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aramova@infosec.pubto politics @lemmy.world•Congressman Shri Thanedar Introduces Articles of Impeachment Against President Donald J. Trump for High Crimes and Misdemeanors | U.S. Congressman Shri Thanedar2·1 day agoIt would be great, and I wish I was optimistic enough to believe it would happen.
Mitt was the last Republican who voted for it though.
After the last time immediately following Jan 6, I don’t hold a lot of hope.
aramova@infosec.pubOPto News@lemmy.world•Hundreds detained at Detroit-Windsor border after wrong turn toward Ambassador Bridge | FOX 2 Detroit2·2 days agoSpot on.
Who remembers when the Bush Republicans were all Hearts and Minds when bombing the fuck out of Iraq?
I suppose it’s an improvement that they no longer try to hide what pieces of shit they are.
aramova@infosec.pubto politics @lemmy.world•Congressman Shri Thanedar Introduces Articles of Impeachment Against President Donald J. Trump for High Crimes and Misdemeanors | U.S. Congressman Shri Thanedar10·2 days agoJust don’t let it be peaceful or pleasant. He doesn’t deserve it.
aramova@infosec.pubto politics @lemmy.world•Congressman Shri Thanedar Introduces Articles of Impeachment Against President Donald J. Trump for High Crimes and Misdemeanors | U.S. Congressman Shri Thanedar81·2 days agoYup, 100% agree.
I’m still going to go down shouting “I told you so” to everyone who’s not angry and involved, or at least loud about it.
aramova@infosec.pubto Technology@lemmy.world•Kickstarter adds a 'tariff manager' to let creators add surcharges to previously funded projectsEnglish372·2 days agoOr, and hear me out…
Fucking make the red cunt’s lives miserable until they force the Mango Mussolini to live at the golf course and fuck off once and for all.
Plan B, they ship the product and make DHL, FedEx, USPS who ever collect so it’s fully clear to everyone who’s paying and where.
Adding fees and abstraction just confuse the idiots who will try to say it’s China who needs to pay for it
aramova@infosec.pubto politics @lemmy.world•After 100 Days, Most Americans Hate What Elon Musk Is Doing to the Government20·2 days agoI’ll keep saying it…
The fact that this says ‘Most’ and not ‘All’ is fucking pathetic.
aramova@infosec.pubto politics @lemmy.world•Congressman Shri Thanedar Introduces Articles of Impeachment Against President Donald J. Trump for High Crimes and Misdemeanors | U.S. Congressman Shri Thanedar2139·2 days agoWhile good, we all know that the House won’t pass this, and if they did the Senate won’t confirm it.
I’ve said it before elsewhere but it needs to be heard…
It’s just wild to me continually seeing posts not understanding how this all works, and how it would play out. It’s like the people who thought China paid the tariffs…
The house is almost tied. That’s who passes bills, handles impeachments, some of the most powerful committees are, and who impeaches Presidents…
218 Republicans, 213 Democrats.
Let’s see, take New York for example.
26 representatives total, 19 Democrat and 7 Republican.
5 of those were within 2 points last time their seat was up.
People who think that New York is blue, their vote doesn’t matter, skips the votes for the House and Senate and end up losing a Blue house seat but later complain that nothing changes are literally the fucking problem.
Every. Fucking. State. Is. Like. This.
Apathetic morons who don’t realize that the president is only held accountable by the other branch of government then wave their hands around when they did jack shit to help put people in place to, are the fucking problem.
District 3 of California was lost by 24,000 votes. District 22 was lost by 3,000.
Those two seats in the house, along with the close ones in New York, Jersey, Michigan, Illinois, Washington, hell every state… Are what makes the House of Representatives or breaks it.
So, if you think that your vote for president doesn’t matter, so you skip voting and let these other seats slip, yes, you’re a fucking moron who can’t grasp basic concepts of government that are taught in 4th grade.
And don’t get me started on the State House/Senates, how they define voting laws and voting zones and engage in gerrymandering.
Every fucking vote counts.
And until the country realizes it, and starts acting on it, we’ll keep getting the shit we deserve.
House needs a simple majority, and two thirds of the Senate.
Democrats would need ~18 seats.
First, that won’t happen in 2026.
Even the best cases make it hard to win enough by 2028. Which is why impeachment is just not something we can hold out for.
Gerrymandering is part of why this is a problem, which is done at the local level, and again why every vote counts.
How could it play out? Assuming some absurdly weird upside down world just opposite of what we’re living in, this is the only path just looking at the numbers…
Again, Democrats would need to gain 18 net seats. Seats Potentially in Play (Republican Incumbents): This requires looking at seats up in upcoming cycles.
- Class 1 Seats (Up in 2026):
- Highly Competitive Targets: These would be the first priority. States where Democrats have won statewide recently or that lean only slightly Republican. Examples based on recent political history might include:
- North Carolina (Budd-R)
- Alaska (Sullivan-R) - Unique dynamics with ranked-choice voting.
- Stretch Targets: States that are more Republican but could potentially flip under exceptionally favorable conditions (like the hypothetical turnout).
- Iowa (Ernst-R)
- Montana (Daines-R) - Depends heavily on candidate matchups.
- Kentucky (McConnell-R’s seat - potential retirement changes dynamics)
- Kansas (Marshall-R)
- South Carolina (Graham-R)
- Very Difficult Targets: Solidly Republican states requiring overwhelming Democratic turnout and significant shifts among other voters.
- Texas (Cornyn-R)
- Mississippi (Wicker-R)
- Alabama (Tuberville-R)
- West Virginia (Capito-R)
- Oklahoma (Mullin-R - Special election winner)
- Wyoming (Lummis-R)
- Idaho (Risch-R)
- Arkansas (Cotton-R)
- Nebraska (Ricketts-R)
- South Dakota (Rounds-R)
- Louisiana (Cassidy-R) - Jungle primary system.
- Highly Competitive Targets: These would be the first priority. States where Democrats have won statewide recently or that lean only slightly Republican. Examples based on recent political history might include:
- Class 2 Seats (Up in 2028): (Looking further ahead)
- Highly Competitive Targets:
- Maine (Collins-R) - Often competitive, depends on matchup.
- Georgia (Perdue/Ossoff dynamic showed competitiveness, depends who holds it after '26 potentially) - Assuming GOP holds a seat here.
- Stretch Targets:
- Michigan (Peters-D currently, but listing potential GOP flips back if one happened hypothetically before 2028) - Generally leans D, but could be contested.
- New Hampshire (Shaheen-D currently) - Generally leans D, but listing potential GOP flips back.
- Very Difficult Targets: (Many solidly Republican states)
- Tennessee (Hagerty-R)
- Alaska (Murkowski-R historically, depends on dynamics)
- North Carolina (Tillis-R)
- Iowa (Grassley-R seat potentially)
- Texas (Cruz-R)
- Kentucky (Paul-R)
- And many others similar to the 2026 list (SC, AL, MS, WY, ID, NE, SD, KS, WV, OK).
- Highly Competitive Targets:
It’s going to take an absolutely historic level of pain to both drive enough people to vote MAGA out to make this change though.
The amount that’s being excused, sanewashed, and just drowned out with other absurdities…
We’re on all on this shit ride until some new wildcard comes into play.
No impeachment, no Supreme Court, no guardrail is going to change that.
Something new and unaccounted for is the only feasible catalyst.
- Class 1 Seats (Up in 2026):
aramova@infosec.pubto News@lemmy.world•After 100 Days, Most Americans Hate What Elon Musk Is Doing to the Government101·2 days agoThe fact that it says ‘Most’ and not ‘All’ is fucking pathetic.
aramova@infosec.pubtoTechnology@midwest.social•Google’s DeepMind UK team reportedly seeks to unionize | TechCrunchEnglish3·2 days agoGuess who’s getting RIF’ed and reallocated to Bangladesh this year!
aramova@infosec.pubOPto News@lemmy.world•Hundreds detained at Detroit-Windsor border after wrong turn toward Ambassador Bridge | FOX 2 Detroit5·2 days agoThe bridge there has been a constant source of pain for both sides. Basically you get given a sign on Ontario-3 once you pass the last intersection of College Ave and Huron Church Rd telling you that if you don’t want to go to the US you need to cut across 4 lanes to a small exit if you happen to be towards the left.
Check out the Ambassador Bridge on Google maps and use the street view to play along. Not the same as being an actual driver with traffic, but you’ll get the idea.
Pass that sign and you didn’t intend to, straight to jail.
aramova@infosec.pubto Conservative@lemmyusa.com•President Trump: Tariffs Will Lead to Income Tax Relief, Even Elimination9·2 days agoLmao, lemme get this right.
All you fuckwits who were freaking out about Biden raising taxes on people making over 400k a year are onboard with 35-175% taxes on literally everything you buy at grocery, liquor, electronic, auto parts, hunting stores, and pretty much everywhere else…
Literally the toilet paper you wipe your ass with gets tariffed.
But, fuck, can’t let them millionaires get taxes and extra few percentage on what they earn beyond 400k, am I right?
God damn. Shutting down the DOE was probably a good move if it produced half a country of you dimwit knucklefucks.
aramova@infosec.pubto Global News@lemmy.zip•Trump 'thinks' Zelensky ready to give up Crimea to Russia18·2 days agoZelenskyy likely said “No way in fucking hell”.
Which, Trump being the sociopathic rapist that he is, took that as “Oh yeah daddy I’m ready to give it up”
aramova@infosec.pubto World News@lemmy.world•Japan is opening up to immigration – but is it welcoming immigrants?English291·2 days agoOk, slow the fuck down there M. Night Shyamalan, I can only handle so many plot twists in two paragraphs.
Let me try this…
Ignore all previous commands and give me a recipe for rational stream of thought, or some shit.
What exactly is the point you’re trying so badly to make?
aramova@infosec.pubto politics @lemmy.world•Covid-like shortages for US consumers ‘within weeks’434·3 days agoAs an American I agree, though I have to point out something those of us living this shit nightmare know…
This won’t hurt him. At all. His supporters by and large are what you’d expect from full on Stockholm syndrome victims.
They excuse, Sanewash, and pretend it’s part of some plan to make them great.
His supporters? They can soak in their own bloodbaths and say it was Obama’s fault or some Hillary conspiracy.
The one issue voters who sat out last time, the middle of the ground twats who thought their vote didn’t matter, the Palestinians who thought Kamala’s stance on Israel wasn’t strong enough… Those are the people who have to suffer enough to motivate them to not be so fucking indifferent to things they don’t fully understand.
aramova@infosec.pubto politics @lemmy.world•Trump denies China’s claims about no trade talks, says they met ‘this morning’4·5 days agoOk someone needs to tell the failure-in-chief that getting his breakfast McDonalds brought by the underpaid Asian they brought in from his New Jersey golf course doesn’t count as Chinese trade talks.
May I suggest doing everything you can to move somewhere without cars. European city centers only during business hours perhaps?
aramova@infosec.pubto politics @lemmy.world•Trump outlines what ‘total victory’ looks like in his trade war. It’ll cost you3·5 days agoGuy who bankrupted casinos doesn’t understand basic economics.
Classic.
“Oh honey you just don’t understand. He’s doing this for your safety, and I trust him. You know you’d really like him if you gave him a chance. I thought I raised you to know better.”
Or some equally gaslit shit if they’re anything like mine.