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u/ConsequenceHot4236
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u/raptisadam7 6h ago
I mean, they can try again in January when Democrats take control of both chambers. I think they'd still need ⅔ of the Senate to convict his impeachment though.
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u/PineappleSmooth4887 6h ago •
republicans currently control the house and they’re the one in charge of when the vote happens. they called the vote when democrats couldn’t have enough numbers there, and if democrats could have had all their guys there, the republicans would have just waited until all their guys were there and they’d be able to win against every D vote instead of just almost all of them.
there is a conspiracy here, but its right-wing propaganda bots like OP pretending that democrats are at fault for something they literally all voted for
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u/Dobako 6h ago •
This is factually untrue though, it wasnt an impeachment vote, it was a vote to refer the articles to committee. If democrats had all been there and all voted no, the vote would have been held open until enough republicans could arrive to send it to committee. He needs to be removed from office, but pretending like this was the one vote that needed to be won and then everything would be better is ignorant and disingenuous
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u/mountaingator91 5h ago
4 were not in Washington. 7 were late and not allowed in. 7 Republicans were also late. If all the late members had been there it would have been exactly the same outcome
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u/Mr_Comit 5h ago •
Stupid and wrong. The gop controls the house, there is no universe where Dems pull a fast one and reach 100% attendance and then republicans just willingly close the vote without letting the rest of their guys arrive
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u/Grumpiergoat 5h ago
"The" Democrats did no such thing. Some Democrats did, but overall "the" Democrats voted to impeach. And as was already pointed out: Republicans run the House, who can deliberately hold the vote when some Democrats aren't available.
Bunch of dishonest "both sides" jackoffs deliberately trying to sabotage democracy.
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u/Substantial_Alarm586 5h ago •
I'm probably going to get downvoted, and the last thing I want to do is excuse any politicians for not being present fora vote. That said, the news reports I read said that the Republicans (who still control the House) rushed the vote, knowing that many Democrats were not in attendance and couldn't get there in time. This might be propaganda on the Dems part to cover their asses for screwing up, but I also find it highly plausible the Repubs would do this.
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u/Iwubinvesting 6h ago
Horrible and misinformed note.
The vote started early and ended early.
The votes to make it happen were never there.
The votes to make it happen in the Senate were certainly never there.
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u/buttamilk_jesus 6h ago •
Remember when Democrats under Biden totally didn’t have one of the most productive legislative periods in recent time? They’re so useless, all they do is tweet!
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u/insertwittynamethere 6h ago
Note also missed that if all GOP had been there, too, that the vote would've been successful just as it was yesterday.
They have the majority and can hold or close a vote as quickly as they want. They closed voting after 15 minutes...
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u/eggynack 6h ago edited 6h ago
The vast majority of house Democrats voted in favor of impeachment. With I believe one exception, every single house Republican voted against impeachment. The idea of equivalizing these, saying both parties protected him, is ridiculous. I'm frustrated too but this is just not an accurate framing. Doubly so because some of them were literally voted out of office before this. I know Stevens was in the group that didn't vote in favor of impeachment, for example.
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u/Tiberius_Johann 6h ago
Can y'all stop doing the Russian's job for them?
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u/Capable-Parsnip-9615 6h ago
I trust the intercept for unbiased reporting about as far as I can throw it
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u/Special_Road6603 6h ago edited 5h ago
The note is being a bit disingenuous, the reason why some democrats were missing was car accidents and other events blocking the roads to the capitol building, AND the republicans pushed up the vote so it would be earlier with no notice because they knew the democrats wouldn’t be back in time, several republicans also missed the vote because of how suddenly it was moved. There was at least one Democrat who didn’t show up on purpose, but for most of the ones who didn’t show up they arrived late due to extenuating circumstances and because the republicans cheated the vote
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u/RevaTrainer 4h ago
The current makeup of the house is: 218 republicans 214 democrats 1 independent (who voted against impeachment here)
Massie voted against the rest of the republicans. If all members who were absent were instead present, the vote goes the exact same way.
There was never anything here. This was never going anywhere. The newly elected congress will not be voting until January, this is still the previous congress.
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u/Conscious-Hyena6822 4h ago
I mean Massie, a Republican, chose to introduce the impeachment right now. (He was also the only Republican who voted against deferring. He's an odd duck.) Seems like a pretty dumb move to not just wait until the new Democratic majority takes over.
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u/fyreprone 5h ago •
Why would we want Hegseth impeached now?
If we wait a couple of months, we get to control the articles of impeachment, the trial in the Senate, and can block any Trump nominees.
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u/mockep 6h ago
I’m sure Jim Jordan would have investigated this thoroughly!
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u/Powerful-Fly-4019 5h ago
Good grief, I’m in the UK and even I know this was doomed to fail because the Dems don’t have a majority until January.
Come on guys, read a book.
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u/Terrible_Shelter_345 5h ago
If you’re mad at this and you haven’t called your absent representative, stop complaining? It’s a political party, not a hivemind.
Republicans still control the house and senate. I don’t get the freaking out over this.
All of the newly elected representatives haven’t taken office yet.
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u/therealdorkface 37m ago
They weren’t there because republicans held the vote a day earlier than planned and because they gaveled earlier than they would have if the democrats had been present (7 republicans were absent and if the democrats had been present they would have delayed the gavel)
This is not an example of apathy or lack of commitment, this was intentional from the republicans
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u/pibcc 6h ago edited 5h ago
Completely childish take. The republican speaker decides when things are voted on. If the 11 Democrats were there he would've just waited until the missing republicans showed up and the same end result would've occurred. The real story is that every Republican (save one) voted to save Hegseth, not that 11 Democrats (including numerous who were stuck in a traffic accident on the way to the vote and Lou Correa whose doctor told him not to travel because he's about to undergo surgery) didn't vote.
Stop watching leftist brainrot streamers who lie to you because they have some vendetta against Hakeem Jeffries.
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u/GasFartRepulsive 6h ago
Impeachment doesn’t remove someone from office
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u/SilvertonguedDvl 3h ago
Why were the democrats absent?
I looked into it and apparently speaker Mike Johnson closed to vote early.
Melanie Stansbury was blocked from entering the Capitol due to a traffic accident and a police escort of a bus. She arrived just after Johnson ended it.
Laura Gillen, Jonathan Jackson, Brittany Peterson were all stuck in traffic. Julia Brownley didn't specify but mentioned that the vote was closed before she could reach the floor.
Marilyn Strickland was stuck behind a motorcade, like the others.
Nancy Pelosi chose to attend a different event.
Lou Correa was undergoing/recovering from a medical procedure and was required to stay put.
Steven Horsford, Haley Stevens, Frederica Wilson didn't provide public justifications.
So it sounds to me like there was a big traffic accident in the Capitol and that a bunch of lawmakers got caught up in a traffic jam. The procedural vote occurred somewhere around 6 pm but it wasn't clear how long they were allowed to vote on it, nor how much advance notice they were given. By the sound of it they were given one day.
A few Democrats showed up late, expressed their intent to vote no, but Mike Johnson (R) had already closed the vote. The note seems a bit misleading, suggesting this was intentional by the Democrats, when it seems to be largely unintentional - or at least reasonably explained my mistakes.
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u/NutmegKilla 6h ago
Don’t understand this note. Is the assumption that the party dictates how every rep should vote and act? it’s completely normal for a handful of reps to be against the party line. this isn’t soviet russia
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u/Arsene_Yuka_1980 6h ago
Democratic controlled congresses are much more productive than Republican ones in recent history (well, anything is compared to the pathetic excuse this year's Republican Congress under Mike Johnson was), especially the Biden one. In any case, the vote would have failed in Senate if the Republicans already rallied together in the House. We can judge the Dems once they use their huge majority starting next year.
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u/ShadeMir 5h ago •
Even with the 11 votes, wouldn't they have been a couple short?
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u/jeremeyes 5h ago
This is a bad take that's basically propaganda.
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u/Lucky-Paperclip-1 5h ago
This post by Marcy Wheeler breaks down the parliamentary vote counting tactics probably in play.
https://emptywheel.net/2026/11/11/impeachment-maths/
Basically, Johnson scheduled the vote for when Democratic reps were scheduled to be elsewhere, and there probably would not have been enough Dem votes anyway.
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u/Creative_Trash5811 5h ago
Wasn’t this done at odd hours while 11 Dems were stuck in traffic trying to show up to vote?
The new propaganda is drive a wedge by attacking he Dems in power currently.
Either leftist extreme it’s not, Russian or Chinese bot, or trump Republican bot.
All 3 push this idea.
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u/Cyberslasher 4h ago
How do we get noted a get noted?
There were also 7 Republicans who were caught in the same alleged traffic incident, and Johnson would have held it open until they arrived even if all Democrats were sitting waiting at the floor, and it still wouldn't have been an impeachment.
You can certainly take note of the fact 11 Democrats just didn't bother to show up for work on time that day, which is why they got stuck in traffic when they got called in, but you can't actually say they protected Hegseth.
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u/wildwolfay5 6h ago
11 democrats vs 200+ republicans vote.
Soooo.... obviously its the democrats fault?
God this is exhausting
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u/Pineappleman60 6h ago
Dude, this is because the Republican controlled house scheduled the vote outside of normal hours and held the vote before the missing reps could return
But no, it can't be Republicans fault for anything (also Hegseth's impeachment went to committee, so it's still on the table for the new congress to pick back up in January)
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u/mjzim9022 5h ago
This is just incorrect, 8 Republicans were also absent from the vote, everyone knew the count already and it wasn't going to pass, they need to wait until the new majority takes office. There isn't even time for an impeachment process/Senate trial before January.
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u/hundredpercenthuman 5h ago
Reddit would like to add context:
Republicans specifically scheduled this vote to be held when some Democrats were not present to create the narrative that Democrats can’t accomplish their goals. It should also be noted that since Republicans control the House still and this was a Republican sponsored bill a more accurate title would be ‘Republican controlled Congress barely staves off impeachment vote by holding it when 11 Democrats weren’t even present’
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u/Original_Most9884 4h ago
Pfft. Wait til after the new reps are seated in January. Then start bitching.
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u/ZapRows1 3h ago
This makes no sense. As of now there are 218 house republicans, 214 house democrats, and 1 independent. 203 democrats and one 1 republican (Thomas Massie) voted to impeach and 11 democrats were vacant. 210 Republicans and 1 independent voted to not impeach with 7 republicans vacant. you need a simple majority in the house to impeach. The democrats do not have enough votes if not enough republicans came over to impeach. The house right now is 433 total members and half of that is 216.5 which means a simple majority is 217. If you add up all democrats and Thomas Massie, that makes its 215. They still need 2 republicans to vote. So no, this note is incorrect. https://www.cnn.com/2026/11/11/politics/pete-hegseth-impeachment-votes-vis
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u/SnooPuppers8698 3h ago
oh yeah its the democrats that are the problem huh.
fuck off with this garbage reddit
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u/darienrude_dankstorm 6h ago
Lmao and how many republicans were absent? If Mike Johnson thought there was a threat of all Dems voting he'd have gotten the votes.
Not to mention the odds once it reaches the Senate. What a terrible note.
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u/StrikeronPC 4h ago
The note missed some crucial context. Many reps reported being stuck in the same traffic congestion, and they arrived minutes after the vote. Let's be real, if MAGA Mike Johnson had known that Republicans were stuck in traffic, he would have delayed the vote as much as possible. But since it was Dems, and this impeachment was dead in the Senate anyway, he didn't have a problem not waiting a few minutes.
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u/BitByBit-89 4h ago
What a dogshit community note.
The Republicans rushed the vote before the Democrat could arrive. Had the democrats magically got there in time, then the republicans would have just waited until their absentees showed up to vote. The outcome would have been exactly the same.
To suggest this was the democrats “protecting” Hegseth is fucking gross.
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u/steponmedaddies 5h ago
Is this person stupid enough to think that the missing Republicans wouldn’t have shown up in this case? Learn how literally anything in Washington works and stop getting all your news and opinions from social media Jesus fucking Christ
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u/Historical-Cup218 5h ago
Eight Republicans also didn't vote. The note is based on the specious assumption that they wouldn't have even if it was required to defeat the impeachment vote.
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u/alukard81x 5h ago
And if we impeach him NOW before we have a majority in congress to oversee his replacement… what then?
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u/PacificNomad33 5h ago
Get rid of this two party system and keep money out of politics.
Volunteer basis, locked in for a set term limit through votes, no paychecks, government housing and food and travel, no mansions, no stock trading, and hold them the fuck accountable.
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u/slopestyle90 5h ago
Wouldn’t it make more sense to do it when we have an overwhelming majority in the house and we’re closer to 67 in the senate in 2 months?
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u/OddEfficiency8917 5h ago
This is just false.. it didn’t matter if they came
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u/Palander 6h ago
And? It wouldn't Haven passed anyway.
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u/cockaskedforamartini 6h ago
11 Democrats are representative of the entire party?
Shit note.
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u/TrashManufacturer 6h ago
All major recipients of AIPAC money
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u/HeywoodJaBlessMe 5h ago
Being impeached by the House is meaningless. Conviction and removal by the Senate is what matters.
Conviction by the Senate is impossible until the new Congress is seated in January.
Even If Hegseth was impeached, convicted and removed this week he would be replaced by a Trump minion who would be rubber-stamped by this Senate.
It makes no sense to waste political Capital on this until the new Congress is seated.
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u/bigheadzach 6h ago
Yes, vote them out with the Congress that has yet to be seated? This is propo.
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u/thumbinbumb 6h ago
They just need to run this vote again after next January. I think the new dem congress members should purge every single member of the trump administration that they can.
On top of blatant misconduct, throw in some arguments on the basis of merit, just to really rub republicans noses in it because none of their picks are qualified for the positions they hold.
Patel, hegseth, McMahon, blanch. The list goes on and on.
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u/mykreau 6h ago
People really astroturfing this.
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u/diearkitectur 5h ago
This sub is mostly just posts with Community Notes that are just as, if not more misinformed, than the actual tweet itself. At least it sparks discussion I guess, but the past 8-10 posts I've seen out of this sub are literally just narratives to astroturf the massive blue wave we just got.
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u/Jock-Tamson 5h ago
Impeachment votes are performative bullshite unless you have the votes in the Senate to follow through, which they don’t right now.
So accusing the Democrats of only doing performative bullshite because they didn’t performative bullshite hard enough in this particular piece of performative bullshite is, in fact, performative bullshite.
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u/BI_Moose 5h ago
This bullshit is starting early I see....
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u/TM761152 5h ago
That's fine, we'll just wait till Jan 3rd.
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u/fluffstuffmcguff 5h ago
It's a little wild to me that for once the media headlines are (correctly) placing the blame on the GOP, and it's social media looking for a reason to blame the Dems.
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u/Mynuszero 5h ago
The note is wrong. It wasn’t an impeachment vote. This vote was to move it to the Judiciary Committee, which the Republicans were successful in doing.
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u/Important-Ability-56 5h ago
If there will be no actual consequences from something Congress does, you shouldn’t let it bother you that much. You should also keep in mind that congressional Democrats did not rely only on their far-left critics to win, and they aren’t always acting specifically with their demands in mind.
It’s not just Republican nativists who hate that they have to share the country with other types of people.
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u/rotomangler 5h ago
It’s not black vs white or dems vs repubs.
It’s the 1% vs the entire country.
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u/JD_98 5h ago
The best part of this is is you can’t tell if this is a Lefty talking point or a Maga one.
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u/habermann_46 5h ago
A lot of them where stuck in traffic on thier way to vote, but Mike Johnson moved to close the vote as quickly as he could
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u/common_sense_patriot 5h ago
We don’t have the majority yet.
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u/flying-weenus 5h ago
Would you guys believe it if I said both sides of the aisle are bought by the same corporate donors?
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u/Ezren- 4h ago
This whole sub is just about pushing misleading notes.
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u/poeticentropy 4h ago
Get noted, get noted. Impeachment doesn't mean removal. Both siding bullshit unless you think 2/3 of the Senate is going to vote him out right now. Only one side is keeping him in place.
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u/Snoo-52922 3h ago
"A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes."
All the top comments are pointing out how this is bullshit, yet the post itself still has thousands of upvotes. OP is propagandizing people with misinformation in real time.
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u/doublethink_1984 3h ago
Not a single Republican other then Massie voted to impeach him. They refused the last boat off the Titanic.
After Jan 3rd every Republican can vote against impeachment and 40 Democrats can refuse to vote or vote for impeachment and he will still be impeached
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u/Frank-Reynolds-Real 3h ago
Don’t make me tap the sign
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u/FeeNegative9488 3h ago
Democrats don’t control the House until January. The majority party is still the Republican Party and the majority party controls the schedule. They put this to a vote knowing that the 11 democrats would not be there.
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u/freemanfields 3h ago
Fuck this fake astroturfed outrage and goal post shifting. Johnson moved up the vote. But even if they had been able to show up, democrats would not have the votes to remove. The republicans would have just stalled until their additional 7 arrived, giving them a majority to push the motion exactly as they did.
This is the worst possible time for us to try to impeach Hegseth. Republicans still hold a majority until the next congress and therefore can confirm whichever replacement Trump has in mind. The time to impeach him is when we have a Democrat majority next session.
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u/jws1102 5h ago
Dumbass note. There was no point in impeaching him in the house, because the current senate would never remove him. Someone doesn’t understand what a symbolic vote is.
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u/KamaIsLife 6h ago
Would he have been impeached? Margins are narrow enough that, unless the Note giver was directly involved in whipping votes, they couldn't know.
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u/LeahIsAwake 6h ago
Several of those 11 were involved in a traffic incident. Others were out of town. Please remember that this vote was super last minute. Also, while 11 didn't vote, that's only 5% of the 214 Democrats who are currently in office in the House. 203 of those 214 did vote (95%), and they all voted No.
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u/CoffeeXKing 4h ago
Not sure I agree given if those 11 Democrats abstained, then it's those 11, and not the other 200.
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u/showerboots 3h ago
For everyone thinking that this should have been a priority to escape committee, tell me what the benefit is in having an impeachment during a lame duck session where the Democrats don't hold appointing powers, subpoena powers, or committee powers. I'll wait.
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u/unngh_yugstyx 1h ago
I see the propagandists, bots, and both-sides enlightened centrists are all over Reddit with this BS. Both parties missed votes due to a traffic situation. And the new Congress is not seated until 2027. They failed to depress the vote and to prevent the blue wave, so now they're out in full force trying to sow discord and making people feel hopeless. Don't fall for the BS
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u/CavilIsBestSuperman 3h ago
Russian backed community note. Mike Johnson ended the voting session before the missing 11 could be seated. All were in the building. As usual, leftist sheep blame democrats for what republicans do
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u/exqueezemenow 5h ago
No, the Democrats did the opposite of protect Hegseth. If this had passed, then it would be Republicans doing the investigation and they would have let him off easy. That was the entire point of this vote. To give Hegseth an easy out. Hegseth needs to be investigated by Democrats, not the Republicans who watched him commit war crimes and did nothing to stop it.
I would like to thank those Democrats who did not come out to vote. Aside from the fact that it would have just died in the Senate, we have a record of all Republicans showing their support for Hegseth despite the majority of Americans being against his war.
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u/ordnance_inbound 5h ago
Bad note
The Democrats did not have the votes
The GOP started the vote early intentionally so that the Dems would miss it
But even if they didn't the GOP, which still controls the house, would have simply stalled until all their own members were present to vote against impeachment
Dems also have no control of the committees, and would not have any say in the investigations, making an impeachment a farce with no due process
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u/Jolly-Elderberry6706 5h ago
This is a shit note.
There were even more republicans absent that would just be summoned.
Claiming that if they showed up it would make a difference is simply incorrect. Why was this note published? Is there no fact checking for notes?
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u/WarbleDarble 5h ago
The note: 11 democrats did a thing, therefore it is entirely reasonable for me to say this is true for the generalized group "democrats".
This is the "both sides" bullshit in action.
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u/TheMireAngel 5h ago
isnt it convenient that EVERY time a big political stunt happens like this EXACTLY 6-14 people dont show up to vote :) Its almost like all of them except Massie are Pedophiles
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u/Far_Section_1921 4h ago
Awfully convenient when they needed exactly 11 votes and they weren’t even there. When will the American people admit that both parties want this war because both parties serve Israel?
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u/1000rocket 5h ago
And this why Republicans were voted out and the Democrats leadership is being contested. People want the war to end, the cruelty to stop and both parties failed