Rep. Shri Thanedar (D-Mich.) announced Wednesday he plans to introduce articles of impeachment against Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth.
Why it matters: The long-shot effort centers on two scandals currently rocking the Pentagon — a new report about Signalgate and allegations of a follow-up strike against an alleged Venezuelan drug boat.
Good.
Fuck Hakeem Jefferies. Pussy wanted to protect Hegseth because he’s more concerned about alienating the entirely fictional demographic of GOP voters who might flip Dem if the Dems become more semi-fascist
Yeah, that was… something. Felt a smidgen of my soul leave my body at that point. Hegseth ordered people killed in cold blood and all you got was “won’t matter anyways?” What is wrong with you, Jefferies?
Impeachment has lost all meaning. Trump has been impeached multiple times but remains in office. Trump loyalists in congress prevented him from seeing any consequences for those impeachments and block new impeachments. Unless something changes, the only way Hegseth is leaving is if Trump decides to remove him.
If he’s fine with innocent children being murdered in cold blood by Israel why would he draw the line at innocent fishermen?
More and more it looks like controlled opposition. It sounded like a conspiracy theory, but I’m now truly starting to be convinced that Schummer and Jeffries were bought.
If you’ll allow me to put on my tin foil hat for a second,
I genuinely wonder if Israel is privately instructing them to not actually oppose Trump whatsoever.
They’re both EXTREMELY bought and paid for by AIPAC. And we know Israel LOVES Trump and Pete Kegs-breath because they both are the biggest supporters of Israel’s war crimes that’ve ever been in their respective positions.
Both parties are bought. Citizens United legalized all bribery.
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5632133-jeffries-trump-pardon-cuellar/
Its just beyond the pale at this point.
And Schumer has out right said it. His service isn’t to the American people but to Israel.
Always has been. Both parties are bought, largely by the same donors. That doesn’t mean both parties are the same, but they still both serve the corporations and billionaires that pay them.
And only 40 years too late.
They’re not moving rightward to appease the voters, they’re doing it to appease the corporate donors.
That too for sure.
Not to mention to appease specifically Israel which vastly prefers a dominant GOP
Every politician has a unique means of staying in power, favours, friends, appeal, funding, handlers, Jeffrey’s may simply not be able to stay in power if he doesn’t do this. These people don’t adhere to idealistic ideology or fancy ideas, they trade in power and persuasion.
Well we should destroy the system that enables this and remove these people from any position of power indefinitely. I personally also think they should be put in fucking prison.
What is the replacement system you envision?
There are literally thousands of books written about different systems than this one, many of which I would consider better.
I have no clue which ones you’re imagining. What are some examples, and how would we put it in place?
The first step is ranked choice voting for everything from local to federal elections.
First past the post is literally the worst way to operate a voting system of your goal is to get an accurate representation of the populace.
I’m very much in favor of the reforms of ranked choice and proportional representation (fairvote.org).
But these aren’t really a replacement after we destroy the current system. More like incremental fixes for the current system.
I’d still like to understand more about the vision of destroying (what’s the plan?) the system and what would come next (what’s part two of the plan?).
Read some books about successful revolutions and the states that replaced them and get back to me. You’re asking me to explain an incredibly multifaceted and complicated thing with tons of historical context and political theory behind it over Lemmy and I am not willing to do that, these are things you will have to put time and effort into learning on your own lad.
well he doesn’t seem to have either power or persuasion.
Yeah but neither do you (at least the power bit), which means he succeeded at his job.