• Zorsith
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    2 days ago

    Someday the public will realise that impeachment isn’t the actual removal of someone from office, and in fact (AFAIK) there really isn’t a mechanism in place to do that other than shaming them till they quit of their own accord or imprisonment (and technically they could still perform their job from a cell)

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      The House can impeach and the Senate takes that impeachment and decides if to remove from office. So there is a mechanism, but it doesn’t work so well when one major party is so far up the presidents ass they would never vote to remove

      We do need another failsafe mechanism, perhaps a way for the people to remove a president from office

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        “No confidence” voting would be great too, but at this point I’m not convinced it wouldn’t result in the same problem with the MAGA cult astroturfing the fuck out of every vote.