• @[email protected]
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    517 months ago

    Why wait? Haven’t they been impeaching this guy for like a year at this point?

    I tend to believe that if they could they would have done it already just to be petty.

    • @dariusj18
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      487 months ago

      This was what was so crazy about Trump vs Obama. Obama had such a a big target on his back, he had to act unimpeachably. But Trump was pretty much impeachable from the start.

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        277 months ago

        They went after Obama for silly things like mustard and suits and putting his feet on his own desk [yes, these were actually things they got mad about] When they saw that it wasn’t getting traction they stepped back. They knew if they impeached Obama they’d never get another Black vote ever.

        They were after Bill Clinton from Day One. They pushed the Whitewater probe before he entered office, and tried to make ‘Travelgate’ [Clinton’s team fired some White House staff without realizing they had tenure. ] Vince Foster was a Clinton family friend who committed suicide after the election. The GOP said he was murdered.

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          87 months ago

          Both of them were key goals of Fox News. Which started under Clinton.

          How is it possible one little cable network has so much power??

          Well. Best not to think about it.

          • @Viking_Hippie
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            77 months ago

            Because it was never just “one little cable network”. It was a Murdoch outlet with a ton of economic and political support from the major power players of the US right wing high society from day one.

            It was never not designed to monumentally sway public debate and political policymaking.

      • @grue
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        97 months ago

        But Trump was pretty much impeachable from the start.

        FTFY; no weasel words necessary. Trump was violating the Emoluments Clause from the second he was sworn in.

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      127 months ago

      I absolutely believe if they could have made the smallest thing stick they would. They probably would do it a second time before the election if the first one fell through. “LOOK AT BIDEN! HE HAS TWO IMPEACHMENTS AS WELL AND JUST AS MANY SENATE CONVICTIONS AS TRUMP”