Rep. Shri Thanedar (D-Mich.) announced Wednesday he plans to introduce articles of impeachment against Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth.
Why it matters: The long-shot effort centers on two scandals currently rocking the Pentagon — a new report about Signalgate and allegations of a follow-up strike against an alleged Venezuelan drug boat.
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HazardousBanjo@lemmy.world · 220 pts · 247d
Good.
Fuck Hakeem Jefferies. Pussy wanted to protect Hegseth because he's more concerned about alienating the entirely fictional demographic of GOP voters who might flip Dem if the Dems become more semi-fascist
takeda@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 84 pts · 247d
More and more it looks like controlled opposition. It sounded like a conspiracy theory, but I'm now truly starting to be convinced that Schummer and Jeffries were bought.
TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world · 53 pts · 247d
Its just beyond the pale at this point.
And Schumer has out right said it. His service isn't to the American people but to Israel.
Wilco@lemmy.zip · 27 pts · 247d
Both parties are bought. Citizens United legalized all bribery.
takeda@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 246d
Yes and no. There's no doubt that many Democrats are corrupted, but there are still politicians (looks like mostly progressives) who care about people.
Republicans at this point do it in the open.
HazardousBanjo@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 247d
If you'll allow me to put on my tin foil hat for a second,
I genuinely wonder if Israel is privately instructing them to not actually oppose Trump whatsoever.
They're both EXTREMELY bought and paid for by AIPAC. And we know Israel LOVES Trump and Pete Kegs-breath because they both are the biggest supporters of Israel's war crimes that've ever been in their respective positions.
frizzo@piefed.social · 11 pts · 247d
And only 40 years too late.
defaultusername@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 10 pts · 247d
Always has been. Both parties are bought, largely by the same donors. That doesn't mean both parties are the same, but they still both serve the corporations and billionaires that pay them.
UltraMagnus0001@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 247d
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5632133-jeffries-trump-pardon-cuellar/
runiq@feddit.org · 39 pts · 247d
Yeah, that was... something. Felt a smidgen of my soul leave my body at that point. Hegseth ordered people killed in cold blood and all you got was "won't matter anyways?" What is wrong with you, Jefferies?
Lasherz12@lemmy.world · 20 pts · 247d
If he's fine with innocent children being murdered in cold blood by Israel why would he draw the line at innocent fishermen?
i_am_not_a_robot@discuss.tchncs.de · 10 pts · 247d
Impeachment has lost all meaning. Trump has been impeached multiple times but remains in office. Trump loyalists in congress prevented him from seeing any consequences for those impeachments and block new impeachments. Unless something changes, the only way Hegseth is leaving is if Trump decides to remove him.
bradv@lemmy.ca · 32 pts · 247d
They're not moving rightward to appease the voters, they're doing it to appease the corporate donors.
HazardousBanjo@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 247d
That too for sure.
Not to mention to appease specifically Israel which vastly prefers a dominant GOP
minorkeys@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 247d
Every politician has a unique means of staying in power, favours, friends, appeal, funding, handlers, Jeffrey's may simply not be able to stay in power if he doesn't do this. These people don't adhere to idealistic ideology or fancy ideas, they trade in power and persuasion.
Cruxifux@feddit.nl · 12 pts · 247d
Well we should destroy the system that enables this and remove these people from any position of power indefinitely. I personally also think they should be put in fucking prison.
Zachariah@lemmy.world · -2 pts · 247d
What is the replacement system you envision?
Cruxifux@feddit.nl · 3 pts · 247d
There are literally thousands of books written about different systems than this one, many of which I would consider better.
aubeynarf@lemmynsfw.com · 1 pts · 247d
Cruxifux@feddit.nl · 3 pts · 247d
Socialism, communism, anarchy, pick one. Imperial hegemony under christofascism/ techno oligarchy is bad for the entire world.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 247d
shit, at this point i'd even take direct democracy
Zachariah@lemmy.world · -1 pts · 247d
I have no clue which ones you’re imagining. What are some examples, and how would we put it in place?
halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 247d
The first step is ranked choice voting for everything from local to federal elections.
First past the post is literally the worst way to operate a voting system of your goal is to get an accurate representation of the populace.
Zachariah@lemmy.world · -1 pts · 247d
I’m very much in favor of the reforms of ranked choice and proportional representation (fairvote.org).
But these aren’t really a replacement after we destroy the current system. More like incremental fixes for the current system.
I’d still like to understand more about the vision of destroying (what’s the plan?) the system and what would come next (what’s part two of the plan?).
turdburglar@piefed.social · 11 pts · 247d
well he doesn’t seem to have either power or persuasion.
NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io · 3 pts · 247d
Yeah but neither do you (at least the power bit), which means he succeeded at his job.
khepri@lemmy.world · 40 pts · 247d
Well good, get it on the books for future historians if nothing else.
samus12345@sh.itjust.works · 15 pts · 247d
Yup. Nothing will come of it, but it's important to do it anyway.
geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 246d
"Let it be known that the democrats tried to do something when they had no power, as opposed to the moments when they have power and don't do anything."
N0body@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 34 pts · 247d
Good to see resistance. Even if it doesn’t gather support now it’s always good to take the first steps. Move Kegsbreath’s impeachment into view in a corner of whatever the Overton window has become in the age of disinformation.
BigMacHole@sopuli.xyz · 19 pts · 247d
How DARE he!
-OTHER Democrats for some Reason!
VM_Abrantes@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 246d
Impeachments to this administration are as effective as restraining orders are to wife batterers.
KonalaKoala@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 247d
It would be better if it's "Democrat announces articles of impeachment against Trump" instead to cut all this shit off at the root.
ArsonButCute@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 17 pts · 247d
Right because that totally worked the last time, and the time before that
Isolde@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 246d
Just spam impeachments fuck it. Why not at this point?
NeilBru@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 246d
At this point I have to come to the conclusion that the DNC and the majority of the democratic party is perfectly fine with the status quo and future plans of Trump and the MAGA autofellators.
Regrettable_incident@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 247d
Third time lucky!
Lol none of those fuckers care about impeachment. Until there are real consequences they will continue to not give a shit.
W3dd1e@lemmy.zip · 8 pts · 247d
Rumors have been going around that Hegseth was gonna get fired early next year anyway.
Apparently Trump promised not to fire any cabinet members for a year bc he had such turmoil amongst the turnover during his first term.
Sorry for the CNN article. I actually read a story about this back in Sept but I can’t remember where and CNN was the first I could find referencing the same idea.
At the time I read about, it was over Signalgate and the embarrassing Trump at the Fat Generals Speech.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/11/21/politics/trump-cabinet-kristi-noem-chris-wright
Jhuskindle@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 247d
Didnt he also already put in articles of impeachment on Trump? Theyve been sitting there since March or something
Zier@fedia.io · 6 pts · 247d
Impeach remove convict and then president piggy pardons him.
DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 246d
Impeachment is not a criminal trial.
Impeachment is explicitly not allowed to be pardoned in the constitution.
After a 2/3 conviction and removal, it takes only a simple majority vote to disqualify for future office. Can't pardon this, I mean they could try, then we'd be in a constitutional crisis.
Problem would be finding that 67 senators willing to vote to convict. Aint happening, everyone is corrupt.
HurricaneLiz@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 246d
Doesn't that technically mean we're in a constitutional crisis already?
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 247d
pretty sure pardons only cover judicial convictions, not legislative ones, but i don't know if it's ever been tested
NGC2346@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 247d
Ok do Trump next
RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 247d
Third time’s the charm?