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Useless. Time for the Social Democrats to form their own party.

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[–] Rooskie91@discuss.online 308 points 1 day ago (27 children)

Here is the full list of Democrats that voted to table the articles of impeachment.

Find yours, call them, and let them know they've failed to represent the people interests.

[–] Zaktor@sopuli.xyz 104 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Ro Khanna doing his standard move of cycling back and forth between pretending to be a progressive and just being utterly spineless.

I truly hope "refused to impeach President Trump" becomes a purity test in the next primary. That's a lot of incumbents to kick to the curb, but with this vote it's well warranted.

[–] Gork@sopuli.xyz 33 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Only problem with this method is that there are those who voted for his first few impeachments but not this latest one, so they can say they have in the past but not specify which one.

Also it's a sad state of affairs that we have a President whose been impeached several times.

[–] Zaktor@sopuli.xyz 31 points 1 day ago

Give a date and time. Motherfuckers you don't get credit for kinda representing the party sometimes.

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[–] mercano@lemmy.world 35 points 1 day ago

On the other hand, if they did vote for impeachment, call them and tell them to keep up the good fight.

[–] barneypiccolo@lemm.ee 28 points 1 day ago (4 children)

My guy is on the list, so he'll be getting a call from me today. He's useless anyway. I wish he'd get primaried by a tough progressive.

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[–] floo@retrolemmy.com 140 points 1 day ago (3 children)
[–] spankmonkey@lemmy.world 94 points 1 day ago (8 children)

"If it won't be successful, then work against it instead of showing support!"

Dems

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[–] Soup@lemmy.world 125 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Looks like there are 212 Democrat reps in the house, which puts it at a large majority which would rather “not cause a fuss” or whatever the fuck excuse they’re trying to bullshit this time.

Useless people. Worthless people.

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[–] Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works 93 points 1 day ago (8 children)

But they impeached him before, so their stance is that he got better and is no longer a threat to democracy?

[–] Jumi@lemmy.world 70 points 1 day ago (1 children)

They just don't feel the need to hide anymore. Most of your "Democrats" are just Republicans with a different paint job.

[–] BakerBagel@midwest.social 35 points 1 day ago (1 children)

They are just Republicans that aren't comfortable rounding up minorities into camps. They are cool if Republicans want to do it, but they are afraid of being associated with it for now

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[–] notgivingmynametoamachine@lemmy.world 78 points 1 day ago (17 children)

Primary. Every. Single. One.

[–] rindo25@lemmy.world 24 points 1 day ago (11 children)

a P.E.S.O. for president Taco's followers, good pitch

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[–] based_raven@lemm.ee 58 points 23 hours ago (5 children)

God your country is fucked.

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[–] RestrictedAccount@lemmy.world 57 points 1 day ago (2 children)

There is a new website tracking whether politicians will go on the record to be against bribery.

I wonder if they will note this?

https://www.broad-center.com/

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[–] Freshparsnip@lemm.ee 54 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Put him in a bigger peach this time, so he can't get out

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[–] Buske@lemmy.world 51 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Welp There it is, on record, Both sides are the same.

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[–] IzzyScissor@lemmy.world 50 points 1 day ago (8 children)

Here's the full list of House Democrats who voted to table the impeachment articles.

Pete Aguilar (California)
Gabe Amo (Rhode Island)
Jake Auchincloss (Massachusetts)
Wesley Bell (Missouri)
Ami Bera (California)
Don Beyer (Virginia)
Sanford Bishop (Georgia)
Julia Brownley (California)
Nikki Budzinski (Illinois)
Janelle Bynum (Oregon)
Salud Carbajal (California)
Andre Carson (Indiana)
Ed Case (Hawaii)
Sean Casten (Illinois)
Kathy Castor (Florida)
Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick (Florida)
Katherine Clark (Massachusetts)
Emanuel Cleaver (Missouri)
Jim Clyburn (South Carolina)
Herb Conaway (New Jersey)
Lou Correa (California)
Jim Costa (California)
Joe Courtney (Connecticut)
Angie Craig (Minnesota)
Jason Crow (Colorado)
Henry Cuellar (Texas)
Sharice Davids (Kansas)
Don Davis (North Carolina)
Madeleine Dean (Pennsylvania)
Rosa DeLauro (Connecticut)
Suzan DelBene (Washington)
Chris Deluzio (Pennsylvania)
Debbie Dingell (Michigan)
Sarah Elfreth (Maryland)
Cleo Fields (Louisiana)
Shomari Figures (Alabama)
Lizzie Fletcher (Texas)
Bill Foster (Illinois)
Lois Frankel (Florida)
Laura Gillen (New York)
Jared Golden (Maine)
Dan Goldman (New York)
Vicente Gonzalez (Texas)
Maggie Goodlander (New Hampshire)
Josh Gottheimer (New Jersey)
Adam Gray (California)
Josh Harder (California)
Jim Himes (Connecticut)
Steven Horsford (Nevada)
Chrissy Houlahan (Pennsylvania)
Steny Hoyer (Maryland)
Val Hoyle (Oregon)
Hakeem Jeffries (New York)
Julie Johnson (Texas)
Marcy Kaptur (Ohio)
Bill Keating (Massachusetts)
Timothy Kennedy (New York)
Ro Khanna (California)
Greg Landsman (Ohio)
Rick Larsen (Washington)
John Larson (Connecticut)
George Latimer (New York)
Susie Lee (Nevada)
Mike Levin (California)
Sam Liccardo (California)
Ted Lieu (California)
Zoe Lofgren (California)
Stephen Lynch (Massachusetts)
Seth Magaziner (Rhode Island)
John Mannion (New York)
Lucy McBath (Georgia)
Sarah McBride (Delaware)
April McClain Delaney (Maryland)
Jennifer McClellan (Virginia)
Betty McCollum (Minnesota)
Kristen McDonald Rivet (Michigan)
Morgan McGarvey (Kentucky)
Gregory Meeks (New York)
Grace Meng (New York)
Kweisi Mfume (Maryland)
Joe Morelle (New York)
Kelly Morrison (Minnesota)
Jared Moskowitz (Florida)
Seth Moulton (Massachusetts)
Frank Mrvan (Indiana)
Richard Neal (Massachusetts)
Joe Neguse (Colorado)
Johnny Olszewski (Maryland)
Frank Pallone (New Jersey)
Jimmy Panetta (California)
Chris Pappas (New Hampshire)
Nancy Pelosi (California)
Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (Washington)
Scott Peters (California)
Brittany Pettersen (Colorado)
Nellie Pou (New Jersey)
Mike Quigley (Illinois)
Jamie Raskin (Maryland)
Josh Riley (New York)
Deborah Ross (North Carolina)
Pat Ryan (New York)
Andrea Salinas (Oregon)
Mary Gay Scanlon (Pennsylvania)
Brad Schneider (Illinois)
Hillary Scholten (Michigan)
Kim Schrier (Washington)
Bobby Scott (Virginia)
Terri Sewell (Alabama)
Adam Smith (Washington)
Eric Sorensen (Illinois)
Darren Soto (Florida)
Greg Stanton (Arizona)
Haley Stevens (Michigan)
Marilyn Strickland (Washington)
Suhas Subramanyam (Virginia)
Tom Suozzi (New York)
Emilia Sykes (Ohio)
Paul Tonko (New York)
Ritchie Torres (New York)
Lori Trahan (Massachusetts)
Derek Tran (California)
Lauren Underwood (Illinois)
Juan Vargas (California)
Gabe Vasquez (New Mexico)
Marc Veasey (Texas)
Eugene Vindman (Virginia)
Debbie Wasserman Schultz (Florida)
George Whitesides (California)
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[–] hodgepodgin@lemmy.zip 48 points 1 day ago (5 children)

Representative Mike Lawler, a New York Republican, wrote on X: "This is absurd on its face. The United States has not declared war since 1942 and has conducted over 125 different military actions since that time, including in Korea, Vietnam, the Gulf, Afghanistan, and Iraq. Presidents of both parties have relied on Article II authority, as well as AUMFs [Authorizations for Use of Military Force], to conduct targeted strikes and have not been subject to impeachment. In 2011, Barack Obama conducted an 8 month campaign in Libya to topple Gaddafi."

[–] 13igTyme@lemmy.world 69 points 1 day ago (3 children)

We should have never been involved in any of that shit since WW2. 125 bad decisions don't justify an additional bad decision.

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[–] CptOblivius@lemmy.world 26 points 1 day ago

They always bring up Obama and Libya. Which was a joint NATO led coalition after a UN passed resolution. Not that it helped, but it is not close to Trump's bombing of Iran. Not even close.

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[–] Mongostein@lemmy.ca 46 points 1 day ago (2 children)
[–] Furbag@lemmy.world 46 points 1 day ago (11 children)

Is there a list of names? Because if any of my reps show up on this list, I will never vote for them again.

I don't want these fucking dinosaurs running the goddamn party anymore. I want some progressives with teeth who have the backbone to fight the fascists head on. I don't care how petty or how low they have to get, I want to see them at least try.

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[–] ristoril_zip@lemmy.zip 45 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Well that was nice of them to make a list of who wants to be primaried

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[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 40 points 1 day ago

Oh yeah, and all of these 128 Democrats will be very disappointed about something evil that the chertondoes later and "wish they would have voted differently"

Fuck all of them

[–] bitjunkie@lemmy.world 40 points 1 day ago

Traitors, every last one

[–] nthavoc@lemmy.today 38 points 1 day ago

Called it. People need to set their expectations way lower so they aren't so pissed off about the lack of action from this party. They should also read up on the legal precedents that were going to sink these articles to begin with. Democrats would have a much better chance to impeach some of the Donvict's shitty cabinet members, (Pete Hegseth, ICE Barbie, RFK, DOGE) for clearly impeachable offenses, but decided to swan dive into an empty concrete pool. So there is still no sound strategy from the democrats on how to dismantle this nightmare and only pissing the public off with limp wristed slaps.

[–] TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world 37 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Still "both sides are not the same"? Even if Democrats have slight majority in both or either houses, they still dilute policies to appease the fascists from stonewalling. Meanwhile, the fascists legislate every unspeakable evil policies and Democrats don't even try to resist as opposition.

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[–] Gates9@sh.itjust.works 37 points 1 day ago (1 children)
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[–] ZombieMantis@lemmy.world 34 points 1 day ago

Jesus McFucking Christ.

[–] meangreenbeans@lemmy.world 34 points 1 day ago (5 children)

Democrat and republican parties are the same party.

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[–] WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 33 points 1 day ago (3 children)

This goes to show that the problem isn't Trump or the Republicans, the problem is the United States of America. The only way things are going to get better is if America is removed from its position of global power and influence. If you care about fighting fascism and tyranny, you need to boycott American products, refuse to work for American companies and, if you're already working for an American company and can't quit, drop your productivity as far as possible. Do everything in your power to damage the American economy and reduce their power.

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[–] insomniac@sh.itjust.works 33 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Really disappointed in my Congress woman, Sarah Elfreth. I wrote her an email and she responded with basically “that’s what they told me to do!”

[–] Manalith@midwest.social 28 points 1 day ago

Gotta share a screenshot of that email if it actually gives any detail, basically confirming the system rigging and complacency from members of said system, send it to some independent journalist or something.

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[–] F_OFF_Reddit@lemmy.world 33 points 1 day ago

You people starting to realize that these 'Democrats' are just in there for the money like Republicans are, you need to clean the party

[–] Zezzoz@lemmy.world 32 points 1 day ago (5 children)

The US is an inescapable hell. I pity the people living there right now.

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[–] rayyy@lemmy.world 28 points 22 hours ago (2 children)

AOC might be testing the party. She should know who is going to vote for impeachment before the vote.
Apparently there are still majority of congress critters who will ride the horse of greed right into the ground then think they can call a cab.

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[–] DirkMcCallahan@lemmy.world 28 points 1 day ago

Profiles In Cowardice

[–] TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 26 points 1 day ago (1 children)

AIPAC dark money paying for itself thousands of times over.

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[–] explodicle@sh.itjust.works 24 points 1 day ago (8 children)

Nobody who said "blue no matter who" in 2024 is allowed to say "what the actual fuck" at this.

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[–] Absaroka@lemmy.world 24 points 1 day ago

This, in a nutshell, is what is wrong with the Democratic Party.

If one of these folks is your rep, CALL their office and ask them why they voted to table the impeachment vote, and let them know you're thinking seriously about not casting a vote for them the next time you have the opportunity.

[–] Washedupcynic@lemmy.ca 24 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

Rep Paul Tonko is one of the NY reps that voted no to impeach. I work 2 blocks from his office and plan to spend my lunch hour every day demonstrating in front of his Albany office. I already called his office to bitch. I've got printed letters that say, "Congratulations, you're a fascist collaborator." Going to be stuffing those in envelopes with glitter and putting one in the mail every single day. Give me your best for my protest signs.

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[–] Omega_Jimes@lemmy.ca 24 points 18 hours ago (4 children)

Unpopular opinion here; but there's no way an impeachment would succeed and a failed impeachment strengthens Trump's position with his base.

[–] Croquette@sh.itjust.works 28 points 17 hours ago (3 children)

Everything Trump does strengthen his position with his base.

He could probably eat dog poo on live television and his base would cheer him for a dumb reason.

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