Worse… The House makes the impeachment charge, that’s a 50% majority vote.
THEN it goes to the Senate for conviction where you need a 2/3rds majority to remove them. 67/100.
That’s the body which can’t do anything because they’re blocked by a 60 vote super majority to over-ride A filibuster.
So you get 218 in the House, goes to the Senate, needs 60 votes to end debate and proceed with charges, then 67 votes to convict and remove.
Trump’s first impeachment got 48 and 47 votes.
His second was 57 votes.
…wikipedia.org/…/First_impeachment_trial_of_Donal…
…wikipedia.org/…/Second_impeachment_of_Donald_Tru…
If he had been convicted, he would have been inelligible to run in '24.
Clinicallydepressedpoochie@lemmy.world 1 week ago
The founders probably imagined no self respecting person, oligarch or otherwise, would want to live under authoritarian rule.
Turns the 21st century bourgeois is full of pussy ass bitches.
rhombus@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
They never could have imagined our modern society at all. The amount of power and influence held by just a handful of private citizens couldn’t have been accounted for in the 18th century.
Clinicallydepressedpoochie@lemmy.world 1 week ago
I’m just speaking from a matter of principles. They don’t have to know the conditions to conclude living under king rule in any conditions is unappealing.
in4apenny@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 week ago
I mean they waged a bloody revolution against Kings, and inequality has increased a thousand-fold since, so wtf are we doing?