• Zaktor@sopuli.xyz
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    3 days ago

    How can Democrats influence either of those things? The war is illegal, the recourse is impeachment. Healthcare is legislation. The same senators that will deny a supermajority for impeachment will deny overriding a veto.

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      3 days ago

      They could put pressure on the people that don’t have global name recognition and cult-like devotion from a third of the country, not to mention probable dementia and bulletproof narcissism.

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            2 days ago

            How does that pass healthcare changes over a veto? The people stopping these concrete actions are the Republicans. While we 100% need to not have any Democratic traitors. That doesn’t override a veto.

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              2 days ago

              Wut?

              No, I mean more along the lines of making sure generals know that their asses are gonna be up on trial for just following orders after trumpy kicks the bucket.

              trump isn’t doing it on his own. He has proven himself to be untouchable…but the people following his orders are not.

    • 🌞 Alexander Daychilde 🌞@lemmy.world
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      3 days ago

      The war is illegal, the recourse is impeachment.

      Well, you don’t understand how Congress works.

      First, Congress decides if we go to war or not. They tried to pass legislation stopping it, but the Republicans had enough power to stop that legislation.

      Second, impeachment is NOT the recourse. Impeachment is a strictly political process (not judicial), where if two thirds of each chamber of Congress wants Trump gone, they vote him gone. That’s what it boils down to. And since there’s not two thirds of each chamber wanting him gone, he will not be going using that method.

      I understand that people want things to magically happen, but the only way things magically happen is if the people get out on the streets and force them to happen. I want a winning lottery ticket and a pony, but wanting that shit ain’t gonna do shit. I have to know how to make it happen.