Donald Trump pledged Wednesday to send every American adult $5,000 if Republicans retain control of the House and Senate in the midterm elections, an extraordinary gambit to reverse his party’s sagging fortunes in November.
The dubious promise would likely cost more than $1 trillion and require congressional approval, and would further exacerbate the country’s nearly $1.8 trillion annual budget deficit and concerns about inflation.
THAT’S BRIBERY
Yep. And you know what they say about bribery:
The key thing is “…on Impeachment for, and Conviction of…” Which isn’t going to happen if things stay as they are.
I don’t know. This is pretty brazen, and the midterms aren’t looking good for the Republicans. If enough GOP congressfolk think they’d be better off facing the midterms under the stalwart leadership of President Vance, I could see them moving en masse behind an impeachment push. The ball has to start rolling somewhere though, and I don’t know which representative would be likely to introduce articles and palatable to enough Republicans that they could join under the color of bipartisanship.
All that presumes a congress that doesn’t suck though, and when in doubt, congress sucks. Being the first mover is dangerous, especially with Trump still at the helm. I’m not saying it’s likely, but it could happen.
Any Republican worth anything would do it “as a patriot.” Bipartisanship is fine, but “patriotism” is their whole thing. When a president does something this bold it should be easy to benefit by being someone who actually stands up for what they speak about so often. Obviously this is in a sane world though, and it also requires that they care about real patriotism, not nationalism.
This is especially true when the guy you need to stand up to has a 32% approval rating. It’s not hard to look good when you’re kicking the guy no one likes, and it honestly might be the move to flip centrists away from the “woke” progressives that are winning primaries.
Not that I want that. I’d rather have the progressives win and start sending fuckers to the Hague. But I’d be shocked if there wasn’t some conservative think-tank mapping out this possibility.
The 14th Amendment doesn’t even require impeachment or any sort of conviction. It says that if you previously held office and then engaged in insurrection, you instantly have a disability that keeps you from holding any office, and Congress is only able to vote to remove that disability.
Essentially, it works backwards from the rest of the constitution and due process and all that shit. It kept Confederates out of US government, despite how they were not impeached or even criminally convicted of insurrection. Exactly as intended.
But you saw how effectively that was enforced when Chief Justice Roberts swore Trump in last year. Conservatives in power just ignore any laws that are inconvenient to them.
Lmao