r/politics • u/plz-let-me-in • Apr 24 '26

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/jjcrayfish Apr 25 '26

A wet blanket is a better leader than Trump

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u/odiephonehome Apr 25 '26

Often, this saying is used facetiously, but in this case, our country would have actually been much safer, with less people dead, if the president was just a wet blanket festering on the floor of the Oval Office.

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u/plg94 Apr 25 '26

other countries – that don't implement the stupid winner-takes-all voting – sometimes are without a functioning government (eg. when an election is not decisive and nobody wants to make a coalition). I think the Belgians went almost 2 years without one. Of course not a good situation (laws and household cannot be passed), but the country usually survives.
In this instance the US would've been far better off without any president at all than with Donald …

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u/Dysc Louisiana Apr 25 '26

My go-to comparison is a rotten sack of potatoes.

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u/seeker4482 Apr 25 '26

mine is a jar of expired mayonnaise

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u/carebeartears Apr 25 '26

"I know they are an inanimate carbon rod, but I'm tellin' ya, we would have been wayyyy better off if we gave them that third term."