#presidential impeachment

[deadpresidents]

"Johnson is an insolent, drunken brute in comparison with which Caligula's horse was respectable."

-- Senator Charles Sumner (R-Massachusetts) on President Andrew Johnson

#History #Presidents #Andrew Johnson #President Johnson #Vice Presidents #Presidential History #Quotes About Presidents #Quotes #Charles Sumner #Senator Sumner #Reconstruction #Politics #Political History #Political Leaders #Political Rivalries #Radical Republicans #Civil War #Assassination of Abraham Lincoln #Lincoln Assassination #Inauguration of Andrew Johnson #Impeachment of Andrew Johnson #Johnson Impeachment #Political Feuds #Presidency #Congress #U.S. Senate

[godisarepublican]

Here's a joke

Question: Do you remember what Joe Biden had for lunch yesterday?

Answer: Neither does he!

#donald trump #MAGA #republicans #God is a Republican #2024 presidential election #suck my freedom #kyle rittenhouse #Undocumented #Impeachment #Rock the vote #GOP #Conservatives

[dontmean2bepoliticalbut]

#us politics #republicans #conservatives #gop #donald trump #president joe biden #presidential immunity #total immunity #impeachment inquiry #biden investigations #memes #2024

[fictionadventurer]

Hey, so it turns out that not only did James and Lucretia Garfield finally fall in love with each other after years of marriage, but we have proof of it in one of the sweetest love letters I've ever read.

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Willard's, Nov 24, 1867

My Precious Darling,

It is nearly ten o'clock Sunday night, and I will not lie down to sleep till I have told you again that I love you. Surely, "love is the fulfilling of the law," and the law of our love is liberty. We no longer love because we ought to, but because we do--the Tyranny of our love is sweet. We waited long for his coming, but he has come to stay. I hope wish, my dear love, that God would let us die together when we die, that neither of us might be left in the empty world for a single hour. It would be unkind of me, to tell you, if I could, how lonely and lost I am without you. Part of the machinery of my life seems to be gone, and I wander around unconsciously as if in search of it, that I may set nature at work again.

Your precious words of the 21st came to me this morning--and fell down into my heart like benedictions. Did you know how unutterably sweet it is to be praised by you? The words you wrote have lifted me and made me proud and happy all day. How sweet the privilege I have had, this summer! The alchemist sought to transmute other substances into gold--I have done far better. I have been able to transmute gold into esthetic joys, intellectual growth, heart life--and better than all--have been permitted to see it transformed into sweet and beautiful decorations of the noblest and truest woman I ever saw--and she as glad to be mine as I to be hers. This surpasses alchemy. It is divine. It is a new proof of the truth that "God is love."

Well Darling, I have done nothing of worth except to hunt houses and read. I am satisfied that the price of the house I wrote you of is too great and we ought not to pay it. I hope I can do better. I am thinking of buying a house on time and hope to sell it again when we are done with it. If we had done so, four years ago, we should have owned it now. I am anxious to receive your answer to my letter of Thursday--It may help me to a decision.

[political paragraph cut for irrelevance]

Dear Love, do write me very often. Kiss the sweet [???] and tell them Papa loves them all.

Ever Your ownest own James

#history is awesome #presidential talk #hey question: how come guys don't write like this anymore? #men gotta up their game to keep up with the love letters of the nineteenth century #there are a few words here that might be wrong because his handwriting's not great #gotta say jimbo your handwriting was much better in your youth #like i much appreciate the personal development keep it up #but your writing was a lot nicer looking when you were a young buck trying to impress a girl with your mad penmanship skills #if you were wondering the political paragraph is about him potentially being head of the house ways and means committee #and they're coming up on johnson's impeachment proceedings #i could have and probably should have cut the paragraph about house hunting #but i was so amused by the turn from flowery love letter to #'well darling i have done nothing of worth except to hunt houses and read' #i feel like it grounds the declaration of love in the mundane moments of everyday life and makes it seem more real

[tomorrowusa]

Tim Miller at The Bulwark looks at Donald Trump's third (and biggest) indictment.

There will probably be a fourth indictment related to Trump's famous January 2021 phone call to Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger. Stay tuned.

Tim also reminds us how Republicans had a chance to rid themselves of the burden of Trump at the second impeachment trial but blew it and are now stuck with him because of their cowardice in 2021.

#donald trump #indictment #jack smith #assault on the us capitol by pro trump terrorists #cowardice of gop senators to vote to convict trump in the 2021 impeachment trial #gop presidential nomination #election 2024 #republicans #the gop #not my party #tim miller

[emotionalripple]

...dump the trump...

#liberal #liberal af #dump the trump #trump #donald trump #election #presidential election #president #crook #looser #criminal #felon #impeached #impeach #2024

[kp777]

#ginni thomas #clarence thomas #u.s. supreme court #impeachment #2020 presidential election

[drwilfredwaterson]

Deranged, Destitute, and Dishonest Dementia Dummy donnie j. dump Doesn't Get To Be The Republican Presidential Nominee Anymore…Mwahahahahahahahahaa!!! A March 18, 2024 Update For All Political Debate Lovers! Part 4/17

And in Another of Today's MANY Installments of "Trash Always Takes Itself Out!": Deranged and Destitute Dishonest Dementia Dummy donnie j. dump Demands to Be Impeached and Criminally Charged by his own MAGA cult! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAA!!! In an early September interview with Breitbart News, Kevin McCarthy promised that he would only open an impeachment inquiry into Biden with a full house vote. On September 12, 2023, McCarthy directed three House committees—the Judiciary Committee, chaired by Jim Jordan, the Oversight Committee, chaired by Comer, and the Ways and Means Committee, chaired by Jason Smith—to hold a formal impeachment inquiry into Joe Biden. McCarthy did not hold a floor vote on the impeachment inquiry and he did not appear to have sufficient Republican support to pass a floor vote. The chairmen of all three committees had been involved in preceding investigations into the Biden family. McCarthy asked Comer to lead the inquiry. When announcing the inquiry, McCarthy said that earlier findings of House investigations "paint a picture of corruption" involving Biden and his relatives, particularly regarding the business dealings of Hunter.

McCarthy alleged that Joe Biden used his official office as vice president to coordinate with Hunter's business contacts and noted that Joe Biden was aware of Hunter's business dealings. He also brought up allegations that Joe Biden financially benefitted from Hunter's business dealings. McCarthy argued that the Oversight Committee investigation demonstrated and warranted further investigation by the House of Representatives and that an impeachment inquiry would allow for a stronger investigation.

On February 15, 2024, the DOJ announced that Alexander Smirnov, who had told the FBI that he had spoken directly to a Ukrainian oligarch who claimed to have bribed Biden, was being charged with making a false statement and creating a false record. In a February 20 court filing, prosecutors said Smirnov had admitted that Russian intelligence officials had passed a story about Hunter Biden to him. That same day, House Republicans sent two copies of an interview request letter to former State Department official Amos Hochstein, the first with a paragraph citing Smirnov's allegations as the basis for their investigation, followed by a revised version without that paragraph. Though Smirnov had been released on bond, on February 22, he was taken into custody. (Wikipedia)

On March 8, 2024, Deranged and Destitute Dishonest Dementia Dummy donnie j. dump used his influence peddling to install his daughter-in-law as Co-Chair of the Republican National Committee (RNC) with her stated intentions of emptying the entirety of the RNC fundraising treasury to pay for connie j. chump's legal bills, legal fines, living expenses, and campaign. LIDDLE Cognitively Crippled Crybaby Cuck connie j. chump and his daughter-in-law intend to defraud the RNC of hundreds of millions of dollars of Republican donor money. According to connie j. chump and the majority of the Republican party, this influence-peddling and personal enrichment through a family member's business dealings is a criminal and impeachable offence! LAW AND ORDER! Indict! Convict! LOCK HIM UP! Once again, the trash takes itself out every single time if you just wait for it; because trash is incapable of doing otherwise.

Deranged and Destitute Dishonest Dementia Dummy donnie j. dump's daughter-in-law Says Republican Donors Would Support her and LIDDLE Crying Crooked connie Funnelling ALL GOP/Republican Donations Directly to her father-in-law ONLY - And No Other Republican Candidate(s) During The 2024 Election Season

Published: February 22, 2024 (53rd day) Duration: 0:59 (59 seconds) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1hGH1GB_VY Q1hGH1GB_VY (1, 1) QhGHGBVY bgghhqvy 2+7+7+8+8+70+700+400=1202. 1202+1+1=1204. 1204+59=1263. 1263+53=1316.

Strong's Concordance #1316 Bashan: "smooth," a region East of the Jordan Original Word: בָּשָׁן

"Wow, you're special. You remind me of my daughter." - Incestuous Pedophile Groomer, Serial Rapist, Habitual Offender, Fraud, and Insurrectionist, Liddle Cognitively Crippled Crybaby Cuck, connie j. chump (July 2006: Said to Stormy Daniels while his model wife and 4 month old baby were at home. LIDDLE connie would later repeatedly call Ivanka "HORSEFACE" every time he referred to Stormy Daniels as such.) Stormy - Official Trailer

Published: March 7, 2024 (67th day) Duration: 2:13 (133 seconds) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_tE7h_TJkxg _tE7h_TJkxg (7) tEhTJkxg eghjkttx 5+7+8+600+10+100+100+300=1130. 1130+7=1137. 1137+133=1270. 1270+67=1337.

Strong's Concordance #1337 Bath-rabbim: From bath and a masculine plural from rab; the daughter (i.e. City) of Rabbah -- Bath-rabbim"; daughter of multitudes/abundance," a name for Heshbon or its gate Original Word: בּת רַבִּים

Matisyahu - Sunshine

Published: June 21, 2012 (173rd day) Duration: 3:49 (229 seconds) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_Vt4MlbM0c E_Vt4MlbM0c (4, 0) EVtMlbMc bcelmmtv 2+3+5+20+30+30+100+700=890. 890+4+0=894. 894+229=1123. 1123+173=1296.

Strong's Concordance #1296 Berekyah or Berekyahu: from berek and Yahh; knee (i.e. Blessing) of Jah/G-d; "Yah blesses,"; knees; the name of several Israelites Original Word: בֶּרֶכְיָה

On March 25, 2024, the financial impacts of the E. Jean Carroll $97 million and the NY $455 million combine as a delicious appetizer for April's 2016 Stormy Daniels election interference trial to create the stinkiest and poopiest of all stinky poopy pants that LIDDLE Cognitively Crippled Crybaby Cuck connie j. chump has ever made. Wonderful!

Labrinth - Let The Sun Shine

Published: November 27, 2010 (331st day) Duration: 3:01 (181 seconds) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u98kNNtofFs u98kNNtofFs (98) ukNNtofFs ffknnostu 6+6+10+40+40+50+90+100+200=542. 542+98=640. 640+181=821. 821+331=1152.

Strong's Concordance #1152 Besodeyah: From cowd and Yahh with prepositional prefix; in (the) counsel of Jehovah/G-d; an Israelite Original Word: בְּסוֹדְיָה

#donald trump #trump 2024 #gop #republican #republicans #conservatives #evangelicals #stormy daniels #rnc #republican national committee #impeachment #elections 2024 #2024 elections #2024 presidential election #us politics #politics #us government #government #election tampering #election interference #Youtube

[filosofablogger]

On That Question Of Immunity ... 🙄

Today, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit is considering whether or not Donald Trump has immunity from being prosecuted for his attempts to overturn the 2020 election.  This morning the three-judge panel appeared skeptical as they heard from Trump’s lawyers pleading for complete immunity for Trump.  One of Trump;s lawyers, John  Sauer, claims that a president cannot be…

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#Attorney John Sauer #Donald Trump #presidential immunity #sham impeachments #U.S. Constitution

[reportwire]

The Carters: What you know may be wrong (or not quite right)

PLAINS, Ga. — Exaggeration, misinformation and myth have always infected politics – even before social media took it to the extreme. Misconceptions take especially strong hold where U.S. presidents are concerned: sometimes their advantage, sometimes not. Some claims relate to policy, others to their biographies and personal traits. That George Washington story about the cherry tree? Apocryphal.…

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#2020 United States presidential election #General news #Government and politics #Government policy #Hostage situations #Impeachment #Politics

[charlesoberonn]

I wish this was a parody. He actually said that. He said presidents have absolute immunity and the only method to hold a president accountable for an "official act" is via a guilty verdict in an impeachment trial.

And it's even worse than "congress being cool with it". Congress can be almost entirely against it and it'll still pass (according to Trump's logic) because to achieve a guilty verdict in an impeachment trial requires a 2/3 majority vote in the senate.

So really it only takes a little over a third of the senate, which is 34 senators, to be cool with it, in order to make presidentially ordered assassination of political rivals legal (again, according to Trump).

And even worse. These 34 senators could be representing as few as 17 states and as few as 24 million people, or only 7.5% of the country.

The Court of Appeals rejected this interpretation outright, but the fact that Trump chose to present this argument and continues to spew it in his rallies is a major concern.

I know I'm preaching to the choir talking about it on Tumblr, but Trump wants to be a dictator. And the Republican Party are supporting him in this effort.

Abolish the Republican Party. They're not a legitimate political party anymore. They're a hostile fascist entity trying to overthrow America's democracy and they need to be dealt with accordingly.

#politics #trump #us politics #american politics #republican party #abolish the republican party

[deadpresidents]

If I recall correctly, weren’t you a pretty big fan of Bill Clinton for some time? I recall a lot of posts from you about him that were fairly favorable. When did you finally accept that he was a creep? Do you think there’s finally a chance of accountability? I am truly asking from a place of empathy as I know what it’s like to have someone you looked up turn out to be not so great.

No, you're 100% correct. I was a fan of Bill Clinton for a long time. He was President from the time I was 13 until I was 21, and for a kid who was into Presidential history and Democratic politics, he was a major presence in my life. I still think that he is probably the most naturally-gifted politician of my lifetime. Nobody that I've watched has been able to explain public policy or instantly breeze through complicated press conference questions like Bill Clinton. For years after he left office, I said that he should just be the guy who explains how things work to America; he's remarkably smart.

One of the craziest examples of Clinton's intelligence is that he had to figure out ways to make it look like he doesn't have the answer to everything immediately. Clinton's political advisers thought he came across at times like a know-it-all and that it wasn't a good look on the campaign trail. You know how one of the famous mannerisms of Clinton is how he'll pause while he's speaking and bite his lip, like this?

Well, that was done on purpose. Clinton's advisers thought that his quick, completely formed answers to complicated questions was unnatural and that he needed to make himself seem more thoughtful, so he'd pause and bite his lip almost as an intellectual speed bump. Paul Begala, one of the most important architects of Clinton's 1992 campaign explained:

"He was so smart about so many things but also could connect. The whole thing about his biting his lip -- that was coached. Because he would answer so fast. We'd say, 'Take a beat. Pretend you're thinking about it. Pretend you haven't already got an answer.' It was a studied thing to give himself a second to force himself to slow down."

So, things like that were why I was always so impressed and appreciative of Clinton's skills and political gifts.

But, obviously, as I've gotten older and come to understand his personal actions a lot better, it's really hard not to consider him a creep. I mean, the Epstein thing is obviously impossible to reconcile. Even if it there hasn't been any suggestion of Clinton actually abusing any of the girls in the way that Epstein did, he spent a lot of time around Epstein and it's gross. I think one of Epstein's victims said that Clinton was a "total gentleman" and didn't do anything wrong to her, but that photo of a very young girl giving him a neck message in what looks like an airport terminal is a really bad look. That was clearly after he left office, so that was post-Monica Lewinsky and Clinton should have had the awareness to not even put himself near that type of situation with a girl that young (or any woman who was not his wife) -- even if it was just a neck massage that lasted a short amount of time. Even if the girl offered to do it willingly and had no issues with it, that's not a situation that Clinton -- who was impeached and could have been removed from office because he had an affair with a young woman -- should have have felt comfortable with.

But beyond that, as I've gotten older and as we've all gotten better about recognizing these things, his relationship with Monica Lewinsky is what bothers me because of the position that he put Monica in. She was in her early 20s -- barely older than Clinton's own daughter at the time -- and he was President of the United States. Listen, I don't have any room to criticize someone for dating younger women (seriously), but it's the power dynamic and the manner in which he treated Monica when things started to get difficult for him. That poor girl was in such an unimaginably nightmarish place because of what Clinton did and how he -- the incumbent President of the United States -- spoke about her publicly and treated her privately. When you think about it in terms of a relationship, it's just a crazy situation. And the poise that Monica Lewinsky had then and now speaks volumes about the person she is and has become, so it just makes Clinton look that much more terrible in comparison.

It is disappointing because I was a fan of President Clinton for most of my life. And, like Richard Nixon, he was so gifted when it came to his intellectual powers and, in Clinton's case, his political skills, that his flaws and his actions were overlooked for too long. I don't know what kind of accountability there might be for Clinton now that he's been out of office for nearly 25 years and is a few years away from his 80th birthday. But I can say that I feel like I know who he is now and "creep" seems like a pretty fitting description.

#Bill Clinton #President Clinton #History #Presidents #Politics #Presidential Scandals #Monica Lewinsky #Jeffrey Epstein #Impeachment of Bill Clinton #Clinton Impeachment #Clinton Administration

[godisarepublican]

For everyone but Trump:

Blackmail. And the blackmailer is charged with a crime.

For Trump:

Hush money. And the person being blackmailed is charged with a crime.

#god is a republican #donald trump #Post democracy America #Weaponized court system #The United States of America #AKA the Pakistan of the west #Kangaroo Court #2024 presidential election #Impeach Biden

[robertreich]

No Labels Isn't What It Claims to Be

The “No Labels” Party is not what it pretends to be. It’s a front group for Donald Trump.

Now I understand, if you’re sick of the two major parties, you might be intrigued by a party that claims to be a “common sense” alternative that finds the middle ground.

But if you or anyone in your life is planning to vote for No Labels — or any third party — in 2024, please watch and share this video first.

Here are three things you need to know.

First, No Labels is a dark money group with secret far-right donors. Investigative reporting has revealed that they include many of the same Republican donors who have pumped huge sums of money into electing candidates like Trump and Ron DeSantis. They also include the rightwing billionaire Harlan Crow, who spent years secretly treating Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas to a lifestyle of the rich and famous.

If the No Labels Party is backed by Trump donors, in an election where Trump is on the ballot, there’s actually a label we should give to “No Labels.” Clearly, they’re a pro-Trump group.

Second, the premise No Labels is based on — that Donald Trump and President Biden are at equally extreme ends of the political spectrum — is preposterous.

Trump has been impeached twice, found by a jury to have committed sexual assault, is facing 91 criminal charges in four separate cases — two of them in connection with an attempt to effectively end American democracy.

There is no “equally extreme” candidate as Trump!

Finally, the structure of the Electoral College means that as a practical matter, a third party only draws votes away from whichever major party candidate is closest to it. No third party candidate has ever won a presidential election.

And in this particular election, when one of the major parties is putting up a candidate who threatens democracy itself, we cannot take the risk.

Donald Trump has already tried to overturn one election and suggested suspending the Constitution to maintain power. It is no exaggeration to say that if he takes the White House again, there may not ever be another free and fair election.

Democracy won by a whisker in the last presidential election. Just 44,000 votes in Arizona, Georgia, and Wisconsin — less than one tenth of 1 percent of the total votes cast nationwide — were the difference between the Biden presidency and a tie in the Electoral College that would have thrown the election to the House of Representatives, and hence to Trump.

If candidates from No Labels— or any other third party, like the Green Party or the Libertarian Party —  peel off just a fraction of the anti-Trump vote from Biden, while Trump voters stay loyal to him, Trump could win the top five swing states comfortably and return to the Oval Office. And No Labels’ own polling shows they would do just that!

Let me be absolutely clear. Third-party groups like No Labels are in effect front groups for Trump in 2024, and should be treated as such.

The supposed “centrism” No Labels touts is nonsense. There is no middle ground between democracy and fascism.

Please share this video and spread the word.

#youtube #politics #Donald Trump #Joe Biden #No Labels #election #video #videos

[wilwheaton]

Donald Trump is arguably the biggest American presidential loser of all time. Though he eked out one election in 2016 with a lot of foreign help, he's never won the popular vote. He was impeached twice. He didn't win a second term and wasn't man enough to face up to it. He lost more than 60 times in court while trying to prove he wasn't a loser. In 2022, his election-denying endorsed candidates running for statewide executive offices lost in every 2020 battleground. Likewise, every one of his three handpicked U.S. Senate candidates seeking to flip a battleground seat came up short. In 2023, he has been criminally indicted on 91 counts in four separate cases relating to defrauding voters, taxpayers, and putting highly sensitive U.S. intelligence at risk.

Republicans rally around loser Trump's victimhood schtick

[tomorrowusa]

While Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is gallivanting around the US telling people he wants to "make America Florida", his home state is veering from one disaster to another. In addition to a malaria outbreak and the worst citrus crop since the Great Depression, Lake Okeechobee is now at least 85% covered with blue-green algae.

According to the latest report from South Florida Water Management (SFWM), 85-90% of Lake Okeechobee is covered with blue-green algae blooms, with 13 of the 22 samples testing positive for microcystin toxins.

Mark Perry is executive director of the Florida Oceanographic Society.

This blue-green algae is gonna bloom and grow. We're seeing big blooms, over 400 square miles," Perry said. "We'll see it sooner and have longer duration, probably. That's unfortunate because, as you said, we're in the triple digits with the heat index and as the water's getting warmer, the warm water and sunlight conditions, those nutrients being in there is just going to continue to promote that algae to continue to bloom." According to SFWM, blooms the size of a basketball court were seen at Port Mayaca, with WPTV's news crew spotting dark green waters washing ashore. "It doesn't look good," Perry said.

That's for sure.

A climate-denying governor who constantly shouts "woke! woke! woke!" instead of working to mitigate Florida's problems is not the sort of president America needs.

#florida #ron desantis #lake okeechobee #microcystin toxins #blue-green algae #the environment #climate change #impeach ron desantis #mark perry #south florida water management #gop presidential nomination #election 2024