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I don't have time to google right now but I'm confused as hell. I need reality checks.
The house dems might start impeachment sometime next week? Next week will Pelosi say "Oopsie, we ran out of time. Darn."
If the dems ram it through - how fast do they think they can do a super-duper speed run through the house? A day or two?
If the dems manage to finish by, say, next Wednesday (the 13) - the republicans in the senate will surely vote Trump innocent. Or is it more likely McConnell will just kill impeachment by just stalling procedurally for about a week and then - oopsie - Trump isn't president anymore and then the GOP forces through a vote where Trump is innocent.
If the dems are actually doing it - why didn't Pelosi cancel the vacation (and stay in session) and why is Pelosi saying she might do it next week?
None of this makes any sense to me. It's as if Pelosi is saying "America is in clear, present danger therefore we will sit on our thumbs for at least three days..."
You've probably already intuited this but this move is mostly performative on the part of Pelosi and other Dems, an easy way to score points with the Dems' true suburban and urban PMC/petty-bourgie base. I have however heard the argument that 25th-ing Trump would have the effect of locking him out of pulling a Grover Cleveland in 2024, establishing a pretext for Trump to get ratfucked in the primary like Bernie did in 2020.
Cooperation by the "respectable" neocon GOP ghouls like Pence and Romney in this process is also rapidly accelerating the neoliberals' rehabilitation of these figures, similar to Dubya. MSM libs are already starting to suggest that Pence and Romney could come out of this looking like "heroes" for backstabbing Trump in the name of preserving democracy and national stability. Believe it or not the "middle-class" liberals still genuinely believe in the liberal-democratic platitudes reflected in so many of the congressional Dems' panegyrics to American "democracy" on Wednesday, the stubborn insisting that the US is "not a banana republic" and so on.
I so badly wanted to shout at the TV as I heard family members earnestly listening to these cloying, saccharine speeches, knowing what I know about US liberal-democracy even in comparison to less arcane and less Byzantine parliamentary models later introduced in European countries. We have the shitty alpha/early-access version of liberal democracy and US citizens taught to practically worship our stupid outdated constitution know fucking nothing about even the Westminster model in the UK, it's fucking sickening. They're by and large too un-self-aware to realize that safeguards against "mob rule" and demagogues means their own disenfranchisement. They fail to recognize that the separation of executive and legislative powers means no elected body is ever truly accountable despite decades of evidence in front of their fucking faces.
Pelosi absolutely hates taking any responsibility, they all do but she's the worst. This is why they all started yelling about the 25th instead of starting impeachment proceedings that night.
She's been criminally negligent her entire tenure as speaker.
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According to the congressional calendar, the house is going on recess starting today until the 21st, and the senate until the 20th. Unless they decide to declare an emergency over this and force everyone to come in, the ball won't even start rolling. It's purely performative, but they are going to be able to slide that past a lot of people