• cosecantphi [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    It may sound exciting to watch a farcical Biden impeachment trial, but this is gonna be the start of a tradition in American democracy where literally every single president gets impeached but never convicted at some point in their term. And let me tell you, those impeachment trials every four years are going to rapidly get boring beyond belief unless we were to coincidentally enter the cool zone during one of them.

    • Elon_Musk [none/use name]
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      2 years ago

      What if they keep trying to one up each other every time? The first president to be impeached 3 times! The first president to be impeached before being sworn in! The first president to impeach themselves!

      We can turn it into a tv special every 4 years, license it to every other country and eat the profits!

      • zifnab25 [he/him, any]
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        2 years ago

        The first president to be impeached before being sworn in!

        More or less what happened to Abraham Lincoln.

        Honestly, given the diarrhea Congress has been spewing for the last ten years, I'm genuinely curious to see what happens if the entire system just locks up and fails entirely. Will I be materially worse off? Lets find out.

        • Elon_Musk [none/use name]
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          2 years ago

          Real question, why are you browsing comments of 5 day old threads??? I truly want to know

          • zifnab25 [he/him, any]
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            2 years ago

            I think I just tripped into it by way of New. I had no idea it was this old.

    • Speaker [e/em/eir]
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      2 years ago

      The Democrats will throw Biden's impeachment so hard that it will end up illegal for a Democrat to be elected, somehow, so we'll never have to worry about that.

    • footfaults [none/use name]
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      2 years ago

      It's already been like that since Clinton. People talked about impeaching Bush for lying about the Iraq war, impeach Obama for being black, and Trump.

      It's too late. Who cares