Korean lawmakers filed to impeach President Yoon Suk Yeol, accusing him of violating the constitution with his brief martial law declaration. The motion requires a two-thirds Assembly vote and court approval. If passed, the Prime Minister will lead temporarily during the court’s review.
The impeachment has sparked mass protests and political unrest across South Korea, raising concerns about national stability. The international community, including the U.S., urges peaceful resolution as the country faces a pivotal moment in its democratic process.
TBM, you are correct. There is nothing in the constitution for arresting the President. There is impeachment, and there is the 25th Amendment. Alas loser sycophants were at the top level of government, more patriotic and democracy loving people would have convened the conference to remove him ASAP.
I've been singing this one note since 1/7/21. There doesn't seem to be any one who can just walk into the White House, slap on the cuffs and say "you're under arrest".
The Democrats can't take this sort of decisive action. I hope he's impeached and jailed as Trump should've been. But we left it up to that dynamo of an AG, Merrick Garland.
Yes! Except in SKorea parties are committed to and their loyalties lie with democracy, not with a party or party leaders. Hence a swift bipartisan vote of 190-0. SKoreans showed up in the middle of the night b/c with unwavering bipartisan support from their govt, such an accomplishment is possible.
We tried to, but unlike South Korea our Republicans voted against Impeachment. In fact barely any of them went against Trump even after that happened. Never EVER forget that.
A big difference is that there are many South Koreans alive today lived through the last coup and military dictatorship; Americans alive today haven't a clue what that's like.
Well their whole country came together really fast. Citizens and parliament members
But I think with the USA.. our main disadvantage is the land mass. We are huge!! Travel is hard and we can't all just pick up and protest.. although we want too..
1970.... Welcome to 2024. On January 6th 2021, hundreds of white people stormed the capitol and only one of them was shot. If that same crowd had been black it would have been a massacre.
Sounds nice... We'd need to be properly organized for that. If there's one thing this election has shown us, it's that we have been effectively divided by the people who have money and power. Gotta start smaller and build.
That's the big sticking point. Why did they let it get this far. Is there something going on in the alley we are not being told. Why is the media looking the other way over ALL OF THIS and gaslighting the country.
Is the 1% that afraid of losing their control of feeding off of the masses?
Imagine instead if on January 6 the #ElectoralCollege did what the Founders intended and refused to elect the utterly disqualified Hair Furor and instead elected Harris.
Unfortunately, you were most likely correct. If we get out of this, we will come back stronger to avoid this ever happening again. But Jesus, why the fuck did it ever get this far? Cowardice!, pure cowardice to call shit out all of the doublespeak all of the worry that they won’t get reelected. Smh
One could argue those who participated in Jan 6th were brave. Stupid, but brave. Also I would argue that the WWII vets were a brave group overall. Same with all those who fought for civil rights in the 60s.
...and to Georgia, Ukraine, Syria, Azerbaijan, Romania...
80% in 340 Million "Home of the brave" didn't protest anything done to them all along 8 years since The Orange Kremlin Plant got in the WH 1.0, and by now let 20% Kremlin-backed MAGA rig the Election and take over their Gov. without a peep
The one bad thing Biden did was pick Garland, can't say that anyonewould have known though he would be such as weak AG. Maybe next time we make Harris AG, she would already have a good start.
South Korea has authoritarianism in their back yard, literally. It’s real to them. Americans are fooled into thinking it won’t happen here, that will be our downfall.
He likely would have been convicted had we moved quickly. The idea that we took months just to go through the formality of impeachment when everything was in plain sight is a failure of the efficiency of our system of Justice.
We didn't because the "left" in this country is conflicted about everything. They have no grit, passion or guts to do the right thing and they can't get their priorities straight.
Shouldn’t we be contacting our lawmakers about T breaking his oath to the 14th Amendment, Section 3 of the Constitution? They should implement it and prevent him from taking office (since it’s clear he has no intention of upholding the Constitution) 202-224-3121
We found out that there was a drug recidivir, which successfully treats Covid 19. T was treated with that while T was telling Americans to drink bleach and go outside bc sunlight would kill the virus. God help us if there’s another pandemic or even epidemic in America during his second term.
Exactly! Trump should have been impeached and removed from office immediately!!! The Senate & MitchMcConnell failed miserably!!! We will #NeverForgetJan6th
Mitch is entirely the reason we are here. He had several chances to offload Trump but lacked the moral courage to do so. History is not going to be kind to Mitch. He has to look himself in the mirror
Yes. History will not remember Mitch McConnell with fondness. He’s done a lot of damage to us between this, Citizens United and decimation of our courts. No wonder some call him Moscow Mitch, pooty loves this.
And if you remember the reason Republicans gave for refusing to convict Trump was that he was days away from leaving the Presidency. So what was the point?
I mean it wasn't like Trump was going to be elected again in 4 years! 🤬
McConnell is the devil incarnate. But immediate impeachment would have planted the flag of accountability and set the public narrative to absolutely unacceptable, making it harder for McConnell to weasel out of his initial statement that Trump was to blame for Jan 6.
Mitch literally whipped his colleagues to help them understand that supporting/enabling a racist, tax fraud committing, women-in-power- hating xenophobic snowflaKKKe was better than agreeing with the democrats (and 2 independents!!) that suck a character was BAD for America
We were weak, we failed and we are going to go through it all again, and we will do nothing again. The outcome of our failures to enforce our laws will be far worse this time around. With only weeks left leading up to our downfall, we are all pretending it won't be that bad. BUCKLE UP
Absolutely correct and Garland waited way too long to appoint Jack Smith. However, last guardrail is midterm elections, primaries start March 2026! Forward!
MM is the true villain. Stealing SCOTUS seats, not convicting. I blame him and Paul Ryan for allowing his candidacy. It should have been shut down immediately. Infamy, both.
No question they were part of the cabal that chose DJT in the first place knowing [or rather expecting] they could control his directives to destroy democracy. First term they failed.
Now?
Yep. And if Mitch had allowed an immediate trial, Trump would have been convicted. Letting the matter sit until Trump was out of town was the critical error.
'Out of town'? Y'mean allowed to leave like nothing had happened? No federal crimes committed? No one talks about the Miller memo which prevented adequate police response. The white marble steps of the Capitol Bldg would have been running red with MAGA blood (shocking but warranted).
Oh please, could all of you just stop with the endless lists of what you could have done or what they should have done. We’re a democracy, and a Russian asset isn’t qualified to be president. We can read the laws, so stop giving excuses and #DoSomething
And if Merritt Garland had not been sucking his thumb for two years, Trump would’ve been convicted in a criminal trial. Any guess as of what he was thinking?
And that entire narrative proves that The Reds, as a unified body politik, will do absolutely ANYTHING and stoop to ANY level to retain a Red president.
45 laid waste to so many of his party members and 40 of his 44 former cabinet picks. I say go for it. The in-fighting will be with Republicans not Democrats and I'm all for it. Get eff'ed Gaetz, Pence, Cheney, Bolton, Barr, Sessions, McCarthy! I know he can do better this time!
Congress can still remove him by holding a vote on his status as an insurrectionist though right? Acknowledging their mistake that they didn't hold the first trial until after he left office, and then not being able to convict bc Congress doesn't convict private citizens?
Everyone needs to understand that Moscow Mitch was never going to convict Trump. mitch is after the elimination of Democracy as are an awlful lot of Repubs in control. They have the idea that they will be part of the control but History proves that is not what happens.
100%. Mike Pence would have been President for a short period of time, and Trump would never have been able to run again. The fact that Americans have such short-term memories is also baffling.
DoJ arrested Trump over a year ago. Twice. Trials were set to go well before the election. The Supreme Court stopped it. Not the DoJ. The corrupt, bought and paid for Supreme Court funded by billionaires. They stopped the trials
Oh I am very schooled on the role played by Trump’s hand picked judges. I blame everyone from those who didnt vote and Trump voters - to the media - to the whole judicial system. To be TOTALLY honest, I even blame those so called “assassins” for missing their target.
And if the cowardly GOP Senate at the time had a spine, convicted him and barred him from future office, we would have had all the time in the world to prosecute him.
It took too long to start the investigation. It should have started January 7th. Why did it take years to start? What stopped them from arresting him January 7th?
The republicans decades long coup finally came to fruition. Putin trumped the ongoing coup with Trump. The coup has lots of tentacles… Dirty Seditious Supreme Court and the Heritage Foundation and the Federalist Society etc etc.. just add a dozen billionaires to the mix and Fascism suddenly appears.
That's not what I blame the DOJ for. I blame them for waiting so long to go after him in the first place. I don't believe Garland had any intention of it until the J6 committee forced his hand.
I agree with you and would add that in context, The Heritage Foundation mastered stealing the election and pre-writing the entire legislative agenda for the next 4+ years, and did it in less time.
Everyone knows SCOTUS is guilty. What happens after that is the other branches check them. They knew how much power they would have in delaying the case. DOJ needed to do it day one.
But why stop at DOJ? I know independence of the agency and all...however Biden was clearly hoping that passing legislation that helped the American people would change the subject, neutralize Trump & bring normalcy. Obviously he was wrong.
Mitch is a self-serving prick. He did it all for power. Maybe if he hadn’t stacked the courts all the way up to the SCOTUS with MAGA hard right loyalists we wouldn’t be in this position! They put Cannon in Trump’s district AFTER he lost. He stole a SCOTUS seat on BS rule that he then ignored for ACB
McConnell is the Bizarro McGyver of Senate decision-making, diffusing good and just outcomes by piecing together little bits of norms and laws, all while making it sound regularish with his protracted wise-old-grandpa-talk speeches.
I agree - but I remember, so they remembered. They caved fear their job and through America under the bus. GOP senators only have their own interests and NOT the country and surly not justice !
Convicted, but never serving a day in jail because that is America's justice when the suspect is rich, white, right-wing, and male.
Trump would have had speaking engagements, book and movie deals, and would have been able to stand on the corner of 5th avenue with a gun....yadda, yadda, yadda.
That was Mitch protecting trump in a subtle way. But what protected him from being tried for sedition immediately after Biden took office? Nothing but the incompetence of Merrick Garland.
No the error was Biden, Garland and Wray.
Biden gave us Garland did not remove Wray or clean house.
That is the massive failure it lost us Democracy, women's rights and voting rights.
As I understand it, he might be declared "persona non grata" by any nation. So a cynical government might tell the US diplomats that unless certain criteria are met, the convicted felon still out on bail, will not be welcome. In other words transactional behaviour.
I wondered about this myself. I did check to see what Canada’s policy was and, yes, they can deny you entry if you are a convicted felon but would they risk the diplomatic fallout if they deny Trump entrance. The usual. The rich and powerful have no consequences for any of their actions.
Can’t have this conversation without mentioning Merrick Garland
I read several times/places that the unwritten rule within the DoJ was you couldn’t even mention Trump’s name around him when discussing who to investigate
1000% agree. His one decision and he made an excuse because he didn’t want to leave the good graces of the orange dictator. Even though he publicly decried the man was the cause of J6. We wouldn’t be here in this mess.
Not convinced it was an error. More inclined to consider it a strategy. Not sure if it worked as intended, but I suspect that he figured that djt would fade into the sunset as so many candidates have after losing their re-election campaign. He could go on w/o the black mark. But he leveraged it.
Mitch McConnell has never done a single thing that didn't benefit the Republican Party. He is singularly responsible for what is happening to our democratic form of government. His racism towards Obama started the slide downhill, the SC picked up the mantel, Trumpanzee's did the rest & here we are
Mitch McConnell has been the evil that has permeated our political landscape for the last several years. From obstructing President Obama which included not letting him appoint a Supreme Court Justice because he said it was an election year to him ramming through Barrett during an election year.
Profuse apologies in advance if this sounds morbid, but do you ever wonder what would have happened if the mob had managed to get to Pence? I'm not convinced it would have stopped him running this year AND winning. Nothing makes sense about America any more. Zilch, nada, the square root of fcuk all.
You are too kind. McConnell knew better. He had the power to do better. He was a master strategist in a position of influence who at every moral turning used that influence to empower what he knew to be pure, unadulterated evil.
There were plenty of knives out for American democracy, including his.
It seems like there has been a constant stream of critical errors when it comes to holding Trump accountable. Its almost as if about everyone in a position to hold him accountable feels pressure to go easy on him......
We the people failed and refused to enforce our own laws. We allowed one man to rise in power from the most notorious American career criminal to the most dangerous INTERNATIONAL TERRORIST LEADER ON THE PLANET. we refused to defend ourselves, our ALLIES and all life on Earth. AMERICANS ARE COWARDS
True they destroyed the Capitol over a lie and our priorities seem to be a peaceful transition, allowing a traitor who broke the oath to take it again, it is offensive af
I honestly wonder if #MoscowMitch ever regrets not impeaching the Feeble Dottard tRump. The gop and the NATION would be a lot better off if they had the fortitude and courage needed to be leaders instead of “Yes Men”
He had planned to.
He’d imagined legions of “Antifa 🙄” soldiers rushing his people, so he could invoke the insurrection act.
But they didn’t exist (duh) & it was clear HIS mob was attacking Congress & the police.
It might also have worked better if he had (and failed), but he knew he didn't have the Pentagon's support, even though most of his attack mob believed they were the vanguard for that.
No
This was a massive fail of the Biden Administration and everyone needs to wake up.
Biden gave us Garland MCCONNELL"S pick NO country in the world would have used the law enforcement of the coup team. NONE>
True. However they should have tried. Besides, there were 13 days left to his presidency and there was a real fear he might pull off a new trick. I will admit that it might have been procedurally impossible to complete impeachment in both houses before Jan 20.
That second impeachment came really fast. The senate which was 50/50 at the time , on Mitch McConnell’s directives , dragged their feet. In that time period McCarthy made his infamous pilgrimage, and the best chance the gop had to redeem itself went out the door
As much as I detest him, Impeaching him before he takes the oath of office is over zealous. I’m sure he will do something worthy of it soon after January 20th.
But the problem is that our system of justice is built to be slow, out of a misguided sense of fairness. This amounts to good people getting slammed for minor offenses and real bad actors getting every benefit of every doubt. We all saw what T did on the Ellipse and in Georgia, etc. But “fairness.”
It was a week later. The narrative that J6 was good/not a big deal hadn’t yet set in. The narrative was 1) that Trump was on his way out anyway so it didn’t make sense to impeach him and 2) it was a rush to judgment because it was only a week after the event.
The first one would have applied just as much if it happened on Jan 7, whereas the second (dumb) excuse would have been even stronger. We have a fundamentally different political environment than Yoon does.
Is there any reason why Mitch McConnell wouldn’t have done the exact same thing? At that early date, there was much less evidence and documentation about the advanced planning of Jan 6.
They should have came out early and said they were domestic terrorists that tried to overthrow the United States of America. Shouldn’t have said it was just an insurrection. Words matter.
It wasn't an error. It was calculated to give the GOP an excuse to not make a difficult vote. And now, Trump is coming back into office and the GOP has a unified government. From McConnell's point of view, the GOP has come out on top
I agree with you. Mitch is largely to blame for not holding Trump accountable for the insurrection. Next, the AG took FAR TOO LONG to indict the Orange Man for his multitude of crimes. Last, the spineless immoral GOP just rolled over and let T be Alpha Dog.
Mitch always made a mockery of every thing the Dems tried to do he killed everything they put forward only because it was put forth by the Dems he didn’t care if it helped people or not
I’m trying to remember if it was McConnell or Pelosi who delayed. Either way, I don’t think delay changed the outcome if trying to get them killed didn’t.
No, Mitch is much worse than a coward. He's corrupt and forever living out his desire to punish the people who picked on him when he was young because of his polio. Never got over it.
Is that what we have to look forward to? From articles I’ve read. This president ir his wife. Maybe both are grifting. Parliament had enough. So he called for martial law to stop the voting. Oddly familiar.
They are opposite parties. If Democrats has been the supermajoity then we would have seen this happen Jan 7th. The president is the Peoples Power Party and main opposition party is the Democratic Party. Unlike us, they have multiple parties in there legislature.
The citizens there are more unified. Think about it. Liberals march down on DC and the Trumper puppets will come out full force, armed to the teeth. It will be a bloodbath and Trump and his sycophants will be unscathed and wouldn't give a shit. Nothing would change. We have to be more strategic.
methinks we will have another opportunity in early January when he tells dollar store Moses to close down the government and looks to impose martial law. 🤷♀️
Once again South Korea showing America what democracy and rule of law looks like. They’ve also lived under a dictator so they know. Sadly America is about to find out.
I live in Taiwan which has a VERY similar history to South Korea (re: the "White Terror" when the KMT murdered thousands). It has been a big topic of discussion here.
As always PROTESTERS are the reason you have human rights, ethical laws, and democracy. NOT the "military" or "cops".
I mean I’m half expecting this so the gop can install Vance as president instead. If not an impeachment, I expect they could use the 25 amendment (is that the right one?).
Waiting gave Republicans time to regroup and test their propaganda that January 6 wasn’t a big deal, just a regular protest infiltrated by non-MAGA agitators. Once they determined it was working, they decided to stick with trump and the “big lie.”
I'm wondering what is happening? It seems like the people we voted for want to dictate instead of doing their jobs by helping the people who voted for them
DOJ should have acted. A slow-motion process creates opportunities for people to escape accountability. The NY judge should have sentenced Trump in September but shrank from the responsibility.
Their country doesn't have the brain rot that we have. Our political bodies are entirely compromised by Russia and right wing propaganda. No one cares.
A violent MAGA Trumpublican Death Cult has taken over 1/2+ of today's GOPs.
The weak old bigots & wealthy misogynists left in the Republican party leadership are criminally negligent derelicts. A cartel of traitors infiltrated our White House & invaded our US Capitol & Congress!
Many of us called for such things but most people sat back and did nothing. People think tweeting is a substitute for marching but it ain’t. Bodies in streets or gtfo.
The collective insanity and denial only came about because of the delay and allowing it to fester. The crazies would have been vilified and he’d be rotting away in prison by now. His family would be living out their days abroad. Funny how we are seeing what the rule of law means ….just not here.
Why would Trump immediately call it off?
He coordinated the rally, instigated the riot, and wanted them to disrupt the vote.
He was hoping for a coup that led to his remaining in office.
They're blaming the voters now! I don't think they've learned any lessons. They keep dropping the ball, not doing their jobs, all they got are words, no actions.
Hopefully they are successful where republicans didn't have the courage to do same in US, and now the dysfunctional authoritarian trump is still on the loose in his quest to destroy American democrat.
Global East and south is diverse. From Pakistan to South Korea one thing is for sure, there is more respect for each other and human empathy compared to western hemisphere. South Korea is a shining example.
Let's ignore "Party of Lincoln". AFAIC, it's the party that Reagan laid the foundation, Newt Gingrich built the frame, & Shrub put a roof on it. Seditionist, Authoritarian, and war criminal. There is no honor among thieves, and the GQP has re-elected their standard bearer. They are what he is.
Impeachment is done by Congress. So, they could have removed Trump from office before the 20th. The excuse Republicans had was that he would be out of office soon. If they had removed him, Trump could have never run for office again. Because of that cowardice, what do we have? Another Trump term…
Republicans were the ones in power in the senate on Jan 7th. McConnell delayed it until after Trump left office and then claimed it was too late because impeachment is used to get a president out of power, not to punish a "former president". He said, 'That is what the Judiciary is for.'
We need a supermajority vote to impeach Trump, we didn't get it. McConnell conveniently "forgot" that a bipartisan group of House members were about to impeach Nixon, until Ford persuaded him into resigning with a promise to pardon him.
The clueless Americans who have no understanding of history are about to learn that lesson the hard way. Sadly, social media will continue to feed them confirmation biased propaganda and most will never learn because of the massive right-wing propaganda machine that runs 24/7!
I agree with you. There have been so many takes about what went wrong and what Dems need to do now but it’s all been mostly about policy. But the best policies in the world will not overcome the number one challenge facing Dems: the misinformation that blocks facts from penetrating the MAGA mind.
Exactly! You see this type of mind with people who deny that humans are responsible for the current warming of this earth. No amount of evidence will convince them that they are wrong. The Heartland Institute was instrumental in pushing out climate denial propaganda for years.
Yup. Buckle up while they maybe will get a clue, but maybe not. Look at Trump’s last adventure in government. It’s as if the light was flashed in their eyes and they remember a horror story fondly.
Earned a follow.
Some folk just want the coup of their own dreams.
Had Dems the control of both Chambers of Congress, but we did not, did not have control or the votes
I give it 10 to 12 months at the minimum. Trump is drunk with power and now feels that he has scores to settle. As short as it is, he’ll step on his crank for sure - multiple times.
IMnsHO, Drimpf is stepping on his own "crank" as I type. He had his AG nomination *not find the votes.* His DoD nomination is not getting six R senator votes. He _could_ have vetted his ideas and avoided the histrionics with the car wrecks he did submit, but he's impulsive. He's his own worst enemy.
Agreed. Nothing yet criminal though. Sadly, I fear the best (absolute worst of Trump) is yet to come: partisan inquisitions; evidence destruction; purges; more graft and corruption…this second term is gonna’ be a total shit show.
I take heart that it was only 52%, if I did the math right. 49% voted for Drimpf. 3 Percent didn't vote for Kamala or Drimpf. That 3 percent is the result of the Rethugs war on education. Not sure what will happen to DoEd funding, but if/when we fix the top leadership, we need to restore DoEd.
We did. They didn't. Trump wasn't arrested for sedition the day after the insurrection. I think that's the difference in judicial systems in other countries. South Korea didn't mess around. They are holding him accountable. We failed.
I don't know if S Korea has a Shogun type history, but when they decide you're no longer worth the oxygen you're using, they make it obvious, no messing around.
Of course I lay blame at the feet of GOP. But let’s face facts: they were never going to help. It was on us. Biden. And they waited over 2 years. Just ridiculous.
So the people we expected to do things just never did.
Impeachment was obviously not going to work. The day after impeachment we should have suspended habeas and rounded everyone up. Including senators congressmen Supeme court justices etc.
I’ve said all along that every single House member congress person who voted against ballot certification AFTER THE INSURRECTION HAD JUST HAPPENED HOURS BEFORE, should have been removed from office and immediately imprisoned. They were all traitors to our democracy
Do Americans seem like very indulgent people who like to spoil the wrong people too often? Because it seems like that to me right now. Half the population just looks like Disney Adults having a tantrum and no one wants to be the one in charge of babysitting them.
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Our pols suck out loud.
But seriously, stop and think about it.
WHO should have arrested tRUmp at 6pm on 1/6/21?
Who had the authority?
Who had the guts?
I can't think of anyone.
I've been singing this one note since 1/7/21. There doesn't seem to be any one who can just walk into the White House, slap on the cuffs and say "you're under arrest".
if Pence were "acting Prez"
But he wasn't
Or, imagine Merrick Garland not sitting for 18 months with his thumb up his butthole before moving on the J6 investigation. 😳
Trick question. You couldn't find an equivent to Mitch anywhere if you tried.
Then they caved during the trial
But I think with the USA.. our main disadvantage is the land mass. We are huge!! Travel is hard and we can't all just pick up and protest.. although we want too..
I deeply admire the S. Koreans for fighting back
& The House did impeach him for it on January 13th with a bipartisan vote 232-197.
Then a bipartisan majority of the Senate voted to convict him 57 guilty & 43 not guilty.
Which fell short of the 67 votes needed to remove him.
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/draft-article-impeachment-charges-trump-incitement-insurrection-capitol/story?id=75132750
A LOT of them.
It'll never happen, politics in the US is too corrupt, those with morals are never allowed to attain power.
He would have been barred from running for POTUS. Instead, this is where we find ourselves.
Is the 1% that afraid of losing their control of feeding off of the masses?
trump's schtick- i am never wrong ... i am never at fault ...
my take- the $$$ & voting power of the christo fascists is EXPONENTIALLY BIGGER than we ever thought- they're the ONLY reason 4 trump
We relied on rules and norms, and tried to get back on track by being polite. And our democracy is on its deathbed.
Our political leadership showed fear and cowardice by not doing the right thing.
And we as a nation will learn to regret that we did not take the right action and kowtowed to a con man and a thug
80% in 340 Million "Home of the brave" didn't protest anything done to them all along 8 years since The Orange Kremlin Plant got in the WH 1.0, and by now let 20% Kremlin-backed MAGA rig the Election and take over their Gov. without a peep
I remember.
Imagine by March 7th he will have consolidated power and confined to barracks anyone who won't sign a Loyalty Pledge to him personally.
Imagine by June 7th hundreds of camps and thousands of "enemies" arrested or killed. By the FBI.
Imagine 2025.
The US will be written about for decades
Time will tell
Like the next 4 years worth
All three of them need to meet untimely issues between now and Christmas day.
If Republicans had grown a collective spine, we wouldn't be where we are today.
The LAST Republican president with MORALS, ETHICS, CONSCIENCE, INTEGRITY, and HONOR was Eisenhower.
EVERY Republican president since has been worse than the last.
EVERY. SINGLE. ONE.
A sad damned state.
CHEAP.
GOP:
Grifters.
Obliging.
Putin.
They no longer give a damn about America, Americans, or our Constitution, much less their oaths.
They now follow the Antichrist tRump.
I mean it wasn't like Trump was going to be elected again in 4 years! 🤬
And here we all are😓😓😓😓
Now?
November 22, 2024
Brazilian police formally accuse former President Bolsonaro and aides of alleged 2022 coup attempt
https://apnews.com/article/brazil-jair-bolsonaro-indictment-0d62fe0a7399483aee48cf3c845560ea?utm_source=copy&utm_medium=share
What did Garland do about Elmo knowing the results of the elections before anybody else?
I know that it's easy to keep regurgitating SCOTUS, but the AG could have done more.
That's a fact.
They didn't. And now we're paying the price.
The longer DOJ took, the more it looked to the public like the criminality wasn’t clear.
It was obvious that Trump’s propensity to delay, delay, and delay would benefit him. It shouldn’t have taken nearly 3 years to get charges.
your choice
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLhJgOeR9N0
That shit was on purpose
Trump would have had speaking engagements, book and movie deals, and would have been able to stand on the corner of 5th avenue with a gun....yadda, yadda, yadda.
Biden gave us Garland did not remove Wray or clean house.
That is the massive failure it lost us Democracy, women's rights and voting rights.
What's the difference now?
Explain why deSatan didn't have him arrested for voting in Florida where felons are denied that right...
We all know how corrupt the republicans are
And there's that Cabinet appointment for deSatan
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vienna_Convention_on_Diplomatic_Relations
Let's call the whole thing off!
I read several times/places that the unwritten rule within the DoJ was you couldn’t even mention Trump’s name around him when discussing who to investigate
How exactly could he have been any worse
There were plenty of knives out for American democracy, including his.
“I Shoulda Done It” could be the title.
Just listen to him
He’d imagined legions of “Antifa 🙄” soldiers rushing his people, so he could invoke the insurrection act.
But they didn’t exist (duh) & it was clear HIS mob was attacking Congress & the police.
This was a massive fail of the Biden Administration and everyone needs to wake up.
Biden gave us Garland MCCONNELL"S pick NO country in the world would have used the law enforcement of the coup team. NONE>
Biggest mistake since readmitting southern traitor states with original names, borders, and most of the same leaders.
Stupid. Lincoln's and Biden's biggest blunders.
Inauguration isn't until Jan 20. Biden is president until then.
Bullshit. Policy is not law. Trump should have been handcuffed Jan 6, put in jail and stayed there until the trial was over
1/7/2025: hard no.
147 members of Congress voted against certifying.
By then, Trump had already been impeached twice, and the Senate had refused to convict twice.
I think you’re dreaming.
Not from where Mitch sits.
fuck all the way off
He's a disgusting piece of shit. I don't wish ill on many people, but for him I make an exception.
The policy of Democrats to be jolly decent about everything is a burden that has been exploited at every turn.
Democrats take boxing gloves to gun fights and that needs to stop.
• Disclaimer - not a lawyer how ‘bout you.
Trump's Russian Operative + 间谍 Elaine Chao
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I can imagine a lot of things.
As always PROTESTERS are the reason you have human rights, ethical laws, and democracy. NOT the "military" or "cops".
Or, really, any time before that would be good, too.
Merritt Garland failed America.
In Democracies.
And here we are
The weak old bigots & wealthy misogynists left in the Republican party leadership are criminally negligent derelicts. A cartel of traitors infiltrated our White House & invaded our US Capitol & Congress!
He should have been arrested the minute he refused to tell his minions to step down for
3 HOURS.
We shouldn't even be where we are now.
He coordinated the rally, instigated the riot, and wanted them to disrupt the vote.
He was hoping for a coup that led to his remaining in office.
Knew the moment he Tweeted "Rally on the 6th its gonna be wild" it wasn't gonna end well.
He should have been arrested then and there on the 6th.
Pence should have grown a pair and took charge.
Fucking Traitor Trump.
Won’t remove. The two impeachments meant nothing other than what’s in the history books.
Next time... 🤦
Ugh!
They had 4 years!
They're blaming the voters now! I don't think they've learned any lessons. They keep dropping the ball, not doing their jobs, all they got are words, no actions.
Dems, Biden, Garland, Kamala, they screwed up.
Next time, oh boy.. lol
No impeachment coming when we don't hold any of the branches of government.
IF congress certifies the election.
Just 4 more years from now, when Trump refuses to step down when his term is over.
Sadly
Some folk just want the coup of their own dreams.
Had Dems the control of both Chambers of Congress, but we did not, did not have control or the votes
Brazil: Bolsonaro, attempted coup- Indicted ✔️
South Korea: President Yoon Suk Yeol, declare Martial Law - Move to Impeach ✔️
United States: Trump (Hitler wannabe, convicted felon, Insurrectionist) - Elected President TWICE 👀🫣
I have my doubts. Serious doubts...
Just imagine....two more inches to right is all we needed.
So the people we expected to do things just never did.
It is hard to protest in DC when you live more than 1000 miles away.