Impeach Trump Y/N

https://crooked.com/articles/democrats-impeachment-mueller/

...House intelligence committee chairman Adam Schiff, who among Democrats has the best handle on the details of the Russia scandal, nevertheless echoed Hoyer Thursday saying he learned as a prosecutor, “you don’t bring a case if you don’t think you’re going to be successful just to try the case,” and thus “barring a bipartisan consensus” impeachment should be off the table. This argument has been an inducement to Republican lawlessness since Schiff first offered it last year, and it is fatally misguided. It presupposes that if press releases and headline writers don’t move public opinion on their own, then all options are exhausted. That if Republicans refuse to support the impeachment of a president who needs to be impeached, Democrats are out of options and must throw up their hands.

In reality, the job of persuading the public that the president needs to be impeached falls to the leaders of the House of Representatives themselves. Unlike prosecutors, they don’t infringe on anyone’s liberties by trying a case they think they might lose. Unlike prosecutors, their decision to decline warranted charges can create lasting precedents and perverse incentives. Unlike prosecutors, their trials aren’t zero-sum affairs, because trying a case well and losing can have salutary benefits for their party and the country. Going down swinging can be good politics, and set important precedents. Unlike prosecutors they can’t select their jurors, but also unlike prosecutors, they are not discouraged from trying the case in public. To the contrary, it is their obligation. And if the Mueller report makes one thing clear it’s that if Democrats fail to meet that obligation, Trump won’t be chastened—to the contrary, he will be more emboldened in his abuses of power, and the country will be in even greater danger.

Yes Adam, cases as a prosecutor and Congressional Impeachment work exactly the same way.

Look, can we all just agree that when another irredeemable piece of shit inevitably decides to follow Trump's wildly successful 'President Supervillain' template, we will discuss with an even greater degree of seriousness all of the reasons why we cannot and should not impeach him/her? That's all I want, really. Grave pronouncements, thoughts, prayers.

thoughts and prayers is what they do best

Just like Daddy Mueller, there is no Congress Ex Machina to save us. Give it up. Hasn't anyone read any Pynchon? The machine always wins. Gotta beat him in 2020.

If my non-voting rep fails to impeach this bastard, I will flail about in the most impassioned manner possible to recruit and elect an alternative candidate in the next race.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqbEsS5kFb8

the theme song for this and every day

let's get on with this shit already !

someone draft the papers and get them over to Nancy ASAP

https://www.theroot.com/waiting-is-for-white-people-the-privilege-of-not-impea-1834244059

The now officially documented fact that his subordinates regularly refuse to carry out his orders mean we don’t really have a functioning executive. No one voted for these aides. Isn’g that a reason to impeach?

Reason 853 but still

what is this fucking fear of backfiring or political misstep shit ? Like what they are going to make some imaginary fence sitting assholes vote Trump again if impeachment fails? fuck'em who cares ? if we are counting on those dipshits then we are fucked anyways.

"the more you say he's unfit to lead, the more i wanna vote for him."

“Everyone says he’s dumb and unfit to lead - the same things they say about me and my friends! That’s why I’m voting trump”

what is this fucking fear of backfiring or political misstep shit

like it or not, impeachment is a deeply, intensely political process and only minimally and peripherally a vehicle for delivering 'justice'. it was designed that way. it cannot be any other way. and if you examine your feelings, I think you'll find your vehemence is almost certainly born of your intensely felt political beliefs and desires, not some abstract desire for truth and calm reasoning about the functioning of the executive branch.

what's weird to me is that anti-impeachment Dems seem to be unafraid of the more likely 'backfiring' scenario: Trump gets reelected in 2020 at which point impeaching him would be basically impossible.

impeachment is a deeply, intensely political process

this seems a perfectly valid reason to pursue it

I mean it's *all* a deeply, intensely political processs, what is the advantage to pretending otherwise when your opponent is going there whether you like it or not

what's weird to me is that anti-impeachment Dems seem to be unafraid of the more likely 'backfiring' scenario: Trump gets reelected in 2020 at which point impeaching him would be basically impossible.

heh, yeah, reminds me of that lovely time when a lot of people (including me, for a while) were hoping trump would win the 2016 GOP nomination because he would be so much easier to defeat in the election than establishment faves jeb! or the moral beacon ted cruz

Even if they dont move immediately into impeachment, they need to get way more aggressive ASAP. Their oversight is being challenged at every step and they are doing little to hit back.

yeah putting the president on trial is not going to *gain* him any votes, his base will be sufficiently demagogued into turning out no matter what congress does

i think Trump is really cornered and isolated this time for certain

this seems a perfectly valid reason to pursue it

not quite. it is perfectly valid reason to analyze the likely political consequences, and if your analysis is on balance neutral-to-favorable, that is when you pursue it. politics sometimes honors noble failures, but it punishes them just the same.

well of course I don't mean politics for the sake of politics. I mean impeachment has political advantages above and apart from "justice"

how is it not a good political move to get every single Republican Congressman on the record saying "I support this traitorous criminal idiot. I think he rocks, actually."

it is a good political move

Democratic politicians like to imagine there's a significant portion of the electorate that's turned off by any action not done in the spirit of bipartisan hand holding

Trump's behaviour just seems to be getting even worse daily despite theissue of this being brought up and presumably being prevalent at least as a pursuable possibility.
I'm hearing that there is inevitably going to be a period of further investigation since taht's what hearings would amount to so starting the process seems to be necessary.

But on the other hand some possibility of him being reelected would only mean he would feel absolutely justified in any further action he took. Just hoping also that any further exposure of his crimes might make that reelection unlikely.
& at what point doe she cease to be a useful asset because he's shown himself up so badly. Would think that even Putin might pull the plug once he'd outlived usefullness. So he'd be alone trying to get reelected and only have a dimished GOP supporting him.

on the record saying "I support this traitorous criminal idiot. I think he rocks, actually."

Good luck with that. What they will say irl is how "troubled" they were, but that the evidence blah blah blah. Do you honestly believe these people got where they are not knowing how to spin their vote to match the leanings of their constituency?

Voting to impeach and to convict is GREAT politics for winning your vote, because you already are sold on Trump being a "traitorous criminal idiot". But in order for the politics to align with you, a majority of voters need to be sold on that conviction. If they aren't, then going gung-ho, all-in for impeachment is playing with fire, politically. Like I said, a noble failure still fails and will be punished, not rewarded, leaving you worse off, not better.

HRC has spoken! "caution"

and she's an expert

this is a politics thread morbs

Morbs, we all know caution is not in your emotional vocabulary.

Morbs you made it, like, three days

that was a driveby

It was a voluntary, impromptu, and self-imposed restriction, so there was never a reason to think it would last any longer than the reaction that prompted it.

join me in the Tootsie thread

I am boycotting all the Dabney Coleman theads

a strange game

at some point enough is enough

let's all talk about Santino Fontana in here now that Morbs is gone

a strange game

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lmao

Investigative hearings should proceed, so that there is a constant dribble of damning news on Trump. I'd prefer that it focus on the violations of the emoluments clause, as I think corruption will hit much harder with the electorate than

I would much rather see the Democratic caucus pass sweeping Medicare for all and climate legislation, and have this be the central theme of the remainder of this Congress. Give the Democratic presidential and Senate candidates something to run on.

^ corruption will hit much harder with the electorate than the clear obstruction of justice in the Russia investigation.

are we discussing impeachment in the Tootsie thread or

So its back again?

I don't understand how this is supposed to go anywhere

it is a moral and legal imperative

and you know, I wd've impeached every fucking president ive lived through

I can see the rationale if the purpose is gumming up the works, but otherwise I don't get where this is supposed to end up

and if there was any seriousness to impeachment why not just do it on emoluments instead

too complex to sell to the moronic public

as this may be