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      When asked if impeachment was a top priority, Jeffries said “of course not” during an appearance on “Fox News Sunday.”

      “I’ve made clear from the very beginning that our top priority is going to be to drive down the high cost of living,” the House minority leader added.

      Sounds like he’s trying to win the midterms.

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        Sure, drive down the cost of living … by impeaching Trump and getting rid of his dumbass tariffs.

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          Impeaching Trump will not remove him and is political theater since there is no way they will have 67 senate votes. It should be done anyway as a matter of principle, but should not be a top priority.

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            since there is no way they will have 67 senate votes.

            They somehow found the Senate votes for making the Epstein files release into law. (A law which the regime is now blatantly and unapologetically violating.)

            What would have happened there if House Dems just sat on their thumbs and said, “There is no way we will have the votes in the Senate for this”?

            The Dems have got to stop assuming defeat before they even try.

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              It’s also not beneficial to waste political capital on extreme long shots. Impeach as a matter of principal, but don’t make it a primary focus.

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        Sounds like you don’t understand where we’re at as a nation.

        Or what Americans actually want. it’s not a “vocal minority” that want the pedophile, racist, bigoted asshole of a president that is jacking up our cost of living so he can be a fucking king gone. So ignoring that and saying you will do nothing about it IS NOT A WINNING STRATEGY.

        doing nothing except writing stern letters is not going to solve the problem, either.

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            that’s excessively simplistic.

            Trump did not win “because of the economy.”

            He won because he was able to motivate his base to vote where Harris had been less able to do so.

            Yes, Trump utilized “the economy” as a talking point, but he also utilized deregulation, and immigration (read: general bigotry and scapegoating) as well as LGBTQ+ and christofascist culture war bullshit. Trump’s voters are too stupid to understand that he’s lying to them, so that kind of messaging actually works.

            Harris on the other hand also campaigned on “the economy”- and the cost of living and continued work to supporting not-millionaires; as well as shit like Trump’s former immigration plan and continued support for Israel and so on. harris/Democrat voters are not too stupid to see the problem with some of the things she adopted(immigration, supporting israel) and such like; while souring on economic messaging because Biden had been constantly running that out as if it were amazing while most Americans were struggling. (it took him until like the October before the presidential election to even acknowledge most Americans were still struggling.)

            Basically, Trump won because Harris did exactly what the Jefferies is now doing; and that’s summed up as “Ignoring the American people”.

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      I’m hoping there plan is to treat him like a stupid old feeb, and they’re saying this with a big wink.

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      For real. Im voting for candidates who are going to flip the script and show them how Trumps new precedents can be flexed back.

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      fun fact, all those failing is why the founders added the 2nd ammendment.

      No. this is not an endorsment of civil war or assassination- it’s a warning. if you remove all legal avenues for justice… then there’s only illegal avenues, and eventually people will be pushed to pursue those.

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        I mean, hell, look at the list of grievances in the Declaration of Independence and what happened next. Violence is quintessentially American and a foundational part of our history. Those who’ve benefited from extended periods of peace may have forgotten that. “The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time…” and all that.

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          absolutely.

          Guess my point is, if Jeffries is unwilling to puruse those legal avenues, he’s part of the problem and needs to go. Same with Schumer. (and maybe even more so with Schumer.)

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        The four boxes of liberty if I remember correctly.

        The soap box, the ballot box, the jury box, and finally the ammo box. In that order.

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    He’s got a point. Step one: remove Jeffries. Step two: remove Trump. Also remove Schumer ASAP.

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      Yep, he was already worthless, he just confirmed it. Could you imagine being in the most consequential election since the Civil War, and this “leader” just announced his intention to surrender before it’s even started, and he still expects people to vote for him?

      This should be career ending.

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    The democrats only want to bring us back to the exact conditions that brought us Trump.

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    I’d like him gone but it would be fun for him to stick around while a lot of his bad work is dismantled.

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    Getting that fucker out of office should be a priority. Along with Schumer and any other trash that voted along with the Pedo Party.

    Then impeach the Pedo-in-Chief.

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      Then impeach the Pedo-in-Chief.

      wont get thru the senate, so it’s performative. has been impeached before… twice and still got reelected.

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    Removing Trump requires 67 votes in the senate. There is no mathematical way to get those numbers in November. I don’t agree with him, but I understand where he is coming from.

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      There is a way in the November mid-terms. You’re just naysaying for the sake of it. But I understand where you’re coming from.

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        I am a realist. Living in the clouds gets us nowhere. I am not saying we won’t get enough seats to put reins on him, but he needs to majorly fuck up to push democrats to to win 20 additional seats. And we are talking fucking up in a way that makes people who have voted for a convicted rapist, pedofile criminal, liar, and overall horrible human being reconsider their vote.

        Unfortunately, I don’t see it happening.But go ahead, prove me wrong. Canvas, call, influence people. Prove that I am wrong. I want you to. I want you to make me swallow my words. I would love nothing more than to be completely wrong.

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        Requires the dems winning nearly every race because the maximum they could get up to is 69 right now. If they win every single seat up for re-election.

        The dems do have an advantage though. There are more republican seats up for re-election than democrat ones.

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          Not nearly every race, there are 22 R seats up for grabs and Dems currently have 45. They need every single seat. Some of those republican seats won by more than 20pts last election, also it’s not a guarantee that all dems vote for it.

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      It doesn’t matter. We need to weaponize impeachment, and impeach him EVERY time he commits another crime. Let there be hundreds, even thousands of impeachment proceedings under way, just for him. And then do the same to all of his henchmen.

      It doesn’t matter that the Senate won’t convict, it still wastes MAGA time. It will still keep them tied up in court with expensive lawyers and publicists, and distract them for every second of the next two years.

      MAGA is one of the only groups for which bullying is not only acceptable, but patriotic, and STRONGLY encouraged. They deserve it, so bully them relentlessly until they cry. Abuse the shit out of those psychopaths.

      Anti-vaxxers, too.

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        I like this, we definitely should turn their spam like legal strategy of overwhelming the system against them.

        This administration has also set the precedent of going after people for purely political reasons. I am not suggesting the Dems do this, but I am suggesting they do as you say and try to prosecute every single crime they can. If it grinds the government to a halt so be it. It is long past time for a recogning of the corruption and embezzlement going on.

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          We don’t have to go after their politics, although that’s what they’ll claim, as if they don’t do exactly that every day. All we have to do is play HARD BALL, and investigate, charge, prosecute, and issue imprison CONSECUTIVE prison sentences for their criminal violations ONLY.

          We don’t have to attack them, they hang themselves. We just have to force the cowardly Dem leadership to do their jobs. During the Biden administration, all they had to do was invoke the 14th Amendment, and Trump would never have gotten near the White House again, as well as a whole lot of MAGA lawmakers, too.

          Time to play Hard Ball. BATTER UP!

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    When asked if impeachment was a top priority, Jeffries said “of course not” during an appearance on “Fox News Sunday.”

    “I’ve made clear from the very beginning that our top priority is going to be to drive down the high cost of living,” the House minority leader added.

    “We believe in this country, you work hard, you play by the rules. You should be able to live an affordable life, a comfortable life, in fact, to live the good life, and that means a good paying job and good housing, good health care, good education for your children, and when it’s all said and done, a good retirement,” he added.