover if they’re challenged:
https://www.axios.com/2025/05/14/trump-impeachment-pelosi-thanedar-nadler
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The other side is doing it too
Both things are equal.
I can't buy it as a real motive.
Currently we have nothing. MTG tried that with Biden and we all laughed at her. Let’s not be her.
against: I'm scaaaaaaared !
and by not forcing no votes on impeachment they are protecting Fascist Congressmen.
Go Team!!!
What scared them so much Trump used global tariffs chaos to bury #SignalGate? This will sweep them all from power, pronto. It will scare the GOP into impeachment, or else. Humility is the key to ending this, quickest.
Eyes Wide Open.. .
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Our party is too big. So is the Republican Party. We should have at least 4 parties: progressive, center left, center right, fascist. We should also have a parliamentary system…but I digress :)
Why not appeal to independents with real economic solutions & highlight what his administration is doing that harms them? We have great ideas, impeachment isn’t one of them.
Impeach when we can actually do it because otherwise it’s just another defeat.
Choose your ground when the conditions are favorable for victory.
I paraphrasing Sun Tzu, this isn’t the time or place
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2022/10/17/the-reluctant-impeacher-nancy-pelosis-00061653
drunk posting isn't your strong suit.
THAT will lose them their primaries.
That is why The Democratic Party is the new Conservative Party. They’ve destroyed their position such that people call themselves “Leftist” now, as “liberal” is synonymous with “milquetoast”.
But here’s the real problem. Trump is easy to hate and making all Republicans look bad. If he is replaced by someone smarter and more evil, they’d have too much power right now.
Exploiting the malfeasance of your opponent is always to your benefit.
Ignoring it helps your opponent survive incredible scandals, by normalizing them, actually de-scandalizing the crime and corruption.
Continuing on that path is fucking catastrophic.
the Cons have been arguing for years now that Pelosi refusing to impeach 99% of Donald's crime proves that there was no evidence of guilt.
Dems' inaction is used to claim innocence.
"REPUBLICANS are letting trump perform impeachable offenses on a daily basis!
Why?"
Because someone will dilute the travesties with some lameass article about why it's the Democrats fault.
And the effectiveness of that position, even at that level, is extremely dubious.
Man oh man, and IM the extreme one for saying to primary ALL of them.
"Insulated"
"Compilation"
Definitely makes sense 💀💀
He would get an unconditional pardon from any Repugnican!
i guess if we do it after 2026 we can get president jeffries🤮
Even with the independents on their side the Democrats would need SEVEN Republicans to cross the aisle and vote to convict and that’s absolutely not going to happen.
Second the point is to be seen actively resisting, determining who is and isn't a ally, and to rile the base to action.
Everyone knows who is an ally. Everyone knows who is MAGA and everyone knows who the fence sitters are.
We had 7,000 people show up for a protest in Salt Lake City. The base is already rallied and resisting.
Fighting ONLY when you think you'll win is a losing strategy. Not all battles have to be decisive or be the ones that win the war to be valuable.
We’d all be subjects of his majesty King Charles.
We need to be strategic.
Not buying it anymore. We are led by cowards who think they can tweak around the edges and win.
They pretend demographics are fixed and just accept them rather than actively seeking to reshape them.
nothing short of total repudiation of the entire movement will work. vote.
I want to wear a pair of Levi's and a white t-shirt and my shit kickers and export democracy.
how many electeds do you have in your state?
DO
NOT
HAVE
THE
VOTES
Which means it does nothing.
And no gop will switch.
This isn't opinion, this is a proven fact that has been ptoven time and time again.
Make ads against any vulnerable Republican talking about how they supported Trump doing that crime.
Damn, I guess it did something
Gop always gladky cheers. They had ads like that last time from the last impeachment. Lol
They think everyone is too stupid to function because they are.
Get the geriatric, know-nothing mummies out of the House. Primary Nadler for fucking starters.
So tired of a BS Democratic Party.
Pelosi/Jeffries have been staunchly anti-impeachment for about 20 years now.
Human trafficking, coup attempts, tearing up the constitution. If they don’t impeach, that are supporters.
Primary every single one if we ever have another election.
1) The impeachment will likely not pass the Republican-dominated Congress
2) Even if it does, it doesn't mean the president will be removed from office. So basically nothing will happen.
No vote.
Simple.
Dems lost all congress in the elections.
That political capital is better spent elsewhere.
The Dems need to feel more pressure to act.
Everyone else should do likewise. If they won't fight for us, replace them with folks who will.
Nadler: I'm concerned taking a side is going to hurt my LinkedIn profile.
If they're going to get hit with it no matter what, why not do the right thing?
I cannot adequately express how much I hate 99% of the elected dems. We really need to clean house.
It's not all performance. Look at AOC. She keeps pointing out she represents us. Dems constantly trying to impeach sends a message.
We here in Australia have no term limits, so it’s always about being re-elected.
This is a human trait that will never change.
ADDING MORE ARTICLES OF IMPEACHMENT TRUMP COMMITS CRIMES EVERYDAY
VOTE BLUE FOR FREEDOM VOTE BLUE FOR AMERICA VOTE BLUE FOR YOU
more on winning and sustaining legislative majorities
Currently we are seeing the destruction of everything. No republic just fascist dictatorship for all.
Almost 700,000 people died in gruesome ways during the land war that took place up and down the east coast in a fight over whether slavery would be permitted to continue.
now we are facing even worse bloodshed and the result maybe the worst totalitarian dictatorship known to man. the technology they have when used against us is hard to fathom.
and they have zero chance to do that when they give up, before they even started to try.
They should be ashamed of themselves
Name five Republican senators in this Senate who would be willing to vote with democrats to convict him.
Dems are more worried about their party and elections than they are about democracy and rule of law.
You know...performative...the thing YOU SCREAM ABOUT HATING SO MUCH?
lol
Lolololol.
Hey, I know, you guys love aoc and benrie. You say they're amazing and can work hard.
Well, let's see it.
If they don't, they are failures and are just like the gop, right? Lol
Let's throw these impossible jobs around to everyone, shall we?
Lolol
Not demanding impeachment normalizes corruption.
The less they talk about impeachment the worse it all gets.
They tried doing nothing in his first term, and now everything is 10 times worse.
continuing to do nothing is outrageously fucking stupid.
it's incoherent. it doesn't make sense. and voters know that. They knew it back in 2019. and elected Dems look like fucking morons because of it.
Standing up for what's right, makes it look like you have some principles.
Giving up. Being a quitter, makes you look like a loser.
Forcing Rs to vote to protect someone who is obviously guilty is a big win. It would help win Senate seats.
He’s racking them up every day……..
They need to impeach because there needs to be a RECORD of maga who vote against it.
Claiming to “fight for the American people” when you have zero intention of actually fighting for the American people is what loses seats.
Dems are weak, ineffectual multi millionaires that don’t give a single shit about the people.
That doesn’t change until we REPLACE them.
It's not about succeeding, it's about trying and showing that you are trying.
They tried when they got power, but they didn't waste 2 years throwing the same resolution at the wall.
We need a better party
I fear that we’re going to end up taking a very uncivilized approach. That approach may be effective in the end, but it’ll be a whole lot more problematic overall.
Basically, the dems will keep asking "ready yet?" To the more liberal leaning gop every few weeks to see.
go nowhere. The GOP knows this and will characterize it as a waste of time and a case of Trump derangement syndrome.
1)
Just enough humility to admit that they don't know what will happen in the future would open up all sorts of possibilities.
#ImpeachTheFascists #RaiseTheBar #PrimaryThemAll #DemandMore
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And yes, they may be in the minority, but Mitch McConnell got stuff done while in the minority, and ground everything to a halt the rest of the time.
The fact that our current Dems aren't doing the same is pathetic.
Can’t change the minds of MAGA, but you can change the minds of centrists.
Midterms should be the only thing democrats are focused on right now.
That’s the only way to stop the orange traitor.
That's their clear message.
Dems need to control the house and senate, then move to impeach, then remove the president from office.
Otherwise, it’s a pointless spectacle than means nothing, a waste.
Don't get me wrong, there are a handful of them in the house and a few in the Senate that actually do want to put country over self, but it's nowhere near a whole party's worth.
oh. wait...
Or we are voting the incumbents out.
If they are only there to collect a check and write books. Hit the bricks.
Inaction means you are allowing the terrible things to occur. Bye.
The Noem thing is a sickening waste of $200 million tax payer dollars to blow smoke up our President’s backside. It’s disgraceful. But not surprising for the CosPlay Kid. She is notorious.
$200 million to lie to America.
They also have a Constitutional Duty to impeach. They took an oath.
Forcing a vote is a great way to shame pro-corruption Congressmembers.
Doing nothing is by far the stupidest thing they could do (also exactly what Jeffries will do.)
WE DO NOT HAVE A FUNCTIONING REPUBLICAN PARTY. They're either cowards avoiding death threats from their own crazy constituents or they are quite complicit in the coup.
Really?
Articles of impeachment, while extraordinary, are still a normal government function. It's a fart in the wind when you need an airhorn.
but Impeachment is the Constitutional remedy for a despot like Trump. It is their Duty to impeach. Everything else is just bullshit excuses. They Took an Oath.
An impeachment vote forces a situation where they vote Yes & make themselves vulnerable in the general election or vote No & make themselves vulnerable to primaries.
Being effective at fighting requires unity, not infighting.
They should be focusing efforts on *actually affecting outcomes for real live human beings right now* not handicapping themselves with pointless symbolic procedural gestures