• ɔiƚoxɘup@infosec.pub
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    2 days ago

    J6, abuse of power, obstruction of Congress, Epstein… How is this going to lead to accountability?? 🤣😑🥲

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      3 days ago

      The whole population is complicit. Look around in the world: Nepal, Budapest, France, the people want to be heard. In the USA, it is a handful of people protesting. Armchair activists…

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    3 days ago

    Trump’s cryptocurrency startup

    Just when I thought crypto’s reputation couldn’t sink any lower

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    3 days ago

    Well no shit. Everyone who has been paying the slightest attention knows that his crypto fund is nothing but a front for bribes and money laundering. His fortune has been going to by a billion dollars that we know of every month every since he took office. We’ve known this has been going on for months, how is that such a shock?

  • WatDabney@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    I’m reasonably certain that at this point there’s absolutely nothing that Trump could do that would actually be “impeachable” in anything other than a speculative and legalistic sense, since making it a reality would require courage, determination and integrity, and those qualities are in vanishingly short supply in a Congress comprised almost entirely of co-conspirators, sycophants, enablers, sybarites and cowards.

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        True, but I think he’s too feckless and desperate for approval to do that. He’s stupid and self-absorbed enough to move towards doing it, but I’m sure that all it takes is a few judicious words in his ear to make him once again chicken out.

        The few exceptions appear to be things on which the oligarchs apparently stupidly agreed with him - like trying to head off Chinese AI development by cutting them off from western chips, which ended up being just the kickstart that the Chinese chip industry needed to ramp up their production to the point that China no longer needs foreign chips.

        I can see how they might want to blame something like that on him, but I don’t know if they’d stick their necks out that far, or succeed if they did.

        But yeah - if there’s any chance of him actually being punished for his many and egregious crimes, “no longer being useful to the oligarchs” would be it.

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          Think you mean removed. The house votes to impeach and the Senate votes to remove after impeachment passes.

          His felony convictions are a separate matter that he will never have consequences for.

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            Your confusion is exactly what I’m talking about.

            There are two steps when removing the president:

            1. Congress can vote to impeach, with simple majority
            2. Senate holds an impeachment trial. They need 2/3s vote to find the president guilty of the charges (convict the president).

            What everyone gets confused by is that twice congress found enough evidence to open a trial to remove Trump, but he was never convicted by the Senate/found guilty.

            Here’s an article that talks more about it - https://constitutionus.com/constitution/what-are-the-steps-of-the-impeachment-process/

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        And even then there wasn’t enough integrity or courage to carry through with the next step and remove him from office, so the impeachments were ultimately just empty gestures.

        And now we won’t even get that.

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      If people are willing to look past raping kids, there’s no bottom to this entire sordid mess. Hoping that “something” will finally be enough to suddenly get irrational people to act rationally is more than idle, it’s insanity.

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        The kind of people that vote for Trump are the exact type of people that would be fine with raping kids… Unless it caused them to lose money