American Impeachment/25th Amendment Watch 2021 - If, at first, you don't convict, try, try again

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What will happen to Donald Trump in the next two weeks?

  • The House of Representatives impeaches and the Senate convicts

    Votes: 23 8.6%

  • The House of Representatives impeaches and the Senate acquits

    Votes: 17 6.3%

  • The US Cabinet invokes the 25th amendment

    Votes: 11 4.1%

  • House of Representative and/or Senate censures the President

    Votes: 14 5.2%

  • President Trump resigns

    Votes: 11 4.1%

  • Trump continues as President until Jan. 20, with Biden becoming President afterwards

    Votes: 165 61.3%

  • Trump finds a way to continue being President after Jan. 20

    Votes: 28 10.4%
  • Total voters
    269
  • Poll closed .
Pee Cola said:
It's lose-lose all round.

I can see what Trump was trying to achieve and how he was able to bring so many people on board to support his vision; at least at the beginning. The thing is that one needs to fully understand the rules before one can go about breaking them. He didn't seem to understand them when we was elected, and he didn't really seem to learn that many along the way.

Whether it's hubris, ego, short-term vision, lack of impulse control or a combination of all these factors, Trump has done himself and the GOP a great disservice IMHO. I'm not so much angry at anyone as disappointed for the USA right now.
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I feel part of the issue is that no one who worked with Trump seemed to give him the ins and outs of how politics even work. And if they did, then either Trump was that blind to their assistance, or they were just incompetent at giving it to him.
 
Jewelsmakerguy said:
I feel part of the issue is that no one who worked with Trump seemed to give him the ins and outs of how politics even work. And if they did, then either Trump was that blind to their assistance, or they were just incompetent at giving it to him.
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I think people definitely tried. The President has an ego, and gets bored easily.
 
Jesus Goldstein said:
Looks like his cabinet may actually be considering invoking the 25th, WTF

https://twitter.com/edokeefe/status/1346993660718698496?s=21
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What a shock, even more vipers within his party that want to throw him under the bus.

I'd say he should've chosen his cabinet more carefully, but it's become increasingly apparent that Republicans are fair weather "friends" at the absolute best of times, and even then they'd prefer to be "dignified" losers than have anything resembling a spine.

If anything good has come out of these last two months, it's showing me how absolutely rotten US politics are.
 
Hah what a joke that these people are even insinuating removing Trump from office.

What did President Trump do that was wrong? Nothing. That's what.
 
Vault Boy said:
What a shock, even more vipers within his party that want to throw him under the bus.

I'd say he should've chosen his cabinet more carefully, but it's become increasingly apparent that Republicans are fair weather "friends" at the absolute best of times, and even then they'd prefer to be "dignified" losers than have anything resembling a spine.

If anything good has come out of these last two months, it's showing me how absolutely rotten US politics are.
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The Clinton donor kicks down the door of the Republican Party, deliberately making enemies of its elected officials and institutional authority figures, never figures out how to behave like a sane normal person after getting the nomination, squeaks into office and continues to present as antagonistic and unstable with almost no let-up for four years, then when his time in office is indisputably over the Republicans aren’t willing to play along with his delusions? Let me bust out my tiny violin.

Trump allies acting like they’ve been betrayed by Pence or Republican congressmen is a joke. When did he earn any loyalty? Especially now his paranoid ramblings and attempts to cling to power have cost them the Senate.
 
protomartyr said:
The Clinton donor kicks down the door of the Republican Party, deliberately making enemies of its elected officials and institutional authority figures, never figures out how to behave like a sane normal person after getting the nomination, squeaks into office and continues to present as antagonistic and unstable with almost no let-up for four years, then when his time in office is indisputably over the Republicans aren’t willing to play along with his delusions? Let me bust out my tiny violin.

Trump allies acting like they’ve been betrayed by Pence or Republican congressmen is a joke. When did he earn any loyalty? Especially now his paranoid ramblings and attempts to cling to power have cost them the Senate.
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I'm pretty sure our favorite turtle flaking on the 2,000 dollar stimulus checks is what cost them Georgia.
 
protomartyr said:
The Clinton donor kicks down the door of the Republican Party, deliberately making enemies of its elected officials and institutional authority figures, never figures out how to behave like a sane normal person after getting the nomination, squeaks into office and continues to present as antagonistic and unstable with almost no let-up for four years, then when his time in office is indisputably over the Republicans aren’t willing to play along with his delusions? Let me bust out my tiny violin.

Trump allies acting like they’ve been betrayed by Pence or Republican congressmen is a joke. When did he earn any loyalty? Especially now his paranoid ramblings and attempts to cling to power have cost them the Senate.
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That's why people voted for him.
 
protomartyr said:
Trump allies acting like they’ve been betrayed by Pence or Republican congressmen is a joke. When did he earn any loyalty? Especially now his paranoid ramblings and attempts to cling to power have cost them the Senate.
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The Republicans deserved to lose the Senate and earned that without Trump's help.
 
protomartyr said:
Trump allies acting like they’ve been betrayed by Pence or Republican congressmen is a joke.
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Until you remember that a lot of these politicians were voted for by these same people under the assumption that they'd be an asset to the president they voted for.

The actual joke is thinking that politicians feel beholden to their constituents outside an election season, as opposed to their party or their special interests.
 
FAQnews Correspondent said:
That's why people voted for him.
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Sure, but it doesn’t give him any reason expect Mike Pence to throw away every last shred of his own credibility to play along with the fiction.

HeyYou said:
I'm pretty sure our favorite turtle flaking on the 2,000 dollar stimulus checks is what cost them Georgia.
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Radical Cadre said:
The Republicans deserved to lose the Senate and earned that without Trump's help.
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I didn’t follow the COVID relief bill’s struggle on the hill, but I glanced at the timeline and I’m siding with McConnell on the substance even if politically it’s had a knock-on effect. But telling Georgia Republicans that he was staying in office anyway because he’d won the election cut Loeffler and Purdue off at the knees. “You need a Republican senate to prevent Kamala Harris taking over the whole government broadly unopposed” was their campaign strategy and it worked in the first rounds. Trump took that line away from them, Republican turnout went down and Georgia has two blue senators when it should have two red.
 
protomartyr said:
I didn’t follow the COVID relief bill’s struggle on the hill, but I glanced at the timeline and I’m siding with McConnell on the substance even if politically it’s had a knock-on effect. But telling Georgia Republicans that he was staying in office anyway because he’d won the election cut Loeffler and Purdue off at the knees. “You need a Republican senate to prevent Kamala Harris taking over the whole government broadly unopposed” was their campaign strategy and it worked in the first rounds. Trump took that line away from them, Republican turnout went down and Georgia has two blue senators when it should have two red.
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You're forgetting the part where neither of the aforementioned senators were liked, and one of them wasn't even elected.
 
Pompano Mike said:
The goal is to make it impossible for anyone outside of anointed American nobility to have even the slightest possibility of holding office. Trump being elected in 2016 was one of the few truly off-script political shocker moments that any of us are likely to see in our lifetime. The establishment has just spent four years bending all of its efforts to completely ruining him both personally and as a brand to be associated with (a goal that he himself has provided no small assistance in achieving). After today's shenanigans, I think they might have just pulled it off, but we'll see what comes of all these machinations.
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Yes, mega rich billionaire personality that's donated millions to the democratic party is a true outsider.

You people are fucking stupid. Trump convinced a third of the adult population and a bunch of autistic children that he cared about them.

He never did.

Trump is a flip flopping tard only concerned with enriching himself and his cronies. And you dumb fucks fell for it.
 
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