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If Trump is impeached the Republicans blow their electoral chances for the next few cycles because the Trump base will be royally pissed at the regular Republicans in Congress. As such, they aren't going to impeach Trump without indisputable, hard proof of bribery or blackmail from Russian intelligence, which almost certainly isn't going to happen. That said, President Pence is probably on balance worse than Trump, because President Pence would be more competent at coordinated Republican attacks on basic government functions and minorities. Whether or not Pence would have the public support after an impeachment hearing to do anything like that is up in the air, but that aside, President Pence is, however, better than President Bannon. Take that for what you will.
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Owlofcreamcheese posted:If trump's base is so strong they will replace all those regular republicans anyway so what would they care? Because the MAGA crowd isn't a perfect circle on the Venn diagram with the Tea Party, and they don't have the institutional and corporate backing to enact major primary challenges. Look at the primary challenge against Paul Ryan. More likely, they just stay home and Republicans in gerrymandered districts suffer a wave election.
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Feb 19, 2017 21:44
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Owlofcreamcheese posted:It's weird, because it's never been clear if he meant that or just was saying other lovely republican opinions. Like he said they should defund AIDS treatment until the government stopped funding the behavior that spreads AIDS and people jumped to that meaning "being gay", and it might well be that he meant that but it's a reach and he might just mean stuff like "giving out condoms" using the good old lovely republican logic that always thinks condoms increases sex or whatever. Por que no los dos?
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Feb 20, 2017 22:28
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Cat Mattress posted:I still think Dick Cheney should have been court-martialed for treason. It would've been a trial, not a court-martial, as he was not a direct part of the military command structure. And they did attempt to impeach him. It failed, as one would expect.
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Feb 24, 2017 20:06
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