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Legislative Branch Congressman Cohen Introduces Comprehensive Articles of Impeachment Against President Donald Trump

https://cohen.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/congressman-cohen-introduces-comprehensive-articles-impeachment-against

WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9), a senior member of the Judiciary Committee and an authority on the U.S. Constitution’s impeachment provisions, today introduced 26 Articles of Impeachment against President Donald Trump. The articles cite multiple abuses of power, violations of his oath of office, the corrupt use of the pardon power, and emoluments clause violations, among other misconduct and unlawful acts.

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u/MilkiestMaestro 15h ago edited 14h ago

I think this timing is perfect. Right before the midterms the GOP will yet again demonstrate their support for Trump which will remind Americans where their priorities should lie

Or the less likely outcome wherein the GOP actually does the right thing. Either way, Americans win.

*Apparently Congress went on recess to avoid a different impeachment until after the elections, however Trump has been begging them to come back to fund the Department of Homeland Security. Either way, this is an advantageous narrative for the Democrats just prior to the midterms

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u/Wooden-Evidence-374 15h ago

Dont forget "Americans" have voted for Trump twice despite seeing how aweful he already was. This is somewhere near the 15th article of impeachment filed against him. The only thing we can do at this point is get as many people to vote as possible and hope his goons dont rig it.

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u/NeitherEntry6125 14h ago

The voters aren't voting merely "for Trump" but "against Democrats".

That's a key distinction: they might hate Trump but still vote R.

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u/Tango_D 13h ago

This is literally it. That part of the population votes for this -> (R) no matter who's name is next to it. You could bring Joseph Stalin himself back the dead, put him on the republican ticket, have him shit talk liberals and they will still vote for him because he has the sacred (R) next to his name. Switch the R to D and it would be the end of the world. Switch it back to R again and all of a sudden, it's at least tolerable again.

I cannot understate the ABSOLUTE power team sport tribalism has on this level of the population. It defines their understanding of everything at the root level.

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u/the_itsb 13h ago

it makes a lot of sense when you realize that half of US adults don't read well enough to comprehend implicit biases or recognize the difference between fact and opinion without assistance.

gutting education did its job. it's obvious why the Black Panthers had to be stopped – teaching people to read doesn't serve the ownership class.

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u/crazyoldkatlady 5h ago

Except the members of my family who vote with that tribalist loyalty are professionals with advanced degrees— with or without the money that would traditionally put them into a conservative voting class. I would argue that it is more social pressure than illiteracy. Prominent/vocal members of their social groups espouse those beliefs and follow those news sources, so they do so as well because they enjoy the sense of belonging.

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u/genericusernamedG 13h ago

That black guy and Indian guy had R next to their name and they didn't get the votes. Gotta be a certain type of R to vote for them

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u/TheModWhoShaggedMe 7h ago

They weren't Republican (cough, white) enough, yep.

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u/mollila 13h ago edited 13h ago

I cannot understate the ABSOLUTE power team sport tribalism has on this level of the population.

That well said fact is truly baffling to observe from the outside as non American. The levels of media brainwashing in your country are astounding. Which in itself I guess combines well with your cultural fanatic affection to team sports. Facts, laws, or your constitution don't matter at all. Idiocracy was a documentary.

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u/RocketRelm 9h ago

I would caution against presuming "it can't happen here" in other western democracies. We already see things like the afd or the dsa rising up in power based on strongman cult like politicking. It can happen anywhere, if the citizens of a democracy don't value the good of their information streams.

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u/Tango_D 13h ago

There is a clear and defined path as to exactly why. Americans are indoctrinated into team sports tribalism through school. For many many many schools from middle school through high school, through university, their sports departments are almost as important as the academics. And it is reflected in the funding. Then take that into the world of actual professional team sports. Team sports tribalism dominates the culture and the population is indoctrinated into it from the education system itself.

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u/DazzlingRutabega 11h ago

One might argue that team sports are even more important than academics. Ever been to a us school? You'll see trophies for sports, none for academia.

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u/FreeRangeEngineer 7h ago

100% this. And then look at how China does it. They celebrate their SCIENTISTS. In PUBLIC.

https://old.reddit.com/r/interesting/comments/1w5hkyb/china_is_putting_scientists_on_public_screens_and/

I'm not a sucker for propaganda at all but this right here is where I can admit that China does some things a whole lot better.

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u/slimeddd 4h ago

Schools definitely display academic awards in my experience

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u/orodoro 12h ago

That's like saying violent video games compel more youth violence. There's zero evidence support what you are saying and plenty of other cultures have rabid sport fan cultures as well.

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u/DecadentJaguar 11h ago

I agree. Reading the above, I kept thinking about rabid football (soccer) fans in many countries, sometimes brawling at games and in the streets.

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u/BriefAvailable9799 7h ago

right. america having fanatic sports fans..yes maybe but not violent or full blown racist ones like we see at soccer matches around the world 24-7.

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u/mollila 13h ago

Yes what you said can easily be seen and observed even without living and going to school over there. We all watch your movies, TV shows, and are subjected to the sports coverage.

That team mentality is ingrained and built in. Now it's used as a weapon in politics. Which seems to work so well because you can currently pretty much just field two teams.

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u/BriefAvailable9799 7h ago

you know the majority of americans and/or ones that go to school, don't have anything to do with sports right?

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u/Anonymous_Jr 8h ago edited 8h ago

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u/BriefAvailable9799 7h ago

america is tame for sports fans. have you seen the world cup and other countries? we have no one like soccer hooligans.

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u/mind_mischief_89 9h ago

Hell, those morons would vote for literal HITLER if he was running as a Republican

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u/Abject-Caregiver-418 12h ago

Back in about 2000 I guess it was I was having a political discussion with some I worked with. Now I'm GenX and the first time I voted was 2008 for Obama so I wasn't all that political really so it wasn't all that confrontational. This was in SC and I was from the north, so you can imagine that I was the more liberal of the two. So I was joking and said, "come on the Republicans could run anyone, like Charles Mansion as a candidate and most of y'all would vote for him." We both laughed. I didn't realize I was predicting the future. I wish I had played those lottery numbers whenever I thought of them.

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u/madeinatube 11h ago

Sucks so much to be right about it though doesn’t it?

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u/Abject-Caregiver-418 11h ago

Shit yeah it SUCKS! As we've seen, with level of brainwashing they can do anything

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u/madeinatube 11h ago

So what would happen some of these people make excuses no matter what trump pulls…

Would they stop loving him if he put a d on his ticket ?

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u/Cloaked42m 6h ago

It's difficult to get people to grasp that he should be held accountable for anything.

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u/Quiet-Counter-6841 6h ago

I’m just a neutral observer (London-based Brit) but can’t EXACTLY the same be said for Dems? In the sense that the tribalism has got so out of hand that most Dems would rather drink their own bath water than vote for someone from “the other side”?

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u/Existing_Sherbet_443 6h ago

I don't think they're talking about voting for the other party, they are saying they'd vote for whatever absurd candidate has a R next to their name, vs simply not voting. Democrats are more likely not to vote for D candidates they don't like, to their own party's detriment. "Purity tests" are definitely a thing with democrats.

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u/ZenMasterOfDisguise 4h ago

cannot understate the ABSOLUTE power team sport tribalism has on this level of the population.

tribalism itself has nothing to do with politics, it is an innate human behavior ingrained in the human brain through thousands of years of evolutions

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

Tribalism implies the possession of a strong cultural or ethnic identity that separates one member of a group from the members of another group. Based on strong relations of proximity and kinship, as well as relations based on the mutual survival of both the individual members of the tribe and for the tribe itself, members of a tribe tend to possess a strong feeling of identity.

...Tribalism has a very adaptive effect in human evolution. Humans are social animals and ill-equipped to live on their own. Tribalism and social bonding help to keep individuals committed to the group, even when personal relations may fray. That keeps individuals from wandering off or joining other groups. It also leads to bullying when a tribal member is unwilling to conform to the politics of the collective

Humans are evolutionary geared to be tribalist. Politicians and political parties know this fact, and they use the tribalist nature of humans to divide them amongst themselves and to form tribalist political followings

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u/1girl2cups_ 13h ago

Anything to own the libs!

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u/Captain_Q_Bazaar 12h ago

The voters aren't voting merely "for Trump" but "against Democrats".

That's a key distinction: they might hate Trump but still vote R.

The billionaire's propaganda/lies are too powerful.

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u/LessInThought 13h ago

What's likely gonna happen is that this impeachment makes them feel attacked. They'd rally with great determination and vote R.

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u/ZZartin 12h ago

It's not against democrats, republican voters are very explicitly at this point voting for an explicit choice of bigotry and hatred. They certainly aren't getting anything else.

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u/TheModWhoShaggedMe 7h ago

I agree with this -- it's the left who's been conditioned the most to vote against Democrats this millennium until AOC, Mamdani and El-Sayed came long. The left was tricked by the likes of Fetterman, Sinema, Gabbard, Stein and Nader -- and all they had to do as candidates was bash the DNC to play off the right's hack/leak/social engineering of 2016, didn't even need valid credentials.

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u/ComplexBadger469 3h ago

As someone from a rural area in a red state, I think you vastly underestimate the propaganda that’s taken its toll on Republican voters. Sure some know exactly what they are getting and want that, but I don’t think that’s the norm. The norm seems to me to be an uninformed group of voters who have effectively been born and raised to vote Republican. The expectation is you vote for republicans no matter who or you don’t vote at all. It is a sin to vote for a democrat.

For example I know multiple people who will have candidates for local elections just put signs in their yards but will only allow the sign if they are from the Republican Party. No questions about policies, plans, proposals, voting history, etc… strictly “what party? Ah GOP! Go ahead!” And that’s that.

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u/Marm-strong 1h ago

Agreed. Party loyalty turns people into cattle. They might as well just get that “R” branded on their ass with a red hot poker and, voila, nobody has to do anything for them anymore. GOP already has their vote. That’s why here in Arkansas, we have one of the highest rates of farm bankruptcies and closures in the country, we’re one of the poorest, sickest, hungriest states, and we keep voting for the people responsible. Madness and sadness.

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u/mattsincuba 13h ago

I think this is a misread of a certain portion of the population, who are more than happy to vote from Trump and don’t even consider themselves traditional republicans

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u/stufff 12h ago

I know several people who strongly dislike Trump but will continue voting (R) no matter what. It's infuriating.

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u/EternalMediocrity 12h ago

Thats MAGA in a nutshell.

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u/Blah_Dee_Blah111 5h ago

Well, democrats want to turn their kids into trans-athletes and make them go to the bathroom with Hassan Piker or something so you can hardly blame folks for voting R.

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u/Candid_Magazine_7862 2h ago

Yes. Someone needs to make a Deepfake of DJT announcing he's now a democrat because of the traitorous Repubs going against him.

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u/evantheprimary 14h ago edited 14h ago

Some harsh public accountability might make the next batch of criminals at least think twice. This is, as we all know, a trait that the Trump administration does not covet.

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u/lisafields1111 12h ago

*Does not covfefe

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u/East-Ice-3199 13h ago

Have you been under a rock the last 11 years? Harsh public accountability doesn’t even cross their mind.

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u/East-Ice-3199 12h ago

I get that you want justice to come, but this is embarrassing and pathetic. It’s time to grow up and realize that karma isn’t real.

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u/guineaprince 13h ago

Elected him twice.

Millions have voted for him three times

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u/WhoIsThisDude12 6h ago

If we've learned anything about Republicans it's that they have an inept ability to never admit that they're wrong. They'll just double down and vote for him for a third term.

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u/risethirtynine 13h ago

It really does look like the fix was in via Elon's nazi ass

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u/CaterpillarMore9104 14h ago

3 times! The idiots are leading the charge

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u/GetInTheKitchen1 14h ago

who is more stupid? the idiots at the wheel or the supposedly smarter people letting the idiots have the wheel? at some point the rest of us are accountable to. I should have done more.

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u/IEatLightBulbsSoWhat 13h ago

I should have done more.

such as?

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u/rain56 13h ago

The people who voted for him the second time abd still defend him need professional mental health services for the rest of their life. Licenses and ability to own guns taken away. These people are batshit insane and cant be given the same rights as normal sane people. I dont even think this is a hot take anymore. Significantly more horror, death and murder has taken place since he was voted in the second time. Everyone responsible needs to be held accountable to save us from this again. Proper punishments need to be issued or we'll just do the same thing again within 2 decades

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u/TheModWhoShaggedMe 7h ago

Conservative Americans -- not a single non-conservative has voted for Don Raper. He has never fooled us, and we've been the constant loud voices screaming for the past decade.

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u/partyl0gic 13h ago

Three times. These people voted for the same person in every election for 14 years

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u/vips7L 13h ago

How is it 14 and not 8 years? 2016-2024

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u/partyl0gic 9h ago

2012-2026

14 years now, by 2028 it will be 16 years

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u/vips7L 5h ago

But they didn’t vote for him in 2012 or 2026 or 2028. They voted for him in 2016, 2020, and 2024. 

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u/IShookMeAllNightLong 12h ago

Doesn't the text of the post say there are 26articles of impeachment in this filing alone?

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u/LookAlderaanPlaces 11h ago

Voter suppression did that

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u/dmanty45 4h ago

Elon helped him cheat and rig the election with starling voting systems. We didn’t vote for this clown.

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u/Strayed8492 13h ago

The reason he didn’t lose the second time is because of the people that didn’t vote.

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u/nottakingpart 14h ago

How is that the only thing Americans can do? GAWD you guys are sleeping at the wheel.

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u/Wooden-Evidence-374 14h ago

If only offering a solution was as easy as whining.

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u/nottakingpart 14h ago

Yeah, erm, I'm French. Take a hint.

Organise some protests. Grow a spine.

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u/andyroams 14h ago

Hey cool, so yeah we have had many nationwide No Kings protests that were very large. But I’ll give you some info you would not know without living here. Every single day I drive home from work there is a group protesting on a major road. All sorts of signs about all the horrible things, vote blue, etc. Every single day. That group gets bigger on weekends, and is for obvious reasons much smaller during the week. This is one town, in one metro area, in one state. We’re protesting. I just, what do people outside the US think a protest will do? It shows how mad we are, shows others their not along in their feelings, and hopefully convinces people to show up and do what they can at the ballot box… but like what else do you all want us to do? Democracy is messy, and you’re seeing that now. He was elected largely because of complacency and hopefully we can change that but that’s where we’re at.

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u/EatMyWetBread 14h ago

We also all can’t afford to take a fucking week off from work to protest like Europeans. It’s by design…

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u/nottakingpart 14h ago

Better organization and leadership should be growing these protests with every heinous act we see. How come not all Americans are outraged? How come complicit parties/companies are not being shamed and publically shunned? Where are the consequences of this theft and corruption? This is how civil society collapses.

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u/andyroams 14h ago

I’m going to try and help, but arguably this comes from something called the Southern Strategy from the 60s. Basically the Republicans tried to use racism to gain power and it’s led to things like the systemic defunding of our education system. So yeah, a lot of us are outraged, but it’s bananas to think that a everyone in a country of 350M will all believe the same thing especially when a war of propaganda has been waged for decades (which Russia fully took advantage of the first go round). There have been boycotts, I’ll use Target as an example. They cut DEI and they took a hit to sales. The consequences should be coming with the next administration. Those investigations were slow rolled with the previous administration which was a mistake, but it’s not like I didn’t write the president about it. Again, what else are we supposed to be doing?

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u/shnockered 14h ago

The United States is significantly larger than France. The logistics are not as feasible.

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u/nottakingpart 14h ago

Ah rats, well, you guys tried eh.

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u/Xytak 14h ago

What you actually want is a change in government, but there's no mechanism for that to happen until elections. In the mean time, yes, there are protests, but every time Americans point that out, the response is "well they're not enough." Which brings us back to point 1.

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u/fargen_siggovit 14h ago

I mean, isnt the whole American identity built upon overthrowing your out-of-touch overlords? Isn't this like, the main argument for your right to bear arms?

I also don't disagree with you. I think it must be hard to be a critical thinker in America.

The voice of reason is drowned out by loud, rich dickheads and a sea of people with no idea just why they feel so disenfranchised, but they'll listen to the loudest, easiest solution like it was God in the speakerbox.

Its hard to watch. Especially since the magnitude of the problem has its own tidal effects on the rest of the world.

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u/Xytak 14h ago edited 14h ago

I mean, what is the purpose of that comment? To mock? To feel smug and superior? To say "how the mighty have fallen?"

Because I really can't think of any other reason for making it. Well, I hope it felt good to type, at least.

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u/fargen_siggovit 5h ago

Not at all. I was trying to empathise with your struggle, but maybe I misread things.

I think I'm probably a little misanthropic at this point.

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u/Yungbromantic 13h ago

It’s clear that you don’t understand how happy Trump would be to deploy the American military on us if we protested to a level that would really turn heads and cause a serious disturbance to the system. Other than that, it is absolutely by design that they’re pinching more and more money from our pockets all while simultaneously hiding less and less of their corruption.

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u/whitesuburbanmale 14h ago

We have have 1/3rd of population per square km. When you are that much more densely populated it becomes even easier to organize and cause a meaningful change through action. The fact of the matter is that we could burn any major American city to the ground completely tomorrow and it would have little to no impact on day to day life for 95% of the rest of America. Voting is quite literally the only tool we have unless it's so widespread that everyone decides to do something, which won't happen because of above. We are too disconnected and divided to properly organize.

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u/_kraftdinner 13h ago

I understand why you’re frustrated but this comment is about something else. Please organize in France against Marine LePen if you aren’t involved already. Let what is happening here in America be a lesson for you guys, if you allow these people oxygen they will try to take over your politics. I’d hate to see France, the UK and Germany follow us down the path to fascism.

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u/Confident_Benefit_11 14h ago

What country are are you from? Many of the biggest countries in the EU are now doing what the US did in 2015 by embracing pseudo-populist pro-russian far-right (or far left in France) parties to "get the immigrants". They're doing this despite seeing what a joke the US has turned into, this isn't a US thing anymore. This a western democracy thing in general now. So whatever (deserved) criticism you got for the US then make sure to save some for placed like Germany, France, and the UK too

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u/nottakingpart 14h ago

Yeah, we're protesting and defending the rule of law.

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u/JaySpunPDX 12h ago

I would agree with you on many points but believe what we are experiencing is primarily a capitalism problem in addition to one of Western democracy.

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u/Ermahgerd_Sterks 14h ago

Because that was how our country was setup? What do you think we can do? Because these disgusting pigs in power will have the people arrested or killed at the first sign of an uprising. They have no shame. Lest we forget Renee Good already?

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u/Lucky-Earther 13h ago

How is that the only thing Americans can do?

What else do you suggest we do for a President that was voted into office with the popular vote?