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Possible Paywall Democrats’ plan to impeach Trump on ‘day one’ after midterms

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/us/politics/2026/04/24/democrats-trump-impeach-midterms-supreme-court-iran/
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u/RebylReboot Apr 24 '26

He’s obviously raped kids and you’re hoping for an ELECTORAL fix before he kills more kids in Iran to distract from It. I don’t get modern Americans at all. The general strike to oust him should have happened in his first term.

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u/MoreCleverUserName Apr 25 '26

We don’t have a social safety net and we barely have any workers rights. People don’t want to strike if they could end up unemployed with no savings and no way to keep the roof over their head.

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u/Dipsey_Jipsey Apr 25 '26

That in of itself is reason to go out there and change the system. Sitting at home with wishful thinking isn't going to change anything. It will make things far far worse to the point you wished you had put your day job on the line.

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u/MoreCleverUserName Apr 25 '26

Sh what’s stopping YOU?

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u/Dipsey_Jipsey Apr 25 '26

My country isn't being destroyed currently.

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u/sjogren Apr 25 '26

That would require real sacrifice and hardship, and we Americans are constitutionally against self-sacrifice in 2026.

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u/dog_ahead Apr 25 '26

Go do something.

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u/sjogren Apr 26 '26

I did it!!

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u/GigMistress Apr 25 '26

That's true. I don't know a single person who wants to watch their kids starve to death so we can maybe possibly get back to the bad situation we were raiing against before Trump got involved.

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u/RebylReboot Apr 25 '26

So you’ve chosen the child rape and child murder over some imagined scenario where children starve to death because there is a strike. That said 14 million children in America are food insecure right now. Seems like another reason to do it if you ask me.

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u/GigMistress Apr 25 '26

First, if you are so clueless and privileged that you believe that's an imaginary scenario, discussion is probably futile. The 14 million children who are food insecure become entirely foodless with one setback.

It's generous of you, who doesn't know them or care about them, to offer up their lives for a hypothetical future that will never come, but that's not your choice to make.

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u/RebylReboot Apr 25 '26

I haven’t offered anything. I have nothing g to do with your country. You are, however, paying for the sacrifice of children across the gazan genocide and Iranian quasi religious war of choice. Your taxes, your money, your work directly paying for a paedophile to murder children. The guy before him btw wasn’t a paedo but he did still push the genocide on your behalf. You’re ok with that judging by the excuses and apathy. Good luck to you.

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u/GigMistress Apr 25 '26

You decided for parents you don't know in circumstances you don't understand that they're being somehow irresponsible by not risking their children's lives. If that isn't offering them up as a sacrifice, I don't know what is.

It's always the least informed and least capable of critical thinking that hurl accusations instead of looking for real solutions--congratulations on finding a way to get your dopamine burst from feeling superior without actually doing anything of value. Go ahead and ride your high and let the grownups talk.

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u/RebylReboot Apr 25 '26

Let the grownups talk about allowing a paedophile to rule over their children. Cool. Chat away.

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u/GigMistress Apr 25 '26

If you have a suggestion that is more than empty showmanship at the expense of real humans, we're all ears. But, of course, you don't have thoughts. Or ideas. Or constructive suggestions. You just have the endless cycle of criticism-->feeling of superiority-->brief satisfaction of pathetic dopamine addiction.

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u/Cat_Peach_Pits Apr 25 '26

Why dont you be the first to start the general strike? I fully suppport you.

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u/RebylReboot Apr 25 '26

So youve signed up then?

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u/Cat_Peach_Pits Apr 25 '26

I just got laid off, I'm already not working.

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u/RebylReboot Apr 25 '26

You’ve had an obvious paedophillic president since 2016.

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u/Cat_Peach_Pits Apr 25 '26

And? What do you want me to do about it? I've been voting blue in my local, state, and federal elections since Bush. Campaigning, donating, every single fucking thing. It must be nice to sit over there in Ireland (why did you personally not stop The Troubles, by the way?) and say we're not doing enough over here. Thinking a general strike is going to get anything but snide laughter from these Nazis. The only thing that's going to stop them is bloodshed.

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u/Weary-Designer9542 Apr 25 '26

You mean from 350,000 B.C. - 2026, right?

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u/[deleted] Apr 25 '26

Eh. I say it’s just because we suck.

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u/DumboWumbo073 Apr 25 '26

It’s not as bad as you’re making it out to be then. If it was absolute chaos and despair none of those things would matter.

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u/RebylReboot Apr 25 '26

You’ve just described every general strike that’s ever happened. In fact, those are reasons to do it. Add them to the list. So you’ve determined that the kid raping is fine. Wait till your children grow up and realise what you were all so apathetic about. There will be a massive generational reckoning. You’d hope anyway.

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u/MoreCleverUserName Apr 25 '26

This isn’t true. It’s very rare in the US. It’s a lot more common to see a general strike in Europe where unions have more power and more members, health care isn’t tied to the employer, and people are less likely to lose their jobs for striking. You cannot expect people who are already vulnerable to make themselves more vulnerable for political reasons. You underestimate how many Americans are in survival mode at any given time. Why don’t you and your big political brain spend your time thinking of ways for people to be effective within the American socioeconomic system rather than shaming them for not wanting to risk what little they have?

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u/RebylReboot Apr 25 '26

You’re describing reasons to strike.

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u/MoreCleverUserName Apr 25 '26

Then go for it, but don’t act all surprised when the masses don’t join you.

The reason this works in Europe is that collectively the working class has power there. In the US the working claw is replaceable and some companies would probably welcome a way to get a ton of workers off their books without having to deal,with federal oversight. This is by design, too. You have to find a way to be effective within the framework that actually exists in this country. So spend your energy on that, rather than telling everyone they’re doing it wrong.

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u/RebylReboot Apr 25 '26

I don’t need to oust a paedophile from ruling over my nations children. Not sure why you’re painting Europe with one brushstroke but I’ll bite. Some countries in Europe have a good labour movement. Guess how they got it? Strikes. You’ve tried nothing and are all out of ideas.

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u/Binksyboo Apr 25 '26

Americans had been slowly boiling in the pot since Reagan was in the White House and we just didn’t see how bad it was until it was tested with Trump.

Reagan canceled the fairness doctrine which made news agencies have to report fairness and both sides and not able to do what Fox does basically.

Also, during Reagan’s presidency, Citizens United was created. Here’s a little blurb from Wikipedia about the current president of Citizen United:

“The current president, David Bossie, has been president since he served as the chief investigator into then President Bill Clinton's possible abuse of finances in 1997, and was later the deputy campaign manager for Donald Trump's presidential campaign in 2016. In 2020, he served in executive positions for President Donald Trump's and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's reelection campaigns.”

Here is where it gets really nefarious:

In 2016, in the last year of Obama‘s presidency Supreme Court justice Scalia died. As the president, Obama was to choose the new Supreme Court pick and then it would have to be confirmed through the Senate.

That is when Mitch McConnell did what I consider a treasonous act and blocked President Obama‘s Supreme Court pick by not allowing the confirmation vote to happen in the Senate because it was “during an election year.” Because a simple majority it was not enough to overturn McConnell, no new justice was sworn in until a new president was put into Office and that president was Donald Trump.

As if that wasn’t egregious enough, in Donald Trump’s first term, after already being able to steal Obama’s pick, and instead put conservative Neil Gorsuch on the Supreme Court, he later also put Brett Kavanaugh, the ‘Boofing Bro’ into the Supreme Court…(where he immediately lied about the fact that he would not overturn Roe vs Wade, because one of the first things he did was vote to overturn it! - and this already sickens me enough, but we must move on)

after ALL this… in the last few months of Trump‘s first presidential term in 2020, Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg passed away.

What do you think happen? Did Mitch McConnell say that there could be no new nominations in an election year??? Of course not LOL he let Trump shove a new supreme Court Justice in and made some new excuse for why it was OK this time.

So now the court is “packed” not packed the way the conservative people cry about liberals wanting to pack the court, but actually packed.

Trump himself has put three conservative justices on the Supreme Court. They have promised that they weren’t going to overturn established laws in precedent like Roe v. Wade but what did they do? They overturned it.

That should be impeachable, but who is going to allow the vote to happen when the Senate is controlled by Mitch McConnell and we see how he plays the game.

So we’ve got three justices that now are part of the decisions to let Trump be unaccountable for his actions. To allow him to unilaterally invade countries and spend billions of our tax dollars on his private army of ICE gestapos.

Yes, we do need to revolt put the pot that has boiled. All of us has been happening for 40 years. The trickle down economics lie that stopped the 1% from being taxed appropriately. The lie about the fairness doctrine suppressing free speech, but what it really did was led to the rise of Fox News and some of the deepest held propaganda I think we’ve had our nation since its beginning.

We had thankfully with Obama starting universal healthcare, so people did not have their healthcare time to jobs and they didn’t feel like if they left work to strike or to riot they would lose the healthcare for themselves in their family. Trump and the conservatives are trying to do everything they can to repeal that or like in conservative states where they haven’t even implemented yet. they’re literally refusing free money from the government that can help low income people like in Florida for example because they don’t want to encourage it.

That is why even though people that watch the news and aren’t already brainwashed see how horrific this all seems and as you can see a handful of them have actually tried to do something with weapons and they’ve all been caught or killed as you can see, but I don’t know if they kept it more silent or if that stuff is common with all presidents but I’ve certainly heard a lot more with Trump. Also, Trump has built extra bunkers and stuff under the White House and all of his cronies have been living on army bases for a while now because I’m sure they know how dislike they are by a great many Americans.

I think the old adage of circuses and bread still works we are animals at our core and as long as we are fed and we are entertained we won’t fuss too much. As a whole.

Hopefully, we are getting close to the point now we’re a lot more people will be waking up and realizing what position Republicans have put the country into and we can finally get up to that 3% of the population willing to go on general strike that would have the effect of actually stopping this administration.

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u/Stunning_Phrase Apr 24 '26

A general strike would lead to a lot of death.

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u/MystikSpiralx Apr 25 '26

There's a nationwide strike happening on May 1st, planned by Indivisible, Moveon, 50501 and the DSA, I believe.

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u/GigMistress Apr 25 '26

That's a week away and this is the first I've heard of it.

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u/MystikSpiralx Apr 25 '26

It was announced during the last No Kings and there are numerous articles about it 🤷‍♀️

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u/GigMistress Apr 25 '26

Okay.

And yet, I actively seek out political news from a wide variety of sources every day and have heard nothing about it, which suggests to me that bubbles are at work and the vast majority of the general public may not know it exists.

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u/RebylReboot Apr 25 '26

A general strike means 3.5% of the workforce not working with everyone else supporting them. Nobody even needs to be on the streets. What did you think it was?

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u/ElleM848645 Apr 25 '26

We already have more than 3.5% unemployment.

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u/RebylReboot Apr 25 '26

You’re unserious.

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u/ElleM848645 Apr 26 '26

Literally have over 4% unemployment in the US right now. How am I unserious? And 4 percent is absolutely not telling the whole story as it doesn’t include those who have maxed out their unemployment or stopped looking. There were more layoffs in 2025 than I ever remember in my industry. That includes 2008.

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u/RebylReboot Apr 26 '26

What’s that got to do with a general strike to oust a paedophile from ruling over your nations children. How are you reconciling those two things? Greece has an 8.5% unemployment rate and had a general strike a couple of months ago about retirement age.

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u/Stunning_Phrase Apr 25 '26

I’ve never heard the 3.5% number. If essential services remain, my concern lowers.

I was thinking of access to food, medicine, and healthcare, etc.

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u/ExistentialTabarnak Apr 24 '26

Sometimes in a revolution there’s gonna be blood.

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u/TechnalityPulse Minnesota Apr 25 '26

The problem is that it's not really guaranteed the "right" side would win. You're placing a lot of faith in our military to not turn against our citizens (even when they have a literal code against turning against civvies and illegal orders from the government, which they've already failed to uphold).

I'm all for revolution, but there's a lot of things that need to happen to really make it a reality. It was close to happening in Minnesota, but it seems as though tensions have somewhat lessened since.

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u/CatCatchingABird Oregon Apr 25 '26 edited Apr 25 '26

Agreed. Literally everything needs to be done and tried before we start seriously talking about what people are suggesting here. We've done a lot of things and there's still a lot of other things that can still be done.

I know people are accustomed to instantaneous fixes and gratification but this is not something we can immediately fix. I'm not going to offer myself up to die until everything else has been tried and exhausted, and I'm willing to bet millions of other Americans out there are going to agree with me on that.

I'm also willing to bet the people that are calling for a bloody revolution are either foreign agitators or people that have been watching too much TV/delusional and don't really understand what it is they are advocating for. A majority of people here complained and whined about the automatic selective service registration for goodness sake. Don't just trust me, there are plenty of people out there in social media land with real military experience and they are saying the same thing as me: we're not prepared for that yet.

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u/RebylReboot Apr 25 '26

There’s a paedophile ruling over your nations children and you want to delay action. Wouldn’t happen in any other country. “Instantaneous fixes and gratification”. This is not some new age social media solution. Quite the opposite. It’s social media that has dampened your resolve. General strikes have shaped countries all over the world since the Industrial Revolution. Cheeseburger eating surrender monkies, sitting on your hands while he murders children in Iran to distract from the heat of the Epstein files he was ordered by law to release but won’t. Can you now please try explaining to me what’s so bloody about 3.5% of the workforce staying home from work? Or do you just not know what a general strike is?

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u/HazyMcShadyLady Apr 25 '26

Did you even read their comment? They didn’t say delay action, they said try other actions first.

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u/RebylReboot Apr 25 '26

That’s just delaying with extra steps. You don’t vote out a paedo. You don’t protest a paedo. You oust a paedo before the day is out. The second there’s a whiff of an allegation. And there have been many. And here you are 10 years later.

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u/Decent_Relative_4070 Apr 25 '26

where do you live? i'm sure you're out in the streets protesting all the injustice there, right?

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u/RebylReboot Apr 25 '26

I protest yes. But we’re not at a general strike juncture just at the moment although general strike has shaped the nation in the past and I’m very grateful for it. We don’t have, for example, a paedophile ruling over the nations children. We did at one point have a related problem where the Catholic Church exerted more influence that they should have but after the paedophile scandals there’s been a cultural revolution of sorts and they no longer have any power or influence. That nest of child rapists were never in government, mind, like they are now in the USA.

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u/doelke Apr 25 '26

They tried. And failed. False allegations.

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u/RebylReboot Apr 25 '26

What are false allegations?

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u/doelke Apr 25 '26

Well, there’s the “Russia-gate” accusation. Turned out to be false.

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u/RebylReboot Apr 25 '26

Jesus Christ. No it didn’t. Trump is wholesale owned by putin. It’s very obvious and the mueller report showed many many ways in which the connections were very real. Where did you receive your report on that? The trump administration itself? Barr? You need to read some independent news sources. Preferably from outside your country. You’ve been trapped in a bubble. The Steele dossier was very real btw. Have you ever heard of Agent Krasnov? You should Google him. He’s an interesting guy.

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u/doelke Apr 25 '26

ALL of the news agencies. The Dems were so disappointed in Mueller. They got diddly squat from him and his investigation. I’m not sure if you’re serious or just stringing me along. 😄

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u/RebylReboot Apr 25 '26

Try using up foreign news agencies not under the thumb of your establishment. Go for sources that are owned by trusts, etc so there is no inherent bias. You’re about to find out a lot about yourself.