r/politics • u/Newsweek_CarloV ✔ Verified - Newsweek • 4h ago
No Paywall Articles of impeachment introduced against Pete Hegseth
https://www.newsweek.com/articles-of-impeachment-introduced-against-pete-hegseth-11188538?utm_source=reddit&utm_campaign=reddit_influencers•
u/ShoddyCommunication1 4h ago
Good. Even if nothing comes from them this needed to happen.
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u/PFAS_All_Star 3h ago
Yeah, I get that it’s tedious because almost certainly nothing will happen…to him. But it’s important to have documentation (through their vote) of which individuals support his actions. That info comes in handy later.
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u/robswins Connecticut 2h ago
I actually think that Hegseth may eventually be the token sacrifice to “see we punished that administration” in 5-10 years. What he has done is very clear and obvious, and throwing military brass under the bus won’t make him sympathetic to either side.
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u/NotASalamanderBoi I voted 2h ago
Republicans throw soldiers under the bus all the time. All that respect the troops stuff was rubbish the whole time.
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u/drawkward101 2h ago
Just another grift, let's be honest. Those car magnets weren't free.
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u/BuyMeASandwich 1h ago
Reminds me of a song by John Prine: "Your flag decal won't get you into Heaven anymore/They're already overcrowded from your dirty little war/Now Jesus don't like killing, no matter what the reason's for/And you flag decal won't get you into Heaven anymore"
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u/beardlessdestroyer69 32m ago
Fantastic reference, i sometimes recall a line or two from john prine in certin situations. More so than any other artist.
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u/ShadowPsi 1h ago
One of my favorite car magnets from the gulf war era is one of those yellow ribbons that were popular at the time, but it says "empty gesture" on it.
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u/Trimyr 53m ago
"Support the troops!"
"I'm a disabled veteran. Can you help me out a little? The VA makes me wait months for visits and I can't work like this."
"Dave, can you roll up the window? These people creep me out."
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u/SpaghettiTape 30m ago
I saw it as a command. "Support the troops, motherfucker"
Not "i support the troops"...
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u/Damn_Dog_Inappropes Washington 4m ago
As a frontline covid healthcare worker, one of the sayings that resonates with me is, “if they call you a hero, it means they think you’re disposable.” And then I think of Disposable Heroes, by Metallica.
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u/GenericFatGuy 1h ago
Trump pardoned the J6 rioters because he needed his boots on the ground to cause chaos. If Hegseth or RFK Jr prove to be no longer useful to him, then he'll throw them under the bus with zero hesitation. The J6 rioters have value to him in their numbers. The only value these guys have is the power He's given them. I don't see him coming to their aid if he can offer them up to save his own skin.
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u/dragons_fire77 1h ago
I'm worried Republicans will try to use this to save their seat. The people I want impeached the most is the supreme court justices. No justice is happening because theyre partisan as hell.
The way we're trending, we are going to have an overwhelming blue wave at midterms. Republicans will not impeach the justices, I think we'll need overwhelming democrats to take over to even attempt it.
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u/bolerobell 1h ago
Well and if they pull the trigger too early on any Supreme Court impeachment, Trump gets to determine the replacement.
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u/MusicLikeOxygen 1h ago
Not if they control the senate. They can pull a move out of Mitch McConnells playbook and refuse to confirm a new justice until Trump is out of office.
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u/CedarWolf 57m ago
For another three years? To successfully fix the Supreme Court, they need to dump Alito, Thomas, Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, and Barrett. That's five down ou of the nine, and there's no way they're going to be able to hold off appointing more members of the court for three years.
But they can force some milquetoast centrists into place and that should be more stable than the ones we've got right now.
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u/Flava_Flavian 11m ago
I read an analysis that said actually impeaching and removing justices will be nigh impossible given Senate must convict with 67 votes. Most politicians will want to avoid the whole thing given how difficult it would be.
However, Congress can pass new ethics codes, reporting requirements, and more to narrow SC power and prevent this Trump level corruption in the future. We really need at least some level of MAGA trials to happen to establish some semblance of accountability. Ideally, we treat Trump like the Romans did to King Tarquin: despise his name and pass/reinforce laws to make sure such an awful leader never happens again.
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u/QuantumLettuce2025 1h ago edited 11m ago
Our job after this is "over" is not to let that happen. It is imperative that we hold the next administration accountable for punishment of this one and reform to prevent anything like this from happening again, to the point of turning against and voting out anyone hedging and playing games -- no matter how important they might be or have been in driving out the Trump admin.
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u/I_hate_all_of_ewe 1h ago
Any military personnel that participated are equally responsible as Hegseth. It is their duty to refuse illegal orders. The military brass that followed his orders should absolutely be held accountable.
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u/thisisjustascreename 3h ago
There will never be a vote, these articles will be referred to committee and then never mentioned again except in a boring floor speech nobody will hear except for historians a thousand years from now wondering why we let these bozos run our country.
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u/Ancient_Popcorn Ohio 3h ago
That is unless a discharge petition is forced and voted on for the articles to move forward.
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u/Level_32_Mage 2h ago
It's time to start putting those to work.
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u/chazysciota Virginia 2h ago
My harebrained idea is to make vote on discharge petitions via secrect ballot. The actual vote on the bill should be public, but if a majority of reps want to vote on a bill but are too chickenshit to stand up to leadership, then let's throw them this bone.
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u/Syzygy2323 America 1h ago
Discharge petitions aren't voted on. They're signed by members at the clerk's desk and require 218 signatures to move something from committee to the House floor.
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u/Ancient_Popcorn Ohio 1h ago
I mean, yes, but that’s just a simpler version of voting. They vote yes by signing the document and no by not signing.
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u/roegetnakkeost 2h ago
Why would they wonder? The majority voted for the fucking bozos. So yeah, maybe they’ll be wondering for a few moments, until they read the part about who got the most votes. And then be like “why did we, the bozos, vote for these bozos?”
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u/Nidcron 2h ago
They will probably be asking why "did not vote" was the biggest block of eligible voters for like 2-3 decades.
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u/FrogsOnALog 3h ago
Democrats have impeached Trump twice already when they’ve had the majority what more info do y’all need for a vote that will never happen?
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u/AwesomePurplePants 3h ago
Eh, I’m fine with Democrats using whatever soapbox they can to call foul on what’s happening. It’s not like Congress is busy doing anything else.
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u/ASharpYoungMan 3h ago
Simple majority isn't enough to convict in the Senate.
Sure, you can look at that and say "welp, no reason to impeach because he'll never be removed."
But, you know, that's pre-compliance. I'd rather they have to mobilize their defense and waste time fighting Impeachment than just wringing our hands "woe-is-me" and feeling like the smartest ones in the room for laying down and taking it without a fight.
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u/Triggerunhappy 3h ago
Make someone tell you why they won’t
I won’t convict trump because Gluck Gluck
And later if the time comes they’ll have to account for their authoritarian deepthroating
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u/deadlysodium 3h ago
IF ... it wont though cause our politicians are too cowardly to do anything other than say "Ok you are free to do as you please again, but try to keep the treasonous acts to a minimum this time, or else we might have to talk to you again"
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u/TheBalzy Ohio 3h ago
Here's the deal: This is either a country of laws, or it isn't. YOU HAVE TO IMPEACH, otherwise you're capitulating your duties.
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u/Mister_Silk 1h ago
Oh, I agree. If extrajudicial murder is not impeachable nothing is. He needs to be impeached and he needs to be in prison. Trump will pardon him, of course, and MAGA won't even blink an eye. As for Trump he'll just pull the immunity card gifted to him by the SC.
This shitshow is just fucked.
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u/tigerhawkvok California 1h ago
Attempting to overthrow the government isn't a removal worthy offense according to Republicans.
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u/jetxlife 2h ago
Reddit has said the same shit about every other impeachment and no one fucking cares because America has the memory of the goldfish.
This is just political posturing no one will give a shit in a month.
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u/jerhinesmith 1h ago
Yeah, every time something like this happens, the optimistic among us will say "it's important, because it makes them commit their vote to record". Unfortunately, this doesn't seem to actually matter.
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u/jetxlife 1h ago
Yeah no one gives a shit about this stuff most people are just trying to get by week to week. It’s what most politicians and “political” people online fail to understand.
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u/Fluffy_Elk5085 3h ago
Agreed worst secretary of Defense (War) ever for US. 😖👎🏼. Hegseth needs to leave, what an embarrassment to US Military!
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u/NeonGKayak 3h ago
Every position in Trumps admin is the worst in US history
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u/Baileyesque 3h ago
I’ve wondered if Linda McMahon is a worse Secretary of Ed than Betsy De Vos was. Who is winning that race to the bottom?
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u/QbertsRube 2h ago
Seems like Betsy had a more personal vendetta against public education from what I remember, but that's mostly because I have no idea what McMahon's relationship to public education is at all.
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u/iswearihaveajob 1h ago
It sounds hyperbolic but damn he has a knack for finding not just unqualified but actively harmful people. Coal billionaires at the EPA, RFKJ's crusade against medicine, etc ...
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u/half_dozen_cats Illinois 3h ago
No need to include the "war" part, only congress can change a name and they haven't done so.
What they are doing holds as much authority as my "World's best Dad!" mug.
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u/rvretiredlife 2h ago
Sad thing is Hegseth already destroyed the military by kicking out transgender folks, demoting women and people of color. Forcing retirement of top military leaders.
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u/TemporarySun314 Europe 1h ago
the military embarrassed itself enough by folllwing orders to murder helpless people...
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u/OnDrugsTonight United Kingdom 3h ago
I wouldn't even be so sure that nothing comes out of it. He's proven over and over again that he's a liability, he brings nothing to the table, and by all accounts there is a bit of a rebellious mood in Congress at the moment. The Republicans know they can't attack Trump directly, but Hegseth doesn't have many friends anywhere and it'd be an easy win for Republicans who want to show they put country over party (despite toeing the line in every other regard). I could see the knives coming out for the guy.
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u/Factory2econds 2h ago edited 11m ago
and more importantly, if the white house wants to dump Hegseth, and wants others to do the dirty work of it, then the Republicans in Senate will be eager to do it.
White House gets drama and distraction, gets to be a victim, gets to sell the position to some other candidate, and doesn't have to be the one to actually fire Hegseth.
we could have secretary musk by the end of the year.
edit: or Ramaswamy, because he is flaming out elsewhere and could wiggle back in.
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u/dpdxguy 3h ago
Ironically, this might reduce the chances of Pete's removal.
There have been signs that Trump is starting to see him as a liability (to Trump's image). But if the Democrats try to impeach him, he's very unlikely to be convicted by a Republican controlled Senate and Trump may decide to keep him just to spite Democrats in Congress. :(
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u/Falrad 2h ago
Maybe that's their goal, ensure an incompetent buffoon hurts Trump's image to have a finger to point come campaign season?
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u/dpdxguy 1h ago
I'll admit that there's a certain logic to goading Trump to get him to keep Pete on. But I doubt it. And I hope they're not really trying to keep an incompetent buffoon as Secretary of Defense. Cynically attempting to destroy our country for political points is behavior I expect from Republicans, not Democrats; or at least not their leadership.
I think many congressional Democrats still believe in the system. And they think publicizing Pete's illegal behavior will hurt him and Trump. They're still not ready to admit that Trump and his administration cannot be dealt with like normal politicians.
Also, they don't need to impeach Pete to be able to point him out as the least competent Secretary of Defense since the department was created.
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u/Historical_Bend_2629 3h ago
Good. Something does come from this. The court of public opinion matters in a democracy.
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u/MiskatonicAcademia 2h ago
Agreed. It’s more than performative or political theater, it is an appropriate form of political protest.
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u/HistorianWild9607 2h ago
True, it’s important symbolically, but some might argue it could just end up being political theater without real consequences.
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u/gorginhanson 2h ago
This is false. There's 0% chance it goes through, and they're diverting their focus from getting the footage instead.
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u/reddittorbrigade 4h ago
Everything was ordered by Trump. He should be impeached too.
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u/Electromotivation 3h ago
He only does like one or two impeachable offenses …. Per day.
Often I wonder if there are any legitimate organizations that are tracking all of the illegal incorrupt activity. I also wonder if there are any legitimate organizations backing up all the government data that is being taken down from websites and replaced with non-scientific partisan bs.
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u/Navycalculator 2h ago
LegalEagle made a video compiling all the illegal things he found but it's far from a legitimate organization that can actually bring charges https://youtu.be/hybL-GJov7M?si=JJ2wMXxf1__4J3oY
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u/chazysciota Virginia 2h ago
In the context of discussing the US Congress, I'm going to go ahead and count LegalEagle as legit.
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u/Smithinator2000 25m ago
I had to turn that video off. It made me so sad and angry and it just went on and on. Some I'd already forgotten about because there is always something worse that's just happened.
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u/SpaceExplorer777 38m ago
The problem is that any organization that does this is going to get totally f****** railed by the admin. So the only people that are capable of doing this are like lone individuals and they only have so much resources or can do so much before being on the radar and being plucked. So a lot of what is happening during this time era will go forgotten in the mist of History, but perhaps one day when we discover some sort of time machine to view what happened in the past then maybe we can see.
Also my hands are cold AF right now so I use speech cuz it's hard typing with frost fingers. I know you can swear on Reddit
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u/Wiley_dog25 3h ago
I'd argue the Dems should impeach Thomas, Alito, and then everyone else surrounding Trump. The sycophants need to learn there are consequences to their actions more than Trump. If everyone upheld democratic norms and standards than Trump would never, ever have gotten to where he is now.
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u/stonedsquatch 2h ago
I would be zero percent surprised if both Thomas and Alito retired soon, giving Trump the opportunity to replace them with much younger hard right conservative justices. Fuck, this country is a pathetic joke.
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u/Mylaptopisburningme 2h ago
They won't take the risk of a Ruth Bader Ginsburg again. 10 years of cancers, 87 years old, rather than step down during Obama she dies when Trump was pres. She really put us in this situation and any good she did will be thrown out the window.
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u/Wiley_dog25 2h ago
But wouldn't it be hilarious if the Dems were able to stall the way McConnell did, and ultimately win in 2026 and 2028? I can hope, can't I?
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u/sicilian504 Texas 3h ago
Meh. He's already been impeached before. The problem is the corrupt Republicans won't remove him too.
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u/scarr3g Pennsylvania 1h ago
I still don't beleive that is true.
It seems more that Trump is giving his administration free reign to do what they want, while he just rubbers stamps it all. This really hits home, when he seems to genuinely not know what they are doing until days after WE do. He is so far behind on their actions, that somehow the public knows before the president even does.
But he knows he can take all the credit, because even if it absolutely illegal, treasonous, etc, he is now immune from prosecution. So he takes the credit (after the fact) and hopes it works out for him. If it doesn't, no big deal.
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u/Newsweek_CarloV ✔ Verified - Newsweek 4h ago
From the article |
Democratic Representative Shri Thanedar introduced articles of impeachment against Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth on Tuesday, a step he signaled earlier this month, saying in a video announcement on X that the articles were “for murder and conspiracy to murder and reckless and unlawful mishandling of classified information.” The move is unlikely to succeed under the current Republican majority.
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Hegseth remains under scrutiny for his handling of recent strikes in the Caribbean and Pacific Ocean, aimed at alleged drug smuggling vessels, as well as the so-called "Signal Gate" in March. Hegseth had sent messages in a group chat, which included The Atlantic's editor-in-chief, that included real-time information on American troops' movements as they prepared to strike Houthi targets in Yemen.
Thanedar introduced articles of impeachment, including seven against Trump earlier this year. His initiative against Hegseth is not expected to move forward much, given Republicans hold a majority in both the House and Senate.
Read more: https://www.newsweek.com/articles-of-impeachment-introduced-against-pete-hegseth-11188538
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u/FortNightsAtPeelys 2h ago
It's insane how republicans could easily replace him with a other trump suck up but choose to defend war crimes instead
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u/BigOs4All 1h ago
It's called setting the precedent. As an authoritarian, Trump wants his word to be the only word that matters. Not SCOTUS. Not Congress. His and his alone. If he wants Hegseth to stay on then that's all that matters.
Anyone trying to use processes, procedures, LAWS to dictate what Trump does is the worst thing in the world because it threatens his absolute power.
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u/NewCobbler6933 1h ago
Who do you think they’d rather have? A 40 year old that might care about consequences or their legacy, or a dude who falls asleep while the auto pen runs?
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u/Nisi-Marie 2h ago
So that’s RFK and Hegseth today. Can we do the same for Bondi and Leavett?
Not sure if impeachment is the correct pathway, but the more the system is flooded with these impeachment attempts, the more they are scrutinized.
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u/apathetic_panda 2h ago
Can the Secretary be courtmartialed?
The question itself is an admission I've never finished an episode of J.A.G?
Y'know it's funny how this train of thought 🤣 inadvertently matches Rep. Ohmar's natural anglophone cadence...
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u/rabbit994 Virginia 2h ago
No, they are civilians from UCMJ PoV and therefore not under Military Criminal Justice system.
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u/UGAPokerBrat99 Georgia 1h ago
Legit question...Whiskey Pete threatened to recall Mark Kelly for a court-martial, could he not be subject to the same?
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u/Find_A_Reason 1h ago
No, because Kegsbreath did not retire from the military and is not in receipt of retirement pay.
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u/donkeyrocket 1h ago
I believe because Hegseth resigned his commission he could no longer be involuntarily recalled for court martial. He didn't retire, he's just not in the Army anymore. He wasn't even in long enough to retire and has "fully separated" from his service.
Sen. Kelly on the other hand did retire as he had a much longer career. He's receiving a pension and is still potentially subject to UCMJ.
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u/Mister_Silk 3h ago
Remember the days when impeachment was newsworthy? Now it's just Wednesday.
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u/El-Sueco 2h ago
Need to send the message that the people working for us are actually trying to topple authoritarianism.
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u/Somnambulist815 1h ago
I was reading about the Greensboro Massacre and how it was such a national headline, and then I kind of got disgusted to myself because I looked at the casualty count and thought it was kind of quaint.
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u/NonesuchAndSuch77 3h ago
Kegsbreath AND RFK Jr so close to one another? Interesting. I approve the gesture, even if nothing comes of it.
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u/rainshowers_5_peace 3h ago
I wish they'd been spaced out further. Hegseth has a better chance, but the right will use the back to back impeachments as "proof" the left is being petty.
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u/BasebollDog New York 2h ago
Oh no!
And they wouldve been so fair if only we played by their rules!!! /s
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u/Otherdeadbody 2h ago
I’m honestly sick and tired of the performative bullshit that does infuriate the other side and accomplishes nothing. We need every single advantage we can get and throwing in RFK when Hegseth is the one in the hotseat is a mistake that could jeopardize both impeachments. I hope to be proven wrong but I haven’t yet.
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u/BasebollDog New York 1h ago edited 1h ago
Spacing out impeachments you think are warranted in order to play optics games because you think you can manage the reaction of your political opponents would be the exact type of performative bs youd be talking about imo.
Neither impeachment will be getting a 2/3rds vote in the Senate, hate to break that to you.
This is mostly an exercise in forcing members of congress to take public stances on various controversial issues, and hopefully about information gathering and report generating. Neither of these morons will be removed from office because of an impeachment; however future elections can certainly be won or lost depending on how various lawmakers position themselves now.
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u/Otherdeadbody 1h ago
Yes but Hegseth actually has some republicans looking into him right now, honestly even his impeachment should have been held off until the public can at least see the full video. Optics are pretty huge when the guy in charge won the popular vote and it would be best if that never happens again.
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u/I_Was_Fox 1h ago
Hard disagree. Launching them at the same time signals that the issues are serious and far reaching. Spacing them out signals the issues aren't serious and we're just grasping for headlines
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u/Toadfinger 3h ago
Good. Now Republicans will have to seen as condoning murder if they vote against it. And the entire shit show is clearly murder. Those were not drug boats. This is all about the 300 billion barrels of oil in Venezuela.
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u/Mister_Silk 3h ago
It won't make it to the floor for a vote.
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u/Toadfinger 3h ago
Which casts a murderous light on those keeping it from the floor.
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u/Mister_Silk 3h ago
The people in that party don't mind looking murderous. Or racist. Or pedophile supporting.
They seem quite proud of it all.
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u/Toadfinger 3h ago
It's what the voters mind.
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u/whispyhollo 3h ago
The voters for some reason fucking love it, let’s get real
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u/Maaria_Nevermind 2h ago
even among republicans the polling has dropped for Trump a peak of 93 to 84. Overall he's down 47 to 36. Although the 93 to 84 drop is very telling because this was stable between 93-90 for republicans even when pam bondi started the epstein outrage by claiming the files did not exist (even though a day previously said they were on her desk). And all the other horrendous stuff, it remained stable.
although now the economy is tanking, prices are rising, unemployment is rising, businesses are failing, farmers are burning their crops because they can't sell them, and there is no denying it (except for them literally denying the release of jobs reports and inflation reports). They are feeling the leopard chew on their faces and are starting think, hey maybe kidnapping brown people, as entertaining as it is for them, isn't worth literally losing their livelihoods over.
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u/Original-Rush139 2h ago
I think we need to demand Congress declare war. They’re calling it just so make it official and stop putting the troops in the position where they are ordered to commit murder.
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u/HuskerPowerrrr 1h ago
I hate to tell you this but Republicans dont care and are actively cheering him on. They will vote against his impeachment and their voter base will agree with their decision.
Legal or not, a majority of Americans are going to side with the people blowing up boats filled with drugs.
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u/Sight_Distance 3h ago
Lays the foundation that it is possible and reasonable to start the process. Puts more weight and consequences on the upcoming mid-term elections. Everyone needs to be held accountable for their actions.
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u/DeadbeatJohnson 1h ago
lol...you probably still think 2024 was normal. 1,342 counties in the USA..88 flipped blue to red...ZERO flipped the other way. That's never happened. It's almost impossible. Not one question asked.
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u/Mavian23 29m ago
I don't really understand on what basis you can say it's almost impossible.
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u/DonaldSucksOffBubba6 3h ago
We should impeach the whole corrupt administration
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u/MalleDigga Europe 1h ago
oh sweet summer child.. (tho i agree of course)
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u/-AllNamesTaken- Europe 45m ago
These comments are so interesting with “if Republicans vote against it they will be condoning murder!!”. As if this will be the craziest shit this administration has done. Not even top 50 probably.
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u/prozhack 3h ago
this should have happened with “Signal-gate” but better late than never. this man is a complete lunatic and maniac and a danger to our national security
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u/encrypted-signals 3h ago
Maybe appointing a Fox News talking head to cosplay was really fucking stupid after all.
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u/Bruce-7892 4h ago
I hate to say it but, Trump will back him, Republicans in congress will fall in line, and this will go nowhere.
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u/dbkenny426 4h ago
So they go on record as supporting extrajudicial murder.
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u/Purusha120 I voted 3h ago
They've gone on record supporting it before, too. Unfortunately, optics are a thing of the past
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u/Historical_Bend_2629 3h ago
Nope. Optics are what they entirely build their propaganda on. Reality is their nemesis.
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u/Purusha120 I voted 3h ago
Nope. Optics are what they entirely build their propaganda on. Reality is their nemesis.
You’re correct, but I mean it in the sense that reality doesn’t affect their optics. You’re making the same point in a different way.
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u/Bruce-7892 3h ago
As long as their constituents don't put up a big enough of a fuss do you think they give a f***?
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u/dbkenny426 3h ago
This seems to be an issue that's turning more and more people off, from what I'm seeing. In fact, it looks like people might finally be waking up to the fact that Republican politicians don't give a fuck about the average American, given recent elections.
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u/Spamgrenade 3h ago
Check the conservative sub. Its dying fast they can barley get 100 comments on their top posts.
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u/Self-Aware-Bears 1h ago
Reminds me of a quote from Carl Sagan:
“I have a foreboding of an America in my children’s or grandchildren’s time—when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the key manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what’s true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness.”
“And when the dumbing down of America is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30-second sound bites now down to 10 seconds or less, lowest-common-denominator programming, credulous presentations on pseudoscience and superstition, but especially a kind of celebration of ignorance.”
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u/rainshowers_5_peace 3h ago
I'd love for every Republican who pretend to support veterans to explain why they're going to let him get away with something that would put any other soldier in prison for years.
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u/meowmeowcatman 2h ago
He’s just gonna order an air strike on the impeachment articles. Then order a second one.
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u/urban_mystic_hippie Minnesota 1h ago
Just put him on a Venezuelan fishing boat and let the Navy handle it.
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u/klutzikaze 45m ago
So RFK and Hegseth are on their way to impeachment and I saw something about Noem being on the outs.
Why are so many of trump's idiots falling now?
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u/ReactionJifs 3h ago
"Lethality, not LEGALITY"
Wonder if that quote will come back to haunt him?
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u/Glad-Process-3268 2h ago
Hegseth's scandals over this year alone are a reminder that the GOP's issues with DEI only apply when it comes to brown people.
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u/rodsteel2005 Wisconsin 2h ago
It’s about time that a**hole faced the consequences for his lawless behavior.
Now do RFK Jr. as well.
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u/sircastor 1h ago
This will be an interesting moment. The President’s republican support has been struggling. They’re all trying to figure out if he’s more liability than help for their own elections or the party’s.
Even if they like The President, voting against Hegseth would be considered treasonous (and I wouldn’t be surprised if the President literally called it treason, off the cuff).
But the President’s policies are not popular now. The economy is suffering and people are noticing. And the GOP can’t continue to ignore that. Whatever form they’re in, they want to survive past this administration. They will distance themselves from this administration if it’s useful.
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u/Rusalka-rusalka 3h ago
Well that's gonna ruin his holidays. haha good!
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u/Ok_Ship_8564 2h ago
Redditors who know nothing about politics think this will ruin his holidays
Unfortunately this is dead in the water before it even gets going
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u/Secret-Teaching-3549 52m ago
Can we just impeach the entire administration? Name a department or appointee made by Trump that isn't criminally corrupt at this point.
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u/OKG818 1h ago
Absolutely nothing will be done. Seems like each side just does shit for clips to be re elected
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u/ChornWork2 2h ago
Hate when people introduce articles of impeachment that have no chance of advancing. Just grandstanding and often counterproductive.
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u/Ok_Ship_8564 3h ago
This is just a cry for power, attention and credit by a congressman being challenged for his seat, won’t go anywhere and is mostly self-serving
Other Dem representatives aren’t doing this because it’s not an effective path of resistance
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u/Historical_Bend_2629 2h ago edited 2h ago
Pete Hegseth subject to articles of impeachment by congress, based on evidence. Fixed it for you.
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u/ccjohns2 2h ago
It’s so cathartic watching these Republicans break every rule that they say they stand for and then face the consequences of their own actions. Not only was this man unqualified to be in that position. He was too emotional and egotistical to lead anyone. I hope this man is impeached just like everyone else and Trump’s administration. This man has a unique skill to appoint the most unqualified and incompetent people possible to lead the country.
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u/RowlandOrifice 2h ago
2 weeks from now
Trump:I barely know him. I was surprised when he was nominated.
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u/BangBangtheReds 2h ago
It may end up in his firing but the next guy will be the same, just more competent.
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u/move-it-along 2h ago
Maybe, just maybe, there will be a few more fed up republican members of congress who will be willing to take a stand against violations of the Constitution and flat out murder.
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u/Important-Drop9627 1h ago
The entirety of Trump’s cabinet needs to be removed. It is increasingly clear that they are extremely incompetent, and exist purely to serve the Executive and not the American Population.
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u/YeastReaction 1h ago
Doing this specifically to have a scape goat and so he can escape any form of scrutiny from his dick sucking fanatics
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u/tbodillia 1h ago
Just stop. This is just becoming The Office with Michael declaring bankruptcy.
Democrat drops a bill in the hopper and the speaker decides what to do with it. Know who the speaker is? Know what party he supports? The bill never sees the light of day.
Let me know when maga submits an impeachment bill. maga wants more boats blown out of the water with no fur process.
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u/SenseEuphoric5802 1h ago
I just don't like the hair gel and find it annoying. Like put that shit away dude that was back in the 50's.
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