the most servile people imaginable. completely unsuited for democratic citizenship. they would be better off under a despot. - ThreadSky

jamellebouie.net • 5 hours ago

the most servile people imaginable. completely unsuited for democratic citizenship. they would be better off under a despot.

Reposted from Axios

Just hours after President Trump called for the impeachment of a federal judge who ruled against his deportation of hundreds of Venezuelans over the weekend, House Republicans introduced a measure to do just that.

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blessforward.bsky.social•5 hours ago

I wonder how is Indian wife feels about his racism towards migrants

robbedoflife.bsky.social•4 hours ago

All these Republicans don't have a single braincell between them. It's astounding how they just bow to that Nazis every wish, whim and desire without even bothering to contemplate the ramifications of their actions.

beckya.bsky.social•3 hours ago

That’s certainly what they want

vcla85.bsky.social•5 hours ago

They took an oath to be loyal to the fuhrer. Why would this surprise anyone ?

gretagroots.bsky.social•5 hours ago

Yes, and they are all acting as if Trump would never turn on them. They are cowards and essentially ceding their jobs and power to trump. All they will have left is a name plate on their desks

mijuryg.bsky.social•5 hours ago

They are a fascist thug organization. No longer a political party.

notjoeking.bsky.social•5 hours ago

Well they did start calling him daddy when he got reelected.

kenfinch.bsky.social•5 hours ago

They are under one. Both literally and figuratively.

peter-butler.bsky.social•5 hours ago

they are under a despot now

traderb66.bsky.social•5 hours ago

This is the kinda bullshit that starts domestic violence/civil wars. Psychotic scum.

akiva631.bsky.social•3 hours ago

I'm just going to say that there's a reason why the people controlling them push Christianity so hard. It makes their job so much easier.

nicholasmonks.bsky.social•1 hour ago

If we don't find a way to stop this, the US is over.

covingtonedu.bsky.social•3 hours ago

They're hard at work to make it so!

dfs4114.bsky.social•5 hours ago

They're working on making that a reality.

rbrbndgrl.bsky.social•4 hours ago

They'd be better off under something else.

martijon.bsky.social•1 hour ago

The entire Republican Party is betraying our country. It’s shocking that none of them have a spine.

gcmc.bsky.social•4 hours ago

From the "Greatest Generation" to the worst generation in a mere 80 years... is that a record?

idiot-wind.bsky.social•5 hours ago

Technology is wonderful. I can't even see the strings on this puppet.

reasonablerandom.bsky.social•4 hours ago

In other words, perfect little nazis

jwshikes.bsky.social•5 hours ago

What spineless cowards, I believe if FOTUS told them all to jump off the ledge and flap their arms screaming, I'm a chicken they would. They have lost all concepts of democracy and law and order. Just spineless jellyfish.

teeemeff.bsky.social•5 hours ago

I'm really to the point that I need the God of the Old Testament to make a reappearance and start smiting these fuckers... 😡

patrickjoconnor.bsky.social•4 hours ago

Cucks gotta cuck

hillm.bsky.social•5 hours ago

Roberts literally just said don’t do that.

nopoopforyou.bsky.social•5 hours ago

Hes next!

hillm.bsky.social•5 hours ago

Maybe. But he made him, with Trump v US. He can unmake him.

gibfish.bsky.social•5 hours ago

He can unmake the entire SC by just ignoring it

hillm.bsky.social•5 hours ago

Yeah that’s the very real concern here.

xanderkale.bsky.social•3 hours ago

Meanwhile, @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social is staring at a wall somewhere, thinking he can work with those people and find common ground.

opus17.bsky.social•5 hours ago

the main difference between a pool table and the House GOP caucus is that the pool table has balls.

nbrockmann.bsky.social•5 hours ago

That’s probably why they voted for one

odouglasprice.bsky.social•4 hours ago

They know it. They're working on it.

purplechrain.bsky.social•5 hours ago

this is the FIFTH judge who they have introduced a resolution to impeach for the “high crimes and misdeameanours” of ruling against Trump in court.

texascajun72.bsky.social•2 hours ago

The rep who filed is Brandon Gill, a 31 year old investment banker who’s married to Dinesh D'Souza’s daughter.

dharwin.satan.social•1 hour ago

🤮

texascajun72.bsky.social•1 hour ago

Samesies.

iamyvonnel.bsky.social•4 hours ago

Well, that's the goal, anyway.

bskolo.bsky.social•4 hours ago

This is Russian Duma levels of servility

stochasticooze.bsky.social•5 hours ago

what a coincidence, that's who they're under

dmeld521.bsky.social•5 hours ago

Oh look, the GOP doing something.

madkingupdates.bsky.social•1 hour ago

Ok but if the senate is busy running show trials of the federal judiciary how they gonna work on reconciliation

kygranli.bsky.social•5 hours ago

Chief Justice Roberts—-“For more than two centuries, it has been established that impeachment is not an appropriate response to disagreement concerning a judicial decision.”

wonderingaloud.bsky.social•4 hours ago

Roberts is responsible for this mess.

diyanddragons.bsky.social•3 hours ago

I wish these guys would actually lick boots instead of making the rest of us suffer through this metaphorical version.

lovewinzalways.bsky.social•5 hours ago

Q: are these impeachments at any risk of leading to actual removal? Don't they require a 2/3 threshold, as they would for Trump himself?

bfgilme.bsky.social•4 hours ago

No. The wording in the resolution looks like a legal dispute and doesn't speak to any actions taken by the judge outside of issuing an order.

leovk.bsky.social•5 hours ago

Brazilian here, so i can't speak precisely about american law. But it seems clear that the idea is to create an envirement of coercion and fear and send a message to other judges.

iamyvonnel.bsky.social•4 hours ago

Wow. I envy you. Your country actually prosecutes despots.

d-flo1.bsky.social•5 hours ago

In the US we call that a "chilling effect". And Trump is doing the same thing with big name law firms labeling any lawyer a traitor who represents anyone who Trump wakes up one morning feelig like he doesn't like them for any reason however trivial or whimsical.

coley2839.bsky.social•5 hours ago

No. They have acknowledged they dont have the votes, they said the purpose here is to "shame and humiliate" them.

lovewinzalways.bsky.social•5 hours ago

Okay—then there's no immediate risk. Priorities...

andalsopizza.bsky.social•5 hours ago

Impeachment is by majority of the house. Conviction in the senate (leading to removal) requires 2/3.

3fm3icm3i23o09939.bsky.social•5 hours ago

Do you expect the Dem's to stand up to these childfuckers?

jeevmon.bsky.social•5 hours ago

My lowest opinion of Fetterman doesn't include the possibility of him voting to impeach a judge just because Trump doesn't like him. There aren't enough votes in the Senate to convict and may not even be enough in the House to impeach. Johnson would have to get everyone in line.

3fm3icm3i23o09939.bsky.social•5 hours ago

I didn't expect @gavinnewsom.bsky.social to toss trans kids under the bus either. I wasn't expecting a potential war with Canada.

You need to understand this system runs on blackmail and cowardice. They might have dirt on Fetterman that gets him to dance for them.

jeevmon.bsky.social•5 hours ago

Even if he flips, they need 13 more, and that's assuming that they retain all the Republicans.

3fm3icm3i23o09939.bsky.social•5 hours ago

I sure hope you're right, man.

jkenton.bsky.social•5 hours ago

When a co-equal branch abdicates its check on another one behaving badly... I don't see this ending well.

kevinfry.bsky.social•5 hours ago

Ironically, the Speech & Debate Clause, which is designed to protect members of Congress from intimidation from the executive, probably protects these clowns from obstruction of justice charges for a congressional effort to intimidate a judge in the middle of a case. The judiciary is left exposed.

dcdcdc.bsky.social•4 hours ago

Glad to see Schumer helping to pass the CR has really lowered temperatures in DC. Couldn't be US letting the GOP and Trump get out of control.

thefool37.bsky.social•5 hours ago

If the Establishment Dems had any balls they would accuse the Repubs of betraying & defrauding the USA by executing a sneak attack (after denying the plan during the campaign). Then suggest that the GOPs move to another country that has the kind of authoritarian traditions they admire. Like Russia.

gabycali.bsky.social•5 hours ago

Hivethink

ladydancer.bsky.social•5 hours ago

They should know the law better than that-they are sworn to uphold it...but then, this is the bunch dedicated to the destruction of US Constitution and law....they want their mentally unbalanced and inhumane despot and are doing their best to make it happen.

romabysen.bsky.social•5 hours ago

Why are you being so harsh on Chuck Schumer's coworkers?

fraziberry.bsky.social•1 hour ago

Pretty sure they can’t successfully impeach him.

0jeff0.bsky.social•5 hours ago

There needs to be a Nuremberg type trial if we get out of this situation.

politicalpotter.bsky.social•5 hours ago

We desperately need a way to remove members of the government without violence, for their sake really.

mstoerings.bsky.social•49 minutes ago

They started doing that weeks ago

olive187.bsky.social•2 hours ago

And like this administration he should laugh at them and stay right where he is.
As always, they want laws to apply only when they want.

yakineko22.bsky.social•2 hours ago

They’d be better off six feet under, Jamelle.

ronpedoron.bsky.social•5 hours ago

Gill is Dinesh D’Souza‘s son in law, so this act shouldn’t be too surprising.

coley2839.bsky.social•5 hours ago

Is intimidation of a federal judge an impeachable offense? Is defying court orders an impeachable offense? Just some questions to ask every single GOP congress critter on their break.

oxahath.bsky.social•4 hours ago

As Popehat posted a few days ago: Some people are just born serfs.

bandedhawk.bsky.social•4 hours ago

Umm. They are under a despot? Am I mistaken? Collectively, the Administration is a despot? It certainly acts like one, basically ignoring the courts or barely paying lip service to them.

terrejpwdc.bsky.social•3 hours ago

Lapdogs

splitatoms119.bsky.social•4 hours ago

Performative. The judge is going nowhere and the impeachment literally means nothing. Just like Trumps!

joelirby.bsky.social•2 hours ago

House Republicans are scared they won't get re-elected, and that's what we should be focused on until November 2026, right? #Resist

packhorseford.bsky.social•20 minutes ago

They should deport to Moscow

revcasaubon.bsky.social•1 hour ago

We need a national divorce. Half the population wants and deserves despot rule

wildagrace.bsky.social•5 hours ago

God please save our country!

pedroyokes.bsky.social•5 hours ago

NPC Army

justincampana.bsky.social•5 hours ago

They want to be under a despot. Because they think they’ll prosper by being on his side.

pottersville.bsky.social•4 hours ago

This is the argument the Democrats have to make to the public: Republicans don't believe in co-equal branches of government. They want a king.

clapman7.bsky.social•5 hours ago

More like they’d be better off in a place I can’t say publicly

qhardy.bsky.social•5 hours ago

Sponsored by a rep from Texas, supported by reps from Arizona, Georgia, Georgia, Alabama, Georgia.

mzkatonic.bsky.social•2 hours ago

Why are there so many spineless, slimy creatures there if he allegedly "drained the swamp." (Protip: draining a swampy area removes the brackish water, concentrating and exposing all of the muck left behind.)

rltjr.bsky.social•3 hours ago

Like Minions except covered in shit and evil (and not half as smart)

rayanselmo.bsky.social•1 hour ago

No, they would be better off under a rockslide.

alanfarago.bsky.social•5 hours ago

We are somewhere on the curve between 1933 and 1938 Germany.

Pro Tip to Trump Musk voters: there is no better economic future ahead. Just more "break everything in sight" and more destruction of the system of checks and balances Americans fought and died for.

nwoolery.bsky.social•4 hours ago

This is the same sycophant who is trying to get Trump’s face on the $100 bill.

mbou.bsky.social•5 hours ago

Do you know who love dictatorships? Mediocracies.

maverick72.bsky.social•5 hours ago

“Think for yourself, or others will think for you without thinking of you.”—Henry David Thoreau

mherringe.bsky.social•2 hours ago

But they’ll take us with them.

bluefugue.bsky.social•1 hour ago

"[S]ome country where they make no pretense of loving liberty – to Russia, for instance, where despotism can be taken pure, and without the base alloy of hypocrisy." - A. Lincoln

gibfish.bsky.social•5 hours ago

And in fact they are. Under a despot.

johnscooper.bsky.social•4 hours ago

Unfortunately they are taking the rest of us down with them.

doug5301.bsky.social•5 hours ago

💯

ryoerges.bsky.social•5 hours ago

This is some Banana Republic shit.

rondomane.bsky.social•5 hours ago

yes, it's capitalism. you are absolutely correct.

donnayyz.bsky.social•4 hours ago

The world is waiting for “we the people” to stand up & do something about the hijack of ur democracy. I know not everyone voted for him but we sure as shit didn’t &we can’t do anything but watch&wait. I know protests can turn to violence-his excuse to declare martial law but he already acts as if.

ipracoyote.bsky.social•5 hours ago

I've been reading about this judge. He's not a lightweight. Even Roberts respects him.

bucks-county-lib.bsky.social•5 hours ago

They may have their wish

chriroch.bsky.social•5 hours ago

They are working on that!

missingjigsaw.bsky.social•5 hours ago

Yeah they pretty clearly agree with that assessment.

matunos.bsky.social•4 hours ago

the thing is the rest of us don't deserve to live under a despot.

maybe they can all go to Mars with Elon

1t2ls.bsky.social•2 hours ago

I’m wondering which criteria for “despot” he doesn’t already meet.

andrewcs.bsky.social•5 hours ago

We should be rioting. These fuckers should not feel safe showing their faces in public.

matteofights.bsky.social•1 hour ago

Brandon Gill may be one of the most obsequious. To think he's a Dartmouth grad. What the heck is going on up there in NH?

smuuchii.bsky.social•3 hours ago

they're trying to get there

swizzlesister64.bsky.social•4 hours ago

They're getting their wish.

dennisdesmond19.bsky.social•3 hours ago

Impeach MAGAS ! Every last one !

hagen-patrick.bsky.social•4 hours ago

Interesting, considering how many Republican House members are lawyers, that they think they can win this.

clevernickname23.bsky.social•4 hours ago

They know they can't win it. They just want to be seen doing it so Trump will like them.

cyndiw1.bsky.social•5 hours ago

If the SC can overturn Roe then they can overturn the immunity! They created the monster, they need to be the ones to fix it!

aldenpyle.bsky.social•5 hours ago

They are already "under a despot," as are we all.

emmyem24.bsky.social•4 hours ago

Pretty rich that these assholes would claim someone other than they themselves "overstepped his authority, compromised the impartiality of the judiciary, and created a constitutional crisis."

genejockey57.bsky.social•5 hours ago

Exactly. Then there's the "We're the adults in the room" juxtaposed with seeing Trump as "Daddy".

Not only servile, but deeply weird and creepy.

lexultimaveritas.bsky.social•4 hours ago

House Republicans are all traitors. Go back to Moscow.

markennis.bsky.social•5 hours ago

Need Roberts to make a statement that it would also help if the Congress would stop being cucks.

grumpyrootbeer.bsky.social•2 hours ago

Unfortunately the underlying assumption of his jurisprudence is that Congress will be divided and ineffective, allowing him to govern from the bench.

andrewwmiller.com•4 hours ago

He's been saying that in his rulings for 8 years. He's just been saying it in legalese.

standstrong25.bsky.social•5 hours ago

They are a bunch of kissing assing idiots. Wanting praise so badly. Fools.

engaged19x.bsky.social•3 hours ago

I mean… the Pam from the office “it’s the same picture” meme comes to mind

jeffinerd.bsky.social•1 hour ago

These idiots!! Can’t wait till they are behind bars

d-flo1.bsky.social•5 hours ago

A babe. Wet behind the ears. Green. An infant in terms of the life experience and wisdom and careful examination of facts and history absolutely required to do any sort of good job representing an entire constituency instead of being a cuck for a handful of billionaires.

demsrising.bsky.social•5 hours ago

Or cancelled out at the mid-terms.

scatmanvigoda.bsky.social•2 hours ago

I'm sure Schumer is all for it.

hallucinati.bsky.social•4 hours ago

Is that guy made of tallow? Never seen someone so waxy and transparent.

willis-2.bsky.social•5 hours ago

The King proclaimed! Therefore, IT must be done defense … is spreading into the Legislative Branch too. Although, the proclamation was not done on official WhiteHouse stationary.

jos1463.bsky.social•5 hours ago

They ARE under a despot

robertlandrumjr.bsky.social•4 hours ago

Or at the bare minimum, they’re BEHAVING like they’re under a despot. Maybe 🤔 it’s time we all recognize that we’re all under a man who thinks he’s a despot and is head of a political party that believes he’s a despot.

eliotrosewater.bsky.social•5 hours ago

I would say that I'm not sure Johnson is dumb enough to move forward with it because what evidence would they even present in an impeachment hearing, but I don't put him past it to just hold a vote with no hearings at all

fitzy205.bsky.social•3 hours ago

Yes this is the goal

themountainhermit.bsky.social•5 hours ago

It's just kind of terrifying that there is no way out of this that doesn't end in violence that I can fathom.

masterofchairs.bsky.social•5 hours ago

Imagine being both a) obsessed with amassing power and b) incapable of thinking of anything to do with it except giving The Shittiest Dude whatever he wants

jonty24.bsky.social•3 hours ago

Utter madness.

matunos.bsky.social•4 hours ago

Standby for Schumer to argue that conviction on impeachment is a terrible thing but the alternative is even worse somehow

mcslaven.bsky.social•5 hours ago

can we call them NPCs?

iplayguitarbad.bsky.social•1 hour ago

It is a real problem that our congress is in thrall to Trump, complicit in his shredding of the Constitution. How do you fix a nation that's ordered around each branch operating independently and in good faith?