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Jedi Guy

(3,457 posts)
14. Because it's just not going to happen for several reasons.
Wed Feb 18, 2026, 11:26 AM
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The only way the math works out in our favor is if we win damn near every single seat that's up for election in 2026. If we won every seat we'd end up with a supermajority of 69 seats and we need 67 to convict on impeachment. The odds that we're going to win 67+ seats in the Senate are beyond astronomical.

If we wind up with a majority in the Senate we'll be far short of what's needed to convict. There's absolutely no way we're going to talk enough GOP Senators into supporting convictions on both Trump and Vance. That's just fantasy because it would be political suicide for them and they know it. Your idea presupposes the notion that they care for country over party and there's vanishingly small evidence to support that notion. Apart from a few like Massie (and he's in the House, anyway) they're terrified of provoking Trump's wrath and falling foul of the cultists.

The best we can hope for (and given polling and special elections we have reason to be hopeful) is that we can take control of both houses of Congress and stymie Trump's legislative agenda until he's out of office. Even that is tenuous because he'll just legislate via executive order and, in all probability, the judiciary will either let it slide or move so slowly he'll still be able to do some damage.

Reality is unpleasant right now, I get it. But we gain nothing by entertaining fanciful scenarios that just aren't going to happen.

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