Well, they do in one respect.
Texas Rep. Al Green has announced plans to introduce articles of impeachment against Orange, specifically for comments made about resettling all Palestinians out of Gaza, which would be ethnic cleansing.
In a class move, the Idiot solicited his followers for defense fund money via a text blast during the Super Bowl.
A glimmer of hope in the morass of stunning corruption, perhaps.
Except that the only things Congress is acting on currently are confirmations of his crazy, inept, sociopathic cabinet members.
Yesterday the Polity Project reduced Americaâs democracy score from 8 to zero, declaring that âignoring the constitution is functionally the same as suspending itâ and declared an âautocoupâ (executive coup) and labels this outcome an âunfavorable regime changeâ.
This groupâs scoring dataset on the countries of the world is used by people assessing the levels of democracy WRT business and political decisions. It appears we are now classified with various democratic backwaters â as well we should be.
He was first to do that during the first Shitler administration, but everyone ignored him and that appears to be happening again.
Jamie Raskin said heâd pursue articles of impeachment if just two GOP legislators would back it, which probably represents the bare minimum of anything happening. Judging from how things went the last two times, nothing short of 75% support of all in Congress would have a prayer. The presidential impeachment process appears fatally flawed in the same way the rest of our system is: it assumes people will place character and the law above party and general BS.
At least Gabbardâs confirmation was along âmostlyâ party lines, meaning, zero Dems and a couple of GOP defectors (notably, Mitch McConnell). And Vaughtâs confirmation was delayed by all-night Dem technical maneuvers, which at least made a point.
This is all fine, but far too little, far too late.
Do you have a link?
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https://www.systemicpeace.org
https://www.systemicpeace.org/polityproject
The USA dropped below the âdemocracy thresholdâ (+6) on the POLITY scale in 2020 and
was considered an anocracy (+5) at the end of the year 2020; the USA score for 2021 returned to democracy (+8).
Beginning on 1 July 2024, due to the US Supreme Court ruling granting the US Presidency broad, legal immunity,
the USA is noted by the Polity Project as experiencing a regime transition through, at least, 20 January 2025.
As of the latter date, the USA is coded EXREC=8, âCompetitive Electionsâ; EXCONST=1 âUnlimited Executive Authorityâ;
and POLCOMP=6 âFactional/Restricted Competition.â Polity scores: DEMOC=4; AUTOC=4; POLITY=0.
The USA is no longer considered a democracy and lies at the cusp of autocracy; it has experienced a
Presidental Coup and an Adverse Regime Change event (8-point drop in its POLITY score).
Not only that, but the Republicans control the House, and they wonât vote to impeach.
McConnell is, at last, showing some common sense. He also voted not to confirm Bobby Brainworm as Health Secretary. Perhaps heâs experiencing a long-delayed Grinch moment where his heart grew three sizes. Nah, thatâll never happenâŚ
If I had to guess Iâd say (1) the parade has passed him by so heâs groping for relevance and (2) heâs winding down his last term and now has selfish reasons to finally start thinking about his âlegacyâ (how history will regard him) and he needs some âplausibleâ deniability for him not being a complete shill for the oligarchy and totally lacking in foresight for where that kind of shilling inevitably leads. He canât construct anything that rational people canât see right through, but he can try to portray himself as a sober elder statesman whom the new generation wouldnât listen to.
This will be a test of the U.S.âs Supreme Court. Are we living in a tyranny (or headed well down the road) or will checks and balances still prevail?
âThe Trump administration wants the Supreme Court to permit the firing of the head of the federal agency dedicated to protecting whistleblowers, according to documents obtained Sunday that would mark the first appeal to the justices since President Donald Trump took office.â
Looks like youâre about to see The Man in the High Castle become a nightmare reality.
Iâm scared shitlessâŚ
