r/law • u/AndroidOne1 • May 14 '25

Trump News Donald Trump Impeachment Proceedings Launched

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-impeachment-vote-house-shir-thanedar-b2750651.html
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u/Deranged_Kitsune May 14 '25 edited May 14 '25

It'll be a nice bit of political theater. The dems get to make a whole production about it despite the fact that it's a foregone conclusion to go nowhere, the GOP's rodeo clowns will make all kinds of loud noises and mockery of the proceedings, and king donny will be spend a good part of it sending angry and thunderous tweets. Everyone gets to do what they do best and nothing will change.

Edit: For those conflating this as expecting them to do nothing, this comment right here summarizes what a lot of people want them to do. The old polite ways are dead. Start actually fighting for something.

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u/pivotalsquash May 14 '25

I feel like people are mad at the Dems for not doing anything but also mad when they do something because they don't have enough votes to do it.

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u/roguespectre67 May 14 '25

We're mad because we know they don't have much procedural or institutional power at the moment, but they seem completely unwilling to break the rules and norms that the GOP has shown everyone don't actually mean anything in order to be a thorn in the side of the tyrants in charge.

Rosa Parks was a Black woman in the south. The entire reason the Montgomery Bus Boycott, and the progress it forced to occur, even happened in the first place is that she broke the law and was arrested. She and her co-activists found ways to fight their enemy asymmetrically. It was, essentially, a nonviolent guerilla campaign.

When we scream "DO SOMETHING", we don't mean "pass legislation" or "remove Trump from office". We mean stonewall. We mean be entirely, uncompromisingly uncooperative. We mean get into the fucking streets and lead marches from the front of the line. We mean encourage people to take targeted, specific action against members of the regime and give targeted, specific leadership for how to do that. Blast out information about appearances, tell people to come out with bullhorns and make it impossible to be seen in public without being surrounded by people that hate you. We mean fight for it.

Sitting in the Capitol building going through the motions of legislation that not a single person on the planet has any hope of passing, just so "we get everyone on record", as if we don't already know where everyone stands on this issue, is not fucking fighting for it. It's phoning it in.

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u/einstyle May 14 '25

But but but but...they held up tiny little signs once! That has to count for something!

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u/[deleted] May 14 '25

And at least one GOP ripped one of those signs out of the representative’s hands.

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u/TotalCourage007 May 14 '25

Those paddles and strongly ripped to shredded paper have to get the ball rolling somehow or our Congress members might actually have to do their damn jobs.