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    Not Enough Day DrinkingStephen A. Crockett Jr.
    11/21/18 2:54pm

    And, according to CNN, it would’ve also been a clear-cut case of abuse of power that could’ve effectively ended his presidency

    Except this is the scary part. It assumes a functioning government filled with people who care about maintaining the government in working order. We don’t have that.

    There are only two ways to remove a president during his term (well, three really but I don’t need attention from the Secret Service):

    • Impeachment in the House with a simple majority followed by conviction in the Senate with two-thirds majority
    • The invocation of the 25 amendment which would require Mike Pence and the majority of the cabinet (all appointed by Trump) to declare him incapable of doing his job, but if Trump challenges you still need 2/3rds of both the House and Senate to uphold it (in other words, it’s harder than impeachment)

    Republicans in congress have shown that they do not care what this president does. They will not investigate, challenge, or convict him no matter what. Without republicans agreeing that the laws of the country are more important than ‘owning the libs’, Trump can take a shit on the Constitution without worry.

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      GinAndTonic, Potential GrizzlyNot Enough Day Drinking
      11/21/18 3:28pm

      Yeah, I don’t think trump would necessarily be wrong to assume that he could direct the DOJ to do whatever he wanted and get away with it politically. These past 2 years have been just him getting away with exactly this kind of shit, with the complicity of the GOP, particularly in the Senate.

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      Captain SplendidNot Enough Day Drinking
      11/21/18 6:47pm

      “Impeachment in the House with a simple majority followed by conviction in the Senate with two-thirds majority”

      I want every to read the shit out of this and weep. Not only is that 2/3 majority undemocratic as hell, in more practical terms, it means 10(!) GOP Senators can find it in themselves to put country over party, yet Trump would walk free, regardless of what he may have done.

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    ThoseAreDigimonStephen A. Crockett Jr.
    11/21/18 4:53pm

    And, according to CNN, it would’ve also been a clear-cut case of abuse of power that could’ve effectively ended his presidency.

    This is probably the real reason the man ran for the Presidency. Run a campaign that would could be crushed in any other timeline. Lose the election and then the DOJ refuses to follow up on any prosecution of the Trumps to avoid looking like their going after Hillary Clinton’s enemies. Then the fucker won.

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    Hoyo AfrikaStephen A. Crockett Jr.
    11/21/18 5:41pm

    I wonder sure if any Americans are seeing this as chickens coming home to roost?

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    theageoffoolishnessStephen A. Crockett Jr.
    11/21/18 3:38pm

    We have no legitimate government.

    We have a government by stolen election, that fortunately has no military backing, nor anything other than a LOT of money to spend buying what power it can.

    There hasn’t been a “Republican Party” for some time, though DT has made them remove the hockey mask and allowed everyone to see what the loathsome, corrupt, dead thing wearing the mask of “legitimacy” really is.

    The White Nationalist Business Party is what DT has formally made them into, but they’ve been that for some time. Half my life.

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    No One Knows What The Dead ThinkStephen A. Crockett Jr.
    11/21/18 2:43pm

    Oh, that GIF is A+. Somehow I think that Alonzo is the subdued, believable-for-fiction version of Trumpelstiltskin.

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