• Viking_Hippie
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    9 months ago

    The house requires a simple majority to impeach him

    And the assent of the speaker to even let it come to a vote. Which won’t happen as long as the Jericho Johnson has the gavel.

    but if those 4 jump ship… caucus with the dems… he wouldn’t have a say.

    Incorrect. The speaker has full dictatorial control of what comes up for a vote in the first place.

    It could have 75% support and it still wouldn’t get past that fundie bastard.

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      9 months ago

      Incorrect. The speaker has full dictatorial control of what comes up for a vote in the first place.

      If they flipped, and caucused with the dems as independents… Johnson wouldn’t be speaker, now would he? Jeffries or whoever would be.

      It’s a pipe dream, but it’s such a very lovely pipe dream because it’s actually possible.

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        9 months ago

        Oh yeah, missed that part somehow lol, sorry about that!

        Jeffries might not let it go ahead either, though. He’s quite right wing and EXTREMELY pro-corporate, so he may well have some owner donors in common with the six judicial disgraces 🤷

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          9 months ago

          I mean it’s possible, but we’re asking republicans to do the right thing here; and I’m pretty sure they haven’t run out of other things to try yet, so, it’s gonna be a while.

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            9 months ago

            Republicans or Hakeem Jeffries*

            Not that there’s that much of a difference 🤷

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              9 months ago

              Well, it might take him less time. I think we can rely on him to skip over things like “child sacrifice” and “ritual orgy”