#and was impeached

[grumpkinpumpkinhead]

Maybe I have no right to be saying this since I'm not an American citizen, but a lot of people in America would rather have a criminal as their president over a woman, and I think that says enough. That's the most I'm gonna say about the election results.

[destielmemenews]

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[gay-david-tennant]

have a reverse Destiel confession meme ‘cause Dean just didn’t say enough to fit everything there (at least he gets to say ‘i love you’ this way)

[contemplatingoutlander]

"Here's what a functional democracy does after its president abuses his power and declares martial law: remove him from office."

--Steven Beschloss

"Protesters reacting as the vote to impeach the president was announced on Saturday."

Opposition lawmakers needed eight supporting votes from Mr. Yoon’s party to impeach him. When they called an impeachment vote last weekend, Mr. Yoon’s People Power Party boycotted it, saying that he should be given a chance to resign rather than be impeached. Only three of its 108 lawmakers participated. On Saturday, the party said that it officially opposed impeachment, but its lawmakers were allowed to cast their secret ballots. The result indicated that 12 lawmakers from Mr. Yoon’s party had joined the opposition to impeach him and another 11 abstained or cast invalid votes, sealing his fate. [emphasis added]

Why couldn't the Republicans in the U.S. Senate have voted to convict Trump in 2021 after he incited an insurrection and attempted to interrupt the peaceful transfer of power?

Once again, Republicans make America look bad in the eyes of the world.

_______________ Note. The video caption was added to the video to mimic the video on the front page of the digital New York Times on 12.14.24. The video was originally from Reuters.

[alwaysbewoke]

[not-mariahcarey]

[eugenedebs1920]

Well well well… Let me show you my surprised face 😶

Imagine that! Trump terminating the government watchdogs tasked with impeding corruption and protecting tax payer dollars. It’s just incredible that there is not ONE. Not f*ckin one Republican who would speak out and denounce this corrupt behavior. I guess that bastion of modern times, a man with his finger on the pulse of a new generation, the 90 something year old Chuck Grassley isn’t pumped about it…

It’s monsterously reminiscent of the war on fact checking. Who are the people that would protest fact checking? F*cking liars!!!

So why fire the civil servants tasked with defending the American people and the taxes they contributed? Because you intend to pillage the funds and engage in illicit activity.

Seriously! Wtf?!

[liveasbutterflies]

The only thing I was looking forward to for the weekend is cancelled because the s korea president wanted to play dictator.

[saywhat-politics]

A first attempt this month ended in a dramatic standoff at the residence where President Yoon Suk Yeol had been holed up since he was impeached.

[ratisangy]

As an American I would like to leave ❤️

So far Trump and his goons have blessed us with this list. I'm sure I forgot to add something.

Trump halting CDC research on the bird flu (67 people infected one dead) millions of birds and hundreds of cows dead from it.

2 million federal employees contacted and strong armed to resign.

ICE just in general is awful but now also is detaining native Americans

Feb 1 plans for tarrifs for Canada, Mexico and China.

Immigrant workers not showing up to farms due to fear of deportation.

Federal freeze that was constantly changing and unclear. With temporary consumer reported freezes, even to federal funded programs said not to be affected.

Trump removing the heads of the Transportation Security Administration and the Coast Guard before their terms were completed.

Elon Natzi salute

[liberalsarecool]

The hypocrisy. The attack on the rule of law.

Republicans are malware. Weaponized inaction.

#ShamImpeachment #VoteBlue

[foone]

The worst part of working that the dimensional nexus is finding out your coworkers come from timelines that sound way cooler.

The guy I'm working on the survey project with is from a timeline where Clinton got impeached earlier, removed from office, Al Gore took over, got elected in 2000, and they never had a 9/11, and the 90s just continued until the modern day.

Lucky punk.

[limeseltzer4ver]

Quite literally so dystopian

[justinspoliticalcorner]

Dean Obeidallah at The Dean's Report:

From a legal point of view, it’s clear that Donald Trump should be barred from holding federal office by way of Section 3 of the 14th Amendment of the US Constitution. Trump had taken an “oath to support the Constitution of the United States” when he was sworn is as President and then he “engaged in insurrection” on Jan. 6 with the attack on our Capitol by his supporters. That means come January 20, if Trump is sworn in, he will be an illegitimate President. The only question is: Will Democratic leaders take the fight to Trump on this issue or roll over? And it’s true that Democrats don’t control Congress but that doesn’t mean they should “obey in advance” and not raise this legitimate issue in the media, in Congress, etc. This is about defending our Constitution and if Democrats don’t take the fight to Trump now, history tells us that aspiring autocrats like Trump will be even more embolden in the future to break the law and violate the Constitution.

As a brief reminder, the Colorado Supreme Court ruled in December 2023 that Trump was disqualified from ever holding office again by way of Section 3 of the 14th Amendment. The court first determined that the Jan. 6 attack was an “insurrection” as the framers of the 14th Amendment intended. The court then concluded Trump had “engaged” in that “insurrection” given Trump’s countless overt acts after the November 2020 election to build support for the Jan 6 attack. As the court wrote, “Trump fully intended to—and did—aid or further the insurrectionists’ common unlawful purpose of preventing the peaceful transfer of power in this country.” Thus, the court concluded that “President Trump is disqualified from holding the office of President under Section Three.”

It’s true the U.S. Supreme Court later reinstated Trump to the ballot in Colorado but they did not question the conclusion that Trump had “engaged in an insurrection.” Rather the ruling’s focus was the enforcement of this section of the US Constitution. The Court found that “States have no power under the Constitution to enforce Section 3 with respect to federal offices, especially the Presidency.” Rather, “enforcing Section 3 against federal officeholders and candidates rests with Congress.” [...]

But here is a fact overlooked by many. Both a majority of the House and Senate have already voted that Trump had incited an insurrection and is barred from holding office by way of Section 3 of the 14th Amendment. On January 13, 2021, the House considered a resolution to impeach Trump titled, “Incitement of an Insurrection” which included a specific reference to this disqualifying provision: “Section 3 of the 14th Amendment to the Constitution prohibits any person who has “engaged in insurrection or rebellion against” the United States from “hold[ing] any office…under the United States.”

The resolution then detailed the acts Trump took “inciting violence against the Government of the United States.” The proposed resolution concluded, “Donald John Trump thus warrants impeachment and trial, removal from office, and disqualification to hold and enjoy any office of honor, trust, or profit under the United States.”

That article of impeachment was approved 232 to 197—with ten Republicans joining. And it was that very article of impeachment that included the reference to barring Trump by way of Section 3 of the 14th Amendment that 57 Senators in the Senate voted in favor after Trump’s impeachment trial—including seven Republicans. If these two votes are sufficient to trigger the Section 3 disqualification clause, then the only way it can be lifted is by “a vote of two-thirds of each House.”

[...]

As Timothy Snyder warns in his book, “On Tyranny,” about not obeying in advance, “Most of the power of authoritarianism is freely given.” Snyder noted that, “After the German elections of 1932, which brought Nazis into government…the next crucial step was anticipatory obedience.” History is screaming at us—as Snyder details—that, “Anticipatory obedience is a political tragedy.”

Donald Trump violated Section 3 of the 14th Amendment when he helped incite the insurrection on January 6th, 2021. Based on that, he should NOT be eligible to serve as President.

Thus, he is not a legitimate occupant of the Presidency.

[wilwheaton]

"Justice Elena Kagan memorably castigated him for treating 'judging as scorekeeping,' whining about 'how unfair it is' when he loses, and repeating the same bad arguments 'at a higher volume.' Justice Sonia Sotomayor has repeatedly accused him of outright dishonesty by misrepresenting precedent and dangling false promises. In a fed-up dissent in just her first term, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson compared a Kavanaugh majority opinion to the children’s book If You Give a Mouse a Cookie. [Samul] Alito’s rebuttal to Kavanaugh’s dissent in Sackett v. EPAconsisted of exactly one sentence: Kavanaugh’s argument, Alito wrote, 'cannot be taken seriously.'"

Justices are 'losing patience': Brett Kavanaugh skewered as a 'lightweight' in brutal analysis

Hold up.

This guy?

“The consequences will extend long past my nomination. The consequences will be with us for decades. This grotesque character assassination will dissuade confident and good people of all political persuasions from serving our country, and as we all know, in the political system of the early 2000s, what goes around comes around.”

This piece of shit?

The guy who spent his entire life as a right wing activist judge, who was part of the Brooks Brothers “riot”, snarled and barked and insulted the Senate Judiciary Committee during his farcical confirmation hearing, who lied repeatedly about his history of sexual assault, his gambling debts, and threatened to explicitly hurt people who he views as antagonistic to him ... turns out to be an intellectual lightweight in the mold of Thomas? He doesn’t give a flying fuck about law or justice or precedent, he just wants to hurt people he doesn’t like under the color of law?

Wow. None of us saw that coming.

[soberscientistlife]

Impeach Clarence