• houstoneulers@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    His constituents really need to understand that he doesn’t care. He’s willing to tank the economy b/c he and his rich friends can afford to weather that storm. In fact, it’ll be a buying at discount opportunity for them. The vast majority of that base is absolutely not those ppl. They chose wrong, and I hope they’ll learn.

  • RizzoTheSmall@lemm.eeEnglish
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    3 days ago

    Do you not have the ability to take a vote of no confidence in the US? Or are you.just stuck with it for 4 years and he can do whatever?

    • reddit_sux@lemmy.world
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      3 days ago

      They have an impeachment process which they tried a few years back twice but didn’t work. It is like black magic, a whole lot of mumbo jumbo for literally nothing.

      • Holyhandgrenade@lemmy.world
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        3 days ago

        Impeachment doesn’t seem like it actually does anything. It’s like an official slap on the wrist.
        Maybe the laws were written back when politicians had a sense of shame and they just assumed that an impeached president would resign.

        • Fredthefishlord@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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          2 days ago

          If you’re found guilty in impeachment you’re removed from office… Just because you don’t understand the full process doesn’t mean it’s toothless

        • LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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          2 days ago

          It is a 2 part process. If you think of it like a criminal offense, impeachment is a charge. Then the Senate convicts. He caught 2 charges and the Senate voted him innocent.

          So long as he holds at least 33% support in the Senate, he’s safe.

          50% in Congress for bringing the articles (charges). 67% of Senate to convict

          • Holyhandgrenade@lemmy.world
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            21 hours ago

            My point exactly. US politics have become so divided that a sitting president would never be found guilty by his own party members, which would be necessary for conviction considering how the two parties always get near-equal amount of representatives. The system is stacked so that an impeachment will never have any effect on a sitting president.

        • lepinkainen@lemmy.world
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          3 days ago

          Exactly.

          The US system has bunch of things that don’t have explicitly defined penalties, because just the act itself was so shameful that it itself was the punishment.

          But now they have a president with zero shame and zero morals - the processes don’t work.

  • Katana314@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    3 days ago

    I hope this doesn’t sound too insane given that currently this is “good news” or at least good metrics for us: But I often worry about using the stock market as a metric for anyone notable.

    For instance, I picture a future where a politican pushes hard for increases to minimum wage…and the stock market tanks because “free labor is ruined”. There are some bubbles where it really should tank and I just worry that we’d be excusing it then, and not now.

    Granted: It is my belief that there’s no bubbles now and that Biden handed us a working system - one that Trump is throwing wrenches into. I just think after the GME fiasco, we shouldn’t necessarily trust the stock market as a perfect system run by level-headed people.

    • milicent_bystandr@lemm.ee
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      3 days ago

      I suppose what I see here is a way of describing the result of what I think we all know the cause is. Yes it’s a small glimpse of an incomplete picture, and shouldn’t stand up to debate by itself - but it stands with the backdrop of all Trump’s public aggression to friendly countries.

  • Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    4 days ago

    I remember how a webstream of a lettuce was set up for Liz and she got kicked out faster than the lettuce on the webstream became rotten.

  • 12alicemia@lemm.eeEnglish
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    4 days ago

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  • Gladaed@feddit.org
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    4 days ago

    Data is ugly - you skipped the first term of Obama and trump and the Lehman Brothers bankruptcy.

    • jj4211@lemmy.world
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      3 days ago

      The Lehman Brothers would have to also include Bush’s term, and no where near any inaguration. The first term of obama would still have left Trump II looking pretty lonely down there, with a smidge of the fallout from the 2008 meltdown still going down for the first few weeks, but by March it had recovered enough to be above his inauguration numbers. Either Bush term would have kept Trump II company down there indexed from inauguration, which is consistent with the reality that republicans seem to be bad for the economy.