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https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-resolution/1486
17+ min long clip of Al Green calling for a vote
https://www.c-span.org/clip/us-house-of-representatives/user-clip-rep-al-green-forces-impeachment-vote-121025/5184066
Short highlight clip
https://www.facebook.com/CSPAN/posts/rep-al-green-d-tx-moved-monday-to-force-a-vote-on-articles-of-impeachment-agains/1612099527625744/
talomox14
Figured it would be Al Green. Saw that it was Al Green. Pretty sure he just fires these off every week.
drizztx
Unfortunately we have less of a Julius Caesar senate and more of a Galactic Republic senate.
Bojovnik84
Making them go on record right before the midterms.
RedWingedBlackbirds
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CallMeMcGyver
For "high crimes and misdemeanors"... that's literally the reason the republicans are so attached to him... they're the party of high crime. ...and pedophiles. Don't forget the pedophiles.
BeaverOnFire
Interleaver11111111
imgurianitarian
He’ll just celebrate it if it happens. “Nobody’s been impeached as much as me”
vintagebroad
Hohum
Christoftaylor
Just “introduced” means nothing. Biden had impeachment bills introduced dozens of times. MTG alone introduced more than a dozen. When committees start investigating, then it means something. That won’t happen until after the midterms, and only IF democrats win majorities in both chambers.
RedWingedBlackbirds
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Emjayen
You clowns already did this twice, remember? Nothing but performative nonsense by spineless cowards as usual.
RedWingedBlackbirds
Um, Mitch (wtf) McConnell halted any further action and it wasn't performative nonsense. Tell me you don't understand how Congress works without telling me you don't understand how Congress works.
BrianDHughes
pandajack
Yawn.
d3jake
Neat. It'll never pass and only serve as political theater for their base. It's no different than the abortion bans passed in states knowing
d3jake
they'll be struck down.
kjbopp
Republicans are laughing their asses off. Just wait until after the mid-terms.
PowerThruster
Theyre already sending ICE agents with bullshit reasoning into voting registration sites with quotas to arrest. They are laughing, just not why you think. Someone, somewhere, is going to kill one of these agents, and they will call off elections and start rounding up anyone on the lists theyve compiled claiming they're Antifa.
DukeDarkwood
No. Make everyone show which side they're on BEFORE the midterms. Let everyone know who to vote for, and who not to vote for.
And then, if the midterms give us our majority, we have a shot at stopping their idiot laws. Maybe even get a successful impeachment going, but I'm a bit wary on if we can pull that feat off even then. Depends on how much of the establishment Dems and AIPAC Dems (and yes, they overlap) are still there.
RedWingedBlackbirds
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itZujones6
Yes please
Bizarkly
Good for Congressman Green! It's *unfortunate* that he lost his primary -- but he's done a *kickass* job of pushing back against Dumbass Don during his time in Congress. Al Green is a true American patriot!
PunnyTiger
he's been impeached twice. impeaching him again is meaningless unless you have a police force willing to arrest him and a prison willing to hold him
PunnyTiger
or an executioner willing to end him for the multiple counts of treason,
khaoselement
Oh look! A performative gesture! So much progress!
VerySunBurned
Impeachment will turn into a normal part of being president.
ireallydontthinkso
i think they know it will fail but when the regime falls they have it in writing who was on their side.
Gruesslibaer
Throw it on the pile!
joshuasplinth
Come on guys, he’s aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaalmost done destroying the country.
youareagreatguybut
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Zixtank
The misspelled "high treason"
ItsACrazyWorld
Won't do shit. We have learned without a shadow of doubt that he can commit crimes on TV and no one will do shit about it. He legit just bribeb voters to vote republican to get 5000 checks. Thats literally a federal crime.
MioTaalas
Nothing will happen, and it'll embolden these fuckers...
SecurityBadger
If he had just waited 2 months, this might be real. As it is, it will go nowhere.
Poopette
I was thinking about this and there's an ejection vote that comes after impeachment that is harder to achieve... presumably the change in party power after midterms won't break that threshold, but starting the process for the first phase with a lower margin req might be a kickstart for a long shot.
shialebuff
Incorrect tags. Don’t tag this under funny. I’m not choosing to look at political news right now.
ki4clz
freindly reminder that the last time Mr. Greene did this the majority of democrats voted against him and the resolution- I never let my congressman live it down
backrideup9
Cool. Will the 3rd one mean something?
TheWombatStrikesAgain
A new record, but nothing of consequence.
TheLilBee
at least it provides a record to better inform your vote in the midterm
lordofthegoats
just humiliate him which may be worth it to be honest.
ScrippyChan
No.
eatyourmeat
Haha. The time of presidents being held responsible ended with Reagan
LaffertyDanie1
Don't have the votes to convict in the Senate so no
BeaverOnFire
gablestout
Nope. Won't even get out of committee.
MithridateEupator
This is a suggested third impeachment. It most likely isn't an actual impeachment, because the house needs to vote to make that happen.
VikingsAreNinjaPirates
Even if it did, it would leave us with J.D. Vance, the charisma void beholden to the tech bro oligarchs. We gotta get like 15 people out of office before we hit a respectable one (not even a good one, just maybe less evil than the others).
unluckyandbored
No.
ChicanoBatman
Dems are pissed. Green lost position and on way out. Making it about himself, and losing focus for the midterms. No bueno
NZSheeps
Yes, two more and he gets a free muffin
slopwizard
LOL a fucking impeachment disloyalty card
ValamirCleaver
Why bother wasting time, energy, and other resources with a 3rd one if there isn't going to be at least 67 Democratic Senators that are going to confirm Articles of Impeachment?...
EroticZombiePants
Well, it does also waste the GOP's time in the process, and that's going stop them from advancing some of their legislation, since they aren't going to work longer than they absolutely have to. I mean they were running out of the door a few days early before the House's previous break.
liquidriddle
No, and Green lost his primary so he risks nothing by doing this. It's posturing to show how the dems tried to save us... Roght before midterms.
PorneliusHubertII
I hope that if dems flip the house/senate, that we see articles of impeachment every time fuckface tries to subvert the will of the people through executive action.
Evi1Gav
Nope, because it needs a two thirds majority in the senate, and no GOP will bite the hand that feeds it.
ImHereToGetDownvotes
Sure, it'll mean he was impeached 3 times. Oh, you mean will it actually DO anything? No, no it won't. Impeachment is relegated to "strongly worded letter" status at this point.
Marsupialmessiah
Dont hold your breath, you need 70% of the senate to act
ValamirCleaver
The Constitution says 2/3 of the Senate, which would be 67 Senators.
ShadyEsperanto
67, which comes across as pedantic, but margins would be so razor thin it could matter. i see a scenario that's so unlikely it's more wishful thinking than a possibility, but hear me out
the midterm map was not considered favorable to dems, so if they take control of the legislature, the gop is going to worry about what two more years of trump will mean for the 2028 elections. that might include peter thiel, vance's sugar daddy, who i assume wants vance in the white house. if thiel and (1/2)
ShadyEsperanto
his cronies pressure people behidn the scenes, it COULD happen. vance has the charisma of a freshly used cumrag, but if he takes over and acts like a normal fucking human, he's going to look like the second coming of FDR. so he'd go into the 2028 with a tailwind behind him instead of having to answer for all of trump's bullshit and dealing with the "distancing" problem harris had in 2024
that would also put vance in the two-year window where he'd be eligible to run twice (2/2)
unluckyandbored
And in order for that to happen, every single available seat must be won by a Democrat. And then Fetterman will vote No to convict, and he'll continue to get away with it.
FaeVikingPrincess
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Alvatore
Aisle-crossing really should be a federal offense punishable by the rest of your natural life in solitary fucking confinement.
NairouTryyshokk
Except it works the other way too. You WANT repubs to cross the aisle when it makes sense to do so, thus you will not be able to make any solid rule, especially seeing as it kills ANY bipartisanship for good common sense things that are barely political, like roadwork contracts.
Alvatore
I'm gonna be honest, if it were up to me I would just fully outlaw the Republican party and lock anyone from the entire right side of the political spectrum out of having any elected or appointed office ever again. My supporting evidence for doing so is the last 40 years, and quite honestly the last 200+ years if we want to trace their fuckery all the way back to the late 1700s when the people with their ideology still called themselves the Federalist Party.
bemurray814
Why isn't he unseated?
orp0piru
orp0piru
...and Senate is the one that selects the members of SCOTUS.
House has nothing to do with it.
MrNardtastic
Fucking egregious
Marsupialmessiah
Ha! Land votes ! Like literally... dirt, cuz the bison nor the corn stalks vote, we are apparently eating both now!
Doobiedog
The senate is absolute bullshit and unrepresentative of constituents.
Marsupialmessiah
Of course! Having these assholes since the late 1970s has this effect. Drugs? (Only for me). Healthcare? (Only for me), medicare? (Only for me). Paid time off because i am dying? (Only for me, best example? Russkomitch! Hes ded and still gets paid! , bet my flat ass he didnt have to file with sedgwick.... like all of his constituents
InfocalypseRising
It will not! Other than preserving a record of who had a spine for if we ever get out of this, i guess.
WienerBeener
HA! *slaps knee* "ever get out of this"... HA! OHHOOOHHAAAHAhahahha haaaaaahhh... *cries*
livingonagiantfireball
Yup its like the guy trying to move a barn on his own, amsih can do it as a group but alone, you are just wasting your time for the sake of saying i did something... yeah you did something that couldn't succeeded so in other words, you did nothing.
TheVillageGrouch9000
Adding to the record is all we have. *sigh*
RedWingedBlackbirds
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DukeDarkwood
If this really is a losing battle, I'm NOT going to say I lost quietly.
And, until the battle's over, its loss is NOT guaranteed.
Yes, we are going to need more than the performative gestures - but we STILL need those, too. It shows people that it's not over. And the more we can get off their couches, the more effective things we CAN do. The press sure isn't going to spread the word for us.
invaderjak
You are right, the best thing to do is nothing at all
StormBurnX
The best thing to do is to sharpen your aim and try again.
gablestout
Introducing articles of impeachment which will be referred to a committee controlled by republicans who will vote partisan in a House controlled by republicans who will vote partisan, less than three months before an election, is less than nothing. It's wasting time that could be better spend doing something useful.
LoudBirb
There is nothing useful to be done in a House controlled by Republicans who will always vote partisan. I'd rather they waste time than pass anything those malicious assholes will be happy about.
IupvoteAussies
However, given that they wouldn't be doing anything useful, I'll take a little pointless showmanship
gawdhawly
Consider it a protest. Getting your voice heard matters. Even if it seems futile. Just one more may be convinced to change their tune while the world burns around them and they hold access to the buckets.