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user-inactivated  ·  1872 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: The White House Letter in Response to the Impeachment Inquiry

    they should just keep adding charges after beginning another impeachment inquiry into one (or several) of the veritable cornucopia of possibilities.

I like this idea more than worrying about the potency of impeachment. It would be funny as all hell if they kept bringing impeachment proceedings against him. The Republicans would look stupid as hell acquitting him over and over again on laundry lists of new charges. Would really drive home how stupid this all is.





mitra  ·  1872 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I hear this sentiment from some very liberal friends of mine every time the current US administration does some ridiculous shit - "well, now everyone will realize that Trump is stupid/a criminal/a Russian puppet". Everyone who is capable of intelligent thought has already realized the idiocy of the situation, and everyone who still hasn't caught on will deny any wrongdoing no matter the evidence presented. Republicans aren't afraid of looking stupid, they only care about being in power - because that is the only thing that really matters.

user-inactivated  ·  1872 days ago  ·  link  ·  

True, but if you erode any claim to legitimacy they have left it helps. Public spectacles do mean something. And everyone has a breaking point.