• the_crotch@sh.itjust.works
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    Trump was impeached twice in his first term and if the Democrats gain a majority this year I’m sure he’ll be impeached again. Turns if you let one party get a stranglehold on all 3 branches the whole checks and balances thing kind of falls apart.

    Maybe if Clinton had been held accountable back then it would be easier to hold the president accountable now. Precedent and all that.

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      Yeah, because current administration fucking loves precedents and upholding a law. They literally gave the president absolute immunity, the fuck a precedent about a democrat from 30 years ago will do

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        Give a significant amount of people a reminder that the president is accountable to the law, thereby changing the culture that Trump was elected into.

        No president has ever been thrown out of office. No president has ever been jailed. If you think it wouldn’t be at least a little bit easier for a country that had done that to do it again, you’re dumb.

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          Are you fucking insane? You watch how the current clique shits on the constitutions, invents rules out of nothing, governs by bullying, speedruns autocracy with basically an approval from most of the country, and you think something will change if a president was thrown out of the office 30 years ago? You think all that inert mass, who does nothing when autocrat’s personal army executes people on the street, will react somehow different if only we’d jail an already unpopular president three decades ago? What a braindead take, it’s unreal.

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            2 days ago

            if only we’d jail an already unpopular president three decades ago

            Clinton was incredibly popular. So popular that people still defend him today. You’re clearly too young to remember that era and are pulling this nonsense directly out of your ass.

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              2 days ago

              Now. Both clintons are wildly unpopular and irrelevant now. It’s now we’re talking about. Ask the nurse to give you your medicine, you’re spacing out

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                  2 days ago

                  Of course you don’t. Your life would be so much better and you will be so much less insufferable if you did care every once in a while