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Thelonious08 @thelonious08.bsky.social

A.R. Moxon writes an excellent explanation of the drastic consequences of elected leaders refusing to do their Constitutional Duty. citizensimpeachment.com/impeachment-...

aug 12, 2025, 5:41 am • 0 0

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timplex.bsky.social @timplex.bsky.social

I was in favor of the impeachments and the criminal prosecutions. As you say, it is an essential duty. But now without those powers at hand, I do not think theatrical opposition will help. Better to let him hold the stage and the responsibility for his results.

aug 12, 2025, 3:40 pm • 0 0 • view
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Thelonious08 @thelonious08.bsky.social

all politics is theater and if you're not on stage getting attention people wonder why you even collect a salary Ds have a reputation for being useless wimps for a reason

aug 12, 2025, 3:43 pm • 0 0 • view
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timplex.bsky.social @timplex.bsky.social

I suppose some pundits see if that way, but most people aren’t paying much attention. They go on living their lives and blaming whoever is in power when that goes poorly, as it will under Republican leadership. They don’t need D’s to tell them whose fault that is when Trump leads the news every day

aug 12, 2025, 3:51 pm • 0 0 • view
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Thelonious08 @thelonious08.bsky.social

So you're cool with a fascist dictator being very unpopular as he destroys freedom and democracy day after day for years, grants himself a third term, completely dismantles everything good our country had, including the economy, and setting up his idiot son to take over when he dies. Good to know.

aug 12, 2025, 3:54 pm • 0 0 • view
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timplex.bsky.social @timplex.bsky.social

Trump is doing his best to incite the kind of violent reactions that will help him pull that off, and people like you might play into his hand, but I think cooler heads will prevail.

aug 12, 2025, 4:00 pm • 0 0 • view
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Thelonious08 @thelonious08.bsky.social

Who incited the violent reaction last time he was legally required to leave office?

aug 12, 2025, 4:02 pm • 0 0 • view
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Thelonious08 @thelonious08.bsky.social

Your beloved roll-over-and-play-dead strategy failed miserably on J6. Peaceful resistance Nancy and Joe were met with violence. The fascists have learned from their mistakes and are planning the next J6. They'll be well-prepared. This time they will not fail.

aug 12, 2025, 4:05 pm • 0 0 • view
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timplex.bsky.social @timplex.bsky.social

Playing dead has driven his approval rating down to 37%, the lowest it has ever been outside of Jan 2021. Like all authoritarians, he thrives on the fight. Take away his enemies and he has nothing.

aug 12, 2025, 9:05 pm • 0 0 • view
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Thelonious08 @thelonious08.bsky.social

Playing dead has kept him out of prison. Playing dead enabled him to become POTUS again. Playing dead let him take over the Supreme Court. Playing dead got Congressional Dems' approval rating to 19%. You think doing nothing is the best way to fight a rising fascist movement. You're wrong.

aug 13, 2025, 4:01 am • 0 0 • view
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timplex.bsky.social @timplex.bsky.social

All of that happened after the 2 biggest protests in US history. He has been under constant attack. That’s what he thrives on, and he’s doing his best to provoke more of it. Don’t take the bait.

aug 13, 2025, 5:08 am • 0 0 • view
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Thelonious08 @thelonious08.bsky.social

after he committed 150 well-documented impeachable offenses, impeaching him twice is a fucking joke. Pelosi could not have been more gentle on him.

aug 12, 2025, 3:46 pm • 0 0 • view
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Thelonious08 @thelonious08.bsky.social

Pelosi blocked all impeachments and even investigations. No impeachment inquiry was permitted. She tossed the Mueller Report in the trash. Twice they forced her hand, but even then she sabotaged the process, minimizing the chances of getting a conviction. Here's an in-depth account:

aug 12, 2025, 3:46 pm • 0 0 • view
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timplex.bsky.social @timplex.bsky.social

Pelosi has an aversion to fighting battles she cannot win. It takes 2/3 majority in the Senate to remove a president. Otherwise, the effect is to exonerate him and give him an excuse for his own failure, the attacks preventing him from doing his job.

aug 12, 2025, 3:55 pm • 0 0 • view
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Thelonious08 @thelonious08.bsky.social

"impeachment is hard so we should just give up" is fucking loser energy we'd never tolerate from a little league team. but somehow people think we should promote that behavior from highly paid high prestige folks who took a fucking oath... smdh

aug 12, 2025, 3:57 pm • 0 0 • view
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Thelonious08 @thelonious08.bsky.social

everything Pelosi and Jeffries have done has been a catastrophic failure a complete moron has become our fascist dictator on their watch only a fucking moron would continue their obviously dysfunctional strategy

aug 12, 2025, 4:01 pm • 0 0 • view
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Thelonious08 @thelonious08.bsky.social

If Paul Ryan or Nancy Pelosi had gone after Trump with the energy and determination of Gingrich attacking Bill Clinton, Trump would have been gone and President Pence inaugurated within a few months. That's what we need from the leaders of our party right now.

aug 12, 2025, 3:48 pm • 1 0 • view