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Christina Gurchinoff's avatar

Thank you for putting all the pieces together, in order. Also, thanks for laying out the solutions. The short paragraph on impeachment sounds very serious! And powerful. I’m sure it was believed at the time that any self respecting criminally insane narcissistic rapist president would crawl away like the worm they are!

They never would have seen a guy like trumpf coming! Who would?

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Ellie Leonard's avatar

I appreciate you reading, thank you so much!

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Christina Gurchinoff's avatar

Im a kind of new fan! I haven’t fit you into my daily rounds yet but I’m working on it. 🌻

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Ellie Leonard's avatar

There’s a lot to read out there! But I’m grateful, thank you!

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Karen Cantrell's avatar

I have a question: If it was proven that the election was rigged could we bring Kamala back?? Not real sure about all this legal stuff so I thought I would ask someone like you who seems so very nice 😊

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Christina Gurchinoff's avatar

I don’t know! I’m sorry. Seems like maybe, I mean if the votes were recounted and she’s found to be the winner then yeah! I believe we would have to !

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Lady Libertea's avatar

I like this article. It is well written and a logical argument. I would however argue that there is still hope for impeachment. Those senators and congressman right now are more afraid of the defective orangutan than they are the people who put them in office, but they have to run for re-election. He never has to run again. They are going to start trying to distance themselves, and we need to make sure we hold their feet to the fire. Not that putting pressure on his cabinet to invoke the 25th is a bad idea, as in my opinion of their character they are spineless and will willing cave if they see self preservation presented to them. I just think we have more levers with our representatives to pull.

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Ellie Leonard's avatar

I agree with this, and hence the revolt portion of the article. I'm starting to see cracks in the cabinet and in his bigger support system. I believe they will do something, but I hope it's sooner than later.

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Michelle  Spencer's avatar

Thank you for working so hard to reference this option. We definitely need someone who will step up

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Ellie Leonard's avatar

Thank you for reading!

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Aviana NW's avatar

His cabinet

members are more evil-minded than he is.

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Lady Libertea's avatar

The Collaborators Cabinet—as eager to fulfill the commands of the orange emperor as Hitlers cabinet was eager to help him implement his final solution.

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Lisa J 💜🏳️‍🌈's avatar

I agree. There doesn’t look like much hope to remove him any time soon.

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BC's avatar

Maybe MEDVDEV will assassinate Trump. … Now THAT would be FKN HILARIOUS 🤣

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Ellie Leonard's avatar

Totally thought you meant this guy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Medved

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BC's avatar

If anyone is still wondering … I was talking about the former PM — Dmitry … who I initially liked but he turned out to be Putin’s grunt.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dmitry_Medvedev

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Sandysue's avatar

Thank you for this. I overwhelmed by this nightmare that is destroying all that was good about us. I feel like we are being suffocated by a black cloud of pure evil. Like being in the upside down in Stranger Things…May this darkness be defeated by goodness and love and doing the right thing!! I am exhausted 😢💔

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Ellie Leonard's avatar

I’ve seen evil do a lot of things, but I’ve never seen it win

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Sandysue's avatar

Thanks Ellie…I needed a reminder!

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Ellie Leonard's avatar

Me too!

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Patrick McMullan's avatar

Vance or Trump? Devil or the deep blue sea…

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Ellie Leonard's avatar

I know, the back-up plan is pretty dismal

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Erica Diamond's avatar

They are already turning on him and propping up Vance to take his place.

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Ellie Leonard's avatar

But also, ew.

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Karen Cantrell's avatar

But he already has a taste of the blood taco man has put out. Who’s to say he would follow his law?? He’s a child in training right now. Look how he jumped on the bandwagon to humiliate Zelenskyy at that meeting. Down right despicable behavior from them!!

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Betsyann Thornton's avatar

Ok, but how do we dig out the roots of the poison tree? His Supreme Court Justices, his cabinet picks, his Mabelline Minion, his lower court judges; basically everyone and anyone whose allegiance to him makes them his co-conspirators in treason?

#askingforafriend😉

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Russell French's avatar

Trump’s only way out is to cling to power and turn more violent.

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SUE Speaks's avatar

Why not a secret vote for all of Congress, up or down on Trump? Presumably that would be overwhelmingly against Trump— please god — and couldn’t that be a stepping stone to the Republicans becoming courageous? But then, what to do about getting Vance?

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V Thornton's avatar

Thanks for breaking down a complicated bureaucracy into words we can understand. Well written and concise!

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Zephyr's Lair's avatar

Seriously it only works if u win Republicans over to your side

Please stop wasting your time n actually pass legislation w the help of Republicans that actually curbs all the mess Trump is causing.

Stop pulling stunts...like the twenty four hours non filibuster

N impeachment papers that Johnson will not let on the floor n even if he did doesn't matter...u don't have enough votes to pass it

Focus on the big ugly bill.....get Republicans who r up fir reelection to sink the bad stuff in that bill that will directly effect their state like cancelling Medicaid meals on wheels n school lunches.

Stop writing strongly worded weapons n basically wimping out.

Basically do your job or step the hell down.

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Carol's avatar

Constant resistance is absolutely necessary, even though it’s performative - like one might argue a single protest on its own might be.

But it’s the COLLECTIVE resistance to slow down fascism that is VERY necessary. They have to make good trouble!!

Even though it seems to annoy you…? It’s a well proven and necessary set of actions to end this nonsense.

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Zephyr's Lair's avatar

It doesn't annoy me. What annoys me is my local Dems are busy let's go out n protest....but when I ask who is going to run in 2026, what's the actual plan for ousting a senator n my congressman.

Crickets

They got nothing

N on my district they are so lazy if u read the down vote choices a lot of the have a Rep. With no democrat running so that guy just wins by default.

Now that is pathetic n giving up.

But hey let's go hold signs for two hours this Saturday.

Same with the bigger DNC....they live to ask me for donations for things that have zip to do w government but when you ask what's the plan to flip Congress n Senate in my state.

More crickets

How are u going to stop the BBB?? ( They didn't) But hey Schiff will right a strongly worded letter which I assume was tossed in the trash immediately

Do your job! Government!

And if the USA wanted to make Trump reconsider his stance on illegals

The answer is.....all illegals pick a day n don't show up for work.

Stop picking fruit

Stop going to slaughter house

Stop building houses

Stop cleaning buildings

Stop watching rich people's kids

Stop working as maids n bus boys n cooks

Stop sewing clothes

Just stop stop stop

If 11 to 16 million people stay home for one day...maybe three. The USA would wake the fuck up n realize all the crap jobs that these people do for us. They get paid low income, they pay taxes n SSI that they can never get back , they do jobs no white boy will ever ever do

Without them the grocery stores would be empty

N they get disrespected all the time n now they are terrified to go to work because masked men will kidnap them.

You want to change something.

.just have everyone agree to stay home n watch our entire economy grind to a halt like a crashing train.

As it is there are biz owners begging n bribing Trump to avoid my hotel or my farm...don't look here ICE. I need to pick apples!

That would actually get all the Republicans n the Dems too who are powerful biz owners to suddenly not be happy that they have to empty their own trash in their corporate skyscrapers or clean their own toilets.

That would force the house n Senate to write a bipartisan bill to actually fix immigration.

Instead of chucking human beings to a Venezuelan prison when they don't come from Venezuela or housing them w no court proceedings in Alligator Alcatraz.

Do something real

N win 2026.

Also find the person who can win in 2028. But for now focus on 26.

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Nola Krosch's avatar

I agree that even if we could get the House to impeach, the Senate as it is currently composed would not convict, which makes the 25th amendment the only plausible alternative. But then I remember that the next two ppl in line for the office are Vance and Johnson, and I worry that we would just be putting ourselves in a worse place over the long term—because Vance and Johnson appear to be at least marginally saner and more competent than Trump.

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